Dynamic mechanical behavior of polypropylene fiber-reinforced shotcrete: Experimental analysis, microstructural observation, and numerical simulation by Shengran Zhang, Changxing Zhu, Xinming Chen, Jiaqi Guo, Huazhe Jiao

“…Key findings include: (1) The material exhibits strain-rate dependency: as impact rate increases, mechanical properties, toughness index, ductility index, and energy dissipation improve, but sample integrity declines. (2) At 5.143 m/s loading rate, 0.1 % PPF dosage delivered optimal performance: 33.8 % higher compressive strength, 14.6 % greater elastic modulus, 19.5 % enhanced toughness, 42.6 % increased ductility, and 23 % improved energy dissipation ratio versus PPF-free specimens. (3) Microscopically, PPF inhibits crack propagation by forming stress-dispersing bridges within the cement matrix, improving crack resistance. …”
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Sine Power Unit Inverse Lindley Model: Bayesian Analysis and Practical Application by Amal S. Hassan, Diaa S. Metwally, Mohammed Elgarhy, H. E. Semary, Abdoulie Faal, Rokaya Elmorsy Mohamed

“…The SPUIL distribution demonstrates greater flexibility in modeling various hazard rate behaviors, including increasing, decreasing, N‐shaped, U‐shaped, and J‐shaped patterns. …”
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Comparative analysis of different stroke subtype burden and future trends over 15 years in China and globally from 1990 to 2021 by Zeyan Zhang, Zeyan Zhang, Sijia Wu, Tianyu Jin, Zhixuan Duan, Zhixuan Duan, Xiaoxia Du, Xiaoxia Du

“…Joinpoint regression and autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models were applied to analyze historical patterns and forecast future trajectories.ResultsThe age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR) and the age-standardized prevalence rate (ASPR) exhibited similar trends, with ischemic stroke (IS) showing an increase, while intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) displayed a decline. …”
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Temporal changes in grain yield and quality of rice varieties released in Guangdong Province, China (1990–2020) by Huifang Yang, Longmei Wu, Bin Zhang, Taotao Yang, Jixiang Zou

“…Furthermore, the development of new varieties should prioritize higher head rice rate, particularly for early rice. These findings provide crucial insights into the evolving patterns of grain yield and quality in Guangdong Province, offering valuable guidance for future breeding strategies and cultivation practices.…”
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Two-step skeletization of binary images based on the Zhang-Suen model and the producing mask by J., Ma, V. Yu. Tsviatkou, V. K. Kanapelka

“…The aim of the work is to limit excessive thinning and increase the resistance to contour noise of skeletons resulted from arbitrary binary image shape while maintaining a high skeletonization rate. The skeleton is a set of thin lines, the relative position, the size and shape, which conveys information of size, shape and orientation in space of the corresponding homogeneous region of the image. …”
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Title not available by Melissa Araújo Ulhoa, Nyam Florencio da Silva, José Guilherme Pinheiro Pires, Henrique de Azevedo Futuro Neto

“…In the present study, extracellular action potentials of NRO neurons were recorded in anesthetized rats, which were submitted to cold and warm stimuli in the tail. The firing rate of the neurons was compared before and after each stimulation. …”
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Les traces d’Ismaël Boulliau dans la poussière de l’histoire by Maguire, Conor

“…We apply the Google Ngram software to analyze the rate of referencing Boulliau’s work in the literature, in timeseries form. …”
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Application of flexible sensor multimodal data fusion system based on artificial synapse and machine learning in athletic injury prevention and health monitoring by XiaoLan Gai

“…The system achieves a 92.1% accuracy rate in the detection of improper motion patterns and prediction of injury risks, much higher than traditional methods. …”
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Revisiting biomarker discovery by plasma proteomics by Philipp E Geyer, Lesca M Holdt, Daniel Teupser, Matthias Mann

“…However, existing biomarkers are far from comprehensive and often lack specificity and new ones are being developed at a very slow rate. As described in this review, mass spectrometry (MS)‐based proteomics has become a powerful technology in biological research and it is now poised to allow the characterization of the plasma proteome in great depth. …”
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Estimating the Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade in WTO Regime: The Case of Pakistan by Amir Mustafa, Ihtsham Ul Haq Padda, Sadia Safdar

“…The findings depict that GDP of Pakistan and partners, exchange rate, tariff, distance, and contiguity are vital factors; along with TBT cases initiated by Pakistan have also impacted import from WTO members. …”
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Eye Detection using Helmholtz Principle by Ahmed et al.

