Role of Oxygen Concentration in Reactive Sputtering of RuO₂ Thin Films: Tuning Surface Chemistry for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Performance by Swapnil Nalawade, Ebenezer Vondee, Mengxin Liu, Ikenna Chris-Okoro, Sheilah Cherono, Dhananjay Kumar, Shyam Aravamudhan

“…The impact of Ar/O₂ ratios on the structural, chemical, and optical properties of sputtered RuO₂ films is systematically investigated. …”
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Lutetium Copper@Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanocomposite Electrode System for Sensing and Signalling Ciprofloxacin by Collen Nepfumbada, Prof. Bhekie B. Mamba, Prof. Bart M. Bartlett, Prof. Jorge F. Fernández‐Sánchez, Prof. Usisipho Feleni

“…A simple hydrothermal method was used to synthesize the nanocomposite. The structural and morphological characteristics of the as‐prepared nanocomposite were investigated using various analytical techniques such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X‐ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). …”
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ANALYSIS OF MODELS OF EARLY DEBT REPAYMENT IN THE Generalized CREDIT TRANSACTIONS by Y. E. Kasimov, A. N. Kolesnikov

“…However, the amount of outstanding debt is determined by the structure of prescription charges. So in the uniform schemes of repayment of consumer credit each payment contains the same part of principal amounts and the total interest. …”
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Effects of flocculants on in–situ recycling potential of waste EPB shield muck with residual foams by Yao Lu, Ming Huang, Jim S. Shiau, Fengwen Lai, Liqian Peng

“…Moreover, the microscopic structure of flocculates and filter cakes was characterized using nanoparticle size analysis and scanning electron microscopy. …”
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Related factors and prognostic significance of predialysis blood pressure variability by LV Yu-feng, DONG Hai-xia

“…Objective To study the clinical variables that may plausibly influence predialysis systolic blood pressure variability(SBPV),and to investigate the correlations of predialysis SBPV with all-cause mortality in patients receiving prevalent maintenance hemodialysis(MHD).Methods A total of 50 patients were enrolled in the study.All the blood pressure values before each dialysis were recorded between March and May in 2011.The mean systolic pressure(SBP)was calculated,and SBPV was estimated with the coefficient of variability.During the three months,clinical data and related biochemical parameters were collected,and echocardiography was carried out to detect cardiac structure and function.Death events were recorded during the next five years.Results The predialysis SBPV was 8.5% ±2.1%.SBPV showed a positive correlation with the age,body mass index(BMI)and left atrial diameter(LAD)(P<0.05 for all).Meantime,SBPV showed a negative correlation with the serum creatinine(SCr),average DBP,parathyroid hormone(PTH),doses of calcium carbonate and activated vitamin D(P<0.05).Patients with diabetes mellitus(DM),coronary artery disease(CAD)or taking alfablocker had higher SBPV(P<0.05).SBPV was used as a variate for conducting the multiple linear regression analysis,after adjustment,the seven variables of age,DM,CAD,BMI,LAD,SCr and taking alfa-blocker maintained their associations with predialysis SBPV(P<0.05).The equation of R~2=0.630.During 5 years of follow-up,12 patients died(24.0%).The Kaplan-meier survival analysis showed that the predialysis SBPV elevation was associated with the mortality rate(P<0.01).Conclusions Advanced age,the history of DM and/or CAD,lower SCr,higher BMI and LAD,and taking alpha-blocker were the independent risk factors of increased predialysis SBPV.The predialysis SBPV increase is associated with all-cause mortality in patients given prevalent MHD.…”
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Characterization and predictive modelling of quasi-saturated hydraulic conductivity across land use systems in the Northwest Himalayas by Deepak Singh, Nisha Singh, Harendra Singh, Sadikul Islam, Anuj Kumar Dwivedi, C. S. P. Ojha, Anupam Barh

“…Results showed that forested lands exhibited superior soil structure and water dynamics: porosity was highest in deodar (TP: 0.49) and oak (TP: 0.48) soils, while barren land had the lowest (TP: 0.41). …”
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Interaction of Growth Pole and Shannon’s Entropy in Banda Aceh City by Noer Fadhly, Muhammad Rusdi, Alfa Taras Bulba

“…The results of identifying the factors influencing the development of urban sprawl, such as the distance to the CBD, the GRDP of Banda Aceh City, changes in land use, housing demand, and the availability of infrastructure facilities in the districts of Banda Aceh City, can be concluded that there is an influence of urban sprawl on the spatial structure and regional patterns in Banda Aceh City.…”
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Genome wide association studies in yam reveal the challenge of high heterozygosity by Paterne A. Agre, Kwabena Darkwa, Iseki Kohtaro, Ryo Matsumoto, Asrat Asfaw

