Dwarf Galaxies in Voids: Dark Matter Halos and Gas Cooling by Matthias Hoeft, Stefan Gottlöber

“…Due to the cosmic ultraviolet background radiation low-mass haloes show generally a reduced baryon fraction. We determine the characteristic mass below which dwarf galaxies are baryon deficient. …”
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Hormonal Therapies for Acne: A Comprehensive Update for Dermatologists by Courtney A. Smith, Emily Gosnell, Turkan Banu Karatas, Chelsea Deitelzweig, Elizabeth M. B. Collins, Howa Yeung

“…Results Different brands and dosings of COC have generally similar efficacy in treating acne. Dermatologists should discuss contraceptive options and provide individualized shared decision-making with patients based on patient preferences, contraceptive needs, comorbidity profile, access, and cost. …”
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Counterintuitive DNA destabilization by monovalent salt at high concentrations due to overcharging by Chen Zhang, Fu-Jia Tian, Hong-Wei Zuo, Qi-Yuan Qiu, Jia-Hao Zhang, Wei Wei, Zhi-Jie Tan, Yan Zhang, Wen-Qiang Wu, Liang Dai, Xing-Hua Zhang

“…Abstract Monovalent salts are generally believed to stabilize DNA duplex by weakening inter-strand electrostatic repulsion. …”
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Combustion Rate of Solid Carbon in the Axisymmetric Stagnation Flowfield Established over a Sphere and/or a Flat Plate by Atsushi Makino, Masahiro Hojo, Masahito Shintomi

“…Carbon combustion in the forward stagnation flowfield has been examined through experimental comparisons, by conducting aerothermochemical analyses, with the surface C-O2 and C-CO2 reactions and the gas-phase CO-O2 reaction taken into account. By virtue of the generalized species-enthalpy coupling functions, close coupling of those reactions has been elucidated. …”
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A solution of computing power network based on domain name resolution by Qianying ZHAO, Wenjuan XING, Bo LEI, Lintao Jiang

“…With the development of new digital technologies and businesses, and the explosive growth of information and data, cloud - edge - end multilevel computing power resources are facing huge application requirements.Generalization of computing power infrastructure has become a major trend.As a new direction of network technology, computing power network integrates computing and other resources with the network, provides optimal resource configuration policies for users based on their requirements, and improves the cooperative efficiency of multilevel computing resources.The current technical route of the computing power network were analyzed, a solution of computing power network based on domain name resolution was proposed.The solution introduces a domain name resolution mechanism to use URL language to identify multiple computing power resources uniformly, and a centralized computing power resource management platform performs unified allocation and scheduling of computing power resources.After the user receives the assigned computing power resource identifier, the network information of corresponding computing resource were parsed through the domain name resolution system, and the network connection was established with the resource pool through the computing power gateway for the user to access.This solution meets the demand for flexible expansion of the computing power resource identification and has good practicability and universality.…”
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Quality and content assessment of internet information on nasoalveolar molding by Merve Nur Eglenen, Can Arslan, Derya Germec Cakan

“…Conclusions Internet information on NAM was generally at a moderate to poor level in terms of quality and content. …”
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Capacity analysis for MISO-UWOC systems over GGD weak turbulence with zero boresight pointing error by Yueheng LI, Yining XU, Meiyan JU, Ping HUANG

“…Generalized Gamma distribution (GGD) was chosen to describe the weak oceanic turbulence, and a new hybrid fading channel model that integrated the GGD weak turbulence, the zero boresight pointing error, and the implicit path loss plus multipath propagation characterized by the fading free impulse response (FFIR) was proposed.Subsequently, mathematical expressions for the ergodic capacity and outage capacity of the multiple-input single-output underwater wireless optical communication (MISO-UWOC) systems were derived through the Meijer-G function under a selective transmission (ST) diversity scheme especially while inter-symbol interference (ISI) effects were considered or not.Finally, the correctness of the theoretical formulas derived above was verified by some numerical results.The simulation results show that with the introduction of the ST diversity, the ergodic capacity of the MISO-UWOC systems, taking the transmission ports N=2 as an example, is at least 1.3 times better than that of the conventional point-to-point (P2P) transmission under the same channel condition and system parameters, while the maximum outage capacity decreases is also more than 60% compared with the conventional P2P one.However, the introduction of the ISI will severely reduce this performance improvement.…”
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Review of Prediction Models for Chloride Ion Concentration in Concrete Structures by Jiwei Ma, Qiuwei Yang, Xinhao Wang, Xi Peng, Fengjiang Qin

“…When adequately trained with sufficient experimental data, these models generally offer superior prediction accuracy compared to mathematical models. …”
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Architecture for Measuring Blade Tip Clearance and Time of Arrival with Multiple Sensors in Airplane Engines by José Miguel Gil-García, Joseba Zubia, Gerardo Aranguren

“…A flexible architecture to extract these parameters from the blades of a gas turbine has been developed. The generalization of this architecture is introduced which is able to deal with several sensors simultaneously. …”
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LIQUIDITY AND PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM THE DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Celestine Toluwa Oladele, Rihanat I Abdulkadir, Peters Ade Sanni

