Adaptive Balancing of Series-Connected SiC MOSFETs Based on Active Clamping and Comparison Circuitry by Shuai Shao, Wentao Cui, Yibo Jiang, Xingyu Pei, Junming Zhang

“…Comprehensive operating principles and key parameter designs are provided for both DC transformer (DCT) and Voltage Source Converter (VSC) applications. …”
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Historical and Legal Preconditions for the Origin of Local Legal Regulation of Labor Legal Relations in Ukraine by V. V. Sychova

“…It has been found out that the period of 1861-1917 was characterized by active rule-making activities of the state to regulate labor relations, the adoption of a large number of laws and regulatory acts that were designed to regulate labor relations. It has been emphasized that an important achievement of that period was the expansion of the rights of authorized entities in regard to local rule-making activity. …”
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Psychometric Indicators of the “Proactive Attitudes” Scale in Adolescence: Testing the Factor Structure and Internal Consistency by A.A. Bekhter, E.N. Tkach

“…The scale consists of 8 questions and was designed to assess the level of proactive attitudes towards future events. …”
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The Integrated Hydropower Sustainability Assessment in Tajikistan: A Case Study of Rogun Hydropower Plant by Zhao Xu, Yumin Niu, Yangze Liang, Zhigang Li, Atoev Iftikhor

“…The Rogun hydropower plant (HPP) is designed as the highest hydropower station, while its sustainability is also questioned due to a lack of comprehensive sustainability evaluation. …”
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Halévy, fugue d’école und basse donnée by Birger Petersen

“…The concluding glance at an exercise designed by Halévy – a basse donnée from 1842 – also shows the close connection in this repertoire between counterpoint on the one hand and scheme-oriented movement on the other, which never exclude each other.…”
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Examining Adolescents’ Technology Addiction Levels Before and After COVID-19 Pandemic by Renan Seker, Tezcan Kartal, Adem Tasdemir, Ibrahim Serdar Kiziltepe

“…The cross-sectional survey method, one of the descriptive research designs, was used in the research. Participants consisted of 304 high school students selected via random sampling method. …”
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INVESTIGATING RISKS IN DEPENDENCE PRODUCING DRUGS USERS AMONGSUB-POPULATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTES IN KARACHI;.A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY by Shamsul Arfin Qasmi et al

“…A self administered self-administered screening questionnaire designed by World Health Organization ASSIST (i.e. …”
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Multimodal fuzzy logic-based gait evaluation system for assessing children with cerebral palsy by Saleh Massoud, Ebrahim Ismaiel, Rasha Massoud, Leila Khadour, Moustafa Al-mawaldi

“…The primary contribution of this study is the introduction of a multimodal fuzzy logic system-based gait index (FLS-GIS), designed to provide numerical scores for gait patterns in both healthy children and those with CP, before and after surgery. …”
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Salinity and Sugar Content Detection by Wideband Microwave–Based Patch Antenna Sensor by M. N. Rahman, S. M. Taohidul Islam, Md. Maniruzzaman, M. T. Islam

“…The lightweight patch-antenna–based wideband sensor is designed to propagate the electromagnetic wave for the transmission and reception. …”
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VIDEO-BASED LEARNING IN THE DIGITAL AGE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES by Oxana Khomyshak

“…To state the frequency, benefits, and challenges of video use, a questionnaire was designed. A survey was conducted among 67 people, including teenagers, youth, and adults. …”
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Effect of Clinical Sandblasting on the Surface Roughness of Zirconia Cores for all Ceramic Crowns and their Fracture Resistance after the Addition of Repair. by Mohammed Thamir Yassin, Shatha Abdullah Salih

“…Materials and Methods: Zirconia cores (n=21) were digitally designed and milled from ZirCAD LT B1 (IPS e.max® ZirCAD ) blocks using arum 5x-300 Pro (ARUM DENTISTRY). …”
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Assessment of Immunological, Skeletal, and Thyroid Function Abnormalities in Paediatric Morphoea by Vibhu Mendiratta, Anuja Yadav, Amit K. Meena, Suvarna Samudrala, Ritu Singh, Vishal Parmar

