A Novel Modulation Classification Approach Using Gabor Filter Network by Sajjad Ahmed Ghauri, Ijaz Mansoor Qureshi, Tanveer Ahmed Cheema, Aqdas Naveed Malik

“…The Gabor filter network uses the network structure of two layers; the first layer which is input layer constitutes the adaptive feature extraction part and the second layer constitutes the signal classification part. …”
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The Origin of Individual Differences in the Course and Severity of Diseases by Sergey N. Rumyantsev

“…Until recently, the origin of this kind of biodiversity was poorly investigated and understood, but advances in immunology — especially in identifying constitutional (genetic) mechanisms of immunity — have contributed to our understanding of the origin of individual diversity in diseases. …”
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Nitric oxide function in atherosclerosis by K. E. Matthys, H. Bult

“…Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory process in the intima of conduit arteries, which disturbs the endothelium-dependent regulation of the vascular tone by the labile liposoluble radical nitric oxide (NO) formed by the constitutive endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS). …”
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La mise en ligne des informations liées aux risques by Anne Peltier, Mathieu Vidal, Sylvia Becerra

“…It questions whether the provision of such information online can constitute a real tool of prevention or is potentially only a useful alibi for public authorities.…”
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Subcutaneous panniculitis as complication of valproate-induced pancreatitis by Michel Tawk, Salim Salloum, Radwan Zeidan, Mirna Fares

“…Medications and drugs constitute a well-known etiology of pancreatitis. Rare signs and symptoms of the disease can occur. …”
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First records of the European free-tailed bat Tadarida teniotis (Rafinesque, 1814) in Slovenia by Primož Presetnik, Ali Šalamun

“…T. teniotis was recorded near Kozina during 11 nights from April to October 2016, but it was rare, with its 38 passes constituting just 0.53% of all bat passes. It was even rarer near Dolenja vas where it was recorded twice only on the hill Veliki Ognjivec — in April and October 2017 — where constituting only 0.0001% of all bat passes. …”
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Researches on Damage Evolution and Acoustic Emission Characteristics of Rocks by Yong Chen, Yugui Yang, Feng Gao, Xiangxiang Zhang

“…Distribution characteristics of the strength and elastic modulus as random variables are illustrated, and the statistical damage model is presented by the authors to formulate analytical constitutive relations for deformation behavior. The comparisons between predicted results and experimental data show that the statistical damage constitutive model could well reproduce the deformation process of rock materials.…”
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Damping Energy Dissipation and Parameter Identification of the Bellows Structure Covered with Elastic-Porous Metal Rubber by Guojian Shen, Min Li, Xin Xue

“…Second, the conspicuous hysteresis loop characteristics were described while the nonlinear constitutive relation was analytically modelled based on the exact decomposition method. …”
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Wybrane koncepcje filozoficzne a działania medyczne dla poprawy jakości życia i urzeczywistniania rozwoju by Sławomir Letkiewicz

“…Constitutional features of ethics in general, in both the descriptive and normative meanings, or deontology, are certainly freedom of choice strictly related to responsibility, the axiological system, etc. …”
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The forgotten stent: late complication in a patient with neobladder by Riccardo Autorino, Antonio Maschio, Umberto Pane, Marco De Sio, Luca Cosentino, Giuseppe Quarto, Salvatore Mordente, Ferdinando Di Giacomo, Luigi Santini, Massimo D'Armiento

“…Encrustation constitutes a serious complication of ureteral stent use and can result in difficult stent removal. …”
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The democratization of the revocation of mayors’ terms in Ecuador and Colombia: At the crossroads of local governance by Luis Carlos Erazo, Lorena Chamorro

“…The institutional design that adopts revocations of terms for mayors is analyzed through the reviewal of constitutional documents and regulations in each country. …”
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Le paysage à l’épreuve des « nouveaux » défis de l’aménagement du territoire au Maroc : contraintes et perspectives by Mustapha El Hannani, Aude Nuscia Taïbi, Yahia El Khalki, Abdelhalim Benyoucef

“…In this context, the development of an atlas of landscapes may constitute an opportunity, the landscape becoming a way to think, in a different way, the everyday life territory. …”
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Cerebrovascular illness in the province of Cienfuegos. Tendency lines. A six years study by Rubén Bembibre Taboada, Pedro Orduñez García, Bárbaro Jova Roque, Idaylí Pérez Rodríguez, Dianarelys Villafuerte Delgado, Juan E. Domínguez Suárez

“…<strong>Background:</strong> The cerebrovascular diseases constitute the third cause of death and first of handicap in Cuba. …”
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Influence of Deformation Conditions on the Critical Damage Factor of AZ31 Magnesium Alloy by Li-juan Pang, Xin Shang, Xuefeng Zhang

“…Based on experimental data, an Arrhenius constitutive model was constructed. Material performance parameters and constitutive model were inputted into the finite element program DEFORM. …”
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On tenses as speech-act-level functions by Patrick Caudal

“…It is argued that they should be endowed with a speech act event argument, and constitute an abstract type of event predicate which the viewpoint meaning of the NIMPF takes as its input. …”
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Reading the Background: The Textual and the Visual in Steve Tomasula’s The Book of Portraiture by Pawel Frelik

“…While the images (for example motifs from the sketches by Velasquez, who is the protagonist of one of the chapters, or pixelated nudes culled from Internet websites) are used throughout, they seem to constitute an underexposed background to the central verbal story of image and imaging. …”
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Static and Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Recycled Concrete under Microwave Irradiation by Dandan Shi, Qingxuan Shi, Lei Yang

“…The research content can provide guidance and basis for the study of mechanical properties and constitutive relationship of RC.…”
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The Discourse of Non-Citizens Expulsion Reinvigorated: Examination of Racial Undertones in Asians Expulsion from Uganda in 1972 by Francis Akena, Adyanga, Eton, Marus, Ayiga, Natal

“…In the critical antiracist study, forceful expulsion of citizens of another country may constitute racism. However, our position in this paper is that expulsion of non-citizens for the interest of the host country is not necessarily a racial act. …”
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Determination of Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Uncertainty of Measurement Using Replicate Analysis and a Graphical User Interface with Fieller’s Theorem by James Ian Stuart, Johan Delport, Robert Lannigan, George Zahariadis

“…BACKGROUND: Disease monitoring of viruses using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) requires knowledge of the precision of the test to determine what constitutes a significant change. Calculation of quantitative PCR confidence limits requires bivariate statistical methods.…”
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The mechanism of the social state and the place of the pension system in it: theoretical and legal aspects by S. S. Polesov

“…The importance of the State’s guarantee of the right to pension as a component of the constitutional right to social protection is substantiated. …”
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