Multiband Ultrathin Polarization-Insensitive Terahertz Perfect Absorbers With Complementary Metamaterial and Resonator Based on High-Order Electric and Magnetic Resonances by Xiutao Huang, Conghui Lu, Cancan Rong, Zhaoyang Hu, Minghai Liu

“…Terahertz perfect metamaterial absorbers (PMA) based on higher order resonances have exhibited important applications in detecting, sensing, and imaging. However, most of them suffer from polarization and incident-angle dependence due to their asymmetrical structure. …”
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Potassium fertilization in the cultivation of sour passion fruit under irrigation strategies with brackish water by Francisco W. A. Pinheiro, Geovani S. de Lima, Pedro F. do N. Sousa, Weslley B. B. de Souza, Lauriane A. dos A. Soares, Hans R. Gheyi, Charles M. Felix, Francisco J. da S. Paiva

“…ABSTRACT In the Brazilian semiarid region, the occurrence of water sources with high salt concentrations stands out as a limiting factor for the production of most crops under irrigated conditions. This research was conducted to evaluate the physical and chemical quality of sour passion fruit as a function of brackish water irrigation strategies and potassium doses. …”
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Molecular sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of bioaerosols in hospital wards with different ventilation conditions by Afzal Nimra, Zulfiqar Ali, Sikandar Sultan, Zaheer Ahmad Nasir, Safdar Sidra, Ali Hussain

“…The centrally air-conditioned hospitals had significantly lower levels of bioaerosols at most of the sites as compared to non- central air-conditioned hospitals. …”
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ADCs and TCE in SCLC Therapy: The Beginning of a New Era? by Paola Muscolino, Fausto Omero, Desirèe Speranza, Carla Infurna, Silvana Parisi, Vincenzo Cianci, Massimiliano Berretta, Alessandro Russo, Mariacarmela Santarpia

“…However, despite high overall response rates, this strategy failed to deliver long-term benefits for most patients, who continue to face a poor prognosis. …”
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The influence of hedonic shopping motivation on online impulse buying behavior in the fashion industry by Lerato S. Mashilo, Riané C. Dalziel, Ephrem Habtemichael Redda

“…In terms of importance, relaxation shopping was the most important motive for fast fashion online impulse buying behavior among Generation Y students, followed by social shopping, novelty and value shopping. …”
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Evaluation of the effect of reverse curved spee Ni-Ti wires with different depths in MBT and Roth brackets on mandibular teeth during leveling and alignment using finite element an... by Sena Yılmaz, Esra Ağaoğlu Mogul, Koray Halıcıoğlu

“…Results 0.022 slot MBT bracket with reverse curve of spee wire 0.019 × 0.025’’and 0.021 × 0.025’’ dimensions and 30 mm depth, 0.018 slot Roth bracket with 0.017 × 0.025’’ and 0.016 × 0.022’’ wire and 30 mm depth applied the most aggressive forces, leading to high displacement and PDL stress. …”
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HUNTER AND LANDOWNER PERCEPTIONS OF TURKEY HUNTING IN SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN by John F. Kubisiak, R. Neal Paisley, Robert G. Wright, Peter J. Conrad

“…A greater percentage of hunters saw turkeys in the CA than in the EA during both spring (P = 0.001) and fall (P = 0.01). Most of the landowners (93.0% during spring and 94.6% during fall) allowed turkey hunters on their land, but the proportion that refused hunting permission was greater in the EA than in the CA both during spring (31.6 vs. 17.1%, P = 0.01) and fall (24.6 vs. 13.2%, P = 0.001). …”
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Parents’ Perceptions of the Challenges to Helping Their Children Maintain or Achieve a Healthy Weight by Sara N. Bleich, Mary T. Gorski Findling, Robert J. Blendon, Eran Ben-Porath, Gillian K. SteelFisher

“…According to parents, most children consumed snacks between 3 pm and bedtime during the school week (83%), and 63% of those children had an unhealthy snack. …”
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Dietary Fiber as Prebiotics: A Mitigation Strategy for Metabolic Diseases by Xinrui Gao, Sumei Hu, Ying Liu, S. A. Sanduni Samudika De Alwis, Ying Yu, Zhaofeng Li, Ziyuan Wang, Jie Liu

“…Although medications are the most common treatment for chronic disease, long-term use might increase the financial and psychological burden. …”
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Tacrolimus-based versus cyclosporine-based immunosuppression in hepatitis C virus-infected patients after liver transplantation: a meta-analysis and systematic review. by Zhenmin Liu, Yi Chen, Renchuan Tao, Jing Xv, Jianyuan Meng, Xiangzhi Yong

