Multi-Stage Data Processing for Enhancing Korean Cattle (Hanwoo) Weight Estimations by Automated Weighing Systems by Dong-Hyeon Kim, Jae-Woo Song, Hyunjin Cho, Mingyung Lee, Dae-Hyun Lee, Seongwon Seo, Wang-Hee Lee

“…Weight is the most basic and important indicator in cattle management, and automation of its measurement serves as a fundamental step toward modern smart livestock farming. …”
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Illegal and falsified medicines self-administrated in not approved post-cycle therapy after the cessation of anabolic-androgenic steroids – qualitative analysis by Agata Blazewicz, Magdalena Poplawska, Beata Daniszewska, Karolina Piorunska, Michal Karynski

“…To reduce the negative impact of AAS on the hormonal system, unapproved PCT is used, which consist of medications that help restore hormonal balance. The most used medicinal products are selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs), aromatase inhibitors (AIs), and preparations containing human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). …”
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Empirical Analysis of Vulnerabilities in Blockchain-based Smart Contracts by Dr. Kashif Mehboob Khan, Ansha Zahid

“…How effectively security analysis tools are detecting vulnerabilities in SC? And which is the most effective security analysis tool? We investigated the effectiveness and accuracy of security code analysis tools on Ethereum by testing them on a random sample of vulnerable contracts. …”
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Prevalence and molecular characterization of Beta-lactamase resistance gene in multidrug resistance bacteria, Proteus spp. by Sabiha S. Salih, Shno J. Mohammed, Imad M Noori, Lana MA Mohammed, Taib A. Hama Soor

“…The multidrug resistance was found in all isolates and the most common drug resistance phenotype were against tetracycline, rifampin, and doxycycline, while the imepenem, tobramycin, and meropenem remain more effective against the bacteria. …”
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Comparative analysis and selection of the geometry of the microphone array based on MEMS microphones for sound localisation by Andrii Riabko, Tetiana Vakaliuk, Oksana Zaika, Roman Kukharchuk, Yuriy Smorzhevsky

“…The goal is to determine the most effective array architecture and beamforming algorithms to achieve compactness, accuracy, and balanced omnidirectional coverage. …”
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HDAC6 and USP9X Control Glutamine Metabolism by Stabilizing GS to Promote Glioblastoma Tumorigenesis by Go Woon Kim, Minhae Cha, Hien Thi My Ong, Jung Yoo, Yu Hyun Jeon, Sang Wu Lee, Soo Yeon Oh, Min‐Jung Kang, Youngsoo Kim, So Hee Kwon

“…Abstract Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and the deadliest brain cancer. Glutamine anabolism mediated by glutamine synthetase (GS) is beneficial for GBM cell growth, especially under glutamine deprivation. …”
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CFD Simulation and Robust Design Optimization of the Valve Seat and Orifice Plate in Port Fuel Injector by P. Daopiset, J. Bumrungpetch, E. Juntasaro, A. Likitchatchawankun

“…The results indicate that CHA2 was the most impacting parameter on the mass flow rate. The Robust Design Optimization (RDO) is performed based on the Metamodel of Optimal Prognosis (MOP). …”
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Effect of Diagnostic Curettage on the Outcome of Medical Treatment for Tubal Pregnancy by Lisha Yang, Xuanyin Wang, Jiahan Qiu, Cheng Zeng

“…Background: Tubal pregnancy, the most common ectopic type, requires urgent intervention. …”
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Security and Fairness in Multiparty Quantum Secret Sharing Protocol by Alessio Di Santo, Walter Tiberti, Dajana Cassioli

“…The dealer, by exploiting a custom flexible weighting system, takes advantage of a newly defined quantum Dijkstra algorithm to select the most suitable subset of <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$t$</tex-math></inline-formula> players, out of the entire set on <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$n$</tex-math></inline-formula> players, to involve in the computation. …”
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CME Arrival Time Prediction via Fusion of Physical Parameters and Image Features by Yufeng Zhong, Dong Zhao, Xin Huang, Long Xu

“…Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are among the most intense phenomena in the Sun–Earth system, often resulting in space environment effects and consequential geomagnetic disturbances. …”
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Tencent Text-Video Retrieval: Hierarchical Cross-Modal Interactions With Multi-Level Representations by Jie Jiang, Shaobo Min, Weijie Kong, Hongfa Wang, Zhifeng Li, Wei Liu

