Osmanlılarda Muzaaf Usul’e Erken Geçilmemesinin by Ahmet Vecdi CAN, Hakan ALİUSTA, Aydın BAĞDAT

“…The aim of this study is to examine the socio-economic reasons of why double-entry bookkeping method was started to be used by Ottoman Empire and other Turkish countries about four centuries later. During the examination, literature review was done regarding the economical and social situation of Ottoman Empire including the period between 16th and 20th centuries, and the findings were be classified and analyzed. …”
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ML Prediction of Global Ionospheric TEC Maps by Lei Liu, Y. Jade Morton, Yunxiang Liu

“…Abstract This paper applies the convolutional long short‐term memory (convLSTM)‐based machine learning models to forecast global ionospheric total electron content (TEC) maps with up to 24 hr of lead time at a 1‐hr interval. Four convLSTM‐based models were investigated, and the one that implements the L1 loss function and the residual prediction strategy demonstrates the best performance. …”
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Right Lower Quadrant Abdominal Pain in a Patient with Prior Ventriculoperitoneal Shunting: Consider the Tip! by Petros Charalampoudis

“…The patient underwent a 24-hour observation including a neurosurgery consult in order to exclude acute appendicitis and VP shunt tip infection. Twenty four hours later, the patient’s symptomatology improved, and she was discharged with the diagnosis of atypical colicky abdominal pain seeking a gastroenterologist consult. …”
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Modélisation de l’érosion hydrique des sols sur un bassin versant du sud-ouest de Madagascar, le Fiherenana by Evelyne Payet, Pascal Dumas, Gwenaëlle Pennober

“…It takes into account four determining factors, such as soil erodibility, rainfall, slope length and steepness, land cover and conservation practice factor. …”
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Mutant Prevention Concentrations of Imipenem and Meropenem against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii by E. Dahdouh, S. H. Shoucair, S. E. Salem, Z. Daoud

“…The MIC and MPC were determined using the broth macrodilution and plate dilution methods, respectively. Four Acinetobacter baumannii strains produced MBL. …”
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Power-Aware Routing and Network Design with Bundled Links: Solutions and Analysis by Rosario G. Garroppo, Stefano Giordano, Gianfranco Nencioni, Maria Grazia Scutellà

“…The solutions of the PARND-BL model have been analyzed by taking into account different aspects associated with the actual applicability in real network scenarios: (i) the time for obtaining the solution, (ii) the deployed network topology and the resulting topology provided by the solution, (iii) the power behavior of the network elements, (iv) the traffic load, (v) the QoS requirement, and (vi) the number of paths to route each traffic demand. …”
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Privacy-preserving digital rights management scheme in cloud computing by Qin-long HUANG, Zhao-feng MA, Jing-yi FU, Yi-xian YANG, Xin-xin NIU

“…The framework of digital content copyright lifecycle protection and user privacy protection in cloud computing was firstly designed, which includes four protocols: system setup, content encryption, license acquisition and content decryption, and then a content encryption key protection and distribution mechanism based on attribute-based encryption and additively homomorphic encryption was proposed, which ensures the security of content encryption key. …”
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The effect of human resources management on the success of electricity projects (tower transmission) in west Papua province by Ivan Yosefwan Naibaho, Adithya Sudiarno

“…Overall the goodness of the model in measuring the relationship between the four factors on project success is shown by the R2 value of 0.880 which is categorized as a strong influence.…”
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Re-Creation of the Character and Subjectivation in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mesut Günenç

“…This study, focusing on Alain Badiou’s theory of subjectivation and within this context, his four terms (event, truth, body and present) in general and adding a fifth section as the event of daily life, argues that The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time depicts a collective subject similar to Badiou’s figure: a subject who rejects ordinary forms of communication for alternatives to authority and its structural inequalities. …”
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Optimization of S-N curve fitting based on neighborhood rough set reduction with improved firefly algorithm by Yangjinyu Li, Li Zou, Zhengjie Zhu

“…To demonstrate the effectiveness of IFA algorithm, six benchmark functions are used, then the availability of IFANRSR algorithm is evaluated in comparison with other algorithms on four UCI datasets. Finally, the results of the goodness-of-fit show that the dispersion of fatigue data is reduced, which can effectively improve the prediction accuracy of fatigue life.…”
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A Multimode Adaptive Pushover Procedure for Seismic Assessment of Integral Bridges by Ehsan Mohtashami, Ahmad Shooshtari

