A Novel Approach for Sustainable Supply Chain Management with Analyzing the Effective Governance under Fuzzy Uncertainty by FengSheng Chien, Esra Sipahi Döngül, Serdar Vural Uygun, Ali Ahmadi

“…The numerical results show that if manufacturers and distributors want to strengthen their institutions and maintain their leadership roles as in the past, they can optimize their distribution network structure to achieve the best possible performance. …”
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Histological Features and Biocompatibility of Bone and Soft Tissue Substitutes in the Atrophic Alveolar Ridge Reconstruction by Carlo Maiorana, Mario Beretta, Davide Rancitelli, Giovanni Battista Grossi, Marco Cicciù, Alan Scott Herford

“…The surgical reconstruction provides for the optimization of the supporting bone for the implants and a restoration of the amount of keratinized gingiva for esthetic and functional reasons. In the past, tissue regeneration has been performed with autogenous bone and free gingival or connective tissue grafts. …”
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Communication Support for People with ALS by David Beukelman, Susan Fager, Amy Nordness

“…AAC acceptance and use have increased considerably during the past decade. Many people use AAC until within a few weeks of their deaths.…”
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Von-Willebrand Disease Presenting as Intractable Epistaxis after Nasal Polypectomy by Jeong Jin Park, Chang-Hoon Kim, Jeung-Gweon Lee, Hyung-Ju Cho

“…To suspect and diagnose VWD, a careful review of past medical history and laboratory tests is critical. …”
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Common Property and Local Development. Research Elements for Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy) by Maurizio Daici

“…A few decades ago, common land ownership was viewed as a legal institution of the past, irreconcilable with the modern capitalistic economy, that required private ownership. …”
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HOUSING DELIVERY THROUGH PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN NIGERIA AND THE CASE FOR BENEFICIARIES’ INVOLVEMENT by Olumiyiwa B. Adeogun, Abraham A. Taiwo

“… Over the years successive governments have devised and launched strategies to tackle the huge housing deficit in Nigeria. In the recent past, public-private partnership was embraced and employed in a number of low-income housing schemes across the country. …”
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Sentencing equilibrium in rape cases: a legal and political explanation of jurisdictional uniformity in China by Moulin Xiong, Yiwei Xia, Xiaohong Yu

“…Abstract Sentencing disparity dominates in American scholarship and has been leading global research in past decades, however, few studies have addressed sentencing equilibrium across countries. …”
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Old Fears, New Hopes. Flemish TV fiction and National Identity in the 21st Century by Alexander Dhoest

“…Taking a step back, in this paper I reflect on changes and continuities in the past 25 years. Starting in the late 1990s, I discuss the challenges facing European serial drama production as the market increasingly commercialised, digitised, and globalised. …”
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Is the Memory Effect of the Blind Spot Involved in Negative Dysphotopsia after Cataract Surgery? by Martin Wenzel, Rupert Menapace, Timo Eppig, Achim Langenbucher

“…We present novel clinical observations on negative dysphotopsia (ND) in eyes that have undergone cataract surgery. In the past, shadow effects were alleged to be located in the far peripheral temporal visual field 50° to 100° away from the optical axis. …”
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Study on the Mechanical Properties of Flexible Prefabricated Highway Structural Systems considering the Effect of Two-Way Fluid-Structure Interaction by Liang Huang, Wenbo Ma, Haotian Li, Shizhan Xu, Zebin Song, Yujie Hou

“…The rainfall often causes changes in the physical performance of the embankment, which leads to disasters such as embankment collapse and road surface settlement and cracking. Past research has tended to be limited to traditional embankment seepage models and is mostly based on the assumption that surface precipitation is uniform and rainfall intensity is constant. …”
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Analyzing energy efficiency strategies and designing and simulation energy efficient systems in buildings by Peyman Afroozeh

“… Green building (also known as green construction or sustainable building) refers to both a structure and the application of processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle: from planning to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, and demolition.the past decade has witnessed a rapid increase in the number of studies on GB energy efficiency systems. …”
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Takotsubo’s Cardiomyopathy in a Patient with Kartagener’s Syndrome by Luis W. Dominguez, Robert P. Doggette, Fernando Gonzalez-Ibarra, Imam H. Shaik, Amer K. Syed

“…A 46-year-old African-American male with past medical history significant for Kartagener’s syndrome, essential hypertension, and HIV presented with acute chest pain. …”
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Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma of the Colon in Young Adults: A Case Report and Literature Review by Farida Abi Farraj, Hadi Sabbagh, Tarek Aridi, Najla Fakhruddin, Fadi Farhat

“…The incidence of CRC in the adolescent and young adult (AYA) population has increased over the past couple of decades despite the decline in the overall occurrence of CRC in the general population. …”
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The unexpected role of the STING protein in lipid metabolism by Vila, Isabelle K., Laguette, Nadine

“…Detection of cytosolic pathological nucleic acids is a key step for the initiation of innate immune responses. In the past decade, the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) adaptor protein has emerged as a central platform enabling the activation of inflammatory responses in the presence of cytosolic DNAs. …”
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Integral Sliding Mode Control for Trajectory Tracking of Wheeled Mobile Robot in Presence of Uncertainties by Aicha Bessas, Atallah Benalia, Farès Boudjema

“…Wheeled mobile robots present a typical case of complex systems with nonholonomic constraints. In the past few years, the dominance of these systems has been a very active research field. …”
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Development and Operation of the Dalian Cruise Port in China by Lina Gong

“…China's cruise industry has developed rapidly in the past ten years, and China's cruise port construction has flourished. …”
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Worsted, Weave, and Web: The Cultural Struggles of the Fictional Knitting-Woman by Kathy REES

“…This article replicates those two movements, shifting between the present and the past, and tracing the periodical fluctuations in female fortunes as they advanced and regressed. …”
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An Experimental Investigation of Karanja Biodiesel Production in Sarawak, Malaysia by Dewi Harreh, A. A. Saleh, A. N. R. Reddy, S. Hamdan

“…The application of nonedible feedstock for the production of biodiesel has become an area of research interest among clean energy experts in the past few years. This research is aimed at the utilization of Pongamia pinnata (karanja), a nonedible feedstock from the state of Sarawak, Malaysia, to produce biodiesel to be known as crude karanja oil (CKO). …”
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Using information technology to communicate about health and wellbeing, assessment and review: audio computer assisted self-interviewing (A-CASI) by Murray Davies

“…The development and growth of information technology in the past decade has changed the face of communication at both a personal and an organisational level. …”

One-Dimensional SnO2 Nanostructures: Synthesis and Applications by Jun Pan, Hao Shen, Sanjay Mathur

“…Nanoscale semiconducting materials such as quantum dots (0-dimensional) and one-dimensional (1D) structures, like nanowires, nanobelts, and nanotubes, have gained tremendous attention within the past decade. Among the variety of 1D nanostructures, tin oxide (SnO2) semiconducting nanostructures are particularly interesting because of their promising applications in optoelectronic and electronic devices due to both good conductivity and transparence in the visible region. …”
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