T. VEBLENO PARODOMOJO VARTOJIMO TEORIJA IR ŠIUOLAIKINĖS KULTŪROS BEI VARTOJIMO TYRIMŲ PROBLEMOS by Jūratė Černevičiūtė

“…s ideas in the economic and sociological theories of consumer behaviour and highlights their shortcomings and blind spots which can be explained mainly by the limits of the social experience which served as Veblen's source of inspiration. …”
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2D+t Wavelet Domain Video Watermarking by Deepayan Bhowmik, Charith Abhayaratne

“…The results show smaller embedding distortion in terms of both peak signal to noise ratio and flickering metrics compared to frame-by-frame video watermarking while the robustness against scalable compression is improved by using 2D + t over the conventional t + 2D domain video watermarking, particularly for blind watermarking schemes where the motion is estimated from the watermarked video.…”
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Searching for the grey zone in Slovak sci-fi literature during the normalisation period by Olha Norba

“…Searching for the grey zone in Slovak sci-fi literature of the normalisation period proved to be an effective way to re-evaluate the traditional black-and-white vision of society, which was viewed as divided into the “fighting dissent” and the masses blindly accepting the ruling regime.…”
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Later-Life Mortality and Longevity in Late-18th and 19th-Century Cohorts. Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Heading? by Rich J. Mourits

“…However, in order to find out the determinants of later-life mortality, external validity of results, blind spots due to missing data, and familial clustering need to be studied more thoroughly. …”
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Feasibility of Novel Magnetically Controlled Cable Capsule Endoscopy System In Vitro Experiments for Gastric Examination by Yaoping Zhang, Lina Qu, Yani Gou, Jinyong Hao, Xiaojun Huang

“…The examination completion was accessed by other two blinded endoscopists, and the image quality was compared with conventional gastroscopy (Olympus, GIF-290). …”
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An Augmented Classical Least Squares Method for Quantitative Raman Spectral Analysis against Component Information Loss by Yan Zhou, Hui Cao

“…A 2-fold cross-validation with Venetian blinds strategy was exploited to evaluate the predictive power of the proposed method. …”
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Impact of Participatory Community Planning on Publicity in Public Space Renewal Based on Machine Learning Algorithm Based on Child-friendly Concept by Yang Dai, Jiayi Li

“…In the existing community planning and implementation, the design concept often does not take into account the needs of children, but only blindly pursues standardization and modernization. …”
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Dependence of net-hyperon production at mid-rapidity on beam energy and its implication on baryon number carrier by Tsang Chun Yuen

“…Moreover, the exponential slopes for net- Λ, net-Ξ, and net-Ω are consistent with each other, suggesting that the baryon transport is flavor blind. Conventional models like PYTHIA, which use valence quarks as the baryon number carrier, have difficulty reproducing this transport behavior.…”
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Decision Fusion for Structural Damage Detection: Numerical and Experimental Studies by Yong Chen, Senyuan Tian, Bingnan Sun

“…The superiority of the fusion strategy herein is that it can be extended to deal with the multiresolution subdecision or blind adaptive detection, and corresponding methodologies are also provided. …”
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The Roles of Men in the Dating Violence Phenomenon by Vivin Septiani Jatmiko, Diyah Ayu Amalia Avina

“…According to the analysis, a discourse may have implications in forming power, which, in turn, may lead to blinding knowledge. This research finds that the dominant discourse exists in most of the selected research papers, where men being positioned as offenders in dating violence incidents. …”
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Noni Juice Improves Serum Lipid Profiles and Other Risk Markers in Cigarette Smokers by Mian-Ying Wang, Lin Peng, Vicki Weidenbacher-Hoper, Shixin Deng, Gary Anderson, Brett J. West

“…One hundred thirty-two adult heavy smokers completed a randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial designed to investigate the effect of noni juice on serum cholesterol, triglyceride, low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), and homocysteine. …”
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Treatment of Liver Metastases in Patients with Neuroendocrine Tumors of Gastroesophageal and Pancreatic Origin by Ping Gu, Jennifer Wu, Elliot Newman, Franco Muggia

