A novel spatial heterogeneity decay model for depicting scale-effects in urban land by Weilin Wang, Rong Wang, Yangyang Lu, Yuanyuan Meng, Zhou Zhou

“…Based on the scale-effect model, we derived characteristic indicators (maximum, minimum, fluctuation, and rate of decay) of the SHUL scale-effect and compared their variation across Chinese cities. …”
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A generalized picture of colour decoherence in dense QCD media by Samuel Abreu, Xoán Mayo López, Guilherme Milhano, Alba Soto-Ontoso

“…We find that accounting for medium interactions during the antenna formation enhances the total rate of emissions off the q q ¯ $$ q\overline{q} $$ antenna. …”
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Popular Phonetic Mapping in The Qur’an and Its Implications on Teaching Arabic for Non-Native Speakers by Muhammad Thohir, Muhammad Dzakiruddin

“…This study aimed to map popular phonetics with repetition rate in the Qur'an in order to build implicative concepts in Arabic learning for non-native speakers. …”
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Underwater Acoustic Communication by a Single-Vector Sensor: Performance Comparison Using Three Different Algorithms by Long-xiang Guo, Xiao Han, Jing-wei Yin, Xue-song Yu

“…In this paper, three different algorithms are used to process the experimental data and their performance are compared in terms of equalized output signal to noise ratio (OSNR) and bit error rate (BER). The three algorithms are P-DFE, B-DFE, and T-DFE, respectively. …”
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Hematological Changes and Immunomodulation of Neutrophil and Monocyte Populations in Shelter Dogs by Marek Kulka, Iwona Monika Szopa, Maciej Klockiewicz

“…Our study revealed that stressful conditions can alter the molecular pattern of surface receptors on neutrophils and monocytes, as well as the leukocytes apoptosis rate. …”
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Prevalence of thyroid cancers in selected army hospitals by MohammadHossein Lashkari, AmirHossein Naseri, Nasrin Mansournia, EbadAllah Shiri-MalekAbadi, MohammadAli Momeni

“…Women were in the majority with the rate of 62.1% subjects. Papillary carcinoma, Anaplastic, and hurthle cell carcinoma were more common in women. …”
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Effect of exogenous silicon on resistance of asparagus bean rust and its physiological mechanism by LI Guo-jing, LIU Yong-hua, ZHU Zhu-jun, WU Xiao-hua, WANG Bao-gen

“…The effects of root-applied silicon and inoculation with Uromyces vignae on the activities of peroxidase (POD), catalase (CAT), ascorbate peroxidase (APX), phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL), superoxide dismutase (SOD), the content of malonyldialdehyde (MDA), the chlorophyll fluorescence parameters and the respiration rate in the leaves of asparagus bean (Vigna sesquipedalis Wight.) were investigated. …”
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Damage Evolution Characteristics of Rock Salt under Different Stress Conditions by Chunping Wang, Jianfeng Liu, Lu Wang

“…The damage degrees where the damage rate starts to decrease are about 0.83 in the direct tensile test, about 0.75 in the Brazilian test, and about 0.91 in the compression test. …”
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Lifestyle Issues in Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Smoking by Cecilia Benoni

“…In ulcerative colitis, but not in Crohn’s disease, a dose-response pattern has been demonstrated. Changes in clinical course, in disease severity and extension, and in recurrence rate indicate substantial clinical effects of smoking with a protective effect of smoking in ulcerative colitis and an aggravating effect in Crohn’s disease. …”
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Nasal Discharge Eosinophils in Childhood Asthma Patients as a Predictive Factor for Persistent Asthma by Norihide Murayama, Kikuno Murayama

“…The evaluation of nasal discharge eosinophils in the asthma group showed a significantly higher positive rate in older age groups than in the 0–1-year-old age group (p<0.05–0.001). …”
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Experimental Study on the Diffusion Radius of Modified Slurry Used in Longwall Overburden Isolated Grouting by Dayang Xuan, Mingwei Zhang, Jian Li, Zebin Dong, Aimaiti Alimu, Jialin Xu

