Intentional radiological exposure scenario evaluation by comparisons based on computer simulation by Carlos Eduardo S. Bonfim, Rodrigo D. Curzio, Gustavo G. Souza, Tercio Brum, José Carlos C. Amorim, Ubiratan C. Oliveira, Claudio Antônio Federico, Raquel Aparecida A. Costa e Oliveira, Jakler Nichele, Edson Andrade

“…By evaluating and comparing the results of the simulations, particularly in areas close to the release point and in shorter time intervals, it is possible to verify the most appropriate model and identify scenarios in which the two models produce convergent results. …”
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Biogeography of Australian Camphorosmeae and Diversification in Climatic Space and Across Arid Habitat Types by Jessica A. Berasategui, Anže Žerdoner Čalasan, Gudrun Kadereit

“…For 159 species representing 12 genera, georeferenced distribution points were used to define the most informative bioclimatic variables using principal component analysis. …”
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The relationship between parental phubbing and social anxiety in emerging adulthood students: a serial mediation model by Jinlin Li, Fanggui Tang, Huazhan Yin, Shaolei Liu

“…Some studies have explored the mechanism of social anxiety. However, most of these studies are limited to analysis from a single individual or family dimension perspective, without considering its mechanism from a comprehensive perspective. …”
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A 3D-Printed, Metallic-Free, Water-Based Metamaterial for Tunable S-Band Applications by Edoardo Giusti, Danilo Brizi, Agostino Monorchio

“…The switching capability is ensured by controlling the salted water filling of the most external PLA cavity. Accurate numerical simulations carried out with a commercial full-wave software and experimental measurements performed by characterizing the 3D printed prototype within a waveguide demonstrated an excellent agreement and confirmed the validity of the design process. …”
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Exploring the relationship between life expectancy at birth and economic growth in 56 developing countries by Metin Gürler, Özlem Özsoy

“…This study aims to investigate the relationship between LEB and IPC data and vice versa for 56 developing countries in North Africa, Middle-East and South-East Asia where most of them are Islamic countries and members of The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)…”
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DETERMINATION OF PASSENGER-TRAFFIC FLOWS IN REGIONAL TRANSPORT SYSTEM ON THE BASIS OF MODIFIED GRAVITY MODELS by E. A. Nurminskiy, I. N. Pugachev, N. V. Shamray, V. N. Sedyukevich

“…Traffic flows between these settlement pairs have been estimated with the help of gravity models with various attraction functions and Arrowsmith method for provision of transportation balances. The most adequate results have been obtained while using an exponential attraction function for individual vehicles and a power attraction function  for passenger route auto transport. …”
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Medicare Reimbursement in Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery: A Continued Decline by Sandra A. Miskiel MD, Matthew Bye MD, Ava F. Pagliaro, Andre J. Pagliaro MD

“…Methods: The financial database of a single academic tertiary care center was queried to identify the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes most frequently utilized in orthopaedic foot and ankle care. …”
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Genetic structure analysis and core germplasm construction of Robinia pseudoacacia and its closely related species based on SNP by Haoran Wang, Yan Ma, Ruixue Wang, Dekui Zang, Xiaoyan Yu, Jingtao Li, Qichao Wu, Fengqi Zang

“…A total of 1,298,097 SNPs and 306,188 InDel polymorphic loci were obtained via mapping with the reference genome. Most of the mutations were detected in the intergenic region. …”
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Study on Vibration Characteristics and Transmission Path of Mountain Rack Trains Based on the OPTA Method by Liangzhao Qi, Xingqiao Deng, Liyuan Zeng, Chenglong Dong, Yixin Xu, Shisong Wang, Yucheng Liu

“…The Dujiangyan–Siguniangshan mountain rack railway project is China’s first mountain rail transit. Most of its lines are located in mountainous areas and close to natural ecological protection areas, which have strict restrictions on the vibration and noise of train operation. …”
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Assessment of the Economic Efficiency of Long-Term Care System in the Stavropol Territory by I. I. Deren, K. A. Samofatova

“…The purpose of the article is to economically substantiate the effectiveness of a long-term care system functioning in the form of social services at home, compared with stationary social services for people with limited mobility and non-mobile citizens to determine the most optimal and profitable form of providing social services for the state.Materials and methods. …”
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Profound and sustained reduction in Chlamydia trachomatis in The Gambia: a five-year longitudinal study of trachoma endemic communities. by Matthew J Burton, Martin J Holland, Pateh Makalo, Esther A N Aryee, Ansumana Sillah, Sandra Cohuet, Angels Natividad, Neal D E Alexander, David C W Mabey, Robin L Bailey

