Elections in Croatia, Northern Macedonia, Bulgaria and Serbia by Pavel E. Kandel

“…The center-right GERB has beaten its rivals in Bulgaria, but is experiencing great difficulty forming a government, so the question is has it really won? …”
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Relieve Adversarial Attacks Based on Multimodal Training by Lai Hongjie

“…Deep learning models have reached great success in many areas such as image recognition and natural language processing. …”
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A Modified Groundwater Flow Model Using the Space Time Riemann-Liouville Fractional Derivatives Approximation by Abdon Atangana, S. C. Oukouomi Noutchie

“…The notion of uncertainty in groundwater hydrology is of great importance as it is known to result in misleading output when neglected or not properly accounted for. …”
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Factors Influencing Colorectal Cancer Screening Participation by Antonio Z. Gimeno García

“…Modifiable determinants are of great interest as they are plausible targets for interventions. …”
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Ranga bioindykacji w ekotoksykologii wód by Urszula Sadowska

“…Some of them are standard test organisms used in ecotoxicology in the so-called bioassays, which provide a great deal of information about the type and in^uence of pollution. …”
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Exercise-Induced Irisin, the Fat Browning Myokine, as a Potential Anticancer Agent by George-Emmanuel Maalouf, Diala El Khoury

“…This myokine is usually secreted after exercise by improving energy balance and has shown great potential as a possible treatment for some metabolic diseases such as obesity, insulin resistance, and inflammation. …”
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Improving the Complexity of the Lorenz Dynamics by María Pilar Mareca, Borja Bordel

“…The new system is especially designed to improve the complexity of Lorenz dynamics, which, despite being a paradigm to understand the chaotic dissipative flows, is a very simple example and shows great vulnerability when used in secure communications. …”
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INSECURITY AND GIRL CHILD EDUCATION IN NORTH-EAST NIGERIA: A CASE OF CHIBOK AND DAPCHI QUAGMIRE by Gloria Samdi Puldu, Rwang Patrick Stephen

“… The growth of girl child education has been greatly endangered over the years due to the wanton threats and sporadic attacks in schools by the Boko Haram sects. …”
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Recent Progress of Anomaly Detection by Xiaodan Xu, Huawen Liu, Minghai Yao

“…Anomaly analysis is of great interest to diverse fields, including data mining and machine learning, and plays a critical role in a wide range of applications, such as medical health, credit card fraud, and intrusion detection. …”
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Restructuring the Economic Policy Framework in Brazil: Genuine or Gattopardo change? by Rui Lyrio Modenesi, André de Melo Modenesi, Norberto Montani Martins, Patrick Fontaine

“…As we argued, it locked economy into a trap: low growth; high interest rates; relatively high inflation; and overvalued currency. Since the 2008 Great Crisis, economic policy has been changing in an attempt to foster growth. …”
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Confronting Race Head-on in 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013): Redefining the Contours of the Classic Biopic? by Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris

“…In his successful 2013 cinematic release 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen circumvents the “great white narrative” by addressing race “head-on” instead of metaphorically, writing every character within their own racial background. …”
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Addressing Communication Challenges: Implementation of an Enhanced EHR System with Patient Portal at a Vancouver Hospital by Anutej Sarode, Anurag Johri, Ankit Shreshtha, Clement Vadakkan

“…The new era of information and communications technology can greatly help the healthcare community, including suppliers, patients, staff and the top-level Management to bridge the gap of communication that is very important in the healthcare process. …”
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Sustainable Development of University as a Prerequisite of Region’s and Country’s Prosperity by A. V. Timiryasova

“…Timiryasov (KIU) shows the development path of one of the strongest non-governmental universities in the Volga region, recognized as a university that makes a great contribution to the development of the region and the country. …”
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Advances in personalized gastroenterology and hepatology 2016 by E. Blum Hubert

“…All these aspects have greatly contributed to the recent advances in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of human diseases.…”
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Reassessment reveals underestimation of infiltration depth in surgical resection specimens with lymph-node positive T1b esophageal adenocarcinoma by Man Wai Chan, Esther A. Nieuwenhuis, Sybren L Meijer, Marnix Jansen, Michael Vieth, Mark I. van Berge Henegouwen, R. E. Pouw

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Coherent Network Optimizing of Rail-Based Urban Mass Transit by Ying Zhang

“…In recent years, the rail-based urban mass transit has been regarded as one of the key means to overcoming the great challenges in Chinese megacities. The purpose of this study is going to develop a coherent network optimizing for rail-based urban mass transit to find the best alternatives for the user and to demonstrate how to meet sustainable development needs and to match the enormous capacity requirements simultaneously. …”
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Multilevel Thresholding for Image Segmentation Using Mean Gradient by Abubakar M. Ashir

“…These challenges present difficulties in the choice of the algorithm to use, and sometimes, it is practically impossible to implement these algorithms in a low-capacity hardware application where computational power and memory utilization are of great concern. In this study, a simple yet effective and noniterative global and bilevel thresholding technique is proposed. …”
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PRIVATE AND PUBLIC PENSION SYSTEMS WORLWIDE: CASE OF RUSSIA by A. V. Pudovkin

“…Studying the successes and mistakes of world practice of voluntary and mandatory funded pension systems is of great scientific and practical interest, since it can contribute to a more accurate choice of the future path of development of the national pension system.…”
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Research on Two-Level Price-Fluctuation Supply Chain Ordering Strategy Problem by Minchao Zheng, Zhiqing Meng, Rui Shen

“…Uncertainties from retail price-fluctuation sales as well as constraints from suppliers make it difficult for retailers to place accurate orders, which have a great impact on the whole supply chain. Thus, this paper studies a supply chain ordering problem for two-level price-fluctuation sales and establishes a bilevel programming model by Copula function measuring the correlation between price and demand. …”
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Classifying Lupus Nephritis: An Ongoing Story by Saba Kiremitci, Arzu Ensari

“…In this paper, we reviewed the new classification system with the associated literature to highlight the benefits and the weak points that emerged so far. The great advantage of the classification emerged to provide a uniform reporting for lupus nephritis all over the world. …”
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