Adaptation to Accelerated Digitalization in the Context of a Pandemic: Comparative Study of Higher Education Systems in Russia and Belarus by L. G. Titarenko

“…In Belarus, students’ assessment of the quality of DL was generally positive, and adaptation strategies were successful. …”
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Effects of Air Temperature and Precipitation on Soil Moisture on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during the 2015 Growing Season by Qingyan Xie, Jianping Li, Yufei Zhao

“…However, the daily maximum air temperature (Tmax) generally had little effect on SM, although it had showed some effects on SM in the middle and deeper layers at the Jiali station. …”
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AReLU: Agile Rectified Linear Unit for Improving Lightweight Convolutional Neural Networks by Fu Chen, Yepeng Guan

“…Extensive experiments on different datasets and lightweight convolutional neural network architectures demonstrate the superiority and generality of AReLU. It shows that CE-AReLU gains remarkable performance in common visual classification benchmarks. …”
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Impact of the Choice of Land Surface Scheme on a Simulated Heatwave Event: The Case of Sichuan-Chongqing Area, China by Y. Ma, X.-M. Zeng, Y. Zhang, N. Wang, Y. Zheng, G. Wang, C. Chen

“…Specifically, all of the LSSs except PX generally reproduce the observed high temperatures, with CLM4 SATs at 06 UTC (SAT06) the most consistent with measurements whereas the short-range (medium-range) results from NOAH_MP (NOAH) are the worst. …”
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External barycentric coordinates for arbitrary polygons and an approximate method for calculating them by Ivan S. Polyansky

“…In the article, the concept of external barycentric coordinates is introduced to generalize the applicability of the barycentric method in solving external boundary value and initial boundary value problems of mathematical physics. …”
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Monitoring Brazilian Food Security Based on Emergy Concepts: A Proposed Approach by Rafael Araujo Nacimento, Mario Duarte Canever, Luiz Carlos Terra dos Santos, Cecília Almeida, Feni Agostinho, Biagio Fernando Giannetti

“…The results indicate that processed food items such as oils and butter generally provide greater net emergy benefits to consumers compared to fresh food items like meat, bananas, tomatoes, and potatoes, which often favor the supply chain. …”
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Burden, Positive Aspects, and Predictive Variables of Caregiving: A Study of Caregivers of Patients with Pediatric Glaucoma by Yingting Zhu, Jinyun Gao, Xinyan Li, Qiongman Yang, Yu Lian, Huiming Xiao, Wenmin Huang

“…The CBI and the PAC scores were analyzed in relation to each other and different characteristics of the patients with PG and their caregivers through a generalized linear regression model. Result. Most of enrolled 57 caregivers were found to act with a moderate level of burden and benefits. …”
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Spinal Excitability Changes after Transspinal and Transcortical Paired Associative Stimulation in Humans by Maria Knikou

“…TEP recruitment input-output curves revealed a generalized depression of TEPs in most ankle muscles of both legs after both PAS protocols that coincided with an increased gain only after transcortical-transspinal PAS. …”
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Selective Ensemble Learning Method for Belief-Rule-Base Classification System Based on PAES by Wanling Liu, Weikun Wu, Yingming Wang, Yanggeng Fu, Yanqing Lin

“…In the base classifier selection stage, the trained base classifier is binary coded, and the number of base classifiers participating in integration and generalization error of the base classifier is used as the objective function for multi-objective optimization. …”
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Metronomic Cyclophosphamide and Methotrexate Chemotherapy Combined with 1E10 Anti-Idiotype Vaccine in Metastatic Breast Cancer by Jorge L. Soriano, Noyde Batista, Eduardo Santiesteban, Mayté Lima, Joaquín González, Robin García, Yohanka Zarza, María V. López, Myriam Rodríguez, Jorge L. Loys, Narciso Montejo, Frank Aguirre, Amparo Macías, Ana M. Vázquez

“…Overall toxicity was generally mild. Metronomic chemotherapy combined with 1E10-Alum vaccine immunotherapy might be a useful therapeutic option for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer due to its potential impact on survival and patient quality of live, low toxicity and advantages of the administration.…”
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND QUALITY OF FINANCIAL REPORTING BY BANKS IN NIGERIA by S.L ADAM, I. A MUHAMMED, Eunice T OLUGANNA, H.K.K ABDULKAREEM

