Multiattribute Group Decision-Making Method in terms of Linguistic Neutrosophic Z-Number Weighted Aggregation Operators by Jun Ye, Rui Yong, Shigui Du

“…Next, we establish the LNZN weighted arithmetic mean (LNZNWAM) and LNZN weighted geometric mean (LNZNWGM) operators and indicate their properties. …”
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Verteporfin Photodynamic Therapy Combined with Intravitreal Ranibizumab for Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy Controversy Concerning Long-Term Followup by Maribel Fernández, María Gil, Francisco Gomez-Ulla, Pablo Charlón

“…We only used PDT for the treatment in the area of the active PCV or “hot spot” evident on the indocyanine green angiography (ICGA). …”
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Comparative analysis of the Streptococcus pneumoniae competence development in vitro versus in vivo during pneumonia-derived sepsis by Sook Yin Chong, Shi Qian Lew, Tauqeer Alam, Christopher A. Gaulke, Gee W. Lau

“…We examined existing RNA-Seq data and performed validation using RNA obtained from an independent replicate experiment.Results and discussionOur analysis revealed both similarities and differences in the expression of “early”, “late”, and “delayed” competence between in vitro versus during pneumonia-derived sepsis. …”
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Transitions in intensive care: Investigating critical slowing down post extubation. by Lucinda Khalil, Sandip V George, Katherine L Brown, Samiran Ray, Simon Arridge

“…Some patients failed extubation, and required a re-intubation within 48 hours. We investigated whether critical slowing down could be observed post failed extubations, prior to re-intubation. …”
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Dutch Lives. The Historical Sample of the Netherlands (1987–): Development and Research by Kees Mandemakers, Jan Kok

“…We will also go into methodological issues that were picked up by the 'HSN community' and we will point out the present and future challenges for the HSN.…”
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Quality Evaluation of Online Mental Health Education Based on Reinforcement Learning in the Pandemic by Weifeng Zhang

“…From mental health experts, we know that we cannot lose sight of an equally alarming issue which is the long-term mental health impact the pandemic is going to leave on the society. …”
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Characterizing the Structure of the Railway Network in China: A Complex Weighted Network Approach by Weiwei Cao, Xiangnan Feng, Jianmin Jia, Hong Zhang

“…To advance our knowledge of CRN, we modeled CRN as a complex weighted network and explored the structural characteristics of the network via statistical evaluations and spatial analysis. …”
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Measurement of Quality of Life II. From the Philosophy of Life to Science by Soren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick, Niels Jorgen Andersen

“…We believe it should be possible to make operational the philosophical ideas of the good life in order to make it the object of scientific research. …”
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Fourteen-Year Patency of an Anterior Tibial Artery-Saphenous Vein Fistula in an Ambulatory Patient by Zerrin Pulathan, Gökalp Altun

“…After balloon angioplasty to the right subclavian vein, we performed right upper extremity basilic vein transposition. …”
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Peptidylarginine Deiminase 2 in Murine Antiviral and Autoimmune Antibody Responses by Aisha M. Mergaert, Michael F. Denny, Brock Kingstad-Bakke, Mandar Bawadekar, S. Janna Bashar, Thomas F. Warner, Marulasiddappa Suresh, Miriam A. Shelef

“…Also, we found that PAD2 is required not just for normal levels of persistent hemagglutination inhibiting antibodies but also for full protection from lethal influenza rechallenge. …”
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Trigonometric Regression for Analysis of Public Health Surveillance Data by Steven E. Rigdon, George Turabelidze, Ehsan Jahanpour

“…The seasonality is modeled by a trigonometric function whose parameters can be estimated by some baseline set of data. We study the ability of such a model to detect an outbreak. …”
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Mystery of superconductivity in FeTe films and the role of neighboring layers by Xiong Yao, Hee Taek Yi, Deepti Jain, Xiaoyu Yuan, Seongshik Oh

“…Based on this review, we show that telluride neighboring layers are key to superconducting FeTe films. …”
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Fractional tackles: leveraging player tracking data for within-play tackling evaluation in American football by Quang Nguyen, Ruitong Jiang, Meg Ellingwood, Ronald Yurko

“…Using player tracking data, we present a novel framework for assessing tackling contribution in a continuous and objective manner. …”
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Time-Dependent Transportation Network Design considering Construction Impact by Yi He, Ziqi Song, Lihui Zhang

“…We address the problem of selecting road-widening projects in an urban network, determining the optimal link capacity, and designing the schedule of the selected projects simultaneously. …”
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Disruptively regional: How women in Regional, Rural and Remote communities ‘imagine’ with and through digital and social media by Tara BRABAZON, Jacqueline EWART

“…The implications of this paper are important, as we offer a fresh model to think about regional media and regional media leadership.  …”
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Mechanical properties of compressed earth blocks reinforced with glass fibers and palm fibers: Experiments and simulation by Fidjah Abdelkader, Rabehi Mohamed, Kezrane Cheikh, Rachid Rabehi

“…We use the compressed earth technique and add palm fibers and glass fibers. …”
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Exploring activist perspectives on Indigenous-settler solidarity in Toronto’s food sovereignty movement by Taliya Seidman-Wright, Sarah Rotz

“… While food movements have increasingly taken up the framework of Indigenous food sovereignty in their work, settler food activists continue to define food systems on stolen lands. In this article, we explore whether and how food activists in Toronto are building solidarity with Indigenous peoples and movements in their work. …”
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Mechanics of cell sheets: plectin as an integrator of cytoskeletal networks by Zuzana Outla, Magdalena Prechova, Katerina Korelova, Jakub Gemperle, Martin Gregor

“…In particular, we focus on the ability of plectin to act as an integrator of the epithelial cytoarchitecture that defines the biomechanics of the whole tissue. …”
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Secular Perturbations from Exterior Giants Strongly Influence Gap Complexity in Peas-in-a-pod Exoplanetary Systems by Joseph R. Livesey, Juliette Becker

“…We find that these secular interactions can significantly contribute to the observed gap complexity dichotomy in tightly packed multiple-planet systems.…”
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Global Alignment of Pairwise Protein Interaction Networks for Maximal Common Conserved Patterns by Wenhong Tian, Nagiza F. Samatova

“…Researchers are still trying to improve the speed, scalability, and accuracy of network alignment. In view of this, we introduce a connected-components based fast algorithm, HopeMap, for network alignment. …”
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