“…Association analysis was performed using a multi-locus mixed linear model (MLM), incorporating kinship matrices derived from marker subsets grouped by PIC levels (≤ 0.1, 0.1–0.2, 0.2–0.4, and > 0.4), alongside population structure. …”
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3D finite element models reveal regional fatty infiltration modulates tibialis anterior force generating capacity in FSHD. by Allison McCrady, Seth Friedman, Leo Wang, Dennis Shaw, Rabi Tawil, Jeffery Statland, Stephen Tapscott, Silvia Blemker

“…Additional imaging studies have identified regional fat infiltration patterns that may contribute to the non-linear relationship between fat volume and muscle strength due to the distribution of fat within the muscle structure. …”
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Cellular Automata-Based Parallel Random Number Generators Using FPGAs by David H. K. Hoe, Jonathan M. Comer, Juan C. Cerda, Chris D. Martinez, Mukul V. Shirvaikar

“…To improve the quality of the random numbers that are generated, the basic CA structure is enhanced in two ways. First, the addition of a superrule to each CA cell is considered. …”
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The Results of Morphometric Assessment of the Macular Zone in Congenital Cataract by L. A. Katargina, T. B. Kruglova, N. N. Arestova, O. B. Trifonova

“…Results: various features of the macular zone were revealed: changes in the macular contour, lamellar structure of the retina, thinning of the choroid, and elements of epiretinal fibrosis. …”
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Uncertainty Analysis and Risk Assessment for Variable Settlement Properties of Building Foundation Soils by Xudong Zhou, Tao Wang

“…The variability parameter exerts a greater influence on land subsidence processes than the correlation structure. The failure probabilities of variable stratum settlement for different cross-correlations of building foundation soils are different. …”
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Professional identity of female PE teachers in basic education in China by Yanni Liu, Hui Wang, Sanming Fan

“…The professional identity of female PE teachers was characterized by a “non-linear development mode,” a “non-balanced development structure,” and a “high-level development orientation”, which are mainly divided into four types: “passionate,” “neutral,” “apathetic,” and “unbalanced.”…”
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AN EFFICIENT SPEECH GENERATIVE MODEL BASED ON DETERMINISTIC/STOCHASTIC SEPARATION OF SPECTRAL ENVELOPES by M. Taha, E. S. Azarov, D. S. Likhachov, A. A. Petrovsky

“…The main idea behind the approach originates from the fact that speech signal has a determined spectral structure that is statistically bound with deterministic/stochastic energy distribution in the spectrum. …”
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The Application of Interactive Effect Evaluation Model in the Teaching of College Mathematics Courses by Jungang Chen

“…In most cases, due to the knowledge level, knowledge structure, and requirements of the teaching process, the traditional mathematics teaching adopts the straight-to-point approach to the introduction of mathematical concepts, and the explanation of property theorems mostly adopts the method of giving the theorems first and then analyzing and proving them for the calculation problems are mostly manual calculation. …”
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An analysis of spatial distribution characteristics and driving factors of traditional villages in the Loess Plateau. by Xiaobin Bao, Yingna Yang, Jianqing Qi, Yanbing He

“…The interaction between factors is significant and mostly shows non-linear enhancement, for instance, the interactive explanatory power of population size and the density of cultural heritage sites is as high as 0.852.…”
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Neural network for prediction solar radiation in Relizane region (Algeria) - Analysis study by Dahmani Abdennasser, Yamina Ammi, Salah Hanini

“…The best results were obtained with the structure 10-25-1 (10 inputs, 25 hidden, and 1 output neurons) presented an excellent agreement between the calculated and the experimental data during the test stage with a correlation coefficient of R = 0.9879, root means squared error of RMSE = 47.7192 (Wh/m2), mean absolute error MAE = 27.7397 (Wh/m2), and mean squared error MSE = 2.2771e+03(Wh/m2), considering a three-layer Feedforward neural network with Regularization Bayesienne (trainbr)  training algorithm, a hyperbolic tangent sigmoid and linear transfer function at the hidden and the output layer, respectively. …”
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Heart Rate Variability as a Marker of Disease Severity in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Prospective Cohort Study by Arun Jose, Alex D. Moseley, Manisha Das, Robert E. O'Donnell, Jean M. Elwing

“…We conclude that noninvasively captured HRV (SDNN) and heart rate strongly correlate with PAH disease severity (right ventricular structure and function) on CMR, and may complement existing methods of risk assessment in PAH, particularly in high‐risk incident PAH.…”
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A novel hybrid model based on MPA-VMD, QRMGM and KDE for carbon price prediction by Dabin Zhang, Yufeng Ye, Yongmei Fang, Jing Zhou

“…Secondly, the Minimal Gated Memory Network (MGM), a simplified network structure, was proposed to forecasting subsequences, reducing training time without compromising prediction accuracy. …”
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BEATS: Practical Audit Trail in Blockchain Systems by Bilal Alagha, Ilker Ozcelik

“…BEATS leverages a Cryptographic Accumulator, a compact data structure that accumulates transaction hashes, enabling auditors to verify transaction authenticity without exhaustive searches or supplementary systems. …”
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