The Review of Policy Instruments Stimulating Circular Economy: A Case Study of Poland by Agnieszka Karman

“…We argue that a comprehensive character of support is required. This denotes the need for new, tailor-made policy instruments to be introduced. …”
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Generalized H-fold sumset and Subsequence sum by Mohan, Pandey, Ram Krishna

“…The generalized $H$-fold sumset, denoted by $H^{(r)}A$, is the union of the sumsets $h^{(r)}A$ for $h\in H$ where, the sumset $h^{(r)}A$ is the set of all integers that can be represented as a sum of $h$ elements from $A$ with no summand in the representation appearing more than $r$ times. …”
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The Promise of Cultural Diplomacy by Hedda Krausz Sjögren, Kristina Hagström-Ståhl

“…We use a combination of personal and collective pronouns throughout this article to place emphasis on our reflections; the use of personal pronouns denotes Krausz Sjögren’s reflections. We aim to share a sense of the possible impact of work dedicated to democracy, freedom of expression, and gender inclusion. …”
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Beware of failure of early pregnancy induction – An incidental discovery of an undiagnosed bicornuate uterus at laparotomy by Rajasri G Yaliwal, Aruna M. Biradar, Laxmi Sangolli, Rakshitha Raghavendra

“…A bicornuate uterus is a term used to denote a set of congenital Mullerian anomalies that are a result of incomplete fusion of the uterovaginal horns during the development of the female genital tract at the level of the fundus. …”
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On-Bond Incident Degree Indices of Square-Hexagonal Chains by Tariq A. Alraqad, Hicham Saber, Akbar Ali, Jaya Percival Mazorodze

“…For a graph G, its bond incident degree (BID) index is defined as the sum of the contributions fdu,dv over all edges uv of G, where dw denotes the degree of a vertex w of G and f is a real-valued symmetric function. …”
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The p-Adic Valuations of Sums of Binomial Coefficients by Yong Zhang, Peisen Yuan

“…Also, for any n∈ℤ+, we have νp∑k=0n−1hn−1k2kk−h/2k≥νpn, where νpn denotes the p-adic order of n. For any integer m≡0modp and positive integer n, we have 1/pn∑k=0pn−1pn−1k2kk/−mk−mm−4/p∑k=0n−1n−1k2kk/−mk∈ℤp, where −˙ is the Legendre symbol and ℤp is the ring of p-adic integers.…”
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On incidence algebras and directed graphs by Ancykutty Joseph

“…So in this paper, we define an incidence algebra I(G,ℤ) for (G,≤) over ℤ, the ring of integers, by I(G,ℤ)={fi,fi*:V×V→ℤ} where fi(u,v) denotes the number of directed paths of length i from u to v and fi*(u,v)=−fi(u,v). …”
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On the Maximum Symmetric Division Deg Index of k-Cyclic Graphs by Abeer M. Albalahi, Akbar Ali

“…Let G be a graph. Denote by du, the degree of a vertex u of G and represent by vw, the edge of G with the end-vertices v and w. …”
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On a Class of Abstract Time-Fractional Equations on Locally Convex Spaces by Marko Kostić, Cheng-Gang Li, Miao Li

“…,An−1 are closed linear operators on a sequentially complete locally convex space E,0≤α1<⋯<αn, 0≤α<αn, f(t) is an E-valued function, and Dtα denotes the Caputo fractional derivative of order α (Bazhlekova (2001)). …”
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Synthesis of Cr(III)-Morin Complex: Characterization and Antioxidant Study by Qadeer K. Panhwar, Shahabuddin Memon

“…Likewise, 1H NMR studies clarify that Cr(III) metal ion replaces the 5OH proton hence; 5-hydroxy-4-keto site is employed by morin in chelation to form six-membered stable ring system out of three available chelating sites. In addition, TG-DTA denotes the presence of coordinated and crystalline water molecules. …”
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Exact makespan minimization of unrelated parallel machines by Åblad, Edvin, Strömberg, Ann-Brith, Spensieri, Domenico

“…We study methods for the exact solution of the unrelated parallel machine problem with makespan minimization, generally denoted as $R||C_\text{max}$. Our original application arises from the automotive assembly process where tasks needs to be distributed among several robots. …”
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Induced Maps on Matrices over Fields by Li Yang, Xuezhi Ben, Ming Zhang, Chongguang Cao

