Animating the critical zone: beavers as critical zone engineers by Clifford Adamchak, Clifford Adamchak, Katherine B. Lininger, Eve-Lyn S. Hinckley, Eve-Lyn S. Hinckley

“…This article illustrates how beavers modify the critical zone across different spatiotemporal scales, presents research opportunities to elucidate the role of beavers in influencing Western U.S. ecosystems, and, more broadly, demonstrates the importance of integrating animals into critical zone science.…”
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Spatial Variations in PAHs and Nitro-PAHs Bound to Total Suspended Solids in Urban Locations in Taiwan by Hsin-Chieh Kung, Bo-Wun Huang, Justus Kavita Mutuku, Guo-Ping Chang-Chien

“…Samples were collected based on U.S. EPA, Method 23A, 1996 with XAD-2, GF7. Analysis was performed using a gas chromatograph tandem mass spectrometer (GC-MS/MS) Agilent 7890A GC, USA, equipped with a ZB-EPA-EU 30 m × 0.25 mm × 0.20 µm, column (Agilent, J&W, USA), coupled to Waters Xevo TQ-S (Waters, UK). …”
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Medication use and potential drug-drug interactions in a general surgery clinic: A descriptive studyMain points by Sevgi Teker Yıldırım, Şevket Cumhur Yeğen, Songül Tezcan

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Study of adsorption behavior of HCN and H2S molecules over undoped and Al-doped zinc oxide monolayer: A DFT approach by Dipak Oli, Om Shree Rijal, Ravi Kiran Neupane, Pitamber Shrestha, Shriram Sharma, Leela Pradhan Joshi, Rajendra Parajuli

“…We utilized spin-polarized Density Functional Theory with GGA-PBE, meta GGA-SCAN, and DFT + U functionals for all calculations. The adsorbed and unadsorbed ZnO monolayers exhibited non-magnetic behavior, whereas doped monolayers exhibited magnetic behavior in both adsorbed and unadsorbed states. …”
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THE ROLE OF DIGITAL LITERACY OF PRE-SERVICE AND IN-SERVICE EFL INSTRUCTORS IN POST PANDEMIC COVID-19 by H. Kubra Er

“…The data is analyzed via the Mann-Whitney U test, Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, descriptive analysis for one of the questionnaire items and content documentation for the last open-ended question for of the questionnaire. …”
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Evaluation of Prediction Performances of Deep Learning Models for the Aerodynamic Characteristics of Flettner Rotors by Seo Janghoon, Park Jung Yoon, Ma Juhwan, Kim Young Bu, Park Dong-Woo

“…Three deep learning architectures (U-net, Encoder-Decoder, and Decoder models) are employed and trained to predict the aerodynamic characteristics of Flettner rotors. …”
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Testing the Strength of Chaotic Systems as Seeds in a Pseudo Random Bit Generator by Lazaros Moysis, Marcin Lawnik, Christos Volos, Murilo S. Baptista, Sotirios K. Goudos, George F. Fragulis

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Imágenes turísticas de las ciudades españolas a partir de la ficción audiovisual by Eugeni Osácar Marzal, José Antonio Fraiz Brea, Noelia Araújo-Vila

“…Los principales resultados muestran una percepción positiva de la imagen de las ciudades visionadas en series y películas con alta valoración por parte del espectador, con una alta predisposición a ser elegidas como destino vacacional a corto y medio plazo; además de considerar que el incluir ciudades u otros rodajes en exteriores aportan valor a una serie o largometraje. …”
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Ankrd1 as a potential biomarker for the transition from acute kidney injury to chronic kidney disease by Hailin Li, Lemei Hu, Changqing Zheng, Ying Kong, Ming Liang, Quhuan Li

“…The expression levels of hub genes were validated using the bulk RNA-seq data (GSE98622) and further confirmed through RT-qPCR and immunohistochemical analysis in ischemia-reperfusion injury (uIRI) mice. Ankrd1, a hub gene in New PT2, showed sustained upregulation in the proximal tubule in AKI. …”
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APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLEGENCE ALGORITHMS TO CONTROL THE USE OF FLOOD-PRONE AREAS by Konstantin A. Kurganovich, Andrey V. Shalikovskiy, Maksim A. Bosov, Denis V. Kochev

