Individual variability and the H* ~ L + H* contrast in English by Riccardo Orrico, Stella Gryllia, Jiseung Kim, Amalia Arvaniti

“…We focused on Standard Southern British English (SSBE), which has not been extensively investigated with respect to this contrast, and used Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT) to examine differences in prominence based on accent form and function. L + H*s were rated more prominent than H*s but only when the former were used for contrast and the latter were not, indicating that participants had expectations about the form–function connection. …”
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Rethinking the Bebras Challenge in Virtual Reality: Implementation and Usability Study of a Computational Thinking Game by Jelena Nakić, Ivana Rogulj, Lada Maleš

“…The overall usability rating was classified as “good”, suggesting that ThinkLand holds promise as a platform for supporting computational thinking education. …”
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Long term effect of infection control practices and associated factors during a major Clostridium difficile outbreak in Costa Rica by Roy A Wong-McClure, Elenita Ramírez-Salas, Nury Mora-Brenes, Lorena Aguero-Sandí, Maritza Morera-Sigler, Xiomara Badilla-Vargas, Marcela Hernández-de Merzerville, Michele O’Shea, Elizabeth Bryce

“…An unmatched case-control study was subsequently performed to evaluate the association of exposure factors with C. difficile infection. Results: The pattern of the outbreak was characterized by a sharp increase in the incidence rate during the initial weeks of the outbreak, which was followed by a reduction in the incidence curve as several infection control measures were implemented. …”
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Quality of Wild Passion Fruit at Different Ripening Stages Under Irrigated and Rainfed Cultivation Systems by Giuliana Naiara Barros Sales, Marília Hortência Batista Silva Rodrigues, Toshik Iarley da Silva, Rodolfo Rodrigo de Almeida Lacerda, Brencarla Lima Medeiros, Larissa Felix Macedo, Thiago Jardelino Dias, Walter Esfrain Pereira, Fabio Gelape Faleiro, Ivislanne de Sousa Queiroga Lacerda, Franciscleudo Bezerra da Costa

“…Additionally, the rainfed cultivation reduced the fruit color index by 14.82% and altered the respiratory pattern, causing a linear decrease of 73.37% in the respiration rate during ripening, in contrast to the behavior observed in the irrigated system, which reached an estimated minimum rate of 33.74 mg CO₂ kg⁻¹ h⁻¹ at 110 days after anthesis.…”
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A Novel Support Vector Machine with Globality-Locality Preserving by Cheng-Long Ma, Yu-Bo Yuan

“…The results validate the effectiveness of the proposed model, especially on the Wine and Iris databases; the recognition rate is above 97% and outperforms all the algorithms that were developed from SVM.…”
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The modeling of the interaction of pulsed 5G/6G signals and the fine structure of human skin by Noa Betzalel, Yuri Feldman, Paul Ben Ishai

“…Abstract Current regulations concerning the allowed levels of human exposure to electromagnetic radiation emanating from wireless technologies are governed by the Specific Absorption Rate standard (SAR). This allows the absorption by tissue of up to 2 W/kg averaged for 6 minutes in a 10 g cube of homogenized tissue. …”
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Effect of crack propagation on crack tip fields by F.V. Antunes, A.G. Chegini, L.M. Correia, A.L. Ramalho

“…Crack closure influences fatigue crack growth rate and must be included in the design of components. …”
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Hybrid genetic algorithm based optimization of pilotpattern by Hanbing ZHENG, Xiang YU, Weiwei WANG

“…In OFDM system,sparse channel estimation based on compressed sensing(CS)can make full use of the inherent sparse degree of the wireless channel,which can reduce the pilot overhead and improve the spectrum efficiency.Therefore,a new method based on hybrid genetic algorithm was investigated for the pilot design of CS channel estimation,which was based on the minimization of the matrix cross correlation in the CS theory.In this method,genetic algorithm was used to obtain the initial sub-optimal pilot sequence,and then combined with the pilot position and pilot power,each entry of pilot pattern could be sequentially updated and optimized to make the minimum correlation of measurement matrix.Simulation results show that the proposed method can ensure a better mean square error and bit error rate compared to the pseudo-random pilot design and the equal distance pilot design.…”
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Low viral persistence of an immunological model by Suqi Ma

“…Domains of low level viral persistence which is possible, either as a stable equilibrium or a stable oscillatory pattern, are identified in parameter space. The virus replication rate appears to have influence to the amplitude of the persisting oscillatorypopulation densities.…”
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STANDARD OF LIVING OF THE RUSSIAN POPULATION: FEATURES OF INTERREGIONAL DIFFERENTIATION DYNAMICS by N. A. Gerasimenko

