Experimental Study on the Mechanical Mechanism of Arch-Chord-Coupled Antisliding Structure by Guoping Hu, Yingzhi Xia, Mingxin Zheng, Hui Li, Xiaoxue Ruan

“…Arch-chord-coupled antisliding structure is a new type of structure composed of multiple small-diameter piles for strengthening small- and medium-sized landslides, especially suitable for the reinforcement of slopes that are sensitive to deformation. …”
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Uniform Local Binary Pattern for Fingerprint Liveness Detection in the Gaussian Pyramid by Yujia Jiang, Xin Liu

“…Experiments based on standard databases, taken from Liveness Detection Competition 2013 composed of four different fingerprint sensors, have been carried out. …”
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A Framework for the Land Use Change Dynamics Model Compatible with RCMs by Xiangzheng Deng, Jiyuan Liu, Yingzhi Lin, Chenchen Shi

“…The coupled simulation system composed of LUCD and RCMs can be very effective in simulating the land surface processes and their changing patterns.…”
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Construction of Tb3+ PVC-MembraneElectrode Based on N,N’-Bis(pyrrolylmethylene)-2-aminobenzylamine by Hassan Ali Zamani, Zynab Rafati, Soraia Meghdadi

“…Poly vinylchloride (PVC)-based membrane composed of PMA with oleic acid (OA) as anionic additives and acetophenone (AP) as plasticizing solvent mediators. …”
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Shaking Table Experiment and Energy Analysis of a New Rebar Isolation Pier by Yifu Xiao, Shouping Shang, Zhen Wang

“…This paper introduces the structure and principle of a new isolation device—rebar isolation pier—which is mainly composed of vertical steel bar and asphalt ointment. …”
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Multivariable Discriminant Analysis for the Differential Diagnosis of Microcytic Anemia by Eloísa Urrechaga, Urko Aguirre, Silvia Izquierdo

“…The training group was composed of 200 β-thalassemia carriers, 65 α-thalassemia carriers, 170 iron deficiency anemia (IDA), and 45 mixed cases of thalassemia and acute phase response or iron deficiency. …”
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Stochastic User Equilibrium Assignment in Schedule-Based Transit Networks with Capacity Constraints by Wangtu Xu, Lixin Miao, Wei-Hua Lin

“…We consider a situation in which passengers do not have the full knowledge about the condition of the network and select paths that minimize a generalized cost function encompassing five components: (1) ride time, which is composed of in-vehicle and waiting times, (2) overload delay, (3) fare, (4) transfer constraints, and (5) departure time difference. …”
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Optimization of Music Feature Recognition System for Internet of Things Environment Based on Dynamic Time Regularization Algorithm by Hong Kai

“…The results of this study can meet the needs of composers’ assisted creation and music researchers’ analysis of a large amount of music data, and the results can be further transferred to deep music learning research, human-computer interaction music creation, application-based music creation, and other fields for expansion.…”
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The good, the better and the challenging: Insights into predicting high-growth firms using machine learning by Sermet Pekin, Aykut Şengül

“…Leveraging a dataset composed of financial metrics and firm characteristics between 2009 and 2022 with 1,318,799 unique firms (averaging 554,178 annually), we evaluate the performance of each model using metrics such as MCC, ROC AUC, accuracy, precision, recall and F1-score. …”
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An Unbridgeable Gap? The Treatment of Definiteness Restrictions in French and Chinese Presentational Constructions by Ludovica Lena

“…Availing ourselves of a parallel corpus – composed of two written and spoken subcorpora –, in this study we adopt a contrastive perspective to explore the (lack of) correspondence between French il y a-constructions with a definite pivot and Chinese yǒu-constructions. …”
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Prevention of Cerebral Embolism Progression by Emergency Surgery of the Left Atrial Myxoma by Syuichi Tetsuka, Kunihiko Ikeguchi

“…Currently, thrombolytic therapy may continue to be effective because the embolic source may be composed of tumor tissue itself. In case of atrial myxoma, we considered that the use of tPA as emergency treatment in all patients with infarction by atrial myxoma may be questioned. …”
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A Quantitative Study on the Trachea of the Red Sokoto (Maradi) Goat (Capra hircus) by O. Byanet, J. A. Bosha, B. O. Onoja

“…They were structurally composed of the cartilaginous rings that were incomplete dorsally but bridged by tracheal muscles at the ends of the tracheal cartilages. …”
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A research on individual innovativeness levels of football referees (Kocaeli region case) by Kursad Sertbas, Levent Atalı

“…The sample group of the research is composed of 132 football referees selected by convenience sampling method. …”
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Adult-onset spinal teratoma: a case report and review by K. Blank, G. Terbetas, L. Neverauskienė, J. Ušinskienė

“… Teratoma is defined as a neoplasm that is composed of a variety of parenchymal cell types derived from three germinal layers (endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm). …”
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LAMENT PSALMS, THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY AND GOVERNANCE IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA by Uzoma Amos Dike

“…The paper discovered that communal reading of lament psalms in the face of national disaster provided sharing platforms where the distressed expressed pain by composing their distresses. Thus, the work maintains the efficacy of lament in initiating a healing process, strengthening communal bonds and eliciting the hope of restoration in the Nigerian situation. …”
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Pectin-Coated Curcumin-Chitosan Microparticles Crosslinked with Mg2+ for Delayed Drug Release in the Digestive System by Seung Won Hwang, Jae Sup Shin

“…The former (C-g-PMg) showed slower curcumin release profiles than the latter (C-PMg-g) because the C-g-PMg are composed of two layers, a chitosan-glutaraldehyde layer and a pectin-Mg2+ layer, which together hold the curcumin for a longer duration. …”
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The edge of chaos is that where consciousness manifests itself through intermittent dynamics by Valeriy Sbitnev

“…A set of lingua quanta composes a thesaurus placed on the edge of chaos. Its library is a memory, modification of which is due to tuning of memristive neural elements scattered in the brain volume. …”
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Design of a Reconfigurable Robotic System for Flexoextension Fitted to Hand Fingers Size by J. Felipe Aguilar-Pereyra, Eduardo Castillo-Castaneda

“…The robotic system is composed by four, type slider-crank, mechanisms that have the ability to fit the user fingers length from the index to the little finger, through the adjustment of only one link for each mechanism. …”
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On the Vibration Analysis of Rotating Piezoelectric Functionally Graded Beams Resting on Elastic Foundation with a Higher-Order Theory by Pham Minh Phuc, Vu Nguyen Thanh

“…The piezoelectric layers are firmly connected to the top and bottom surfaces of the beam, while the core layer is composed of the FG material, whose material and physical characteristics are expected to gradually change along the thickness direction of the beam in accordance with a power law function as the thickness of the beam is increased. …”
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Clinicopathological analysis of sclerosing angiomatoid nodular transformation in the spleen by Shufei Wei, Yongliang Han, Yingyong Hou, Liangliang Wang

“…Histologically, angiomatoid nodules are composed of fattened, round, or irregular blood vessels, with or without red blood cells in the lumen, with unequal red blood cell extravasation, and fibrocytes around the nodules. …”
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