A Cooperative Intermodal Transportation Network Flow Control Method Based on Model Predictive Control by Yuankai Huang, Qicai Zhou, Xiaolei Xiong, Jiong Zhao

“…The research of this paper may throw some new light on intermodal transport research from the perspectives of digitization, multi-role cooperation, dynamic optimization, and system standardization.…”
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Gauguin, Buffalo Bill, and the Cowboy Hat by Nancy Mowll Mathews

“…And in turn it sheds new light on Buffalo Bill himself as we see him through the lens of the French avant-garde art community. …”
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Immunological responses in patients with tuberculosis and in vivo effects of acetyl-L-carnitine oral administration by Emilio Jirillo, Maria Altamura, Carlo Marcuccio, Cosimo Tortorella, Claudio De Simone, Salvatore Antonaci

“…This cytokine plays a detrimental rather than beneficial role in TBC pathogenesis. In the light of these data, ALC seems to be a powerful immunomodulator in the course of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and other mycobacteriosis.…”
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Rising Value of Turkish Foreign Policy: Cultural Diplomacy by Fırat Purtaş

“…Taking into consideration the changes currently occurring in the world, this article dealing with cultural diplomacy aims at shedding a light on the evolution which Turkish diplomacy is going through in terms of its enforcing institutions and practice.…”
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Odour generalisation and detection dog training by Lyn Caldicott, Thomas W. Pike, Helen E. Zulch, Daniel S. Mills, Fiona J. Williams, Kevin R. Elliker, Bethany Hutchings, Anna Wilkinson

“…The primary aim of this review is to explore recent advances in our understanding of generalisation and the factors that influence it, and to consider these in light of detection dog training methods currently used in the field. …”
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Towards Physarum Engines by Soichiro Tsuda, Jeff Jones, Andrew Adamatzky

“…We provide an exemplar vehicle mechanism by coupling the oscillations of the plasmodium to drive the wheels of a Braitenberg vehicle and use light stimuli to effect a steering mechanism. Using a particle model of Physarum we show how emergent travelling wave patterns produced by competing oscillatory domains may be used to to generate spatially represented actuation patterns. …”
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An Update on the Management of Chronic Hepatitis C: 2015 Consensus Guidelines from the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver by Robert P Myers, Hemant Shah, Kelly W Burak, Curtis Cooper, Jordan J Feld

“…Specifically, direct-acting antiviral agents with dramatically improved rates of virological clearance compared with standard therapy have been developed and interferon-free, all-oral antiviral regimens have been approved. In light of this new evidence, an update to the 2012 Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver consensus guidelines on the management of hepatitis C was produced. …”
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On the Age Calibration of Open Clusters Using Red Clump Stars by Abigail R. Chriss, Guy Worthey

“…Current stellar evolutionary isochrones do not quantitatively reproduce the trend and furthermore predict an increased color gap with a decrease in metallicity that is not echoed in the data. Integrated light models based on current isochrones exaggerate the color change over the ​​​​​​−0.5 < [Fe/H] < 0 interval at the few-percent level.…”
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Investigation Performance and Mechanisms of Inverted Polymer Solar Cells by Pentacene Doped P3HT : PCBM by Hsin-Ying Lee, Hung-Lin Huang

“…In addition, the pentacene doping led to an improvement in the crystallinity of the resulting films and made an enhancement in the light absorption, which was partly responsible for the performance improvement of the solar cells. …”
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Drawing the Map: Siting Architecture by Anne Bordeleau, Liana Bresler

“…Bringing these issues to light, the paper explores whether mapping could address temporality with an assumed depth that would re-responsibilize the architect mapmaker while still remaining open to the users' multiple readings in time. …”
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Evidence for the Paleoethnobotany of the Neanderthal: A Review of the Literature by Gerhard P. Shipley, Kelly Kindscher

