Conversion from clinically isolated syndrome to multiple sclerosis: what paraclinical tests findings are the most characteristic? by M. Malciūtė, I. Čelpačenko, R. Stankevičiūtė, R. Balnytė

“…Approximately 70% of people with CIS convert to MS. Therefore, there is a pressing need to identify the most characteristic paraclinical test findings to predict CIS conversion to MS. …”
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SAR-PATT: A Physical Adversarial Attack for SAR Image Automatic Target Recognition by Binyan Luo, Hang Cao, Jiahao Cui, Xun Lv, Jinqiang He, Haifeng Li, Chengli Peng

“…First, adversarial attacks are implemented in the 2D image space, and the perturbation in the image space is converted into simulated rays that constitute SAR images through backpropagation optimization methods. …”
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Implementation of a Cost and Variation Reduction Program for Hemostasis Products at a Large Academic Medical Center: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective by Shah T, Brethauer S, Danker III WA, Doshi I, O'Hara M, Silber A, Vasileff WK

“…The outcomes analyses revealed a nearly 25% decrease in supply expenditure without changes to the number of postoperative hemorrhage events following implementation.Practical Applications: Converting to a sole vendor for hemostasis products was achieved with high satisfaction among hospital stakeholders and cost savings to the institution without impacting the quality of patient care. …”
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Shift from chronic to episodic migraine frequency in a long-term phase 3 study of galcanezumab by Hans-Christoph Diener, Kathleen A. Day, Sarah Lipsius, Sheena K. Aurora, Nada A. Hindiyeh, Holland C. Detke

“…Conclusion These results suggest that galcanezumab helped a majority of patients convert from chronic to episodic migraine frequency over the course of this 12-month study. …”
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Failure to repair damaged NAD(P)H blocks de novo serine synthesis in human cells by Adhish S. Walvekar, Marc Warmoes, Dean Cheung, Tim Sikora, Najmesadat Seyedkatouli, Gemma Gomez-Giro, Sebastian Perrone, Lisa Dengler, François Unger, Bruno F. R. Santos, Floriane Gavotto, Xiangyi Dong, Julia Becker-Kettern, Yong-Jun Kwon, Christian Jäger, Jens C. Schwamborn, Nicole J. Van Bergen, John Christodoulou, Carole L. Linster

“…The metabolite repair enzymes NAXD and NAXE convert these damaged compounds back to the functional NAD(P)H cofactors. …”
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Bubbling insights: unveiling the true sophorolipid biosynthetic pathway by Starmerella bombicola by Sophie L. K. W. Roelants, Stijn Bovijn, Elvira Bytyqi, Nicolas de Fooz, Goedele Luyten, Martijn Castelein, Thibo Van de Craen, Zhoujian Diao, Karolien Maes, Tom Delmulle, Maarten De Mol, Sofie L. De Maeseneire, Bart Devreese, Wim K. Soetaert

“…Bolaform sophorolipids are found in very small amounts in extracellular S. bombicola wild type broths as they are very efficiently converted into lactonic sophorolipids, while acidic sophorolipids build up as they cannot be converted. …”
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Asymmetric proxy re-encryption system achievable for office user to securely sharing outsourcing data of mobile terminal by Wei HAO, Xu-an WANG, Xiao-yuan YANG, Li-qiang WU

“…In order to realize the office users securely share encrypted data of the mobile terminal,an asymmetric cross-cryptosystem proxy re-encryption system is proposed.In this system,mobile terminals who have the limited computing power use relatively simple identity-based encryption system,while the server and office users use more complex identity-based broadcast encryption system.This system is based on the ciphertext conversion mechanism,which enables the simple IBE ciphertext of mobile terminal to be converted into the complex IBBE ciphertext by proxy while the proxy know nothing of the plaintext.The security of this scheme can be reduced to the safety of the IBE and IBBE scheme.Theoretical and experimental analysis indicate that the scheme is useful for the mobile ter-minal to consume less resources to make the fixed users share the data encrypted by mobile terminal,and it is more practical.…”
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Robert Lafont, candidat des « minorités nationales » à l’élection présidentielle de 1974 by Damien Canavate

“…Soon thereafter, the Occitan support committees for Lafont's candidacy converted into a new autonomist and socialist organization: Volèm viure al païs.This article 1) highlights Robert Lafont's pivotal role in promoting regionalism in France during the 1960s and 1970s 2) assesses the political impact of the Occitan movement in the wake of 1968 and 3) shows how institutions filter electoral strategies at the fringes of mainstream politics.…”
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Design and analysis of active queue management algorithm based on predictive control by WANG Ping, CHEN Hong, LU Xiao-hui

“…Model predictive control as a novel active queue management（AQM） algorithm was proposed for Internet system with large delay,called MPAQM.Considering the causality of time-delay system,the predicted output was defined.Then,the control requirement was converted to the optimal control objective,and the drop probability was obtained by solving the optimal problem.Furthermore,the delay-independent stability condition of closed-loop system was derived,which gave the guidelines how to select the parameters of MPAQM algorithm to assure the stability and fast convergence of the network system.The performances of MPAQM were evaluated through a series of simulations in NS2 under the single/multiple topology.The simulation results show that the queue length with MPAQM algorithm reaches the desired value with minimal tracking error and lower drop probability.MPAQM algorithm outperforms RED,PI and SPI-RED algorithms in terms of disturbance rejection,stability,and robustness.…”
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Theoretical Data Extraction for Tooth Surface Measurement of Straight Bevel Gear based on Solid Modeling by Li Tianxing, Xu Jinghui, Yang Jingzhao, Zhou Junxiang, Wang Guofeng, Xing Chunrong

