The Relevance of HLA Sequencing in Population Genetics Studies by Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Diogo Meyer

“…In this review, we first explain how HLA sequencing allows a better assessment of the HLA diversity in human populations, taking also into account the methodological difficulties it introduces at the statistical level; secondly, we show how analyzing HLA sequence variation may improve our comprehension of population genetic relationships by facilitating the identification of demographic events that marked human evolution; finally, we discuss the interest of both HLA and genome-wide sequencing and genotyping in detecting functionally significant SNPs in the MHC region, the latter having also contributed to the makeup of the HLA molecular diversity observed today.…”
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OECD Structural Analysis Databases: Sectoral Principles in the Study of Markets for Goods and Services by M. D. Simonova

“…Data on the development of economic sectors are calculated according to the methodology of individual countries, regional and international standards: annual national accounts of countries, annual industry and business surveys, methodology of short-term indicators, statistics of international trade in goods. …”
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Crash Risk Prediction Model of Lane-Change Behavior on Approaching Intersections by Yingshuai Li, Jian Lu, Kuisheng Xu

“…This paper defines the Integrated Conflict Risk Index (ICRI), which takes into account the probability and severity of risk. Using the index as the dependent variable, the risk prediction model of implementing the lane-change process is established. …”
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Constipations in elderly: diagnostics and treatment approach by Yu. O. Shulpekova

“…Constipation with delayed transit and megarectum are associated to the risk of fecal impaction, compression of urinary tract and stercoral colitis development, with intestinal perforation, blee- ding and suppuration.At treatment prescription it is necessary to take into account nature of constipation, features of clini- cal pattern, intestinal transit, incidental or persistent course. …”
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A numerical framework for simulating fluid-structure interaction phenomena by A. De Rosis, S. de Miranda, C. Burrafato, F. Ubertini

“…The Immersed Boundary method is used to account for the presence of an immersed solid in the lattice fluid background and to handle fluid-structure interface conditions, while a Volume-of-Fluid-based method is adopted to take trace of the evolution of the free surface. …”
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CARSP: A Smart Parking System Based on Doubly Periodic Rolling Horizon Allocation Approach by Shangbin Ning, Zhenyu Han, Yang Yang, Zhenzhou Yuan, Xianyu Wu

“…Blind search for available parking space is accountable for most traffic congestion, accident, and pollution in cities, which severely impact people’s life. …”
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Instituciones de democracia directa: ampliando la receptividad estatal y el control ciudadano sobre los gobiernos by José Guillermo García Chourio

“…Partiendo de una aproximación al objeto desde perspectivas teóricas que abogan respectivamente por la deliberación y el accountability, se ha podido, vía razonamiento deductivo, situar las clásicas figuras de la democracia directa como instituciones que adquieren sentido dentro de la contemporaneidad política en cuanto procedimientos sustantivos de acceso e injerencia ciudadana en la agenda de gobierno, los cuales podrían suponer un emponderamiento del ciudadano conforme sea la recurrencia de uso y su efectividad real para insertar propuestas de políticas y controlar la gestión de las autoridades electas.…”
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Teenagers and new media technologies: Gratifications obtained as a factor for adoption by Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey

“…With the aid of the stratified sampling technique, 300 students of two senior high schools in the Greater Accra region of Ghana, representing 10% of the total population, were recruited to take part in a study to explore whether there would be substantial empirical evidence to support the stance that gratifications obtained could potentially account for teenagers’ adoption of new media technologies. …”
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Predicting Quality of Service via Leveraging Location Information by Liang Chen, Fenfang Xie, Zibin Zheng, Yaoming Wu

“…In this paper, we take both services’ and users’ location information into account. Specifically, we propose a location-aware QoS prediction approach, called LANFM, by exploiting neural network techniques and factorization machine to improve user-perceived experience. …”
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Race, Gender, and Power : Black Women, White Women, and Racial Segregation in the Southern United States (1920-1970) by Anne Stefani

