From Antenna Design to High Fidelity, Full Physics Automotive Radar Sensor Corner Case Simulation by Ushemadzoro Chipengo, Peter M. Krenz, Shawn Carpenter

“…Physically building and testing radar systems to demonstrate reliability is an expensive and time-consuming process. Simulation emerges as the most practical solution to designing and testing radar systems. …”
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Stability-Indicating HPLC Determination of Trandolapril in Bulk Drug and Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms by Leena A. Al-Hawash, Ashok K. Shakya, Maher L. Saleem

“…The trandolapril was separated isocratically on Hypersil-Gold C18 column (250 mm × 4.6 mm, 5 μm) with a mobile phase consisting of 50% acetonitrile and 50% water (containing 0.025% triethylamine, pH 3.0±0.1), at 25±2°C. Retention time of the drug was ~4.6 min. The eluted compounds were monitored and identified at 210 nm. …”
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Reservoir Characterization and Volumetric Analysis of “Lee” Field, Onshore Niger Delta, Using 3D Seismic and Well Log Data by P. Adigwe, S. Inichinbia

“…The objectives among others include  identification and delineation of the reservoirs and estimating the petrophysical parameters from the well logs available, generating time and depth structure maps of horizons from the seismic section, and a volumetric analysis in order to estimate hydrocarbon in place. …”
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Aggressive Multimodal Approach for Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer and Long-Term Survival by Nasir Hussain, Usman Mustafa, Su Hyeon Jung, Alan D. Gilman

“…A 59-year-old female was referred to our facility for an elective thyroid and parathyroidectomy for concerns of thyroid papillary cancer and hyperparathyroidism. At the time of surgery, the tumor mass had invaded the muscular layer of esophagus; radicle thyroidectomy parathyroidectomy along with removal of muscle layer of esophagus was performed, and diagnosis of ATC was made. …”
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A new electoral bottom-up model of institutional governance by Carlos M. Garrido, Francisco C. Santos, Elias Fernández Domingos, Ana M. Nunes, Jorge M. Pacheco

“…Here we make use of the CRD to develop, for the first time, a bottom-up institutional governance framework of GRC. …”
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A Reinforcement Learning-Based Dynamic Clustering of Sleep Scheduling Algorithm (RLDCSSA-CDG) for Compressive Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks by Alaa N. El-Shenhabi, Ehab H. Abdelhay, Mohamed A. Mohamed, Ibrahim F. Moawad

“…Finally, the transmitting process will be adequately organized based on an adaptive wake-up/sleep scheduling algorithm to transmit the data at the “right time” in the forwarding phase. The MATLAB platform was utilized to conduct simulation studies to validate the proposed RLDCSSA-CDG’s effectiveness. …”
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Study of the Corrosion Characteristics of Tunnel Fissures in a Karst Area in Southwest China by Yanjie Zhao, Fugang Wang, Cangsong Li, Yuqing Cao, Hailong Tian

“…The larger the initial permeability and the larger the porosity of the fissures, the faster the fissures corrode. In the same time period, the fissures with high permeability and large porosity will lead to the permeability and porosity being more enhanced, thus causing the corrosion of the fissures to exhibit secondary enhancement effects. …”
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Сhallenges of the modern model of formation and implementation of the Russian state innovation policy by A. N. Gusarova, D. Yu. Znamenskiy

“…This direction of policy has been studied from the standpoint of institutional, technological and time components, which allows us to characterize the modern model of the state innovation policy of Russia as a model implemented “top-down”, as the center of decision-making was shifted towards the state in the face of government agencies and decision-makers with minimal consideration of the views of other stakeholders. …”
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Predictor-Based CACC Design for Heterogeneous Vehicles With Distinct Input Delays by Amirhossein Samii, Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis

“…The design achieves individual vehicle stability, string stability, and zero, steady-state speed/spacing tracking errors, relying on a nominal, constant time headway (CTH)-type CACC design that achieves these specifications when all actuators’ delays are zero. …”
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FIRM SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS AND DIVIDEND PAYOUT RATIO: AN INSIGHT OF QUOTED COMPANIES ON THE NIGERIAN STOCK EXCHANGE by Oluwaseyi Ayodele Adedipe, Sunday Azeita Okoughenu

“…Hence, this study recommends that managers of Nigerian quoted firms should lower the amount of cash spent on capital intensity, labour intensity and R&D intensity so that the value of profitability will increase; and the same time, dividend pay-out ratio will equally increase. …”
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EFL pre-service teachers’ challenges in teaching English to young learners during Kampus Mengajar program in rural areas by Wahidah Nurul Hikmah, Irma Windy Astuti

“… In recent time, several studies have discussed the challenges frequently faced by pre-service EFL teachers (PSEFLTs) while conducting their teaching practice in rural areas. …”
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Scenario-Based Risk Assessment for Düzce Province by Zeynep Mıhçı, Hüseyin Bayraktar

