Classification of Cigarette Types Using Computer Vision: An Analysis of Smoke Aggregation Features by Shishuan Guan, Lei Jiao, Zengyu Wang, Xiaofei Ji, Hongwei Zheng, Cunfeng Yu, Hongtao Li, Liwen Zheng, Shuaishuai Sun, Qiang Sun, Jun Li, Guangwei Jiang, Kezhi Wu, Erge Lin, Xinlong Zhang

“…To further improve performance, we have adopted a new network architecture. We first adopted SmokeSeqNet model for experiments, which combined residual CNN as a feature extractor and captured the dynamic sequence characteristics of smoke through the LSTM layer. …”
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Numerical Researches of Rectangular Barge in Variable Bathymetry Based on Boussinesq-Step Method by Yan Su

“…The highly accurate Boussinesq-type equations in terms of velocity potential are adopted for simulating the evolution of waves along the inclined beach. …”
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Manager plus efficacement mais sans perdre son âme dans l’économie sociale et solidaire by Samira Mahlaoui, Jean‐Paul Cadet, Michel Ronzy

“…A case study of administrative and commercial directors (DAC) of consumer cooperatives faced with a change of economic model, shows what it may mean in concrete terms to adopt the posture of cooperative entrepreneurship in such circumstances. …”
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New Double Projection Algorithm for Solving Variational Inequalities by Lian Zheng

“…We propose a class of new double projection algorithms for solving variational inequality problem, which can be viewed as a framework of the method of Solodov and Svaiter by adopting a class of new hyperplanes. By the separation property of hyperplane, our method is proved to be globally convergent under very mild assumptions. …”
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Inherent Stability of Multibody Systems with Variable-Stiffness Springs via Absolute Stability Theory by Tianyang Hua, Yinlong Hu

“…The absolute stability theory is adopted, and N-degree-of-freedom (DOF) systems with VSSs are formulated as a Lur’e form. …”
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RISKS, DANGERS, THREATS OF “CONTINUOUS” E-EDUCATION by T. Yu. Krotenko

“…The education system, fulfilling the adopted program, should prepare a huge number of schoolchildren, students and workers for life with the indispensable use of information and communication technologies. …”
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Using Audience Commitment to Increase Behavior Changes in Sustainable Landscaping by Laura Sanagorski, Paul Monaghan

“…Research has shown that commitments can increase the percentage of people who will adopt a new behavior and give up an old one. This 4-page fact sheet was written by Laura A. …”
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The Church as <i>Res Publica</i> by Cyril Hovorun

“…As the church engaged with the Roman Empire, its republican roots faded, adopting monarchical traits. Still, republicanism never disappeared from the church or the Christian Empire. …”
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Interdisciplinary Approach to Spationtemporal Population Dynamics. The North Orkney Population History Project by Julia A. Jennings, Corey S. Sparks, Timothy Murtha

“…The combination of diverse data sources and disciplinary approaches has resulted in findings that would not have been possible if each source had been considered in isolation. The approach adopted by the project offers a way to examine the interaction of a population with its landscape over a period of change. …”
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Modalité, dialogisme et stratégies discursives by Marion Bendinelli

“…This article studies the dialogic effects of the various uses of the modal auxiliary MAY within American presidential debates. Firstly, we adopt the analytic framework of Antoine Culioli (1990) called Théorie des Opérations Énonciatives and show that these dialogic effects are generated by some fundamental metalinguistic operations among which the construction of notional alterity. …”
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Interdisciplinary Approach to Spationtemporal Population Dynamics. The North Orkney Population History Project by Julia A. Jennings, Corey S. Sparks, Timothy Murtha

“…The combination of diverse data sources and disciplinary approaches has resulted in findings that would not have been possible if each source had been considered in isolation. The approach adopted by the project offers a way to examine the interaction of a population with its landscape over a period of change.…”
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Relativization strategies and sociolinguistic variation in spoken Italian: a typological account by Silvia Ballarè

“…In § 2, I introduce the selected corpus and its characteristics, also explaining the methodologies adopted for data extraction and annotation. Then, in § 3, the results of the analysis are presented. …”
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Crisis and constitutional politics in Central Europe by Peter Smuk

“…The paper focuses on the Visegrad countries, especially Hungary, and analyses the constitutional amendments adopted and the relevant constitutional court decisions. …”
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How the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Works by Regina Fegan, Michael T. Olexa

“… The Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) makes flood insurance available in areas where the appropriate public body has adopted adequate floodplain management regulations for its flood-prone areas. …”
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Fertigation via Center Pivot Irrigation for Commercial Potato Production in Florida by Guodong Liu, Xiangju Fu, Lincoln Zotarelli, Steven Sargent, Kati Migliaccio, Yuncong Li

“…Nitrogen is the most limiting nutrient in these soils. Adopting efficient fertilization methods such as fertigation is imperative for minimizing leaching and improving use efficiency of nitrogen. …”
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Intégrer le corps en deuil fragmenté by Carine Plancke

“…But if one turns attention to the experience of the mourner, it seems that the lamentations also serve to remedy the fragmentation provoked by the loss of a loved one. This perspective is adopted in this article dedicated to funeral lamentations among the Punu of Congo-Brazzaville. …”
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D. A. Ọbasá: The Man and the Significance of his Cultural Activism by Adekemi Agnes Taiwo

“…The cultural identity theory which studies a person’s sense of belonging to a particular culture and accepting the traditions, heritage, language, religion, and social structures of such culture is adopted for the analysis in this study. The study shows how Obasa ̣ ́ projects himself as a unique individual who used Yorùbá culture to connect people. …”
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Figures of Violence in Ron Rash’s The World Made Straight by Frédérique Spill

“…Strikingly enough, the omnipresent figures of violence in Rash’s fiction are likely to adopt circuitous representational strategies. Their evocative power is reinforced by repetition, their inscription in ordinariness and the poetization of details that conceal as much as they reveal the multiple causes of violence.…”
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POLITICS OF IDENTITY AND ITS CHALLENGES FOR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA by Shuaib Olarewaju Moyosore

“…To this end, the conspiracy theory was adopted for this article. The research methodology consists of analysis and synthesis of secondary sources such as diverse literatures as well as primary source derived from discussions with some Nigerians. …”
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Noise Elimination and Contour Detection Based on Innovative Target Image Contour Coding Algorithm by Siming Meng

“…In this paper, a good target image contour coding algorithm was adopted, and an LCV segmentation model with good image boundary acquisition capability that can reflect the target image contour features was selected for the original image contour segmentation. …”
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