Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Meteorological Drought in Shandong Province, China, from 1961 to 2008 by Xiaoli Wang, Xiyong Hou, Zhi Li, Yuandong Wang

“…The results indicated that the occurrence frequency of meteorological drought in Shandong province was generally high and some part of this region such as Jiaodong peninsula had suffered drought pressure with an evident ascending trend. …”
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Food for thought: Family Entrepreneurship in four questions by Kathleen Randerson

“…Second, it sheds light on the damages incurred by focussing on mainstream and generalizations by teasing out important aspects until now ignored. …”
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Alternative Usage of Raw Material and Fuel in Cement Plants: Case Study by Şeyma Ordu, Ebru Öztürk

“…Alternative fuels can generally be gathered under the groups of sewage sludge, waste oil, worn out tires, solvent and paints. …”
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Examining the Effectiveness of a Case Management Program for Custodial Grandparent Families by Lenora Campbell, Dana L. Carthron, Margaret Shandor Miles, LaShanda Brown

“…Perceptions about physical health were generally the same before and after the program. Grandparents' reported that many grandchildren had emotional and behavioral problems in the clinical range. …”
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Pulmonary Onset of Adult Onset Still’s Disease Complicated with Kikuchi Lymphadenitis by G. D. E. Kodithuwakku, C. L. Fonseka, S. Nanayakkara, H. M. M. Herath

“…Few weeks later, he developed macular rash and arthralgia with generalized lymphadenopathy with lymph node histology, showing Kikuchi lymphadenitis. …”
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Power Generation on a Bare Electrodynamic Tether during Debris Mitigation in Space by Kan Xie, Fuwen Liang, Qimeng Xia, Ningfei Wang, Zun Zhang, Haoxiang Yuan, Xiangyang Liu, Zhiwen Wu

“…With constant power consumption on board, the battery operation generally experiences a discharging phase, a charging phase, and a stable phase. …”
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Application of the Bayesian Model Averaging in Analyzing Freeway Traffic Incident Clearance Time for Emergency Management by Yajie Zou, Bo Lin, Xiaoxue Yang, Lingtao Wu, Malik Muneeb Abid, Jinjun Tang

“…However, the conventional methods generally neglect the uncertainty related to the choice of models. …”
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Pricing of Proactive Hedging European Option with Dynamic Discrete Position Strategy by Meng Li, Xuefeng Wang, Fangfang Sun

“…It extends the classical European option by requiring option holders to continuously trade in underlying assets according to a predesigned trading strategy, to proactively hedge part of the potential risk from underlying asset price changes. To generalize this option design for practical application, in this study, a proactive hedging option with discrete trading strategy is developed and its pricing formula is deducted assuming the underlying asset price follows Geometric Fractional Brownian Motion. …”
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A Unified Elastoplastic Model of Unsaturated Soils Considering Capillary Hysteresis by Tiantian Ma, Changfu Wei, Pan Chen, Huihui Tian, De'an Sun

“…Within this context, a constitutive model of unsaturated soils is developed by generalizing the modified Cam-Clay model. A hardening function is introduced, in which both the matric suction and the degree of saturation are explicitly included as hardening variables, so that the effect of hydraulic history on the mechanical response can be properly addressed. …”
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Effect of Location of Delamination on Free Vibration of Cross-Ply Conical Shells by Sudip Dey, Amit Karmakar

“…In this paper, a finite element method is employed to determine the effects of location of delamination on free vibration characteristics of graphite-epoxy cross-ply composite pre-twisted shallow conical shells. The generalized dynamic equilibrium equation is derived from Lagrange's equation of motion neglecting Coriolis effect for moderate rotational speeds. …”
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Suture techniques in the surgical management of flexor tendon, Achilles tendon and cruciate ligament injuries: a systematic review by Guoshuai Liu, Gege Lv, Fei Liu

“…Methods A systematic search of PubMed, Springer, Web Science, Vip Database, China National Knowledge, and Wanfang Data for in vitro biomechanical studies on suture techniques in the surgical treatment of musculoskeletal soft tissue injuries covering relevant studies from April 2009 to April 2024 was performed. A generalized classification was made based on the characteristics of the techniques, and recommendations for the selection of suture techniques were made according to the GRADE concept. …”
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Attribute-based alterable threshold ring signature scheme with conspiracy attack immunity by Zhen CHEN, Wen-fang ZHANG, Xiao-min WANG