“…The best result in terms of speed and accuracy was shown by the U-Net architecture, built using a convolutional neural network with an SE-ResNeXt50 encoder. …”

On small Dirac neutrino masses in string theory by Gonzalo F. Casas, Luis E. Ibáñez, Fernando Marchesano

“…In this regime we find Dirac neutrino masses of the form m ν ≃ g ν ⟨H⟩, with g ν the gauge coupling of the massive U(1) under which the right-handed neutrinos ν R are charged, and which should be in the range g ν ≃ 10 −14 − 10 −12 to reproduce neutrino data. …”
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Widespread mutagenesis and chromosomal instability shape somatic genomes in systemic sclerosis by Sriram Vijayraghavan, Thomas Blouin, James McCollum, Latarsha Porcher, François Virard, Jiri Zavadil, Carol Feghali-Bostwick, Natalie Saini

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Głoszenie Ewangelii do osób zaangażowanych w działania społeczno-charytatywne by Jerzy Swędrowski

“…Niesienie pomocy innym nie dokonuje się w abstrakcji, ale ma u swojego celu niesienie chrześcijańskiej nadziei. …”
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Mape: defending against transferable adversarial attacks using multi-source adversarial perturbations elimination by Xinlei Liu, Jichao Xie, Tao Hu, Peng Yi, Yuxiang Hu, Shumin Huo, Zhen Zhang

“…SAPE utilizes a thoughtfully designed channel-attention U-Net as the defense model and employs adversarial examples generated by a pre-trained model (e.g., ResNet) for its training, thereby enabling the elimination of known adversarial perturbations. …”
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Smart Filter Performance Monitoring System by Chenxing Pei, Weiqi Chen, Qisheng Ou, David Y. H. Pui

“…Here, we propose and prototype a smart filter performance monitoring system that costs less than 200 U.S. dollars and can report filtration efficiency, differential pressure, temperature, and RH (relative humidity) in real time. …”
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Properties of the new N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 AdS4 vacuum of maximal supergravity by Nikolay Bobev, Thomas Fischbacher, Krzysztof Pilch

“…Studying the structure of the submanifold of SO(3) × ℤ2-invariant supergravity scalars, we find that it has a simple interpretation as a submanifold of the 14-dimensional ℤ 2 3 $$ {\mathbb{Z}}_2^3 $$ -invariant scalar manifold (SU(1, 1)/U(1))7, for which we find a rather remarkable superpotential whose structure matches the single bit error correcting (7, 4) Hamming code. …”
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Effect of the provision of estimated waiting time on patient satisfaction with the Emergency Department: A randomized controlled trial by Khalid N. Almulhim, Lina A. AlMudayris, Zeyad K. Alshehri, Ahmed K. Alnawah, Danah A. Aljeri, Abdulaziz S. Hadadi

“…Fischer’s exact test was applied to test for association between categorical variables, and Mann– Whitney U test was used to compare satisfaction scores between the groups. …”
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Cerebellar re-irradiation after whole brain radiotherapy significant symptom relief with minimal toxicity in metastatic brain patients by Ory Haisraely, Marcia Jaffe, Yaacov Richard Lawerence, Alicia Talianksy, Alicia Taliansky

“…Statistical analyses included t-tests, Mann-Whitney U tests, and multivariable logistic regression. …”
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Characteristics of pediatric patients with febrile convulsions admitted to a tertiary care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Alanoud A. Abuhaimed, Nawaf A. Alghamdi, Ghadah I. Alhussin, Ghadah S. Alduhaimi, Fatmah Othman, Duaa M. Baarmah, Hamad A. Alkhalaf

“…Data was analyzed using Stata 12; Chi-square test was used to determine association between categorical variables, while t-test or Mann–Whitney U test compared continuous data between two groups. …”
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Development and multifunctional investigation of reduced graphene oxide decorated MgO hybrid nanocomposite by M. Mylarappa, S. Chandruvasan, K.N. Shravana Kumara, G. Krishnamurthy, A.S. Santhosh Kumar

“…The prepared rGO/MgO electrode has been used for evaluating the sensing activity of ascorbic acid (BS-A), resorcinol (BS-R), and uric acid (BS–U). The findings obtained demonstrated a higher detecting oxidation potential.…”
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