Phase-Shift Keying Modulated Data Signal Using SOA-MZI-Based All-Optical Logic AND Gate at 80 Gb/s by Amer Kotb, Yasser Mohamed

“…All-optical logic AND operation with phase-shift keying (PSK) modulated data signals based on a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) assisted Mach-Zehnder interferometer is numerically analyzed and investigated. …”
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Designing aluminium friction stir welded joints against multiaxial fatigue by L. Susmel, D. G. Hattingh, M. N. James, E. Maggiolini, R. Tovo

“…The present paper investigates the accuracy of the Modified Wöhler Curve Method (MWCM) in estimating multiaxial fatigue strength of aluminium friction stir (FS) welded joints. Having developed a bespoke joining technology, circumferentially FS welded tubular specimens of Al 6082-T6 were tested under proportional and non-proportional tension and torsion, the effect of non-zero mean stresses being also investigated. …”
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Customer Participation in Professional Services Operations And Its Impacts On Flexibility and Costs by Juliana Barreto, Ricardo Silveira Martins

“…This study has its contribution to deepen the understanding about the paradoxical relation between flexibility and costs in the field of operations service strategy and management, approaching the customer participation affects on the professional services. Through a multi-case study with four professional services organizations, using data collection through semi-structured interviews and documentary research, we identified four main sources of variability, namely: customer arrival, the diagnosis of needs, production and implementation and the delivery value analysis. …”
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Automatic Identification and Elimination of the Rigid Subchain in Kinematic Chain by Wang Ying, Li Ruiqin, Wang Limin

“…The judgment of the rigid subchain is a difficult problem in the synthesis of kinematic chain.By analyzing the kinematic chain of each closed loop in the kinematic chain,a method is proposed to determine whether there is the rigid subchain in the kinematic chain. …”
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Un acercamiento al concepto de representación: el caso delas mujeres políticas en elestado de Chihuahua by Martha Estela Pérez, María Isabel Escalona Rodríguez

“…Este caso se centra en la escasa re-presentación del sexo femenino en la política institucional y, de igual forma, se hace un acercamiento a los esquemas culturales que siguen vigentes en la esfera pública, los cuales no sólo inciden en el quehacer político femenino y masculino, sino que también conllevan a generar espacios de discriminación e inequidad y obstaculizan el empoderamiento femenino.…”
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Understanding Pregnancy Diagnosis in Beef Cattle by G. Cliff Lamb, Darren D. Henry, Vitor R. G. Mercadante, Doug E. Mayo

“… Because 55 to 70 percent of the input costs associated with a beef cattle operation are related to nutrition, culling open (non-pregnant) cows after the breeding season can save as much as $200 per head that can be diverted to the purchase or development of replacement females, sire selection, increased nutritional management, and other management-related costs. …”
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Inhibition of the Transforming Growth Factor-β Signaling Pathway Confers Neuroprotective Effects on Beta-Amyloid-Induced Direct Neurotoxicity and Microglia-Mediated Neuroinflammati... by Shao Qin Tiong, Raxshanaa N. Mohgan, Jia Yee Quek, Jennifer Yue Suan Liew, Grace Yee Seen Wong, Zi Qing Thang, Zhi Ling Chan, Sook Yee Gan, Elaine Wan Ling Chan

“…Conclusion: The inhibition of the TGF-β signaling pathway in neuronal and microglia cells by TGF-βR1 inhibitors resulted in neuroprotection against Aβ-induced direct neurotoxicity and microglia-mediated neuroinflammation. …”
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Handbook of Florida Water Regulation: Florida Department of Environmental Protection by Michael T. Olexa, Zachary Broome

“…This revised document is part of the Handbook of Florida Water Regulation, which consists of 2-4 page fact sheets that provide an accurate, current, and authoritative summary of the principal, federal, and state (Florida) laws that directly or indirectly relate to agriculture. It provides a basic overview of the many rights and responsibilities that farmers and farmland owners have under both federal and state laws as well as the appropriate contact information to obtain more detailed information. …”
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Handbook of Florida Water Regulation: Groundwater Discharge Regulations at the Federal Level by Michael T. Olexa, Tatiana Borisova, Zachary Broome

“…This revised document is part of the Handbook of Florida Water Regulation, which consists of 2-4 page fact sheets that provide an accurate, current, and authoritative summary of the principal, federal, and state (Florida) laws that directly or indirectly relate to agriculture. It provides a basic overview of the many rights and responsibilities that farmers and farmland owners have under both federal and state laws as well as the appropriate contact information to obtain more detailed information. …”
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Florida Carpenter Ants by R. J. Vazquez, Philip G. Koehler, Roberto M. Pereira, Jack Warner, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn

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Mucosal Airway Laceration Secondary To Endobronchial Ultrasonography by Amarinder Sandhu, Edmundo Rubio, Susanti Ie, Michael Boyd

“…The present article describes a mucosal airway laceration and pneumothorax associated with the procedure.…”
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Synchronization Analysis of Two Coupled Complex Networks with Time Delays by Weigang Sun, Jingyuan Zhang, Changpin Li

“…Based on the Lyapunov stability theory and the linear matrix equality (LMI), a synchronous criterion for inner synchronization inside each network is derived. …”
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L’intervention développementale comme outil d’expansion de l’activité d’animation d’ateliers de slam de poésie by Élodie Géas, Vincent Grosstephan, Stéphane Brau-Antony

“…The methodology used ex-periments with the possibilities of development of the activity that can be aroused by the researcher, especially thanks to the identification by the practitioners of a shared object, resulting in an evolution of the division of labor. …”
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Important Things to Know about Medicare: Chapter Ten--Key Terms, Additional Resources, List of Handouts, and References by Amanda Terminello, Martie Gillen

“… Important Things to Know about Medicare is a series of 10 publications that will cover the most common Medicare concerns. …”
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Vers un sentiment de réussite et de bien-être des élèves au sein du dispositif Devoirs faits : regards croisés d’élèves et d’adultes by Véronique Barthélemy

“…In this review, the results of research and reports highlight the impact of this device on student behaviour, leading to progress and a sense of well-being. This is made possible by working conditions, by interactions between pupils or between pupils and teachers and by the importance attached to continuity between school and family times.…”
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COVID-19 Preventative Measures: Clean Your Hands Often by Natalie Seymour, Mary Yavelak, Candice Christian, Ben Chapman, Michelle Danyluk

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Legal and Ethical Considerations in the Use of Force against Civilian Aircraft by Csaba Török

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Transactions en eaux troubles : résurgences de la voix shakespearienne dans Moby-Dick by Ronan Ludot-Vlasak

“…Its argument is that by defamiliarising some of Shakespeare’s lines—a corpus that was both alien and familiar to nineteenth-century writers— Melville turns them into his own idiom. …”
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LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE AND THE MONOLITHIC NATURE OF THE EU by Bohdan Yuskıv, Nataliia Karpchuk

“…However, language policy is a matter for each Member State to seek to meet the EU's multilingualismrequirements and to ensure the integration of its own society. …”
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Waste and the neoliberal work of blame: Reading politics from Cape Town’s informal landscapes by Angela D. Storey

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