Numerical study of the plasticity effect on the behavior of short steel columns filled with concrete loaded axially by Yousria Boulmaali-Hacene Chaouche, Nadia Kouider, Kamel Djeghaba, Bachir Kebaili

“…Indeed, it has been demonstrated that the use of normal or high strength concrete, confined in a steel tube of circular shape can considerably improve its ductility as well as its load capacity, owing to the combination of the qualities of the two constituent materials; these tubes have an effortless execution, indeed, the concrete used in the CFST does not require formwork nor reinforcement, a durability of the two materials as well as a good behavior to fire, which was the effect desired at the origin of their elaboration. …”
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Advancements in nanosensors for cancer detection by Dinesh Bhatia, Tania Acharjee, Monika Bhatia

“…Alternatives that show promise include emerging biosensor technologies, which give quick, accurate, and customized diagnostic results. Due to its capacity to quickly and automatically identify biological changes, ultra-sensitive biosensing systems utilizing single chips have revolutionized cancer detection. …”
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Revisiting the speaker discriminatory power of vowel formant frequencies under a likelihood ratio-based paradigm: The case of mismatched speaking styles. by Julio Cesar Cavalcanti, Anders Eriksson, Plinio A Barbosa, Sandra Madureira

“…When using an acoustic-based approach, this task typically involves scrutinizing specific acoustic parameters and assessing their discriminatory capacity. This experimental study aimed to evaluate the speaker discriminatory power of vowel formants-resonance peaks in the vocal tract-in two different speaking styles: Dialogue and Interview. …”
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Investigating the Adsorption Behavior of Zwitterionic Surfactants on Middle Bakken Minerals by Tomiwa Isaac Oguntade, Adesina Samson Fadairo, Temitope Fred Ogunkunle, David Adebowale Oladepo, Luc Yvan Nkok

“…This reduction was observed in betaine-type zwitterionic surfactants with −COO− functional groups that may gain protons, compared to their adsorption capacities in the 2% TDS brine (2.35 mg/g, 2.1 mg/g, and 1.89 mg/g, respectively). …”
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Water Environment in Macro-Tidal Muddy Sanmen Bay by Li Li, Lihong Wu, Jinxiong Yuan, Xinyu Zhao, Yuezhang Xia

“…The water environment in estuaries is a crucial factor affecting the biodiversity and self-purification capacity of coastal zones. This study focuses on Sanmen Bay as an example to study the characteristics and temporal variations of the water environment in the turbid coastal waters on the East China Sea coast. …”
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Application and effect mechanism of electrical nerve stimulation modulation technology in rehabilitation therapy following spinal cord injury by LIU Wenhui, SUN Wenting, HU Naichong, LI Yanpi, ZHAO Jingjun

“…Neuroelectrical stimulation modulation technology has demonstrated the capacity to enhance motor and autonomic functions in individuals with SCI to a certain extent. …”
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Análisis de la metodología de los Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG) en la cartografía de la guerra en Colombia by Nicolás Espinosa, Juan Monsalve, Santiago Gómez

“…En la medida que los mapas no son neutros, pues representan los espacios tanto como pueden ser capaces de crearlos, como aporte a los estudios críticos desde los SIG, nos detendremos a develar y explorar tres aspectos que subyacen la creación de mapas sobre la guerra y que por lo general permanecen ocultos. …”
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Study on Permeability of Soil-Rock Mixture in Water-Blocking Layer of Open-Pit Coal Mine Dump Site by Boyu Luan, Wei Zhou, Xin Meng, Xiang Lu, Zhichao Liu

“…Constructing a water-blocking layer in the dump sites of an open-pit coal mine is of great significance to improve the water retention capacity of the reclamation area. The permeability law of the water-blocking layer is costly to be analyzed and researched by means of field tests. …”
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Building a culture of quality in maternal and newborn health: experience from the quality, equity and dignity network in Ethiopia by Anene Tesfa Berhanu, Asebe Amenu Tufa, Seblewengel Lemma, Geremew Gonfa, Theodros Getachew, Desalegn Bekele, Fitsum Kibret, Nehla Djellouli, Tim Colbourn, Tanya Marchant

“…Result Leadership was crucial for building a quality culture in Ethiopia, and the QED network strengthened government leadership structures, although leadership capacity and staff turnover were challenges. QED enhanced people-centered care and data tracking, but the added data focus burdened healthcare workers. …”
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Community interventions for pandemic preparedness: A scoping review of pandemic preparedness lessons from HIV, COVID-19, and other public health emergencies of international concer... by Sali Hafez, Sharif A Ismail, Zandile Zibwowa, Nadin Alhamshary, Reem Elsayed, Mandeep Dhaliwal, Fiona Samuels, Ade Fakoya

“…Most work on COVID-19 focused on informing and consulting rather than capacity building and empowerment. The literature on HIV was more likely to report interventions emphasising human rights perspectives and empowerment. …”
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L’avenir des ressources génétiques marines au-delà des juridictions nationales : enjeux à l’aube d’un nouveau traité international by Nathan Brison, Christine Frison

