Studies on Progress of Aluminum Based Composites for Automotive Applications and its Damping Characteristics – A Review by Karthikeyan Lakshmanan, Pitchipoo Pandian, Rajakarunakaran Sivaprakasam, Kathiravan Sundaram

“…Damping capability refers to the ability of materials to manage mechanical vibrations at the time of cyclic stress. To reduce mechanical vibrations in today's environment, materials with superior mechanical and damping capabilities are needed. …”
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Cosmopolitanism of Langsa Society during Colonial Era by Sumiyati Sumiyati, Singgih Tri Sulistiyono, Yety Rochwulaningsih, Ichwan Azhari

“…The research findings indicate that cosmopolitanism in Langsa has been ongoing for a long time, starting from the pre-Islamic era, continuing through the waves of European and other foreign arrivals, the influence of colonialism, independence, the arrival of modernist Islam, and up to the New Order political era. …”
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Experiencing the Loss of an Adult Child in Old Age by A.A. Agisheva

“…Anamneses of elderly people are often burdened by cumulative psychotraumatization, somatic and mental disorders. At the same time, older subjects have a wider range of coping strategies available. …”
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The Evolution of the NATO-Russia Relations by V. I. Batyuk

“…NATO’s eastward enlargement — combined with the firm position of the official Washington and Brussels on the unacceptability of Russia’s membership in the Alliance — meant a complete exclusion of Russia from the decision-making process on the European security. At the same time, for a variety of reasons, in the post-bipolar world the military-political dependence of the Western European subregion on Washington did not decrease, as many hoped, but, on the contrary, has increased, thus excluding for Moscow the very possibility to play on the contradictions between the United States and its European allies. …”
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New paradigm for auditory paired pulse suppression. by Nobuyuki Takeuchi, Shunsuke Sugiyama, Koji Inui, Kousuke Kanemoto, Makoto Nishihara

“…The present method requires only a short inspection time and is non-invasive.…”
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Employee attendance system using face recognition and GPS using local binary pattern histogram by Narahari Vigraha Prasada, Ikrimach

“…The system performances for various conditions were also noteworthy, achieving 96.4% recognition accuracy with FAR = 0.05 %, FRR = 1 % in normal lighting conditions and maintaining a 94.1 % near-accurate performance under low-light environmental settings whilst sustaining the performance at 90.6 % in outdoor environments, which resulted in detection time of approximately between 1.3–2.3 seconds respectively. …”
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Forest Plundering in the Forest Management Unit (KPH) Randublatung, Blora Regency: Types of Plundering and the Involvement of External Community Actors by Nazal Chilmi Ulyatin, Singgih Tri Sulistiyono, Yety Rochwulaningsih

“…Acts of taking wood from state forests have occurred for a long time. However, in the lead-up to the Reformation, taking wood from the forest evolved beyond mere theft, escalating into acts of plundering. …”
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Stated-preference research in HIV: A scoping review. by John M Humphrey, Violet Naanyu, Katherine R MacDonald, Kara Wools-Kaloustian, Gregory D Zimet

“…The frequency of published studies increased over time and covered HIV themes relating to prevention (n = 25), counselling and testing (n = 10), service delivery (n = 10), and antiretroviral therapy (n = 12). …”
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Investigation of persistant bovine viral diarrhea virus (bvdv) infection at the pregnant cows and their calves bv immunoflourescence and immunperoxidase tests by Orhan Yapkıç, Sibel Yavru

“…Blood samples which were collected with and without EDTA were taken from 62 prenatal pregnant cows, from both cows and precolostral calves at the time of birth and, after approximately 3 months, from postnatal calves which were all present in a private management in this research. …”
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Effect of a high-fat diet and iron overload on erythropoiesis in mice by Joe Varghese, Jithu James Varghese, Molly Jacob