“…The analysis includes 18 four-span integral bridges with various heights of piers. …”
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Maternal Health Coping Strategies of Migrant Women in Norway by Berit Viken, Anne Lyberg, Elisabeth Severinsson

“…One overall theme is as follows: keeping original traditions while at the same time being willing to integrate into Norwegian society, and four themes emerged as follows: balancing their sense of belongingness; seeking information and support from healthcare professionals; being open to new opportunities and focusing on feeling safe in the new country. …”
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Study on Quality Assessment of <italic>Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Practice Guideline for Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury</italic> Based on AGREEⅡInstrument by Xia ZHOU, LI Li, Jun LENG, Wanbin LI, Chuanying WANG, Shuzhen XING

“…Objective:By using <italic>the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and EvaluationⅡ</italic> (AGREE<italic>Ⅱ</italic>) instrument to evaluate the quality of <italic>the Traditional Chinese Medicine</italic> (<italic>TCM</italic>) <italic>Clinical Practice Guidelines</italic> (<italic>CPGs</italic>) <italic>for Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury</italic>.Methods:Referring to the Delphi survey method, four experts were selected from list of experts in the Guidance Group. …”
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Exercise Induced Adipokine Changes and the Metabolic Syndrome by Saeid Golbidi, Ismail Laher

“…In this paper we briefly describe the pathophysiologic role of four important adipokines (adiponectin, leptin, TNF-α, and IL-6) in the metabolic syndrome and review some of the clinical trials that monitored these adipokines as a clinical outcome before and after exercise.…”
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Uma alíquota uniforme na tributação sobre o consumo beneficia os mais pobres: apresentação e análise do debate internacional by Leonel Cesarino Pessôa

“…A partir da análise da literatura internacional, o artigo conclui de forma contrária: alíquotas diferenciadas não são o melhor meio de se proteger os mais pobres por quatro razões: (i) as alíquotas menores atingem tanto os mais pobres quanto os mais ricos, que normalmente consomem mais que os mais pobres, em termos absolutos, os bens com alíquota reduzida ou isentos; (ii) alíquotas reduzidas geram complexidade, o que cria um contencioso que prejudica o funcionamento do sistema como um todo; (iii) alíquotas menores favorecem a atuação dos grupos de pressão; e (iv) as reduções de alíquota não são em geral ou integralmente repassadas aos preços dos produtos.…”
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Innenentwicklung in ländlichen Räumen zwischen Planungsideal und Akteurinteressen: Der Einfluss von sozialen Aspekten by Jennifer Gerend, Marina Beck

“…The results of a survey were assigned to four spatially coded settlement types: historic town centres, post-World-War II settlement types, settlements from the 1980s and 1990s, and new developments after 2000. …”
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GMP-140 水平与狼疮肾炎肾损害的相关性 by 董光富, 叶任高, 孔庆喻, 李幼姬

“…【结果】狼疮性肾炎病人血 GMP-140 水平升高, 其中WHO Ⅳ型病人较Ⅲ 型、Ⅱ 型者明显升高;血浆GMP-140 水平与狼疮肾活动指数明显正相关, 与肾病理 和功能损害有一定正相关关系。…”
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Critique of Forough Farrokhzad's “Let’s Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season” with the Interpretive Semiotic Approach of Umberto Eco by Shirzad Tayefi, Niloofar Bakhtiari

“…., are examined in an all-round textual and contextual interpretation and are measured using the axes derived from the four Aristotelian causes to provide a scientific and standard interpretation, from the point of view of the reader of the model. …”
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A Great Exhibition of Printing: The Illustrated London News Supplement Sheet (1851) by Paul Fyfe

“…The ILN’s printing press helped supply its illustrated supplements for the Great Exhibition and stoked visitors’ curiosity about the steam-driven press at the show: an Applegath four-feeder printing from a revolving vertical type drum. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF AN AGE-PERIOD-COHORT-EXPERIENCE MODEL FOR FILIPINO INTERGENERATIONAL DIVERSITY INQUIRY IN SCHOOLS by Roxanne Bongco, Inero Ancho

“…As such, said descriptions for each generation could only hold true while all four conditions are present. Until a strong basis for analysis is established, the separation of one effect from another will be difficult.…”
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