Incorporating Colour Information for Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Melanoma from Dermoscopy Images: A Retrospective Survey and Critical Analysis by Ali Madooei, Mark S. Drew

“…Due to this diagnostic importance, many studies have either focused on or employed colour features as a constituent part of their skin lesion analysis systems. …”
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Can Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Drive the Interdependence of Agricultural Commodity Prices? Evidence from Partial Wavelet Coherence Analysis by Siaw Frimpong, Emmanuel N. Gyamfi, Zangina Ishaq, Samuel Kwaku Agyei, Daniel Agyapong, Anokye M. Adam

“…This paper employed wavelet coherence and partial wavelet coherence to investigate the time-frequency effect of global economic policy uncertainty on the comovement of five agricultural commodities such as maize, oat, rice, soybean, and wheat using monthly data from January 1997 to December 2019. …”
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Model Predictive Control for Continuous-Time Singular Jump Systems with Incomplete Transition Rates by Xinxin Gu, Jiwei Wen, Li Peng

“…Since the MPC strategy is aggregated into continuous-time singular MJSs, a discrete-time controller is employed to deal with a continuous-time plant and the cost function not only refers to the singularity but also considers the sampling period. …”
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Atlas of Interactions Between Decoration Proteins and Major Capsid Proteins of Coliphage N4 by Klem McJarrow-Keller, Alice-Roza Eruera, Alexander J. M. Crowe, Rosheny Kumaran, Jaekyung Hyun, Mihnea Bostina

“…In this study, an analysis of the complex interface contacts allows us to confirm that the gp17 Ig-like decoration proteins of N4 are likely employed by the virus to increase the capsid’s structural integrity.…”
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An Appraisal of Power-Minimizing Control Algorithms for Active Magnetic Bearings by Seong-yeol Yoo, Myounggyu D. Noh

“…Active magnetic bearings consume much less power than conventional passive bearings, especially when power-minimizing controllers are employed. Several power-minimizing controllers have been proposed, such as variable bias controllers and switching controllers. …”
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Study on the Impact of LDA Preprocessing on Pig Face Identification with SVM by Hongwen Yan, Yulong Wu, Yifan Bo, Yukuan Han, Gaifeng Ren

“…Through experimental analysis, the kernel functions for two testing protocols, one utilizing an SVM exclusively and the other employing a combination of LDA and an SVM, were identified as polynomial and RBF, both with coefficients of 0.03. …”
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Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network laboratory Guidelines for the Use of Point-of-Care Tests for the Diagnosis of Syphilis in Canada by Ameeta E Singh, Max A Chernesky, Muhammad Morshed, Tom Wong

“…Although no syphilis POCT are approved in Canada at this time, a single study in an outreach setting in Alberta showed limited benefit due to a high prevalence of previous infection but more studies are needed. Newer dual tests employing treponemal and nontreponemal antigens look promising.…”
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Theorising participation as communicative action for development and social change by Hannelie Otto, Lynette Fourie

“… This article explores, through a basic conceptual-theoretical analysis and a review of relevant literature, the usefulness of employing the communicative action theory of Jürgen Habermas in theorising the elusive notions of participation and participatory communication theory as applicable to project based development (Burnside-Lawry, 2012; Chang & Jacobson, 2010; Jacobson, 2003; Jacobson & Storey, 2004; Ramella & De La Cruz, 2000; Servaes, 1999). …”
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Dynamic Response of Crossanisotropic Layered Media with Imperfect Interface under Axisymmetric Loads by Zejun Han, Chengchao Guo, Linqing Yang, Jin Zhang, Kai Sun

“…The algorithm used two equivalent contact parameters to simulate the relationship between the discontinuity of the displacement and stress. The SEM was employed for the summation in the integral calculation to avoid the infinite integral in the integral transformation and greatly improve the efficiency of the solution to the dynamic response of the crossanisotropic layered half-space medium. …”
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Explicit relation between thin film chromatography and column chromatography conditions from statistics and machine learning by Hao Xu, Wenchao Wu, Yuntian Chen, Dongxiao Zhang, Fanyang Mo

“…This study explicitly elucidates how chemists use thin-layer chromatography (TLC) to determine column chromatography (CC) conditions, employing statistical analysis and machine learning techniques. …”
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A Computational Model for Biomechanical Effects of Arterial Compliance Mismatch by Fan He, Lu Hua, Li-jian Gao

“…A computational model was employed to investigate the effects of arterial compliance mismatch on blood flow, wall stress, and deformation. …”
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Research on Adjoint Kernelled Quasidifferential by Si-Da Lin, Fu-Min Xiao, Zun-Quan Xia, Li-Ping Pang

“…In this paper, the notion of adjoint kernelled quasidifferential, which is well-defined for −f and minfi∣i∈I, is employed as a representative of the equivalence class of quasidifferentials. …”
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DOA Estimation of an Enhanced Generalized Nested Array with Increased Degrees of Freedom and Reduced Mutual Coupling by Yule Zhang, Guoping Hu, Junpeng Shi, Hao Zhou, Chenghong Zhan, Fangzheng Zhao

“…Specifically, the proposed array adds a single antenna on the basis of generalized nested array (GNA), and the difference of coprime factors is employed as the spacing between the second subarray and the additional antenna. …”
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Parameterization-based trajectory planning for an 8-DOF manipulator with multiple constraints by Ziwu Ren, Zhongyuan Wang, Xiaohan Liu, Rui Lin

“…Then teaching–learning-based optimization (TLBO) algorithm is employed to search for the redundant parameters to generate an optimal trajectory. …”
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Mitigating acceptance and resistance in the fatwas on the ruling of learning English by Alharbi Ahlam, Bahammam Lubna, Almansour Tahani

“…In doing so, English and Arabic fatwas were analyzed employing modality. It was found that deontic auxiliary modals and similarly functioning markers were utilized to represent acceptance through median value modals to express obligation, for example, “should,” often followed by a justification, and low value modals to express permissibility, for example, “may.” …”
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Applications of Symmetric and Nonsymmetric MSSOR Preconditioners to Large-Scale Biot's Consolidation Problems with Nonassociated Plasticity by Xi Chen, Kok Kwang Phoon

“…To solve the resulting linear systems, the QMR and SQMR solver are employed in conjunction with nonsymmetric and symmetric MSSOR preconditioner, respectively. …”
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Exploratory Field and Laboratory Investigation on the Use of Noncontact Digital Ski Sensor in the South Korea Expressway Network by In Bae Kim, Ki Hoon Moon, Augusto Cannone Falchetto

“…The present work thoroughly assessed how employing the NCDS system affected the response of the pavement material at low temperatures. …”
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Optimization and Design of Wideband Antenna Based on Q Factor by Han Liu, Chengyou Yin, Weidong Gao, Yulong Sun

“…Thirdly, an integrated method combining the above method with VSIEs and self-adaptive DEA is employed to optimize the wideband antenna, extending its bandwidth from 11.5~16.5 GHz to 7~20 GHz. …”
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Exploring the electronic and magnetic properties of half-heusler alloy CoMnSb: implications for spintronics by Binay Limbu, Prem Sagar Dahal

“…In this study, we investigated the electronic and magnetic properties of CoMnSb by employing advanced computational methods rooted in Density functional theory and plane-wave pseudo potential approach. …”
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Dynamic Response of Parallel Hoisting System under Drive Deviation between Ropes with Time-Varying Length by Guohua Cao, Xiang Cai, Naige Wang, Weihong Peng, Jishun Li

“…The variable-domain three-node elements of rope are employed and the corresponding differential algebraic equations (DAEs) are derived using Lagrange’s equations of the first kind. …”
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