Political Meritocracy as Eastern Alternative to the Western Public Administration Traditions in the 21st Century by V. S. Gerasimov

“…He compares Russia, China and Singapore via the list of criteria of political and economic importance, reveals similarities and distinctions in the political past and present of those states, estimates the significance of some culturological factors regarding the evolution of those states and formulates his conclusion on the prospective of meritocracy in Russia.…”
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Accurate assembly of full-length consensus for viral quasispecies by Jia Tian, Ziyu Gao, Minghao Li, Ergude Bao, Jin Zhao

“…It’s important to emphasize the significance of assembling a single full-length consensus contig, as it’s vital for identifying genetic diversity and estimating strain abundance accurately. Results In this paper, we developed FC-Virus, a de novo genome assembly strategy specifically targeting highly diverse viral populations. …”
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Effect of Cannabis seeds on Some biomedical parameters in male rats by Karwan Anwar Hassan

“…Alkaline Phosphatase, glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase and glutamic pyruvic transaminase (ALP, GPT, and GOT), creatinine and uric acid was done for estimating the effect of cannabis seeds on renal and liver function. …”
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Predictable Behavior of GFRP-Reinforced Bridge Decks: Formulation of a Strain-Based Capacity Model by Young Hoon Kim, Yeesock Kim, Yeonho Park

“…To account for multiple failure modes, this study proposes the limit state function to estimate the safety margin, based on strain values of GFRP-reinforcing bars. …”
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Correlation of Vitamin B12 Levels with Clinical and Laboratory Features in Patients of Dengue Fever by Asma Abdul Razzak

“… Introduction:  Dengue fever, sometimes known as break bone fever, is a virus-borne disease that is transmitted by mosquitos which causes fever, headache, muscle pain and cramps.1 The world's subtropical and tropical regions are home to a large population of Aedes mosquitoes, which are responsible for the disease transmission. Estimates suggest that 40-50% of the world's population is now at risk for dengue in tropical, subtropical, and, especially recently, higher temperate regions due to the rapid rise in dengue prevalence in recent decades.2 There are around 100 million new cases of dengue each year worldwide, affecting about 2.5 billion individuals who reside in dengue-risk areas.3 The global spread of dengue infection is increasing. …”
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Biomechanical models in the lower-limb exoskeletons development: a review by Vahid Firouzi, Andre Seyfarth, Seungmoon Song, Oskar von Stryk, Maziar Ahmad Sharbafi

“…Also, these models can estimate unmeasurable or hard-to-measure variables, which is also useful within the aforementioned applications. …”
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Assessment and Quantification of Methane Emission from Indian Livestock and Manure Management by Anuja Samal, Saroj Kumar Sahu, Ashirbad Mishra, Poonam Mangaraj, Shantanu Kumar Pani, Gufran Beig

“…., enteric fermentation, is estimated to be 11.63 Tg yr–1 in 2019 using IPCC methodology and recent census livestock activity data from the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India, and corresponding country-specific revised emission factors. …”
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Prevalence of Dental Caries, Oral Hygiene Knowledge, Status, and Practices among Visually Impaired Individuals in Chennai, Tamil Nadu by James Rufus John, Breena Daniel, Dakshaini Paneerselvam, Ganesh Rajendran

“…The overall mean number of DMFT was estimated to be 4.5±2.7. The mean number of decayed teeth was 3.1±2.2, mean number of missing teeth was 0.8±1.4, and mean number of filled teeth was 0.5±1.3. …”
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Mobility as a Service (MaaS) bundle uptake: a case study in Milan, Italy by Fulvio Silvestri, Federico Silvestri, Pierluigi Coppola

“…The willingness to pay (WTP) for different MaaS bundles was estimated based on users’ responses to stated preference choice tree experiments. …”
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R&D IN FUNCTION OF DIRECT PUBLIC SUPPORTS TO SMEs: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY IN TURKEY by Filiz Giray, Mehmet Çına, Simla Güzel