“…As the prevalence of disease declines, uncertainty increases over the most effective strategy for treatment. There are little long-term data on the effect of treatment on infection, especially in low prevalence settings, on which to base guidelines.…”
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Transformer-based ECG classification for early detection of cardiac arrhythmias by Sunnia Ikram, Amna Ikram, Harvinder Singh, Malik Daler Ali Awan, Sajid Naveed, Isabel De la Torre Díez, Henry Fabian Gongora, Thania Candelaria Chio Montero

“…Principal component analysis (PCA), correlation analysis, and feature engineering is applied to retain the most informative features. To assess the discriminative quality of the selected features, t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) is used for visualization, revealing clear class separability in the transformed feature space. …”
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Enhancing Logistical Performance in a Colombian Citrus Supply Chain Through Joint Decision Making: A Simulation Study by Juan Camilo Vargas-Muñoz, Flor Angela Sanchez-Nitola, Wilson Adarme Jaimes, Richard Rios

“…<i>Results</i>: The joint-consolidation–distribution model emerged as the most effective, reducing logistical costs, improving load utilization, and increasing farmers’ revenues by 55.9% compared to individual sales. …”
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Modeling current and future distribution of invasive tegu lizards along geopolitical boundaries in the contiguous United States: Implications for invasion threat by Amanda M. Kissel, Catherine S. Jarnevich, Andrea F. Currylow, Amy A. Yackel Adams

“…Under current climate conditions, one or more tegu species have the potential to occupy most ecoregions in the CONUS. Under a + 4 °C warming scenario, suitable habitat increases by 11 % for S. merianae, 31 % for S. rufescens. …”
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WHU-RuR+: A benchmark dataset for global high-resolution rural road extraction by Ningjing Wang, Xinyu Wang, Yang Pan, Wanqiang Yao, Yanfei Zhong

“…However, challenges remain when trying to apply existing research to rural areas. Specifically, most public road datasets focus on urban areas and only contain a small number of rural scenes with complex backgrounds. …”
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Infection Control-Based Construction of a Fever Outpatient Routine Management Model by Jingsong Wang, Zhen Tao, Kai Zhang, Shuai Wang

“…Outbreaks caused by infectious diseases are now serious public health events. At present, most hospitals have a high number of fever clinic attendances. …”
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Relationship between the Level of Physical Activity and Nutritional Status with Fatigue in Elderly Residents of Rest Homes in Tehran by Bakhtyar Tartibian, Mehdi Kushkestani, Shiva Ebrahimpour Nosrani, Mohsen Parvan

“…Purpose: On the other hand, fatigue is one of the most important indicators of aging syndrome. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the level of physical activity and fatigue in elderly residents of rest homes in Tehran. …”
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iNClassSec-ESM: Discovering potential non-classical secreted proteins through a novel protein language model by Yizhou Shao, Taigang Liu

“…Benchmark experiments indicate that iNClassSec-ESM outperforms most of existing methods across multiple performance metrics and could serve as an effective tool for discovering potential NCSPs. …”
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Serologic Surveillance for Orthoflaviviruses and Chikungunya Virus in Bats and Opossums in Chiapas, Mexico by J. Manuel Aranda-Coello, Carlos Machain-Williams, Manuel Weber, Alma R. Dzul Rosado, Tyler R. Simpkins, Bradley J. Blitvich

“…One bat (a Jamaican fruit bat) was seropositive for Zika virus, and 11 bats contained antibodies to an undetermined orthoflavivirus, as did the 15 opossums. All bats and most opossums seropositive for an undetermined orthoflavivirus had low PRNT titers, possibly because they had been infected with another (perhaps unrecognized) orthoflavivirus not included in the PRNTs. …”
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INTENSITY INDICATORS OF GEODYNAMIC PROCESSES ALONG THE ATLANTIC-ARCTIC RIFT SYSTEM by S. Yu. Sokolov, N. P. Chamov, M. D. Khutorskoy, S. A. Silantiev

“…The main factor causing the sublatitudinal asymmetry of heat flow in the AARS is the impact of Coriolis forces on the magma in the asthenospheric source. Most of the synrift igneous formations seem to be related to the influence of long-lived anomalies in the mantle, which had lower rates of magma generation than those typical of the formation of magmatic provinces. …”
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