A durability- based design approach for structural applications with advanced cement-based materials by Francesco Soave, Liberato Ferrara

“…In this framework, a performance based durability design approach is proposed, which, through experimentally calibrated time-evolution trends for the material performance and design constitutive laws, defines the evolution, over the intended service life, of the structural performance indicators and the consequently needed, if any, maintenance interventions. …”
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Deconstrucţia canonului literar în critica actuală română şi sârbă by Mariana Dan

“…While presenting, by numerous examples and in a convincing way, the evolution of modern Serbian poetry, Tešić discloses the inter-relation between modernism and avant-guarde, which, only taken together constitute a paradigm in Serbian 20th century literature. …”
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INDEPENDENCE AND FINANCIAL EXPERTISE OF AUDIT COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Saidu MUSA, Muhammed Kamaldeen Usman, Paul B. Ogunwole

“…The result shows that audit committee composition does not significantly influence disclosure practices of listed DMBs in Nigeria (z=0.372, p>0.05) and audit committee independence constitutes a significant influence on the voluntary disclosure practice of listed DBMs in Nigeria (z=3.069, p-value < 0.01). …”
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Sustainable Distance E-Learning for Enhanced Students Retention and Support: Faculty of Law National Open University of Nigeria in Focus by Erimma Gloria Orie

“…Specifically, students’ background / orientation, state of infrastructure nationwide, funding and staffing inadequacies constitute the major issues. Strategies proffered to remedy the situation include pre-enrolment orientation in e-Learning environment and mentoring, improved budgetary allocation, improved ICT facilities including e-library, follow-up on students and proper staffing amongst others. …”
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Diabetic Retinopathy in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients Attending the Diabetic Clinic of the University of Gondar Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia by Asamere Tsegaw, Shitaye Alemu, Abere Dessie, Christopher C. Patterson, Eldryd H. O. Parry, David I. W. Phillips, Elisabeth R. Trimble

“…The presence or absence of hypertension was recorded. Results. Men constituted 41.5% of the group, the mean age at diagnosis of T2DM was 50.4 years, and 50.2% were hypertensive. …”
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Endophytic fungi related to the ash dieback causal agent encode signatures of pathogenicity on European ash by Maryam Rafiqi, Chatchai Kosawang, Jessica A. Peers, Lukas Jelonek, Hélène Yvanne, Mark McMullan, Lene R. Nielsen

“…Abstract Tree diseases constitute a significant threat to biodiversity worldwide. …”
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PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TERMS OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE by Nerija Kovalenkovienė, Rasa Šemiotienė

“…The scope of the study is the analysis of rulings of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania, decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, and decisions of courts of general competence of the Republic of Lithuania in the period from 2014 to 2019 in criminal cases. …”
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Sensitivity Analysis of the Johnson-Cook Model for Ti-6Al-4V in Aeroengine Applications by Carlos Beecher, Héctor Sepúlveda, Angelo Oñate, Anne Marie Habraken, Laurent Duchêne, Gonzalo Pincheira, Víctor Tuninetti

“…However, accurately predicting their behavior under such conditions requires the precise calibration of constitutive models. This study presents a comprehensive sensitivity analysis of the Johnson-Cook plasticity and progressive damage model parameters for Ti-6Al-4V in blade containment simulations. …”
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Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of ZF-HD family in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) under drought and salt stresses by Kangping Zhang, Ruqian Yan, Xiaoqing Feng, Jingjing Zhang, Yuanyuan Jiang, Lin Li, Jianzhong Guo, Xianping Zhang

“…The proteins from the same group were similar in conserved motifs and domains, such as motif 1 and motif 3, constituting the ZF domain, were almost existed in 15 HaZF-HD proteins. …”
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Transcriptome analysis of novel B16 melanoma metastatic variants generated by serial intracarotid artery injection by Jenny C. Kienzler, Erick M. Contreras, Janet Treger, Linda M. Liau, Geoffrey C. Owens, Robert M. Prins

“…Abstract The incidence of brain metastases (BrM) in patients with metastatic melanoma is reported to be 30–50% and constitutes the third most frequent BrM after breast and renal cancers. …”
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PROFILES OF FILIPINO TEACHERS AND THEIR ONLINE TEACHING COMPETENCIES DURING THE PANDEMIC by Dave Marcial, Aurielle Lisa Z. Maypa, Cindy Ruth R. Villariza, Grace L. Apao

“…A significant portion, constituting 60% of teachers, identified as "social media joiners," indicating active engagement on various platforms. …”
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Viral nucleic acid load in the milk of lactating mothers with COVID-19 and the prognosis of infants by Mengkun Wang, Yifei Li, Jie Lei, Huiyi Jiang

