Economical and ecological renewable solution based heating systems for residential building by Nichita Teodora-Mădălina, Girip Alina Viorica, Ilie Anica

“…The aim of the study is to investigate different possibilities to reduce the power consumption and environmental impact taking account annual electricity consumption building for the central-western location in Romania. This paper presented the technical-cost benefit and environmental impact analysis of three alternative heating systems versus conventional systems with natural gas boiler. …”
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Comparison of different models to describe the lactation curve of Holstein cows in a small-scale dairy system by Luis Javier Montiel-Olguín, Felipe de Jesús Ruiz-López, Sergio Gómez-Rosales, Germinal Jorge Cantó-Alarcón, Eliab Estrada-Cortés, Héctor Raymundo Vera-Ávila

“…Monthly milk weighins from 936 lactations were conducted in 23 farms in western Mexico. The Bayesian information criterion (BIC) and mean square prediction error (MSPE) were used to assess the fit of the models to the observed data, and the root mean square prediction error as a percentage of the observed mean (%RMSPE) was used to evaluate the accuracy of the models. …”
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Deep Transfer Learning Method Based on 1D-CNN for Bearing Fault Diagnosis by Jun He, Xiang Li, Yong Chen, Danfeng Chen, Jing Guo, Yan Zhou

“…Finally, based on the bearing datasets of Case Western Reserve University and Jiangnan University, seven transfer fault diagnosis comparison experiments are carried out. …”
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Chinese Universities’ Image Repair after Network Public Opinion Events: Strategy Choice and Effect Evaluation by Jing Jiang, Juanjuan Ren

“…We find that Chinese universities commonly use the image repair strategy combination of bolstering, provocation, and corrective action; they have not used the apology strategy commonly used in western discourse systems. We also find that the complete information release process has a better image repair effect, particularly in teachers’ lapse and personal safety events. …”
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First records of the myrmecophilous spider Thyreosthenius biovatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) for Slovenia and new Slovenian records for the myrmecophilous spider Mastigusa ariet... by Gregor Bračko, Rok Kostanjšek

“…Cybaeidae), previously known from several sites in western Slovenia, but never purposefully searched for in ant nests. …”
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MCRCNet: A Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method for Unknown Faults Based on Transfer Learning by Guangyuan Xu, Ruifeng Guo, Zhenyu Yin, Feiqing Zhang

“…The proposed method is experimentally verified on Case Western Reserve University, Jiangnan University, and laboratory datasets. …”
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Adapting a Database of Text Messages to a Mobile-Based Weight Loss Program: The Case of the Middle East by Selma Limam Mansar, Shashank Jariwala, Nawal Behih, Maahd Shahzad, Aysha Anggraini

“…The increase can be attributed to several reasons, including sedentary lifestyles imposed by a harsh climate and the introduction of Western fast food. Mobile technologies have been used and studied as a technology to support individuals’ weight loss. …”
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Review of Herbal Traditional Chinese Medicine for the Treatment of Diabetic Nephropathy by Guang-dong Sun, Chao-yuan Li, Wen-peng Cui, Qiao-yan Guo, Chang-qing Dong, Hong-bin Zou, Shu-jun Liu, Wen-peng Dong, Li-ning Miao

“…However, exact pathogenesis of DN is not fully clear and we have great difficulties in curing DN; poor treatment of DN led to high chances of mortality worldwide. A lot of western medicines such as ACEI and ARB have been demonstrated to protect renal function of DN but are not enough to delay or retard the progression of DN; therefore, exploring exact and feasible drug is current research hotspot in medicine. …”
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A karyomorphological study on Actaea acuminata, A. asiatica, and A. erythrocarpa (Ranunculaceae) by Elizaveta Yu. Mitrenina, Andrey S. Erst, Denis A. Krivenko, Tatiana N. Veklich, Tatiana V. Leonova, Olga A. Chernyagina, Valentin V. Yakubov, Kunli Xiang, Yuan-Yuan Ling, Wei Wang

