Study on the Dilatancy Behavior of Coral Sand and Its Influence on Shear Strength Parameters by Yuanqi Shi, Zhenzhong Cao, Liping Jing, Xiangyu Zhu

“…Coral sand is characterized by unique particle morphology and pore structure, which result in pronounced dilatancy and a high internal friction angle during shear. …”
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Distribution and Influences on Butterfly Diversity in Urban Park Green Spaces: A Case Study of Harbin, China by Kai Wang, Yuxin Qi, Yuandong Hu, Dan Han

“…Butterfly community structure and composition demonstrated highest sensitivity to landscape heterogeneity at 100 and 200 m scales, with optimal model explanatory power for richness, abundance, and diversity being 67.8%, 81.1%, and 38.8% respectively. …”
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Association between plant-based diets and depression in older adults with heart disease: the mediating role of sleep disturbances by Yaqun Yu, Yueying Cheng, Nan Cheng, Jie Zhang, Qitao Xu, Yawen Wang, Wei Zhou, Chao Yan, Huiqiong Li, Zhiyun Gong

“…Optimizing the dietary structure and improve sleep quality may help reduce the risk of depression in older adults with heart disease.…”
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THE PROPOSAL MODEL OF RATIONAL WORKFORCE ASSIGNMENT IN DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY BY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS BASED 0-1 INTEGER PROGRAMMING by Yılmaz GÖKŞEN, Hakan AŞAN, Onur DOĞAN, Mustafa ÜNLÜ, Osman PALA

“…This situation makes the structure of the workforce and make the organization be capable of competing with the rivals. …”
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Phylogenetic and phylogeographic evidence for the colonization success of the diplochorous Astydamia latifolia across the Canary Islands by Alberto J. Coello, Pablo Vargas, Aitor Alameda‐Martín, Emilio Cano, Yurena Arjona, Mario Fernández‐Mazuecos

“…In this study, we aimed (i) to unveil the phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of A. latifolia; (ii) to reconstruct its phylogeographic structure across the Canary Islands; and (iii) to estimate the number of inter‐island colonization events. …”
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Human Infecting with Tick-Borne Diseases on the Territory of Irkutsk City: 25 Years of Survey by O. V. Melnikova, V. M. Korzun, E. I. Andaev

“…The groups of patients, infected within and beyond the city limits, differ in some ecological and demographical parameters and also in structure of TBI morbidity. Tree area groups with different risk level for TBI contracting have been determined in the city.Conclusion. …”
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Food outlet availability differs according to area socioeconomic status in Denmark by Kamille Almer Bernsdorf, Henrik Bøggild, Mette Aadahl, Ulla Toft

“…Model 2 adjusted for individual characteristics while Model 3 further included urbanity at the area level. The structure of the chosen hurdle models included was Part (1) a logistic multilevel regression modelling the probability of food outlet presence by using the entire dataset and, Part (2) a standard linear multilevel regression modelling the 10 base logarithmic transformation of only positive food outlet densities with a lognormal distribution. …”
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Constraining viscous-fluid models in f(Q) gravity with data by Shambel Sahlu, Renier T. Hough, Amare Abebe, Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz

“…Abstract We investigate the impact of bulk viscosity on the accelerating expansion and large-scale structure formation of a Universe in which the underlying gravitational interaction is described by f(Q) gravity. …”
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Analysis of urban growth effects on Land Surface Temperature (LST) increase using GIS: A case study of Chelghoum El Aïd city (1984-2024) by Zaari Achouak, Djeffal Djafar

“…This is characterized by the densification of existing urban fabric and the gradual transformation of its original structure. The city continues to expand beyond its initial boundaries, gradually integrating previously undeveloped areas. …”
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CRITERIA FOR TOBACCO IDENTIFICATION FOR HOOKAH AND NON-TOBACCO MIXTURE FOR HEATING by M. V. Shkidyuk, S. V. Gvozdetskaya, O. K. Bedritskaya, G. P. Shuraeva

