Ultra-Compact Slitted Flower-Shaped Dual-Band Monopole Antenna for Modern Portable Devices by Jeremiah O Abolade, Dominic B. O. Konditi

“…Therefore, the proposed antenna is a promising candidate for modern portable devices.…”
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A DE-Based Scatter Search for Global Optimization Problems by Kun Li, Huixin Tian

“…To adaptively select the mutation operator that is most appropriate to the current problem, an adaptive mechanism for the candidate mutation operators is developed. In addition, to enhance the exploration ability of SSDE, a reinitialization method is adopted to create a new population and subsequently construct a new reference set whenever the search process of SSDE is trapped in local optimum. …”
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Loop quantum effects on direct detection prediction in two-scalar dark matter scenario by Karim Ghorbani, Parsa Ghorbani

“…Among two extra singlet scalars in the two-scalar model, the lighter one is stable and plays the role of dark matter candidate and the heavier one contributes in dark matter co-annihilation processes in thermal history of the early universe. …”
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MicroBlack Holes Thermodynamics in the Presence of Quantum Gravity Effects by H. Soltani, A. Damavandi Kamali, K. Nozari

“…In this framework existence of black holes remnants as a possible candidate for dark matter is discussed. We study probability of black hole production in the Large Hadronic Collider (LHC) and we show this rate decreasing for sufficiently large values of the GUP parameter.…”
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The nomination of Rev. Kazimierz Rolewski as bishop of Katowice and the reasons for the refusal by Maciej Szczepaniak

“…This article presents the genesis of the interest in the parish priest from Ostrów Wielkopolski as a candidate for the diocesan bishop in 1925–1926. It describes the circumstances of the negative decision made at the apostolic nunciature in Warsaw. …”
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Update on Myopia Risk Factors and Microenvironmental Changes by Valeria Coviltir, Miruna Burcel, Alina Popa Cherecheanu, Catalina Ionescu, Dana Dascalescu, Vasile Potop, Marian Burcea

“…We review the current evidence for its complex genetics and evaluate the known or candidate genes and loci. In addition, we discuss recent investigations regarding the role of environmental factors. …”
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Fundamental Dilemmas Concerning the Constitutional Arrangements for the Formation of the Government in the Republic of Slovenia by Rudi Kocjančič

“…In contrast, the election of the president of the government together with candidates for ministers would be significantly more transparent and legitimate. …”
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Restenosis and Therapy by Laszlo Denes, Laszlo Entz, Veronika Jancsik

“…Gene therapy and therapeutic angiogenesis is proposed for therapy in restenosis. We suggest a drug candidate (iroxanadine), which ensures a noninvasive treatment by reverse regulation of the highly proliferating VSMCs and the disturbed function of ECs.…”
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Dix ans de pratiques des concours d’architecture en France : bilan et perspectives by Élise Macaire, Jodelle Zetlaoui-Léger

“…Then, based on the results of different surveys, the article analyses the points of view on this procedure expressed by project clients, programmers, architects and engineers, and elaborates on the key factors they mention: the mobilizing character of competitions; access to commissions; candidate selection procedures; the level of services required; approaches to notions of cost, quality and innovation; programming; research progressiveness. …”
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Research on Application of the Feature Transfer Method Based on Fast R-CNN in Smoke Image Recognition by Xi Cheng

“…This method uses a selective search algorithm to obtain the candidate images of the sample images. The preselected area coordinates and the sample image of visual task are used as network learning. …”
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Propagation and Production of Atlantic St. Johnswort by Mack Thetford, Debbie Miller

“…Johnswort is a herbaceous or semi-woody plant with a decumbent growth habit, spreading from the base and forming a low mat (Bell and Taylor 1982). This plant is a candidate for beach projects requiring planting of interdunal areas and secondary dunes as well as for commercial or home landscapes. …”
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Exploring A Better Way to Constraint Propagation Using Naked Pair by Chen Kaiqi

“…This research aims to add constraints to reduce the backtracking steps in solving sudoku using naked pairs, which is a technique that eliminates candidates of a cell from other cells in the same row, column or sub-grid when two cells share the same candidate sets. …”
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President Bolsonaro’s Promises and Actions on Corruption Control by Paul Lagunes, Gregory Michener, Fernanda Odilla, Breno Pires

“…Abstract Before the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, candidate Jair Bolsonaro offered a bold message on corruption control. …”
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Upfront Radiotherapy with Concurrent and Adjuvant Vismodegib Is Effective and Well-Tolerated in a Patient with Advanced, Multifocal Basal Cell Carcinoma by Abigail I. Franco, Gary Eastwick, Ramsay Farah, Marvin Heyboer, Mijung Lee, Paul Aridgides

“…Due to extremely large size and deep tumor infiltration, he was not a surgical candidate. Combined modality treatment of fractionated radiation with concurrent vismodegib was chosen. …”
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Preparation and Microwave-Absorbing Property of Solid-Waste-Derived Ceramic Foam by Zheng Wang, Minghao Mu, Xinqiang Liu, Congcong Jiang

“…The truly enhanced compressive strength and EMW-absorbing property of surface graphitization ceramic foam (SG-CF) with a homogeneous porous structure was realized in the present work, which is promising as a candidate in EMW absorption systems.…”
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Practically effective adjustment variable selection in causal inference by Atsushi Noda, Takashi Isozaki

“…Therefore, we propose criteria for selecting variables from a list of candidate adjustment variables along with an algorithm to prevent accuracy degradation in causal effect estimation. …”
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Fabrication of Heparinized Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles as Multifunctional Drug Carriers by Yongxiang Zhang, Xinmin Liu, Yizhong Lu, Jincai Wang, Tingfang Dong, Xiaohong Liu

“…The new material not only maintains intrinsic functions of bare magnetic and fluorescent mesoporous silica materials such as targeting, imaging, and sustained release of drugs, but also generates several novel activities such as the enhancement of biocompatibility, selective loading drugs, and dual loading of anticancer drug and bFGF, rendering it a promising candidate to be used as a multifunctional carrier. …”
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Analysis of the Time Series Generated by a New High-Dimensional Discrete Chaotic System by Chuanfu Wang, Chunlei Fan, Kai Feng, Xin Huang, Qun Ding

“…The statistical performance of the output sequence of the proposed digital high-dimensional chaotic system is evaluated, and the results demonstrate that it is a suitable candidate for a long-period pseudo-random sequence generator.…”
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Hypothetical 3D reconstruction of the tomb of the nomarch Ini from Gebelein by Wojciech Ejsmond, Jakub Stępnik

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The pot, the cup and the jar: Coming together in/for stories by İnce Şengül

“…Would the stories told among a group of seven PhD candidate women reveal the burden of writing a PhD dissertation relating the process to cooking? …”
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