Institutions and Incentives in Antitrust Enforcement by Spencer Weber Waller

“…In recent key cases, the Court stated that the rule of reason is the default rule in antitrust. Second, per se condemnation (or some rebuttable presumption) is reserved for a limited group of practices that economics and experience show that the type of agreement under consideration is inevitably destructive of competition with little or no redeeming features. …”
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Anisotropy and amplification of terahertz electromagnetic response enabled by direct electric current in graphene by Моисеенко , Илья Михайлович, Fateev, Denis Васильевич, Popov, Vyacheslav Valentinovich

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Feature derivation and classification of auditory-motor coupling dynamics in healthy and neurologically impaired adults. by Muhammad Bergas Nur Fayyad, Joeri R Verbiest, Anna Ivanova, Mario Manto, Lousin Moumdjian

“…Nevertheless, it is currently challenging given the variability of responses per individual over time. We propose a methodological solution to quantify the dynamics of the step-to-beat coupling over time within an experimental paradigm where healthy (n = 7) and neurological impaired (n = 6) participants walk three minutes to music and metronomes at various tempi. …”
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Laws of Gas Diffusion in Coal Particles: A Study Based on Experiment and Numerical Simulation by Yongjiang Hao, Xiaofeng Ji, Jiewen Pang

“…Comparative analysis between the numerically simulated outcomes and the assay results reveals that the simulation outcomes as per Darcy’s law match the experimental data better, while the simulated results by Fick’s law deviate greatly, which indicates that the methane flowing through coal particles is more in accordance with Darcy’s law.…”
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Convergencia hacia la economía regional líder en México. Un análisis de cointegración en panel by Jesús Díaz Pedroza, Armando Sánchez Vargas, Miguel Ángel Mendoza González

“…El objetivo de este artículo es ofrecer evidencia empírica sobre la convergencia del PIB per capita de los estados de la República Mexicana hacia el PIB del Distrito Federal, al que consideramos como la economía líder (Barro y Sala-i-Martin; 1991, 1992). …”
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Feasibility of the International Caries Classification and Management System (ICCMS) Protocol in a Hospital-Based Setting in India by Imam Azam, Vijay P. Mathur, Nitesh Tewari, Rahul Morankar, Kalpana Bansal, Anju Rajwar

“…Risk-based management of dental caries was conducted and followed for one year as per the modified ICCMS protocol. The feasibility of the ICCMS protocol was evaluated based on treatment outcomes including symptom reduction, patient compliance, and time taken in risk assessment. …”
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Cost-Effectiveness of Improving Health Care to People with HIV in Nicaragua by Edward Broughton, Danilo Nunez, Indira Moreno

“…Opportunistic infections decreased by 24% (95% CI: 14%–34%) and 11.3% of patients improved in CDC clinical stage. Average per-patient costs decreased by $133/patient/year (95% CI: $29–$249). …”
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Durability of carbon dioxide removal is critical for Paris climate goals by Cyril Brunner, Zeke Hausfather, Reto Knutti

“…With a typical 100-year storage duration, net zero CO2 emissions with 6 GtCO2 per year residual emissions result in an additional warming of 0.8 °C by 2500 compared to permanent storage, thus putting the internationally agreed temperature limits at risk. …”
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Foveated Denoising for Ray Tracing Rendering by Daiyun Guo, Yan Zhang, Xubo Yang

“…In this paper, we quantify the non-uniform response of the HVS to flickering noise in the field of views (FOVs) by an SSIM-based model, where the sensitivity of each visual field is proportional to the tolerated variation of local SSIM per frame. Our pilot experiment reveals that denoising requirements vary significantly across the FOV, with central vision demanding a more stable SSIM variation. …”
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Radiological characterization of water of rivers and lakes in the Mounana region in South-Eastern Gabon by Sylvere Yannick Loemba Mouandza, Philippe Ondo Meye, Wilfried Ndong, Beaud Conrad Mabika Ndjembidouma, Evaldie-Dominique Durastanti-Rabenga Mombo, Thierry Blanchard Ekogo, Germain Hubert Ben-Bolie

“…Given that these waters are used by the population living in Mounana for the domestic purposes, a few may be exposed to the low levels of internal radiation but below the permissible levels of 1 mSv per annum.…”
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Fatal Overdose due to Confusion of an Transdermal Fentanyl Delivery System by Ingo Voigt

