Research on Mechanical Properties and Macroscopic Fracture Evolution of Rock with Different Joint Plane Features by Yongjiang Yu, Jingjing Liu, Pengbo Wang, Yuntao Yang, Shangqing Zhao

“…With the increase of the angle, the multiple cracks of the specimen gradually merge, and the cracks are always vertical to the joint plane, showing splitting failure. …”
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Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Using Exemplar-SVMs with Adaptation Regularization by Yiwei He, Yingjie Tian, Jingjing Tang, Yue Ma

“…It assumes that source and target domain data are drawn from the same feature space but different margin distributions and its motivation is to utilize the source domain instances to assist in training a robust classifier for target domain tasks. Previous studies always focus on reducing the distribution mismatch across domains. …”
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The use of sand as a substrate for culture of polychaeta worm Dendronereis pinnaticirris by Ahmad Ghufron Mustofa, Enang Harris, Eddy Supriyono, Dedi Jusadi

“…The results showed that (1) D. pinnaticirris always swims actively when cultured in the medium without substrate, thereby resulting into the mass mortality (96.7%); (2) the substrate with particle diameter of 63‒250 μm generated significantly higher daily growth rate, survival rate, and production of D. pinnaticirris, but protein retention and feed efficiency were insignificance with those cultured in the substrate of 250–500 μm. …”
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Structural Characters and Pharmacological Activity of Protopanaxadiol-Type Saponins and Protopanaxatriol-Type Saponins from Ginseng by Lancao Zhang, Xiang Gao, Chunhui Yang, Zuguo Liang, Dongsong Guan, Tongyi Yuan, Wenxiu Qi, Daqing Zhao, Xiangyan Li, Haisi Dong, He Zhang

“…Ginseng has a long history of drug application in China, which can treat various diseases and achieve significant efficacy. Ginsenosides have always been deemed important ingredients for pharmacological activities. …”
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Obraz edukacji wczesnoszkolnej w wypowiedziach nauczycieli edukacji przedmiotowej by Józefa Bałachowicz, Monika Kupiec

“…The dominant teaching discourse reveals the depreciation of the child’s previous experience related to the conditions of early school education, e.g. one teacher, active learning and teaching methods, descriptive assessment; and thus strengthens the obviousness of the hardships and failures of the Fourth graders that have always been experienced. …”
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The Beginning of Liturgical Formation in Romania: The First Liturgical Manual in the Romanian Language by Dumitru A. Vanca

“…For this reason, the first Romanian literary works were translations or adaptations that were always under the influence of or produced in opposition to these cultures and beliefs. …”
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Russian-Indonesian Relations in the 21 Century by L. M. Efimova

“…Relations in trade and economic spheres are not very intensive, but are stable and have a positive dynamics. Indonesia was always a good trade partner for Russia. Direct business con tacts are now developing between the two countries and this fact in very significant for the future economic cooperation. …”
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Wind Power Assessment Based on a WRF Wind Simulation with Developed Power Curve Modeling Methods by Zhenhai Guo, Xia Xiao

“…Although the probability distribution functions (pdfs) of the wind speed are commonly used, their seemingly good performance for distribution may not always translate into an accurate assessment of power generation. …”
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Regulatory and Juridical Reflections on the Employment and Additional Benefits of 'Employment Status' for Disabled Veterans by Morteza Motaharifard

“…In the specific supportive laws for veterans since 1993, the issue of dual employment and receiving dual salaries in the commonly referred to status of 'employment and total disability' has always been a subject of discussion and dispute in legislative processes, judicial avenues, and administrative channels. …”
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Pseudotyped Viruses: A Useful Platform for Pre-Clinical Studies Conducted in a BSL-2 Laboratory Setting by Sofiia N. Rizatdinova, Alina E. Ershova, Irina V. Astrakhantseva

“…The study of pathogenic viruses has always posed significant biosafety challenges. In particular, the study of highly pathogenic viruses requires methods with low biological risk but relatively high sensitivity and convenience in detection. …”
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Community Core Evolution in Mobile Social Networks by Hao Xu, Weidong Xiao, Daquan Tang, Jiuyang Tang, Zhenwen Wang

“…Community detection in social networks attracts a lot of attention in the recent years. Existing methods always depict the relationship of two nodes using the temporary connection. …”
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Investigating Travel Flow Differences between Peak Hours with Spatial Model with Endogenous Weight Matrix Using Automatic Vehicle Identification Data by Yiwei Zhou, Zhaocheng He, Jin-Yong Chen, Linglin Ni, Jieshuang Dong

“…However, travel flow at peak hours is not always the same. It is important to investigate how travel flow differs between peak hours to capture travel flow patterns and influential factors to facilitate traffic management and urban planning. …”
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Analysis of Rural Talent Scale in Hebei Province Based on Fractional GM (1,1) and the Grey Relational Analysis Model by Yibo Li, Wenbin Bi, Kuo Xiao, Huan Li, Shi Yin, Chaoyong Tang

“…Under the background of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Coordinated Development, Hebei Province has always put talent revitalization at the core of rural revitalization. …”
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LEDFD: A Low Energy Consumption Distributed Fault Detection Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks by Xiaolong Xu, Weijian Geng, Geng Yang, Nik Bessis, Peter Norrington

“…Furthermore, current fault detection algorithms always pursue high detection performance but neglect energy consumption. …”
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Hypercoagulation syndrome at liver cirrhosis by I. A. Kurkina, M. V. Mayevskaya, B. V. Silayev, V. T. Ivashkin

“…However hemostasis equilibrium at liver cirrhosis is unstable. There is always potential risk of both hemorrhage and thromboses. …”
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Performance analysis of insertion loss incorporated hybrid precoding for massive MIMO by Tadele A. Abose, Thomas O. Olwal, Muna M. Mohammed, Murad R. Hassen

“…Investigating the spectral and energy efficiency of two popular hybrid precoding structures, the fully connected structure, and the subconnected structure, it was found that in a massive MIMO, the subconnected structure always performed better than the fully connected structure. …”
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Effective Denoising of Firing Shock Force on Shoulder by Morphological Wavelet by Ye Lu, Ke-dong Zhou, Peng-han Gong, Bing Li

“…However, the traditional linear wavelets are not always suitable for any real world signals with strong background noises. …”
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The Pacifying Power of Wages in the Domestic Work Domain by Vuyo Gama

“…The study’s findings challenge the assumption that higher paid wages in the domestic sector are always a well-intentioned and successful achievement of one aspect of the ‘decent work’ agenda. …”
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Chaotic Motions in the Real Fuzzy Electronic Circuits by Shih-Yu Li, Cheng-Hsiung Yang, Chin-Teng Lin, Li-Wei Ko, Tien-Ting Chiu

“…However, nonlinear systems are always composed of many complex equations and are hard to realize on electronic circuits. …”
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PTF-SimCM: A Simple Contrastive Model with Polysemous Text Fusion for Visual Similarity Metric by Xinpan Yuan, Xinxin Mao, Wei Xia, Zhiqi Zhang, Shaojun Xie, Chengyuan Zhang

“…Nevertheless, existing well-performing approaches for image similarity measurement only focus on the image itself without utilizing the information of other modalities, while pictures always appear with the described text. Furthermore, those methods need human supervision, yet most images are unlabeled in the real world. …”
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