Protective Ceramic Coatings for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) Balance-of-Plant Components by Raymond L. Winter, Prabhakar Singh, Mark K. King, Manoj K. Mahapatra, Uma Sampathkumaran

“…Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) have the potential to meet the growing need for electrical power generation if the cost per megawatt can be further reduced. Currently, SOFC stacks are replaced too frequently to be cost competitive. …”
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Results of non-interventional observational study of ursodeoxycholic acid in primary biliary cirrhosis by Yelena N. Shirokova, Anna F. Sheptulina

“…All patients received «Livodexa®» in the daily dose of 15 mg/kg taken two times per day for 3 months. Efficacy and safety investigation of the drug was carried out at the day 30 (visit 2) and at the day 90 (visit 3) according to the laboratory tests results, quality of life assessment by SF-36 questionnaire, registration of frequency and severity of the adverse events (AE). …”
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A garantia da participação popular e defesa da política pública: SUAS resiste by Tatiana Roberta Borges Martins, Adriana Giaqueto Jacinto

“…A pesquisa bibliográfica, embasada no método histórico-dialético per- correu a construção histórica do controle social e sua importância para a implantação de um modelo de proteção social efetivamente partici- pativo no país. …”
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Digital Markets and Data Exploitation: Addressing Abuse of Dominance Under Indonesian Competition Law by Moch. Marsa Taufiqurrohman, Helza Nova Lita, Gress Gustia Adrian Pah

“…This ultimately meets the element of abuse of dominant position under Article 25 of Law Number 5 of 1999 concerning the Prohibition of Monopoly Practices and Unfair Business Competition, rendering such practices per se illegal. The article concludes by suggesting that lawmakers should establish a framework and adequate regulations to address the exploitation of personal data by business actors in the digital market. …”
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Evaluation of Financial and Credit Institutions Branches over a Period of Time with Dependent Criteria by Rouhollah Kiani Ghaleh no

“…In the algorithm, the possibility of separating the criteria into two efficient and effective groups per the organization's strategy is located, which can facilitate experts' decision to select effective and weighty indicators for them. …”
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Influence of Chemical Corrosion on Dynamic Fracturing Mechanical Behavior of Marbles by Chunmei Zheng, Jiayan Zheng, Xiaojuan Peng, Lei Zhou

“…Due to the degradation of the connected force between the rock particles inside the specimen, there is an obvious decrease in the fracture energy per unit fracture surface from 0.94 to 0.38 J cm−2, with a decrease rate of 59.39%. …”
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L’organizzazione dello spazio sonoro della polifonia rinascimentale: un precoce caso di ‘presentismo’ nella storia della musicologia? by Daniele Sabaino

“…I believe, however, that the “presentism” we are addressing in this group meeting is also at work in seemingly less obvious situations, such as the outright denial (or, more subtly, the “suspension”) of historical perspective per se. This may be motivated by perfectly respectable claims of scientific caution, but in the end it cannot help but deny the contemporary researcher not only (and rightly) the possibility of direct access to the socio-cultural contexts of the past, but also the ability to read, however critically, past cultural phenomena through hermeneutic categories derived from that same past. …”
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Mucocutaneous Changes in End-Stage Renal Disease under Regular Hemodialysis - A Cross-Sectional Study by Asmaa A. Ras, Nevine H. Kheir El Din, Ashraf M. Talaat, Radwa R. Hussein, Eman Khalil

“…Oral examinations were done for these patients as per the modified World Health Organization oral health survey 2013 criteria. …”
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A Framework for Comprehensive Dairy Calf Health Investigations by Kristen Y. Edwards, David L. Renaud

“…Environmental management recommendations include a minimum of 3.3 m² of space per calf, the use of low-dust bedding, and air quality controls to reduce respiratory disease. …”
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Comparing Nursing Student Competence in CPR before and after a Pedagogical Intervention by Siv Roel, Ida Torunn Bjørk

“…Students in cohort 2 had a significantly higher mean rate of compressions, number of compressions per minute, and mean number of compressions with incorrect hand positions. …”
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Real-Time Reporting of Small Operational Failures in Nursing Care by Kathleen R. Stevens, Robert L. Ferrer

