Assessment of a Planned Municipal Solid Waste Management System in Sri Lanka by Disna Eheliyagoda, Nimal Prematilake

“…Most of these local administrations are directly dumping Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) to an open dumping site, this manner of inappropriate disposal of MSW is become a major threat to the environment and public health in developing countries like Sri Lanka. …”
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Optimal Insurance Indemnity for the Insured with Low Risk Tolerance by Jiesong Zhang, Cailing Li

“…Hence, we establish a corresponding insurance model in which the insured’s initial wealth is designed in such a manner that it only needs to cover the premium. Further, the model considers an introduced risk level that is less than the maximal possible loss. …”
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Scatter and Blurring Compensation in Inhomogeneous Media Using a Postprocessing Method by Yan Yan, Gengsheng L. Zeng

“…This method also offers an alternative to compensate for scatter and blurring in a more time efficient manner compared to the popular iterative methods. …”
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Pattern-Based Test Suite Reduction Method for Smart Contracts by Tomasz Górski

“…The article presents the test suite reduction method for smart contracts, which exploits the knowledge of their design manner. In particular, the design of a mechanism for evaluating the list of verification rules controlling the execution of transactions was used. …”
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Development prospects for production of filtration equipment in the Russian Federation at the present stage by S. S. Gordeev

“…The article provides a statistical analysis of the indicators of the Russian filtration sector and analyses the applied filtration and separation methods in a comparative manner. To determine the prospects of companies producing the corresponding equipment and its individual structural elements, the method of situational analysis was used, with the help of which the features of products manufactured at the present stage that influence the development of business in this economic segment are identified. …”
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La résurgence/convergence du triptyque « catastrophe-résilience-adaptation » pour (re)penser la « fabrique urbaine » face aux risques climatiques by Béatrice Quenault

“…Secondly, considering the actual uses and meanings of resilience, this article interrogates the operational feature of this concept to re-think about the “urban fabric” in an integrated manner with the climate risks prevention. Finally, it aims to clarify why planned adaptation strategies aimed at reducing vulnerabilities and enhancing proactive resilience of cities, that have progressively become in both academic and institutional discourses a key feature, and even a tipping point, for urban sustainable development pathways, can revealed to be ambiguous.…”
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An Enhanced -Means Clustering Algorithm for Pattern Discovery in Healthcare Data by Ramzi A. Haraty, Mohamad Dimishkieh, Mehedi Masud

“…Our experimental results, which were used in an increasing manner on the same dataset, show that G -means outperforms k -means in terms of entropy and F -scores. …”
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Role of C5 Activation Products in Sepsis by Peter A. Ward

“…C5a reacts with its receptors C5aR and C5L2 in a manner that creates the “cytokine storm”, and is associated with development of multiorgan failure (MOF). …”
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Function of nodal cilia in left-right determination: Mechanical regulation in initiation of symmetry breaking by Takanobu A. Katoh

“…Immotile cilia at the periphery of the node mechanically sense the direction of leftward nodal flow in a manner dependent on the polarized localization of Pkd2, which is localized on the dorsal side of cilia. …”
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An Unsupervised Deep Learning Framework for Retrospective Gating of Catheter-Based Cardiac Imaging by Zheng Sun, Yue Yao, Ru Wang

“…The network was trained on clinical data sets in an unsupervised manner, addressing the difficulty of obtaining the gold standard in deep learning-based motion suppression techniques. …”
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SUSTAINABLE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE HUMAN RESOURCE RISK REDUCTION by Azra Ahmić, Selma Smajlović

“…The true objective of this paper was to discover if shaping human resource management in a sustainable manner (with long-term perspective) leads to human resource risk reduction. …”
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Revelation of ZnS Nanoparticles Induces Follicular Atresia and Apoptosis in the Ovarian Preovulatory Follicles in the Catfish Mystus tengara (Hamilton, 1822) by Nilanjana Chatterjee, Baibaswata Bhattacharjee

“…Important physicochemical characteristics of water like dissolved oxygen content, pH, and so forth were found to change in a dose dependent manner, showing a negative correlation with the nanoparticle concentration, when ZnS nanoparticle (NP) was exposed to water. …”
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Gust Mitigation of Micro Air Vehicles Using Passive Articulated Wings by Adetunji Oduyela, Nathan Slegers

“…Birds and insects naturally use passive flexing of their wings to augment their stability in uncertain aerodynamic environments. In a similar manner, micro air vehicle designers have been investigating using wing articulation to take advantage of this phenomenon. …”
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Application of marketing tools in establishing loyalty in customers of PEKAO S.A. BANK 1st Branch in Rzeszów by Wiesław Szopiński

“…The conducted empirical studies allowed to identify marketing tools and manner of its use which would determine a proper condition of services at the Bank, in comparison to the competition. …”
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An Intelligent Framework for Website Usability by Alexiei Dingli, Sarah Cassar

“…As a means of addressing this problem, an Intelligent Usability Evaluation (IUE) tool is proposed that automates the usability evaluation process by employing a Heuristic Evaluation technique in an intelligent manner through the adoption of several research-based AI methods. …”
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Des enfants acteurs de leur vie ? Représentations des enfants par les adultes et conséquences sur leur modèle d’autonomie by Julie Delalande

“…Social actors give different answers to these questions according to their values that lead their behaviors and that suggest different manners to integrate the child into a social group. …”
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Deception defense method against intelligent penetration attack by Jinyin CHEN, Shulong HU, Changyou XING, Guomin ZHANG

“…The intelligent penetration attack based on reinforcement learning aims to model the penetration process as a Markov decision process, and train the attacker to optimize the penetration path in a trial-and-error manner, so as to achieve strong attack performance.In order to prevent intelligent penetration attacks from being maliciously exploited, a deception defense method for intelligent penetration attack based on reinforcement learning was proposed.Firstly, obtaining the necessary information for the attacker to construct the penetration model, which included state, action and reward.Secondly, conducting deception defense against the attacker through inverting the state dimension, disrupting the action generation, and flipping the reward value sign, respectively, which corresponded to the early, middle and final stages of the penetration attack.At last, the three-stage defense comparison experiments were carried out in the same network environment.The results show that the proposed method can effectively reduce the success rate of intelligent penetration attacks based on reinforcement learning.Besides, the deception method that disrupts the action generation of the attacker can reduce the penetration attack success rate to 0 when the interference ratio is 20%.…”
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Novel Therapies for Aggressive B-Cell Lymphoma by Kenneth A. Foon, Kenichi Takeshita, Pier L. Zinzani

“…Increased understanding of the molecular features of aggressive BCL has led to the development of a range of novel therapies, many of which target the tumor in a tailored manner and are summarized in this paper.…”
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A System for Sentiment Analysis of Colloquial Arabic Using Human Computation by Afnan S. Al-Subaihin, Hend S. Al-Khalifa

“…The first component is a game that enables users to annotate large corpuses of text in a fun manner. The game produces necessary linguistic resources that will be used by the second component which is the sentimental analyzer. …”
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A Hybrid OFDM-TDM Architecture with Decentralized Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for PONs by Taner Cevik

“…This information is fed to the bandwidth determination algorithm which is run by each ONU in a distributed manner. Furthermore, Light Load Penalty, which is a phenomenon in optical communications, is mitigated by limiting the amount of bandwidth that an ONU can demand.…”
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