Model calculation of a radio communication line based on remote sensing data by Andrey T. Albuzov, Pavel E. Shakhov, Vladimir I. Filatov

“…In the process of functioning of modern complexes and specialized equipment in conditions of direct visibility between radio facilities, data transmission is not always possible, which significantly reduces the efficiency of the data transmission system and increases the time to search for new locations for transceivers. …”
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Lock-out, lock-in, and networked sovereignty. Resistance and experimentation in Africa’s trajectory towards AI by Iginio Gagliardone

“…But where they existed borders were always porous and permeable. [...] Networks, flows and crossroads were more important than borders. …”
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E-Cigarette Quality Control: Impurity and Nicotine Level Analysis in Electronic Cigarette Refill Liquids by Ismail Bennani, Madiha Alami Chentoufi, Miloud El Karbane, Amine Cheikh, Mustapha Bouatia

“…The actual nicotine content of electronic cigarette refill liquids is not always as precise as what is stated on the packaging; in addition to the level of impurities detected in several brands and that exceeds the European Pharmacopoeia standards, some may even present a risk of causing toxicological damage.…”
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Modifying Graft-versus-Host Disease in a Humanized Mouse Model by Targeting Macrophages or B-Cells by Marieke C. H. Hogenes, Suzanne van Dorp, Joyce van Kuik, Filipa R. P. Monteiro, Natalie ter Hoeve, Liane Guedes, Marijke R. van Dijk, Anton C. Martens, Roel A. de Weger

“…Also, lower mRNA levels of Tregs in some organs were observed after Rituximab treatment, which contradicts that a higher number of Tregs would always be related to less severe GvHD. Our data show that both macrophage depletion and (early) B-cell depletion in a xenogeneic mouse model can influence the clinical, histological, and cytokine production of a GvHD response.…”
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Implementation outcomes of HIV self-testing in low- and middle- income countries: A scoping review. by Adovich S Rivera, Ralph Hernandez, Regiel Mag-Usara, Karen Nicole Sy, Allan R Ulitin, Linda C O'Dwyer, Megan C McHugh, Neil Jordan, Lisa R Hirschhorn

“…Implementation fidelity was not always reported and there were very few studies on, penetration, and sustainability.…”
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ANALYSIS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FLEXIBLE WORK ARRANGEMENTS, WORK LIFE BALANCE AND EMPLOYEES’ EFFICIENCY: EVIDENCE FROM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA’S (BiH) IT SECTOR by Ognjen Riđić, Adnan Avdibegović, Senad Bušatlić

“…Although 64.80% of participants stated that their work life is balanced with their personal life, there is always place for improvement. Participants agree that better work life balance, caused by flexible work time and flexible work location, will improve their efficiency and reduce stress. …”
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Path Planning for Autonomous Vehicle Based on a Two-Layered Planning Model in Complex Environment by Jiajia Chen, Rui Zhang, Wei Han, Wuhua Jiang, Jinfang Hu, Xiaoshan Lu, Xingtao Liu, Pan Zhao

“…The study of path planning method has always been a core and difficult problem, especially in complex environment, due to the effect of dynamic environment, the safety, smoothness, and real-time requirement, and the nonholonomic constraints of vehicle. …”
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PSYCHO-SOCIAL CONGRUENCES BETWEEN RESILIENCE AND SOLITUDE by HARAZ Svetlana, SIMION Simion Dănuț

“…People always interact and accumulate experience. The experience makes us stronger, more resilient by knowing our resources, developing constructive behaviors for potentially traumatic situations. …”
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A multicriteria method to identify and rank IEQ criticalities: Measurements and applications for existing school buildings by Francesco Leccese, Michele Rocca, Giacomo Salvadori, Elisa Belloni, Cinzia Buratti

“…The discussion shows that to identify the most critical environmental factors, the choice of the weighting scheme is extremely important although the greatest weight does not always correspond to the most critical environmental factor. …”
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Experimental Study of Size Effects on the Deformation Strength and Failure Characteristics of Hard Rocks under True Triaxial Compression by Qiang Han, Yaohui Gao, Yan Zhang

“…Size effect has always been the focus of rock mechanics as a bridge between laboratory test and engineering site. …”
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Surgical Reimplantation for the Correction of Vesicoureteral Reflux following Failed Endoscopic Injection by Boris Chertin, Ksenia Prosolovich, Sagiv Aharon, Ofer Nativ, Sarel Halachmi

