Multistability Analysis and Function Projective Synchronization in Relay Coupled Oscillators by Ahmad Taher Azar, Ngo Mouelas Adele, Kammogne Soup Tewa Alain, Romanic Kengne, Fotsin Hilaire Bertrand

“…The second aspect of this study presents the synchronization of systems that act as mediators between two dynamical units that, in turn, show function projective synchronization (FPS) with each other. …”
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A Real-World, Multicenter Assessment of Drugs Requiring Weight-Based Calculations in Overweight, Adult Critically Ill Patients by Sandra L. Kane-Gill, Nicholas P. Wytiaz, Lisa M. Thompson, Karina Muzykovsky, Mitchell S. Buckley, Henry Cohen, Amy L. Seybert

“…A prospective, multicenter, observational study was conducted in four intensive care units at three institutions. A total of 857 medication orders representing 11 different high-risk medications in 173 patients were reviewed. …”
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Influence of Al2O3 Content on the Melting and Fluidity of Blast Furnace Type Slag with Low TiO2 Content by Hao Liu, Yuelin Qin, Yanhua Yang, Qianying Zhang, Nengyun Deng

“…The viscous flow activation energy of molten slag rises from 157 kJ/mol to 172 kJ/mol with an increase in Al2O3 content, and the viscous flow units in the slag become large and complicated. When slag is cooled, the main precipitated phase is melilitite. …”
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Placenta Percreta at 17 Weeks with Consecutive Hysterectomy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Natasha Gupta, Anu Gupta, Marlene Green, Hyung Shik Kang, Josef Blankstein

“…Placenta percreta in early pregnancy is an extremely rare but life-threatening complication, for which very few cases have been reported in the literature worldwide, none from the United States. We report a patient with two previous cesarean deliveries, who presented with incomplete abortion at 17 weeks and underwent dilatation and curettage. …”
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Epizootic situation for infectious bovine rhinotracheitis in the Karaganda Oblast, the Republic of Kazakhstan, in 2021–2022 by V. V. Kirpichenko, F. A. Bakieva, S. B. Mamanova, E. K. Ospanov, S. E. Kaimoldina

“…To conduct a full-fledged and resultful study, the principles of sampling size representativeness provision and mathematical calculations were observed.The sampling size of the total number of epizootological units included mainly the raions and settlements in which (or near which) infectious bovine rhinotracheitis cases had been previously recorded. …”
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International Cooperation and Negotiated Settlements for Transnational Bribery: A Study of the Odebrecht Case by Raquel de Mattos Pimenta, Otavio Venturini

“…We use the Odebrecht case settlements to unpack the relation between investigative, sanction-based, and settlement cooperation in three case studies: the joint resolutions between the company and Brazil, Switzerland, and the United States, as well as two local agreements with the Dominican Republic and with Peru. …”
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Developing English Material for Food and Beverage Service Used by Students at SMKN 1 Singaraja by I Gusti Ayu Ira Krishna Santhi, Nyoman Karina Wedhanti, Made Mahendrayana

“…The findings of this study revealed the student’s needs (necessities, wants, lacks, input, setting, procedure, the student’s role, and the teacher’s role) which are important for improving the student’s motivation and achievement in learning. Three units were developed based on the document analysis: Taking Reservations by Telephone, Receiving and Seating Guests, and Taking Food and Beverage Orders. …”
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Exploring therapeutic strategies for androgen-independent prostate cancer using a magnetic coculture platform by Anjani Chavali, Giles Fitzwilliams, Adam Germain, Sandra Khuon, Young-tae Kim

“…Prostate cancer stands as the most diagnosed cancer in males and remains one of the leading causes of death among men in the United States. The progression of prostate cancer to a life-threatening state occurs upon metastasis, typically spreading to vital organs such as the liver, lungs, bones, and lymph nodes, where it sustains growth even in the absence of androgens. …”
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An interface-based microscopic model for the failure analysis of masonry structures reinforced with timber retrofit solutions by Fabrizio Greco, Lorenzo Leonetti, Paolo Lonetti, Paolo Nevone Blasi, Arturo Pascuzzo, Giacinto Porco

“…The proposed model schematizes the masonry as brick units, modeled using two-dimensional linear elastic plane stress elements, mutually joined through zero-thickness cohesive interface elements. …”
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An interface-based microscopic model for the failure analysis of masonry structures reinforced with timber retrofit solutions by Fabrizio Greco, Lorenzo Leonetti, Paolo Lonetti, Paolo Nevone Blasi, Arturo Pascuzzo, Giacinto Porco

