Social Strata Differentials in Reproductive Behavior among Agricultural Families in the Krummhörn Region (East Frisia, 1720-1874) by Kai Willführ, Charlotte Störmer

“…In this paper, we investigate how the reproductive behavior of families in the historical Krummhörn region was affected by their social status and by short-term fluctuations in their socioeconomic conditions. …”
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Turn-Based War Chess Model and Its Search Algorithm per Turn by Hai Nan, Bin Fang, Guixin Wang, Weibin Yang, Emily Sarah Carruthers, Yi Liu

“…We also discuss a key problem, namely, that the number of the branching factors of each turn in the game tree is huge. …”
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Delayed Treatment of Traumatic Cervical Dislocation: A Case Report and Literature Review by Fabian Roland Bechet, Pierre Stassen, Dan Scorpie, Thierry Della Siega

“…After a review of the literature, we did not find any consensus about the ideal scheme and sequence to reduce and stabilize this delayed type of cervical trauma. …”
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Ketamine does not rescue plaque load or gap detection in the 5XFAD mouse model of Alzheimer's disease by Alexa L. Wright, Aldis P. Weible, Olivia B. Estes, Michael Wehr

“…We found that ketamine had no effect on plaque load, nor any effect on gap detection, for either acute or chronic dosing. …”
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The Mid-Twentieth Century Baby Boom and the Role of Social Influence. An Agent-Based Modelling Approach by Eli Nomes, André Grow, Jan Van Bavel

“…To explore the role of social influence with analytical rigor, we make use of agent-based computational modelling. …”
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Incremental Graph Regulated Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Face Recognition by Zhe-Zhou Yu, Yu-Hao Liu, Bin Li, Shu-Chao Pang, Cheng-Cheng Jia

“…In a real world application, we seldom get all images at one time. Considering this case, if a company hired an employee, all his images information needs to be recorded into the system; if we rerun the face recognition algorithm, it will be time consuming. …”
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A data pipeline for secure extraction and sharing of social determinants of health. by Tyler Schappe, Lisa M McElroy, Moronke Ogundolie, Roland Matsouaka, Ursula Rogers, Nrupen A Bhavsar

“…However, sharing of these data across health systems presents challenges. We set out to develop a pipeline to acquire, deidentify, and share neighborhood-level SDOH data across multiple health systems.…”
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Early Detection of Baby-Rain-Cell Aloft in a Severe Storm and Risk Projection for Urban Flash Flood by Eiichi Nakakita, Hiroto Sato, Ryuta Nishiwaki, Hiroyuki Yamabe, Kosei Yamaguchi

“…By analyzing this event, we verified that a first radar echo aloft, by volume scan observation, is a practical and important sign for early warning of flash flood, and we named a first echo as a “baby-rain-cell” of Guerrilla-heavy rainfall. …”
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Decision Support System Based on Complex q-Rung Orthopair Fuzzy Rough Hamacher Aggregation Operator through Modified EDAS Method by Muhammad Qiyas, Saleem Abdullah, Muhammad Naeem, Neelam Khan, Samuel Okyere, Thongchi Botmart

“…We present the essential properties of these operators. …”
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Controversial Issues of Hydrocarbon Field Formation and the Role of Geomagnetic Fields by Andrey A. Ponomarev, Marsel A. Kadyrov, Yuri V. Vaganov, Valeria A. Cheymetova, Vadim M. Aleksandrov, Aleksandr V. Morev

“…We further overviewed the radical chain mechanism of hydrocarbon generation from organic matter as proposed by Prof. …”
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Wild animals connect us with nature: about awe, eco-pedagogy, and nature-connectedness by Theresa S. S. Schilhab, Gertrud L. Esbensen

“…We elaborate on the implications of these effects on children’s connection to nature. …”
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Mapping Iterative Medical Imaging Algorithm on Cell Accelerator by Meilian Xu, Parimala Thulasiraman

“…We effectively use the architectural features of Cell BE to provide an efficient mapping. …”
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Predictor-Based CACC Design for Heterogeneous Vehicles With Distinct Input Delays by Amirhossein Samii, Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis

“…We develop a predictor-based cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) design for platoons with heterogeneous vehicles, whose dynamics are described by a third-order linear system subject to actuators delays, which are distinct for each individual vehicle. …”
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GLBR: A novel global load balancing routing scheme based on intelligent computing in partially disconnected wireless sensor networks by Zeyu Sun, Guisheng Liao, Cao Zeng, Lan Lan, Guozeng Zhao

“…First, we adopt unequal transmission distances to build initial routing for intrasegment load balancing. …”
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A novel Arabidopsis phyllosphere resident Protomyces species and a re-examination of genus Protomyces based on genome sequence data by Kai Wang, Timo Sipilä, Kirk Overmyer

“…Of the 82 named Protomyces, we found few recent studies and six available cultures. …”
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Genome-wide association studies are enriched for interacting genes by Peter T. Nguyen, Simon G. Coetzee, Irina Silacheva, Dennis J. Hazelett

“…Results We used genetic algorithms to measure fitness of gene-cell set proposals against a series of objective functions that capture data and annotations. …”
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Towards new modes of knowledge exchange for sustainability transformations: an exploration of multi-sited dialogue as conferencing practice by Blane Harvey, Ying-Syuan (Elaine) Huang, Bruce Goldstein, Nick Graham

“…How we navigate the tensions that may emerge from these dimensions is a matter of pressing importance. …”
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The Role of Connexin-43 in the Inflammatory Process: A New Potential Therapy to Influence Keratitis by Chu-Yang Xu, Wen-Song Zhang, Hong Zhang, Yan Cao, Hong-Yan Zhou

“…Thus, we assessed the function of Cx43 during inflammatory corneal disease. …”
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Error Analysis of Some Demand Simplifications in Hydraulic Models of Water Supply Networks by Joaquín Izquierdo, Enrique Campbell, Idel Montalvo, Rafael Pérez-García, David Ayala-Cabrera

“…We also identify the main variables responsible for the errors. …”
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Epitaxial growth of transition metal nitrides by reactive sputtering by Florian Hörich, Christopher Lüttich, Jona Grümbel, Jürgen Bläsing, Martin Feneberg, Armin Dadgar, Rüdiger Goldhahn, André Strittmatter

“…Particularly, we analyzed the crystal structure and the quality of Sc-rich AlxSc1-xN. …”
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