Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life after TBI: Comparison of a Disease-Specific (QOLIBRI) with a Generic (SF-36) Instrument by Nicole von Steinbuechel, Amra Covic, Suzanne Polinder, Thomas Kohlmann, Ugne Cepulyte, Herbert Poinstingl, Joy Backhaus, Wilbert Bakx, Monika Bullinger, Anne-Lise Christensen, Rita Formisano, Henning Gibbons, Stefan Höfer, Sanna Koskinen, Andrew Maas, Edmund Neugebauer, Jane Powell, Jaana Sarajuuri, Nadine Sasse, Silke Schmidt, Holger Mühlan, Klaus von Wild, George Zitnay, Jean-Luc Truelle

“…Psychometric performance of the two instruments was predominantly good, generally higher, and more homogenous for the QOLIBRI than for the SF-36 subscales. …”
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Escala de estrategias de disposición al estudio en universitarios: propiedades psicométricas by Fabiola Sáez-Delgado, Claudio Bustos Navarrete, Karla Lobos Peña, Javier Mella-Norambuena, Alejandro Díaz Mujica

“…Sin embargo, los instrumentos para medir estrategias de aprendizaje son muy generales para evaluar estas estrategias disposicionales. …”
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Time-based and privacy protection revocable and traceable data sharing scheme in cloud computing by Jiawei ZHANG, Jianfeng MA, Zhuo MA, Teng LI

“…General ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) provides fine-grained access control for data sharing in cloud computing, but its plaintext formed access policy may cause leakage of private and sensitive data.And revoking a malicious user by accurately tracing the identity according to a leaked decryption key is a huge challenge.Moreover, most of existing revocable schemes incur long user revocation list and low efficiency.To solve these problems, a time-based and privacy preserving revocable and traceable data sharing scheme was proposed based on CP-ABE to support expressive monotonic and partial hidden access policy, large attribute universe by conceal the attribute values in access policy.Time-limited data access control using hierarchical identity-based encryption was achieved to set key valid period for users.Moreover, with the approaches of white-box tracing and binary tree, efficient user tracing and direct revocation with shorter revocation list was realized together with high efficiency via online/offline and verifiable outsourced decryption techniques.Furthermore, the scheme was secure under decisional q-BDHE assumption.Theoretical analysis and extensive experiments demonstrate its advantageous performance in computational and storage cost.…”
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A Practical Design Method for Reducing Postconstruction Settlement of Highway Subgrade Induced by Soil Creep by Fei Zhou, Tangdai Xia, Bingqi Yu, Fan Xia, Fan Yu

“…This paper is aimed at generalizing a new design method for controlling highway postconstruction settlement by replacing subgrade with expanded polystyrene (EPS). …”
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Design and Implementation Guidelines for a Modular Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Scanner by Farid Atry, Israel Jacob De La Rosa, Kevin R. Rarick, Ramin Pashaie

“…While this article can be generalized for different applications, we will demonstrate the design of a SD-OCT system and representative results for in vivo brain imaging. …”
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ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT MODEL OF TERRITORIAL HUMAN RESOURCES POTENTIAL by Alexander G. Моkronosov, Alexander A. Vershinin

“…The authors explore the basic problems and contradictions of modern regional and local labor markets in Russia. Based on generalization and systematization of foreign and domestic research outcomes, the paper reveals the main condition for eliminating the territorial polarization threats, which implies formation of a new institutional environment in order to provide co-operation of participants in the territorial interest zone in personnel training and new jobs creating.The research findings demonstrate the increased disproportions between the workforce and labor markets of municipal formations in Sverdlovsk region, and emphasize the need for territorial industrial educational clusters maximizing the network co-operation of the involved parties.The scientific novelty combines adaptation of theoretical concepts of the “new economic geography” applied to reorganization processes in the Russian economy; and elaboration of the cluster model of advanced development of territorial human resources potential by means of territorial centers coordinating the interests of administration, business society, and households.Practical significance of the research results is related to facilitating the administrative efficiency of regional and municipal formations, employers, territorial employment centers, and thereby the advanced development of human resources potential.…”
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Intelligent Vision-Enabled Detection of Water-Surface Targets for Video Surveillance in Maritime Transportation by Yongqi Guo, Yuxu Lu, Yu Guo, Ryan Wen Liu, Kwok Tai Chui

“…A data augmentation strategy, which synthetically simulates the degraded images under different weather conditions, is further presented to promote the generalization and feature representation abilities of our network. …”
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Solitary Wave Solutions to a Fractional-Order Fokas Equation via the Improved Modified Extended Tanh-Function Approach by M. B. Almatrafi

“…The model captures a generalization of the integer derivative form by including fractional derivatives defined in the conformable sense. …”
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Non-Additive Quantity Measurement Model by V. M. Romanchak, P. S. Serenkov