“…The proposed model schematizes the masonry as brick units, modeled using two-dimensional linear elastic plane stress elements, mutually joined through zero-thickness cohesive interface elements. …”
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Oxidative alterations in exfoliated oral mucosa cells of patients with major depressive disorder by Lukas Mendes de Abreu, Cintia Rodrigues da Silva, Ana Laura Ferreira Bortoleto, Giovana Barros Nunes, Matheus Martins Gracia, Rafael Akira Tzanno Murayama, Daniel Galera Bernabé, Gisele Zoccal Mingoti

“…Intracellular levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS), mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm), caspase-3 and -7 activity, and reduced glutathione (GSH) were measured in Arbitrary Fluorescence Units (AFU). Results: The MDD group demonstrated significantly elevated intracellular ROS levels (p = 0.0012) and caspase-3 and -7 activity (p = 0.0171) in comparison to the control group. …”
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Kişiye Özel Olarak Üretilen Bir Lingual Ortodontik Sistem İle Nüks Hastasının Tedavisi: Olgu Sunumu by Didem Aktan, Hülya Kılıçoğlu, Yunus Emre Birol

“…Daha önce labial ortodontik tedavi görmüş ve tedavisi nüksetmiş erişkin kadın hastanın klinik muayenesinde; solda 1/3 ünite Angle sınıf II maloklüzyon, üst arkta hafif, alt arkta orta şiddette çapraşıklık ve artmış overjet tespit edilmiştir. …”
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Efficient Probabilistic and Geometric Anatomical Mapping Using Particle Mesh Approximation on GPUs by Linh Ha, Marcel Prastawa, Guido Gerig, John H. Gilmore, Cláudio T. Silva, Sarang Joshi

“…In this paper, we present a solution based on two key ideas: a new registration method that generates a mapping between anatomies represented as a multicompartment model of class posterior images and geometries and an implementation of the algorithm using particle mesh approximation on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) to fulfill the computational requirements. …”
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The Bell Jar : Troubles dans le genre by Angélique THOMINE-RAPP

“…Published in 1963 in the United Kingdom under the pen name Victoria Lucas right before Plath’s early death, the novel, set in the 1950s, follows the protagonist Esther Greenwood, an American student who, for many, closely resembles Plath. …”
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Lost and Found: The Missing Flamboyant Gothic Door from the Château de Varaignes by Martha Easton

“…The townspeople of Varaignes did not know what had become of the door although it was rumored it had been sent to the United States. In 2014, a group of researchers from Varaignes discovered that the door had ended up at Hammond Castle, constructed between 1926 and 1929 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. …”
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Novel Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Implementation of K-Means Clustering on FPGAs: Comparative Results with GPPs and GPUs by Hanaa M. Hussain, Khaled Benkrid, Ali Ebrahim, Ahmet T. Erdogan, Huseyin Seker

“…In this work, a parameterized implementation of the K-means clustering algorithm in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is presented and compared with previous FPGA implementation as well as recent implementations on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and GPPs. The proposed FPGA has higher performance in terms of speedup over previous GPP and GPU implementations (two orders and one order of magnitude, resp.). …”
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“Cultivating a Sense of Duty and Responsibility to Society”: the Specificity of the “Service-Learning” Approach in China by A. D. Galkina, V. S. Nikolskiy

“…Secondly, the country needs to unite mainland China and special administrative regions (SARs). …”
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Path Clearing, Policy Acceleration or Trend Reinforcement: Potential Implications of Selected Local Government Responses to Covid-19 in the UK by Tony Gore, Emma Bimpson, Julian Dobson, Stephen Parkes

“…This paper applies these concepts to a wide range of evidence on local government responses to Covid-19 across the United Kingdom (UK). The analysis focuses on five selected domains: supporting and coordinating mutual aid; maintaining local economies; addressing homelessness; managing parks and other public spaces; and promoting active travel through road space reallocation. …”
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Climate change adaptation strategies adopted by pastoralists in rangelands in Golestan province, Iran by Bahareh Behmanesh, Mohsen Sharaftmandrad, Mohammadreza Shahraki, Hossein Badripour

“…The statistical population consisted of 200 pastoralists from 3 pastoral units, of which 127 individuals were sampled using stratified random method. …”
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Towards Quantifying the Uncertainty in Estimating Observed Scaling Rates by Haider Ali, Hayley J. Fowler, David Pritchard, Geert Lenderink, Stephen Blenkinsop, Elizabeth Lewis

“…Using hourly precipitation (PPT) and daily dewpoint temperature (DPT) across 2,905 locations over the United States, we found higher scaling for quality‐controlled data, all locations showing positive (median 6.2%/K) scaling, as compared to raw data showing positive (median 5.3%/K) scaling over 97.5% of locations. …”
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