Frost Heave of Irrigation Canals in Seasonal Frozen Regions by Jian Xu, Qinze Wang, Jiulong Ding, Yanfeng Li, Songhe Wang, Yugui Yang

“…Besides, the layered settlement observation reveals that frost heave dominates the total deformation while creep, the universal source of deformation, accounts for a negligible proportion. A practical model was proposed based on a simple theoretical model for heat-water coupled transfer in a partially saturated medium and was numerically implemented in COMSOL. …”
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DISTRIBUTION AND POTENTIAL OF CAMELLIA SPP. IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, VIETNAM, FOR DEVELOPING HIGH-VALUE PRODUCTS IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY by Thi Thang Long Nguyen, Vu Mai Quynh Luong

“…Many rare species of the genus Camellia have been discovered recently in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, including 10 new species discovered in Lam Dong Province between 2012 and 2016. These 10 species account for 55.55% of the 18 species growing naturally in the Central Highlands and demonstrate the diversity of Camellia in the region. …”
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Unsteady Radiative Maxwell Fluid Flow over an Expanding Sheet with Sodium Alginate Water-Based Copper-Graphene Oxide Hybrid Nanomaterial: An Application to Solar Aircraft by S. Chandrasekaran, M. Satyanarayana Gupta, Sanju Jangid, K. Loganathan, B. Deepa, Dinesh Kumar Chaudhary

“…The effectiveness of heat transmission from airplane wings is assessed by taking into account unique phenomena such as magnetic field and heat source. …”
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On the Reliability and Repeatability of Surface Electromyography Factorization by Muscle Synergies in Daily Life Activities by Juri Taborri, Eduardo Palermo, Zaccaria Del Prete, Stefano Rossi

“…The “nonnegative matrix factorization” and “variability account for” were used to extract muscle synergies and to assess EMG goodness reconstruction, respectively. …”
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Sinus Venosus Atrial Septal Defect Complicated by Eisenmenger Syndrome and the Role of Vasodilator Therapy by Amornpol Anuwatworn, Maheedhar Gedela, Edgard Bendaly, Julia A. Prescott-Focht, Jimmy Yee, Richard Clark, Orvar Jonsson

“…Sinus venosus atrial septal defect is a rare congenital, interatrial communication defect at the junction of the right atrium and the vena cava. It accounts for 5–10% of cases of all atrial septal defects. …”
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Investigation of Structural Nonlinearity Effects on the Aeroelastic and Wake Characteristics of a 15 MW Wind Turbine by Zhenju Chuang, Lulin Xia, Yan Qu, Wenhua Li, Jiawen Li

“…This study presents a nonlinear aeroelastic model that accounts for large deformations of slender, flexible blades, coupled through the Actuator Line Method (ALM) and Geometrically Exact Beam Theory (GEBT). …”
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PharmacoNER Tagger: a deep learning-based tool for automatically finding chemicals and drugs in Spanish medical texts by Jordi Armengol-Estapé, Felipe Soares, Montserrat Marimon, Martin Krallinger

“…In this work, we adapt an existing neural NER system, NeuroNER, to the particular domain of Spanish clinical case texts, and extend the neural network to be able to take into account additional features apart from the plain text. …”
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Monitoring of Technical Condition of Buildings by Seismic Method by Alena A. Kurdanova, Mikhail N. Voskresenskiy, Elena A. Kosorotova, Gennadiy I. Parygin

“…The possible maximum acceleration is calculated, taking into account the characteristics of the soil, for the observation point with the highest , = 30.6 cm/s², which corresponds to an earthquake intensity of 5.6.…”
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A New Approach for Estimating Rock Discontinuity Trace Intensity Based on Rectangular Sampling Windows by Xiaoxue Huo, Qiong Wu, Huiming Tang, Zhen Meng, Di Wang, Yuxin Liu, Shiyu Li

“…The probability of each trace appearing in the sampling surface is different since discontinuity orientation has a scatter and is probabilistically distributed, so this factor should be taken into account in trace intensity estimation. This paper presents an approach to estimate the two-dimensional trace intensity by considering unequal appearing probability for discontinuities sampled by rectangular windows. …”
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Application of deconvolutional networks for feature interpretability in epilepsy detection by Sihao Shao, Yu Zhou, Ruiheng Wu, Aiping Yang, Qiang Li

