The Effect of Using Simulation Activities on Developing Algerian EFL Students’ Speaking and Listening Proficiency by Karima CHERGUI

“…Crystallising Comprehension, retaining long-term outcomes, and raising the rate of interest have put extra up-to-date demands on EFL teachers. …”
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Intersection passing strategies for human-driven and autonomous vehicles in mixed traffic using DEA. by Jiajun Shen, Zhipeng Zhou, Guanyu Fu, Yu Wang

“…Considering average speed, number of cars, penetration of automated vehicles, queuing pattern, left-turn rate, and number of buses as factors influencing intersection rights-of-way. …”
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COVID-19 and excess mortality: Was it possible to lower the number of deaths in Slovenia? by Damir Josipovič

“…Thus, the main reason for the decreasing number of COVID-19 deaths is to be sought within the exhausted demographic pool of the elderly population in 2020, when the mortality rate was 19% higher compared to the previous five-year period (2015–2019). …”
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Opportunities for robotic-assisted surgery in treatment of uterine cancer. Current view on the problem by E. V. Slukhanchuk, A. G. Tyan

“…Minimally invasive technologies can reduce the volume of blood loss, shorten hospital stay, lower rate of postoperative complications and shorten rehabilitation period. …”
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A Tunnel Surface Diseases Detection Algorithm Based on YOLOv4 by LI Jia, QIU Xinhua, JI Yuwen

“…In the established surface image data set of high speed railway tunnel, the mAP reaches 65.1%, and the defect detection rate is 90.1%, which verifies the high efficiency of the algorithm.…”
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Study on salt deposition distribution and environmental effect of seawater cooling tower by Lujun Li, Qing Zhu, Xiaojun Song

“…However, soil salinity significantly affected the germination rate, bud length, bud fresh weight, and root-to-shoot ratio of the wheat variety Cangmai 6002. …”
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THE MONETARY POLICY IN COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE IN THE GLOBALIZATION CONTEXT: REGIMES AND TOOLS by M. YU. Golovnin

“…The evolution of monetary policy regimes in the CEE countries corresponds to the “bipolar pattern”. It is shown that countries with the extreme form of the exchange rate fixation demonstrate the best results in quiescent periods and are more affected by crises whereas countries with the inflation targeting regime are characterized by smoothed dynamics of macroeconomic indices. …”
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Regularities of crustal faulting and tectonophysical indicators of fault metastability by Yu. L. Rebetsky

“…The differences in the types of shearing in the sources of weak and strong earthquakes are related to the relationships between three dynamic parameters of the medium: velocity of seismic wave propagation, rate of rupture propagation, and displacement rate of the sides of the fracture. …”
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Study on the effect of high energy ultrasonic wave on MIG welding deformation and welding joint performance of LC52 aluminum alloy plate by Cong Jin, Chunguang Xu, Peilu Li, Peng Yin, Yunxi Gao, Yongqiang Wang

“…The average welding residual stress reduction rate and the stress homogenization rate of the plate under each detection depth reached more than 70.0% and 50.0%, respectively. …”
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Development of wireless electronic nose and using of remote monitoring by HU Ying, WANG Jun

“…With sensors and synchronous transport signal increasing, we should pay attention to data accuracy and packet loss rate. This system used the CC2530 chip for 8-way wireless data transmission. …”
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Smartwatch-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment for High-Temporal-Density, Longitudinal Measurement of Alcohol Use (AlcoWatch): Feasibility Evaluation by Chris Stone, Sally Adams, Robyn E Wootton, Andy Skinner

“…ResultsThe compliance rate for all participants who started the study for the smartwatch μEMA method decreased from around 70% in week 1 to 45% in week 12, compared with the online TLFB method which was flatter at around 50% over the 12 weeks. …”
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Optimizing in vitro slow-growth conservation media for garlic under ambient conditions: further implications for core set accessions by Ashwini Prashant Benke, DalasanuruChandregowda ManjunathaGowda, Vijay Mahajan, Digambar N. Mokat

