Microwave Imaging Using CMOS Integrated Circuits with Rotating 4 × 4 Antenna Array on a Breast Phantom by Hang Song, Afreen Azhari, Xia Xiao, Eiji Suematsu, Hiromasa Watanabe, Takamaro Kikkawa

“…Radar signals are received and converted to digital signals by CMOS equivalent time sampling circuits. By rotating the 4 × 4 antenna array, the reference signal is obtained by averaging the waveforms from various positions to extract the breast phantom target response. …”
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Parameter Analysis on Hardening Soil Model of Soft Soil for Foundation Pits Based on Shear Rates in Shenzhen Bay, China by Yanbin Fu, Siyue He, Sizhan Zhang, Yong Yang

“…The results showed that reference secant stiffness and failure ratio of soft soil obtained by different analytical methods were quite different, and the errors of reference secant stiffness and failure ratio of soft soil obtained by stress-strain curves were the smallest and the stability was the best; at the same time, with increase of shear rates, the peak deviator stress and reference secant stiffness of soft soil increased, but failure ratio did not change much. …”
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Load Balanced Congestion Adaptive Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks by Jung-Yoon Kim, Geetam S. Tomar, Laxmi Shrivastava, Sarita Singh Bhadauria, Won-Hyoung Lee

“…The route with low traffic load density and maximum life time is selected for packet transmission using this protocol. …”
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State of charge estimation for lithium‐ion batteries based on square root sigma point Kalman filter considering temperature variations by Davoud Mahboubi, Iraj Jafari Gavzan, Mohammad Hassan Saidi, Naghi Ahmadi

“…In this paper, to estimate real‐time of SOC in lithium‐ion batteries and overcome faults of Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), the Square‐Root Sigma Point Kalman Filter is applied on the basis of numerical approximations rather than analytical methods of EKF. …”
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RP-HPLC Method for the Determination of Cinitapride in the Presence of its Degradation Products in Bulk Drug by S. M. N. Roy, Kiran V. Mangaonkar, A. Y. Desai, Santosh M. Yetal

“…Glimepride was used as internal standard. The retention time of drug cinitapride was 3.8 min and glimepride an internal standard was 2.5 minute. …”
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ZACHARIAS’S PRAYER IN TWO NOVGORODIAN TRANSLATIONS (END OF THE 15TH – FIRST HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY): SOME REFLECTIONS ON MULTIPLE TRANSLATIONS AND RE-TRANSLATIONS by Vittorio Springfield Tomelleri

“…The interlinear publication of both texts, carried out for the first time, is accompanied by a short philological and linguistic commentary providing a detailed analysis of the principal features of these two translations, which arose independently of each other in Novgorod, with a gap of some decades between them (end of the 15th – first half of the 16th century). …”
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‘Communication, that is the key’: a qualitative investigation of how essential workers with COVID-19 responded to public health information by Yanbing Chen, Claire Buckley, Elizabeth Alvarez, Conor Buggy, Mark Roe, Mary Codd, Anne Drummond, Carolyn Ingram, Penpatra Sripaiboonkij, Carla Perrotta, Mary Archibald, Vicky Downey, Natalia Rachwal

“…Objectives To understand how essential workers with confirmed infections responded to information on COVID-19.Design Qualitative analysis of semistructured interviews conducted in collaboration with the national contact tracing management programme in Ireland.Setting Semistructured interviews conducted via telephone and Zoom Meetings.Participants 18 people in Ireland with laboratory confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections using real-time PCR testing of oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal swabs. …”
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Cervical prolapse during labor: A case report by Adugnaw Bogale Worku, Molla Asnake Kebede, Abebe Agegn Wudineh, Adefris Getachew Techane, Mekuanint Dessie Lakew, Chuchu Arega Zeleke

“…At the six-week follow-up, the uterine prolapse had completely resolved.This case emphasizes the importance of individualized management and timely intervention. Postpartum uterine prolapse often resolves spontaneously with conservative care. …”
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A Program for Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management by Kabale University

“…iii) To enable students have knowledge on how to manage employees’ relations and diversity, collective and individual, retaining commitment through time of change.…”
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The Psychosocial Impact of the Romanian Government Measures on the Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Armenia Androniceanu, Doina-Mihaela Marton

“…Our research results can help the Romanian authorities avoid problems among the population and adapt their measures to better meet the population’s psychosocial needs in time of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, which is far from over. …”
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Developing Artificial Intelligence-Powered Monetary Policy Communication Indicators for Macroeconomic Inquiries in Ghana by Francis Mawuli Abude, Jones Odei-Mensah, Eric Schaling

