Modeling evolution and persistence of neurological viral diseases in wild populations by Dobromir T. Dimitrov, Aaron A. King

“…Viral infections are one of the leading source of mortality worldwide.The great majority of them circulate and persist in wild reservoirs and periodically spill over into humans or domestic animals.In the wild reservoirs, the progression of disease is frequently quite different from that in spillover hosts.We propose a mathematical treatment of the dynamics of viral infections in wild mammals using models with alternative outcomes.We develop and analyze compartmental epizootic models assuming permanent or temporary immunity of the individuals surviving infections and apply them to rabies in bats.We identify parameter relations that support the existing patterns in the viral ecology and estimate those parameters that are unattainable through direct measurement.We also investigate how the duration of the acquired immunity affects the disease and population dynamics.…”
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Credit Risk Contagion in an Evolving Network Model Integrating Spillover Effects and Behavioral Interventions by Tingqiang Chen, Binqing Xiao, Haifei Liu

“…It also provides a theoretical framework for considering credit risk contagion in an evolving network context, which is greatly relevant for credit risk management.…”
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A Sparsity Preestimated Adaptive Matching Pursuit Algorithm by Xinhe Zhang, Yufeng Liu, Xin Wang

“…The method reconstructs the signal from the preestimated sparsity, which reduces the number of iterations and greatly speeds up the run efficiency.…”
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The Influence of Three Statistical Variables on Self-Similarity in Complex Networks by Mingli Lei, Lirong Liu, Daijun Wei

“…The results reveal that the nodes with large degree and betweenness have great effects on self-similarity, and the influence of coreness on self-similarity is small.…”
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The Formation and Development of Foreign Sociology of Higher Education: A Review by G. E. Zborovsky, P. A. Ambarova

“…The choice of the research object was determined by the real achievements of national higher education systems and a high level of higher school sociology development in USA, Great Britain, France, Scandinavian countries, and Spain. …”
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Simulation Investigation on Flame Retardancy of the PVAc/ATP Nanocomposite by Su Qiong, Wang Yanbin, Liu Li, Liang Junxi

“…Moreover, in our simulations, the temperature can induce a significant impact on the interaction of the PVAc/ATP nanocomposite, in which the prominent combination between PVAc and ATP could be greatly promoted at 350 K.…”
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Online Courses in the Context of Inclusive Education by N. V. Grechushkina

“…Online courses may be viewed as a resource of inclusive education since they have great potential for educational process organization and implementation for the learners with special educational needs – subjects of inclusion. …”
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Low-Complexity Decoding Algorithms for Distributed Space-Time Coded Regenerative Relay Systems by Chao Zhang, Huarui Yin

“…Simulation results show that error aware decoders can improve system performance greatly without high system overload and Max-Log decoder and Max-Log-Sphere decoder can drastically reduce the decoding complexity with negligible performance degradation.…”
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De novo transcriptome assembly of the Perna viridis: A novel invertebrate model for ecotoxicological studies by V. G. Vysakh, Sandhya Sukumaran, Gopalakrishnan A.

“…Several databases were employed in the annotation process. This dataset greatly expands the omics resources of bivalve databases and advances our knowledge of transcriptomics, molecular biology, environmental toxicology, and cancer research.…”
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Optical imaging guidance in oncologic surgery and interventional oncology by Yiming Liu, Karim Valji, Wayne Monsky, Chuansheng Zheng, Xiaoming Yang

“…The introduction of advanced optical dyes (including FDA-approved agents like indocyanine green, Cytalux, and Gleolan) has greatly enhanced its clinical utility. OI has shown clear benefits in the management of patients with cancer, originally by open surgery and now extending to minimally invasive, image-guided interventional procedures. …”
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On the Singular Spectrum of the Radiation Operator for Multiple and Extended Observation Domains by Raffaele Solimene, Maria Antonia Maisto, Giuseppe Romeo, Rocco Pierri

