Survival of Expiratory Aerosols in a Room: Study Using a Bi-compartment and Bi-component Indoor Air Model by Sreekanth Bathula, Srinivasan Anand, Thaseem Thajudeen, Yelia Shankaranarayana Mayya, Probal Chaudhury, Chaturvedi Shashank

“…However, the rooms allocated to these patients are accessed by health care and sanitization workers a couple of times in a day. Since the expiratory activities release airborne droplets with certain viral load, there is a greater need to study the survival of these droplets in the room of a patient to control the exposure to the accessing people. …”
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Ramp from replica trick by Xuchen Cao, Thomas Faulkner

“…We use steepest descent methods at large modular times to extract the ramp. The large bond dimension limit of the replicated partition function is dominated by a sum over annular non-crossing permutations. …”
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Idiopathic Bilateral Bloody Tearing by Emrullah Beyazyıldız, Yasemin Özdamar, Özlem Beyazyıldız, Hasan Yerli

“…We collected samples from bloody tears two times and pathological examination was performed. …”
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Effect of trace elements on the interface reactions between two lead-free solders and copper or nickel substrates by Soares D., Vilarinho C., Barbosa J., Samuel F., Trigo L., Bré P.

“…The phases formed at the interface between the Cu or Ni substrate and a molten lead-free solder at 250ºC, were studied for different stage times and alloy compositions. The melting temperatures, of the studied alloys, were determined by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). …”
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Physicochemical properties and cytochromes P-450 kinetics of the trifluoroacetamido derivative of phenacetin by Hannah L. Cure, Thomas A. Shell

“…TFA-phenacetin is over seven times more lipophilic than phenacetin, which suggests that TFA-phenacetin would have better bioavailability relative to phenacetin. …”
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Mindmeister’s Influence on 4C Skills in Indonesian Subject Grade 6 Elementary School in Surabaya by Yuli Christiana Yoedo, Anita Octaviani, Dani Puspitasari

“…A combined research method was used, involving data collection carried out through in-depth interviews with students, observation, taking pre-test and post-test scores 3 times each in the control class and experimental class. …”
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Impacts of COVID-19 on the Return and Volatility Nexus among Cryptocurrency Market by Xin Sui, Guifen Shi, Guanchong Hou, Shaohan Huang, Yanshuang Li

“…Our findings may help understand the typical dynamics in the cryptocurrency market and provide significant implications for portfolio managers, investors, and government agencies in times of highly stressful events like the COVID-19 crisis.…”
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Mechanical Behavior and Microstructural Study of Biocemented Sand under Various Treatment Methods by Xuecheng Gao, Shaokang Han, Yang Yang, Wengang Zhang, Tan Zou, Liang Cheng

“…An optimized treatment method based on the one-phase-low-pH method is also established, which is accomplished via the injection of 5 U/ml of bacterial culture together with 2 M of cementation solution during each treatment. After four times of treatments, a total of 7% cumulative calcium carbonate content can be obtained with an unconfined compressive strength of 2.15 MPa.…”
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Tourism Destination Competitiveness: an application model for the south of Portugal versus the Mediterranean region of Spain: COMPETITIVTOUR by Fernando Perna, Maria João Custódio, Vanessa Oliveira

“…To support competitiveness strategies and despite the paraphernalia of competitiveness indexes available, there is not just a single set of indicators that can be used for all destinations at all times. The COMPETITIVTOUR model, developed since 2009 is applied to the south of Portugal versus the Mediterranean regions of Spain, a geographical area that aggregates 14 provinces, 20.2 million inhabitants and 180.1 million overnight stays. …”
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DETECTION OF DAY ANOMALIES AND ITS EFFECT; AN APPLICATION IN BIST FOOD INDEX by Murat Erdogan, Aykan Burak Bolat, Eda Oruç Erdoğan

“…However, it is revealed in studies conducted at different times that markets that have existed have not always been effective on the basis of this view. …”
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Design and Performance Analysis of MISO-SRMR-DCSK System over Rayleigh Fading Channels by Gang Zhang, Yi man Hao, Tian qi Zhang

“…The major drawback of the differential chaos shift keying (DCSK) system is that equal time and energy are spent on the reference and data signal. …”
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Extending the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) for longitudinal historical databases to include geographic data by Finn Hedefalk, Lars Harrie, Patrick Svensson

“…When we want to assign such detailed spatial locations to individuals (in times before there were any detailed house addresses available), we often have to create tailored geographic datasets. …”
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Socio-affectiveness and alternative figures of care for girls, boys and adolescents in Argentine legal praxis by Federico Pablo Notrica

“…Although affection has always been a constitutive component of human relations, the classical approach refused and refuses to recognize in it a source of Law and, as such, share the halo of legitimacy that kinship ties have enjoyed since ancient times. This resistance was able to generate many problems in reality, since the lack of legal recognition in some of the figures ruins the advances in the field of human rights. …”
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Low-Temperature Performance and Evaluation Index of Gussasphalt for Steel Bridge Decks by Hongyu Ye, Xuancang Wang, Naren Fang, Ziyuan Su

“…Degradation of the material performance after different storage times was studied. Finally, taking the strain energy density as the main control index and considering the fluidity, the high-temperature performance, fatigue characteristics, technical requirements for storage, and mixing time of gussasphalt in cold weather after two mixing procedures are discussed.…”
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Energy-aware determination of compression for low latency in solar-powered wireless sensor networks by Min Jae Kang, Semi Jeong, Ikjune Yoon, Dong Kun Noh

“…However, reducing data size results in increased delay time due to not only the compression computation time but also the waiting time to gather a sufficient amount of data for compression. …”
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Resilience, Confidence-Building, and Performance: by Audrey Ricke

“…However, past studies of the effectiveness of adaptive digital learning platforms in elevating student performance on summative assessment have shown promising yet at times mixed reviews (e.g. Yarnall et al., 2016). …”
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Biology of Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) on Hibiscus rosa-sinensis by Marcelo Negrini, Elisangela Gomes Fidelis de Morais, José Cola Zanuncio

“…Reported in Brazil for the first time in 2010, in the state of Roraima, M. hirsutus, has spread rapidly to other regions of the country. …”
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Pandemic Fictions: Covid-19 and the Cultures of Dystopia by Sean Mark

“…It explores, finally, the cultural implications of this, questioning the value we place on culture and the work we ask of it in times of crisis, and probing the political utility therein of the notion of dystopia.…”
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Rational engineering of DNA-nanoparticle motor with high speed and processivity comparable to motor proteins by Takanori Harashima, Akihiro Otomo, Ryota Iino

“…An engineered motor with 3.8-times larger DNA/RNA hybridization rate simultaneously achieves 30 nm s−1 speed, 200 processivity, and 3 μm run-length comparable to motor proteins.…”
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Public Perception and Adaptation to Climate Change in Moro Local Government, Kwara State, Nigeria by O. O. Salami, F. O. Rafiu, M. A. Akanbi-Gada, S. Walliyyulahi

“…Majority (75%) noted that the dry season had lengthened, and 78.3% observed a shift in planting times due to reduced rainfall. While only 40% acknowledged contributing to climate change through deforestation, 46.7% were willing to adopt adaptation strategies like reducing wood burning and participating in environmental campaigns. …”
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