Etno-show Quando l’antropologia andò in scena, un’antropologia bella da vedere by Alberto Baldi

“…On closer inspection, it is indeed a reciprocal exchange: these means of entertainment too, in turn willingly draw from ethnography to put on stage an exoticism which is more and more alluring, prurient, feral, and also revolting, but which does pay well at the box office. It is a variegated Otherness which turns up, sometimes near, some other three-dimensional and tangible, in other words “alive”; it follows postures and is in relation with activities, situations and environments which instead hypostasize and strictly control it, thus reasserting the hegemony of a western perspective which depicts intriguing “postcards” of this otherness, and puts a price on it with the complicity of Anthropology; rather with a certain Anthropology which embellishes the world, changing it in a sort of ethno-show. …”
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'Micro-Gold' Miniature Dwarf Tomato by John W. Scott, Brent K. Harbaugh

“…It is also ideal for window boxes or garden borders because the plant canopy diameter is only 19 cm (spring) to 26 cm (fall) (Table 1). …”
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Optimization of ready-to-drink Chrysanthemum flower tea formulation based on bioactive compounds and sensory properties by Julianti Elisa, Masniary Lubis Linda, Gunawan Michael

“…This study aims to optimize the formulation of ready-to-drink Chrysanthemum flower tea using Response Surface Methodology-Box Behnken Design (RSM-BBD) to meet modern consumer preferences for health-oriented and convenient beverages. …”
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A Novel Approach to Reduce the Unicast Bandwidth of an IPTV System in a High-Speed Access Network by El Hassane Khabbiza, Rachid El Alami, Hassan Qjidaa

“…An interesting channel change acceleration scheme based on peer-assisted delivery was recently proposed, which consists of deploying one FCC server (Fast Channel Change Server) in the IP backbone in order to send the unicast stream to the STB (Set-Top Box) before sending the normal multicast stream after each channel change. …”
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KRAS Mutation in Serous Borderline Tumor of the Testis: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature by Sarah Bouri, Jean-Christophe Noël, Xavier Catteau, Walid Al Hajj Obeid, Ilyas Svistakov, Thierry Roumeguère, Nicky D’Haene, Sandrine Rorive

“…The tumor cells express cytokeratin 7 (CK7), cytokeratin 5-6 (CK5-6), cancer antigen 125 (CA125), estrogen (ER), progesterone (PR), Wilm’s tumor gene (WT1), paired box gene 8 (PAX8), Ber-EP4, and epithelial membrane antigen (EMA). …”
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Smoking Hot: the Odalisque’s eroticizing Cigarette by Liesbeth Grotenhuis

“…Sold in eye-catching tin boxes, the Egyptian landscape illustrations soon changed into better selling eastern beauties, obviously tempting potential male users. …”
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The Role of Protein Modifications of T-Bet in Cytokine Production and Differentiation of T Helper Cells by Sera Oh, Eun Sook Hwang

“…T-Bet (T-box protein expressed in T cells, also called as TBX21) was originally cloned as a key transcription factor involved in the commitment of T helper (Th) cells to the Th1 lineage. …”
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A DOE (Response Surface Methodology) Approach to Predict the Strength Properties of Concrete Incorporated with Jute and Bamboo Fibres and Silica Fumes by Jayaprakash Sridhar, Dhanapal Jegatheeswaran, Ravindran Gobinath

“…To obtain the optimal combination of progression variables, the effect of progression variable on the strength properties of concrete, Box–Behnken design of Response Surface Methodology was adopted. …”
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Online Parameter Identification of the Lithium-Ion Battery with Refined Instrumental Variable Estimation by An Wen, Jinhao Meng, Jichang Peng, Lei Cai, Qian Xiao

“…The RIV estimation is implemented in a bootstrap form, which alternates between the estimation in the system model and the noise model. The Box-Jenkins model of the Li-ion battery transformed from the two RC ECM is selected as the transfer function model for the RIV estimation in this paper. …”
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An English Teaching Pronunciation Detection and Recognition Algorithm Based on Cluster Analysis and Improved SSD by Dongxiao Peng

