School of Spanish by V. A. Iovenko

“…Spanish language was among foreign languages, studied at MGIMO from its inception. Maria Luisa Gonzalez Vincens was at the origin of the establishment of the School of Spanish language at MGIMO. …”
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Subjects of law and their representation: Historical review by Prelević-Plavšić Snežana, Spasojević Đorđe

“…Representation as a legal institute that allows a representative to express the will of the represented within the limits of the given authorization, which directly binds the represented, was first defined by the German Civil Code of 1896. Since its inception, law has been a reflection of the development of society. …”
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Intelligent Image Recognition System for Marine Fouling Using Softmax Transfer Learning and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks by C. S. Chin, JianTing Si, A. S. Clare, Maode Ma

“…Transfer learning using Google’s Inception V3 model with Softmax at last layer was carried out on a fouling database of 10 categories and 1825 images. …”
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“‘From different books we must ask different qualities’: The Essay as Public or Private Space in the Yale Review and Common Reader versions of Virginia Woolf’s ‘How Should One Read... by Xavier LE BRUN

“…Critics, including Andrew McNeillie and Beth Rigel Daugherty, have traced its inception in a lecture given by Woolf in 1926 and documented the successive revisions undergone by the text. …”
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Evaluation of Natural Image Generation and Reconstruction Capabilities Based on the β-VAE Model by Zhang Honghao

“…Train the model on the CelebA dataset, using three metrics: Mean Squared Error (MSE), Structural Similarity Index (SSIM), and Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) for matrix evaluation, to analyze the generation quality and reconstruction capability of each model. …”
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Pastoral care and counselling in current times: Relevance and context of care by Glenda A. Dames, Gordon E. Dames

“…Since the inception of the Pastoral Care Movement, the approach to pastoral care has evolved from the traditional shepherd model to a more clinical, client-centred method. …”
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The rise and fall of promises: a preliminary method to trace promises in science and technology by Stefan D. M. Gaillard, Sanda Hachana

“…Nanoscience has faced several scandals since its inception, with Theranos being the most recent. This scandal resulted from continuous overpromises and deceptive promises, practices not uncommon in science. …”
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Character Adrift (on the Sea of Language): Robinson Crusoe, Foe, Elizabeth Costello, and the Shipwreck of Realism by James CORBY

“…The discussion commences with Robinson Crusoe, positing that “drift” has been an inherent characteristic of literary characters since the inception of the novelistic tradition. The article then delves into Coetzee's nuanced narrative style, demonstrating how his characters, adrift on a sea of language and symbolism, strive to maintain their authentic existence against the encroaching tide of linguistic abstraction. …”
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From the Internet of Things to the Objectification of the Human Being: Sociopolitical Construction of Technology and a Critique of Society 5.0 by Cahit Bağcı

“…This announcement discussed the organic bond between Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0; the goals of Society 5.0; the aspects affecting, changing, and transforming individuals and society within this framework; the new relationship networks and cultural elements; and their impact on values and meaning, individualization, and objectification of the individual. Since the inception of the idea of panopticon, the control, inspection, and surveillance of public and social order have been treated as a culturally romantic and engineering critique of technology in the connection of the power-individual relationship. …”
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L’engagement collectif des femmes : de l’expérience militante à l’institutionnalisation, l’exemple du Centre rennais d’information des femmes (1976-1982) by Blandine Lefierdebras

“…In this context, this group of women twice had to make decisions with regards to the different possibilities on offer, first at the inception of the project, when the question arose of whether to turn their group into a CIF, and then again, from 1981 onwards, on whether to become a CIDF (Centre d’information des droits des femmes). …”
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Necessary and sufficient conditions for the BRI success by Yongjun Chen, Chenglong Guo

“…We begin with an introduction to the connotations of the BRI and a review of the initiative's main achievements since its inception. From these achievements, we identify the existence of a potential match between supply and demand in jointly building the BRI to be the foremost necessary condition for win–win cooperation for participating countries. …”
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Histopathological domain adaptation with generative adversarial networks: Bridging the domain gap between thyroid cancer histopathology datasets. by William Dee, Rana Alaaeldin Ibrahim, Eirini Marouli

“…Utilizing a StyleGAN2 approach, the generative network produced images with an Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) score of 5.05, matching state-of-the-art GAN results in non-medical domains with comparable dataset sizes. …”
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Small Bowel Obstruction due to Migrated Intragastric Balloon: A Case Report and Literature Review by Min Yien Tan, Kar Yin Fok, Huong Nguyen, Senarath Edirimanne, Michael Devadas

“…Endoscopic intragastric balloons (IGB) have gained popularity since its inception three decades ago and is viewed as a less invasive alternative to bariatric surgery. …”
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Dual Convolution Neural Networks of Ensemble Learning with Attention Mechanism for Rice Classification by Cheng Linfeng

“…The ensemble model in this article combines two deep models, InceptionNet and ResNet, and incorporates self-attention block method to construct an attention mechanism that uses multi head attention layers to capture relationships in the input. …”
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Long-term outcome in people who use drugs successfully treated for hepatitis C infection with glecaprevir/pibrentasvir by Shana Yi, David Truong, Brian Conway

“…Results: Of the 108 individuals making up the inception cohort for this analysis, all chose to remain in care at the VIDC. …”
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Intravenous amino acids for kidney protection in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Malik Waleed Zeb Khan, Aizaz Ali, Amna Hussain, Aban Masaud Mian, Abdul Moeez, Waqas Inayat, Bushra Noor, Izhar Ali Shah, Muhammad Osama, Bushra Khan, Muhammad Sajid, Touba Azeem, Mohammad Ebad Ur Rehman, Ashraf Ali, Ubaid Khan Afridi

“…Methods PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases were systematically searched for all relevant randomised controlled trials (RCTs) published from inception to July 25, 2024. A random effects model was used to pool the risk ratios (RR) for dichotomous outcomes, and the combined data was visually represented using forest plots. …”
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The growing challenge of autism spectrum disorder: a comprehensive review of etiology, diagnosis, and therapy in children by Chunyuan Wang, Hong Wang

“…We searched for potentially relevant studies in three databases (Web of Science, PubMed and CINAHL) from inception until March 2024. In addition, we manually searched the bibliographies of the included studies to find articles that might otherwise have been missed. …”
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Analysis of Geometries' Effects on Rotating Stall in Vaneless Diffuser with Wavelet Neural Networks by Chuang Gao, Chuangang Gu, Tong Wang, Bo Yang

“…With the trained WNN, detailed investigation was carried out mainly to understand the effects of impeller blade number, blade-exit angle, impeller rotating speed, diffuser radius ratio, and width ratio on stall inception and cell speed of vaneless diffuser. Network results clearly show the existence of distinct stall mechanisms for narrow and wide diffusers, which also make different responses to variation of the above- mentioned parameters.…”
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Pioneering case: Robotic single port (SP) transvaginal NOTES (RSP-vNOTES) for hysterectomy in ten steps by Xiaoming Guan, Daniel Lovell, Emily Sendukas

“…Transvaginal Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) has become popular since its inception in 2012, offering advantages by combining vaginal surgery principles with laparoscopic instruments for procedures like hysterectomy and myomectomy. …”
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Centre-periphery circulation patterns in Ghana’s print media landscape: exploring the underlying determinants by Jacob Nyarko

“… After 202 years (1822‒2024) of its inception in the then Gold Coast, now Ghana, and witnessing an unprecedented upsurge in publication since 1992, the circulation of print media appears unevenly distributed between the centre (capital) and the peripheries. …”
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