Electron Push-Pull Effect of Benzotrithiophene-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks on the Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products by Hongguang Guo, Jiaqin He, Yixi Guo, Yunxi Chang, Haidong Ju, Yizhou Li

“…Electron paramagnetic resonance capture experiments and liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer analysis confirmed that superoxide radicals played a pivotal role in the degradation of TC and ciprofloxacin. …”
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Levels of Biochar and NPS Fertilizer Rates on Growth, Yield Component, and Yield of Maize (Zea mays L.) at Guto Gida, Western Ethiopia by Abdela Tufa, Adugna Hunduma, Mohammad Najmus Saquib Hasan, Fayera Asefa, B. C. Nandeshwar

“…Therefore, a field experiment was conducted in 2020 in the Guto Gida district to assess the effect of maize cob biochar levels and inorganic NPS fertilizer rates on the growth and yield of maize. …”
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Presenting a model for solving lot-streaming hybrid flow shop scheduling problem by considering independent setup time and transportation time by Roja Ruhbakhsh, Esmaeil Mehdizadeh, Mohammad Amin Adibi

“…After performing the experiments and comparing the algorithms with each other, the results show NRGA algorithm performs bether than NSGA-II.Originality/Value: In this paper, for solving a multi objective hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with lot-streamingm mathematical model with the aim of minimizing the makespan and total tardiness, the sequence-dependent setup time and the transportation time constraints between consecutive stages are considered. …”
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Hybrid Offset Position Encoding for Large-Scale Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation by Yu Xiao, Hui Wu, Yisheng Chen, Chongcheng Chen, Ruihai Dong, Ding Lin

“…These two encodings are adaptively mixed in the final output. The experiment conducted on multiple datasets demonstrates that our module helps the deep encoders of the network capture more robust features, thereby improving model performance on various baseline models. …”
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Metatranscriptomic time series insight into antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elements in wastewater systems under antibiotic selective pressure by An-Dong Li, Yuanfang Chen, Lei Han, Ye Li, Ming Xu, Baoli Zhu

“…Understanding the transcriptomic profiles of ARGs and MGEs remains a major research goal. Methods Batch experiments were conducted by adding ampicillin to fresh activated sludge to final concentrations of 100 and 20 mg/L. …”
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General practice residents’ perspectives on their professional identity formation: a qualitative study by Mattijs E Numans, Vera Nierkens, Yvonne Steinert, Pieter C Barnhoorn, Anneke WM Kramer, Walther NKA van Mook

“…A tapestry of interrelated influencing factors—most prominently clinical experiences, clinical supervisors and self-assessments—changed over time and were felt to exert their influence predominantly in the workplace.Conclusions This study provides deeper empirical insights into PIF during GP residency. …”
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Adaptation Strategies for Hemp in Alkaline Salt Environments: Fertilizer Management for Nutrient Uptake and Optimizing Growth by Yunshu Ye, Haoyu Wang, Panpan Zhang, Yuhong Zhang

“…Using a “3414” orthogonal experimental design, we evaluated fourteen NPK combinations under 200 mM NaHCO₃ stress, a concentration determined through preliminary experiments to simulate moderate alkaline stress. Plant growth parameters, biomass partitioning, and mineral nutrient profiles were analyzed after treatment with three biological replicates. …”
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History of Pain Research and Management in Canada by Harold Merskey

“…Hebb's pupil Ronald Melzack engaged in studies of early experiences in relation to pain and, joining with Patrick Wall at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published the 1965 paper in Science that revolutionized thinking. …”
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SymbolNet: neural symbolic regression with adaptive dynamic pruning for compression by Ho Fung Tsoi, Vladimir Loncar, Sridhara Dasu, Philip Harris

“…These capabilities are highly valuable in environments with stringent computational resource constraints, such as high-energy physics experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. However, finding compact expressions for high-dimensional datasets remains challenging due to the inherent limitations of genetic programming (GP), the search algorithm of most symbolic regression (SR) methods. …”
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DGL-STFA: Predicting lithium-ion battery health with dynamic graph learning and spatial–temporal fusion attention by Zheng Chen, Quan Qian

“…This combination enables DGL-STFA to effectively model both dynamic spatial relationships and long-term temporal dependencies, enhancing SOH prediction accuracy. Extensive experiments were conducted on the NASA and CALCE battery datasets, comparing this framework with traditional time-series prediction methods and other graph-based prediction methods. …”
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The impact of chronic disease diagnoses on smoking behavior change and maintenance: Evidence from China by Xinxin Chi, Xihua Liu, Cong Li, Wen Jiao

“…Methods Employing the diagnosis of chronic disease in the older cohorts of the population as a natural experiment, this study utilizes recent advancements in difference-in-difference estimation methods (CS-DID) to investigate the effect of a diagnosis on smoking behavior. …”
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Effect of miR-1285-3p as a diagnostic biomarker for chronic heart failure on vascular endothelial cells by Chongyang Zhang, Jiazhen He, Dan Xiong, Yi Mei, Yao Zhu, Pan Deng, Yang Duan