“…As a result; This study, which was carried out in the central district of Düzce province, will ensure that the necessary precautions are taken beforehand in case of a possible earthquake, and that the loss of life will be reduced to a minimum by acting more planned and faster at that time. …”
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REAPING BENEFITS THROUGH EFFECTIVE PEER REVIEW IN A COLLABORATIVE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM by Vaida Misevičiūtė

“…Literature review revealed that many practitioners doubt the value of reflective practice through a process of peer learning and peer assessment claiming the activities are too time consuming and students are not mature enough or lack confidence and motivation to assess peers critically. …”
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Adaptive Robust SMC-Based AGC Auxiliary Service Control for ESS-Integrated PV/Wind Station by Xiao-Ling Su, Zheng-Kui Zhao, Yang Si, Yong-Qing Guo

“…The shifting operation modes and external disturbances make ESSs in an ESS-integrated PV/wind station inherently nonlinear and time variable. Therefore, an adaptive robust sliding-mode control (ARSMC) system is proposed. …”
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الميتاداتا : تحليل لاحق للانتاج الفکرى by رحاب محمد ابو الغار

“…Meta-analysis is considered a research style in the field of libraries andinformation, one of the efforts of registering Literature. this style is remarkablewith three features that cannot stand without which fusion (collecting orintegration) between previous results of the study and summarizing these results,meeting and comparing them with each other, using some statistical methods inthis summary to perform bibliometric analysis, of previous studies. this study triesto apply Meta-analysis style on one of the topics " metadata" with analyzing itwith qualitative, quantative, time and linguistic analysis and clarifying scientifictrends of the topic, in this study, the researcher tried to analysis previous studiesaccording to objective elements of the study, this is to recognize common andgeneral results that studies of this topic had reached to.The intellectual production that dealt with the subject of metadata in itsbranches, which amounted to 61 studies, was presented and analyzed to identifyits objective, temporal, qualitative, formal and syntactic features andcharacteristics, and the methodology used.The most important recommendations, proposals or future researchdirections regarding metadata are the following: Conducting some applied studies dealing with metadata of museumgroups and metadata of multimedia. Study the quality of the metadata of media, especially news websites, onthe Internet. Conducting many studies on the topic of "Big Metadata" and "LinkedMetadata" Methods used to describe metadata between Arab and foreign indexes(that use correlated data): a comparative study. Future directions for describing metadata of indexes in the environment oflinked data: an exploratory study. …”
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Randomized Controlled Study of 3D Print Fingerboard and Traditional Fingerboard on Treatment of Stroke Patients with Finger Spasm by Kai WANG, Yiting SHI, Wen HE, Jing YUAN, Yuan LI, Xiaolin PAN, Cuilian ZHAO

“…Compared with the control group after 3 months of treatment, the average time in wearing fingerboard of the treatment group was longer (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01), and the finger muscle tension of the treatment group was lower (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01). …”
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DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS SIMULATION ANALYSIS AND MICROSCOPIC MODEL OF RUBBER CONVEYOR BELT OF STEEL CORE by CHEN HongYue, ZHANG Kun, LI EnDong, LI YongHong, MAO Jun

“…The axial deformation of side strand’s side wire presented two-time-helix change distribution. Every side strand deformation amount was almost same and axial deformation of side strand’s side wire gradually enlarged along handed, the axial deformation amount of side strand changed remarkably relative to Core strand. …”
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A Secure and Reliable Fog-Enabled Architecture Using Blockchain With Functional Biased Elliptic Curve Cryptography Algorithm for Healthcare Services by charu awasthi, Satya Prakash, Prashant Kumar Mishra

“…Fog devices can process an enormous volume of information locally, are transportable, and can be deployed on a variety of systems. Because of its real-time processing and event reactions, it is ideal for healthcare. …”
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Understanding geographical variations in health system performance: a population-based study on preventable childhood hospitalisations by Daniel Exeter, Pushkar Raj Silwal, Arier Lee, Tim Tenbensel

“…Objective To investigate interdistrict variations in childhood ambulatory sensitive hospitalisation (ASH) over the years.Design Observational population-based study over 2008–2018 using the Primary Health Organisation Enrolment Collection (PHO) and the National Minimum Dataset hospital events databases.Setting New Zealand primary and secondary care.Participants All children aged 0–4 years enrolled in the PHO Enrolment Collection from 2008 to 2018.Main outcome measure ASH.Results Only 1.4% of the variability in the risk of having childhood ASH (intracluster correlation coefficient=0.014) is explained at the level of District Health Board (DHB), with the median OR of 1.23. No consistent time trend was observed for the adjusted childhood ASH at the national level, but the DHBs demonstrated different trajectories over the years. …”
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Development of an Efficient Analytical Method for the Extraction and Analysis of Biocide Contents from the Textile Test Specimens on LC-DAD by Muhammad Jahangir, Uzman Khan

“…Pretreatment factors such as extraction solvent, extraction method, dilution ratio, and extraction time were optimized initially and plotted calibration curve showed regression (r2 ≥ 0.9995) in the range of 1.0–5.0 mg L−1. …”
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