“…The findings suggest that while readability and sentiments generally declined over the sample period, uncertainty increased, indicating persistent macroeconomic imbalances and vulnerabilities in the domestic economy. The newly developed time series-based indicators demonstrate Granger causal relationships with key macroeconomic variables, affirming their relevance to the central bank, the Ministry of Finance, researchers, investors, and development partners. …”
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Euro-Med Abandoned Small(er) Towns. A landscape/ecological urbanism perspective for sustainable regeneration in Basilicata inlands by Alessandro Raffa

“…Small(er) towns regeneration is view inside a more complex, interdisciplinary and holistic frame in which inter-scalarity, flux, dynamic and time variability are crucial. Performative bio-cultural green infrastructure, through the multiplication of public space, could support sustainable processes, in an ecological, economic and social sense. …”
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Horsing Around: Carnivalesque Humor and the Aesthetics of Dehierarchization in Mister Ed by Stefan L. Brandt

“…In this sense, Mister Ed creates a scenario in which the “absolutely marginal” (Berger), indeed, returns the viewers’ gaze, inviting them to share and valorize this outside perspective, if only for the duration of one twenty-five minute episode at a time.…”
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Research progress of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α and zinc in the mechanism of diabetic kidney disease by Wei Qin, Ping Nie, Xuejun Hui, Fei Chen, Xingbao Hu, Wenjiao Shi, Manyu Luo, Bing Li

“…Furthermore, HIF-1α also participates in the occurrence and development of diabetic kidney disease through mechanisms such as regulating apoptosis, inducing mitochondrial autophagy, and vascular calcification. At the same time, this article clarifies the regulatory role of the trace element zinc on hypoxia-inducible factor-1α in diabetic kidney disease. …”
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A Three-Dimensional Anisotropic Diffusion Equation-Based Video Recognition Model for Classroom Concentration Evaluation in English Language Teaching by Yanghong Liu, Jintao Liu

“…Based on the above face detection and expression recognition algorithms, the classroom concentration analysis system based on expression recognition is designed to achieve real-time acquisition and processing of classroom images, complete student classroom attendance records using face detection and face recognition methods, and analyze students’ concentration from the face integrity and facial expression of students facing the blackboard by combining face detection and expression recognition to visualize and display students’ classroom data for teachers, students, and parents with more data support and help.…”
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Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi (Eds). Encyclopedia of the Yoruba. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. 371pp. by Ibrahim A. Odugbemi

“…Following an alphabetical ordering, each entry in the encyclopedia is complete on its own as it examines and discusses a subject, subject matter, concept or topic that shares an affiliation with the Yorùbá world in time (the traditional past in all its distant and intricate temporal dimensions and the modern present in all its complex interrelations) and/or space (Yoruba homes across West Africa and the African diaspora. …”
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Stepping in Place While Voluntarily Turning Around Produces a Long-Lasting Posteffect Consisting in Inadvertent Turning While Stepping Eyes Closed by Stefania Sozzi, Marco Schieppati

“…The posteffect of voluntary turning shared all features of PKAR. Time decay of angular velocity, stepping cadence, head acceleration, and ratio of angular velocity after to angular velocity before were similar between both protocols. …”
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Influence of window design and environmental variables on the window opening behavior of occupants and energy consumption in residential buildings by Sivapriya Chelliah, Subbaiyan Gnanasambandam, Srinivas Tadepalli

“…Studies about window opening and closing behaviour focused mainly on environmental variables (indoor temperature and air quality, climatic factors) and contextual parameters (season, time of the day). This paper investigates the influence of factors related to window design and environmental variables on the frequency of opening and closing the windows and the duration of windows in the open position. …”
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Development and Validation of a Wave-Propelled Semi-submersible Unmanned Vehicle by Tian Yingyuan, Li Weijia, Wang Zhigang

“…Ocean observation and exploration technologies are crucial for marine environmental protection and resource development, but traditional tools have limitations in terms of operating time, coverage, and cost. Wave gliders, which offer advantages such as long duration, wide range, and low cost, are a promising solution, but their low speed and weak manoeuvrability hinder their application, due to poor collision avoidance and survivability. …”
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Cross-layer latency analysis for 5G NR in V2X communications. by Jorge Horta, Mario Siller, Salvador Villarreal-Reyes

“…., transmission rates of several gigabits per second, latency of less than a millisecond, and millions of devices connected at the same time. To meet these requirements, it is necessary to access new spectrum (the so-called millimeter waves) and use techniques such as Massive MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) and beamforming. …”
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