“…Given that we coexisted and likely interacted with them for thousands of years, the more we learn about them, the better we may understand our own past. In that light, we review the current evidence, derived from such sources as plant remains (e.g., starch, pollen, phytoliths, and seeds) in soil and dental calculus, dental and tool wear, coprolites, and genetics, for Neanderthal’s nutritional, medicinal, and ritual use of plants, which includes 61 different taxa from 26 different plant families found at 17 different archaeological sites. …”
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A New Optical Surface Measurement Method with Iterative Sparsity-Constrained Threshold Phase Retrieval Algorithm by Yi Niu, Yang Liu, Guangming Shi, Dahua Gao, Guo Li

“…To overcome this drawback, we propose a new PROSM method based on spatial light modulator (SLM). The mechanical CCD movement can be replaced by an electrical moderation of SLM patterns; thus the deviation can be significantly suppressed in the new PROSM method. …”
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Fourteen-Year Patency of an Anterior Tibial Artery-Saphenous Vein Fistula in an Ambulatory Patient by Zerrin Pulathan, Gökalp Altun

“…Because this is the only ambulatory patient and the one with the longest patency of ankle arteriovenous fistulas in the literature and the only case in which the anterior tibial artery was used, the case is presented and discussed in light of the literature. Conclusion. Despite many complications and low patency rates reported in the literature, ankle vessels should be considered for autogenous vascular access in selected patients.…”
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Texture Analysis and Classification using Local Binary Patterns and Statistical Features by Hasan Maher

“…LBP is famous for finding out the local texture descriptors by comparing the pixel intensities it deals with and can challenge light variations and image transformations. On the other hand, there is HOG which emphasizes edge and gradient information to detect the orientation and shape of a texture in a given image. …”
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BABESIOSIS IN HUMANS by Zornitsa Traykova

“…Diagnosis is primarily based on light microscopy and PCR testing, while serological methods are more appropriate for epidemiological studies. …”
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Challenges of implementing AI marketing in e-commerce businesses in North Macedonia by Gjorgjina Sherovska

“…The primary goal is to meticulously investigate the distinctive challenges confronted by North Macedonian e-commerce enterprises when adopting AI marketing. The study sheds light on intricacies related to technological integration, resource limitations, and the dynamic interplay between consumer expectations and AI-driven marketing initiatives. …”
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Robot Closed-Loop Grasping Based on Deep Visual Servoing Feature Network by Junqi Luo, Zhen Zhang, Yuangan Wang, Ruiyang Feng

“…Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a mean average precision (mAP) of 0.80 and 0.87 for detecting target bounding boxes and point features, respectively, in scenarios with significant lighting variations and occlusions. Under low-light and partial occlusion conditions, the method achieves an average grasping success rate approximately 80%.…”
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Mystery of superconductivity in FeTe films and the role of neighboring layers by Xiong Yao, Hee Taek Yi, Deepti Jain, Xiaoyu Yuan, Seongshik Oh

“…This work provides insights into the underlying mechanism behind superconductivity in FeTe films and sheds light on the critical role of neighboring layers and stoichiometry control toward manipulating topological superconductivity in FeTe heterostructures.…”
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DESCARTES VE SPİNOZA DÜŞÜNCESİNDE GERÇEK İYİ KAVRAMI by Nurten Gökalp

“…According to Descartes, the highest good which is the final aim of ethics is related with the visdom. To him, in the light of reason we can build a structure of knowledge. …”
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Macro/Microtesting and Damage and Degradation of Sandstones under Dry-Wet Cycles by Xinrong Liu, Zijuan Wang, Yan Fu, Wen Yuan, Luli Miao

“…In terms of the degradation of mechanical parameters of rock mass in the hydrofluctuation belt of a reservoir bank slope arising from rainfall and the reservoir level fluctuation, the moderately weathered sandstone in a side slope of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region is selected as a research object to carry out “drying-saturation-drying” tests for disks with two thicknesses (h=25 mm, h=50 mm) in different cycles; a spiral CT machine, an ultrasonic velocity meter, and a light Schmidt hammer are utilzed to conduct nondestructive testing on dry-wet cycles; through the Brazilian splitting test, the uniaxial tensile strength of “dry” and “saturated” sandstones under different dry-wet cycles is obtained. …”
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