Biogas Production Using Flexible Biodigester to Foster Sustainable Livelihood Improvement in Rural Households by Charles David, Venkata Krishna Kishore Kolli, Karpagaraj Anbalagan

“…The study focuses on optimizing critical parameters, including the input feed rate, gas production patterns, holding time, biodigester health, gas quality, and liquid manure yield. …”
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Predicted impact of mass drug administration on the development of protective immunity against Schistosoma haematobium. by Kate M Mitchell, Francisca Mutapi, Takafira Mduluza, Nicholas Midzi, Nicholas J Savill, Mark E J Woolhouse

“…This implies that disease burden may temporarily increase following discontinuation of treatment, even in the absence of any reduction in the overall transmission rate. If MDA was additionally assumed to reduce transmission, a larger overshoot was seen across a wide range of parameter combinations, including those with longer-lived protective immunity. …”
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AnimalAI: An Open-Source Web Platform for Automated Animal Activity Index Calculation Using Interactive Deep Learning Segmentation by Mahtab Saeidifar, Guoming Li, Lakshmish Macheeri Ramaswamy, Chongxiao Chen, Ehsan Asali

“…The platform accurately tracked Cobb 500 male broilers from weeks 1 to 7 with a 100% success rate, IoU of 92.21% ± 0.012, precision of 93.87% ± 0.019, recall of 98.15% ± 0.011, and F1 score of 95.94% ± 0.006, based on 1157 chickens. …”
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Improved Distributed Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning by Density-Adaptive Data Poisoning and Projection-Based Gradient Updating by Jian Wang, Hong Shen, Wei Ke, Xue Hua Liu

“…On COCO dataset, our method achieves 92.44% main task accuracy with 91.68% attack success rate, outperforming DBA by +8.04% MTA and +10.29% ASR. …”
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Association between triglyceride-glucose index and subclinical carotid atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus: a cohort-based study by Wenhui Xie, Minjie Li, Hong Huang, Yong Fan, Dai Gao, Jiaying Zhang, Zhuoli Zhang

“…Multivariable logistic regression models adjusted for age, sex, body mass index (BMI), comorbidities, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c), statin, and SLE-specific covariates were employed to assess relationships between the TyG index and carotid atherosclerosis/plaque presence.ResultsThe overall rate of carotid atherosclerosis was 10.5% (35/333), with significantly elevated TyG in affected versus unaffected patients (8.77 ± 0.45 vs. 8.45 ± 0.49; p < 0.001). …”
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Dispersion Characteristics of Accidental LPG Release in Marine Engine Room by Phan Anh Duong, Hokeun Kang

“…To evaluate these risks, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was developed to simulate the dispersion behavior of LPG under various leak parameters (size, rate, and direction) and ventilation conditions in congested environments. …”
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Understanding More about Vaping among Asian Adolescents Aged 14-15 Years Old in New Zealand: The ASH Year 10 Snapshot Survey Analysis (2014-2022) by Ko Ko, Christopher Bullen, Joanna Ting Wai Chu, Sally Frances Wong

“…However, vaping prevalence among Asian adolescents was lower and had a slower rate of growth than Non-Asian adolescents. Among Asian major subgroupings, Indian adolescents showed the highest vaping prevalence (ever vaping = 21.1%, 95% CI 18.7 – 23.7 and current vaping = 6.2%, 95% CI 4.8 – 7.8) in 2022 and, in all ethnic groupings, vaping in girls overtook that of boys. …”
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Enhanced air quality prediction using adaptive residual Bi-LSTM with pyramid dilation and optimal weighted feature selection by R. Sudha, Ajith Damodaran, Gunaselvi Manohar

“…The accuracy and precision rate of the proposed model are 95.175% and 87.2%, which is better than traditional air quality prediction models. …”
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Histological comparison between irradiated and non-irradiated breasts in breast reconstruction by Alberto Benedik, Ronan Caputi Silva Dias, Amanda Costa Campos, Carolina Oliveira Paranagua Castro, Marcela Caetano Cammarota, José Carlos Daher

“…Radiotherapy, an adjuvant strategy, provides favorable outcomes by reducing the rate of recurrence of the disease. This study aimed to compare histological differences between irradiated and non-irradiated breasts in the same patient. …”
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Importance and Techniques of Water Harvesting Systems by Ali Kaan Yetik, Burak Şen

