Machine Learning Models for Predicting the Compressive Strength of Concrete with Shredded PET Bottles and M-Sand as Fine Aggregate by Altamashuddinkhan Nadimalla, Siti Aliyyah Masjuki, Abdullah Gubbi, Anjum Khan, Imran Mokashi

“…Machine learning is a critical subset of AI that deliberates the development of self-trained algorithms that use previous databases and analysis for result predictions. By leveraging past data, machine learning empowers computers to make predictions and decisions. …”
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Progression and mortality of patients with cystic fibrosis in China by Wangji Zhou, Yaqi Wang, Yanli Yang, Yanyan Sun, Chongsheng Cheng, Jinrong Dai, Shuzhen Meng, Keqi Chen, Yang Zhao, Xueqi Liu, Dingding Zhang, Song Liu, Weiguo Zhu, Yaping Liu, Kai-Feng Xu, Xinlun Tian

“…Conclusions We reported the progression and mortality of patients with CF in China, which was a rare and relatively unknown population in the past. Baseline FEV1% predicted is associated with progression and mortality. …”
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Nomenclatural issues concerning cultured yeasts and other fungi: why it is important to avoid unneeded name changes by Andrey Yurkov, Artur Alves, Feng-Yan Bai, Kyria Boundy-Mills, Pietro Buzzini, Neža Čadež, Gianluigi Cardinali, Serge Casaregola, Vishnu Chaturvedi, Valérie Collin, Jack W. Fell, Victoria Girard, Marizeth Groenewald, Ferry Hagen, Chris Todd Hittinger, Aleksey V. Kachalkin, Markus Kostrzewa, Vassili Kouvelis, Diego Libkind, Xinzhan Liu, Thomas Maier, Wieland Meyer, Gábor Péter, Marcin Piątek, Vincent Robert, Carlos A. Rosa, Jose Paulo Sampaio, Matthias Sipiczki, Marc Stadler, Takashi Sugita, Junta Sugiyama, Hiroshi Takagi, Masako Takashima, Benedetta Turchetti, Qi-Ming Wang, Teun Boekhout

“…Historical surveys revealed drawbacks and inconsistencies between past practices and modern requirements as stated in the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants (ICNafp). …”
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The prevalence and burden of musculoskeletal disorders amongst Indigenous people in Pimicikamak, northern Manitoba, Canada: A community health survey by André Bussières, Melissa Atkinson-Graham, Jennifer Ward, Muriel Scott, Jean Moss, Patricia Tavares, Deborah Kopansky-Giles, Jacqueline Ladwig, Cheryl Glazebrook, David A. Monias, Helga Hamilton, Donald Z. Mckay, Randall Smolinski, Scott Haldeman, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Steven Passmore

“…Nearly all participants (89.6 %) reported having spine symptoms in the past four weeks, with a majority experiencing activity limitations lasting one day or more due to neck (77.9 %) or low back pain (55.6 %). …”
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Acute Care Practice in the United States: The Roles of Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy in Early Rehabilitation by Suzanne E. Holm, Kelly Nelson, Angela Patterson

“…The goals of OT and PT in an accelerated and fast-past hospital environment are to facilitate a patient's functional performance and outcomes to improve function recovery and to prevent further disability and loss of function. …”
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Editorial by Pieter Vanhuysse, Antony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche, Maria Lenk

“…Kotlikoff’s essay surveys these efforts over the past three decades to quantify generational fiscal burdens using both fiscal gap and generational accounting. …”
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Application of Concentration-Area fractal modeling and artificial neural network to identify Cu, Zn±Pb geochemical anomalies in Hashtjin area, NW of Iran by Ali Imamalipour, Hamed Ebrahimi, Amir reza Abdollahpur

