Public Participation in South Africa’s Policy Decision-Making Process: The Mass and the Elite Choices by Mokoko Piet Sebola

“…This article investigates the processes of public participation in public policy-making in South Africa with respect to the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act 92 of 1996, the Abolition of Capital Punishment policy and the Civil Union Act 17 of 2006. …”
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Pathophysiology of Vascular Remodeling in Hypertension by Nicolás F. Renna, Natalia de las Heras, Roberto M. Miatello

“…Some details are given on the three mechanisms to date which point to remodeling resistance arteries as an independent predictor of cardiovascular risk in hypertensive patients. We terminate by considering the potential role of remodeling in the pathogenesis of endorgan damage and in the perpetuation of hypertension.…”
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Synthesis and crystal structure of 5,10-bis(phenylsulfonyl)tetrahydrodibenzopentalene by Toshiki Sakami, Hikaru Watanabe, Takuma Sato, Yasuhiro Okuda, Kan Wakamatsu, Haruo Akashi, Akihiro Orita

“…The structure features a wide V-shaped motif consisting of 6–5–5–6 fused rings, with a dihedral angle of approximately 97.2° between the planes of the terminal phenylene rings. Additionally, a pair of phenylsulfonyl groups were observed at the exo positions relative to the V-shaped array.…”
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A Case of New-Onset Dermatomyositis in the Second Trimester of Pregnancy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Tayfun Akalin, Hatice Akkaya, Barış Büke, İbrahim Koçak

“…We herein report a 40-year-old woman who developed DM in the second trimester of her pregnancy and did not respond to treatment with methylprednisolone. Her pregnancy was terminated at the 32nd week of gestation, due to preeclampsia and fetal distress. …”
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Wireless Machine to Machine Based Mobile Substation Monitoring for District Heating System by Cheng Bo, Cheng Xin, Zhang Chengwen, Liu Ying, Chen Junliang

“…In particular, focusing on the design and implementation for GPRS-based multiserial data transmission terminals to collect the PLC/OPC data in the substation, machine to machine communication network is used to handle the transmission monitoring data from boiler room to master station via GPRS devices and data center that uses different smart mobile devices in a global network, and we also illustrated the mobile substation monitoring scenarios for district heating system. …”
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Coronary-Cameral Fistula Connecting the Left Anterior Descending Artery and the First Obtuse Marginal Artery to the Left Ventricle: A Rare Finding by Abdul Mannan Khan Minhas, Ehtesham Ul Haq, Ahmed Arslan Yousuf Awan, Arshad Ameer Khan, Ghazanfar Qureshi, Pragathi Balakrishna

“…These fistulas most commonly originate in the right coronary artery and terminate into the right ventricle and least frequently drain into the left ventricle. …”
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Shortened Cervix in the Subsequent Pregnancy after Embolization for Postpartum Cervical Hemorrhage by Zoltan Kozinszky, Sverre Sand, Nils-Einar Kløw, Kirsten Hald

“…A 33-year-old woman had a cesarean section at term followed by a secondary postpartum hemorrhage due to a ruptured cervicovaginal branch terminating in a large, partially thrombosed hematoma of the cervix. …”
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Solution processable perovskite-hybrid heterojunction silicon 4T tandem solar cells by Mohammad Adil Afroz, Bhavna Sharma, Ruchi K. Sharma, Ritesh Kumar Gupta, Ankita Sengupta, Sanjay K. Srivastava, Soumitra Satapathi

“…Here, a solution-based fabrication approach involving a high-performance semi-transparent perovskite cell (ST-PSC) stacked in tandem with a hybrid heterojunction silicon solar cell (HHSC) has been demonstrated for efficiency enhancement. The proposed 4-terminal tandem architecture exploits light management through the bandgap matching of the perovskite cell with silicon to minimize thermalization and absorption losses. …”
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Novel Vascular Malformation in an Affected Newborn with Deletion Del(4)(q31.3) by Norma Elena de León Ojeda, Michel Soriano-Torres, Mercedes J. Cabrera, Dunia Bárbara Benítez Ramos

“…We report on a newborn male patient with a terminal deletion in the long arm of the chromosome 4 with a congenital heart defect unreported before in association with this syndrome. …”
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The role of the neurovascular unit in vascular cognitive impairment: Current evidence and future perspectives by Zhidong He, Jing Sun

“…The neurovascular unit (NVU) is responsible for combining blood flow with brain activity and includes endothelial cells, pericytes, astrocytes and many regulatory nerve terminals. The concept of an NVU emphasizes that interactions between different types of cells are essential for maintaining brain homeostasis. …”
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Cyst between Femoral Attachments of Cruciate Ligaments: Unusual Cause of Knee Pain and Review of Literature by Ravi Gupta, Akash Singhal, Rohil Mehta