“…Results miR-1285-3p is upregulated in CHF patients, demonstrating the ability to distinguish CHF patients from healthy individuals, with high sensitivity (83.0%) and specificity (93.4%). In vitro experiments revealed that transfection of miR-1285-3p mimic inhibited endothelial cell proliferation, accelerated apoptosis, and inhibited endothelial cell angiogenesis, which was reversed by transfection with miR-1285-3p inhibitor. …”
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Sublethal effects of copper nanoparticles on the histology of gill, liver and kidney of the Caspian roach, Rutilus rutilus caspicus by Sh. Aghamirkarimi, A. Mashinchian Moradi, I. Sharifpour, Sh. Jamili, P. Ghavam Mostafavi

“…For this purpose, 120 fishes were used as experimental samples and exposed to 0.1, 0.2 and 0.5 mg/L of Cu nanoparticles for 21 days, and 30 fishes assumed as the experiment control. The mean water temperature of the aquaria was 22±2 ºC, dissolved oxygen 5.2 mg/L, pH at 7±0.004 and the concentration of calcium carbonate was 270 ppm. …”
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Nursery of Penaeus monodon fry in Cage Culture of Intensive Pond at Different Rearing Densities by T. Budiardi, R.D. Salleng, N.B.P. Utomo

“…Nursery is a rearing of PL12 to be PL25 at a controlled environmental condition to quickly adapt them on pond condition.   Nursery experiment was conducted in cage culture (1x1x1 m) placed in an intensive pond at density of 250, 500, 750 and 1000 PL/m2, for 14 days rearing.  …”
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A wave-resolving two-dimensional vertical Lagrangian approach to model microplastic transport in nearshore waters based on TrackMPD 3.0 by I. Jalón-Rojas, D. Sous, D. Sous, V. Marieu

“…The wave laboratory experiments conducted by <span class="cit" id="xref_text.1"><a href="#bib1.bibx19">Forsberg et al.…”
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Synthesis and Antioxidant Activity of Selenized Apigenin by Yawen GAO, Guopeng WU, Bo HAN, Rongwu WANG, Fangming LOU

“…In addition, the antioxidant activity of AP and Se-AP was investigated by designing ABTS+, DPPH, and OH radical scavenging experiments. The in vitro antioxidant results suggested that Se-AP exhibited a clearance rate of 93.82%±0.63% for ABTS+ radicals at a concentration of 400 mg/L, 39.53%±0.67% for DPPH radicals and 96.54%±0.77% for OH radicals at a concentration of 800 mg/L and the ability of scavenging DPPH free radicals was slightly enhanced, while the scavenging ability of ABTS+ and OH radicals was significantly increased (IC50 was 53.52±1.85 mg/L and 11.33±0.64 mg/L), and the scavenging ability was comparable to that of VC at 800 mg/L at the same concentration for Se-AP. …”
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Feasibility and accuracy of CARLO© guided optic canal unroofing by Schicker Martina, Tu Ha Thanh, Luder Yann, Morawska Marta, Röthlisberger Michel

“…Success was defined as the accurate excavation of the optical canal, which was confirmed through post-experimental CT scans and photographic documentation. The experiment utilized five fresh frozen skulls, securely fixed in a Mayfield clamp to ensure a stable experimental setup. …”
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Cytokinin B-Mo-based Product Influences the Source-to-sink Dynamics and Nonstructural Carbohydrate Contents in Hydroponic Lettuce Plants by Mayra A. Toro-Herrera, Rosa E. Raudales

“…This project aimed to determine whether exogenous applications of a cytokinin-B-Mo-based product during the leaf development of lettuce plants impact the carbon source-to-sink relationship, thus influencing plant growth and quality. The experiment was a complete randomized design with two treatments: a negative control and the application of the product twice during the growing cycle. …”
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The spiritual way to desistance? by Susanne Alm, Enes Al Weswasi, Lena Roxell

“…While the activities were not specifically implemented to reduce recidivism, a process evaluation conducted in 2014-2016 showed that the participants expressed great hope that these experiences would help them desist from crime. The current study examines actual rates of desistance and recidivism among former participants in the religious activities. …”
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STATISTICAL PROCESSING OF RESULTS OF TESTING OF STUDENTS by Yulia V. Gumennikova, Elena N. Ryabinova, Ruzilya N. Chernitsina

“…Provides statistical analysis of the results of testing of students involved in the experiment conducted by the Department of Higher Mathematics at the Samara State University of Railways, since the resulting test data (rates of assimilation of educational information), which are taken as random variables are a set of numbers, which is difficult to detect any pattern of change (variation). …”
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