Image Restoration Based on the Hybrid Total-Variation-Type Model by Baoli Shi, Zhi-Feng Pang, Yu-Fei Yang

“…Since two L1-norm terms in the proposed model make it difficultly solved by using some classically numerical methods directly, we first employ the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to solve a general form of the proposed model. …”
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Approximate Analytical Solution for the Forced Korteweg-de Vries Equation by Vincent Daniel David, Mojtaba Nazari, Vahid Barati, Faisal Salah, Zainal Abdul Aziz

“…Some examples of forcing terms are employed to analyse the behaviours of the HAM solutions for the different fKdV equations. …”
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Targeted Anterior Cervical Epidural Blood Patch in a Patient with Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension by Ravindra Singh Shekhawat, Ming Hui Yong, Si Ying Julienne Keong, Kunihiko Chen, Chow Wei Too, Shahul Hameed

“…To better target the anterolateral leakage site, we employed an anterior-approach EBP under computed tomography (CT) guidance. …”
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Observer-Based Robust Passive Control for a Class of Uncertain Neutral Systems: An Integral Sliding Mode Approach by Ruiping Xu, Zhen Liu, Cunchen Gao, Huimin Xiao

“…An ISMC strategy is proposed based on the state estimate. By employing a novel sliding functional, a new sufficient criterion of robust asymptotic stability and passivity for both the error system and the sliding mode (SM) dynamic system is derived via linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique. …”
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Best Management Practices in the Everglades Agricultural Area: Soil Testing by Samira H. Daroub, Orlando A. Diaz, Timothy A. Lang, Ming Chen

“…This EDIS article is one in a series which attempts to explain in easily understandable terms the implementation methods and rationale behind the main P load reducing BMPs employed on EAA farms. This document is Fact Sheet SL-225, one of a series of the Soil and Water Science Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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The Effect of Mutual Coupling on a High Altitude Platform Diversity System Using Compact Antenna Arrays by Tommy Hult, Abbas Mohammed

“…We analyze the destructive effects of mutual coupling and spatial correlation between the separate antenna elements on a combined diversity system consisting of multiple HAPs (High-Altitude Platforms) employing various compact MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) antenna array configurations, in order to enhance the mutual information in HAP communication links. …”
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ENERGY CONSUMPTION, TRADE OPENNESS AND GROWTH NEXUS IN TURKEY: EVIDENCE FROM VECM by Elma Satrovic

“…Thisresearch investigates the relationship between energy consumption (ENE), tradeopenness (TI) and economic growth (GDP) in the case of Turkey in the period1970-2015. VECM is employed. The results suggest along-run causality which is inferred from the statistically significant errorterm with GDP and ENE. …”
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Money Dwells in the Spiritual Pocket! The Gospel of Prosperity and the Empowerment of Women through Talents/Matarenda among ZAOGA FIF Adherents in Gweru, Zimbabwe by Annah Moyo, Gilbert Tarugarira

“…Referring to the Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa – Forward in Faith (ZAOGA FIF), this essay explores how this church organization has instilled hard work, frugality, and penultimate economic empowerment among its followers through Talents/Matarenda. The essay has employed the Empowerment Framework of Longwe and Clarke (1994) as an analytical tool to unpack the church’s approach towards the empowerment of women. …”
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Exertional Dyspnea Incidentally Diagnosed as Sarcoidosis: A Teaching Hospital Experience by Melvina Nartey, Kofi Ulzen-Appiah

“…Sarcoidosis, although a rare presentation in our setting, may easily be overlooked or misdiagnosed if a holistic or multidisciplinary approach is not employed in its diagnosis. Nonspecificity of symptoms contributes to the delayed diagnosis.…”
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"You are my rock and fortress". Refuge metaphors in Psalm 31. A perspective from cognitive metaphor theory by A. Basson

“…The competent reader will identify various refuge metaphors being employed by the psalmist. Through the application of images from the natural world, the poet accentuates the notion that Yahweh acts as a refuge to his people. …”
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Proces przygotowania i wdrażania systemu ocen okresowych pracowników w Bibliotece Uniwersyteckiej w Poznaniu by Małgorzata Dąbrowicz

“…The planned procedure to be employed by the SES was codified in the written rules to be followed during the implementation. …”
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Corporate Social-Environmental Responsibility as an Attraction and Retention Factor for Young Professionals by Marcos Cohen, Flávia de Souza Costa Neves Cavazotte, Taissa Mattos da Costa, Karina Cordeiro Silva Ferreira

“…The first study, an experiment, investigates whether such practices influence the attraction exerted by the company as a prospect employer among undergraduate students, considering different wage and professional development conditions. …”
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La taupe et le serpent. Discipline et contrôle dans les tribunaux pour enfants aux États-Unis (xxe-xxie siècles) by Guillaume Périssol

“…While probation has become the principal rehabilitation measure in the western penal system—even beyond juvenile justice—should we still be employing the disciplinary model? Furthermore, what remains of the disciplinary society described by Michel Foucault when he proposed the prison as the analogic model for the enclosed milieux used for containing people in modern times? …”
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Schreibende Professionals – Typologie einer Zielgruppe für Weiterbildungen im beruflichen Schreiben by Stefanie Marek

“…Unlike professional writers in fields such as journalism, technical writing, or public relations, the majority of the approximately 40 million employed individuals in Germany do not receive advanced professional writing training after completing their school and vocational education – yet they are writing professionals. …”
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Landscape, Geopolitics, and National Identity in the Norwegian Thrillers Occupied and Nobel by Saunders Robert A.

“…Focusing on the use of landscape in the Norwegian series Occupied (2015–2020) and Nobel (2016), this article examines the ways in which cityscapes and panoramas of the natural environment are employed as affective, as well as aesthetic tools for storytelling within a geopolitically inflected framework. …”
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Les conséquences de la crise sanitaire sur les relations de travail by Louis Alexandre Erb, François Pierre Reynaud

“…This unique period has generated a large economic shock that led to significant changes on the employees’ activity and the working conditions and institutions (the labour-wage nexus). In some cases, employers desire to maintain the activity in spite of the sanitary context and the necessity to preserve the health of workers. …”
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El Partido Carlista en la prensa diaria durante la Transición by Juan Carlos Senent Sansegundo

“…Qualitative research methods, content and discourse analysis of the press, as well as an approach to written media from political sociology, have been employed for this purpose. The documentation from the Digital Newspaper Archive of the National Library of Spain (BNE) and the documentation from the National Historical Archive (AHN), among others, along with relevant bibliography, have served as sources for this research.…”
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Black humour processing in the light of the conceptual integration theory and the benign violation theory by Avdagić Kemal

“…To prove the point, two theories for humour processing were employed: the conceptual integration theory and the benign violation theory. …”
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Przyczynek do dziejów Biblioteki Radzieckiej w Poznaniu by Artur Jazdon

“…However, the author also points at the qualitative shortcomings in the ensuing growth of the collections. The employed analysis proves that the basic task of the appeal was not fulfilled and the library created in the process did not preserve sufficiently complete resource of works.…”
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Fundamental Approach to University Education and Training of IT Professionals by A. V. Zamyatin, A. I. Chuchalin

“…The results of the coordination of programs with employers and students are given.…”
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