“…In the first month of conservation, treatments with sucrose alone (1% sucrose, 2% sucrose, 3% sucrose, and 4% sucrose) recorded healthier and quicker growth, whereas those with sorbitol and mannitol alone resulted in slower growth. The same growth pattern was recorded in the third month of conservation, except that the survival rate of the plantlets decreased. …”
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Verification of a Probabilistic Model and Optimization in Long-Range Networks by José Luis Romero Vázquez, Abel García-Barrientos, José Alberto Del-Puerto-Flores, Francisco R. Castillo Soria, Roilhi F. Ibarra-Hernández, Ulises Pineda Rico, Ernesto Zambrano-Serrano

“…The proposed model integrates multiple critical factors, including packet arrival rates, transmission power levels, and the distance between transmitting nodes and the gateway. …”
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Cancelable Multi-Branch Deep Learning Framework for Privacy-Preserving ECG Biometric Authentication by Mohamed Hammad, Ali Abdullah S. AlQahtani, Mohammed ELAffendi, Abdelhamied A. Ateya, Nebojsa Bacanin

“…We evaluate the framework on two publicly available ECG datasets (PTB and ECG-ID) achieving high authentication performance with accuracies of 96.25% and 96.43%, respectively, and Equal Error Rates (EER) of 3.55% and 3.6%. The system meets critical privacy-preserving criteria, including irreversibility, unlinkability, diversity, and revocability. …”
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Mutations associated with resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid identified in strains of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by GenoType MTBDRplus in Panama, 2015–2021 by Juan Domínguez González, Juan Castillo Mewa, Prudencio González, Pedro Del Cid, Jacinto Ariel Pérez Ruíz, Samantha Eunice Rosas Hermosilla

“…ABSTRACT Tuberculosis is one of the diseases causing high rates of morbidity and mortality in several countries. …”
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Penicillin remains an effective agent against Group A Streptococcus in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis of antibiotic resistance and associat... by K Rampersadh, T Salie, K Engel, C Moodley, M Engel

“…Differences were observed in resistance patterns across emm types, with emm1, emm12 and emm60 showing higher resistance rates to tetracycline and erythromycin. …”
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Construction and Brain Validation of circRNAs-miRNAs-mRNAs Regulatory Axis in Early-Onset Schizophrenia by Zhang X, Li Z, Li R, Wang X, Liu H, Du X, Gao Y, Liu S, Xu Y

“…This study aimed to investigate the regulatory patterns and brain validation of circular RNAs-microRNAs-messenger RNAs in early-onset schizophrenia.Methods: Differentially expressed circular RNAs and microRNAs were identified in blood samples from 32 patients with early-onset schizophrenia and 29 healthy controls. …”
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Antibiotic resistance profiles and risk factors of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli in a large tertiary care hospital in a low- and middle-income country by Nour Mousa, Banan M. Aiesh, Ruba Jomaa, Yousef Zouneh, Ashraqat Namrouti, Adham Abutaha, Samah W. Al-Jabi, Ali Sabateen, Sa’ed H. Zyoud

“…The E. coli group presented the highest prevalence of urine cultures (47.9%), with substantial variations in resistance patterns among the species. The rates of resistance to cephalosporins and ciprofloxacin increased (67.7%). …”
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Evolutionary trajectory estimation via replication simulation of coronavirus spike gene based on random mutation and similarity-based selection by Min Chan Kim, Hye Ji Jung, Seong Sik Jang, Van Thi Lo, Hye Kwon Kim

“…Simulations tracking the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan-Hu-1 toward the Omicron variant (BA.1) displayed plateau-like similarity trajectories, where increased substitution rates resulted in a more rapid attainment of the plateau stage. …”
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Insights from the Biorepository and Integrative Genomics pediatric resource by Silvia Buonaiuto, Franco Marsico, Akram Mohammed, Lokesh K. Chinthala, Ernestine K. Amos-Abanyie, Regeneron Genetics Center, Pjotr Prins, Khyobeni Mozhui, Robert J. Rooney, Robert W. Williams, Robert L. Davis, Terri H. Finkel, Chester W. Brown, Vincenza Colonna

“…We observe ancestry-specific rates of novel genetic variants, which are enriched for functional or clinical relevance. …”
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