New Light Rail Transit (LRT) systems are frequently promoted as a means of reducing car dependence and supporting urban sustainability; however, their effectiveness depends on how different traveller segments respond to LRT relative to competing mode...
As the decline of public transportation in rural areas becomes a growing concern, initiatives to introduce attractive next-generation transportation systems to promote public transportation usage are being considered across various regions. In Toyama...
This study aims to predict the purpose of the use of IC card data in LRT immediately after its opening by means of a questionnaire survey and to understand the changes in the number of commuters to better understand the growth in LRT commuter ridersh...
Teachers in Germany are not adequately prepared to teach in a linguistically responsive way. To change that, multiple development and research projects in this area have been established over the past decade. Recent studies show that pre-service teac...
Background: Lattice Radiation Therapy (LRT), a spatially fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (SBRT) technique, has shown promising results in the palliative treatment of large tumors. The focus of our first analysis of 56 lesions ≥7 cm was on t...
Predictive health management (PHM) plays a pivotal role in the maintenance of contemporary industrial systems, with the evaluation of the state of health (SOH) and the prediction of remaining useful life (RUL) constituting its central objectives. Nev...
Light rail transit (LRT), an essential urban public transport system in China, significantly reshaped the urban land-use (LU) pattern. Although the LRT impact and land-use change (LUC) analysis plays an essential role in urban planning policy, the sp...
Throughout the last decades, light rail transit systems (LRT) have been built around the world due to their strengths: regularity, savings in CO2 emissions, flexibility, image and optimization of urban space. This research proposes the analyses of a...
Introduction: Lattice Radiation Therapy (LRT) is an evolving spatially fractionated radiation therapy (SFRT) technique that delivers heterogeneous dose distributions to large and radioresistant tumors. The literature highlights LRT’s potential...
Optimizing learning rates (LRs) in deep learning (DL) has long been challenging. Previous solutions, such as learning rate scheduling (LRS) and adaptive learning rate (ALR) algorithms like RMSProp and Adam, added complexity by introducing new hyperpa...
This paper deals with decision fusion in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) over Rayleigh fading channels. The likelihood ratio test (LRT) is considered as the optimal fusion rule when applied at the fusion center (FC). However, applying the LRT at the...
Background: Patients bearing large-volume, bulky primary or relapsed tumors, are usually referred to palliative low-dose radiotherapy with very poor results. Lattice Radiation Therapy (LRT) is able to produce a high number of high-dose foci or vortex...
In the long-distance space target detection, the technique of laser reflection tomography (LRT) shows great power and attracts more attention for further study and real use. However, space targets are often non-cooperative, and normally a 360° co...
Introduction: The role of surgery and non-surgical locoregional treatments (LRT) such as radiation therapy (RT) and local ablation techniques in patients with metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is unclear. This study examines LRT practi...
Light Rail Transit (LRT) and Bus Semirapid Transit (BST) are two different forms of semirapid, medium-capacity transit systems. Over recent decades, there has been an ongoing, unresolved debate on which of these two technologies brings about a higher...
In developing cities, transport activities have become one of the primary sources of CO2 emissions and energy consumption owing to rapid economic growth, urbanization, and motorization. Khon Kaen City, Thailand, was chosen as a representative mid-siz...
In this paper, we present a new method to calculate the height of the second lapse-rate tropopause (LRT2) using GNSS high-precision data. The use of GNSS data for monitoring the atmosphere is possible because as the radio signals propagate through th...
Background: The clinical outcome of inoperable sarcoma patients treated with LATTICE (LRT) is limited and therefore the objective of our study was to report treatment response, overall survival (OS), local-recurrence free survival (LRFS) and toxicity...
The traditional nonlocal filters for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images are based on square patches matching to obtain homogeneous pixels in a large search window. However, it is still difficult for the regular patches to work well...
The 191-residue-long LrtA protein of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is involved in post-stress survival and in stabilizing 70S ribosomal particles. It belongs to the hibernating promoting factor (HPF) family, intervening in protein synthesis. The protein...
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The aim of this paper is to determine what non-exposure factors influence the relationship between vibration and noise exposure from the construction of a Light Rapid Transit (LRT) system and the annoyance of nearby residents. Noise and vibration fro...
Image-guided locoregional therapies (LRTs) are a crucial asset in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which has proven to be characterized by an impaired antitumor immune status. LRTs not only directly destroy tumor cells but also have a...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of involvement of common viral organisms R. equi and K. pneumoniae and their clinicopathological and radiological features in respiratory disease of Malaysian domestic cats. A total of 34 fel...
Background/Objectives: Oral cancer, particularly oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), ranks as the sixth most prevalent cancer globally, with rates of occurrence on the rise. The diagnosis of OSCC primarily depends on histopathological images (HIs),...
Background/Objectives: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide, due to poor prognosis and limited curative options in advanced stages. Though immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)-based combinations have been...
