Efficacy of the Protocol for Trauma Team Activation in Taipei: A Retrospective Study by Wan-Lin Chen, Ju-Chi Ou, Shih-Yu Ko, Wen-Ching Li, Hon-Ping Ma

“…Conclusion: The Taipei prehospital field triage guidelines are acceptable but not an ideal tool for identifying patients with major trauma, with an overtriage rate of 48.12% and an undertriage rate of 12.03%. …”
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Investigative journalism as a democratic practice: a Mail & Guardian case study (2002-2003) by Corrie Faure

“…By giving a theoretical foundation and by using a case study, the author shows that investigative journalism plays an important role in furthering democratic ideals and in bringing about change in society …”
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a-minimal sets and related topics in transformation semigroups (I) by Masoud Sabbaghan, Fatemah Ayatollah Zadeh Shirazi

“…We deal with a-minimal sets instead of minimal right ideals of the enveloping semigroup and obtain a partition of disjoint isomorphic subgroups of some of its subsets. …”
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Two New Families of Floating FDNR Circuits by Ahmed M. Soliman, Ramy A. Saad

“…Two new configurations for realizing ideal floating frequency-dependent negative resistor elements (FDNR) are introduced. …”
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Simultaneous Acute Cholecystitis and Acute Appendicitis Treated by a Single Laparoscopic Operation by Jonas P. DeMuro

“…The laparoscopic approach is ideal for dealing with multiple, simultaenous abdominal pathologies.…”
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Laceration of the Iliac Vein in a Patient with a Femoral Catheter for Hemodialysis by Radojica V. Stolic, Sanja P. Milojevic

“…Although catheters are an ideal therapeutic treatment for all patients who need hemodialysis, their placement, use may be followed by certain complications. …”
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Quarkyonic solution to the hyperon puzzle by Fujimoto Yuki, Kojo Toru, McLerran Larry

“…We illustrate this effect by using the ideal dual Quarkyonic (IdylliQ) model with multiple flavors.…”
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MODUS VIVENDI: TRADITION IN TRANSITION, SHIFTING LANDSCAPE OF PESANTREN, AND RATIONALITY ON INDUSTRIALIZED COMMUNITIES by Imron Mustofa, Abd. Hadi, Bassam Abul A’la

“…Similarly, spiritual ideals, mental patterns, and social attitudes interact and change as a logical result of everyday exposure to modern values.…”
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Ambivalent and Contradictory: Victorian Architects’ Responses to Technology by Richard W. Hayes

“…Godwin navigated the competing demands of modern technology and an idealized historical past in their practices. Scott’s design for the Midland Grand Hotel at St. …”
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Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City Idea and the Ideology of Industrialism by Jean-Yves Tizot

“…A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898) Ebenezer Howard proposed a blueprint for an ideal society, in which he formulated his solution to the ‘Land question’—roughly speaking, the conjoined phenomena of the overcrowding of towns and cities, and the so-called ‘rural exodus’. …”
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A Second Preimage Attack on the XOR Hash Combiner by Shiwei Chen, Ting Cui, Chenhui Jin, Congjun Wang

“…In this work, we analyze the second preimage resistance of the XOR combiner underlying two different narrow-pipe hash functions with weak ideal compression functions. To control simultaneously the behavior of the two different hash functions, we develop a new structure called multicollision-and-double-diamond. …”
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An Integrated Multiattribute Group Decision-Making Approach for Risk Assessment in Aviation Emergency Rescue by Xia Wang, Xue-dong Liang, Xiao-yan Li, Peng Luo

“…Then, based on the traditional technique for order preference by similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS) method, we improve the definition express of ideal solution and the standardized formula of indexes, thereby providing a consensus-based improved TOPSIS method to compute the evaluation matrix for risk assessment. …”
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Model for Fulfilling the Right to Work for Persons with Disabilities as an Effort to Protect the Law by darmawati Asriadi, Asriadi Zainuddin

“…The purpose of this study is to find out and analyze the implementation of the fulfillment of work for people with disabilities in Gorontalo Province and find the ideal concept of fulfilling the right to work for people with disabilities. …”
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Superconducting Properties of 3D Low-Density Translation-Invariant Bipolaron Gas by V. D. Lakhno

“…The critical temperature of transition, energy, heat capacity, and the transition heat of ideal TI-bipolaron gas are calculated. The results obtained are used to explain experiments on high-temperature superconductors.…”
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On a generalization of the corona problem by Graziano Gentili, Daniele C. Struppa

“…We provide conditions on f1,…,fm in order that |g(z)|≤|f1(z)|+…+|fm(z)|, for all z in Δ, imply that g, or g2, belong to the ideal generated by f1,…,fm in H∞.…”
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Layer ensemble averaging for fault tolerance in memristive neural networks by Osama Yousuf, Brian D. Hoskins, Karthick Ramu, Mitchell Fream, William A. Borders, Advait Madhavan, Matthew W. Daniels, Andrew Dienstfrey, Jabez J. McClelland, Martin Lueker-Boden, Gina C. Adam

“…In-memory computing architectures using memristor devices offer promise but face challenges due to hardware non-idealities. This work proposes layer ensemble averaging—a hardware-oriented fault tolerance scheme for improving inference performance of non-ideal memristive neural networks programmed with pre-trained solutions. …”
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Ranking Analysis for Online Customer Reviews of Products Using Opinion Mining with Clustering by S. K. Lakshmanaprabu, K. Shankar, Deepak Gupta, Ashish Khanna, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Plácido R. Pinheiro, Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque

“…Also, the novelty of this work—the Dragonfly Algorithm (DA)—recognizes ideal features of the items in sites, and an advanced ideal feature-based positioning procedure will be directed to discover, at long last, which web-based business webpage is best and easy to understand. …”
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“Pachamamista” Discourses versus Development Policies: The Debate over Sumak Kawsay in the Andes by Andreu Viola Recasens

“…In this article, a critical review is presented in terms of the proposal for sumac kawsay, suma qamaña, or good living (buen vivir), highlighting its conceptual indefinition, the idealized conception of Andean rural world in which it seems to be inspired and its of coherence with the macroeconomic policies promoted to-date by the Bolivian and Ecuadorian governments.…”
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The interrelation of students’ ideas about fatherhood with gender, age and structure of valuable orientations by S. V. Merzlyakova, M. G. Golubeva, N. V. Bibarsova

“…The interrelation of ideas about fatherhood (“ideal father”, “I am an expectant father”) with gender, age, and structure of valuable orientations of modern students is revealed. …”
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A Review of Needle Navigation Technologies in Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgeries—Toward a More Effective and Easy-to-Apply Process by Katharina Steeg, Gabriele Anja Krombach, Michael Horst Friebe

“…<b>Background:</b> This review evaluates needle navigation technologies in minimally invasive cardiovascular surgery (MICS), identifying their strengths and limitations and the requirements for an ideal needle navigation system that features optimal guidance and easy adoption in clinical practice. …”
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