Exploring the attitudes of solid organ transplant recipients towards COVID-19 shielding communications and the language of ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’: a qualitative study in... by Jason Ali, Dominic Summers, Abbie E Greig, Kirsten L Rennie

“…Open-ended questions enabled participants to fully explore their experiences of the pandemic and how they felt towards the shielding advice they received. …”
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Investigating Light and Water Optimization for Early Seedling Establishment in Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth by Kelechi Godwin Ibeh, Adejoke Olukemi Akinyele

“…This study investigated the interactive effects of light intensity and water availability on key early vegetative growth parameters of collar diameter, height, and the number of leaves in seedlings of the tropical legume tree Albizia lebbeck. The experiment utilized a 4×3 factorial design with four light intensity levels (L1 (75%), L2 (50%), L3 (25%), and L4 (100% as control)) and three watering frequencies (daily (W1), every three days (W2), weekly (W3) in a nursery greenhouse. …”
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Robust Time-Series InSAR Deformation Monitoring by Integrating Variational Mode Decomposition and Gated Recurrent Units by Peifeng Ma, Zeyu Jiao, Zherong Wu

“…Subsequently, GRU is utilized to further eradicate noise from the reconstructed time series, mitigating the influence of outliers and noise, thereby yielding a trend component that intuitively reflects surface deformation. Experiments on physical-based synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed VMD-GRU outperforms the existing methods. …”
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The Long Noncoding RNA LOXL1-AS1 Promotes the Proliferation, Migration, and Invasion in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Jiang Liu, Chengtong Zhai, Degan Liu, Jianhua Liu

“…In addition, in the Hep-G2 cell line, LOXL1-AS1 downregulation significantly inhibited cell proliferation in the light of the MTT and colony formation assays in vitro, which was consistent with animal experiment in vivo. What is more, cell migration was also inhibited in vitro in Matrigel Transwell Assay by LOXL1-AS1 knockdown, which might be partly attributed to the reduction of MMP-2 and MMP-9 protein expressions. …”
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Influence of compost and canal clay scouring on sandy soil properties and wheat productivity under Irrigation water regime by Sayed Abdeen, Mahmoud EL-Sayed

“…Purpose Improving physio-chemical properties under irrigation regime by using natural conditioners to achieve the highest possible crop yield and water productivity.Method  A field experiment was conducted in a split-plot design with three replicates by addition of canal clay scouring (CS) and compost (CO) during two consecutive growing winter seasons of 2018/19 and 2019/20. …”
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Oxygen Consumption of White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) and Model of Oxygen Management in Intensive Culture Pond by T. Budiardi, T. Batara, D. Wahjuningrum

“…Water quality was measured every 2 hours for 6 hours.  Other experiments were done using shrimp in weight of 8, 10, 12 and 15 gram per tail, in density 4 tails/container.  …”
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Rotation-Invariant Convolution With Point Sort and Curvature Radius for Point Cloud Classification and Segmentation by Zhao Shen, Xin Jia, Jinglei Zhang

“…Even Euclidean distances and angles are similar, the CGD can maintain high uniqueness for local regions. Experiments on ModelNet40, ScanObjectNN, and ShapeNet have proved that the proposed approach outperforms other state-of-the-art methods.…”
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Patient engagement in radiation oncology: a large retrospective study of survey response dynamics by Bailey A. Loving, Hong Ye, Elizabeth Rutka, John M. Robertson

“…Tailored interventions to mitigate barriers specific to underrepresented groups are crucial for capturing a broad spectrum of patient experiences and improving the overall quality of patient care.…”
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A Cloud-Based Optimized Ensemble Model for Risk Prediction of Diabetic Progression—An Azure Machine Learning Perspective by V. K. Daliya, T. K. Ramesh

“…As the model combines optimized version of LightGBM and KNN through a voting classifier which uses soft voting technique to find the final class, it utilizes the predictive capabilities of both the methods in an effective manner. The experiment is performed and implemented in Microsoft’s Azure cloud, using Azure Machine Learning service, that leverages the advantages of cloud computing with respect to scalability, security and its potential integration possibilities into IoT-based smart healthcare systems.This aspect highlights its versatility and impact with respect to remote monitoring of patients as well. …”
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Experimental study on in-situ simulation of rainfall-induced soil erosion in forest lands converted to cash crop areas in Dabie Mountains. by Gao Li, Tao Yang, Rui Chen, Haogang Dong, Feng Wu, Qinghua Zhan, Jinyan Huang, Minxuan Luo, Li Wang

“…It focused on a tea plantation slope of the Dabie Mountains, employing four rainfall scenarios, i.e. light rain, moderate rain, heavy rain, and heavy rain following drought, to conduct in-situ simulation experiments, mirroring the prevalent rainfall patterns in the study region. …”
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Research on Multiattribute Comprehensive Evaluation of Intelligent Judicial Decision System by Gang Zhao, Jifa Wang, Huibin Shi