“…Aiming at the tooth surface error measurement results distortion of straight bevel gear which consisted of the of modification error and machining error based on gear measuring center,a method which is proposed to obtain the theoretical coordinates for tooth surface measurement based on the solid modeling.According to the design of the gear structure,the origin of the coordinate system and datum plane can be determined by installation distance,then the rotating projection line model can be established based on the calculated mesh nodes coordinates,a series of points are converted to the tooth surface,combined with UG Open programming technology,the attribute analysis of the points on the tooth surface can be extracted,then the coordinates and unit vector of the tooth surface measurement points can be obtained,which provides a new way for the acquisition of the tooth surface error measurement based on gear measuring center.…”
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Multi-core helper thread prefetching for irregular data intensive applications by Jian-xun ZHANG, Zhi-min GU, Xiao-han HU, Min CAI

“…For improving performance of memory access in sparse graph traversal algorithm, helper thread prefetching could convert discontinuous locality into continuous-instant spatial-temporal locality effectively by using the shared last level cache of chip multi-processor platforms. …”
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“What’s in a word?”: by Sylvie NAIL

“…However, in spite of an unprecedented array of instruments and reports published under the auspices of the United Nations to define approaches aimed at ensuring sustainable development, high ambitions have not converted into sufficient action to respond to emergencies. …”
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Photocatalyst and Decoration Design in Indoor Public Spaces Based on the Photocatalytic Function of Nanometer Titanium Dioxide by Ling Yang

“…When impurities appear in the air, they are destroyed by the photocatalyst, and the impurities are converted into substances that are harmless to the human body. …”
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Volume-hiding encrypted multi-map scheme based on hierarchical structure by Jing CHEN, Hanxing LI, Kun HE, Meng JIA, Yuqing LI, Ruiying DU

“…The volume-hiding encrypted multi-map (EMM) scheme is able to prevent attackers from inferring plaintext through the volume leakage, but existing solutions have problems with large storage and search computational costs.Based on the characteristic that the volume of the searched data often follows Zipf’s law, a hierarchical volume-hiding EMM scheme was proposed.Compared to the plain scheme that filled all keys’ volumes equally, converting the filling of the overall data into the filling of multiple sub-data blocks could reduce storage costs, and also achieved constant level complexity query overhead.Security analysis shows that the proposed scheme can achieve hidden matching volume without loss of query results.Simulation results show that compared with the most efficient scheme XorMM, the proposed scheme can increase the storage overhead by 10%, reduce the search computing overhead by 90%, and significantly improve the search efficiency.…”
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Edge computing offloading policies and resource allocation considering system fairness in trusted environments by Shouyi YANG, Fukang LI, Ruimin REN

“…Considering the fairness problem in edge computing in an unreliable trust environment, the offloading decision and resource allocation problem of edge computing was studied for a multi-user multi-server scenario.Based on the proposed real-time trust model, system fairness was defined from the perspective of user satisfaction, a joint optimization model considering trust and fairness was established, and a trust-based task offloading and resource allocation (TOA) algorithm was proposed on this basis.The original NP-hard problem was converted into multiple deterministic optimization subproblems, the offloading strategy was determined based on the backtracking algorithm, and the optimization of resource allocation was accomplished by using the Lagrange multiplier method, the convex optimization toolbox, and the bifurcated iterative search method, so as to achieve system fairness and enhance user satisfaction.Simulation experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms other benchmark algorithms.…”
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Inequalities within Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa on gender, with special reference to lGBTQIA+: Imago Dei by L. Modise

“…Second, the article focuses on the way in which missionaries have taught African converts to interpret the Bible on many serious human rights issues. …”
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Network Selection Algorithm Based on Stable Matching Game in Vehicular Heterogeneous Network by Rui Zhang, Jing Hu, Weiwei Xia

“…Firstly, the corresponding weights were calculated by using AHP to obtain the satisfaction function, then, one-to-many two-sided matching problem was converted into one-to-one two-sided matching problem, and optimal matching results could be obtained by constructing the multi-objective optimization model under the condition of stable matching. …”
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Deep learning Chinese input method with incremental vocabulary selection by Huajian REN, Xiulan HAO, Wenjing XU

“…The core task of an input method is to convert the keystroke sequences typed by users into Chinese character sequences.Input methods applying deep learning methods have advantages in learning long-range dependencies and solving data sparsity problems.However, the existing methods still have two shortcomings: the separation structure of pinyin slicing in conversion leads to error propagation, and the model is complicated to meet the demand for real-time performance of the input method.A deep-learning input method model incorporating incremental word selection methods was proposed to address these shortcomings.Various softmax optimization methods were compared.Experiments on People’s Daily data and Chinese Wikipedia data show that the model improves the conversion accuracy by 15% compared with the current state-of-the-art model, and the incremental vocabulary selection method makes the model 130 times faster without losing conversion accuracy.…”
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Issues at the Rural-Urban Fringe: Land Use -- Agricultural Zoning by Rodney L. Clouser

“…Many states use more than one technique in an attempt to prevent land from converting from agricultural to non-agricultural use. …”
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L’islam tropical face à la mort by Michelangelo Giampaoli

“…Far from their birthplaces in Syria, Lebanon, Iran, many of them ended up being buried in Brazil, next to Brazilians converted to Islam. The analysis of the processes that lead those people to the choice of this specific place, to the creation of monuments, inscriptions and epitaphs and the development of ritual practices - through which this community renew the relationship with its own origin, starting from the relationship built with death - allows today to reconstruct the history and the memories of a specific Islamic community, as well as its progressive interaction with the complex and multicultural Brazilian context.…”
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