“…Introduction Over the past few decades, the identification of geochemical anomalies has played an important role in mineral exploration (Coates et al., 2011; Lecun et al., 2015; Bergen et al., 2019) Various methods have been used to identify geochemical anomalies in the last few decades, including statistical analysis, geostatistical approaches (Nabavi, 1976), fractal modeling (Ziaii et al., 2009; Ziaii et al., 2012) and many other methods. …”
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Contribution à l’histoire de la boulangerie romaine : étude de « pains/galettes » découverts en Gaule by Andreas G. Heiss, Véronique Matterne, Nicolas Monteix, Margaux Tillier, Camille Noûs

“…Over the past several decades, both the philosophy of cultural, social and historical anthropology have focused on the many avenues of study relating to food, or rather modes of consumption, by focusing on the construction of individual and collective identities. …”
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Le sanctuaire romain du Vigneau à Pussigny (Indre-et-Loire) : un lieu de mémoire, de vie et d’accueil by Arnaud Coutelas, Sébastien Lepetz

“…There was no continuity of funerary occupation, but rather a persistence, which therefore continued at the beginning of the Roman period with the installation of a sanctuary that anchored the community to its past. In this case, the sanctuary embodies a memorial dimension, all the more so as it was founded in the Augustan period, on what was to be a high-place for the community.The clues concerning the deity to which the sanctuary was dedicated are meagre: no ex voto, no representations, no material culture correlated to the cult... …”
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The increasing burden of group B Streptococcus from 2013 to 2023: a retrospective cohort study in Beijing, China by Yingxing Li, Wenhang Yang, Yi Li, Kexin Hua, Ying Zhao, Taie Wang, Lingli Liu, Yali Liu, Yao Wang, Wenjing Liu, Li Zhang, Renyuan Zhu, Shuying Yu, Hongli Sun, Hongtao Dou, Qiwen Yang, Yingchun Xu, Lina Guo

“…To comprehensively understand the evolving burden of vaginal GBS carriage in pregnant and non-pregnant women, as well as the trends in invasive GBS diseases and antibiotic resistance in China, we conducted a retrospective study using data from a large tertiary hospital in Beijing from 2013 to 2023. Over the past decade, improvements in GBS screening methods for pregnant women have significantly increased the GBS recovery rate. …”
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SPIRIT-DEFINE explanation and elaboration: recommendations for enhancing quality and impact of early phase dose-finding clinical trials protocolsResearch in context by Moreno Ursino, Guillermo Villacampa, Jan Rekowski, Munyaradzi Dimairo, Olga Solovyeva, Deborah Ashby, Jordan Berlin, Oliver Boix, Melanie Calvert, An-Wen Chan, Courtney H. Coschi, Thomas R. Jeffry Evans, Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, Robert M. Golub, Christina Guo, Kathryn S. Hayward, Sally Hopewell, John D. Isaacs, S. Percy Ivy, Thomas Jaki, Olga Kholmanskikh, Andrew Kightley, Shing Lee, Rong Liu, Adrian Mander, Lynley V. Marshall, James Matcham, Dhrusti Patel, Richard Peck, Khadija Rerhou Rantell, Dawn P. Richards, Mahtab Rouhifard, Lesley Seymour, Yoshiya Tanaka, Christopher J. Weir, Johann de Bono, Christina Yap

“…Recent findings indicate that the protocol contents in past EPDF trials frequently lacked completeness and clarity. …”
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Analysis of Foreign Tourists’ Behavioral Patterns and Perceptions in Rural Destinations by Hamdollah Sojasi Gheidari, Zahra Soleymani

“…All rural areas of Iran with photos published on Flickr by tourists were included in the study. In the past, accessing such images presented methodological challenges. …”
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Clinical features and long-term outcomes in patients under 35 years with coronary artery disease: Nested case–control study by Pablo Juan-Salvadores, Dahyr Olivas-Medina, Luis Mariano de la Torre Fonseca, Cesar Veiga, Silvia Campanioni, Francisco Caamaño Isorna, Andrés Iñiguez Romo, Víctor Alfonso Jiménez Díaz