“…Fourteen lactating mothers and their breastfed children hospitalized with COVID-19 (Omicron variant) formed mother–child pairs, which constituted the test group. Additional 11 non-breastfed children of the same age hospitalized with COVID-19 (Omicron variant) participated in the study as the control group. …”
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Comparison of clinical outcomes between double arterial cannulation and single arterial cannulation in type A aortic dissection by Zhiwei Tang, Chunze Yuan, Hong Liu, Yi Ding, Jiaxi Gu, Minghui Li, Buqing Ni, Yongfeng Shao

“…By providing stable systemic organ perfusion, the establishment of CPB with DAC can constitute a safe technique for TAAD repair.…”
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Novel hormonal agents in men with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer and reduced performance status: Experiences of a specialized single center by Thomas Büttner, Philipp Lossin, Stefan Latz, Carolin Jacobs, Philipp Krausewitz, Stefan Hauser

“…Within this therapeutic context, novel hormonal agents (NHA) constitute a fundamental component of pharmacological intervention. …”
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Routine Multimodal Antiemesis Including Low-Dose Perphenazine in an Ambulatory Surgery Unit of a University Hospital: A 10-Year History by Brian A. Williams, Michael L. Kentor, Susan J. Skledar, Steven L. Orebaugh, Manuel C. Vallejo

“…As a single-dose component of multimodal antiemetic prophylaxis therapy, we believe that this track record of anecdotal safety in adults who meet certain criteria (age 14–70, no less than 45 kg, no history of extrapyramidal reactions or of Parkinson disease, and no Class III antidysrhythmic coadministered for coexisting disease) constitutes a sufficient patient safety basis for formal prospective study. …”
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Reliability of the Tuck Jump Assessment Using Standardized Rater Training by Kevin Racine, Meghan Warren, Craig Smith, Monica R. Lininger

“… # METHODS A website was created by a physical therapist (PT) with videos, written descriptors of the 10 TJA technique flaws, and examples of what constituted no flaw, minor flaw, or major flaw (0,1,2) using published standards. …”
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Under the Light of the Population Register Dated 1857 An Evaluation upon the Socio-Economic Lives of the Gypsy Living in İstanbul by Ayşegül Kuş

“…The Gypsies who spread to several parts of the world generally constitute a dense population in Anatolia, the Balkans and Europe. …”
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Surgical Approach and Laser Applications in BRONJ Osteoporotic and Cancer Patients by Paolo Vescovi, Elisabetta Merigo, Marco Meleti, Maddalena Manfredi, Carlo Fornaini, Samir Nammour

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Relationship between the Sorghum's Physicochemical Attributes and the Flavor Components of Qing Stubble Daqu Baijiu by Linming SHI, Yanhong DU, Jianguang NIE, Hao TAN, Simai LI, Tingting LI

“…High-quality raw materials constitute a critical prerequisite for crafting premium Baijiu. …”
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Tampered text detection via RGB and frequency relationship modeling by Yuxin WANG, Boqiang ZHANG, Hongtao XIE, Yongdong ZHANG

“…In recent years, the widespread dissemination of tampered text images on the Internet constitutes an important threat to the security of text images.However, the corresponding tampered text detection (TTD) methods have not been sufficiently explored.The TTD task aims to locate all text regions in an image while judging whether the text regions have been tampered with according to the authenticity of the texture.Thus, different from the general text detection task, TTD task further needs to perceive the fine-grained information for real-world and tampered text classification.TTD task has two main challenges.One the one hand, due to the high similarity in texture between real-world texts and tampered texts, TTD methods that only learn from RGB domain features have limited capability to distinguish these two-category texts well.On the other hand, as the different detecting difficulty exists in real-world texts and tampered texts, the network cannot well balance the learning process of the two-category texts, resulting in the imbalance detection performance between real-world and tampered texts.Compared with RGB domain features, the discontinuity of text texture in frequency domain can help the network to identify the authenticity of text instances.Accordingly, a new TTD method based on RGB and frequency information relationship modeling was proposed.The features in the RGB and frequency domains were extracted by independent feature extractors respectively.Thus, the identification ability of tampered texture can be enhanced by introducing frequency information during the texture perception.Then, a global RGB-frequency relationship module (GRM) was introduced to model the texture authenticity relationship between different text instances.GRM referred to the RGB-frequency features of other text instances in the same image to assist in judging the authenticity of the current text instance, which solved the problem of imbalanced detection performance.Furthermore, a new TTD dataset (Tampered-SROIE) was proposed to evaluate the effectiveness of proposed method, which contains 986 images (626 training images and 360 test images).By evaluating on the Tampered-SROIE, the proposed method obtains 95.97% and 96.80% in F-measure for real-world and tampered texts respectively and reduces the imbalanced detection accuracy by 1.13%.The proposed method will give new insights to the TTD community from the perspective of network structure and detection strategy.Tampered-SROIE also provides an evaluation benchmark for future TTD methods.…”
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