Satellite Observations of the Seasonal Evolution of Total Precipitable Water Vapour over the Mediterranean Sea by J. L. Palau, F. Rovira, M. J. Sales

“…This study shows satellite observations and new findings on the time and spatial distribution of the Total Precipitable Water (TPW) column over the Mediterranean Sea throughout the year. …”
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A Bi‐level stacked LSTM‐DNN‐based decoder network for AGC dispatch under regulation market framework in presence of VPP and EV aggregators by Kingshuk Roy, Sanjoy Debbarma, Siddhartha Deb Roy, Liza Debbarma

“…The proposed decoder network is comprised of stacked LSTM and DNN, wherein the cascaded LSTM layers are introduced to accurately capture temporal information from time series input. The inclusion of a dropout mechanism further enhances the model’s generalisability in unforeseen environments. …”
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An in-depth analysis of two common methodologies used to derive hourly solar radiation values from daily ones: pros and cons by Harry D. Kambezidis, Harry D. Kambezidis

“…The CPR model outperforms the CPRG model across all sites and time scales. A universal coefficient of correction is used to further enhance the CPR performance, bringing the CPR-estimated solar radiation very close to the observed one.…”
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County Differences in Mortality among Foreign-Born Compared to Native Swedes 1970–1999 by Björn Albin, Katarina Hjelm, Jan Ekberg, Sölve Elmståhl

“…Foreign-born persons had a lower mean age (1.0–4.3 years) at time of death. Conclusion. County of residence influences mortality; higher mortality is indicated among migrants than native Swedes in counties with a more rural structure. …”
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Decolorisation of Reactive Red 120 Dye by Using Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Aqueous Solutions by Edris Bazrafshan, Ferdos Kord Mostafapour, Ali Reza Hosseini, Ataolah Raksh Khorshid, Amir Hossein Mahvi

“…The effect of various operating parameters such as initial concentration of dye, contact time, adsorbent dosage and initial pH was investigated in order to find the optimum adsorption conditions. …”
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A Novel Hybrid Cascaded and Stacked Coupled Inductor Boost Converter With Active Clamping Zero-Voltage Switching by Jing-Yuan Lin, Chuan-Ting Chen, Yi-Feng Lin

“…This study describes the working principle and time domain analysis of this topology. Detailed design of components and propose the best design process. …”
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Audio classification using grasshopper‐ride optimization algorithm‐based support vector machine by Suryabhan Pratap Singh, Umesh Chandra Jaiswal

“…Abstract The accurate and robust detection of the audio has been widely grown as the speech technology in the area of audio forensics, speech recognition, and so on. However, in real time, it is a challenge to deal with the massive data arriving from distributed sources. …”
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The distance learning impact on the quality of the educational process (according to the study results conducted at the State University of Management) by I. K. Shcherbakova

“…Digitalization is gaining momentum at a rapid pace, affecting all spheres of society, including education, where, as a result of the global Covid-19 pandemic, a forced transition from full-time to distance learning, digital format was carried out. …”
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Empathy as a professional quality of a counselling psychologist by O. Dudar

“…In particular, the factors that negatively affected the manifestation and development of the respondents' empathic abilities were mainly the lack of proper experience, education, understanding, constraint or excessive focus on their own position. At the same time, it was clear that the level of empathy depends on the way an individual thinks and is an incentive for prosocial behaviour, which, in turn, is an innate, evolutionary human characteristic. …”
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Funding the New Biologics – CCOHTA Report on the Cost Effectiveness of Infliximab for Crohn’s Disease: Pearls and Pitfalls by John K Marshall

“…The results should be interpreted, however, in view of a number of limitations. The time horizon for the analysis was short (one year), because of a lack of longer-term efficacy data, and might have led to an underestimation of the benefits from averting surgery. …”
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Spatial-temporal Evolution of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in the Huaihe River Basin from 1999 to 2018 by GAO Zheng, LIU Saiyan, QIN Xuan, XU Liuxin

“…Vegetation is one of the main participants in the global carbon cycle and plays an important role in land surface water transport and energy transmission.Based on the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) of the Huaihe River Basin (HRB) from 1999 to 2018,the spatial-temporal evolution law of NDVI was studied on three time scales (month,quarter,and year) through the Mann-Kendall trend test and empirical orthogonal function (EOF) decomposition.The following findings are obtained.① Affected by crop maturity and different landforms,the multi-year average values of monthly NDVI in the HRB present an M-shaped distribution as a whole,and there are some differences in the mean value and variation range of NDVI in different sub-basins.② In the downstream area with more farmlands,the NDVI shows an insignificant downward trend in summer and winter,while in other three sub-basins of the river,the NDVI follows an upward trend in all seasons,especially in spring and autumn.③ The annual NDVI of the basin exhibits a significant upward trend,which is the same as the global greening trend.This also indicates that returning cropland back to forests and other soil and water conservation measures have achieved remarkable results in vegetation restoration and ecological protection in the basin for the past 20 years.④ The spatial distribution of NDVI modes in the HRB shows simultaneous increases or decreases overall,with a great difference existing between the western and eastern areas.Vegetation coverage gradually decreases from inland to coastal.These research results can provide a reference basis for understanding the vegetation restoration characteristics and protecting the ecological environment in the HRB.…”
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Research on the Contact and Temperature Field Distribution Characteristic of the Saddle-shaped Buckling Deformation in Hydro-viscous Friction Pair by Yuyu Jiang, Hongwei Cui, Yijun Qiao, Hao Sun, Jingwei Ning

