Experimental Investigation on the Propagation of Hydraulic Fractures through Coal-Rock Interfaces by Pengfei Wu, Jianlong Wang, Xiaofei Luo, Rujun Mo, Yaoqing Hu, Wei He

“…The results show that in the process of fracture propagation from sandy mudstones to coals, the strain energy release rate in the sandy mudstones is 10.69∼25.53 times greater than that in the coal. …”
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Enhancing Stress Assessment in Sledge Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus): APilot Study on Infrared Thermal Imaging and its Opportunities for Advancement as a Welfare Assessment Tool by Océane Liehrmann, Anne Ollila, Virpi Lummaa, Léa Lansade, Martin W. Seltmann

“…Measuring immediate physiological stress responses in animals can be challenging; saliva and blood sampling, while invasive, may also generate confounding stress responses, and equipping animals with heart rate sensors is not always feasible. Nevertheless, emerging technologies offer a non-invasive and contactless method to measure additional body surface temperature changes induced by acute stress, using infrared thermal measurement of the eye caruncle region. …”
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Experimental determination of the ventilation pressure thermal drop effect on the air flows in the inclined mine workings by Lev Levin, Evgeniy Kuzminykh, Sergei Zhikharev

“…We experimentally determine the relationship between mass airflow rate changes in mine workings with inclination angles ranging from 12° to −15° and a fixed heat source power. …”
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Sentiment Analysis of ChatGPT on Indonesian Text using Hybrid CNN and Bi-LSTM by Vincentius Riandaru Prasetyo, Mohammad Farid Naufal, Kevin Wijaya

“…The best performance was achieved with 32 Bi-LSTM units, a dropout rate 0.5, and L2 regularization, which was evaluated using Stratified K-Fold cross-validation. …”
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Dynamic brain-heart interaction in sleep characterized by variational phase-amplitude coupling framework by Juntong Lyu, Chien-Hung Yeh, Wenbin Shi, Thomas Penzel

“…Moreover, delta-range slow cortical oscillations exhibit robust coupling with both the low- (HRV-LF) and high-frequency (HRV-HF) constituents of RR-interval heart-rate variability, thereby constituting a cardinal electrophysiological signature of ANS-CNS modulation. …”
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Spatial quality measurement of commercial streets in old cities of medium-sized cities in China by Tongwen Wang, Hongkai Li, Xinmeng Cao, Chaohui Yue, Yuanyuan Yang, Weijie Huang, Haidong Li

“…This study finds that (1) crowd activities on commercial streets have different temporal and spatial patterns on weekdays and days off; (2) the external characterization of urban street space quality has a significant positive correlation with objective material spatial elements such as the density of public transportation stops, functional density, functional mixing, interface continuity, and spatial green visibility rate; (3) the enhancement of street accessibility and fine-tuning of functions are key to improving the spatial quality of commercial streets.This study provides theoretical basis and ideas for improving the spatial quality of commercial streets in medium-sized cities in China and promoting sustainable urban development.…”
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A Hierarchical Control Framework for Coordinating CAV-Dedicated Lane Allocation and Signal Timing at Isolated Intersections in Mixed Traffic Environments by Feng Chen, Cunbao Zhang, Yu Cao

“…Additionally, the study identifies CAV penetration rate (CAV PR) thresholds of 30% and 60% as appropriate for allocating one and two CAV-DLs, respectively, at intersections with high traffic volumes. …”
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Propeller Open-Water Test Method for Hybrid Contra Rotating Propeller by Tomoki Wakabayashi, Tokihiro Katsui

“…Furthermore, by using the individual performance of two propellers and interaction terms, the presented method enables us to conduct a power estimation at an arbitrary revolution rate of two propellers.…”
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The main drivers of labour cost dynamics in Central and Eastern European countries by Maria Denisa VASILESCU, Larisa STĂNILĂ, Amalia CRISTESCU, Maria Berta BELU, Silvana CRIVOI

“…Additionally, the share of exports in GDP and the employment rate influence labour costs in Hungary and the Czech Republic, but with distinct country-specific patterns.…”
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Compact Broadband Dual ZOR Antenna for Multiband Smart Mobile Phone Applications by Jeong Keun Ji

“…The measured results show that it has the active performance of good total radiated power, total isotropic sensitivity, and specific absorption rate, which can meet the requirement of the smart mobile phone.…”
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CAs-Net: A Channel-Aware Speech Network for Uyghur Speech Recognition by Jiang Zhang, Miaomiao Xu, Lianghui Xu, Yajing Ma

“…Experiments conducted on a real Uyghur speech recognition dataset demonstrate that CAs-Net achieves the best performance across multiple subsets, with an average Word Error Rate (WER) of 5.72%, significantly outperforming existing approaches. …”
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Silent Revolution in Research for Sustainability by Bruce Alder

