Binocular Video-Based Automatic Pixel-Level Crack Detection and Quantification Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Concrete Structures by Liqu Liu, Bo Shen, Shuchen Huang, Runlin Liu, Weizhang Liao, Bin Wang, Shuo Diao

“…Results indicate that using the proposed quantification method can achieve low quantification errors of 2%, 4.5%, and 4% for the crack length, width, and angle of orientation, respectively. The proposed method can contribute to crack detection and quantification in practical use by being deployed on smart devices.…”
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Analysis of Relationship between the Performance and Efficiency Based on CCR And BCC Models in the Iranian Insurance Industry: Tobit's Approach by Javad Montazeri, Reza Yazdani, Meysam Kaviani

“…Findings: The results confirm that during the six years (2011 to 2016), the return on assets with a calculated efficiency is positively correlated with the input-oriented approach and has a negative relationship with the output-oriented approach. …”
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Transverse Strains in Muscle Fascicles during Voluntary Contraction: A 2D Frequency Decomposition of B-Mode Ultrasound Images by James M. Wakeling, Avleen Randhawa

“…Current methodologies allow the fascicle lengths, orientations, and curvatures to be quantified, but not the transverse expansion. …”
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Acute Torsion of Appendicular Mucocele by Farshid Ejtehadi, James Brooks, Hebah Hassan Ali, Vardhini Vijay

“…A CT scan showed a change in orientation of the previously seen ovoid mass with surrounding fat stranding suggesting torsion. …”
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O towarzyszeniu dziecku w rozwoju – zarys koncepcji wychowania w żłobku by Lucyna Telka

“…The concept of upbringing orients the tutor’s beliefs on the relationship with the pupil by taking up intellectual activity conducive to the exploration, application, and maintaining the requirements of the concept. …”
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SOME ASPECTS OF THEORETICAL AND-METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO RESEARCH OF THE PROCESS OF INNOVATIVE TRANSFORMATION OF THE HIGH SCHOOL SYSTEM AS THE IMPERATIVE FOR THE FORMATION OF T... by A. Oganyan

“…The theoretical and methodological approaches to assessing the fundamental components of the evolutionary nature of the innovation-oriented transformation of the national economy, as well as the essence of identifying higher school trends as a driver and a basic institution for the reproduction of the intellectual potential of the national economy - are considered. …”
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Presenting Iran's new economic diplomacy model with an export approach for neighboring countries with an emphasis on cultural and media diplomacy capacities by sekhavat kheirkhah, sayed Ali Tabatabai Panah, Alireza Soltani, Hamid Reza Shirzad

“…This research concludes that economy-oriented foreign policy is one of the requirements for the development of exports to neighbor countries. …”
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Personal Development Planning of the UK Students: Implementation Models by N. Yu. Shaposhnikova

“…The second model type, which is focused on employment, included a general orientation to graduate employment as well as specific work placement during the process of study. …”
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The phenomenon of procrastination by T. N. Kochetkova

“…However, thereare cardinal differences among them: laziness correlates with neutral or positive emotional background, hedonistic orientation, orientation to the present time, irresponsibility, and strength saving. …”
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Tissue Anisotropy Modeling Using Soft Composite Materials by Arnab Chanda, Christian Callaway

“…The fiber volume fraction (FVF), fiber spacing, and orientations were varied to estimate the changes in the mechanical responses. …”
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Future of University in Conditions of Uncertainty and Complexity by G I. Lovetsky, P. V. Samylov, V. G. Kosushkin

“…The main conclusions are the following: 1) uncertainty and complexity of the future are not an obstacle to scenario forecasting in the sphere of higher education as a ground for the knowledge society; 2) this movement will be successful if the state and business community go to a higher level of strategic planning; 3) academically free university, humanistically oriented state reforms and programs of society modernization, socially oriented business (investments for a person) become the targets of the future. …”
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Financial stability of the federal budget and budgets of the Russian constituent entities subjects under Western sanctions by N. Z. Zotikov

“…Under such conditions, the budget system stability is supported by a low level of debt, especially at the federal level. The UFD export-oriented regions budget stability indicators exceed similar indicators of the Russian constituent entities budget. …”
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IMPORT SUBSTITUTION: THE BOARDERS OF THE ENERGY SECURITY by N. N. Shvets

“…Thereby there is a high importance of developing the substitution-oriented production of the high-tech electric equipment within the Russian Federation's territory. …”
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Spatial Differentiation and Influencing Factors of Second-Hand Housing Prices: A Case Study of Binhu New District, Hefei City, Anhui Province, China by Song Xu, Zhen Zhang

“…The decoration status and floor are global scale variables, and their spatial heterogeneity is weak. (3) The number of bedrooms, orientation, decoration status, floor, and building structure all positively affect house prices, while area, house age, the distance to the nearest subway station, and the distance to the nearest school negatively affect house prices. …”
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Assessing potential reductions of agricultural GHG in countries with different land productivities: Long-term integrated efficiency in DEA hybrid meta-frontier model. by Bazyli Czyżewski, Łukasz Kryszak

“…Several potential model orientations were tested and discussed with regard to agricultural policy objectives. …”
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Notes on Conservation Laws, Equations of Motion of Matter, and Particle Fields in Lorentzian and Teleparallel de Sitter Space-Time Structures by Waldyr A. Rodrigues, Samuel A. Wainer

“…The dSLM is naturally oriented and time oriented and is the arena used to study the energy-momentum conservation law and equations of motion for physical systems living there. …”
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Bayesian active sound localisation: To what extent do humans perform like an ideal-observer? by Glen McLachlan, Piotr Majdak, Jonas Reijniers, Michael Mihocic, Herbert Peremans

“…As the directional information of a source is implicitly contained in head-centred acoustic cues, that acoustic input needs to be continuously combined with sensorimotor information about the head orientation in order to decode to a world-centred frame of reference. …”
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Analysis of the relationship between leadership style and teacher work motivation in vocational high schools by Ermita Ermita, Nelitawati Nelitawati, Indra Jaya, Nur Alifah Ulfi

“…The implication of the results of this research is to increase work motivation through the principal's leadership style, namely increasing the task-oriented leadership style of the principal. In addition, the results of this study show that the interpretation of the principal's leadership style towards subordinates is greater than the interpretation of the principal's task-oriented leadership style.…”
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«Вот скажем лицом я в Китае». Стереотипы и имаготипы Китая, китайца и китайского в практике обращения к чужому в геопоэтике и геоэстетике Дмитрия Пригова... by Rainer Grübel

“…In its analytic design the article discerns in Prigov’s China-text a broader geo-esthetical from a smaller geo-poetical horizon and distinguishes the theme- and sense-orientated phenomenon of stereotype, reducing (the concept of) a culture or a nation to special, often discrediting it, semantic features (as topoi), from the phenomenon of the imagotype, which is orientated to the poetical and/or esthetical construction of an artifact and relates the specialty of the other to certain sounds, intonations, colors, textures. …”
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Construcción de ciudad: entre los filos de la memoria y la violencia. Caso Manrique, Medellín by Andrea Lissett Pérez Fonseca, Carlos Andrés Aristizábal Botero, Deisy Yuliana Ríos Castro, Yuliana Osorno Vanegas

“…Este artículo busca aportar a la reflexión de la historia reciente de la ciudad de Medellín de las últimas tres décadas (1980-2010), a través de la reconstrucción de la memoria de poblamiento de los barrios La Cruz, Bello Oriente y La Honda, ubicados en la zona periférica de la ladera oriental de la ciudad. …”
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