“…Attribute-based cryptography is a generalization and development of the identity-based cryptography,which extends the identity to a set of attributes.In the attribute-based cryptosystem,different members with the same attributes can form a signature ring automatically,with the actual signer’s personl idnetity easily hided.By in-depth analysis of several attribute-based threshold ring signature schemes proposed by the earlier reseachers,it is concluded that the malicious users with the complementary attributes can conspire to forge a valid signature.In order to compensate for the defect,the proposal first gives the formal definitions of the security characteristics in attribute-based threshold ring signature scheme,such as unforgeability,indistinguishability and anti-collusion attack.Then a new attribute-based alterable threshold ring signature scheme is presented,whose security is proven equivalent to the computational Diffie-Hellman problem.By introducing an random secret parameter in each user’s private key,the proposal can resist the collusion attacks.It is proven that the proposal can satisfy existential unforgeability and anti-collusion against the adaptive chosen message attack in therandom oracle model,and can meet the requirement of indistinguishability among the users with the same attributes.Besides,property analysis shows that the proposal has high efficiency.…”
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Secondary Primary Malignancies in Multiple Myeloma: An Old Nemesis Revisited by Jay Yang, Howard R. Terebelo, Jeffrey A. Zonder

“…Patients should be educated regarding this potential concern but the current use of lenalidomide should not generally be altered until further data are available.…”
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Building irregularity issues and architectural design in seismic areas by Valerio Alecci, Mario De Stefano

“…In the last decades, some trends in architectural design, such as Deconstructivism and other contemporary theories, worked in pursuing architectural solutions based on the concept of �deconstruction� in place of �construction�, favoring non-rigid schemes, non-regular shapes and, more generally, avoiding geometric rules and classical canons of symmetry and regularity. …”
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Intraosseous angioleiomyoma of the mandible- Report of a rare case by K.S. Gamal Abdul Nasser, S.G. Wasim Ahamed, Madhu Narayan

“…It is infrequent in the oral cavity. Oral LMs are generally of the angioleiomyoma (ALM) type. In this article, we present a rare case of oral ALM in a 24-year-old male who had a painless swelling in the mandibular left buccal vestibule. …”
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Orthogonal Capsule Network with Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Small Sample Hyperspectral Image Classification by Prince Yaw Owusu Amoako, Guo Cao, Boshan Shi, Di Yang, Benedict Boakye Acka

“…Learning a meta-policy with a Q-learner generalizes across different tasks to effectively select discriminative features from the hyperspectral data. …”
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Propuesta de investigación nacional del nivel de conocimiento docente sobre cáncer oral by Romero A, Pimentel J M, Molina Ávila I, Avena M V

“…El conocimiento de los odontólogos generales, en particular de aquellos involucrados en la docencia universitaria, es crucial para la identificación temprana de lesiones o trastornos potencialmente malignos. …”
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Intervention Models in Functional Connectivity Identification Applied to fMRI by João Ricardo Sato, Daniel Yasumasa Takahashi, Ellison Fernando Cardoso, Maria da Graça Morais Martin, Edson Amaro Júnior, Pedro Alberto Morettin

“…However, this approach assumes prior information about the causality direction and stationarity conditions, which may not be satisfied in fMRI experiments. Generally, the fMRI experiments are related to an activation task; hence, the stimulus conditions should also be included in the model. …”
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Obtaining strength-ductility combination in a laser additive manufactured (FeCoNi)86Al7Ti7 high-entropy alloy at cryogenic temperature by Kaiqiang Xie, Yacheng Fang, Pan Ma, Hong Yang, Shiguang Wan, Konda Gokuldoss Prashanth, Piter Gargarella, Yongkun Mu, Gang Wang, Yandong Jia

“…Studies indicate that face-centered cubic HEAs generally offer increased strength and toughness at lower temperatures, suitable for cryogenic applications. …”
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Chemical Constituents and Anti-Inflammatory Effect of Incense Smoke from Agarwood Determined by GC-MS by De-Qian Peng, Zhang-Xin Yu, Can-Hong Wang, Bao Gong, Yang-Yang Liu, Jian-He Wei

“…Agarwood is generally used to make incense sticks in China and Southeast Asia. …”
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