Bio-Based Polyols from Seed Oils for Water-Blown Rigid Polyurethane Foam Preparation by Paweena Ekkaphan, Sarintip Sooksai, Nuanphun Chantarasiri, Amorn Petsom

“…The proper PUR formulations can be manipulated to produce the desired material applications. These seed oil-based RPUR foams exhibited relatively high compressive strength (237.7–240.2 kPa) with the density in the range of 40–45 kg/m3. …”
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Radical Abdominal Trachelectomy for IB1 Cervical Cancer at 17 Weeks of Gestation: A Case Report and Literature Review by Yoichi Aoki, Morihiko Inamine, Sugiko Ohishi, Yutaka Nagai, Hitoshi Masamoto

“…It may be possible that radical abdominal trachelectomy during pregnancy can help women avoid the triple losses of a desired pregnancy, fertility, and motherhood.…”
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The Development of a Customization Framework for the WRF Model over the Lake Victoria Basin, Eastern Africa on Seasonal Timescales by R. Argent, X. Sun, F. Semazzi, L. Xie, B. Liu

“…To produce reliable climate projections, it is desirable to successfully model the rainfall over the lake accurately. …”
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A New Methodology of Design and Development of Serious Games by André F. S. Barbosa, Pedro N. M. Pereira, João A. F. F. Dias, Frutuoso G. M. Silva

“…The development of a serious game requires perfect knowledge of the learning domain to obtain the desired results. But it is also true that this may not be enough to develop a successful serious game. …”
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Collaboration among Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses: A Scoping Review of Practice Guidelines by Dawn Prentice, Jane Moore, Joanne Crawford, Sara Lankshear, Jacqueline Limoges

“…Although the guidelines discussed the structures needed to support intraprofessional collaboration, and most of the guidelines mention that quality patient care is the desired outcome of intraprofessional collaboration, outcome indicators for measuring successful collaborative practice were missing in many of the guidelines. …”
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Reporting Standards for Bayesian Network Modelling by Martine J. Barons, Anca M. Hanea, Steven Mascaro, Owen Woodberry

“…In light of the recent trend for governments and other organisations to demand accountability and transparency, we have compiled and tested a reporting checklist for Bayesian Network modelling which will bring the desirable level of transparency and reproducibility to enable models to support decision making and allow the robust comparison and combination of models. …”
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Parameter fitting-based traveling wave fault location method for multi-terminal DC grids by Le Liu, Fan Xie, Xiaoning Kang, Zhiguo Hao, Aleksandra Lekić, Marjan Popov

“…Compared to the existing methods, the proposed method has desired performance under close-in faults, can withstand 35 dB noise interference, and obviates the need for an extremely high sampling frequency, estimation of tws velocity, and communication devices.…”
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On Mixed Flow Turbines for Automotive Turbocharger Applications by Bernhardt Lüddecke, Dietmar Filsinger, Jan Ehrhard

“…In an automotive drive cycle, a turbine which can extract more energy at high pressure ratios and lower rotational speeds is desirable. In the literature it is typically found that radial turbines provide peak efficiency at speed ratios of 0.7, but at high pressure ratios and low rotational speeds the blade speed ratio will be low and the rotor will experience high values of positive incidence at the inlet. …”
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An Accurate Integral Method for Vibration Signal Based on Feature Information Extraction by Yong Zhu, Wanlu Jiang, Xiangdong Kong, Zhi Zheng, Haosong Hu

“…Then, the connotative characteristic components in vibration signal were accurately extracted by Euclidean distance search, and the desired integral signals were precisely reconstructed. …”
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Semi-supervised tri-Adaboost algorithm for network intrusion detection by Yali Yuan, Liuwei Huo, Yachao Yuan, Zhixiao Wang

“…We then conduct extensive numerical studies using different training and testing samples in the KDDcup99 dataset and discover the flows demonstrated that (1) high accuracy can be obtained using a training dataset which consists of a small number of labeled and a large number of unlabeled samples. (2) The algorithm proposed is reproducible and consistent over different runs. (3) The proposed algorithm outperforms other existing learning algorithms, even with only a small amount of labeled data in the training phase. (4) The proposed algorithm has a short execution time and a low false positive rate, while providing a desirable detection rate.…”
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Sampling with Prior Knowledge for High-dimensional Gravitational Wave Data Analysis by He Wang, Zhoujian Cao, Yue Zhou, Zong-Kuan Guo, Zhixiang Ren

“…In this study, we incorporate prior physical knowledge by sampling from desired interim distributions to develop the training dataset. …”
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Hyper-redundant endoscopic manipulator position compensation under external load by Giacoppo Giuliano A., Schulze Eric, Pott Peter P.