“…A 33-year-old female presented with pain and restriction of terminal flexion at the knee. No history of trauma was present. …”
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The role of HEPCAM in Jacobsen syndrome: A pediatric case report highlighting white matter abnormalities by Ghazaleh Ghorbannezhad, Reza Nejad Shahrokh Abadi, Farrokh Seilanian Toosi, Shima Shekari, Saeedeh Sadat Mirtooni, Narges Hashemi

“…Jacobsen syndrome (JS) is a rare contiguous gene deletion disorder characterized by a deletion at the terminal end of the long arm of chromosome 11. JS has various phenotypic features, such as neurodevelopmental delays and congenital heart defects. …”
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Energy-efficient dynamic wavelength and bandwidth allocation algorithm with delay constraint for time and wavelength division multiplexed passive optical networks by Cunqian YU, Mingzhu TANG, Rongxi HE

“…Based on offline scheduling and node modular design,an energy-efficient dynamic wavelength and bandwidth allocation algorithm with the delay constraint (EE-DWBA-DC) was proposed.Optical line terminal (OLT) and optical network units (ONU) were considered to save energy.Under the constraint of packet delay,the number of active wavelengths could be reduced as much as possible and the length of polling cycle was increased.At the same time,the uplink and downlink transmission time of OLT and ONU were concentrated to reduce the state conversion times and extend its low-power duration.In addition,the high energy consumption voids of channels were attempted to be minimized.The simulation results verify that the proposed algorithm can reduce the energy consumption of OLT and ONU and the total energy consumption of the whole network under the premise of guaranteeing packet delay constraints.…”
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Distributed robust beamforming algorithm for spectral coexistence in satellite and high altitude platform networks by Zining WANG, Min LIN, Fei LI, Lve HAN, Weiping ZHU

“…A distributed robust beamforming (BF) algorithm was proposed to improve spectrum efficiency for an integrated satellite and high altitude platform (HAP) network.Specifically, for the scenario where satellite network and HAP network adopted multicast and NOMA to serve their respective multiple users, an optimization problem was formulated to maximize the sum rate, subject to the rate requirements of both satellite and aerial terminals, and the transmit power budget of satellite and aerial platforms.Then, by considering both the imperfect channel state information (CSI) and the imperfect successive interference cancellation (SIC), S-procedure and sequential convex approximation were adopted to transform the nonconvex problem, and then a distributed BF algorithm using Lagrange duality was proposed to enable the spectral coexistence.Finally, simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can achieve a similar performance yet at a lower signaling overhead compared with the other existing works.…”
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Optimal investment and reinsurance for the insurer and reinsurer with the joint exponential utility by Wuyuan Jiang, Zechao Miao, Jun Liu

“…Our goal is to maximize the joint exponential utility of the terminal wealth of the insurer, and reinsurer over a certain period of time. …”
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Artificial 64-Residue HIV-1 Enhancer-Binding Peptide Is a Potent Inhibitor of Viral Replication in HIV-1-Infected Cells by Mouhssin Oufir, Leslie R. Bisset, Stefan R. K. Hoffmann, Gongda Xue, Stephan Klauser, Bianca Bergamaschi, Alain Gervaix, Jürg Böni, Jörg Schüpbach, Bernd Gutte

“…The resulting synthetic 64-residue peptide was found to bind to the two enhancers of the HIV-1 long terminal repeat, cross the plasma membrane and the nuclear envelope of human cells, and suppress the HIV-1 enhancer-controlled expression of a green fluorescent protein reporter gene. …”
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Platoon intelligence: edge learning in vehicle platooning networks by Junhui Zhao, Xiaoting Ma, Wenqi Yang, Huaicheng Li, Dongming Wang

“…In this paper, we investigate a platoon intelligence-based edge learning (PIEL) framework for the deep integration of terminal and network edge. Specifically, this paper discusses the characteristics and applications of platooning in edge learning and introduces the general architecture of PIEL. …”
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The First Case Report in Italy of Di George Syndrome Detected by Noninvasive Prenatal Testing by Giuseppina Rapacchia, Cristina Lapucci, Maria Carla Pittalis, Aly Youssef, Antonio Farina

“…A right aortic arch and suspect of thymus atrophy were detected, but not other severe malformations typical of the disease. The patient terminated the pregnancy at 17 weeks. NIPT allowed an early screening of Di George syndrome. …”
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Spatial Dynamic Wideband Modeling of the MIMO Satellite-to-Earth Channel by Andreas Lehner, Alexander Steingaß

“…A novel MIMO (multiple input multiple output) satellite channel model that allows the generation of associated channel impulse response (CIR) time series depending on the movement profile of a land mobile terminal is presented in this paper. Based on high precise wideband measurements in L-band the model reproduces the correlated shadowing and multipath conditions in rich detail. …”
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Pareto Optimality Conditions and Duality for Vector Quadratic Fractional Optimization Problems by W. A. Oliveira, A. Beato-Moreno, A. C. Moretti, L. L. Salles Neto

“…These conditions might be useful to determine termination criteria in the development of algorithms.…”
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