“…This circumstance allowed usto determine the nature of changes and identify two groups of Federal districts that are moving away from each  other at an increasing rate in terms of the standard of living of the population. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Growth Performance, Morphological Development, and Physiological Condition in Three Romanian <i>Cyprinus carpio</i> Varieties and Koi: Implications for Aqua... by Dana-Andreea Șerban, Cristian-Alin Barbacariu, Marian Burducea, Mihaela Ivancia, Șteofil Creangă

“…Weight Gain (WG), Specific Growth Rate (SGR), Relative Growth Rate (RGR), Fulton’s condition factor, and the profile index were calculated and analyzed. …”
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Perception of quality and adoption of health-preventive measures in gym-goers after the COVID-19 pandemic peak in Italy by L Falese, E Langiano, M Ferrara, P Diotaiuti, A Rodio, T Di Libero, A Andrade, E De Vito

“…Participants generally rated the gym positively, with 34.49% considering it "Good" and 39.23% rating it "Very good." …”
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Healthy days at home and prognosis of older adults with cancer and non-cancer serious life-limiting illnesses by Oluwaseun J. Adeyemi, Nina Siman, Allison M. Cuthel, Keith S. Goldfeld, Corita R. Grudzen

“…Each unit increase in Gagne index score was associated with a 6.0% decrease in the rate of HDaH (aRR: 0.94; 95% CI: 0.94 to 0.94), a pattern observed in both cancer and non-cancer groups. …”
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Spatial-temporal evolution characteristics and driving factors of carbon emission prediction in China-research on ARIMA-BP neural network algorithm by Sanglin Zhao, Zhetong Li, Hao Deng, Xing You, Jiaang Tong, Bingkun Yuan, Zihao Zeng

“…The results show that: (1) From 2000 to 2035, China’s total carbon emissions increased year by year, but the growth rate of carbon emissions gradually decreased; The carbon emission structure is “secondary industry &gt; residents’ life &gt; tertiary industry &gt; primary industry”, and the growth rate of carbon in secondary industry and residents’ life is faster, while the change trend of primary industry and tertiary industry is smaller; (2) The spatial distribution of carbon emissions in China’s provinces presents a typical pattern of “eastern &gt; central &gt; western” and “northern &gt; southern”, and the carbon emission centers tend to move to the northwest; (3) The regions with high level of digital economy, advanced industrial structure and new quality productivity have relatively less carbon emissions, which has significant group difference effect; (4) The intensity effect of energy consumption is the main factor driving the continuous growth of carbon emissions, while the per capita GDP and the structure effect of energy consumption are the main factors restraining carbon emissions, while the effects of industrial structure and population size are relatively small. …”
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Improved YOLOv8 Model for Multi-type Lung Nodule Detection by BAO Qiangqiang, TANG Siyuan, LI Qingqian, WANG Naiyu, YANG Min, GU Yu, ZHAO Jinliang, GAO Jingbo, WANG Jiaxin, QU Yuhan

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CircTNFRSF19 facilitates triple negative breast cancer cell growth by regulating N6-methyladenosine modification of B3GNT5: Medical biological image simulation by Lei Xue, Yuhui Zhou, Feng Liu, Jie Dang, Yu Yan

“…CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing experiments showed that after CircTNFRSF19 was knocked out, the m6A modification level of B3GNT5 was significantly decreased, and the growth rate of TNBC cells was also significantly slowed down. …”
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Development of Digestive Enzyme of Patin Pangasius hypohthalmus Larvae by I. Effendi, D. Augustine, . Widanarni

“…Survival rate of fish were varied for each treatment, and the highest survival rate was obtained when larvae were fed by Artemia for 8 days.  …”
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Research on automatic identification method for pipeline girth weld defects based on X-ray images and sparse representation by Shaohui JIA, Yaping LI, Weixin GAO, Yunchao PENG, Xinjian ZHANG, Yuxia WANG

“…To ensure a high success rate of image recognition after segmentation, judging whether an X-ray SDR image represents a defect was treated as a pattern recognition process. …”
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Incidence of primary care chest pain consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time series analysis with routine care data by Simone van den Bulk, Jasper W. A. van Egeraat, Annelieke H. J. Petrus, Mattijs E. Numans, Tobias N. Bonten

“…An interrupted time series analysis was performed to compare the incidence rate (IR) of chest pain consultations during the COVID-19 lockdown to the expected IR. …”
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Assessing the Efficiency and Role of Eivan Based on Users’ Perception: A Semi-open Space in Rural Vernacular Houses of Mazandaran by Majid Yousefniapash, Maria Barzegar

“…This paper concentrates on this space in order to introduce its various characteristics, types, roles, and its rate of acceptability by villagers as users. This paper seeks to answer the question of why residents of rural houses in Mazandaran do not include this beneficial space in the layout of their newly built houses. …”
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