“…A variety of new arrangements have come into existence that promote international collaboration, including Horizon 2020 with its emphasis on societal challenges, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which has inspired a family of grand challenges funds on health and development, and the Future Earth joint program of research for global sustainability. …”
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“Does speech in patients with different Parkinson’s disease subtypes decline over time?” by Vanessa Brzoskowski dos Santos, Fernanda Venzke Zardin, Rui Rothe-Neves, Maira Rozenfeld Olchik

“…The analyzed acoustic variables included syllable number, duration, phonation time, articulation rate, average syllable duration (ASD), and pause ratio. …”
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Influence of Water Injection Pressure on Methane Gas Displacement by Coal Seam Water Injection by Tianwei Shi, Yishan Pan, Wenhong Zheng, Aiwen Wang

“…The test results show that with the same displacement time, the ratio of displaced methane increases with the increase in the water injection pressure. The displacement rate increases with the increase in the water injection pressure at the stage without water discharge, while the water displacement rate under different water injection pressures differed slightly; in the later displacement stage, a higher water injection pressure of the coal sample results in a faster attenuation of the displacement rate and water displacement rate due to the decrease in the methane content in the coal sample. …”
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Failure Mode- and Time-Dependent Reliability Model of Tunnel Lining Structure Under Extremely High Ground Stress by Tao Peng, Dongxing Ren, Fanmin He, Binjia Li, Fei Wu, Shijie Xu

“…The plastic zone and the distribution of the surrounding rock stress field throughout the excavation process were simulated, elucidating the relationship between vault displacement and stress release rate. The time-varying reliability model is employed to assess lining behavior under extremely high ground stress and to establish the patterns governing its service life. …”
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Klasifikasi Pola Pergerakan Bola Mata Menggunakan Metode Multilayer Backpropagation by Karina Amadea, Fitra A. Bachtiar, Gusti Pangestu

“…Sedangkan untuk parameter-parameter yang digunakan yaitu learning rate sebesar 0,7 dan iterasi sebanyak 100 iterasi. …”
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Effects on HbA1c of referral of type 2 diabetes patients to secondary care by Kjersti Nøkleby, Anne K. Jenum, Esben Selmer Buhl, Tor Claudi, John G. Cooper, Signe Flottorp, Karianne F. Løvaas, Sverre Sandberg, Tore Julsrud Berg

“…Some differences were found between clinics in rejection rate, processes of care, and duration of follow-up.Conclusions Norwegian GPs handle most T2D patients themselves. …”
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Tuberculin skin test repetition after TNF-α inhibitors in patients with chronic inflammatory arthritis: a long-term retrospective cohort in endemic area by Vanessa de Oliveira Magalhães, Karina Rossi Bonfiglioli, Carina More Frade Gomes, Eloisa Bonfá, Ana Cristina de Medeiros-Ribeiro, Carla Gonçalves S. Saad, Marcelo de Medeiros Pinheiro

“…Conclusion These results indicate that TST repetition is associated with a high conversion rate, suggesting the need for recommended treatment. …”
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Adipose-Derived Stem Cells for Cartilage Tissue Engineering: A Bibliometric Analysis of Trends and Themes by Zhang J, Wu K, Zhou L, Zheng S

“…Bibliometric and visualized analysis was performed using VOSviewers (V 1.6.20), CiteSpace (V 6.3.R1) and Bibliometrix (R 4.3.3).Results: A total of 436 English articles were analyzed, involving 2356 authors from 1532 institutions across 50 countries/regions, contributing to 189 journals. The annual growth rate of publications was 8.73%, peaking in 2021. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variability and Drivers of Cropland Non-Agricultural Conversion Across Mountainous County Types: Evidence from the Qian-Gui Karst Region, China by Qingping Lu, Siji Zhu, Zhaofu Xiao, Guifang Zhu, Jie Li, Jiahao Cui, Wen He, Jun Sun

“…Specifically, the growth rate of the CNAC area was the highest in apparent mountainous (110.36%) and quasi-mountainous counties (100.5%), followed by semi-mountainous counties (95.28%), while entirely mountainous (40.89%) and pure hilly counties (37.68%) experienced the lowest growth, revealing distinct regional disparities. (2) Spatially, CNAC exhibited a pattern of “high in the north and south, low in the central region”, and the overall level of CNAC displayed significant regional imbalances, with extreme grades distributed in provincial capitals, high and medium grades concentrated in prefecture-level city districts, and light and low grades mainly located in counties and districts (accounting for more than 55.56% of the total number of research units in the two time periods). (3) There was significant spatial heterogeneity in the driving effect of factors influencing CNAC. …”
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