“…Mean number of problems per shift varied from 4.0 to 8.5 problems with equipment/supply problems being the most commonly reported category. …”
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HİKMET, FELSEFE VE METAFİZİK İLİŞKİSİ -İLAHİYAT FAKÜLTELERİNDE İSLAM FELSEFESİ ÖĞRETİMİNE DAİR BİR YAKLAŞIM- by Mevlüt Uyanık

“…Müslümanlar, Sasani (Çin-Hind) ve Pers ve Bizans (Grek-Latin kültürünü Mezopotomyakültürüyle şekillendiren Helenistik felsefe) ile yüzleşti; kısa süre içinde kendilerineözgü ve yeni bilgi, bilim ve medeniyet tasavvuru oluşturdu.Bu bağlamda metnin yakın amacı düşünce tarihinin seçkin zekalarıyla yoldaş olarak oluşturulanİslam felsefesinin özgünlüğünü, kelamdan ayırıcı niteliğini oluşturan hususları vurgulamaktır.Metnin uzak hedefi ise, “hikmet”i felsefe tarihi, “hikmetlerin hikmetini” ise Metafizikolarak görme sürecini İlahiyat Fakültelerinde İslam felsefesi öğretimini peygamberimizin (fiili/kavli/takriri) uygulamalarına dikkat edip onu düşünce tarihinin en seçkin zekâlarından biri olarakgörmenin imkanını bir hadis/sözünü merkeze alarak inceleyip müzakereye açmaktır.…”
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Salário de docente básico by Pedro Demo

“…Therefore, the recent proposal of 40 working hours per week and a basic salary of R$ 950,00 seems to be very unsatisfactory, as it cannot regulate teachers' work time preferably in eight hours daily. …”
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Stochasticity as a solution for overfitting—A new model and comparative study on non-invasive EEG prospects by Yousef A. Radwan, Eslam Ahmed Mohamed, Donia Metwalli, Mariam Barakat, Anas Ahmed, Antony E. Kiroles, Sahar Selim

“…This model not only matches the best DL model, ShallowFBCSPNet, in the subject-independent scenario in our experiments scoring 32% accuracy, but also surpasses the state-of-the-art by achieving 46.6% average per-subject accuracy in the subject-dependent case. …”
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Simulation in the field of transfusion medicine: Scope and utility by Abhishekh Basavarajegowda, Dinker R Pai, Y. C. Nalini

“…Simulation in transfusion medicine has farsighted returns wherein there is the possibility of defining goals and objectives and ensuring that they could be adjusted to the individual learners as per their knowledge and skill level. The simulations can be set up that can train as well as assess cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains simultaneously in transfusion using multiple modalities.…”
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Principal component analysis (PCA) as a genetic diversity tool to understand the variation of rice mutant culture by S. Palaniyappan1, P. Arunachalam1*, S. Banumathy1 and S. Muthuramu2

“…The PCA results had shown the first five PCs accounted 83.20 per cent of total genetic variation. The thirty six rice genotypes were formed into four groups. …”
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Estimation of Total Yearly CO2 Emissions by Wildfires in Mexico during the Period 1999–2010 by Flor Bautista Vicente, Noel Carbajal, Luis Felipe Pineda Martínez

“…The yearly number of hot spots per vegetation type was calculated. Estimates of emitted CO2 in a wildfire were then accomplished by considering parameters such as: forest fuel load, vegetation type, burning efficiency, and mean burned area. …”
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Effects of Repetitive Pitching on Trunk Muscle Endurance and Thoracic and Shoulder Kinematics by Takuya Aso, Yoshinori Kagaya

“…Participants were then asked to throw 135 fastballs (~9 innings with 15 throws per inning). Throwing motions were monitored throughout the first, seventh, eighth, and nine innings, whereas trunk muscular endurance was assessed before and after the repetitive throwing activity. …”
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Comparative analysis of regression algorithms for drug response prediction using GDSC dataset by Soojung Ha, Juho Park, Kyuri Jo

“…However, high-throughput sequencing data produces thousands of features per patient. In addition, it is difficult for researchers to know which algorithm is appropriate for prediction as various regression and feature selection algorithms exist. …”
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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

“…It was found that by reducing slacks, agricultural emissions can be decreased by 0.74 Gt of CO2eq per year. Hence, removing only management inefficiencies would help achieve up to 80% of the global reduction targets in agriculture without a substantial technological change. …”
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