“…This study highlights the multi-system involvement in morphoea and the need for larger data and well-designed therapeutic trials for generating evidence-based treatment of this potentially disfiguring disease.…”
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Multi-Sensor Instrument for Aerosol In Situ Measurements by Ilya Bruchkouski, Artur Szkop, Jakub Wink, Justyna Szymkowska, Aleksander Pietruczuk

“…The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using the IAMU, in conjunction with optimized inlet designs, for PM monitoring under varying ambient relative humidity and sensor temperature conditions. …”
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Validity and Reliability Analysis of Knowledge of, Attitude toward and Practice of a Case-mix Questionnaire among Turkish Healthcare Providers by Saad Ahmed Ali Jadoo, Seher Nur Sulku, Syed M. Aljunid, Ilker Dastan

“…**Conclusions:** This study demonstrated that the designed questionnaire provided high construct validity and reliability, and could be adequately used to measure KAP among health care staff of the Case-mix and DRG system in Turkey.…”
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Evaluation of an in-service training program on "Armenian claims" according to Eisner's educational expertise/criticism model by Nejla Günay, Serpil Asar

“…Eisner’s educational expertise and criticism model was used in the analysis and the study was designed as qualitative research. A semi-structured interview form about Armenian claims was administered to selected history and social sciences department head teachers after they participated in the in-service education program. …”
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Evaluating the adoption of agile project management practices in Chinese technology companies: Risk management implications by Lei Cheng

“…It reinforced for me the need to have a real physical workspace designed in an agile way and supported by technology. …”
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Privacy-preserving federated learning framework with irregular-majority users by Qianxin CHEN, Renwan BI, Jie LIN, Biao JIN, Jinbo XIONG

“…In response to the existing problems that the federated learning might lead to the reduction of aggregation efficiency by handing the majority of irregular users and the leak of parameter privacy by adopting plaintext communication, a framework of privacy-preserving robust federated learning was proposed for ensuring the robustness of the irregular user based on the designed security division protocol.PPRFL could enable the model and its related information to aggregate in ciphertext on the edge server facilitate users to calculate the model reliability locally for reducing the additional communication overhead caused by the adoption of the security multiplication protocol in conventional methods, apart from lowering the high computational overhead resulted from homomorphic encryption with outsourcing computing to two edge servers.Based on this, user could calculate the loss value of the model through jointly using the verification sets issued by the edge server and that held locally after parameter updating of the local model.Then the model reliability could be dynamically updated as the model weight together with the historic information of the loss value.Further, the model weight was scaled under the guidance of prior knowledge, and the ciphertext model and ciphertext weight information are sent to the edge server to aggregate and update the global model parameters, ensuring that global model changes are contributed by high-quality data users, and improving the convergence speed.Through the security analysis of the Hybrid Argument model, the demonstration shows that PPRFL can effectively protect the privacy of model parameters and intermediate interaction parameters including user reliability.The experimental results show that the PPRFL scheme could still achieve the accuracy of 92% when all the participants in the federated aggregation task are irregular users, with the convergence efficiency 1.4 times higher than that of the PPFDL.Besides, the PPRFL scheme could still reach the accuracy of 89% when training data possessed by 80% of the users in the federated aggregation task were noise data, with the convergence efficiency 2.3 times higher than that of the PPFDL.…”
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Relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and celiac disease: a cross-sectional study and a brief review of the literature by Sebahat Basyigit, Oktay Unsal, Metin Uzman, Ferdane Sapmaz, Ozlem Ceylan Dogan, Ayse Kefeli, Zeliha Asilturk, Abdullah Ozgur Yeniova, Yasar Nazligul

“…Material and methods: This study was prospectively designed and included 240 dyspeptic patients who underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with gastric and duodenal biopsies. …”
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Modelling convective cell life cycles with a copula-based approach by C.-Y. Tseng, L.-P. Wang, L.-P. Wang, C. Onof

“…<p>This study proposes an algorithm designed to model convective cell life cycles, for the purpose of improving the representation of convective storms in rainfall modelling and forecasting. …”
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Effect of Saturated Near Surface on Nitrate and Ammonia Nitrogen Losses in Surface Runoff at the Loess Soil Hillslope by Yu-bin Zhang, Fen-li Zheng, Ning Cao

“…A laboratory study was designed to evaluate the effects of near-surface hydraulic gradients on NO3–N and NH4–N losses in surface runoff from soil boxes at 27% slope undersimulated rainfall of a loess soil hillslope. …”
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