“…Nevertheless, the proposed method proved to be effective in compensating for external loads and restoring the manipulator to the desired position.…”
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Health and Safety Considerations of Fermented Sausages by Askild Holck, Lars Axelsson, Anette McLeod, Tone Mari Rode, Even Heir

“…We also go through attempts to improve the sausages by lowering the content of saturated fats by replacing them with unsaturated fats, reducing the NaCl concentration by partly replacing it with KCl, and the use of selected starter cultures with desirable properties. In addition, we review the food pathogenic microorganisms relevant for fermented sausages (Escherichia coli, Salmonella enterica, Staphylococcus aureus, Listeria monocytogenes, Clostridium botulinum, and Toxoplasma gondii) and processing and postprocessing strategies to inhibit their growth and reduce their presence in the products.…”
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hpvPDB: An Online Proteome Reserve for Human Papillomavirus by Satish Kumar, Lingaraja Jena, Sangeeta Daf, Kanchan Mohod, Peyush Goyal, Ashok K. Varma

“…We attempted to design an online reserve with comprehensive information on HPV for the end users desiring the same. The Human Papillomavirus Proteome Database (hpvPDB) domiciles proteomic and genomic information on 150 HPV strains sequenced to date. …”
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The Effect of Employees’ Personal Characteristics and Organizational Climate on Organizational Performance, with regard to the Mediating Role of Organizational Knowledge Creation P... by Mohammad Taghi Taghavifard, Jalal Rezaee Noor, Mehdi Seyfollahi, Narges Aghakhani

“…The process of knowledge creation requires people (attitude and motivation) and collaborative atmosphere (the desired organizational climate). Organizational climate and individual characteristics are two major factors to improve organizational performance. …”
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A content analysis of actionable guidelines for Climate-Smart agriculture implementation in South Africa- communication for behavioral changes by Oladimeji Idowu Oladele, Simon C. Mjabuliseni Ngidi

“…The communication in the actionable guidelines emphasizes the intention for desired results, current activities needed to be implemented, implementation steps rather than the danger posed by climate change, and future implications and theoretical issues as often with climate change reports and communication outlets. …”
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Second harmonic generation from bound-state in the continuum-hosted few-layers van der Waals metasurface by Muhammad Naseer, Begum Azra, Su Zhaoxian, Huang Lingling

“…The metasurface sustains BIC at different thickness of the meta-atoms, which is highly desired for maintaining the accuracy in fabrications. …”
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Resolving active species during the carbon monoxide oxidation over Pt(111) on the microsecond timescale by Calley N. Eads, Weijia Wang, Ulrike Küst, Julia Prumbs, Robert H. Temperton, Mattia Scardamaglia, Joachim Schnadt, Jan Knudsen, Andrey Shavorskiy

“…This limitation can cause misinterpretations of catalytic function, as the signal of short-lived intermediates responsible for producing desired reaction products is often masked by more intense spectator species. …”
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Deep-learning-assisted reconfigurable metasurface antenna for real-time holographic beam steering by Ma Hyunjun, Kim Jin-Soo, Choe Jong-Ho, Park Q-Han

“…Suitable states for the generation of the desired patterns can be identified using iteration, but this is very slow and needs to be done for each far-field pattern. …”
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Consistent Total Traction Torque-Oriented Coordinated Control of Multimotors with Input Saturation for Heavy-Haul Locomotives by Changfan Zhang, Qian Zhang, Jing He, Jianhua Liu, Xingxing Yang, Songan Mao

“…Then, the observed value and auxiliary state were fed back to the sliding-mode controller to design a TACTC protocol and ensure that the total amount of traction torque follows the desired traction characteristic curve. Finally, the Matlab/Simulink simulation and RT-Lab semiphysical experiment results show that the proposed strategy can effectively suppress the input saturation problem of multimotor coordinated control.…”
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