Refined Composite Multivariate Multiscale Fractional Fuzzy Entropy: Measuring the Dynamical Complexity of Multichannel Financial Data by Huiqin Chu, Zhiyong Wu, Wei Zhang

“…Then, these measures are firstly employed to explore actual multichannel financial index series to the best of our knowledge. …”
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Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction complicated by ipsilateral pleural effusion by Marc Assaad, Wasif Shamsi, Anthony Loschner, Maria del Mar Cirino-Marcano

“…Several techniques have been employed, one of them is the blocking method using Zephyr or Spiration valves. …”
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Delving into the world of Turkish 9th grade EFL students in a flipped classroom context: Analyzing perceptions and experiences by Nermin Yıldız Yüksel, Gülşah Külekçi

“…An intrinsic case study was employed as a qualitative research design to investigate the effectiveness of the flipped classroom from the viewpoint of 9th grade EFL students. …”
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A critical approach to clustering precipitation series in the Dobrogea region, Romania by Saliba Youssef, Barbulescu Alina, Dumitriu Cristian Ștefan

“…Three clustering methods—K-means, K-medoids, and DBSCAN—were employed to partition the stations based on their monthly precipitation patterns. …”
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Effect of chiral imbalance on the electrical conductivity of hot and dense quark matter using Green–Kubo method within the 2-flavour gauged NJL model by Snigdha Ghosh, Nilanjan Chaudhuri, Sourav Sarkar, Pradip Roy

“…To this end, the in-medium spectral function corresponding to the vector current correlator is evaluated employing the real time formulation of finite temperature field theory. …”
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A comprehensive review of Interferometric Reflectance Imaging Sensor as a sensitive detection platform and its application areas by Monireh Bakhshpour-Yucel, Nese Lortlar Unlu, Elif Seymour, Adil Denizli

“…IRIS achieves enhanced sensitivity and specificity by leveraging spectral reflectivity as a transduction mechanism and employing a 3D polymeric surface chemistry for bioreceptor immobilization. …”
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Crack Detection in Plate-Like Structures Using Modal Strain Energy Method considering Various Boundary Conditions by Thanh-Cao Le, Duc-Duy Ho, Thanh-Canh Huynh, Van-Sy Bach

“…In order to overcome the limitation of measuring points, a central difference method is newly employed to compute the partial differential terms in the modal strain energy formula. …”
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H∞ Formation Control and Obstacle Avoidance for Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems by Dong Xue, Jing Yao, Jun Wang

“…An improved Newtonian potential function and a set of repulsive functions are employed to guarantee the HMAS formation-keeping and collision-avoiding from obstacles in a path planning problem, respectively. …”
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Fast Image Segmentation Using Two-Dimensional Otsu Based on Estimation of Distribution Algorithm by Wuli Wang, Liming Duan, Yong Wang

“…Firstly, in order to enhance the performance of image segmentation, the guided filtering is employed to improve neighborhood image template instead of mean filtering. …”
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Synthesis of Cr(III)-Morin Complex: Characterization and Antioxidant Study by Qadeer K. Panhwar, Shahabuddin Memon

“…Likewise, 1H NMR studies clarify that Cr(III) metal ion replaces the 5OH proton hence; 5-hydroxy-4-keto site is employed by morin in chelation to form six-membered stable ring system out of three available chelating sites. …”
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A Stochastic Wavelet Finite Element Method for 1D and 2D Structures Analysis by Xingwu Zhang, Xuefeng Chen, Zhibo Yang, Bing Li, Zhengjia He

“…Instead of conventional polynomial interpolation, the scaling functions of BSWI are employed to construct the displacement field. By means of virtual work principle and BSWI, the wavelet finite elements of beam, plate, and plane rigid frame are obtained. …”
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Primary health care strengthening through the lens of healthcare system thinking by Ramprakash Kaswa, Klaus von Pressentin

“…This article focusses on various thinking approaches that primary care providers can employ, namely systems thinking, complexity science thinking and learning health systems thinking. …”
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Venoarteriovenous ECMO in Concomitant Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Cardiomyopathy Associated with COVID-19 Infection by Zachary R. Bergman, Saranya Prathibha, Brent D. Bauman, Demetris Yannopoulos, Melissa E. Brunsvold

“…Less than 1% of the cases in the worldwide ELSO COVID-19 database employed any form of hybrid cannulation. To date, there has only been one reported case of patient salvage with arterial or partial arterial support. …”
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Enhancing Language Proficiency and Critical Thinking: Implementation of the Capstone Project in the EFL Context– Students’ Perspectives by Fatimah Saadi Ali, Shohidahon Nurmatova

“…It also aimed to explore whether the project piloting is beneficial or detrimental to be implemented in the future. The study employed a mixed-method approach to obtain results from an online survey questionnaire and a face-to-face interview with a total of eight senior ELT students as a focus group. …”
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A purposeful multi-stakeholder learning dialogue (PMSLD) approach to mitigate high-conflict collective bargaining by Pay Shabangu, Corné Meintjes, Siphelo Ngcwangu

“…Stakeholders in the SALGBC perceive the employer's engagement as conducted in bad faith, coercive, lacking consultation, and accepting industrial action as engagement. …”
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Effectiveness of Peduli Family Module to Engage Diet, Exercise, and Medication Adherence on Type 2 Diabetes by Ni Wayan Trisnadewi, Ni Putu Wiwik Oktaviani, Ni Komang Ayu Resiyanthi

“…Objectives:This study aimed to introduce the PEDULI family module, which can be used as an educational tool for the families of diabetes patients and as a training resource for diabetes educators Methods:This study employed a quasi-experimental design with a pretest-posttest. …”
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Tracking Control of a Galfenol-Actuated Nanopositioning Stage Using Feedforward Control with a Disturbance Observer by Shiping Jiang, Bin Xu, Shuxin Liu, Wei Zhu

“…In this controller, a feedforward control is developed to compensate the rate-dependent hysteresis, and a disturbance observer is employed to restrain disturbances, high-order unmodeled dynamics, and hysteresis compensation error. …”
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Hybrid Optimal Kinematic Parameter Identification for an Industrial Robot Based on BPNN-PSO by Guanbin Gao, Fei Liu, Hongjun San, Xing Wu, Wen Wang

“…A novel hybrid algorithm that employs BP neural network (BPNN) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is proposed for the kinematic parameter identification of industrial robots with an enhanced convergence response. …”
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One size fits all: Enhanced zero-shot text classification for patient listening on social media by Veton Matoshi, Maria Carmela De Vuono, Roberto Gaspari, Mark Kröll, Michael Jantscher, Sara Lucia Nicolardi, Giuseppe Mazzola, Manuela Rauch, Vedran Sabol, Eileen Salhofer, Riccardo Mariani

“…Leveraging external resources like ontologies and employing various NLP techniques, particularly zero-shot text classification, the presented framework yields initial meaningful insights into these research topics with minimal annotation effort.…”
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Integrating Multiple Control Actions in Advanced Microgrids: an Analogy to Well-Established Inverter Control by João M. S. Callegari, Lucas S. Araujo, Dener A. de L. Brandão, Braz J. Cardoso Filho, Danilo I. Brandão

“…Simulation and experimental results show a dynamic response improvement in load disturbance rejection when all control actions are considered, as well as a reduction in steady-state error for the grid power flow control. By employing low-bandwidth communication between DERs and central controller, no hardware retrofit is required in comparison to what is needed in other state-of-the-art centralized MG controls. …”
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