“…Aiming at the poor effect and slow speed of the original SSD (Single Shot MultiBox Detector) algorithm in English teaching pronunciation detection, this paper proposes a clustering and improved SSD algorithm for English teaching pronunciation detection and recognition. …”
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EC-PFN: a multiscale woven fusion network for industrial product surface defect detection by Shuangning Liu, Junfeng Li

“…The Loss Ranking Module (LRM) is incorporated to optimize the target-oriented loss, improving performance by omitting low-confidence bounding boxes. Extensive experiments on a light guide plate defect dataset demonstrate that EC-PFN achieves a detection accuracy (mAP) of 98.9%, a detection speed of 92 FPS, and a computational cost of 14.5 GFLOPs, outperforming mainstream surface defect detection models.…”
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Towards Pedestrian Target Detection with Optimized Mask R-CNN by Dong-Hao Chen, Yu-Dong Cao, Jia Yan

“…In addition, according to the statistical law, the length-width ratio of the anchor box is modified to make it more accord with the natural characteristics of the pedestrian target. …”
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Multiple-Feature Extracting Modules Based Leak Mining System Design by Ying-Chiang Cho, Jen-Yi Pan

“…Thus, we make use of practical verification in order to focus on information security and privacy through black-box testing.…”
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Explainable vision transformer for automatic visual sleep staging on multimodal PSG signals by Hyojin Lee, You Rim Choi, Hyun Kyung Lee, Jaemin Jeong, Joopyo Hong, Hyun-Woo Shin, Hyung-Sin Kim

“…While machine-learning models have improved PSG scoring, their clinical use is hindered by the ‘black-box’ nature. In this study, we present SleepXViT, an automatic sleep staging system using Vision Transformer (ViT) that provides intuitive, consistent explanations by mimicking human ‘visual scoring’. …”
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'Micro-Gold' Miniature Dwarf Tomato by John W. Scott, Brent K. Harbaugh

“…It is also ideal for window boxes or garden borders because the plant canopy diameter is only 19 cm (spring) to 26 cm (fall) (Table 1). …”
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The Effect of Government Subsidies on Firm R&D Investment in China: From Perspectives of Ownership and Market Power by Haijing Wang, Junguo Shi, Muhammad Imran, Jiaqi Gao, Yitian Zhang, Rongyu Wang

“…This study not only fills the theoretical black box of the relationship between government subsidies and enterprise innovation but also provides relatively new empirical evidence for the related research on innovation subsidies in developing countries.…”
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Advanced Pedestrian Distance Estimation for ADAS with Canny Edge Detection and Stereo Vision by Rachidi Oumayma, Ed-Dahmani Chafik, Bououlid Idrissi Badr

“…The approach integrates Canny edge detection with ORB (Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF) feature matching to efficiently identify and track keypoints within pedestrian bounding boxes. This method not only improves the accuracy of distance estimation but also reduces computational demands, making it suitable for real-time applications. …”
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Parameter Calibration Method for Discrete Element Simulation of Soil–Wheat Crop Residues in Saline–Alkali Coastal Land by Jie Liu, Tong Lu, Shuai Zheng, Yu Tian, Miaomiao Han, Muhao Tai, Xiaoning He, Hongxiu Li, Dongwei Wang, Zhuang Zhao

“…Taking the soil-wheat crop residue mixture’s angle of repose as the test index, four groups of parameters that significantly affect the angle of repose and their optimal value ranges were screened out through the Plackett–Burman test and the steepest ascent test. Then, the Box–Behnken test was conducted to obtain the quadratic regression model of the significant parameters and the angle of repose, and the optimal values of the significant parameters were obtained. …”
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Abscission zone metabolism impacts pre- and post-harvest fruit quality: a very attaching story by Timothy J. Tranbarger, Francisco R. Tadeo

“…We focus on studies that have provided new insight into possible protein complexes that function in the AZ, including multiple MADS-box transcription factors, with potential overlapping regulatory roles which exist between AZ development, ethylene production, AZ activation, fruit ripening and overall fruit quality. …”
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Consumer Choices Can Reduce Packaging Waste by Kenneth R. Berger

“…When you purchase a frozen dinner, you are paying for not only the meal but for the outer paperboard box, the plastic or foil tray that holds the meal, and the covering over the food. …”
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