“…The survey data have been estimated by logistic regression analysis and allow us to indicate the factors which determine the using level of direct public supports of SMEs. …”
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Heterogeneity in the Preferences of Potential Users of Automated Transit Network (ATN) by Ardeshir Kohandel Shirazi, Ingmar Andreasson, Farshid Afshar, Ashkan Kohandel Shirazi, Hamidreza Mokhtarian

“…Additionally, from the comparison of the results of the MNL and ML models, it was found that despite the greater ability of the ML model in estimating possible heterogeneities, likely the MNL model can also help to record some heterogeneities more realistically. …”
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Accuracy Analysis of the Aerosol Backscatter Coefficient Profiles Derived from the CYY-2B Ceilometer by Lei Liu, Ting Zhang, Yi Wu, Qi Wang, Taichang Gao

“…Spectral conversions of the ceilometer’s and lidar’s data are performed using the Ångström exponent estimated by AERONET measurements. A good agreement is found between two ceilometers and the MPL lidar in backscatter coefficient profiles inversion. …”
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Complications and Functional Results of Surgery for Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer by S. G. Joniau, A. A. Van Baelen, C. Y. Hsu, H. P. Van Poppel

“…At 12 months, complete continence was 87.8% and erectile function had fully recovered in 6% and 10% of patients who underwent a non-nerve sparing or unilateral nerve-sparing procedure, respectively. 10-year estimated biochemical PFS, clinical PFS, CSS and OS were 51.8%, 85.6%, 94.6% and 85.9%, respectively. …”
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Risk Factors for Preterm Labor in Pregnant Women from Ciego de Ávila Municipality by Silvia Estelbina Retureta Milán, Lainys María Rojas Álvarez, Marta Estelbina Retureta Milán

“…The study variables were: maternal age and risk factors for preterm labor. The point estimate for the association was obtained through the odds ratio. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Whole Body and Hepatic Insulin Resistance Using Indices from Oral Glucose Tolerance Test in Morbidly Obese Subjects with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Kamran Qureshi, Ronald H. Clements, Fahad Saeed, Gary A. Abrams

“…We used these indices as noninvasive methods of IR (inverse of insulin sensitivity) estimation and compared hepatic/peripheral components of whole body IR in NAFLD. …”
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The Role of the Key Differentially Mutated Gene FGFR3 in the Immune Microenvironment of Bladder Cancer by Jun Jiang, Yan Zhan, Jun Li

“…Firstly, the expression profiles were used to predict the scores and then the content of immune and stromal cells via the estimate package in R software. We then identified differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and differentially mutated genes (DMGs) according to the high-stromal score cohort and low-stromal score cohort. …”
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Glomerular parietal epithelial expression of CD44 in minimal change nephrotic syndrome and primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: A clinico-pathological study by Nithin E Paul, Suchitha Satish, Kiran Krishnamurthy Kelur, Manjunath Sanjeev Shetty

“…Results: Statistical association was noted between CD44 positivity and serum creatinine (p = 0.031), estimated glomerular filtration rate (p = 0.040), segmental sclerosis (p < 0.001), tubular atrophy (p = 0.027), interstitial fibrosis (p = 0.027), and histological diagnosis (p < 0.001). …”
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Overview of the Near-IR S0 Galaxy Survey (NIRS0S) by E. Laurikainen, H. Salo, R. Buta, J. H. Knapen

“…The properties of bulges and disks in S0s were found to be similar to those in spirals and, also, the masses and scale parameters of the bulges and disks to be coupled. It was estimated that the spiral bulges brighter than −20 mag in K-band are massive enough to be converted into the bulges of S0s merely by star formation. …”
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The burden of iodine deficiency by Zhifei Wu, Yu Liu, Wenjuan Wang

“…Hence, we measured the estimated annual percentage changes (EAPCs) from 1990 to 2019. …”
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Polyethylene glycol-based deep eutectic solvents as a novel agent for natural gas sweetening. by Jiyad N Aldawsari, Idowu A Adeyemi, Abdelbasset Bessadok-Jemai, Emad Ali, Inas M AlNashef, Mohamed K Hadj-Kali

“…Thus, an extensive database of estimated Henry's law constants (Hi) and solubilities (xi) of CO2 in 170 different DESs at 25°C has been constructed using the COSMO-RS method to select potential DESs. …”
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