“…Text-Video Retrieval plays an important role in multi-modal understanding and has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Most existing methods focus on constructing contrastive pairs between whole videos and complete caption sentences, while overlooking fine-grained cross-modal relationships, e.g., clip-phrase or frame-word. …”
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Understanding the impact of racism on surgical outcomes in settler nation-states USA and Canada: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mary Brindle, Oluwatomilayo Daodu, Tyara Marchand, Saffa Aziz, Ifeoluwa Adedipe, Mirna Matta

“…The procedures of interest will be the four most common (hip arthroplasty, knee arthroplasty, appendectomy and cholecystectomy), and the five highest risk (oesophagectomy, abdominal aortic aneurysm, aortic valve replacement, coronary artery bypass graft and pancreatectomy) surgical procedures performed in these countries. …”
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Milestones of the history (to the 95-th anniversary of the V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute) by A. L. Ivanov, B. F. Aparin

“…Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute development as well as the driving forces during the mentioned periods and the most important outcomes and tasks for the near future. …”
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Moringa oleifera leaves protein suppresses T-lymphoblastic leukemogenesis via MAPK/AKT signaling modulation of apoptotic activation and autophagic flux regulation by Xiaoxue Liu, Hao Yang, Shanna Xie, Xinyu Wang, Yang Tian, Yang Tian, Shuang Song, Shuang Song, Shuang Song

“…Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is one of the most common hematologic malignancies in children worldwide. …”
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Revealing Three-Dimensional Printing Technology Advances for Oral Drug Delivery: Application to Central-Nervous-System-Related Diseases by Samir I. Paipa-Jabre-Cantu, Marisela Rodriguez-Salvador, Pedro F. Castillo-Valdez

“…Insights show that the most utilized materials are thermoplastic polymers like PLA, PVA, PCL, ABS, and HIPS. …”
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Nestling condition of a grassland bird is not associated with food availability in restored grasslands by Heather M Kraus, Gregory R Houseman, Mary Liz Jameson, Molly M Reichenborn, W. Alice Boyle, William E Jensen

“…Grasslands are highly variable environments, and such variation affects the diversity and abundance of arthropods, which constitute the diet for most nestling grassland songbirds. Changes in arthropod abundance might affect parental food provisioning to nestlings and, consequently, nestling condition and survival. …”
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Evolution of Resistant Mutants in <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> Persister Cells Under Meropenem Treatment by Jie Feng, Yifan Bian, Congjuan Xu, Zhihui Cheng, Yongxin Jin, Shouguang Jin, Weihui Wu

“…Then, mutations in the <i>oprD</i> gene appeared, followed by mutation in the <i>mexR</i> gene in most of the cells, leading to high-level meropenem resistance and collateral resistance to ciprofloxacin. …”
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Efficacy and safety of bevacizumab for the treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: a systematic review of phase II trials. by Ping Fang, Jin-hua Hu, Zhi-gang Cheng, Zhe-feng Liu, Jin-liang Wang, Shun-chang Jiao

“…Bevacizumab was given as monotherapy (n = 1 trial) or in combination with erlotinib (n = 4 trials), capecitabine (n = 1 trial), capecitabine+oxaliplatin (n = 1 trial), or gemcitabine+oxaliplatin (n = 1 trial). Most trials (five of eight) reported median PFS and OS between 5.3 months and 9.0 months and 5.9 and 13.7 months, respectively. …”
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Coupled effects of different sulfuric acid concentrations and treatment methods on the corrosion rate of concrete materials by Feifei He, Xiang Wang, Caihong Zhang, Yiqun Hou, Yuting Liu

“…Sulfuric acid attack is one of the most severe forms of concrete deterioration, with its rate influenced by both acid concentration and surface treatment methods. …”
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Leaf heteroblasty and morphotypes of Acer monspessulanum (Djurdjura, Algeria) as revealed by traditional and geometric morphometrics by Zakia CHIKHAOUI, Samir AIT SAID, Bartolomeo SCHIRONE, Arezki DERRIDJ, Fazia KROUCHI

“…The genus Acer which is largely distributed in the Northern hemisphere is represented in Algeria by four species of which Acer monspessulanum is the most common. These four species and their putative hybrids are coexisting in many parts of their Algerian distribution range but their leaf morphology has not been the subject of quantitative analyses despite the interest of such kind of data in taxon delineation particularly in the case of interspecific hybridization. …”
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