“…The first body check revealed a 75 mcg per hour fentanyl patch at the patient's right scapula. …”
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Transfer Learning-Based Bhutanese Currency Recognition by Yonten Jamtsho, Pema Yangden, Sonam Wangmo, Nima Dema

“…The currency images were gathered using crowdsourcing techniques and then the data augmentation was performed to generate 1000 images per class. The datasets were split into the train, test and validation sets with the ratio of 70:20:10. …”
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Verification of the Efficiency of Alternative Furrow Irrigation on Water Productivity and Onion Yield at Woleh Irrigation Scheme, Northern Ethiopia by messay Abera, Aemro Wale

“…Meeting crop water demand maximizes productivity from a land unit but does not inherently increase revenue per unit of water. This has led to a growing interest in irrigation practices that improve water productivity by regulating the inappropriate use of irrigation water. …”
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Blade Serial Number Identification Based on Blade Tip Clearance without OPR Sensor by Liang Zhang, Qidi Wang, Huiqun Yuan, Xin Li

“…Blade serial number identification is one of the key issues in blade tip-timing vibration measurement without once-per-revolution (OPR) sensor. In order to overcome the shortcomings of the existing blade serial number identification methods without OPR sensor, a new identification method of blade serial number based on blade tip clearance is proposed in this paper. …”
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De kan hverken ryge eller rejse: Rygeforbuddet i danske fængsler by Linda Kjær Minke, Ayo Næsborg-Andersen

“…In some of these institutions, inmates are locked in for up to 23 hours per day. The only time inmates can smoke are when staff accompanies them outside to smoke. …”
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An Investigation of Current Endodontic Practice in Turkey by R. F. Kaptan, F. Haznedaroglu, M. B. Kayahan, F. B. Basturk

“…There was a wide variation in the number of root canal treatments completed per month. Nearly 92% of practitioners stated that they never used rubber dam. …”
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The carbon footprint of Conservation Agriculture by Maik Freitag, Theodor Friedrich, Amir Kassam

“…It is shown that each tillage operation releases up to 300 kg carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) per hectare, and each of the average annual 10 t ha–1 of eroded topsoil can emit additional 300 kg CO2e ha–1. …”
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Clients selection method based on knapsack model in federated learning by Jiahui GUO, Zhuoyue CHEN, Wei GAO, Xijun WANG, Xinghua SUN, Lin GAO

“…In recent years, to break down data barriers, federated learning (FL) has received extensive attention.In FL, clientscan complete the model training without uploading the raw data, which protects the user’s data privacy.For the issue of clients’ heterogeneity, the contribution of each client to accelerating convergence of the global model as well as the communication cost in the system was considered, aiming at maximizing the weight change of the client's local training model, a client selection optimization problem in FL under theconstraint ofthe delay foreach training round was solved.Subsequently, two federated learning protocols based on the knapsack model were proposed, namely OfflineKP-FL protocol and OnlineKP-FL protocol.OfflineKP-FL protocol was based on the offline knapsack model to select appropriate clients to participate in the aggregation and update of the global model.In order to reduce the complexity of the OfflineKP-FL protocol, OnlineKP-FL protocol based on the online knapsack model to select clients was proposed.Through simulations, it is found that OfflineKP-FL protocol converges faster than the previously proposed methods in certain cases.Furthermore, compared with OfflineKP-FL protocol and FedCS protocol, underthe proposed OnlineKP-FL protocol, not only does the system select fewer clients per round, but also it can complete the model training in 64.1% of the time required by FedCS protocol to achieve the same accuracy for the global model.…”
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Model of Education Program Value Increase by A. V. Garmonova, N. A. Ryakhina, E. E. Sokolova

“…The presented model shows the competitive advantages of a professional retraining education program characterized by a big concentration of resources per student and a high value of education service. …”
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Physical Activity in Hospitalised Stroke Patients by Tanya West, Julie Bernhardt

“…Approximately one hour per day is spent in physiotherapy (median 63.2 minutes, IQR 36.0–79.5) and occupational therapy (median 57.0 minutes, IQR 25.1–58.5). …”
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