“…Such a comprehensive, cross-sectoral, integrated and multidisciplinary vision would not only work towards better conservation of marine biodiversity, but also towards benefit sharing, capacity building and transfer of more environmentally friendly techniques. …”
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Biomarkers of Oxidative Stress in Huntington's Disease and Other Neurological Disorders: a Comparative Study by Marisol Peña Sánchez, Gabriel Andrés Peña de los Santos, Gretel Riverón Forment, Gloria Lara Fernández, Tatiana Acosta Sánchez, Alina González-Quevedo Monteagudo

“…Demographic and clinical variables and markers of oxidative damage (malonildialdehyde, advanced protein oxidation products) and antioxidants (superoxide dismutase: catalase: glutathione peroxidase, plasma antioxidant capacity) were collected. <br /><strong>Results:</strong> there were significant differences in malonyldialdehyde in Huntington's disease compared to the control (p=0.02), but not with the rest of the groups. …”
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Studying the effect of tillage depth combined with organic amendments and different nitrogen fertilization on improving calcareous soil properties and wheat productivity by Adel S. El-Hassanin, Magdy R. Samak, Mohamed E. El-Fayuomy, Azza R. Ahmed, Nesreen S. Asem

“…Calcareous soil suffers from deprived organic materials, structural properties, increased water holding capacity, deep percolation, crusts and cracks formation, which hinders the roots dispersion and decreases permeation speed. …”
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Comparative analysis of the profit efficiency levels among the major actors in broiler value chain in Ghana by Bombason Kweku Tuoho, Samuel Kwesi Ndzebah Dadzie, Julius Kofi Hagan, Martin Bosompem, Edward Adu-Kyei

“…Government and other development partners should make available the appropriate technologies and training to build the capacity of BVC actors to adequately combine productive resources available to them in order to reduce profit inefficiency and increase production.…”
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US Pilot Study of Lumbar to Sacral Nerve Rerouting to Restore Voiding and Bowel Function in Spina Bifida: 3-Year Experience by Kenneth M. Peters, Holly Gilmer, Kevin Feber, Benjamin J. Girdler, William Nantau, Gary Trock, Kim A. Killinger, Judith A. Boura

“…Over three years, renal function remained stable and mean maximum cystometric capacity (MCC) increased (P=0.0135). In the 10 that returned at 3 years, 7 were treatment responders and 9 had discontinued antimuscarinics, but most still leaked urine. …”
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Overcoming Data Scarcity in Wind Power Forecasting: A Deep Learning Approach With Bidirectional Generative Adversarial Network and Neighborhood Search PSO Algorithm by Shiyu Liu, Fei Chen, Zhendong Liu, Hongyan Qiao

“…However, the insufficient availability of historical data poses challenges for traditional deep learning prediction models to accurately forecast for new-built wind farms (NWF) under the background of a substantial increase in wind power installed capacity worldwide. Hence, there is practical scientific significance in exploring high-precision prediction methods within the domain of NWF WPP. …”
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Stachydrine targeting tumor-associated macrophages inhibit colorectal cancer liver metastasis by regulating the JAK2/STAT3 pathway by Yang Gui, Gengchen Xue, Yuyi Yuan, Jingbo Wang, Shuangjiao Deng, Fei Gao, Yushi Tian, Zhiqiang Zhao, Heng Fan

“…Subsequently, a series of assays, including quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), flow cytometry, scratch, invasion, and tube formation assays, were conducted to confirm STA’s capacity to impede tumor cell migration, invasion, and angiogenesis in vitro. …”
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Countries' progress towards Global Health Security (GHS) increased health systems resilience during the Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic: A difference-in-difference study... by Tyler Y Headley, Sooyoung Kim, Yesim Tozan

“…We used longitudinal data from 191 countries and a difference-in-difference (DiD) causal inference strategy to quantify the effect of countries' GHS capacity as measured by the GHSI on their coverage rates for essential childhood immunizations, a previously established proxy for health systems resilience. …”
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Rol de la familia en el fomento del aprendizaje autorregulado de estudiantes chilenos durante confinamiento por COVID-19 by Yaranay López-Angulo, Fabiola Sáez-Delgado, Alexia Valentina Guiñez Castro, Valentina Ignacia Torres Uribe, Karla Muñoz-Inostroza, Javiera Becerra Ruiz

“…Los hallazgos permitieron inferir que cuando las familias se sienten capaces de fomentar el estudio, se disponen a ello, emplean estrategias cognitivas, buscan ayuda cuando lo necesitan y evalúan la planificación del estudio y aprendizaje de manera media y/o alta. …”
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Smart grid stability prediction model using two-way attention based hybrid deep learning and MPSO by Umesh Kumar Lilhore, Surjeet Dalal, Magdalena Radulescu, Marinela Barbulescu

“…The proposed hybrid model utilizes a two-way attention method at its encoding and decoding stages, in which an encoding attention layer helps to recognize all the essential features from an input vector, and a decoding attention layer helps to resolve the fixed context vector problem by offering better memory capacity. A CNN and Bi-LSTM are used to capture the essential features from the dataset. …”
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