Design and Performance Optimization of a High-Frequency Broadband Transducer Based on P(VDF-TrFE) by Yu Nie, Yuebing Wang

“…It is observed that bandwidth enhancement becomes more significant when the acoustic impedance of the backing material is closer to that of the piezoelectric element. …”
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HISTOLOGICAL AND HISTOCHEMICAL STUDY OF BRUNNER'S GLANDS IN LOCAL ADULT COWS by Thekra Saleh, Nazaha Ahmed, Ahmad Abduljawaad

“…At the first third of duodenum,the excretory ducts of Brunner's glands contain neutral glycoprotein more than acidicglycoprotein, while at the middle third of duodenum the excretory ducts of Brunner's glands contain a large amount of acidic glycoprotein and little amount of neutralglycoprotein.…”
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Prevalence and Antibiotic Resistance of Listeria monocytogenes Isolated from Ready-to-Eat Foods in Turkey by Pınar Şanlıbaba, Başar Uymaz Tezel, Gürcü Aybige Çakmak

“…The aim of the present study was the determination of the prevalence and antibiotic resistance of L. monocytogenes in ready-to-eat (RTE) foods in Ankara, Turkey. …”
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Co-Financing of Capital Investment Within the Frames of Federal Projects by A. Yu. Chalova, A. S. Borisov

“…These recommendations could provide more efficient planning of budget allocations in developing federal and regional projects, cutting terms of step implementation for building projects of capital construction, tracing the process of capital investment, minimizing risks of unpredictable costs of consolidated budgets of entities of the Russian Federation.…”
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Function of Vivid Coloration of Terrestrial Isopods from the Point of View of an Avian Predator by Barbora Ďurajková, Petr Veselý, Ivan Hadrián Tuf

“…Some isopods elicited significantly more discomfort behavior in birds, suggesting differences in the chemical protection among the tested species.…”
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Eliciting initial programme theories for a health research capacity strengthening initiative targeting African universities: A realist synthesis. by Meshack Nzesei Mutua, Andrew Harding, Ferdinand C Mukumbang, Justin Pulford

“…The IPTs will be tested and refined through a primary realist evaluation, which will further refine the CMOs presented in this article and provide insights into the current HRCS evaluation framework.…”
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Multi-objective Optimization for Green Delivery Routing Problems with Flexible Time Windows by Burak Gülmez, Michael Emmerich, Yingjie Fan

“…This paper presents a model and heuristic solution algorithms for the Green Vehicle Routing Problem with Flexible Time Windows. …”
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A fuzzy based chicken swarm optimization algorithm for efficient fault node detection in Wireless Sensor Networks by B Nagarajan, Santhosh Kumar SVN, M Selvi, K Thangaramya

“…Moreover, the F-CSO provides improved localization to locate the defective sensor nodes that are present in the WSN. The proposed work is implemented in the NS2 simulator with realistic simulation parameters, and the simulation results demonstrate that the proposed work is more effective in terms of 89.5% fault detection accuracy, 19.53% throughput, 8.43% energy consumption with minimum delay and less false positive rate when it is compared with other existing state-of-art systems.…”
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Enhanced soft error resilience of NBTI-tolerant dual mode Schmitt trigger circuit by Aryan Kannaujiya, Ambika Prasad Shah

“…All these analysis reveal that the proposed DM-IST circuit is more efficient, with enhanced noise immunity and the capability for reliable operation in radiation-induced environments over the long term. …”
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Alveolar Mandible Osteoplasty with Combined Bone Transplants by N. E. Selsky, A. V. Trokhalin, D. M. Mukhamadiev

“…This method may be a method of choice eliminating the additional invasive procedure of bone transplant harvesting; it does, however, require further, more detailed research.…”
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Emerging paradigms of sexual harassment among healthcare workers in India: A cross-sectional study by Rina Tilak, Suraj Kapoor, Swati Bajaj, Gautam Mukherjee, S. K. Kaushik, A. K. Yadav, Prabhakar T. Teli

“…Healthcare institutions are at risk due to organizational hierarchy and close work settings which predispose individuals to harassment. The present study was planned in healthcare institutions across India to study the emerging paradigms of sexual harassment. …”
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Visiones de un futuro urbano posible: escenarios para la ciudad de las tres ecologías = Visions of a possible urban future: Scenarios for the city of the three ecologies by Carlos Verdaguer Viana-Cárdenas

“…This three-dimensional framework has allowed a systematic approach to a rhizomatic reality, in which many more interconnected dimensions can be identified.…”
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Enhancing assessment literacy in EAP instruction: the role of teacher development courses in overcoming systemic barriers by Zahraossadat Mirsanjari

“…Notably, teaching experience mediated TDC effectiveness: novice instructors (3–10 years) demonstrated the most substantial gains (M = + 22.3), while veterans (21 + years) showed more limited improvement (M = + 14.5), often citing entrenched institutional norms as barriers. …”
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The Production of Zeolite Y Catalyst From Palm Kernel Shell for Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit by Angela Mamudu, Moses Emetere, Felix Ishola, Dorcas Lawal

“…Synthesized zeolite Y showed a more significant gap in its structural formation as the addition of NaOH decreased the grain size by 14.3%. …”
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RETRACTED: A Comparative Study of the Rheological Properties of a Fly Ash-Based Geopolymer Reinforced with PP Fiber for 3D Printing: An Experimental and Numerical Approach by Bakytzhan Sariyev, Alisher Konysbekov, Assel Jexembayeva, Marat Konkanov

“…The present study investigates the flow characteristics of fly ash-based (FA) geopolymers reinforced with polypropylene (PP) fibers during the extrusion process in three-dimensional printing. …”
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Careful design of Large Language Model pipelines enables expert-level retrieval of evidence-based information from syntheses and databases. by Radhika Iyer, Alec Philip Christie, Anil Madhavapeddy, Sam Reynolds, William Sutherland, Sadiq Jaffer

“…Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) present both opportunities and risks in enabling faster and more intuitive systems to access evidence syntheses and databases. …”
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Measurement invariance and comparison of the mobile phone dependence questionnaire (MPDQ) across mainland Chinese and Hong Kong adolescents by Hanbin Wang, Fung Chin, Chun Chen

“…Moreover, Hong Kong adolescents demonstrated more disordered thoughts and behaviors associated with MPD than mainland Chinese adolescents. …”
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Wyboczenie Pręta Pryzmatycznego jako Zagadnienie Dynamicznej Teorii Plastyczności by J. Madejski

“…The buckling of a prismatic bar in the plastic region (strictly speaking its breakdown under axial forces) was investigated experimentally among others by M. Broszko who presented his results in Ref. [2]:  These results led Broszko to the conclusion that if the slenderness of the bar is below its critical value the destruction of identical test pieces is more rapid for greater loads. …”
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Modelling multi-pulse population dynamics from ultrafast spectroscopy. by Luuk J G W van Wilderen, Craig N Lincoln, Jasper J van Thor

“…For instance, the generally assumed flat-top multimode beam profile is adapted to a more realistic Gaussian shape, exposing the need for several corrections for accurate anisotropy measurements. …”
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Stochastic Finite Element Analysis for Static Bending Beams with a Two-Dimensional Random Field of Material Properties by Dang Diem Nguyen, Sy Dan Dao, Xuan Tung Nguyen, Van Tan Giap

“…This study presents the development and application of the stochastic finite element method (SFEM) to analyze the static response of beams with a two-dimensional (2D) spatially varying elastic modulus. …”
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