Course “History & Philosophy of Science” for Doctoral Programs in Education and Pedagogical Sciences by Albina R. Sadyikova, Eleonora K. Nikitina, Andrey V. Korzhuev, Yuliya B. Ikrennikova

“…We examine the impact of philosophy of science on methodology of pedagogical education in the context of the history of pedagogical thought. …”
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Coping with the Forced Swim Stressor: Towards Understanding an Adaptive Mechanism by E. R. de Kloet, M. L. Molendijk

“…For this purpose we focus on the action of corticosterone that is mediated by the closely related mineralocorticoid receptors (MR) and glucocorticoid receptors (GR) in the limbic brain. …”
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Molecular study and analysis of organic compounds for high-performance solar cell applications by El Mhamedi Imane, El Malki Zakaria

“…In this study, we used time-dependent density functional theory DFT/TD-DFT methods in its B3LYP/6-311G(d,p) formalism to model and analyze various properties of conjugated organic compounds. …”
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Review and Selection Strategy for High-Accuracy Modeling of PWM Converters in DCM by Yu-Jun Mao, Chi-Seng Lam, Sai-Weng Sin, Man-Chung Wong, Rui Paulo Martins

“…We also streamline the general model-deriving processes for DC-DC converters, and test and compare the accuracy of these two methods under various conditions. …”
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Expression and Secretion of CXCL-8 and CXCL-10 From <emph>Mycobacterium Bovis</emph> BCG-Infected Human Epithelial Cells: Role of IL-4

“…Interleukin(IL)-4 is one of the cytokines that are the hallmark of the Th-2 response, and plays an important role in human tuberculosis. In the current study, we investigated the effect of IL-4 on chemokine production by human epithelial cells infected with <emph>Mycobacterium bovis</emph> bacillus calmette-guérin (BCG). …”
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Changes in the Order of Family Life Events in 20th-Century Europe: A Cross-Regional Perspective by Reto Burgin, Reto Schumacher, Gilbert Ritschard

“…We also hypothesize cross-regional differences in the timing and in the shape of the transition from one standard to another. …”
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Profit and Risk under Subprime Mortgage Securitization by M. A. Petersen, J. Mukuddem-Petersen, B. De Waal, M. C. Senosi, S. Thomas

“…We investigate the securitization of subprime residential mortgage loans into structured products such as subprime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBSs) and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). …”
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Frictional Characteristics of Granite Fault under Imposed Dynamic Normal Disturbance Loads by Guojian Cui, Chuanqing Zhang, Qiming Xie

“…Additionally, we conducted a preliminary discussion on the slip mechanisms of the simulated fault under dynamic normal disturbance loading and its potential engineering implications.…”
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Smart Defect Detection in Aero-Engines: Evaluating Transfer Learning with VGG19 and Data-Efficient Image Transformer Models by Samira Mohammadi, Vahid Rahmanian, Sasan Sattarpanah Karganroudi, Mehdi Adda

“…RandomSearchCV was used for hyperparameter optimization, and we selectively froze some layers during training to help better tailor the models to our dataset. …”
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K-SMPC: Koopman Operator-Based Stochastic Model Predictive Control for Enhanced Lateral Control of Autonomous Vehicles by Jin Sung Kim, Ying Shuai Quan, Chung Choo Chung, Woo Young Choi

“…Then, we design K-SMPC to tackle the Koopman modeling error, where the error is handled as a probabilistic signal. …”
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Planning for the Pandemic by Joanne Embree

“…Over the past year, many of us have become involved in the development of strategic plans for the hospitals, health authorities and clinical practices in which we work in case an influenza pandemic occurs in the very near future. …”
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Understanding price momentum, market fluctuations, and crashes: insights from the extended Samuelson model by Qingyuan Han

“…Drawing inspiration from three groundbreaking economists, we introduce the extended Samuelson model (ESM), a dynamic model that connects price changes to market participant actions. …”
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Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy: Can linguistic and semiotic analysis clarify their contrasts? by William J. Sullivan, Sarah Tsiang

“…With EO we begin with the teachings about life after death and provide a first approximation of Heaven and Hell and their relation to Paradise and Hades, both in characteristics and functions. …”
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Develop an emotion recognition system using jointly connectivity between electroencephalogram and electrocardiogram signals by Javid Farhadi Sedehi, Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo, Keivan Maghooli, Ali Sheikhani

“…To evaluate this approach, we have used EEG and ECG data from the public MAHNOB-HCI database through 5-fold cross-validation criterion. …”
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Topology-Aware Bus Routing in Complex Networks of Very-Large-Scale Integration with Nonuniform Track Configurations and Obstacles by Ziran Zhu, Zhipeng Huang, Jianli Chen, Longkun Guo

“…Finally, a detailed routing scheme is proposed to connect the segments of each bus. We evaluate our routing result with the benchmark suite of the 2018 CAD Contest. …”
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Efficacy and Interindividual Variability in Motor-Cortex Plasticity following Anodal tDCS and Paired-Associative Stimulation by Wolfgang Strube, Tilmann Bunse, Berend Malchow, Alkomiet Hasan

“…However, we also observed a remarkable amount of nonresponders. …”
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lncRNA SNHG14 Plays a Role in Sepsis-Induced Acute Kidney Injury by Regulating miR-93 by Chuanchuan Shi, Yuqian Zhao, Qi Li, Jianguo Li

“…We demonstrate that SNHG14 accelerates cellular injury in sepsis-induced AKI by activating IRAK4/NF-κB and IL-6R/STAT3 signaling via miR-93.…”
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SynthSecureNet: An Improved Deep Learning Architecture with Application to Intelligent Violence Detection by Ntandoyenkosi Zungu, Peter Olukanmi, Pitshou Bokoro

“…We present a new deep learning architecture, named SynthSecureNet, which hybridizes two popular architectures: MobileNetV2 and ResNetV2. …”
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Comparison of Deep Learning Techniques in Detection of Sickle Cell Disease. by Mabirizi, Vicent, Kawuma, Simon, Kyarisiima, Addah, Bamutura, David, Atwiine, Barnabas, Nanjebe, Deborah, Oyesigye, Adolf Mukama

“…We used a secondary dataset obtained from an online dataset. …”
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Dispensing antiretrovirals during Covid-19 lockdown: re-discovering community-based ART delivery models in Uganda by Henry, Zakumumpa, Christopher, Tumwine, Kiconco, Milliam, Spicer, Neil

“…Methods: We conducted a qualitative case-study of eight districts purposively selected from Eastern and Western Uganda. …”
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