“…Because the evaluation of intelligent judicial decision-making system has the characteristics of complexity and fuzziness, we establish a comprehensive evaluation model of intelligent judicial decision-making system with subjective and objective combination by introducing the TOPSIS model. In the experiment, firstly, we use nine multiattribute comprehensive evaluation index systems such as acquisition cost and use cost to grade the indexes. …”
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Carboxymethyl cellulose/shellac composite loaded with pomegranate extract and jojoba oil as anti-mycotic and anti-mycotoxigenic food packaging materials by Salah A. A. Mohamed, Amr Farouk, Adel G. Abdel-Razek, El-Shahat Nashy, Mohamed El-Sakhawy, Ahmed Noah Badr

“…Six higher antimicrobial composites were chosen for corn seed coating applications in a simulated experiment of toxigenic fungal contamination, where the results recommend E10 as the best formula for packaging application. …”
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Designing and validating an adaptation tool for endometriosis: an exploratory mixed method study protocol by Sanaz Mollazadeh, Nahid Marvi, Talat Khadivzadeh

“…The research aims to explore the experiences of women with endometriosis in adapting to the condition, utilizing qualitative content analysis with an approach based on the "ROY adaptation model." …”
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Delayered IC image analysis with template‐based Tanimoto Convolution and Morphological Decision by Deruo Cheng, Yiqiong Shi, Tong Lin, Bah‐Hwee Gwee, Kar‐Ann Toh

“…We further propose morphological decision to process the input feature maps for higher accuracy and robustness on determining poly line positions. With experiments on a delayered IC @90 nm process, our proposed TCMD model achieves 3%∼6% higher accuracy than the reported template‐based techniques. …”
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Identification of markers correlating with mitochondrial function in myocardial infarction by bioinformatics. by Wenlong Kuang, Jianwu Huang, Yulu Yang, Yuhua Liao, Zihua Zhou, Qian Liu, Hailang Wu

“…According to animal experiments, the expression trends of the four hub MitoDEGs (Aco2, Atp5a1, Ndufs3, and Ndufv1) were verified to be consistent with the bioinformatics results.…”
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Cognitive-Enhancing, Ex Vivo Antilipid Peroxidation and Qualitative Phytochemical Evaluation of the Aqueous and Methanolic Stem Bark Extracts of Lonchocarpus eriocalyx (Harms.) by Gervason Moriasi, Anthony Ireri, Mathew Ngugi

“…Furthermore, following MWM experiments, brains were dissected and processed, and malondialdehyde profiles were determined. …”
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DETERMINATIONS OF THE SOWING TIME OF GRASS PEA IN TEF- GRASS PEA RELAY INTERCROPPING SYSTEMS by Agegnehu Shibabaw, Bitwoded Derebe, Yechale Mengie, Oumer Beshir, Wudu Getahun, Alemayehu Assefa

“…Therefore, a field experiment was initiated to optimize appropriate sowing date of grass pea for tef- grass pea relay inter cropping systems during 2022 and 2023 main rainy seasons. …”
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Latent spectral-spatial diffusion model for single hyperspectral super-resolution by Yingsong Cheng, Yong Ma, Fan Fan, Jiayi Ma, Yuan Yao, Xiaoguang Mei

“…During the reverse transformation, LSDiff systematically converts Gaussian noise into SR images, conditioned on the low-resolution input. Comprehensive experiments provide empirical evidence of LSDiff’s clear superiority over existing state-of-the-art SR techniques. …”
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Adaptive Asymptotic Shape Synchronization of a Chaotic System with Applications for Image Encryption by Yangxin Luo, Yuanyuan Huang, Fei Yu, Diqing Liang, Hairong Lin

“…This scheme leverages the shape synchronization method to generate pseudo-random sequences, which are then used for shuffling, scrambling, and diffusion processes. Simulation experiments demonstrate that the proposed encryption algorithm achieves exceptional performance in terms of correlation metrics and entropy, with a competitive value of 7.9971. …”
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Assessing mechanized, conservation, and small-scale tillage impacts on Alexander wander wheat performance in Bamenda, Cameroon by Engonwie Sharon Mbachan, Ngwa Martin Ngwabie

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the impacts of tillage practices on Alexander wander wheat growth, and yield in Bamenda, Cameroon. An experiment was conducted during the cropping seasons of 2023 and 2024 at the research farm of the College of Technology of the University of Bamenda, Cameroon laid out in a randomized complete block design comprising five tillage treatments namely; mechanized tillage (disc ploughing followed by disc harrowing), conservation tillage (no-tillage, and strip tillage), and small-scale tillage (burning in ridges (“Ankara”), and traditional ridge tillage). …”
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