Flow-Mediated Dilatation: Learning Curve Study with a Novice Operator by Arko S. Dhar, Marie Fisk, Carmel M. McEniery, Domonkos Cseh

“…Conclusion Within a reasonable timeframe, and with careful adherence to measurement guidelines, the attainment of sound reproducibility in FMD measurements by a novice operator is feasible.…”
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Field Monitoring and Numerical Analysis of the Reinforced Concrete Foundation of a Large-Scale Wind Turbine by Yanming Zhou, Xinxi Liu, Zongwei Deng, Qian-Feng Gao

“…The distribution of foundation stresses suggested that a reasonable design of steel reinforcement cages around the foundation steel ring is important. …”
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Analysis of Marketing Prediction Model Based on Genetic Neural Network: Taking Clothing Marketing as an Example by Hua Peng, Luxiao Dong, Yi Sun, Yanfang Jiang

“…The results of the model help decision-makers to reasonably arrange production and formulate marketing strategies. …”
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Health Care System in Sudan: Review and Analysis of Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threats (SWOT Analysis) by Ebrahim Mohammed Abdullah Ebrahim, Luam Ghebrehiwot, Tasneem Abdalgfar, Muhammad Hanafiah Juni

“…The country has well established healthcare system with many drawbacks mainly due to economic and managerial reasons followed by prolonged political instability and sanctions. …”
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Study on Hydraulic Fracture Propagation of Strong Heterogeneous Shale Based on Stress‐Seepage Damage Coupling Model by Wei Liu, Lei Xiao, Yunbin Ke, Yang Zhi, Kangxing Dong

“…Additionally, there is a common phenomenon where the propagation of hydraulic fracture heights is limited in the hydraulic fracturing process of strongly heterogeneous shale reservoirs. To clarify the reasons for the limited height propagation of hydraulic fractures in strongly heterogeneous shale reservoirs, numerical simulation methods were used to study the propagation patterns of hydraulic fractures in shale reservoirs under different levels of anisotropy, flow rate, viscosity, and stress differences. …”
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A Dynamical Stability Study of Triple-Star Systems Using Physical and Geometrical Parameters by Reza Pazhouhesh, Hasan Hamedi Nasab, Kazem Yoosefi Roobiat

“…Only five systems (with WDS indexes: 18126-7340, 06467+0822, 02022- 2402, 08391-5557, and 00247-2653) are unstable in at least three criteria. The reasons for the instability of these systems are most likely the observational errors or the unreal theoretical criteria. …”
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Predictive Logistic Models for Off-Street Parking Policy by Nahla H. Alaswadko

“…A case study is conducted in Duhok city, Iraq, aims to estimate the potential responses of city center travelers to reasonable off-street parking restriction policies. …”
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Bridge Structure Dynamic Analysis under Vessel Impact Loading considering Soil-Pile Interaction and Linear Soil Stiffness Approximation by Jingfeng Zhang, Xiaozhen Li, Yuan Jing, Wanshui Han

“…The appropriate modeling of the soil-pile interaction (SPI) is critical to get the reasonable dynamic responses of bridge structure under impact loading. …”
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Energy Management for Energy Harvesting-Based Embedded Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study by Xingyu Miao, Yongqi Ge

“…The results showed that the major research type of the EHES papers is validation research, accounting for 65%, which indicated research is still in the theoretical stage and many researchers focus on how to improve the efficiency of harvesting energy, develop a reasonable energy supply plan, and adapt EHES for real-world requirements. …”
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Application of specialised knowledge in proceedings concerning defence land by A. V. Shulzhenko

“…As a result of the resolution of court disputes in this regard, only one third of the claims are satisfied. The reasons for this state of affairs have been analysed. …”
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Damping Coefficient Optimization for the Articulated System of Virtual Track Trains by Chao Li, Yuanjin Ji, Youpei Huang, Han Leng, Maozhenning Yang, Lihui Ren

“…Under lane change conditions, too large or small damping coefficients will deteriorate the train’s lateral stability, and a reasonable damping coefficient will improve the yaw damping ratio of the vehicle and reduce the lateral sway vibration between vehicles. …”
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EDUCATIONAL ROBOTS IN TEACHERS’ EDUCATION by Danimir Mandić, Gordana Miščević, Jelica Babić, Sofija Matović

“…A statistically significant difference in the attitudes of future preschool and primary school teachers were observed regarding the reasons for choosing the robot they drew. Preschool teachers gave primacy to the cognitive domain, while primary school teachers found it difficult to judge which domain was dominant. …”
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N.Ya. Danilevsky and M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin about Russia and Europe by Yu.A. Martynova, D.E. Martynov