“…A placebo-controlled, double-blind, prospective, and randomized study showed that octreotide LAR improves progression-free survival in patients with advanced midgut functional “carcinoids.” …”
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Microcirculatory Changes in Term Newborns with Suspected Infection: An Observational Prospective Study by Irene Alba-Alejandre, Stephan Hiedl, Orsolya Genzel-Boroviczény

“…OPS sequences were analyzed semiquantitatively offline and blinded to clinical status of the infant. Flow in vessels was classified as continuous or noncontinuous flow and given as proportion of total vessels per image as in the studies in adults. …”
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Serum NGAL to Clinically Distinguish Cholangiocarcinoma from Benign Biliary Tract Diseases by Kawin Leelawat, Siriluck Narong, Jerasak Wannaprasert, Surang Leelawat

“…This study was performed according to a prospective-specimen-collection, retrospective-blinded-evaluation (PRoBE) design. A total of 50 cholangiocarcinoma and 50 benign biliary tract disease cases were randomly selected from a cohort of consecutive cases of biliary tract diseases. …”
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Optimum Building Design Variables in a Warm Saharan Mediterranean Climate Zone by Aiman Albatayneh, Tarek Tayara, Mustafa Jaradat, Murad Al-Omary, Muna Hindiyeh, Dariusz Alterman, Manal Ishbeytah

“…The selected variables were separated into two categories based on their level of significance: a group with higher importance (window to wall %, local type of shading, ground floor building, natural rate of ventilation, rate of infiltration, kind of glazing, and flat roof structure) as well as a group with lower importance (partition construction, site position, construction of outside walls, kind of window blinds, and window shade control timetable); these variables will save a significant amount of heating and cooling energy.…”
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Effect of Trandolapril on Regression of Retinopathy in Hypertensive Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Prespecified Analysis of the Benedict Trial by Piero Ruggenenti, Ilian Iliev, Marco Filipponi, Stefano Tadini, Annalisa Perna, Maria Ganeva, Bogdan Ene-Iordache, Paolo Cravedi, Roberto Trevisan, Antonio Bossi, Giuseppe Remuzzi

“…We compared the incidence of retinopathy regression in 90 hypertensive type 2 diabetics randomized to at least 3-year blinded ACEi with trandolapril (2 mg/day) or non-ACEi therapy who had preproliferative or proliferative retinopathy at baseline. …”
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Comparison of the effects of nicardipine and remifentanil on surgical visual field and hemodynamic parameters in tympanomastoidectomy cases by Celal Saritoy, Erol Karaaslan, Ahmet Selim Ozkan, Mehmet Tan, Ilham Gulcek

“…The study was planned as a prospective, double-blind, and randomized clinical trial. A total of 64 patients aged between 18 and 65 were included in the study and the patients were randomized into 2 groups: Group N (Nicardipine=32) and Group R (Remifentanil=32). …”
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A Randomized Comparative Trial on the Therapeutic Efficacy of Topical Aloe vera and Calendula officinalis on Diaper Dermatitis in Children by Yunes Panahi, Mohamad Reza Sharif, Alireza Sharif, Fatemeh Beiraghdar, Zahra Zahiri, Golnoush Amirchoopani, Eisa Tahmasbpour Marzony, Amirhossein Sahebkar

“…The objective of the present randomized and double-blind trial was to compare the therapeutic efficacies of Aloe vera cream and Calendula officinalis ointment on the frequency and severity of DD in children. …”
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A Simplified Multiband Sampling and Detection Method Based on MWC Structure for Mm Wave Communications in 5G Wireless Networks by Min Jia, Xue Wang, Xuemai Gu, Qing Guo

“…In this paper, we present a simplified sampling and detection method based on MWC structure by using the idea of blind source separation for mm wave communications, which can avoid the challenges of signal sampling brought by high frequencies and wide bandwidth for mm wave systems. …”
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Randomized controlled trial on the efficacy of forest walking compared to urban walking in enhancing mucosal immunity by Hiroko Ochiai, Shigeru Inoue, Gaku Masuda, Shiho Amagasa, Tomohiko Sugishita, Toshiya Ochiai, Naoko Yanagisawa, Yoshio Nakata, Michiko Imai

“…Evaluating researchers were blinded to the groups, but participants and on-site staff were not. …”
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