“…Stevens measurement model.A generalized structure was considered that included an empirical system, a mathematical system, and a homomorphism of the empirical system into a numerical system. …”
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Radiation Belt Model Including Semi‐Annual Variation and Solar Driving (Sentinel) by C. Katsavrias, S. Aminalragia‐Giamini, C. Papadimitriou, I. A. Daglis, I. Sandberg, P. Jiggens

“…We also show that the model can generalize well and provide successful predictions, even outside of the spatio‐temporal range it has been trained with, using >0.8 MeV electron flux measurements from GOES‐15/EPEAD at a geostationary orbit.…”
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Comparing indoor and outdoor temperature and air pollution at an urban cooling center: a multiyear case study by Daniel L Mendoza, Erik T Crosman, Corbin Anderson, Mamta Chaudhari, Shawn A Gonzales

“…Differences between indoor and outdoor ozone were pronounced, with mean indoor ozone being generally ∼40% of outdoor values. Indoor PM _2.5 concentrations compared to outdoor value show seasonal variability and were up to 200% higher during wildfires compared to indoor concentration during wintertime inversion events. …”
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Scanning Reduction Strategy in MEG/EEG Beamformer Source Imaging by Jun Hee Hong, Sung Chan Jun

“…Despite such promise, beamformer generally has weakness which is degrading localization performance for correlated sources and is requiring of dense scanning for covering all possible interesting (entire) source areas. …”
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A Panoptic Segmentation for Indoor Environments using MaskDINO: An Experiment on the Impact of Contrast by Khalisha Putri, Ika Candradewi -

“…We then improved the model generalization on the various contrasts by re-optimizing it using a contrast-augmented dataset. …”
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Gaussian Process Regression and Machine Learning Methods for Carbon-Based Material Adsorption by Manar Ahmed Hamza, Maha M. Althobaiti, Fahd N. Al-Wesabi, Rana Alabdan, Hany Mahgoub, Anwer Mustafa Hilal, Abdelwahed Motwakel, Mesfer Al Duhayyim

“…Machine learning (ML) approaches were used to create generalized computation methods for tetracycline (TC) and sulfamethoxazole (SMX) adsorption in CBMs in this investigation. …”
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Method of privacy protection based on multiple edge servers in personalized search by Qiang ZHANG, Guojun WANG, Shaobo ZHANG

“…In the plaintext environment,users' personalized search results can be obtained through users' interest model and query keywords.However,it may possibly result in the disclosure of sensitive data and privacy,which prevents using sensitive data in cloud search.Therefore,data is generally stored in the form of ciphertext in the cloud server.In the process of cloud search service,users intend to quickly obtain the desired search results from the vast amount of ciphertext.In order to solve the problem,it was proposed that a method of privacy protection based on multiple edge servers in personalized search shall be used.By introducing multiple edge servers and cutting the index as well as the query matrix,the computing relevance scores of partial query and partial file index are achieved on the edge server.The cloud server only needs to get the relevance score on the edge server and make a simple processing that can return to the most relevant Top K files by user query,so as to make it particularly suitable for a large number of users in the massive personalized ciphertext search.Security analysis and experimental results show that this method can effectively protect users’ privacy and data confidentiality.In addition,it can guarantee high efficiency in search to provide better personalized search experience.…”
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TCAD Simulation Study of Cylindrical Vertical Double-Surrounding-Gate a-InGaZnO FETs and Geometric Parameter Optimization by Yue Zhao, Lihua Xu, Chuanke Chen, Xufan Li, Kexin Shang, Di Geng, Lingfei Wang, Ling Li

“…Threshold control of amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O field-effect transistor (a-IGZO FET) is generally a critical issue through material composition adjustment. …”
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Systematic Review of Multidisciplinary Chronic Pain Treatment Facilities by Samantha R. Fashler, Lynn K. Cooper, Eric D. Oosenbrug, Lindsay C. Burns, Shima Razavi, Lauren Goldberg, Joel Katz

“…Availability of pain treatment facilities was scarce and the reported caseloads and wait times were generally high. A wide range of medical, physical, and psychological pain treatments were available. …”
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Development of mathematical competence of future teachers by Barno S. Abdullaeva

“…The research also reveals the essence of such methods as analysis, synthesis, generalization, analogy, and comparison used to develop the mathematical competence of future teachers. …”
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Sines, transient, noise neural modeling of piano notes by Riccardo Simionato, Stefano Fasciani

“…While the model is more computationally and memory efficient, perceptual tests reveal limitations in accurately modeling the attack phase of notes. Despite this, it generally achieves perceptual accuracy in emulating single notes and trichords.…”
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Telepresence Robots at the Urology and Emergency Department: A Pilot Study Assessing Patients’ and Healthcare Workers’ Satisfaction by Jens Laigaard, Trine Ungermann Fredskild, Grzegorz Lukasz Fojecki

“…Most patients (71%) “agreed” or “strongly agreed” that they were willing to be attended by a telepresence robot at future evaluations and generally, patients gave high satisfaction scores. …”
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