“…Saltykov-Shchedrin, who had good knowledge of modern Germany and France “from the inside”, also developed a typology of the way of life and culture of Europe and Russia, but comprehended them satirically in the form of “philosophical buffoonery”. His reasoning about the absence of any native system for educating new generations in Russia and the negativism of “Europeanism” represents the viewpoint of writers of his time and subsequent eras, such as I.A. …”
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Vasectomy Regret or Lack Thereof by Danyon J. Anderson, Morgan Lucero, Stephen Vining, Charles Daniel, Jamal Hasoon, Omar Viswanath, Alan D. Kaye, Ivan Urits

“… # Objective The objective of this review is to synthesize information regarding reasons individuals may regret their vasectomy and seek reversal, what options exist for accomplishing the reversal, and patients' fertility prognosis post-vasovasostomy…”
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The effects of heritage multilingualism on foreign language learning: a comparison of children with typical language development and developmental language disorder by Elena Tribushinina, Betül Boz

“…IntroductionBoth multilingualism and developmental language disorder (DLD) may be associated with inferior performance in the majority language, albeit for different reasons. At the same time, there is a growing body of evidence that multilingualism may have a positive effect on foreign language performance. …”
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A Model for Vehicle Routing Problem under Returns and Emission Consideration in B2C E-Commerce Logistics by Sedat Belbağ

“…A clustering-based solution algorithm has been introduced to solve large-sized instances within reasonable solution times.Findings: The numerical analysis for the base case shows that the suggested model can assist decision-makers in coordinating forward distribution and reverse collection decisions within the context of sustainable e-commerce logistics. …”
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Moral and Psychological Stability of Police Officers in the System of Their Professionally Important Qualities by I. V. Klymenko

“…The author has singled out psychological structure of this characteristic, namely: motivational component, the indicators of which are a positive attitude to service, awareness of the importance of conscientious performance of official tasks and conscious desire to perform professional duties, belief in the value of moral norms and the need to subordinate own behavior; cognitive component, which includes knowledge of the legal basis of professional activity, ethical requirements of police officers’ behavior, the rules of use of physical force, special means and firearms; professional-personal component, which contains such professional moral and psychological qualities as professional honor, justice, decency, honesty, compassion and empathy, attitude to the rule of law, discipline, humanity, responsibility and a reflective component that characterizes the ability of a police officer to analyze phenomena of own consciousness and activity and assess the level of formation of moral and psychological stability, ability to effectively solve job problems. The reasons of the existing problems in realization of moral principles of professional activity of police officers are defined. …”
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Irrigation Schedule of Rice Based on CROPWAT Model in Southern Central Yunnan by DUAN Qicai, WANG Shupeng, ZHANG Lei, LUO Yingpei, QI Na

“…This study is conducted to further review the rationality of the standard for rice irrigation quotas in Jianshui of southern central Yunnan.On the basis of the observation data of Jianshui Meteorological Station from 1958 to 2013 and the rice-season test results of irrigation test sites in Jianshui from 2016 to 2018,the crop and soil parameters in the CROPWAT model are calibrated,and the processes of water in the rice soaking stage and irrigation amount in the prime field stage are simulated.With frequency arrangement results of irrigation amount in the whole growth stage,the rice irrigation schedule is drafted by the typical-year method.The results indicate that under the irrigation probability (P) of P=50%,P=75%,and P=90%,the irrigation quota of Jianshui rice in the whole growth stage is 510.1,591.1,and 651.2 mm,respectively,including the quota for the rice soaking stage of 185.3,209.2,and 213.9 mm,as well as the quota for the prime field stage of 324.8,381.9,and 437.3 mm,respectively.The irrigation frequency in the prime field stage is 8,9,and 10 times,respectively,and the irrigation quota is between 20.3 to 46.7 mm.The standard for rice irrigation quotas in Jianshui of southern central Yunnan is between 240.0 to 255.0 mm in the rice soaking stage,and under the conditions of P=50%,P=75%,and P=90%,the rice irrigation quota in the prime field stage is 427.5~435.0,487.5~502.5,540.0~562.5 mm,respectively.The current standard for rice irrigation quotas is basically reasonable,but from the viewpoint of water conservation and protection,there is still some water-saving space for rice irrigation.…”
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Multiperson Interactive Activity Recognition Based on Interaction Relation Model by Hongbin Tu, Renyu Xu, Rui Chi, Yuanyuan Peng

“…On this ground, it automatically learns from the human-computer interaction dataset in an end-to-end manner and performs reasoning with standard matrix operations. Secondly, this paper proposed an adaptive occlusion state behavior recognition method derived from the semantic knowledge model to ravel out the concern of occlusion and self-occlusion in human action recognition. …”
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Tritium Breeding Performance Analysis of HCLL Blanket Fusion Reactor Employing Vanadium Alloy (V-5Cr-5Ti) as First Wall Material by Indah Rosidah Maemunah, Zaki Su’ud, Abdul Waris, Dwi Irwanto

“…Even though vanadium alloy has a reasonably high radiation damage effect, it is still tolerable compared to several thresholds of DPA. …”
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