Variationally Improved Bézier Surfaces with Shifted Knots by Daud Ahmad, Kanwal Hassan, M. Khalid Mahmood, Javaid Ali, Ilyas Khan, M. Fayz-Al-Asad

“…Instead of variational minimization of usual area functional, the quasi-minimal Bézier surface with shifted knots is obtained as the solution of variational minimization of Dirichlet functional that turns up as the sum of two integrals and the vanishing condition gives us the system of linear algebraic constraints on the control points. …”
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Medical Device-Associated Candida Infections in a Rural Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital of India by Sachin C. Deorukhkar, Santosh Saini

“…The present surveillance helped us for systematic generation of institutional data regarding MDAI with special reference to role of Candida spp.…”
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Evaluation Of Anxiety In Patients Undergoing Complete Denture Treatment At Two Tertiary Care Hospitals In Rawalpindi And Islamabad by Muhammad Amir Ghafoor Chaudhary, Misbah Khalid, Romeysah Adnan, Saba Uzair, Raza Ullah Khan, Muhammad Farooq Kamran

“…A good understanding of patients' mental attitudes will help us improve the technique of dentists towards complete denture treatment in a more patient-friendly way. …”
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Racial/Ethnic inequality & contemporary disparities in mortgage lending. by Meghan M O'Neil, Vincent J Roscigno

“…Building on earlier scholarship that has tended to focus on specific forms of mortgages, we draw in this article on over 1.4 million diverse mortgage applications from the largest 100 U.S. metropolitan areas to interrogate racial/ethnic disparities for (1) all home types (mobile homes, condominiums, multi/single-family units), (2) all lien holders (private/government backed), (3) all purposes (vacation/rental/owner-occupied), and (4) all buyer loan sequences (purchase, refinance, home-equity/improvement). …”
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Detecting Attacks and Estimating States of Power Grids from Partial Observations with Machine Learning by Zheng-Meng Zhai, Mohammadamin Moradi, Ying-Cheng Lai

“…We articulate a machine-learning framework to address this problem, where the necessity to deal with sequential time-series data with dynamical memories and to avoid a vanishing gradient has led us to choose the long short-term memory (LSTM) architecture. …”
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Unravelling single-cell DNA replication timing dynamics using machine learning reveals heterogeneity in cancer progression by Joseph M. Josephides, Chun-Long Chen

“…We use single-cell copy number data to accurately perform missing value imputation, identify cell replication states, and detect genomic heterogeneity. This allows us to separate somatic copy number alterations from copy number changes resulting from DNA replication. …”
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Isotopic and Elemental Determination in Some Romanian Apple Fruit Juices by Dana Alina Magdas, Adriana Dehelean, Romulus Puscas

“…The content of Cd, Pb, U, Zn, As was below the acceptable limits stipulated in US-EPA standard for drinking water. Cu and Cr limits exceeded for one single juice; Ni content for some apple juices from Maramures, Alba, and Cluj was higher than the acceptable value.…”
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To the question of the methodic of universities’ scientific potential appreciation by D. Znamenskiy

“…The obtained results allow us to develop a strategy for the development of scientific potential, depending on the level of effectiveness of its implementation.The applied value of the research results is determined by the prospects of their application in the process of development of state policy for the development of research activities in higher education. …”
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The Video Manipulation Effect (VME): A quantification of the possible impact that the ordering of YouTube videos might have on opinions and voting preferences. by Robert Epstein, Alex Flores

“…In two randomized, controlled, counterbalanced, double-blind experiments with a total of 1,463 politically-diverse, eligible US voters, we show that when a sequence of videos displayed by the simulator is biased to favor one political candidate, and especially when the "up-next" video suggested by the simulator favors that candidate, both the opinions and voting preferences of undecided voters shift dramatically toward that candidate. …”
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Excès et sacré dans la littérature victorienne et édouardienne by Annie Escuret