“…However, these mice had a significantly higher reticulocyte population in the BM than those fed CD (at all time points studied). Values of hematological parameters were higher in Hamp1−/− mice than WT mice, at 24 weeks of feeding (irrespective of diet type), indicating increased erythropoiesis. …”
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Identification and validation of TSPAN13 as a novel temozolomide resistance-related gene prognostic biomarker in glioblastoma. by Haofei Wang, Zhen Liu, Zesheng Peng, Peng Lv, Peng Fu, Xiaobing Jiang

“…Using LASSO Cox analysis, we selected 12 TMZR-RDEGs to construct a risk score model, which was evaluated for performance through survival analysis, time-dependent ROC, and stratified analyses. Functional enrichment and mutation analyses were conducted to explore the underlying mechanisms of the risk score and its relationship with immune cell infiltration levels in GBM. …”
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On the Suitability of Vibration Acceptance Criteria of Process Pipework by Omar Tawfik Shady, Jamil Renno, M. Shadi Mohamed, Sadok Sassi, Asan G. A. Muthalif

“…For the models with a shorter mainline pipe, the criterial is suitable in 76.5% of the time with 68.27% confidence level.…”
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Pengaruh mediasi nilai perusahaan dari manajemen resiko, investasi langsung dan perpajakan terhadap pertumbuhan ekonomi by Paulus Johan Lolo

“…Menggunakan teknik penggabungan data (pooling data) antara cross section dan time series, ditetapkan full sampling sebanyak 251 perusahaan di Sulawesi Selatan. …”
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Optimisation of Water-Use in Pulp and Paper Mills: A Streamlined Review of Scientific Journal Publications by Felicia Ocklind, Kristin Liback, Lova Lundqvist, Wilma Harge, G Venkatesh

“… The water-, and energy footprints of the processes in the pulp and paper industry are sizable enough to warrant investment of money and commitment of time truncate the same. Besides, there is also a nexus between water and energy here, with optimisation of the use of one of these resoruces enabling that of the other too. …”
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The Development of a Hybrid EnKF-3DVAR Algorithm for Storm-Scale Data Assimilation by Jidong Gao, Ming Xue, David J. Stensrud

“…Our tests indicate that the hybrid scheme can reduce the storm spin-up time because it fits the observations, especially the reflectivity observations, better than the EnKF and the 3DVAR at the beginning of the assimilation cycles.…”
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Digital Words of Wisdom? Digital Storytelling with Older People – Ponderings of a (fairly) new PhD Research Candidate and a (growing) older Digital Storytelling practitioner by Jenkins Tricia

“…This paper builds upon a presentation given at “Digital Storytelling in a Time of Crisis”, an international Digital Storytelling conference that took place in Athens in May 2014. …”
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Sphere of Providing Funeral Services in Ukraine: Current Problems by V. P. Yatsenko, O. S. Yelisieieva

“…Particular attention in the process of legislative transformation taking place in various areas of legal regulation should be paid to one of the relevant areas – the provision of funeral services, which, although not included in the official list of administrative services, but have an administrative nature given the parties of their provision. At the same time, the issue of monopoly and corruption in the field of funeral services remains poorly studied. …”
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IALight: Importance-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Arterial Traffic Cooperative Control by Lu WEI, Xiaoyan ZHANG, Lijun FAN, Lei GAO, Jian YANG

“…Comprehensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world traffic scenarios demonstrate that the proposed IALight outperforms the traditional and deep reinforcement learning baselines by more than 20.41% and 17.88% in average vehicle travel time, respectively.…”
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Trajectory to professorship for third space practitioners: a learning developer perspective by Steve Briggs

“…I have worked in the third space as a Learning Developer for almost 20 years. During this time, I have been fortunate to progress in my career from an Academic Skills Tutor to Director of Learning and Teaching Excellence. …”
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Big Data Analysis Using Apache Spark MLlib and Hadoop HDFS with Scala and Java by Hoger Khayrolla Omar, Alaa Khalil Jumaa

“…In this paper, some comparisons are presented about the time performance evaluation among Scala and Java in apache spark MLlib. …”
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