Performance analysis of a wireless sensor network with cognitive radio capabilities in structural health monitoring applications: A discrete model by Hassel Aurora Alcalá Garrido, Mario E Rivero-Angeles, Eleazar Aguirre Anaya, Felipe A Cruz-Perez, S Lirio Castellanos-Lopez, Genaro Hernandez-Valdez

“…Thus, the wireless sensor network for structural health monitoring acts as secondary network. Two discrete-time analytical approaches are proposed and developed to evaluate the system performance in terms of both the average packet delay and average energy consumption. …”
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Recovery of Chronic Stress-Triggered Changes of Hippocampal Glutamatergic Transmission by Min Lin, Gonglin Hou, Ying Zhao, Ti-Fei Yuan

“…In conclusion, spontaneous recovery acts as an important mechanism in system homeostasis.…”
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La construction d’une éthique de vie à travers l’apprentissage transformationnel : la Franc-maçonnerie comme espace d’éducation au « savoir-exister » ? by Ivan Alsina

“…Freemasonry wants to build subjects with an increased awareness of their potential and wishing to act with implication for societal transformations. …”
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The Public Participation in the Drafting of Legislation in Hungary by László Vértesy

“…According to the main provisions of Act CXXXI of 2010 on public participation in the drafting of legislation, public consultations are to be carried out within the framework of general or direct consultations. …”
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Augustine on election: the birth of an article of faith by Erik A. de Boer

“…The concept of God’s foreknowledge of human acts no longer sufficed to understand the diverse fates of the twins Esau and Jacob. …”
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Joint educational programs as a tool to increase the international competitiveness of a regional university by V. V. Bondarenko, K. S. Taisheva, D. P. Penzina

“…The paper provides a review and systematization of legislative acts on the education of foreign citizens in Russian universities. …”
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A guided approach for cross-view geolocalization estimation with land cover semantic segmentation by Nathan A.Z. Xavier, Elcio H. Shiguemori, Marcos R.O.A. Maximo, Mubarak Shah

“…Additionally, our method generates a focused discrete probability distribution that acts as a heatmap. This heatmap effectively filters out incorrect and unlikely regions, enhancing the reliability of our estimations. …”
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Efficient sidelink re‐establishment scheme in device‐to‐device communications‐based public safety networks by W.J. Lee, H.S. Ryu, M.Y. Chung

“…In cellular‐based public safety networks, user equipments (UEs) located in coverage area of active cells are able to act as relay UEs (RUEs). These RUEs provide cellular services to isolated UEs (IUEs). …”
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Chaotic numerical instabilities arising in the transition from differential to difference nonlinear equations by Alicia Serfaty de Markus

“…When considering nonlinear models, standard and nonstandard integration routines can act invasively and numerical chaotic instabilities may arise. …”
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Communiquer sur les risques naturels en montagne : des effets de croyance aux divergences sociales by Mikaël Chambru, Jean-Philippe De Oliverira

“…This study is based on an interdisciplinary “action-research” program (Geography and ICS) carried out in the Hautes-Alpes and Haute-Savoie regions over a period of three years. This article acts as an empirical and reflective object and provides a point of entry into the mountain terrain. …”
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Brand Love and Brand Forgiveness: An Empirical Study in Turkey by Merve Yanar Gürce, Petek Tosun

“…Brand love positively infl uences brand forgiveness and acts as a mediator between subjective norms, brand anthropomorphization, and brand forgiveness constructs. …”
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A transforming body: A post-exilic reading of Psalms 50 and 51 in the light of social norms communicated through the Leviticus sacrificial system and body imagery by L. Sutton

“…In Psalm 51, body imagery becomes an essential part of describing the acts of purification, penitence and offering. Reading these Psalms in the light of social norms communicated through the Leviticus sacrificial system and body imagery, the body’s renewal process (community and individual) before God becomes apparent. …”
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Diet-Induced Swine Model with Obesity/Leptin Resistance for the Study of Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes by L. Torres-Rovira, S. Astiz, A. Caro, C. Lopez-Bote, C. Ovilo, P. Pallares, M. L. Perez-Solana, R. Sanchez-Sanchez, A. Gonzalez-Bulnes

“…Thus, six Iberian sows had ad libitum access to food enriched with saturated fat (SFAD group; food consumption was estimated to be 4.5 kg/animal/day) whilst four females acted as controls and were fed with 2 kg/animal/day of a commercial maintenance diet. …”
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Vaping Epidemic in Pakistan: A Silently Emerging Public Health Concern by Farhan Muhammad Qureshi, Samira Faiz Bari, Syeda Sehrish Zehra

“…VPs was initiated and promoted as safe and endorsed as a traditional smoking cessation technique in order to counteract the detrimental effects of smoking, while concurrently act as a mood enhancer and pleasure with a sense of euphoria 4.   …”
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Od ruchu protestu do partii władzy. Rozwój Zielonych w Niemczech by Grzegorz Brzozowski-Zabost

“…In the 1970s new social movements like environmentalists, peace organizations and feminist founded political party The Greens (Die Grünen). It was an act of opposition against pollution, use of nuclear power, and some aspects of life in highly developed and industrialized society, the formal inauguration was held 1980 in West Germany. 1990 three civil rights groups in East Germany combined to form Bündnis 90, which merged with Die Grünen after long uniting process in 1993. 18 years after foundation they built together with social democrats from SPD government which lasted for two term of office between 1998 and 2005. …”
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How to use live streaming platforms to elicit impulse purchases of tourism and hospitality products from consumers? by Dan Wang, Ching-Cheng Shen, Jennifer Pasion Loverio

“…Perceived value and e-trust act as intermediaries for service convenience in impulse buying. …”
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Byli powstańcy styczniowi jako prezydenci i burmistrzowie miast galicyjskich by Sabina Rejman

“…In 1863, the younger ones took an active part in the fight, while the older ones acted in the power structures, as everyone supported the uprising in a way that was accessible to them. …”
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The Occurrence and Diversity of Viruses Identified in Monocotyledonous Weeds by Evans Duah Agyemang, Rita Ofosu, Francesco Desiderio, Zsuzsanna Nagyne Galbacs, András Péter Takács, Éva Várallyay

“…Weeds growing in cereal fields can compete for essential supply and act as virus reservoirs, strengthening their deteriorating effect. …”
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Drug-induced liver injuries (Part 1) by S. F. Galimova

“…DILI can progress under the mask of all known acute and chronic liver diseases. Pharmaceuticals act as one of the leading causes of development of fulminant liver failure in many countries of the world. …”
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Green Channel Guiding Denoising on Bayer Image by Xin Tan, Shiming Lai, Yu Liu, Maojun Zhang

“…Experiments on both actual and simulated bayer images indicate that green channel acts well as the guidance signal, and the proposed method is competitive with other popular filter kernel denoising methods.…”
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