“…The chromosome set of A. erythrocarpa was investigated in five regions of Russia; its structure proved to be similar among all the analyzed populations and is described by formula 2n = 16 = 10m + 4sm + 2t, consistently with previous findings about this species in Western Siberia. There are differences among the populations in the number and localization of secondary constrictions. …”
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‘Buzz-and-Pipeline’ Dynamics in AI Innovation Network: A Case Study of Zhangjiang National Innovation Demonstration Zone, Shanghai by Yuanyuan Wan, Gang Zeng, Jiawei Wang, Lin Zou

“…The results indicate that with the return of multinational corporations and the limitation of Western technology, universities have become the primary source of AI innovation in Zhangjiang. …”
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Lockdown to Contain the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Opportunity to Create a Less Polluted Environment in India by Preet Lal, Amit Kumar, Supriya Bharti, Purabi Saikia, Dibyendu Adhikari, M. L. Khan

“…., > 10% change in 73.71% parts in India along with a high negative anomaly of AOD (< –1.0 in 32.92% parts in India) primarily in the Indo-Gangetic Plains, western, southern, and eastern parts during the lockdown. …”
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Therapeutic Potential of Fulvic Acid in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases and Diabetes by John Winkler, Sanjoy Ghosh

“…Chronic inflammatory diseases like diabetes are on a rise in the Western world. Based on the tsunami of new cases every year, new therapeutic measures must be considered. …”
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Religious Complexity in Postcolonial South Africa: Contending with the Indigenous by Federico Settler

“…However, recent scholarship in the field of religion has increasingly drawn on the work of subaltern and postcolonial historiography as a way of disrupting the European canon and dislodging Indigenous and non-western ways of knowing and being from the tyranny of the classical taxonomies of religion. …”
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REFLECTIVE PRACTICE AS TOOLS TO EXPLORE IN-SERVICE TEACHERS’ BELIEFS AND CLASSROOM PRACTICES: INDONESIAN EFL TEACHERS’ VOICES by Dwi Bayu Saputra, Didi Suherdi, Rojab Siti Rodliyah

“…It has been explicitly stated in western academic teacher education curriculum due to its significant impact on constructing life-long learning for teachers. …”
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Weakening Relationship between East Asian Summer Monsoon and Asian-Pacific Oscillation after 1990s by Wei Hua, Zouxin Lin, Xin Wang, Guangzhou Fan

“…Further study indicated that the APO was concurrent with significant positive SST in the central North Pacific and subtropical central-western Pacific during 1948–1990, which contributed to the shift of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) from its cold to warm phase and led to a weakened EASM. …”
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An extreme North Atlantic Oscillation event drove the pelagic Sargassum tipping point by Julien Jouanno, Sarah Berthet, Frank Muller-Karger, Olivier Aumont, Julio Sheinbaum

“…Abstract The proliferation of pelagic Sargassum in the tropical Atlantic since 2011 is causing considerable health and economic concerns as large amounts of this brown alga arrive and accumulate in coastal ecosystems of western Africa and of the greater Caribbean Sea every year. …”
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Signaling Pathway Puts the Break on Fat Cell Formation by Ormond A. MacDougald

“…Obesity is approaching epidemic proportions in the western industrialized world, and is also becoming a major problem among young people in eastern and developing countries [1,2,3]. …”
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Bone mineral density in human femurs of documented age-at-death in a comparative context by Emmanuel Gilissen, Sarah Tayach, Rosine Orban

“…Results indicate a degradation of bone mineral density during aging that is comparable to that of current Western reference populations. Females’ bone health appears to be above the current average up until the age of 50 years. …”
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Liver Transplantation for Hepatitis C and Alcoholic Liver Disease by Marco Carbone, James Neuberger

“…End-stage liver disease due to hepatitis C (HCV) and cirrhosis from alcohol (ALD) are the commonest indications for liver transplantation in the western countries. Up to one third of HCV-infected transplant candidates have a history of significant alcohol intake prior to transplantation. …”
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Hypoxia-Induced Autophagy Enhances Cisplatin Resistance in Human Bladder Cancer Cells by Targeting Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1α by Xiawa Mao, Nanzhang, Jiaquao Xiao, Huifeng Wu, Kefeng Ding

“…BIU-87 bladder cancer cell line was treated with cisplatin under hypoxic and normoxic conditions and tested using 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay, flow cytometry, and Western blotting. All the data were expressed as mean±standard error from three independent experiments and analyzed by multiple t-tests. …”
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