“…CAD has been predominantly associated with advanced age and classic cardiovascular risk factors. However, over the past decades, there has been a concerning rise in its occurrence among young adults, including patients under 35 years old. …”
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Dramatic and Cinematic Potentials of the Fifth Dome in Nizami's Haft Peykar by Heydar Ali Dahmarde, Hojat Raeisi

“…Similarly, the varied hues in the king's clothing echo historical accounts of past monarchs’ colorful attire. Furthermore, the association of colors with the days of the week draws on ancient superstitions and traditions about celestial bodies. …”
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INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION by Vasily Ivanov, Yulia Ziyatdinova

“…He became President of Purdue in January 2013; in the past he was twoBterm governor of Indiana, and, earlier, he worked in the White House during Ronald Reagan’s presidency and later served as director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George W. …”
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Explanation and validation of the coordination model of the marketing and sales department in the insurance industry in Iran by Alireza Jahed, Ehsan Abedi, Hamidreza Saeednia

“…The insurance sales and marketing network consists of all executives, staff, infrastructures, software and hardware; and should be in the form of a targeted planning process as a success factor, marketing lever, and executive arm of the insurance industry; and should be managed based on marketing skills and Sales (Shafei, 2020). By reviewing past studies, it was found that despite the importance of identifying the coordination framework between the sales and marketing departments, no study has been conducted on the coordination framework and model between marketing and the sales network in this insurance industry, so this study was conducted for this purpose, and it answers the question: what are the important direct, indirect and intervening variables in the coordination of marketing and sales in the insurance industry? …”
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Value-creating factors in the professional relationship between the auditor and the employer in the auditing profession by Alireza Vaziri, keihan Azadi, Mojtaba Maleki choubari

“…Extended Abstract Introduction During the past decades, the audit services market at the international level has witnessed many changes, one of the most important of which is the issue of marketing for credit service providers. …”
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Prediction model for type 2 diabetes mellitus and its association with mortality using machine learning in three independent cohorts from South Korea, Japan, and the UK: a model de... by Hayeon Lee, Seung Ha Hwang, Seoyoung Park, Yunjeong Choi, Sooji Lee, Jaeyu Park, Yejun Son, Hyeon Jin Kim, Soeun Kim, Jiyeon Oh, Lee Smith, Damiano Pizzol, Sang Youl Rhee, Hyunji Sang, Jinseok Lee, Dong Keon Yon

“…Summary: Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a significant global public health concern that has steadily increased over the past few decades. Thus, this study aimed to predict the incidence of T2DM within 5 years and the risk of mortality following the onset of T2DM. …”
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Presenting the entrepreneurship development model in the national oil refining industry with the approach of environmental damage prevention by Jalal Abdi, Reza Yousefi Saeedabadi, Maryam Taghvaee Yazdi

“…Extended Abstract                                           Introduction During the past few years, governments have seriously encouraged entrepreneurship because it benefits the people and the country. …”
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The multidrug-resistant Candida auris, Candida haemulonii complex and phylogenetic related species: Insights into antifungal resistance mechanisms by Lívia S. Ramos, Pedro F. Barbosa, Carolline M.A. Lorentino, Joice C. Lima, Antonio L. Braga, Raquel V. Lima, Lucas Giovanini, Ana Lúcia Casemiro, Nahyara L.M. Siqueira, Stefanie C. Costa, Célia F. Rodrigues, Maryam Roudbary, Marta H. Branquinha, André L.S. Santos

“…The mechanisms underlying antifungal resistance within these emerging fungal species is still being explored, but some advances have been achieved in the past few years. In this review, we compile current literature on the distribution of susceptible and resistant clinical strains of C. auris, C. haemulonii complex, C. pseudohaemulonii and C. vulturna across various antifungal classes, including azoles (fluconazole, voriconazole, itraconazole), polyenes (amphotericin B), echinocandins (caspofungin, micafungin, anidulafungin), and pyrimidine analogues (flucytosine). …”
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