In the context of subtropical cities, the slow-moving environment of HOD (Hospital-Oriented Development) faces the dual challenges of spatial fragmentation and an extreme hot and humid climate, which also restricts the outdoor space’s thermal e...
Background/Objectives: This study evaluated variation in nodal support for provisional HIV-1 subtype B compatibility across pol, gag, vif, tat and vpr in an institutional cohort from central Mexico. Methods: We performed a secondary descriptive bioin...
The LrtA protein of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 intervenes in cyanobacterial post-stress survival and in stabilizing 70S ribosomal particles. It belongs to the hibernating promoting factor (HPF) family of proteins, involved in protein synthesis. In th...
The outcrossing traits in rice (Oryza sativa L.) affect the yield of hybrid seed production. Using a cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) line with good outcrossing traits, such as short flag leaf length (FLL), narrow flag leaf width (FLW), wide flag leaf...
Plant height (PH) and its component traits are critical determinants of lodging resistance and strongly influence yield in rice. The genetic architecture of PH and its component traits were mined in two mapping populations. In the natural population...
Introduction: The impact of locoregional treatment (LRT) on survival in de novo bone-only metastatic breast cancer (dnBOMBC) is controversial. This study aims to assess the effect of LRT on survival, utilizing international, prospectively acquired da...
The wait times for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) listed for liver transplant are longer than ever, which has led to an increased reliance on the use of pre-operative LRTs. The impact that multiple rounds of LRTs have on peri-operative...
In this study, the relationship between gravity wave (GW) potential energy (Ep) and the tropopause height and temperature over the globe was investigated using COSMIC radio occultation (RO) dry temperature profiles during September 2006 to May 2013....
The leaching residue of the lead–zinc sulfide tailing (LRT) is the only residue generated from the tailing leaching recovery process; it is a typical hazardous material for its high heavy-metal contents and high acidity. Due to the large output of LR...
When choosing between two candidate models, classical hypothesis testing presents two main limitations: first, the models being tested have to be nested, and second, one of the candidate models must subsume the structure of the true data-generating m...
Winter durum wheat combines the benefits of autumn sowing with high grain quality but remains poorly adapted to temperate regions due to low frost tolerance. To elucidate the genetic basis of winter hardiness and support breeding for improved cold ad...
Battery-powered catenary-free light rail vehicles (CF-LRVs) are increasingly adopted as sustainable urban transport solutions, offering advantages such as the elimination of overhead catenary infrastructure, reduced visual intrusion, and enhanced ope...
Background/Objectives: The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants and breakthrough infections underscores the need for next-generation vaccines capable of protecting from natural infection and/or preventing virus transmission. Intranasal vaccination offers...
This study investigates the uncertainties associated with estimates of the long-range transport SO2 (LRT-SO2) flow rate calculated hourly using Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) synthetic radiances. These radiances were simulat...
Background and objectives: Aquatic exercises have demonstrated several advantages over land-based exercise, but only a few studies have compared the workout intensities and efficiencies in a stage-specific manner. This study aimed to investigate work...
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Often in the planning phase of a clinical trial, a researcher will need to choose between a standard versus weighted log-rank test (LRT) for investigating right-censored survival data. While a standard LRT is optimal for analyzing evenly distributed...
We aimed to identify the oncologic benefits of local treatment including radiotherapy (LRT) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) invading the portal vein. We used clinical data of patients with HCC invading the portal vein from 2008 to 2014 provided by...
(1) Background: Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) has been incorporated into the selection criteria of liver transplantation and been used to predict the outcome of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence. Locoregional therapy (LRT) is recommended for bridgi...
With the growing focus on sustainable development, light rail transit (LRT) systems are increasingly viewed as key drivers of low-carbon mobility and spatial equity. However, as urban spatial structures become more stable, it remains unclear whether...
Provided advancements in Lung Transplantation (LT) survival, the efficacy of Lung Retransplantation (LRT) has often been debated. Decades of retrospective analyses on thousands of LRT cases provide insight enabling predictive patient criteria for ret...
Introduction: Primary site locoregional treatment (LRT) of metastatic breast cancer has been performed and evaluated with the aim to improve survival, prevent complications, and alleviate local symptoms. As some studies fail to show a survival benefi...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Unlike other types of cancer, HCC can be treated with locoregional treatments (LRTs) such as radiofrequency ablation (RFA) or transarterial chemoembolization (TACE)....
Brain metastases (BMs) are one of the most common metastatic lesions in adult cancer patients and the most common intracranial neoplasms in adult patients. Especially for multiple BMs, historically, whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) has been performed...
The bottle gourd [Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.] is often utilized as a rootstock for watermelon grafting. This practice effectively mitigates the challenges associated with continuous cropping obstacles in watermelon cultivation. The lower gr...
Locoregional therapies (LRTs) play an important role in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), with the aim of increasing overall survival while preserving liver function. Various forms of LRT are available, and choosing the best one depend...
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