“…Trollope looks like a stable island but why such a massive production (as if he was trying to dam some gap) ? What strikes us with Meredith is his (excessive ?) sophistication, an expert in the literary deconstruction of the Bible’s master stories. …”
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UNSTABLE CRITICAL EQUILIBRIUM IN THE DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX STRUCTURED POPULATION OF STURGEON by V. A. Dubrovskaya, T. N. Solovieva, A. Yu. Perevaryukha

“…Such cases are established by us according to the rapid decline in sturgeon spawning the Volga. …”
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Design and Manufacture Indirect Method Grain Bed Dryer with 10 Kg Capacity Fueled by Wasted Oil by Rizki Cakrawiguna, Noviyanti Nughraha, Nuha Desi Anggraeni

“…This grain dryer with wasted oil helps us make the environment stay clean. The purpose of this research is to design and manufacture a bed dryer type grain dryer with a capacity of 10 kg fueled by wasted oil, with the target of drying grain to a moisture content of 13-14%, dry grain is odorless, the drying cost is relatively cheap because it uses used lubricating oil. …”
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Experience in Assessing Competencies in Self-Regulted Learning in Blended Learning Environments by S. M. Bakhisheva, G. B. Golub, A. M. Kemeshova, Z. G. Mukhtar, J. S. Kazhiakparova

“…The results of the study allowed us to draw the following conclu-sions: students’ internal resources for regulating their own learning are general competences, which include the following aspects of activity: determining the request for information, extract-ing and primary processing (systematisation) of information, processing information, planning the learning process, evaluating the product and results of learning activities, evaluating and planning their own progression; methods and assessment tools are practice-oriented tasks.…”
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Cognitive Adaptation Training Provided to Chronically Hospitalized Patients with Schizophrenia in The Netherlands: Two Case Reports by Piotr J. Quee, Harald Schneider, Saskia van Slogteren, Durk Wiersma, Richard Bruggeman, Dawn I. Velligan

“…Both patients improved on measures of functional outcome used in the US studies. These results indicate that CAT may improve outcomes, even in patients that have been hospitalized for several years.…”
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A Systematic Review of Center of Mass as a Measure of Dynamic Postural Control Following Concussion by Sarah Patejak, Joshua Forrest, Emily Harting, Mable Sisk, Eric Schussler

“…# Background The incidence of sports-related concussion in the US is between 1.6-3.8 million annually. Identification of ongoing impairment post-concussion continues to be challenging, as research indicates many patients are cleared for return to activity while still suffering subclinical impairment of function. …”
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Skin Biophysical Characteristics in Patients with Keratoconus: A Controlled Study by Reza M. Robati, Bahram Einollahi, Hoda Einollahi, Shima Younespour, Shahed Fadaifard

“…Therefore, the assessment of these skin parameters could provide us some clues to the possible common biophysical variations of cornea and skin tissue in diseases such as keratoconus.…”
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Neuroanatomical and Neurocognitive Differences Between the Executive Functions in Child Sexual Offenders: A Systematic Review by Yaiza Ara-García, Manuel Martí-Vilar, Laura Badenes-Ribera, Francisco González-Sala

“…It is therefore this lack of a distinction that leads us to complement the existing information. Thus, the purpose of this review is to find all available evidence on the neurocognitive and neuroanatomical differences in executive functions among pedophilic and non-pedophilic child sex offenders, and non-offender pedophiles. …”
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From the Reindeer Path to the Highway and Back – Understanding the Movements of Khanty Reindeer Herders in Western Siberia by Stephan Dudeck

“…Only a synthesis of both, a careful interpretation of indigenous narratives before the background of social and political circumstances let us understand the practices of movement we can observe in the everyday life of people. …”
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Drug-induced dementia: a real-world pharmacovigilance study using the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System database by Lisi Xu, Ruonan Zhang, Xiaolin Zhang, Xiuli Shang, Daifa Huang

“…However, information on drug-induced dementia is limited. The U.S. FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) serves as an important resource for identifying real-world adverse drug reactions and safety signals. …”
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Covert marketing in films and series by Dimitrijević Ljiljana, Gojković Marija, Kolar Janez

“…And while we are watching a movie or a favorite series, the advertising block and commercials do not bother us at all, and we use that time for other things. …”
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