Utilization of Buildings’ Foundations for a Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage Medium to Meet Space and Water Heat Demands by Ammar Alkhalidi, Hamzah Al Khatba, Mohamad K. Khawaja

“…Zarqa is the most efficient and feasible for STES compared to the other two cities.…”
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ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE OF WORLDVIEW STRUCTURE by Олег ПОГОРЄЛОВ, Мирослава КАРПЕНКО

“…The Absolute is characterized as absolutely unconditional, is the spiritual source of all that exists – the world as a whole. The other two basic elements - Nature and man are two types of spiritual-material integrity – the spiritual component of both is a reflection of the Absolute that created them. …”
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Formulated Beta-Cyfluthrin Shows Wide Divergence in Toxicity among Bird Species by Laura M. Addy-Orduna, María-Elena Zaccagnini, Sonia B. Canavelli, Pierre Mineau

“…Canaries were found to be substantially more sensitive to formulated beta-cyfluthrin (LD50=(170±41) mg/kg) than the other two species tested (LD50=(2234±544) mg/kg and LD50=(2271±433) mg/kg, resp.). …”
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Advantages of Combining Factorization Machine with Elman Neural Network for Volatility Forecasting of Stock Market by Fang Wang, Sai Tang, Menggang Li

“…The results were compared with predictions obtained from the other two models which are basic BP neural network and the Elman neural network. …”
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Comparison of Immunological Characteristics of Mesenchymal Stem Cells from the Periodontal Ligament, Umbilical Cord, and Adipose Tissue by Jin-Hee Kim, Chris H. Jo, Hang-Rae Kim, Young-il Hwang

“…They were also shown to inhibit the proliferation of PBMCs using HLA-G, which was most prominent in UC-MSCs. Unlike the other two types of MSCs, UC-MSCs showed minimal expression of HLA-DR after activation, suggesting that they pose minimal risk of initiating an allogeneic immune response when administered in vivo. …”
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Automated Detection of Microseismic Arrival Based on Convolutional Neural Networks by Weijian Liu, Haoyuan Chang, Yang Xiao, Shuisheng Yu, Chuanbo Huang, Yuntian Yao

“…After reducing the signal-to-noise ratio, the stability and accuracy of the U-net model to detect the arrival time have improved over the other two algorithms.…”
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Effects of Harvest Maturity on Chilling Injury and Storage Quality of Apricots by Yuanyuan Jing, Xuan Ma, Peng Jin, Xuan Zhu

“…The results showed that the incidence, index of chilling injury, and firmness in apricots of maturity class I were highest than other two groups, but maturity class I apricots did not ripe. …”
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Design and Analysis of a Parallel Elastic Shoulder Joint for Humanoid Robotics Application by Sharafatdin Yessirkepov, Timur Umurzakov, Michele Folgheraiter

“…Following these experiments, a detailed analysis is performed on the stiffness properties of the proposed prototype, as it outperforms the other two designs. The dimension of the central elastic limb, made out of Thermo-Plastic Polyurethane (TPU), is optimized using Finite Element Analysis (FEA). …”
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A Novel Approach for Operating Speed Continuous Predication Based on Alignment Space Comprehensive Index by Ying Yan, Gengping Li, Jinjun Tang, Zhongyin Guo

“…The results indicate that the prediction models outperform the other two operating speed models for their higher prediction accuracy.…”
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The Usage of an SNP-SNP Relationship Matrix for Best Linear Unbiased Prediction (BLUP) Analysis Using a Community-Based Cohort Study by Young-Sup Lee, Hyeon-Jeong Kim, Seoae Cho, Heebal Kim

“…However, there were many discrepancies between SNP-BLUP and the other two BLUPs. SNP-GBLUP has the merit to be able to predict genetic values through SNP effects.…”
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Experimental Study on Load Bearing Characteristics of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Lining in the Soft Surrounding Rock Tunnel by Guang-yao Cui, Jia-suo Qi, Dao-yuan Wang

“…The test results show that the initial crack load and ultimate load of the steel fiber reinforced concrete lining are significantly higher than those of the other two materials, and the crack development path is more tortuous, and the number of cracks is greater. …”
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Rhetorical questions as aggressive, friendly or sarcastic/ironical questions with imposed answers by Špago Džemal

“…The analysis of the corpus, which consisted of 275 RQs taken from ten American movie scripts, showed that friendly RQs are more common than the other two types, and that, in instances where one of the interlocutors is in a superior position, superior-to-inferior RQs are by far more common than vice versa. …”
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A Distribution Agnostic Rank-Based Measure for Proximity Search by Mayur Garg, Ashutosh Nayak, Rajasekhara Reddy Duvvuru Muni

“…While our proposed methodology outperforms existing algorithms in outlier detection by 50%, it performs at par with existing metrics for other two applications. We conclude the paper with discussion on its limitations and research directions for improving RAM.…”
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One-Instant Flux Observer design for Three-Phase induction motor with reduced bound active load rejection speed controller by AKRAM HASHIM HAMEED, SHIBLY A. AL-SAMARRAIE, AMJAD JALEEL HUMAIDI

“…The first control design is devoted to flux control based on a backstepping controller, while the other two controllers’ design is dedicated to rotor speed control of the motor. …”
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Effect of drinking water supplementation of different aromatic plant essential oils on performance and some blood parameters in quail breeders (coturnix coturnix japonica) by Özlem Durna Aydın

“…There were 60 quails in the control group and 50 quails in the other two groups. Male and female numbers were equal. …”
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FindCmd: A personalised command retrieval tool by Pengpeng Hou, Heng Zhang, Yanjun Wu, Jiageng Yu, Yuxia Miao, Yang Tai

“…In the evaluation section, the authors compare FindCmd with retrieval tools apropos and howdoi; our experimental results show that FindCmd outperforms the other two tools in retrieving commands. In addition, the experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of personalised search of FindCmd.…”
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Survey of Octylphenol, Nonylphenol, and Bisphenol A in Infant Milk Powders by Solid-Phase Extraction Combined GC/MS Method by Chenggang Cai, Yibin Ying, Pinggu Wu, Jun Tang, Liyuan Wang, Tan Ying

“…Concentrations of the bisphenol A were from 0.8 to 14 μg/kg in 35 samples of the total 60 samples. And the other two compounds of 4-nonylphenol and 4-octylphenol were not found in all the 60 samples tested. …”
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Analysis of the Water Footprint of Central and Eastern Europe Countries by Damian Panasiuk, Petro Skrypchuk, Barbara Kucharska, Olena Suduk

“…The first three are members of the European Union, the other two are not. These countries also differ in terms of climate. …”
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Numerical Analysis on the Bending Performance of Prestressed Superposing-Poured Composite Beams by Jianmin Wang, Chengfeng Zhu, Ziqiang Xiao, Qijun Zhao, Junzhe Liu

“…Comparatively, the SDEG variation of the C-ITZ in the model with the curved prestressing force across the casting interface is smoother and smaller on the whole than the other two prestressed schemes for the case of the casting interval time being 14 days.…”
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DESIGN ANALYSIS OF AN AUTOMATIC PHASE SELECTOR by ADEDOTUN O. OWOJORI, ABIODUN M. AKINBOLADE, KAYODE F. AKINGBADE

“…The design analysis was first carried out accompanied with computer simulation on a software tool (Proteus 8 Professional, version 8.4) to carry out performance evaluation of the sub-circuits, thereafter, a practical implementation of the design was carried out and tested with the utility power supply using five (5) switches, three of which represents the three-phase primary supply and the other two represents the secondary supply. …”
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