“…The analytical method employed to analyze the data was the System Generalized Method of Movement (GMM) estimator. The empirical results showed that among the proxies for liquidity (liquidity ratio, cash reserve ratio, loan to deposit ratio), only cash reserve ratio was significant and consistent on both dimensions of performance. …”
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Age-dependent decline in sperm quality and function in a naturally short-lived vertebrate by Silvia Cattelan, Dario Riccardo Valenzano

“…Our findings question generalized soma vs. reproductive senescence trade-off models and highlight the importance of integrating species-specific ecological and demographic constraints to explain observed life history traits.…”
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An Atypical Case of Taravana Syndrome in a Breath-Hold Underwater Fishing Champion: A Case Report by Andrea Cortegiani, Grazia Foresta, Giustino Strano, Maria Teresa Strano, Francesca Montalto, Domenico Garbo, Santi Maurizio Raineri

“…The following morning, pain and neurological impairment occurred again and the diver went by himself to the hospital where he had a generalized tonic-clonic seizure and lost consciousness. …”
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Ferrography Wear Particles Image Recognition Based on Extreme Learning Machine by Qiong Li, Tingting Zhao, Lingchao Zhang, Wenhui Sun, Xi Zhao

“…Recently, extreme learning machine (ELM) for single-hidden-layer feedforward neural networks (SLFN) has been attracting attentions for its faster learning speed and better generalization performance than those of traditional gradient-based learning algorithms. …”
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Demonstrating Efficient and Robust Bosonic State Reconstruction via Optimized Excitation Counting by Tanjung Krisnanda, Clara Yun Fontaine, Adrian Copetudo, Pengtao Song, Kai Xiang Lee, Ni-Ni Huang, Fernando Valadares, Timothy C.H. Liew, Yvonne Y. Gao

“…In this work, we introduce an efficient and robust technique of optimized reconstruction with excitation-number sampling (ORENS) based on the idea of the generalized Q function. We use a standard bosonic circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) setup to experimentally demonstrate effective state reconstruction using the theoretically minimum number of measurements. …”
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Contraceptive Use among Basic School Pupils in Ghana: A Case Study of a Municipality by Fred Yao Gbagbo

“…Basic school pupils in Ghana are generally sexually active but have high unmet needs for modern contraception due to sociocultural barriers, stigma, and misconceptions. …”
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Cross-Layer Throughput Optimization in Cognitive Radio Networks with SINR Constraints by Miao Ma, Danny H. K. Tsang

“…Since the formulation is in the forms of mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP), which is generally a hard problem, we develop a heuristic method by solving a relaxation of the original problem, followed by rounding and simple local optimization. …”
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Quantitative Diagnosis of Rotor Vibration Fault Using Process Power Spectrum Entropy and Support Vector Machine Method by Cheng-Wei Fei, Guang-Chen Bai, Wen-Zhong Tang, Shuang Ma

“…From rotor vibration fault diagnosis, the results demonstrate that the proposed method possesses high precision, good learning ability, good generalization ability, and strong fault-tolerant ability (robustness) in four aspects of distinguishing fault types, fault severity, fault location, and noise immunity of rotor stochastic vibration. …”
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Cognitive Driven Multilayer Self-Paced Learning with Misclassified Samples by Qi Zhu, Ning Yuan, Donghai Guan

“…., retrospective robust self-paced learning (R2SPL), which is inspired by the following two issues in human learning process: the misclassified samples are more impressive in upcoming learning, and the model of the follow-up learning process based on large number of samples can be used to reduce the risk of poor generalization in initial learning phase. We simultaneously estimated the degrees of learning-difficulty and misclassified in each step of SPL and proposed a framework to construct multilevel SPL for improving the robustness of the initial learning phase of SPL. …”
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Investigation of Chinese Students Majoring in Occupational and Physical Therapy on Attitude of Evidence-Based Practice by Bobbi GREINER, Keli MU, Angela PATTERSON, Margaret SCHUMACHER, Yonyue QI, Huiling HU, Yue XIAO, Yonghong YANG, Fanyuan MENG, Xiaodang LIU, Ya QUI

“…No significant differences were found on the students’perceptions of EBP between OT and PT programs.Conclusion:Chinese OT and PT students both had positive attitudes toward EBP generally. Students’perceptions of EBP tended to improve throughout professional education which suggested the importance of EBP in the professional education of OT and PT.…”
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New Perspectives on Canned Fish Quality and Safety on the Road to Sustainability by Antónia Juliana Pais-Costa, António Marques, Helena Oliveira, Amparo Gonçalves, Carolina Camacho, Helga Coelho Augusto, Maria Leonor Nunes

“…Environmental contaminants, along with those generated during processing, are generally found to be within acceptable limits. Product recalls related to these contaminants in Europe are scarce, but continuous monitoring and regulatory enforcement remain essential. …”
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