Structural Characters and Pharmacological Activity of Protopanaxadiol-Type Saponins and Protopanaxatriol-Type Saponins from Ginseng by Lancao Zhang, Xiang Gao, Chunhui Yang, Zuguo Liang, Dongsong Guan, Tongyi Yuan, Wenxiu Qi, Daqing Zhao, Xiangyan Li, Haisi Dong, He Zhang

“…Ginseng has a long history of drug application in China, which can treat various diseases and achieve significant efficacy. …”
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Mortality, Work and Migration. A Consideration of Age-specific Mortality from Tuberculosis in Scotland, 1861-1901 by Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett

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Identification of Behavioral Features of Bridge Structure Based on Static Image Sequences by Guojun Deng, Zhixiang Zhou, Xi Chu, Shuai Shao

“…This paper aims to further enhance the accuracy and efficiency of large bridge structural health monitoring (SHM) through noncontact remote sensing (NRS). …”
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Community Core Evolution in Mobile Social Networks by Hao Xu, Weidong Xiao, Daquan Tang, Jiuyang Tang, Zhenwen Wang

“…Hence, our question is the following: how to cluster the real friends in mobile social networks? In this paper, we study the problem of detecting the stable community core in mobile social networks. …”
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Social Strata Differentials in Reproductive Behavior among Agricultural Families in the Krummhörn Region (East Frisia, 1720-1874) by Kai P. Willführ, Charlotte Störmer

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A Nonintrusive Nonlinear Model Reduction Method for Thermal Cycling-Induced Viscoplastic Deformation Problems Based on Segmented Gaussian Process Regression Machine Learning by Jiunn-Horng Lee, Chia-Hsiu Ou, Chih-Min Yao, Ming-Hsiao Lee

“…Numerical simulation of thermal cycling-induced viscoplastic deformation is important to design a reliable underfilled flip chip package, where the time histories of viscoplastic strains are applied to predict the fatigue life of solder joints. …”
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Orchard: Building large cancer phylogenies using stochastic combinatorial search. by Ethan Kulman, Rui Kuang, Quaid Morris

“…Phylogenies depicting the evolutionary history of genetically heterogeneous subpopulations of cells from the same cancer, i.e., cancer phylogenies, offer valuable insights about cancer development and guide treatment strategies. …”
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Medical Management of Glaucoma in the 21st Century from a Canadian Perspective by Paul Harasymowycz, Catherine Birt, Patrick Gooi, Lisa Heckler, Cindy Hutnik, Delan Jinapriya, Lesya Shuba, David Yan, Radmila Day

“…A discussion of the surgical management is beyond the scope of this paper.…”
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Evaluating Transition Rules for Enhancing Fairness in Bonus–Malus Systems: An Application to the Saudi Arabian Auto Insurance Market by Asrar Alyafie, Corina Constantinescu, Jorge Yslas

“…A Bonus–Malus System (BMS) is a ratemaking mechanism used in insurance to adjust premiums based on a policyholder’s claim history, with the goal of segmenting risk profiles more accurately. …”
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Jan Václav Michna z Vacínova a emblematická výzdoba kostela sv. Jakuba Většího v Kratonohách by Pavel Panoch

“… The paper focuses on the building history, ceiling decoration and furnishings of the St. …”
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τJOWL: A Systematic Approach to Build and Evolve a Temporal OWL 2 Ontology Based on Temporal JSON Big Data by Zouhaier Brahmia, Fabio Grandi, Rafik Bouaziz

“…Furthermore, several applications require bookkeeping of the entire history of big data changes, for which no support is provided by mainstream Big Data management systems, including Not only SQL (NoSQL) database systems. …”
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Culturally responsive pedagogy for the promotion of understanding Mathematics: The case of rural situated primary schools in Post-apartheid South Africa by Zingiswa Jojo

“…The language of instruction, awareness, and creativity are at the centre of the realities faced by both mathematics teachers and learners, shaped by a socio-political history whose impact and legacy transcend generations in South Africa. …”
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Domownik Workbook. A Resource for Shaping Children’s Cultural Identity in Grades I–III by Kinga Lisowska

“…These features guide the pupil towards the knowledge and education of language (linguistic codes), customs (communal celebrations), history (collective memory) and being rooted in religion. …”
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Social norms for population displacements caused by large dams France, 20th century by Armelle Faure

“…However, in the absence of these international social standards, how did population displacements take place in the past? This paper provides a retrospective look in the light of the current "protection policies" developed by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. …”
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English-Polish contrastive grammar at Polish universities by Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld

“…Similarly, it seems that throughout the history of mankind teachers of a foreign language must have realized that a native and foreign tongue can be contrasted. …”
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Truly emergent? A critique of ‘third space’ in cross-cultural context by Michael Begun

“…Whitchurch first describes third space in a 2008 paper as an ‘emerging landscape of activity’ (p. 378) correlative with an ‘emergence of Third Space professionals’ (p. 377) in first world anglophone higher education institutions. …”
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Temporal legacies of coal mining in the West Coast, New Zealand: path-dependency or path-creation? by Sean Connelly, Etienne Nel, Alison Floyd

“…Blackball has a long history of mining, yet it is also a community where the local mines on which the town depended have been closed for 50 years. …”
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Prebiotic Geochemical Automata at the Intersection of Radiolytic Chemistry, Physical Complexity, and Systems Biology by Zachary R. Adam, Albert C. Fahrenbach, Betul Kacar, Masashi Aono

“…The tractable history of life records a successive emergence of organisms composed of hierarchically organized cells and greater degrees of individuation. …”
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The role of the state in shaping and protecting national identity by Bodrožić Đuro

“…In this paper, we are talking about the historical roots of the nation state. …”
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Asymptotical Behavior of the Solution of a SDOF Linear Fractionally Damped Vibration System by Z.H. Wang, M. L. Du

“…Fractional-order derivative has been shown an adequate tool to the study of so-called "anomalous" social and physical behaviors, in reflecting their non-local, frequency- and history-dependent properties, and it has been used to model practical systems in engineering successfully, including the famous Bagley-Torvik equation modeling forced motion of a rigid plate immersed in Newtonian fluid. …”
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