“…A two-dimensional transient temperature field calculation model that considers the time-varying characteristics of the contact stress distribution and the convective heat transfer conditions are proposed， and the temperature rise in surface along with the temperature field of friction pairs in the sliding process is simulated and analyzed. …”
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Research on Spectroscopy Modulation of a Distributed Feedback Laser Diode Based on the TDLAS Technique by Bin Li, Liang Xue, Nan Ji, Da Hui Wei

“…The laser’s temperature fluctuation can be limited within the range of −0.02 to 0.02°C, and good operation stability was observed through 15 hours of monitoring on the emitting wavelength of the laser. Response time of temperature modulation was tested which is suitable for the tuning requirements of gas detection systems. …”
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STRUCTURE DESIGN AND EXPERIMENT OF MULTIPURPOSE LOWER LIMB REHABILITATION EXOSKELETON by LI Gang, WANG YuJuan, LI XueWei, DU ZhenJun, CHEN YuXi

“…The experimental results show that the torque sensor has high real-time and accuracy,and the exoskeleton has a wide range of adaptability. …”
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Social security for special categories of disabled people in the Ukrainian SSRin the 1920s. by Olha Murashova, Yurii Zinko

“…However, under the conditions of the new economic policy with its market principles, a small number of people could count on security. At the same time, despite the low size of social payments, the very fact of her appointment, the Soviet authorities tried to testify their value to the proletarian state. …”
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Insight in patients with bipolar disorder: Findings from the bipolar disorder course and outcome study from India (BiD-CoIN study) by Sandeep Grover, Ajit Avasthi, Rahul Chakravarty, Amitava Dan, Kaustav Chakraborty, Rajarshi Neogi, Avinash Desousa, Omkar P. Nayak, Samir Kumar Praharaj, Vikas Menon, Raman Deep, Manish Bathla, Alka A. Subramanyam, Naresh Nebhinani, Prasonjit Ghosh, Bhaveshkumar Lakdawala, Ranjan Bhattacharya

“…Poor insight as assessed by ISAD was associated with a higher number of episodes in the lifetime, shorter duration of current remission, a higher number of depressive episodes, a higher amount of time spent in depressive episodes, higher depressive affective morbidity, a higher number of manic episodes, and higher residual depressive and manic symptoms. …”
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Social adaptation features of Chinese students to online learning in a university by R. V. Lenkov, N. V. Karpova

“…It has been empirically proven that the attitude of Chinese students to any form of education depends on how much the issue of overcoming the language barrier and building intercultural communication has been resolved in a particular educational practice. At the same time, a positive attitude towards online learning is associated by Chinese students with the opportunity to study without having to stay in the territory of the Russian Federation, and a negative one is associated with communication problems, in particular, with the lack of direct communication with a teacher or supervisor. …”
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Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Control for Gearless PMSG-Based Wind Turbine by Mojtaba Nasiri, Saleh Mobayen, Quan Min Zhu

“…Then, to show the MPPT implementation of the proposed controller, wind speed is changed with time. The simulation results show designed STSM controller better performance and robustness under different conditions.…”
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Pedestrian navigation: how can inertial measurment units assist smartphones? by I. A. Chistyakov, I. V. Grishov, A. A. Nikulin, M. V. Pikhletsky, I. B. Gartseev

“…Additionally, the process of inter-device time synchronization is investigated and detailed description of the experiments and used equipment is given. …”
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Rendre visible les impacts des pesticides du soja : contributions et limites d’un observatoire de science citoyenne à Santarém, Amazonie brésilienne by Emilie Coudel, Stéphanie Nasuti, Danielle Wagner Silva, Marie-Paule Bonnet, Mariana Piva, Beatriz Abreu dos Santos, Ricardo Folhes, Vincent Bonnal, Valéria Fechine, Denise Lima, Carlos José Sousa Passos, Txai Mitt Schwamborn, Ione Nakamura, Gracivane Rodrigues de Moura

“…We conduct an analysis at three levels: at the national level, we follow the emergence of pesticides as a public issue, its consolidation during the Labor government (2003-2016), and then its dismantling; at a local level, the survey reveals how the family farmers are impacted by soy pesticides and at the same time, not so aware of being "victims"; finally, at the territorial level, we question the weakening of the debate between science and politics, particularly within the Regional Forum for the fight against the impact of pesticides set up in Santarém.…”
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