Supermarket Circulars Promoting the Sales of ‘Healthy’ Foods: Analysis Based on Degree of Processing by Alyne Michelle Botelho, Anice Milbratz de Camargo, Kharla Janinny Medeiros, Gabriella Beatriz Irmão, Moira Dean, Giovanna Medeiros Rataichesck Fiates

“…This study identified food items advertised in circulars’ specific sections of two Brazilian supermarket chains (one regional, one national) during a 10-week period. Foods were classified according to degree of food processing and presence/type of claims on their front-of-pack (FoP) labels. …”
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Spatial-Temporal Self-Attention Transformer Networks for Battery State of Charge Estimation by Dapai Shi, Jingyuan Zhao, Zhenghong Wang, Heng Zhao, Junbin Wang, Yubo Lian, Andrew F. Burke

“…To ensure the model’s effectiveness, a rigorous test of its performance was conducted at the pack level, which allows for the translation of cell-level predictions into real-life problems with hundreds of cells in-series conditions possible. …”
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Health monitoring of cylindrical structures using MFC transducers by Cui, Lin

“…Based on the same principle and experiment setup, the detection of crack size and orientation in the cylindrical structure are studied. First, a crack of finite size is induced in a laboratory specimen. …”
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Hematological Parameters for Predicting Mortality in Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Rohan Karkra, Chaya Sindaghatta Krishnarao, Jayaraj Biligere Siddaiah, Mahesh Padukudru Anand

“…(1) Introduction: COPD is a common and serious condition affecting a significant proportion of the population globally. …”
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Feeding Thai Native Sheep Molasses Either Alone or in Combination with Urea-Fermented Sugarcane Bagasse: The Effects on Nutrient Digestibility, Rumen Fermentation, and Hematologica... by Thaintip Kraiprom, Sitthisak Jantarat, Suphawadee Yaemkong, Anusorn Cherdthong, Tossaporn Incharoen

“…Four Thai native sheep with an initial body weight (BW) of 20.87 ± 1.95 kg and 11 ± 1.0 months old were assigned to a 4 × 4 Latin square design with 4 periods of 14-d adaptation and 7 d of sample collection. …”
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Disparities in self-reported exposure to tobacco marketing among youth and young adults from low-socioeconomic status neighbourhoods in Mexico City by Qinghua Nian, Graziele Grilo, Joanna E. Cohen, Katherine C. Smith, Luz Myriam Reynales-Shigematsu, Maria Guadalupe Flores Escartin, Meghan B. Moran

“…Data were analysed using chi-square and hierarchical regression models. Two-thirds of adolescents noticed cigarette pack displays in stores. …”
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Tuning molecular-level polymer conformations enables dynamic control over both the interfacial behaviors of Ag nanocubes and their assembled metacrystals by Yang, Yijie, Lee, Yih Hong, Lay, Chee Leng, Ling, Xing Yi

“…We also identify four specific polarities which enable Ag nanocubes to assemble into large-area metacrystals with linear, hexagonal, and square close-packed lattices. Our work establishes an innovative strategy to achieve robust tunability of nanoparticle interfacial behavior and unprecedented modulation of metacrystal structure.…”
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Optimal battery state of charge parameter estimation and forecasting using non-linear autoregressive exogenous by Amal Nefraoui, Khalid Kandoussi, Mohamed Louzazni, Abderrahim Boutahar, Rabie Elotmani, Abdelmajid Daya

“…The lithium-ion battery (LiB) has become the most widely used energy storage system for electric vehicles (EVs) due to its many advantages. The EV battery pack needs a battery management system (BMS) to estimate the state of charge (SOC) and balance the energy capacity through the cells. …”
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In-silico structural analysis affecting thermostability in recombinant psychrophilic chitinase (CHI II) from Glaciozyma antarctica PI12 by Amer Shah, Amalina

“…Substitution of helix-preferred residue, alanine with a thermolabile residue, glutamine had caused A157Q structure become loosely packed at 300 K indicating a thermal denaturation. …”
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Immediate effects of cigar smoking on respiratory mechanics and exhaled biomarkers; differences between young smokers with mild asthma and otherwise healthy young smokers by Andreas S. Lappas, Efstathia M. Konstantinidi, Anna S. Tzortzi, Chara K. Tzavara, Panagiotis K. Behrakis

“…Exhaled carbon monoxide(eCO), multi-frequency respiratory system impedance(Z), resistance(R), reactance(X), frequency-dependence of resistance(fdr = R5Hz - R20Hz), resonant frequency(fres), reactance area(AX) and exhaled nitric oxide(FENO) were measured at the aforementioned sequence, before and immediately after 30 min of CS, or equal session in the smoking area while using a sham cigar(control group). Chi-square, student’s t-tests, mixed linear models and Pearson correlation tests were used for the statistical analysis; level of significance was defined as p < 0.05. …”
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Association of Hematological Profile of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Positive Patients with Clinicoimmunologic Stages of the Disease by Sujata E Mathews, Dinesh Srivastava, Raj Bala Yadav, Anjali Sharma