“…The culture of segregation thus drove a wedge between black and white women, the latter belonging to the group responsible for the former’s oppression, and the two being submitted in different ways to the power and authority of white men. These conditions account for the fact that the women who became engaged in the struggle for racial equality in the region did so separately at first, and then joined their efforts in the civil rights movement. …”
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The effect of smart contracts (blockchain technology) on Jordan’s land registry and survey department for sustainable development by AbdelKarim Fawwaz AlBataineh

“…Addressing these challenges is crucial for balanced implementation and sustained engagement with the technology. The model accounts for 77.6% of the variance in sustainable development, highlighting blockchain's potential to simultaneously tackle multiple land administration challenges. …”
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LOCAL VALUES OF HEAT TRANSFER PARAMETERS ON THE INTERIOR SURFACES OF THE BUILDING ENVELOPE by A. E. Zakharevich

“…The developed two-dimensional physical and mathematical model takes into account the complex conjugated heat transfer in the building envelopes and indoor free spaces, the influence of heater type on the transfer processes. …”
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The ‘Silent Guardians’ in the Fight against Corruption: The Case of North Macedonia by Emilija Gjorgjievska Tudjarovska

“…On the other hand, the parliament should be able to hold executives and institutions accountable for their actions and to act upon the ombudsman’s recommendations. …”
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Assessment of variations in shear strain energy induced by fault coseismic slip in deep longwall mining by Yatao Li, Xuehong Gao

“…An integrated methodology is utilized, taking into account the changes in coseismic and fault friction parameters as well as enhancements in mining-induced stress and existing background stresses. …”
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Meta Learning Strategies for Comparative and Efficient Adaptation to Financial Datasets by Kubra Noor, Ubaida Fatima

“…., Relative Strength Index, Bollinger Bands) to account for evolving market conditions. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves significant improvements in Root Mean Squared Error (15%) and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (10%) compared to traditional methods, such as simple moving averages and exponential smoothing. …”
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Improving the Regulatory Framework for the Standardization of Precast Concrete Structures by N. N. Trekin, E. N. Kodysh, I. A. Terekhov

“…It is advisable to develop standards for individual structures taking into account the requirements given in the fundamental GOST 13015-2012 "Concrete and reinforced concrete products for construction. …”
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Comparing Two Strategies to Model Uncertainties in Structural Dynamics by Rubens Sampaio, Edson Cataldo

“…In the modeling of dynamical systems, uncertainties are present and they must be taken into account to improve the prediction of the models. Some strategies have been used to model uncertainties and the aim of this work is to discuss two of those strategies and to compare them. …”
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Les interrogatives dites rhétoriques au prisme de la théorie d’Antoine Culioli by Bénédicte Guillaume

“…The common, factor between these categories is the fact that the scanning operation normally triggered by the recourse to a subject / auxiliary (or subject / verb) inversion, or the presence of a WH- marker, is prevented insofar as the speaker has already selected an answer.My typology is thus based on three distinct ways of providing an outlet for the scanning operation brought about by the recourse to interrogative markers, which account for the differences between each of the categories postulated. …”
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An Investigation of the Safety Performance of Roundabouts in Korea Based on a Random Parameters Count Model by Minho Park, Dongmin Lee, Je-Jin Park

“…Using random parameters that can take into account unobserved heterogeneity, this study tried to make up for the weakness of the fixed parameters model, which constrains estimated parameters to be fixed across all observations. …”
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Ravel’s Programmatic Impulse by Peter Kaminsky

“…Such a gap is hinted at in Berlioz’s own account of the program for the Symphonie Fantastique: »The aim of the program is by no means to copy faithfully what the composer has tried to present in orchestral terms, as some people seem to think; on the contrary, it is precisely in order to fill in the gaps which the use of musical language unavoidably leaves in the development of dramatic thought, that the composer has had to avail himself of written prose to explain and justify the outline of the symphony«.While Berlioz’s statement posits one sort of gap at the heart of the program/music relationship, it becomes more relevant to Ravel’s music to consider the gap from the other direction and reverse Berlioz’s terms: thus the composer avails himself of the unique structural and expressive resources of music to connote their own meaning, in order to fill in the gaps which the limitations of the programmatic source unavoidably leave in the development of dramatic thought.…”
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