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Zeyuan Zhao, Ping Li, Yongjie Dai, Zhaoe Min and Lei Chen
Alzheimer?s disease (AD) is an irreversible neurodegenerative disease. Providing trustworthy AD progression predictions for at-risk individuals contributes to early identification of AD patients and holds significant value in discovering effective treatm...
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Peter Ardhianto, Ben-Yi Liau, Yih-Kuen Jan, Jen-Yung Tsai, Fityanul Akhyar, Chih-Yang Lin, Raden Bagus Reinaldy Subiakto and Chi-Wen Lung
In this study, the left and right footprint images were predicted based on deep learning object detection models. YOLOv4 models are the most balanced deep learning models in detecting left and right feet from footprint images. In different object detecti...
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Daisuke Ekuni, Naoki Toyama, Yoshiaki Iwasaki and Manabu Morita
The objective of this three-year prospective cohort study was to investigate the association between a new definition of an increase in dental caries and risk factors in Japanese young adults. Data of Okayama University students who volunteered to underg...
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Miguel A. Losada, Pilar Díaz-Carrasco and María Clavero
The mean sea level rising predicted for this century and the following centuries will make necessary to protect most of the human properties located on the coast. One of the alternatives is the construction of slope breakwaters along hundreds of kilomete...
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Roger C. Brackin, Michael J. Jackson, Andrew Leyshon, Jeremy G. Morley and Sarah Jewitt
Technological evolution and its potential impacts are of significant interest to governments, corporate organizations and for academic enquiry; but assessments of technology progression are often highly subjective. This paper prototypes potential objecti...
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Pinbo Yao and Hongda Liu
Based on the positive externalities of prefabricated buildings, this paper constructs an evolutionary game model between the government and material component vendors and analyzes the changes in the behavior of the government and component vendors in dif...
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Robert E. Melchers
The long-term corrosion progression of steel reinforcement is important for estimating the life of reinforced concrete infrastructure. Reviews of field experience and results from recent controlled long-term experiments show that the development of reinf...
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Álvaro Campos, Carmen Castillo and Rafael Molina-Sanchez
The term ?damage? in rubble mound breakwaters is usually related to the foremost failure mode of this kind of coastal structures: their hydraulic instability. The characterization of the breakwater response against wave action was and will be the goal of...
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María Navarro-Cáceres, Javier Félix Merchán Sánchez-Jara, Valderi Reis Quietinho Leithardt and Raúl García-Ovejero
In Western tonal music, tension in chord progressions plays an important role in defining the path that a musical composition should follow. The creation of chord progressions that reflects such tension profiles can be challenging for novice composers, a...
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Chris J.H. King
The question in the title was addressed by dividing the elements of geoscience fieldwork into eight different strands and then subdividing these into different items addressed during fieldwork. Separate small groups of experienced geoscience educators (m...
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Alonso Pizarro and Enrico Tubaldi
Local scour is a dynamic process evolving during the lifetime of bridges as a result of the changes in hydrologic and hydraulic conditions. Current approaches for scour risk assessment are generally based on the evaluation of the equilibrium scour depth ...
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Polly Parker, Belinda Hewitt, Jennifer Witheriff and Amy Cooper
The underrepresentation of women in senior positions continues to be a major challenge in higher education and most other industries. In Australia, the career trajectory for academic women stalls at a lower level than that of their male counterparts. Con...
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O. L. Tiutkin
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In the article the results of development of bases of calculation and further analysis of its results on the basis of energy durability theory of tunnel constructions are presented. The practical calculation of the shallow contour interval columnar stati...
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José Miguel Rodrigues
The timely and precise prediction of flooding progression and its eventual outcome in ships with breached hulls can lead to dramatic improvements in maritime safety through improved guidance for both emergency response and ship design. The traditional ap...
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Danjuma Abdu Yusuf, Jie Zhu, Sadiq Abdullahi Nashe, Abdullahi Muhammad Usman, Abdullahi Sagir, Adamu Yukubu, Abdulmalik Sule Hamma, Namadi Sharif Alfa and Abubakar Ahmed
The significance of urban landscapes in the current era of concern for a sustainable built environment can never be overemphasized. The study explores the landscape features and typologies of some urban environments within Kano to understand the manageme...
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Richard J. Arend
The creation school of opportunity formation is a relatively new partial theory of entrepreneurship built upon a relatively new approach to theorizing. Given their significant respective impacts, we critically evaluate both that school and that approach ...
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Anne-Françoise Obaton, Jacques Fain, Dietmar Meinel, Athanasios Tsamos, Fabien Léonard, Benoît Lécuelle and Madjid Djemaï
The osseointegration in/around additively manufactured (AM) lattice structures of a new titanium alloy, Ti?19Nb?14Zr, was evaluated. Different lattices with increasingly high sidewalls gradually closing them were manufactured and implanted in sheep. Afte...
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Rui C. Pereira, Raffaella Santagiuliana, Luca Ceseracciu, Daniela P. Boso, Bernhard A. Schrefler and Paolo Decuzzi
The highly infiltrating nature of glioma cells is the major cause for the poor prognosis of brain malignancies. Motility, proliferation, and gene expression of cells in natural and synthetic gels have been analyzed by several authors, yet quantitative st...
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Gabriela Ghiga, Nicoleta Gimiga, Daniel Vasile Timofte, Oana Maria Rosu, Vladimir Poroch, Gheorghe G. Balan and Smaranda Diaconescu
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common digestive condition, representing one of the most frequent reasons for medical examination, especially in pediatric gastroenterology departments. GERD could be associated with biochemical alterations rep...
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Florian Tetschke, Jonas Golde, Tobias Rosenauer, Sabine Basche, Julia Walther, Lars Kirsten, Edmund Koch and Christian Hannig
The detection of early stages of caries is still one of the major challenges in preservative dentistry. Since it is known from polarized light microscopy (PLM) that intrinsic enamel birefringence is affected by demineralization, polarization-sensitive op...
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