“…The problem of studying how spatial diversity impacts on the spectrum (singular values) of the radiation operator is addressed. This topic is of great importance because of its connection with the so-called number of degrees of freedom concept which in turn is a key parameter in inverse source problems as well as to the problem of transmitting information by waves from a source domain to an observation domain. …”
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Generalized Reich–Ćirić–Rus-Type and Kannan-Type Contractions in Cone b-Metric Spaces over Banach Algebras by Yan Han, Shaoyuan Xu

“…At last, we prove that the completeness of cone b-metric spaces over Banach algebras is necessary if the generalized Kannan-type contraction has a fixed point in X. Our results greatly extend several important results in the literature. …”
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Effect of Several Naja atra Antivenom Injection Methods on the Rabbit Model of Naja naja atra Bite Poisoning by Jie Yang, Jin-Cheng Li, Zhou Huang, Dong-Ling Huang, Fan Wang, Wan-Xia Wei, Ji-Fei Nong, Feng Yang, Xue-Ling Lu, Jun-Rong Zhu, Wei Wang

“…Currently, the main therapy is the administration of Naja atra antivenom, which greatly reduces mortality. However, the antivenom is not particularly effective in the improvement of local tissue necrosis. …”
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The Quality Control of Tea by Near-Infrared Reflectance (NIR) Spectroscopy and Chemometrics by Ming-Zhi Zhu, Beibei Wen, Hao Wu, Juan Li, Haiyan Lin, Qin Li, Yinhua Li, Jianan Huang, Zhonghua Liu

“…Concern of variability in tea quality is increasing among consumers. It is of great significance to control quality for commercialized tea products. …”
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A Group Mining Method for Big Data on Distributed Vehicle Trajectories in WAN by Jie Yang, Xiaoping Li, Dandan Wang, Jia Wang

“…The intermediates are sent to the central node and clusters are generated adaptively. The great overhead of transferring big volume data is avoided by MCR-ACA, which improves the computing efficiency and guarantees the correctness of clustering. …”
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YOLOv3-A: a traffic sign detection network based on attention mechanism by Fan GUO, Yongxiang ZHANG, Jin TANG, Weiqing LI

“…To solve the problem that the existing YOLOv3 algorithm had more false detections and missed detections for traffic sign detection task with small target problems and complex background, based on the YOLOv3, a channel attention method for target detection and a spatial attention method based on semantic segmentation guidance were proposed to form the YOLOv3-A (attention) algorithm.The detection features in the channel and spatial dimensions were recalibrated, allowing the network to focus and enhance the effective features, and suppress interference features, which greatly improved the detection performance.Experiments on the TT100K traffic sign data set show that the algorithm improves the detection performance of small targets, and the accuracy and recall rate of the YOLOv3 are improved by 1.9% and 2.8% respectively.…”
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Current Status of the Open Abdomen Treatment for Intra-Abdominal Infection by Yujie Yuan, Jianan Ren, Yulong He

“…However, its application in patients with intra-abdominal infection still presents great challenges due to critical complications and poor clinical outcomes. …”
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Analysis for Stiffness Characteristic of Machine Tool Spindle Bearing Under Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication Condition by Hao Yu, Dongchen Qin, Jiangyi Chen, Feng Yuan

“…The stiffness characteristics of cylindrical roller bearings will have great impact on the dynamic performance of machine tools. …”
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Dynamics Modeling and Simulation of Gear Transmission System of Shift Mechanism for 4WD Transfer Case by Gao Yangyang, He Feng, Zhang Yongde, Li Jiajun, Guo Chaolun, Huang Wei

“…There is a great significance to study the dynamics characteristics of gear transmission system and analyze the vibrational mechanism in the gear transmission of shift mechanism for 4 WD transfer case.Through building the pure torsion dynamics model of the three-stage planetary gears and two-stage cylindrical spur gears,and based on the torsional vibration method,the multi-body dynamics simulation model of the shift mechanism is established on the LMS Virtual. …”
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« La vision d’un monde marquée par les pratiques locales » au prisme du roman policier – entre « villes » et « campagnes » by Daisuke Fukunishi

“…Crime fiction and ethnography have a great deal in common. They originated at the same time, while the regional focus in both fields has shifted over time from the “city” to the “countryside”. …”
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