Latency Improvement Strategies for Reliability-Aware Scheduling in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks by Felix Dobslaw, Tingting Zhang, Mikael Gidlund

“…Moreover, SchedEx executes orders of magnitude faster than recent algorithms in the literature while producing schedules with competitive latencies. We generalize the original problem formulation from single-channel to multichannel scheduling and propose a scalable integration into the existing SchedEx approach. …”
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Smartphone Use, Experience of Learning Environment, and Academic Performance among University Students: A Descriptive Appraisal by Gabriel Faimau, Kelebogile Tlhowe, Omphile Tlhaolang

“…Previous studies on smartphone use and academic performance have generally focused on measuring the impact that smartphone use has on the academic performance of students. …”
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Invasive Listeriosis of Intracardiac Device by Prerna Sharma, Mohamed Yassin

“…A 74-year-old male with a past medical history of coronary artery disease, congestive cardiac failure, permanent atrial fibrillation status after nodal ablation, and placement of a biventricular pacemaker presented to the hospital with complaints of generalized fatigue. He was found to have listeria bacteremia, and transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) showed pacemaker lead vegetation. …”
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Humour in the management of multiple sclerosis: a scoping review by M. Šeduikienė, V. Matonis

“…Overall, 10 scientific investigations were analysed, grouped, interpreted, and generalized. Results. The research revealed: humour-based stress reduction for PwMS; the relationship between executive function and humour coping in PwMS; the distinctive influence of humour on employment status among individuals with relapsing-remiting multiple sclerosis (RRMS); the relationship between humour and personal long-term prognosis in PwMS; and the differences in perception of humour in PwMS. …”
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Immune thrombocytopenia in infants: a retrospective study with comparison to toddlers by Anselm Chi-wai Lee

“…Results: Twenty-two infants and 30 toddlers were diagnosed and followed up for ITP during the study period. Infants with ITP generally had minor or mild bleeding (19, 86.4%) and seldom required treatment (7, 31.8%), and their thrombocytopenia resolved at a mean of 1.90 months after diagnosis. …”
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Intersexual relationships in mandrills: dominance, sexual conflict and the influence of social integration by Nikolaos Smit

“…These studies show that male mandrills are generally dominant over females and use sexual coercion to increase their mating success. …”
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Digital Media Design for Dynamic Gesture Interaction with Image Processing by Xiaoli Xiong, Yongguang Hou

“…Image processing technology generally includes three parts: image compression, enhancement and restoration, and matching, description, and recognition. …”
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Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptors and Lipoprotein Metabolism by Sander Kersten

“…Activation of PPARγ in mice and human is generally associated with a modest increase in plasma HDL-cholesterol and a decrease in plasma triglycerides. …”
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Relationship of Middle School Student STEM Interest to Career Intent by Rhonda Christensen, Gerald Knezek

“…Gender differences were also examined, resulting in the finding that middle school males generally have greater intent to pursue a career in STEM, and also show more positive interest in STEM areas. …”
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Cultural Dyphemisms in the Turkish Culture Region by İlhami Durmuş

“…The agents of the culture appeared as a shepherd generally. Shepherding provided a basic to the animal husbandry. …”
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La participación ciudadana en las políticas públicas de lucha contra la corrupción: respondiendo a la lógica de gobernanza by Luisa Fernanda Cano Blandón

“…Dentro de las políticas públicas que se han planteado en la región para el control de la corrupción, la participación de los ciudadanos se ha convertido en un elemento indispensable, el cual, en términos generales, se encuentra inserto dentro de una lógica de acción pública que en años recientes asumió la denominación de gobernanza, esto es, la necesidad de comprender el gobierno como un proceso y no como un sujeto directivo, lo cual implica una multiplicidad de actores y de centros de decisión difusos. …”
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Ambientes Enriquecidos, Sujetos Geriátricos Y Procesos De Memoria; Un Acercamiento a los Procesos Cognitivos en la Edad Adulta by Andrés G Vanegas, Julián A Messa, Diosimar Cardoza T., José R Tovar, Álvaro A Ocampo

“…Los resultados demostraron que aquellos participantes pertenecientes a un ambiente rico en estimulación cognitiva obtuvieron mejor rendimiento en tareas relacionadas con memoria y funciones cognitivas generales. Por otro lado, los sujetos que no cuentan con un nivel de educación formal en su ambiente, pero son expuestos a actividades de la vida diaria, obtuvieron también un buen rendimiento. …”
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White Garden Snail, Theba pisana (Mueller) (Gastropoda: Helicidae) by Jane E. Deisler, Lionel A. Stange

“…It is the most frequently intercepted foreign land snail (Hanna 1966, Mead 1971), generally arriving in shipments from the Mediterranean countries. …”
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Optimization Analysis of Pretreatment Device Structural Parameters for Low-Concentration CBM Utilization by Lu Xiao

“…In order to ensure the safe and stable operation of the CBM utilization device, the gas mixing unit is used to stabilize the concentration of feed gas. Generally, the resistance of the gas mixing unit is not higher than 500 Pa and the uniformity of gas is not less than 90%. …”
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Diplomacia en transición. La República Popular China frente a la dictadura cívico-militar en Chile by Pablo Ignacio Ampuero Ruiz

“…El artículo indaga por qué la República Popular de China (RPC) no rompió relaciones con el régimen de Pinochet en Chile como lo hizo la Unión Soviética y, en términos más generales, en qué aspectos esta situación representa un cambio fundamental en la política exterior de la RPC. …”
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Mechanical Effects of Solid Water on the Particle Skeleton of Soil: Mechanism Analysis by Xiaomeng Duan

“…It is generally accepted that the adsorbed water layer on the surface of the mineral particle has significant effects on the mechanical properties of soils. …”
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Identifying unregulated fisheries seasonality through commercial landings and local fishers’ knowledge by Abdulrahman Ben-Hasan, Mohammad E. Al Mukaimi

“…Landings influenced seasonal mean prices, with higher landings generally meant lower prices and vice versa. Further, we found that months identified by local fishers as being the “best fishing seasons” are consistent with months of peak landings for most stocks, though fishing seasons for a few stocks diverged widely from seasonality in commercial landings. …”
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Reconnecting Alaska: Mexican Movements and the Last Frontier by Sara V. Komarnisky

“…Powerful imaginaries are associated with places: Alaska, and 'the north' more generally, and Latin America, and Mexico specifically. …”
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A Comparative Kinetic Study of Acidic Hydrolysis of Wastes Cellulose from Agricultural Derived Biomass by Ajani AO, SE Agarry, OO Agbede

“…The results showed that the rate of hydrolysis by virtue of glucose yield generally increased with increase in temperature and acid concentration for all the four agricultural wastes used. …”
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Geohazard mapping and mitigations along the road corridor Gasera–Indeto, Southeast Ethiopia by Chalachew Tesfa

“…Slope and aspects show the most frequent landslide hazards in >40, 30–40°, and east, and northeast respectively. Generally, the study found that lithology, slope, and aspect were the main factors contributing to slope instability in the study area. …”
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