“…Unfortunately, endoscopic treatment is not always successful and sometimes requires more than one trial to achieve similar results to that of an open reimplantation surgery. …”
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Joint Channel and Nonlinearity Estimation for Memoryless Nonlinear Systems by Zahra Mokhtari, Rui Dinis, Sha Hu, Dzevdan Kapetanovic

“…System nonlinearity due to hardware impairments has always been a challenging issue. Distortion cancellation and iterative detection based receivers such as the Bussgang Noise Cancelling (BNC) receiver are used to detect the original data in the presence of strong nonlinear (NL) effects. …”
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Promoting Well-being of Patients with Mental Illness through Positive Psychology and Mindfulness Interventions by Chung Ho JIM, Guang ZENG, Kam Man WONG

“…Therefore, occupational therapists who are working in the psychiatric field always use different treatment modalities to promote individuals'well-being. …”
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Numerical Study on Soft Coal Pillar Stability in an Island Longwall Panel by Qingyun Xu, Jian-Biao Bai, Shuai Yan, Rui Wang, Shaoxu Wu

“…Roadway support and management of longwall panels in an island soft coal panel are always difficult work. In a test mine, stress distribution, deformation characteristic, and plastic zone distribution around the roadway and coal pillars in the development and mining periods were investigated with respect to the widths of different coal pillars using theoretical and simulation methods. …”
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Origin-Destination-Based Travel Time Reliability under Different Rainfall Intensities: An Investigation Using Open-Source Data by Qi Zhang, Hong Chen, Hongchao Liu, Wei Li, Yibin Zhang

“…The study found some results that tended to agree with the previous findings in the literature, such that, in general, rain reduces the O-D-based travel time reliability, and some seemed to be unique and worthy of discussion: firstly, although in general the reduction in travel time reliability gets larger as the intensity of rainfall increases, it appears that the change is more significant when rainfall intensity changes from light to moderate but becomes fairly marginal when it changes from normal to light or from moderate to extremely intensive; secondly, regardless of normal or rainy weather, the O-D-based travel time reliability and its consistency in different O-D pairs with similar average travel time always tend to improve along with the increase of average travel time. …”
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Nephron-Sparing Surgery for Adenocarcinoma in a Renal Allograft by Fernando Vázquez Alonso, Enrique Cardozo Rodríguez, Ignacio Puche Sanz, Jose Francisco Flores Martin, Jose Miguel Molina Hernandez, Raquel Berrio Campos, Javier Vicente Prados, Antonio Medina Benitez, Jose Manuel Cózar Olmo

“…Transplantectomy has always been the usual treatment. However, during the last years, nephron-sparing surgery of the allograft is more frequently done in well-selected cases, and therefore dialysis can be avoided. …”
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A Room with Two Views: An Insight into the 1985 and 2007 Film Adaptations of E. M. Forster’s Novel by Elena Raicu

“…The other characters lack substance and are not always convincing in their roles, but are present only insofar as they come in contact with the heroine. …”
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Challenge of Retinoblastoma in Mexico in 2020: Perspectives and Solutions by Lucas A. Garza-Garza, Raúl E. Ruiz-Lozano, Genaro Rebolledo-Méndez, Ismael Ibarra-Nava, Héctor J. Morales-Garza, David Ancona-Lezama

“…However, this is not always the case. An example is Argentina, where disease-free survival rates of retinoblastoma are notably higher than expected when taking into consideration its economic situation. …”
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Hierarchical Feature Attention Learning Network for Detecting Object and Discriminative Parts in Fine-Grained Visual Classification by A. Yeong Han, Kwang Moo Yi, Kyeong Tae Kim, Jae Young Choi

“…These mechanisms often assume that critical locations have a similar scale and are uniquely localizable, which is not always accurate. For instance, the size of a bird may vary across images, and the color of its beak might only be significant for species identification when its wing and tail colors are specific. …”
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Osteoblastic Differentiation of Human Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells on P3HT Thin Polymer Film by Paola Campione, Maria Giovanna Rizzo, Luana Vittoria Bauso, Ileana Ielo, Grazia Maria Lucia Messina, Giovanna Calabrese

“…Bone defects restoration has always been an arduous challenge in the orthopedic field due to the limitations of conventional grafts. …”
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