“…Suppose that 𝔽 is a field and m,n≥3 are integers. Denote by Mmn(𝔽) the set of all m×n matrices over 𝔽 and by Mn(𝔽) the set Mnn(𝔽). …”
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Clinical Course of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Pediatric Patients by Segundo Moisés San Lucas Coque, Sareli Anahi Aguilar Armendariz, Juan Diego Galarza López

“…The limitation of the spread of the infection is denoted mainly by hygiene control. Therefore, the implementation of good hygienic habits in hospitals and childcare centers can prevent infectious diseases caused by opportunistic pathogenic microorganisms.…”
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Brain-derived tau oligomer polymorphs: distinct aggregations, stability profiles, and biological activities by Filippa Lo Cascio, Suhyeorn Park, Urmi Sengupta, Nicha Puangmalai, Nemil Bhatt, Nikita Shchankin, Cynthia Jerez, Naomi Moreno, Alice Bittar, Rhea Xavier, Yingxin Zhao, Cankun Wang, Hongjun Fu, Qin Ma, Mauro Montalbano, Rakez Kayed

“…Furthermore, different diseases are shown to have distinct structural characteristics of aggregated tau, denoted as polymorphs. Here, we investigate the structural and functional differences of amplified brain-derived tau oligomers (aBDTOs) from AD, DLB, and PSP. …”
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Existence of Concave Positive Solutions for Boundary Value Problem of Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equation with p-Laplacian Operator by Jinhua Wang, Hongjun Xiang, ZhiGang Liu

“…We consider the existence and multiplicity of concave positive solutions for boundary value problem of nonlinear fractional differential equation with p-Laplacian operator D0+γ(ϕp(D0+αu(t)))+f(t,u(t),D0+ρu(t))=0, 0<t<1, u(0)=u′(1)=0, u′′(0)=0, D0+αu(t)|t=0=0, where 0<γ<1, 2<α<3, 0<ρ⩽1, D0+α denotes the Caputo derivative, and f:[0,1]×[0,+∞)×R→[0,+∞) is continuous function, ϕp(s)=|s|p-2s, p>1,  (ϕp)-1=ϕq,  1/p+1/q=1. …”
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(η6-Benzene)chlorido[2-(pyridin-2-yl)quinoline-κ2N,N′]ruthenium(II) tetrafluoridoborate by Manikandan Varadhan, Ibanpynhunlang Passi, Thangaraja Chinnathangavel, Venugopal Rajendiran

“…The title compound, [RuCl(C6H6)(C14H10N2)]BF4 or [Ru(η6-benzene)(L)Cl]+BF4− [where L denotes the 2-(pyridin-2-yl)quinoline ligand], crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P21/c. …”
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Adaptive temporal-difference learning via deep neural network function approximation: a non-asymptotic analysis by Guoyong Wang, Tiange Fu, Ruijuan Zheng, Xuhui Zhao, Junlong Zhu, Mingchuan Zhang

“…In particular, AdaBNTD is capable of converging to the global optimum of the mean square projection Bellman error (MSPBE) with a convergence rate of $${{\mathcal {O}}}(1/\sqrt{K})$$ O ( 1 / K ) , where K denotes the iteration count. Besides, the effectiveness AdaBNTD is also verified through several reinforcement learning benchmark domains.…”
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Engineering Scheme Decision System Integrating Case Reasoning and BIM Technology by Qi Zhang

“…The experiment outcomes denoted that the resource utilization rate of the traditional scheme was 75% before implementation, but decreased to 72% after implementation, a decrease of 3%. …”
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Complexities in Assessing Structural Health of Civil Infrastructures by Abdullah Al-Hussein, Achintya Haldar

“…An unscented Kalman filter (UKF) concept is developed for highly nonlinear dynamic systems. It is denoted as 3D UKF-UI-WGI. The basic UKF concept is improved in several ways. …”
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Sémantisme du nominal et de la position pré-nominale dans les dénominations de métiers du type high commissioner en anglais contemporain by Marie Turlais

“…Conversely, dependant-nouns take on a form of adjectivity: they no longer refer to the extralinguistic world on their own, and they denote one property, explicitly attributed to the referent. …”
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