“…Even automated detection algorithms are already available to assist clinicians in reviewing EEG data, many algorithms used for seizure detection in epilepsy fail to account for the contributions of different channels. …”
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A Multiregion Discrete-Time Epidemic Model of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections: An Optimal Control Approach by Rachid Bouajaji, Hassan Laarabi, Mostafa Rachik, Abdelhadi Abta

“…The main goal of this article is to devise the spatial-temporal spread of TB, in multiple neighboring domains, taking into account the epidemiological diversity of their populations. …”
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Stabilization by feedback control of a novel stochastic chaotic finance model with time-varying fractional derivatives by Seyfeddine Moualkia, Yang Liu, Jinde Cao

“…Most of them presented in the deterministic case without taking the environmental noises into account, although many systems in practice are often-times exposed to some external disturbances that affect the structure of the considered system. …”
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An Intelligent 5G Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Path Optimization Algorithm for Offshore Wind Farm Inspection by Congxiao Jiang, Lingang Yang, Yuqing Gao, Jie Zhao, Wenne Hou, Fangmin Xu

“…In this paper, the UAV inspection path problem is modeled as an obstacle avoidance traveling salesman problem (TSP), taking into full account UAV flight constraints and complex sea environment factors, particularly the impact of sea wind on UAV flight speed. …”
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Distribution of the common nettle Urtica dioica L. and annual nettle U. urens L. in the Russian Federation by N. N. Luneva, T. Yu. Zakota, Y. A. Fedorova

“…Therefore, plants of the same species, occurring in different parts of their area of distribution, are adapted to different hydrothermal conditions, which should be taken into account when selecting forms for further possible cultivation and use.…”
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Efficacy and Safety of Direct-Acting Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs) in the Overweight and Obese by Kimberley Doucette, Hira Latif, Anusha Vakiti, Eshetu Tefera, Bhavisha Patel, Kelly Fitzpatrick

“…Moreover, patients on medications that had known interactions with DOACs had 6.40 times higher odds of CRNMB than patients without such interactions (95% CI 1.49–27.57), which was not accounted for by the effects of aspirin and plavix alone. …”
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Differential between-therapist effects in more versus less standardized therapies for depression by Anuj H. P. Mehta, Michael J. Constantino, Jack J. M. Dekker, Alice E. Coyne, Averi N. Gaines, Henricus L. Van, Jaap Peen, Frank J. Don, Ellen Driessen

“…Moreover, PDT therapists (10–16%) accounted for more outcome variance than CBT therapists (2–6%), though differences were only statistically significant for the clinician-rated depression outcome. …”
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Hepatitis B Virus-Related Glomerulonephritis: Not a Predominant Cause of Proteinuria in Korean Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B by Jeong-Ju Yoo, Jeong-Hoon Lee, Jung-Hwan Yoon, Minjong Lee, Dong Hyeon Lee, Yuri Cho, Eun Sun Jang, Eun Ju Cho, Su Jong Yu, Yoon Jun Kim, Hyo-Suk Lee

“…Proteinuria can be caused by various glomerular diseases and HBV-GN accounts for one-third of total GN cases. Well-designed prospective study is needed to assess whether antiviral therapy against HBV infection may improve the prognosis of HBV-GN.…”
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Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Collaborative Representation Using Projection Dictionary Pair by Dan Ma, Yixiang Lu, Yushun Zhang, Hua Bao, Xueming Peng

“…Meanwhile, the sparse constraint is also taken into account during dictionary training to enhance the robustness of the classification. …”
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Construction of optimised theoretical model using ANOVA -Taguchi methodology for transient flow of Carreau nanofluid through microchannel prone to radiation by Pradeep Kumar, Felicita Almeida, Ajaykumar AR, Qasem Al-Mdallal

“…Buongiorno model is employed, which emphasizes the repercussions of Brownian motion and thermophoresis phenomena; also, mixed-convective flow is accounted. The modelled problem gives rise to partial differential equations, which are non-dimensionalized employing non-dimensional quantities. …”
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Demographics, Practising Arrangements, and Standards: Survey among New Zealand Dentists by Robert James Lee, Jithendra Ratnayake, Arthi Veerasamy, Carolina Loch, Peter Cathro, Paul A. Brunton

“…Fifty-nine percent of the practices were located in city or town centres with a wide geographic distribution. Sole practitioners accounted for 24.1% of respondents, with the mean number of dentists per practice being 3.2. …”
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