“…Eye Detection is used in many applications like pattern recognition, biometric, surveillance system and many other systems. …”
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NEW POSSIBILITIES OF RADIOLOGIC DIAGNOSTICS OF BREAST CANCER by A. B. Abduraimov, S. K. Ternovoy

“…Early breast cancer diagnosis is contemporary and actual problem due to the increase of breast cancer incidence and low detection rate of the disease.Multispiral computed tomography of mammary gland with intravenous contrast agent injection allows resolving diagnostic tasks aris- ing in patients with high density mammary gland tissue, considerable edema, fibrosis, postoperative conditions. …”
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LEFT VENTRICULAR WALL THICKNESS AND AUTONOMIC REGULATION IN PATIENTS WITH HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY by O. Allaberganov, T. A. Abdullaev, G. A. Nagaeva

“…In addition, Group II patients demonstrated autonomic disbalance, sympathetic hyperactivity, and disturbed circadian patterns of heart rate.…”
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The Convallis rule for unsupervised learning in cortical networks. by Pierre Yger, Kenneth D Harris

“…Implementation of the rule caused a recurrent cortex-like network of simulated spiking neurons to develop rate representations of real-world speech stimuli, enabling classification by a downstream linear decoder. …”
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Rapid biphasic decay of intact and defective HIV DNA reservoir during acute treated HIV disease by Alton Barbehenn, Lei Shi, Junzhe Shao, Rebecca Hoh, Heather M. Hartig, Vivian Pae, Sannidhi Sarvadhavabhatla, Sophia Donaire, Caroline Sheikhzadeh, Jeffrey Milush, Gregory M. Laird, Mignot Mathias, Kristen Ritter, Michael J. Peluso, Jeffrey Martin, Frederick Hecht, Christopher Pilcher, Stephanie E. Cohen, Susan Buchbinder, Diane Havlir, Monica Gandhi, Timothy J. Henrich, Hiroyu Hatano, Jingshen Wang, Steven G. Deeks, Sulggi A. Lee

“…Defective DNA had a similar biphasic pattern, but data were more variable. Predicted intact and defective decay rates were faster for PLWH with earlier timing of ART initiation, higher initial CD4 + T cell count, and lower pre-ART viral load. …”
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Dietary inflammatory index and mortality in middle-aged and elderly patients with metabolic syndrome by Xiangmei Li, Lei Liu, Xing Li, Long Yang, Li Men

“…KM survival curves showed that higher DII quartiles were associated with lower survival rates (Log-rank P < 0.05). Cox regression results indicated that each unit increase in DII was associated with a higher risk of all-cause mortality (HR = 1.052, 95% CI: 1.006-1.100, P = 0.026) and cardiovascular mortality (HR = 1.157, 95% CI: 1.076–1.244, P < 0.001). …”
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Real-World Evidence of Safety and Efficacy of Carboplatin plus Nanoparticle Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel in Patients with Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer and Preexisting Interstiti... by Tomoyuki Araya, Toshiyuki Kita, Tsukasa Ueda, Nanao Terada, Tamami Sakai, Kenta Yamamura, Koji Kurokawa, Yuka Uchida, Takashi Sone, Hideharu Kimura, Kazuo Kasahara

“…The overall response and disease control rates were 77.8% (95% CI, 40.0–97.2) and 88.9% (95% CI, 51.8–97.2), respectively. …”
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Monolayer graphene/platinum-modified 3D origami microfluidic paper-based biosensor for smartphone-assisted biomarkers detection by Arda Fridua Putra, Annisa Septyana Ningrum, Suyanto Suyanto, Vania Mitha Pratiwi, Muhammad Yusuf Hakim Widianto, Irkham Irkham, Wulan Tri Wahyuni, Isnaini Rahmawati, Fu-Ming Wang, Chi-Hsien Huang, Ruri Agung Wahyuono

“…Key results: The optimized 10 mM G/Pt catalyst significantly improved reaction rates (18× faster), leading to a rapid detection time constant of 6.69 and 4.59 s for dopamine and NADH, respectively. …”
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Cell-type specific repertoire of responses to natural scenes in primate retinal ganglion cells by Alexandra Kling, Nora Brackbill, Colleen Rhoades, Alex Gogliettino, Alexander Sher, Alan Litke, E. J. Chichilnisky

“…Responses to thousands of natural images were used to examine the average firing rate kinetics in each RGC type as well as the repertoire of distinct firing patterns that each type produced. …”
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Study on Satisfaction Evaluation of Ecotourism Through Advanced Network Text Mining by Jia Gao, Leong Mow Gooi, Kim Mee Chong, Xiang Lyu, Jin Zhang

“…The LSTM model was further optimized using GA to improve its performance by fine-tuning hyperparameters such as learning rate and network depth. Key findings indicate that the GA-optimized LSTM model achieved a 15% increase in accuracy, a 20% improvement in precision, and a 25% boost in recall compared to the unoptimized model. …”
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