Evaluating the fairness of a high-stakes college entrance exam in Kuwait by Fajer Shamsaldeen, Jue Wang, Soyeon Ahn

“…The Kuwait University English Aptitude Test (KUEAT) is a high-stakes test, but very few studies have examined the psychometric quality of the scores for this national-level assessment. This study illustrates how measurement approaches can be used to examine the fairness issues in educational testing. …”
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Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity and refractory hypotension in Guillain-Barré syndrome with autoimmune encephalitis: a case report and literature review by Jun-Ping Wang, Yan-Bo He

“…After comprehensive treatment, he was successfully weaned off the ventilator, and his refractory hypotension resolved after more than six months. This case illustrates that severe autonomic dysfunction can occur at any stage of GBS companied with AE. …”
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On the development and analysis of a comprehensive police patrolling model by Fatemeh Mousapour, Rajan Batta, Jose L. Walteros

“…A crime-data based case study is developed to illustrate the utility of the models and methods in a practical situation.…”
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De la mobilité des paysans tharu et de leurs chefs by Gisèle Krauskopff

“…The relevance of Sagant’s analysis is illustrated by a mass migration of Tharu peasants in 1805, from lands under the administrative supervision of a small Himalayan kingdom, towards land under British control. …”
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Demonstration of Emulator-Based Bayesian Calibration of Safety Analysis Codes: Theory and Formulation by Joseph P. Yurko, Jacopo Buongiorno, Robert Youngblood

“…Calibration of a friction-factor example using a Method of Manufactured Solution is performed to illustrate key properties of the FFGP based process.…”
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Cryptographic Censorship by Netta Engelhardt, Åsmund Folkestad, Adam Levine, Evita Verheijden, Lisa Yang

“…To apply this result to cosmic censorship, we separate singularities into classical, semi-Planckian, and Planckian types. We illustrate that classical and semi-Planckian singularities are compatible with approximately pseudorandom CFT time evolution; thus, if such singularities are indeed approximately pseudorandom, by Cryptographic Censorship, they cannot exist in the absence of event horizons. …”
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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

“…Taking Huzhou Avenue as an example, the case study illustrates the calculation process of the new method in detail.…”
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Innovative approaches in colorectal cancer screening: advances in detection methods and the role of artificial intelligence by Changwei Duan, Jianqiu Sheng, Xianzong Ma

“…Next, research on metabolic reprogramming illustrates the relationship between metabolic changes and CRC, with studies developing metabolite-based detection models that show good sensitivity for early diagnosis. …”
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Modeling co-infection of Ixodes tick-borne pathogens by Yijun Lou, Li Liu, Daozhou Gao

“…Considering the effect of co-infection, we illustrate that co-infection with B. burgdorferi increases the likelihood of B. microti transmission, by increasing the basic reproduction number of B. microti below the threshold smaller than one to be possibly above the threshold for persistence. …”
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Praising God or singing of love? From theological to erotic allegorisation in the interpretation of Canticles by H. Ausloos

“…In the third part, the evolution outlined in the previous two parts will be illustrated in an analysis of Canticles 2:16. …”
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The Impact of Road Types on the Energy Consumption of Electric Vehicles by Tim Jonas, Taris Wilde, Christopher D. Hunter, Gretchen A. Macht

“…Thirty participants drove a 2017 Volkswagen eGolf along two predefined routes in Rhode Island. The results illustrate that BEVs are the most efficient on-road types with medium speed and low variation (i.e., “major collectors,” “minor arterials,” and “other principal arterials”). …”
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Time-Dependent Transportation Network Design considering Construction Impact by Yi He, Ziqi Song, Lihui Zhang

“…A simple example network is first utilized to demonstrate the necessity of considering the construction process in T-DNDP and to illustrate the trade-off between the construction impact and the benefit realized through capacity extension. …”
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Frugal Education: What, why, and how? by Alex Masters

“…The aspects are outlined, and examples are presented to illustrate their effectiveness within existing education practice. …”
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Correlations between Age, Pain Intensity, Disability, and Tactile Acuity in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain by Juan Wang, Kangyong Zheng, Jinlong Wu, Rui Wang, Xiao Zhuang, Xueqiang Wang

“…Subgroup analyses according to the median values of age, pain intensity, and disability were used to compare the intergroup difference in tactile acuity. Results. Results illustrated significant negative associations among age, pain intensity, disability, and tactile acuity. …”
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An Exponentially Converging Particle Method for the Mixed Nash Equilibrium of Continuous Games by Wang, Guillaume, Chizat, Lénaïc

“…It can be interpreted as an implicit time discretization of the “interacting” Wasserstein–Fisher–Rao gradient flow.We prove that, under non-degeneracy assumptions, this method converges at an exponential rate to the exact mixed Nash equilibrium from any initialization satisfying a natural notion of closeness to optimality. We illustrate our results with numerical experiments and discuss applications to max-margin and distributionally-robust classification using two-layer neural networks, where our method has a natural interpretation as a simultaneous training of the network’s weights and of the adversarial distribution.…”
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Discrepancies in Different Precipitation Data Products in the Bay of Bengal during Summer Monsoon Season by Li Qi, Yuqing Wang

“…Significant discrepancies among different products are found in the interannual variation, as illustrated by the contrast features between 2002 and 2005. …”
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Proportions des tissus des dents déciduales chez deux individus de Dordogne (France) : l’enfant néanderthalien du Roc de Marsal et le spécimen du Paléolithique supérieur final de L... by Priscillia Bayle

“…However, deciduous dental tissue proportions in Neanderthals, notably those of the anterior teeth, are still poorly known, and the structural condition characteristic of the anatomically modern fossil human teeth is unreported yet.By means of high-resolution industrial (µCT) and synchrotron radiation (SR-µCT) microtomography, we investigated, for the first time, the inner structure of the entire deciduous dental sequence of the Neanderthal child of Roc de Marsal (Dordogne) and of the late Upper Paleolithic specimen from La Madeleine (La Madeleine 4, Dordogne), and comparatively quantified their volumetric dental tissue proportions.Results show that, since the early developmental stages, Neanderthal teeth (here represented also by isolated specimens from the site of La Chaise, in Charente) are characterized by a unique tissue organization, while the late Upper Paleolithic specimen shows a pattern similar to the extant human condition illustrated by our reference sample.…”
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Intelligent Topical Sentiment Analysis for the Classification of E-Learners and Their Topics of Interest by M. Ravichandran, G. Kulanthaivel, T. Chellatamilan

“…It differs from the traditional classification and document level classification algorithm. The investigation illustrated in this paper is of threefold which are listed as follows: (1) lexicon based sentiment polarity of tweet messages; (2) the bigram cooccurrence relationship using naïve Bayesian; (3) the bigram item response theory (BIRT) on various topics. …”
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Paracentral Acute Middle Maculopathy and Central Retinal Venous Occlusion following Electrical Injury by Sahel Khazaei, Mehrdad Motamed Shariati, Naser Shoeibi, Mohammad Arjmand, Seyedeh Maryam Hosseini

“…Conclusion. This report illustrates the occurrence of CRVO associated with PAMM following electric shock injury. …”
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Economic reliability of the organisation in the context of groups of interests of the business environment by D. A. Borisyuk, O. E. Astafyeva

“…The approach proposed to assessing the organisation reliability from the point of view of the goals of different interest groups of the organisation business environment has been illustrated. The object of the study is the concept of the organisation economic reliability. …”
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