“…The content of nicotine in the samples is 0.1–1.9%, the transition of nicotine into the produced aerosol is insignificant.The microscopy method for determining the structure of the base (carrier) in combination with the determination of consumer properties (organoleptic evaluation, total content of glycerol and propylene glycol, pH and nicotine content) are tools for identifying tobacco or non-tobacco hookah products.…”
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Genome-Wide Identification of Cucumber <i>Lhc</i> Genes’ Family and Their Expression Analysis by Yongmei Miao, Kaijing Zhang

“…The results indicated that the <i>Lhc</i> family consisted of 21 members, being categorized into five subfamilies: <i>Lhca</i>, <i>Lhcb</i>, <i>CP24</i>, <i>CP26</i>, and <i>CP29</i>. The gene structure and motifs within each subfamily are generally conserved. …”
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Diversity and Composition of Gut Microbiota in Different Developmental Stages of the Tibetan Toad (<i>Bufo tibetanus</i>) by Kaiqin He, Cong Han, Chenyang Liu, Lixia Zhang

“…Beta diversity revealed that the gut microbiota structure differed significantly from Gosner stages 18 to 31, and it became similar to adult toads from Gosner stages 45 to 46 and in juvenile groups. …”
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Dhost theories as disformal gravity: from black holes to radiative spacetimes by Jibril Ben Achour

“…We start be reviewing the structure of the DHOST theory space, the notion of degeneracy conditions and the stability of these degeneracy classes under DFR. …”
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Graph-based reinforcement learning for software-defined networking traffic engineering by Jingwen Lu, Chaowei Tang, Wenyu Ma, Wenjuan Xing

“…Traditional traffic engineering methods based on linear programming achieve optimal solutions but suffer from exponential computational complexity growth with network size, making them impractical for real-time applications in large-scale networks. …”
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A scoping review of statistical methods used to report EORTC QLQ-C30 quality of life scores measured longitudinally by Rosie A. Harris, Chris A. Rogers, Jessica Harris, Eric Lim

“…Many studies continue to ignore the longitudinal structure of repeated measures data, which could impact the interpretation of the data and conclusions drawn.…”
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The role of Universal Grammar and crosslinguistic influence in the interpretation of recursive set-subset adjectives in adult Romanian L1-English L2 bilinguals by Adina Camelia Bleotu, Adina Camelia Bleotu, Deborah Foucault, Tom Roeper, Usha Lakshmanan

“…., ASize AColor N in English, N AColor ASize in Romanian), RSSO posits a structure-dependent principle in terms of sets and subsets (e.g., ASubset ASet N in English, N ASet ASubset in Romanian). …”
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Genomic and proteomic characterization of four novel Schitoviridae family phages targeting uropathogenic Escherichia coli strain by Hira Niaz, Mikael Skurnik, Fazal Adnan

“…Mass spectrometric analysis of purified phage particles identified 44–56 phage particle-associated proteins (PPAPs) belonging to various functional groups such as lysis proteins, structural proteins, DNA packaging related proteins, and proteins involved in replication, metabolism and regulation. …”
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Healthy ageing and psychological resilience among the empty-nest older adults: a cross-sectional survey in China by Chunhong Shi, Xin Long, Silan Xia, Hao Zhao, Chenjun Wu, Yiliang Zhang, Xinying Tang, Chunyan Li

“…Data analysis was performed using SPSS (version 26.0) and AMOS (version 24.0), employing t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis, hierarchical linear regression, and structural equation modeling. …”
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Application of machine learning techniques to predict the compressive strength of steel fiber reinforced concrete by Ala’a R. Al-Shamasneh, Arsalan Mahmoodzadeh, Faten Khalid Karim, Taoufik Saidani, Abdulaziz Alghamdi, Jasim Alnahas, Mohammed Sulaiman

“…By leveraging the predictive power and interpretability of advanced machine learning models, this research promotes a paradigm shift in structural engineering workflows.…”
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Relationship between competency inventory, perceived career benefits, and professional identity among pediatric nurses by Jian-xin Wang, Hao-nan Li, Hui-hui Zhang, Xin-yu Liu, Chun-hui Li, Hai-jun Zhao, Qian-mei Xiang

“…Additionally, mediation effect analysis and structural equation modeling were used to test the mediating effect of professional identity between competency inventory and perceived career benefits of pediatric nurses. …”
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