“…With the continuous increase in population and with climate change problems occur in terms of both consumption rate and usage patterns of water resources. It is becoming increasingly important to apply and research methods that can solve these problems all over the world. …”
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Dual-Dimensional Management for Human–Environment Coordination in Lake-Ring Urban Agglomerations: A Spatiotemporal Interaction Perspective of Human Footprint and Ecological Quality... by Suwen Xiong, Fan Yang

“…Finally, the four-quadrant static model and CCD change rate index formed a dual-dimensional management framework. …”
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New commercial behaviour as a reason of social and economic changes of divided towns on the Polish-German and Polish-Czech borders by Katarzyna Kulczyńska, Roman Matykowski, Elżbieta Bilska-Wodecka

“…This process involves, among other things, a heavy outflow of inhabitants, primarily young and better educated, to western lands and a steep slump in the total fertility rate. Still, the most important changes observed in the split towns over the last two decades have been consumer behaviour patterns determined, among other things, by differences in prices in the neighbouring states. …”
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Analysis of the circadian rhythm of biological processes in mouse liver and kidney by I. N. Podkolodnyy, N. N. Tverdokhleb, O. A. Podkolodnaya

“…It was assumed that the gene is in a phase with an increased level of translation if at a given time point its ribosome profiling rate for both replicas exceeded the daily average value for this gene. …”
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Trend analysis and spatiotemporal distribution of leishmaniasis disease incidence in Sri Lanka: A detailed review from 2009 to 2023. by Nayana Gunathilaka, Deshaka Jayakody, Rajitha Wickremasinghe

“…<h4>Method</h4>Weekly records of leishmaniasis cases from 2009 to 2023 were accessed from the weekly epidemiology reports published by the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka. The incidence rate (IR) for each year for 25 administrative districts in Sri Lanka was calculated per 100,000 population using estimated population data published by the Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. …”
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Experimental and computational analysis of air injection as a mitigation technique for silt erosion in hydro turbines by Prashant Dhiman, Varun Pratap Singh, Ashish Karn

“…The measured output includes erosion rate, material loss, and surface erosion patterns. …”
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Optical and antibacterial properties of nickel oxide (NiO) nanoparticles: Effect of annealing temperature by P.K. Ingalagondi, M.S. Sannaikar, K. Mruthunjaya, N.C. Horti

“…SEM and TEM images showed the formation of irregular shaped particles, as well as the variation of agglomeration rate with annealing temperature. The decreases of surface area with an increasing annealing temperature because of the agglomeration, which alters the surface reactivity of materials. …”
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High prevalence of multidrug-resistant and ESBL-producing bacteria in a primary healthcare facility in Accra, Ghana: A cross-sectional study. by Frank Twum Aboagye, Mawutor Kwame Ahiabu, Hannah Segbefiah Akahoho, Emmanuel Armah, Samuel G Anang, Naa A S Amarteifio, Christabel Amoo, Abena Konadu Owusu-Senyah Enninful, Queenstar Dedei Quarshie, Naa Adjeley Kuma, Judith Wayo, Kantanka Addo-Osafo

“…Females exhibited a significantly higher infection rate [69.64%] than males [43.18%] [p = 0.002]. Multidrug resistance (MDR) was widespread [97.94%], and 76.06% of Enterobacteriaceae isolates were ESBL producers. …”
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High levels of species' extirpation in an urban environment—A case study from Berlin, Germany, covering 1700–2023 by Silvia Keinath, Shenya De Silva, Nike Sommerwerk, Jörg Freyhof

“…We analysed spatio‐temporal patterns of species' extirpation on a multitaxonomic level using Berlin, the capital city of Germany. …”
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Spatial structure and influencing factors of agricultural civilization heritage in the Yellow River Basin by Huizhi Zhang, Fengyi Li, Jiahao Zhang, Hong Liang, Yingang Huangfu

“…Among socio-economic factors, road network density, urbanization rate and GDP are the primary determinants, while among natural factors, annual precipitation, water network density, and average annual temperature play dominant roles.…”
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Effect of Porosity on Nonlinear Tip Deflection of Functionally Graded Piezoelectric Actuators by Mohammad Gholami, Mansour Alizadeh

“…In addition, variation in the volume fraction index in the range 0&ndash;1 leads to the highest rate of change in actuator tip deflection. By comparing the results of the linear and nonlinear theories, It has been found that the linear theory overestimates the deformations in the case of strong electromechanical loading. …”
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