“…<h4>Background</h4>Most liver transplant recipients receive calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs), especially tacrolimus and cyclosporine, as immunosuppressant agents to prevent rejection. …”
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Predicting Adolescent Concern Over Unhealthy Food Ads Using Explainable AI by Md. Fahim Shahoriar Titu, Md Rohanur Rahman, Afifa Zain Apurba, Mohammad Abdul Qayum, Riasat Khan

“…Stacking Ensemble, utilizing Random Forest, K-Nearest Neighbors, and Support Vector Machines as base learners and Logistic Regression as the meta-learner, yielded the highest prediction accuracy of 98.54% and an F1 score of 0.99. The most relevant features for predicting the food advertisement concern levels were age, parental education and advertisement types, such as free toys and celebrity endorsement. …”
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Analysis of Roadside Land Use Changes and Landscape Ecological Risk Assessment Based on GF-1: A Case Study of the Linghua Expressway by Mengdi Wen, Liangliang Zhang, Huawei Wan, Peirong Shi, Longhui Lu, Zixin Zhao, Zhiru Zhang, Jinhui Wu

“…Landscape ecological risk assessment, as an important means to predict and measure the adverse effects of human activities on the ecological environment, is being paid more and more attention. However, most studies focus on the static landscape mosaic pattern and lack dynamic analysis. …”
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Assessment of Hydropower Potential in the Upper Indus Basin: A Geographic Information System-Based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Sustainable Water Resources in Pakistan by Asim Qayyum Butt, Donghui Shangguan, Muhammad Waseem, Adnan Abbas, Abhishek Banerjee, Nilesh Yadav

“…Key findings identify sites 17, 15, 16, 5, and 6 as the most promising locations, balancing energy generation with minimal environmental impact. …”
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A Study of Mechanical and Wear Behavior of SiC-CeO2 Reinforced Al7075 Hot Rolled Hybrid Composites by M. Ravikumar, R. Naik, R. Suresh, K.Y. Chethana

“…Stir casting technique is one of the most commonly accepted techniques. In this research work, Al7075 / SiC+CeO2 hybrid MMCs have been fabricated with varying wt.% of SiC (2%, 4%, 6% and 8%) particulates and constant 5% of CeO2 particulates. …”
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Sustainable Development of Rural E-Commerce: Exploring the Cognitive Themes and Emotional Expressions of Consumers When Purchasing Agricultural and Sideline Foodstuffs Online by Guojie Xie, Haiquan Chen, Wenjuan Wu, Jebbouri Abdelhamid, Weiwei Cai, Yu Tian

“…Among these, product taste and cooking methods and target consumers are the themes most likely to trigger consumer dissatisfaction. …”
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Honeybee colony thermoregulation--regulatory mechanisms and contribution of individuals in dependence on age, location and thermal stress. by Anton Stabentheiner, Helmut Kovac, Robert Brodschneider

“…Young bees inside brood nest cells mostly receive heat from the surrounding cell wall during cold stress, whereas older bees predominantly transfer heat from the thorax to the cell wall. …”
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Qualitative Performance Indicators of a Ripping-and-Separating Machine for Soil Cultivation by Yu. N. Syromyatnikov

“…Soil fragments (lumps) of a size larger than 20 mm have been completely removed from the over-­seed sublayer. The most valuable soil structure in agronomic terms is formed in the seed sublayer, where the size of individual components does not exceed three times the size of seeds, the density of the under-­seed sublayer is up to 1.25 grams per cubic centimeter. …”
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Survival benefit of conversion surgery after intravenous 5-fluorouracil-based chemotherapy in unresectable advanced gastric cancer: a retrospective cohort study by Peticha Tanprasert, Bandhuphat Chakrabandhu, Supachai Yodkeeree, Pornngarm Dejkriengkraikul Limtrakul, Wilaiwan Chongruksut, Sirikan Limpakan Yamada

“…Results The study included 86 patients, of whom 26 (30.2%) responded to systemic chemotherapy and underwent conversion surgery. Most patients had a diffuse-type, poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma, a single non-curative factor, and peritoneal metastasis, if present. …”
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Machine learning for improved size estimation of complex marine particles from noisy holographic images by Zonghua Liu, Zonghua Liu, Marika Takeuchi, Yéssica Contreras, Thangavel Thevar, Alex Nimmo-Smith, John Watson, Sarah L. C. Giering

“…., 25 – 2,500 µm) marine particles. However, most standard algorithms fail to accurately size objects in reconstructed holograms owing to the high background noise. …”
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Patient Satisfaction With the Quality of Health Services Provided by Public Hospitals in Rasht, Iran by Fardin Mehrabian, Mahnaz Hemmati Nodoust Gilani, Alireza Almaee

“…Introduction: Service quality is a distinguishing and most powerful competitive factor. By improving the quality of service delivery, it is possible to increase productivity, reduce costs, and, as a result, increase patient satisfaction. …”
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