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Caulerpa macrodisca and Caulerpa lentillifera, green macroalgae consumed as fresh salads in Malaysian communities esteemed for their robust nutritional profile, were investigated for their viability in dried seaw...
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Bispectral Index versus the University of Michigan Sedation Scale in assessing sedation depth during pediatric drug-induced sleep endoscopy
Bispectral Index (BIS) and University of Michigan Sedation Scale (UMSS) were two commonly used methods of monitoring the sedation depth, but their correlation was not clear. The purpose of this study is to asc...
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Open AccessDynamics of collective cooperation under personalised strategy updates
Collective cooperation is essential for many social and biological systems, yet understanding how it evolves remains a challenge. Previous investigations report that the ubiquitous heterogeneous individual con...
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To study the influence of different cleaning methods on the corrosion resistance of 316L stainless steel surface, this paper carried out polarisation curves and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy studied o...
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Open AccessImitation dynamics on networks with incomplete information
Imitation is an important learning heuristic in animal and human societies. Previous explorations report that the fate of individuals with cooperative strategies is sensitive to the protocol of imitation, lead...
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Open AccessConstructing temporal networks with bursty activity patterns
Human social interactions tend to vary in intensity over time, whether they are in person or online. Variable rates of interaction in structured populations can be described by networks with the time-varying a...
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Understanding stability—whether a community will eventually return to its original state after a perturbation—is a major focus in the study of various complex systems, particularly complex ecosystems. Here, we...
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Open AccessTime delays modulate the stability of complex ecosystems
What drives the stability, or instability, of complex ecosystems? This question sits at the heart of community ecology and has motivated a large body of theoretical work exploring how community properties shap...
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This review is aimed to assess the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) games on cognition, mobility, and emotion in elderly stroke patients. We selected relevant articles from eight databases from 2011 to 20...
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Salt-free reactive dyeing of cotton fibers in a ternary solvent system with different reactive dye chemistries
Reactive dye chemistry plays a crucial role in the dyeing of cotton fibers. Herein, to provide insight on the adaptability of salt-free reactive dyeing for sustainable environmental development, the effect of ...
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Circular Economy Educational Approaches for Higher Learning Supply Chains: A Literature Review
Education is a common good to humanity just like the natural environment is the cornerstone of the social and economic system. Preservation of the natural environment is then even a better common good. While e...
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Core–shell architectured NH2-UiO-66@ZIF-8/multi-walled carbon nanotubes nanocomposite-based sensitive electrochemical sensor towards simultaneous determination of Pb2+ and Cu2+
Amino functionalized zirconium-based metal–organic framework (NH2-UiO-66) and zinc-based zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-8) were integrated to develop a core–shell architectured hybrid material (NH2-UiO-66@ZI...
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Open AccessThe willingness and influencing factors to choose smart senior care among old adults in China
Population aging has become an escalating issue in China resulting in increasing healthcare demand. Smart senior care has the potential to help older adults live independently and relieve the pressure of healt...
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In situ etching by released proton in aniline polymerization to form network VO2 doped polyaniline composites with variable infrared emissivity for electromagnetic absorption application
Vanadium dioxide (VO2) in transition metal oxides (TMOs) exhibits low electrical conductivity and poor polarization properties. In this work, we present a strategy for the one-step synthesis of polyaniline (PANI)...
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MNSSp3: Medical big data privacy protection platform based on Internet of things
How to transform the growing medical big data into medical knowledge is a global topic. However, medical data contains a large amount of personal privacy information, especially electronic medical records, gen...
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The effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine-based exercise on physical performance, balance and muscle strength among older adults: a systematic review with meta-analysis
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) based exercises have been widely used in the prevention and treatment of balance, cardiopulmonary, and other related diseases in older adults. However, there seems to be no c...
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Complementary spatiotemporal network for video question answering
Video question answering (VideoQA) is challenging as it requires models to capture motion and spatial semantics and to associate them with linguistic contexts. Recent methods usually treat space and time symme...
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Dielectric properties and microwaves response behavior of polypyrrole-derived N-doped carbon nanotubes
A series of N-doped carbon nanotubes (NCNTs) have been synthesized via a temperature-controlled annealing of polypyrrole (PPy) hierarchical nanostructures. The microstructures, dielectric properties and microwave...
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Biomass-based carbon materials derived from Cyperus malaccensis Lam. var. brevifolius Bocklr with efficient microwave absorption performance
Compared with chemically synthesized materials, biomass materials often exhibit unique intrinsic structures, which can be utilized through optimizing microstructures and activation process to furnish low-cost ...
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Polypyrrole-derived N-doped carbon nanoribbon for broadband microwaves absorption
In this work, we successfully synthesize N-doped carbon nanoribbon (NCNR) from polypyrrole precursor and investigate their dielectric and microwaves absorption (MA) properties. NCNR appears as two-dimensional rib...