“…The study employs a Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) for a period of seven years (2012-2018). …”
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L-shaped association between ankle-brachial index and coronary heart disease in Chinese adults with hypertension by Wei Zhou, Yumeng Shi, Chao Yu, Tao Wang, Lingjuan Zhu, Huihui Bao, Xiaoshu Cheng

“…Methods We conducted a cross-sectional analysis involving 10,900 hypertensive patients, with CHD as the primary outcome. A generalized additive model (GAM) and fitted smoothing curve were employed to assess linearity and delineate the dose–response association between ABI and CHD. …”
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Fire Model Test on Temperature Field in the Rescue Station of an Extralong Railway Tunnel by Yanhua Zeng, Kelin Liu, Yong Fang, Xianfu Zhang, Yun Bai

“…A rescue station is necessary for an extralong railway tunnel, whose length is generally greater than 20 km. In the rescue station, passenger evacuation, fire fighting, and protection of passengers are organized. …”
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Bryophytes as Indicators of Disturbance in One of the Last Remnants of the Mountain Forests of El Oro Province, Ecuador by Ángel Benítez, Richard Nagua, Jefferson Medina, Gregorio Lapo, Erika Yangua-Solano, Rolando Andrade-Hidalgo

“…Changes in species richness and diversity were analyzed using generalized linear models (GLMs), and changes in species composition, using multivariate analysis. …”
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Establishment of Novel Limbus-Derived, Highly Proliferative ABCG2+/ABCB5+ Limbal Epithelial Stem Cell Cultures by Eung Kweon Kim, Ga-Hyun Lee, Boram Lee, Yong-Sun Maeng

“…Homeostasis and regeneration of corneal epithelia are sustained by limbal epithelial stem cells (LESCs); thus, an LESC deficiency is a major cause of blindness worldwide. Despite the generally promising results of cultivated LESC transplantation, it has been limited by variations in long-term success rates, the use of xenogeneic and undefined culture components, and a scarcity of donor tissues. …”
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Market Power, NAIRU, and the Phillips Curve by Derek Zweig

“…We employ Bayesian vector autoregression (“BVAR”) to expose empirical interrelationships between unemployment, inflation, and interest rates. Generally, we do find short-run behavior consistent with the Phillips curve, though it tends to break down over the longer term. …”
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Quantitative Evaluation for the Threat Degree of a Thermal Reservoir to Deep Coal Mining by Yun Chen, Xinyi Wang, Yanqi Zhao, Haolin Shi, Xiaoman Liu, Zhigang Niu

“…The evaluation results show that the threat degree of the roof in the eastern region is generally greater than that in the western region and that the closer it is to the coal seam outcrop line, the higher the threat degree is; near the boreholes, in the areas Qs1,Qs5, Qs8, Sx1, Tk5, Zc4, and Zc7, which are close to the hidden outcrop line of the coal seam, the classification characteristic value of the threat degree is greater than 3.5, which is in the high-threat zone for disasters caused by roof thermal storage aquifers during coal seam mining. …”
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Carboxypeptidase B1 in dialyzed chronic kidney disease patients by Matej Stančík, Marián Grendár, Marián Mokáň

“…The mean Carboxypeptidase B1 concentration was significantly higher in the target arm compared to the control arm (77.60 ± 11.81 ng/mL and 1.22 ± 0.41 ng/mL, respectively; p < 0.001). Generalized linear mixed regression revealed that affiliation with the control arm was the only significant contributor of this finding. …”
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Administrative and legal principles of formation of tariffs for freight transportation by railway transport by Voroniatnikov O.

“…The methodology includes a comprehensive analysis of normative legal acts and generalization of available scientific and theoretical material (primarily in the field of administrative law), formulation of relevant conclusions and recommendations. …”
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Profil Kesiapan dan Pemahaman Guru Biologi terhadap Pelaksanaan Asesmen Psikomotorik dan Afektif Selama Pembelajaran Online di SMA Seluruh Kecamatan Comal, Pemalang by Eka Nunik Suharjanti, Ipah Budi Minarti, Lussana Rossita Dewi

“…Meanwhile, the profile of teachers' understanding of psychomotor and affective assessments can generally be obtained at a low level. An understanding profile that has an impact on misconceptions in the realm of assessment and the development of an assessment rubric that is not yet good so that human application cannot run optimally. …”
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