“…Patients in the study population were divided into two groups: (1) Group A (antiretroviral therapy (ART) included patients receiving ART [ART-Y]) and (2) Group B included treatment naïve patients (ART-N). …”
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Prophesying the Short-Term Dynamics of the Crude Oil Future Price by Adopting the Survival of the Fittest Principle of Improved Grey Optimization and Extreme Learning Machine by Asit Kumar Das, Debahuti Mishra, Kaberi Das, Pradeep Kumar Mallick, Sachin Kumar, Mikhail Zymbler, Hesham El-Sayed

“…This study examines the dynamics of this volatile market of crude oil by employing a hybrid approach based on an extreme learning machine (ELM) as a regressor and the improved grey wolf optimizer (IGWO) for prophesying the crude oil rate for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent crude oil datasets. …”
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Modelling and Computational Experiment to Obtain Optimized Neural Network for Battery Thermal Management Data by Asif Afzal, Javed Khan Bhutto, Abdulrahman Alrobaian, Abdul Razak Kaladgi, Sher Afghan Khan

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Longitudinal association between adiposity changes and lung function deterioration by Youngmok Park, Jiyoung Kim, Young Sam Kim, Ah Young Leem, Jinyeon Jo, Kyungsoo Chung, Moo Suk Park, Sungho Won, Ji Ye Jung

“…We aimed to investigate the long-term association between adiposity changes and lung function in a middle-aged general Asian population. Methods In total, 5011 participants (average age, 54 years; 45% men) were enrolled from a community-based prospective cohort. …”
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Research on Bionic Fish Scale Channel for Optimizing Thermal Performance of Liquid Cooling Battery Thermal Management System by Yutao Mu, Kai Gao, Pan Luo, Deng Ma, Haoran Chang, Ronghua Du

“…To minimize the maximum temperature (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>m</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>x</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>) and the maximum temperature difference (Δ<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>m</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>x</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>) as optimization indicators, experimental tests and numerical calculations are performed for a battery pack consisting of 36 square cells. …”
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12-(3,4,5-Trimethoxyphenyl)-2,3,4,12-tetrahydro-1H-5-oxatetraphen-1-one: crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis by Mukesh M. Jotani, P. Iniyavan, V. Vijayakumar, S. Sarveswari, Yee Seng Tan, Edward R. T. Tiekink

“…In the title compound, C26H24O5, the pyran ring has a flattened-boat conformation, with the 1,4-related ether O and methine C atoms lying 0.1205 (18) and 0.271 (2) Å, respectively, above the least-squares plane involving the doubly bonded C atoms (r.m.s deviation = 0.0208 Å). …”
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Co-Infection Rates between SARS-CoV-2 and RSV in Oropharyngeal, Nasopharyngeal Aspirate and Saliva Samples of COVID-19 Patients, Shiraz, South of Iran by Jannan Ghapanchi, Ali Dehghani Nazhvani, Fahimeh Rezazadeh, MItra Farzin, Afagh Moatari, Sina Masoudi, Mohamad Reza Kalantari, Reza Derafshi, Hossein Sedarat

“…All cases were hospitalized, and all SARS-CoV-2 patients had a fever and respiratory symptoms. The samples were packed in a vial with 1 mL of transport medium and transported to the Valfagre specialty laboratory, where they were tested for RSV using a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR).Results: 100 nasopharyngeal/oropharyngeal aspirates and saliva samples including 50 healthy controls (24 females, 26 males) and 50 COVID-19 patients' samples (27 males and 23 females) were studied. …”
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Nucleocapsid and matrix proteins of nipah virus produced in Pichia pastoris and their interaction by Narcisse Mary, Sither Joseph Vesudian

“…The final models also had a low root-mean-square deviation (RMSD) (9 Å for N and 5.3 Å for M protein) which shows the reliability of the predicted structure. …”
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Structural analysis on mutation residues and interfacial water molecules for human TIM disease understanding by Li, Zhenhua, He, Ying, Liu, Qian, Zhao, Liang, Wong, Limsoon, Kwoh, Chee Keong, Nguyen, Hung, Li, Jinyan

“…It is found that the water topology in the dimer interface of HsTIM is atypical, having a "wet-core-dry-rim" distribution with 16 water molecules tightly packed in a small deep region surrounded by 22 residues including GLU104. …”
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Near-Infrared Spectral Analysis for Assessing Germination Rate of Rapeseed Seeds: An Applied Sciences Approach by Shuaiyang Zhang, Chengxu Lv, Cheng Cui, Jizhong Wang, Jingzhu Wu, Wenhua Mao

“…<i>Brassica rapa</i>, commonly known as the rapeseed plant, is globally recognized for its nutrient-rich composition and oil-packed seeds, earning its distinction as a substantial oil-seed crop. …”
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