“…The cement-blending ratio was found to have a small effect on the density of the slurry but a significant effect on the slurry’s precipitation rate and viscosity. The slurry diffusion experimental system was established to study the diffusion radius and consolidation. …”
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A Novel Technique for Facial Recognition Based on the GSO-CNN Deep Learning Algorithm by Rana H. Al-Abboodi, Ayad A. Al-Ani

“…This will allow the effectiveness of the GSO-CNN technique to be assessed in terms of recognition accuracy, recall, precision, and error rate.…”
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Clogging of induced fracture to increase waterflood sweep efficiency by K. M. Fedorov, I. V. Vydysh, A. V. Kobyashev, N. V. Mikhailov, A. S. Gavris

“…The first one, which follows immediately after the fracture clogging, demonstrates a water cut decrease and an oil production rate increase. The second, in which the oil production declines below the base variant. …”
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Climate change concerns and fertility intentions: first evidence from Italy by Chiara Puglisi, Raya Muttarak, Daniele Vignoli

“…Abstract The impact of climate change is being felt worldwide, with Europe experiencing the fastest rate of warming among all continents. Beyond socioeconomic consequences, climate change can potentially affect demographic outcomes, including fertility, in terms of both reproductive health and fertility behavior. …”
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Broad Instantaneous Bandwidth Microwave Spectrum Analyzer with a Microfabricated Atomic Vapor Cell by Yongqi Shi (石永麒), Thomas Ruster, Melvyn Ho, Sylvain Karlen, Jacques Haesler, Philipp Treutlein

“…In our proof-of-principle experiment, we demonstrate a microwave spectrum analyzer that has ≈1  GHz instantaneous bandwidth centered around 13 GHz, 3 MHz frequency resolution, 2 kHz refresh rate, and a -23  dBm single-tone microwave power detection limit in 1 s measurement time. …”
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Motor Responses and Weight Gaining in Neonates through Use of Two Methods of Earmuff and Receiving Silence in NICU by Z. Abdeyazdan, S. Ghasemi, M. Marofi, N. Berjis

“…With technological advances in NICUs the survival rate of preterm infants has been increased. Because NICU environment is a potent source of stress for infants, its modification is an essential measure to decrease infants’ morbidity. …”
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Biofilm Production and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profiles of Bacillus spp. from Meats by Fatma Özdemir, Seza Arslan

“…All Bacillus spp. were sensitive to vancomycin, gentamicin, amikacin, ciprofloxacin,and imipenem. The susceptibility rate to streptomycin, chloramphenicol, andtrimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole was 94.2%. …”
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Comprehensive profiling of the gut microbiota in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease of varying severity. by Yu-Chi Chiu, Shih-Wei Lee, Chi-Wei Liu, Rebecca Chou-Jui Lin, Yung-Chia Huang, Tzuo-Yun Lan, Lawrence Shih-Hsin Wu

“…Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic respiratory disease that reduces lung and respiratory function, with a high mortality rate. Severe and acute deterioration of COPD can easily lead to respiratory failure, resulting in personal, social, and medical burden. …”
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Extended Spectrum β-Lactamases among Gram-negative bacteria from an Egyptian pediatric hospital: a two-year experience by Maysaa El Sayed Zaki

“…The highest resistant rate was for cefazolin and ampicillin/sulbactam (75.5% for each), followed by cefuroxime 70.3% and ceftriaxone (63.5%). …”
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SVMWPE-HLLE Based Fault Diagnosis Approach for Rolling Bearing by Chunhui Li, Youfu Tang, Guolin Xu

“…The experimental results showed that the proposed method can realize intelligent diagnosis of different fault types and degrees of rolling bearing, and the fault recognition rate of the proposed method was higher than other methods.…”
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