Gender, FT4 levels, T stage, and BMI as predictors of TSH levels in thyroid cancer patients by Sen Zhang, Shuli Niu, Ling Zhou

“…However, the clinical efficacy of weight-based LT4 dosing has been suboptimal, highlighting the need to identify factors influencing the attainment of desired TSH levels and guide personalized treatment.MethodsWe constructed a retrospective cohort comprising 215 patients diagnosed with thyroid cancer. …”
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Game-Theory-Based Approach for Energy Routing in a Smart Grid Network by June S. Hong, Mihui Kim

“…First, we propose strategies for choosing the desired transaction price for both electricity surpluses and shortages to maximize profits through energy transactions. …”
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Ecstasy’s Alembic: H.D.’s Poetics of Magic and Psychoanalysis in World War Two by Jane Augustine

“…À la fois pratique et théorie, la spiritualité de H.D. se manifeste sous diverses formes dans son œuvre, notamment à travers son désir d’éprouver l’extase grecque, le verbe biblique, l’éros mystique médiéval ou encore le discours psychanalytique. …”
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PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION OF THE SIGNALS IN THE ELECTROSTATIC GRAVIINERTIAL SENSOR by I. Z. Gilavdary, S. N. Mekid, N. N. Riznookaya

“…PM makes small rotations under the action of gravitational forces or inertial forces.The distinctive features of the sensor are that the differential electrostatic system provides simultaneous reading of the desired signal and a control the torsional rigidity of suspension. …”
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Integration and Analysis of Neighbor Discovery and Link Quality Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks by Marjan Radi, Behnam Dezfouli, Kamalrulnizam Abu Bakar, Shukor Abd Razak

“…Network connectivity and link quality information are the fundamental requirements of wireless sensor network protocols to perform their desired functionality. Most of the existing discovery protocols have only focused on the neighbor discovery problem, while a few number of them provide an integrated neighbor search and link estimation. …”
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Perceptions of Czech Rural Life by its Inhabitants in Connection to Tourism by Renata Klufová, Marek Šulista

“…The hard localization and realization factors themselves, without supporting the development of soft factors, do not have the desired effect.…”
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ResNet15: Weather Recognition on Traffic Road with Deep Convolutional Neural Network by Jingming Xia, Dawei Xuan, Ling Tan, Luping Xing

“…In this paper, ResNet15 is used to train and test on the “WeatherDataset-4,” and desirable recognition results are obtained. The evaluation of a large number of experiments demonstrates that the proposed ResNet15 is superior to traditional network models such as ResNet50 in recognition accuracy, recognition speed, and model size.…”
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Perspectives of Rural Teachers on the Effects of Peer Pressure on Learners’ Behaviour – A Case of the Mqanduli Magisterial District, South Africa by Berington Zanoxolo Gobingca, Nomhle Mqolombeni

“…The study recommends the collaboration of stakeholders such as schools, the Department of Education and sister departments as well as municipalities in introducing or strengthening programmes inculcating acceptable and desirable morals to learners.…”
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Recalculating: The atlas of pragmatic parameters of developmental disorders by Anita Viszket, Alexandra Hoss, Eszter Kárpáti, Gábor Alberti

“…We apply ÂeALIS, the pragmasemantic system (Alberti, Kleiber, Schnell, & Szabó 2016) which offers a formal representation for linguistically encoded speech acts and for the beliefs, desires and intentions that are present in the minds of potential interlocutors. …”
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Establishing Concurrent Validity of the Role Checklist Version 2 with the OCAIRS in Measurement of Participation: A Pilot Study by Patricia J. Scott, Danielle Cacich, Morgan Fulk, Karen Michel, Katie Whiffen

“…In response to the need for an efficient measure of desired role participation, this study establishes concurrent validity of the 10–15-minute Role Checklist Version 2 (RCV2: QP) with the 50 minute Occupational Circumstances Assessment And Rating Scale (OCAIRS) in measuring occupational participation in individuals recovering from surgery following liver transplantation. 20 subjects (mean age of 55 and a mean time-since-transplant of 5.2 months) completed both instruments. …”
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A Stable Routing Protocol for Vehicles in Urban Environments by Hyun Yu, Sanghyun Ahn, Joon Yoo

“…For the efficient message delivery in VANETs, it is desirable to provide a reliable and stable VANET routing protocol. …”
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Motives and features of cross-platform self-presentation of Russian students by M. I. Krishtal, A. V. Shchekoturov

“…The authors consider cross-platformness in the article refers as the ability to simultaneously construct the desired impression in various Internet platforms, taking into account the specifics of their functionality and audience. …”
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Investigation of Pesticide Residue Limits in the Surface Water, Case study: Alara Stream in Alanya by Hasan Koçyiğit, Firdevs Sinanoğlu

“…During the selection of these pesticides, the desired parameters in the export of fresh vegetables and fruits are taken into consideration. …”
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PROFITABILITY AND TURNOVER APPRAISAL OF LISTED DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Terry Keme Zuode Odogu, Amapamo Stephen Koroye

“…Appropriately, the ex-post facto/casual comparative research design was adopted to obtain relevant and desirable secondary data from the Annual Bulletins of the Central Bank of Nigeria and E-payment Statistics Platforms from 2012 to 2020, to empirically appraise the profitability and turnover of all the 15 Nigerian deposit money banks quoted as at January 1, 2021, in the light of the non-bank led theory. …”
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Rancang Bangun Prototype Robot Pendeteksi Gas Metana Berbasis Mikrokontroler Arduino Untuk Eksplorasi Pertambangan by Ahnaf Faisal, Lovely Son

“…The command signal is applied autonomously by using Android based smart phone, which move the robot to the desired area. The signal sent by gas sensor MQ-04 will ring the buzzer and turn on the LED of the robot whenever the robot detects a methane gas. …”
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Optimizing WEDM Parameters on Nano-SiC-Gr Reinforced Aluminum Composites Using RSM by R. Saravanan, G. Anbuchezhiyan, Vamsi Krishna Mamidi, Palani Kumaran

“…Nanocomposites are preferred for performance enhancement over micron composites because of their better performance in enhancing the desired properties of the parent material. Nano-silicon carbide and nano-graphite are considered together for reinforcement of Al7075 in this piece of research. …”
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Constructing “Society’s Soldiers”: Identity Work, (Total) Defence Willingness and the Swedish Home Guard by Jenny Malmström, Joakim Berndtsson

“…Addressing SHG communications, the study shows that being “willing” is associated with a number of desirable social, organizational and professional identity traits serving to widen the SHG role outside the boundaries of the traditional soldier identity. …”
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Choosing to die with the help or by the hand of a doctor (medically-assisted death): Limitations and safety profiles by F. Cembrani, D. De Leo

“…Godelieva de Troyer, who made that request and obtained the desired outcome. The aim of the study: to consider a specific case of a patient with major depressive disorder and the role of doctors in informing the decision about medically assisted death. …”
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Frontières de l’humain et technologies de genre monstrueux by Kevin Lambert

“…The monster who narrates the novel is built at the intersection of socially prohibited economic, racial and criminal behaviors and sexual desires, which compose his fictional abjection. The novel therefore testifies to some important changes in the contemporary imagination surrounding the monster. …”
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Developing an efficient algorithm for robust school bus routing with heterogeneous fleet by Mohamad Ali Movafaghpour

“…The main advantage of this method over other present robust optimization methods is its emphasis on maintaining the feasibility of the optimal solution when dealing with the most diverse set of uncertainty scenarios while keeping the computational effort needed as low as desired.…”
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