Assessment of Food Security in the East Kazakhstan Region by Aigerim Duisenbekova, Alina Daniłowska

“…However, some threats to food security were identified, including: a high level of income differentiation among the households of the East Kazakhstan region, an increase in the price index for food products, and a significant proportion of the population with incomes below the subsistence minimum. …”
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On the weak law of large numbers for normed weighted sums of I.I.D. random variables by André Adler, Andrew Rosalsky

“…Moreover, a weak law is proved for weighted sums ∑j=1najYj indexed by random variables {Tn,n≥1}. An example is presented wherein the weak law holds but the strong law fails thereby generalizing a classical example.…”
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Etnografia dell’incertezza: l’incapacità di pensare il futuro come assenza (culturale) by Vincenzo Matera

“…From a theoretical point of view and on the basis of ethnographic indexes I present an analysis of some conditions that erode the sense of belonging, that kind of "feel at home" which is premise and result of social relationships based on the management of uncertainty of the future, and provoke moral and material conflicts (and even violence). …”
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Environmental Management of Larg Supply Chain: A Diagnostic Instrument Proposed for Assessing Suppliers by Josiano Cesar de Sousa, Murilo Barros Barros Alves, Leonardo Leocádio, Jaqueline Rossato

“…The model was tested on the supply chain of a company that was included in the ISE (2017) Corporate Sustainability Index and was validated by the surveyed company.…”
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Écrire une histoire des employés vietnamiens et indochinois à la Bibliothèque nationale de France by Cao Vy

“…By adopting an inclusive approach, it underscores the central role of these employees in indexing the 25,000 prints of the collection, which were acquired through the legal deposit system in Indochina, and examines the postcolonial dynamics within the BnF. …”
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Liveness-Based RRT Algorithm for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Motion Planning by Yang Li, Fubin Zhang, Demin Xu, Jiguo Dai

“…Different from typical RRT, we define an index of each node in the random searching tree, called “liveness” in this paper, to describe the potential effectiveness during the expanding process. …”
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Oophoropexy for Recurrent Ovarian Torsion by Jennifer Hartley, Muhammad Akhtar, Edmond Edi-Osagie

“…Due to previous history, there was a high index of clinical suspicion that this may be a further torsion. …”
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Comprehensive Interpretation of a Three-Point Gauss Quadrature with Variable Sampling Points and Its Application to Integration for Discrete Data by Young-Doo Kwon, Soon-Bum Kwon, Bo-Kyung Shim, Hyun-Wook Kwon

“…By applying the quadratically extrapolated integrals and nonlinearity index, the accuracy of the integration could be increased significantly for evenly acquired data, which is popular with modern sophisticated digital data acquisition systems, without using higher-order extrapolation polynomials.…”
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Construction of Regional Logistics Weighted Network Model and Its Robust optimization: Evidence from China by Lizhao Yan, Yi Wen, Kok Lay Teo, Jian Liu, Fei Xu

“…First, based on the gravity model, the index of logistics attraction between cities is established as the weight of the model, and hence the regional logistics weighted model is constructed. …”
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Estimation of the Secondary Attack Rate for Delta Hepatitis Coinfection among Injection Drug Users by Christiane Poulin, Theresa Gyorkos, Lawrence Joseph

“…Contact-tracing was used to identify a cluster of 41 IDUs potentially exposed to delta hepatitis. The index case of delta hepatitis coinfection was presumed to have led to five secondary cases. …”
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Research on the Vulnerability of Government Procurement of Elderly Care Services: A Complex Network Perspective by Yuting Zhang, Lan Xu, Zhengnan Lu

“…From a micro perspective, a vulnerability index of the complex network is applied to measure each node’s vulnerability value, and the vulnerability priority of the nodes is established. …”
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Thirty-Year Periodicity of Cosmic Rays by Jorge Pérez-Peraza, Víctor Velasco, Igor Ya. Libin, K. F. Yudakhin

“…This 30-year periodicity seems to be significant in nature because several solar and climatic indexes exhibit the same modulation, which may indicate that the 30-year frequency of cosmic rays is probably a modulator agent for terrestrial phenomena, reflecting the control source, namely, solar activity.…”
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Synthesis and Antibacterial and Antibiofilm Activity of Iron Oxide Glycerol Nanoparticles Obtained by Coprecipitation Method by Simona Liliana Iconaru, Alina Mihaela Prodan, Philippe Le Coustumer, Daniela Predoi

“…The X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies demonstrate that GIO-NPs were indexed into the spinel cubic lattice with a lattice parameter of 0.835 nm. …”
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Quality Analysis and Comprehensive Evaluation of Dongxiang Blue-Shelled Eggs at Different Laying Stages by XIE Min, GONG Lihui, GUANG Yelan, FEI Dan, ZHOU Yaomin, XU Jun

“…The results showed that the egg quality, nutrient components and mineral elements varied to different extents with laying age. All quality indexes except b* value and the contents of magnesium (P > 0.05) changed significantly across the three laying phases (P early > late. …”
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Aleksandr Bogdanov and Sergei Eisenstein on Emotions: The Affectional, the Theory of Expressiveness, and the Emotional Script by Bugaeva Lyubov

“…The ‘affectional’ is an index of energy balance between suffering and pleasure. …”
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On the sensitivity of feature ranked lists for large-scale biological data by Danuta Gaweł, Krzysztof Fujarewicz

“…The problem of feature selection for large-scale genomic data, for example from DNA microarray experiments, is one of the fundamental and well-investigated problems in modern computational biology.From the computational point of view, a selected gene list should be characterized by good predictive power and should be understood and well explained from the biological point of view.Recently, another feature of selected gene lists is increasingly investigated, namely their stability which measures how the content and/or the gene order change when the data are perturbed.In this paper we propose a new approach to analysis of gene list stability, termed the sensitivity index, that does not require any data perturbationand allows the gene list that is most reliable in a biological sense to be chosen.…”
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Research on the Disaster-Inducing Mechanism of Coal-Gas Outburst by Fengxiang Nie, Honglei Wang, Liming Qiu

“…Moreover, the larger the mining depth is, the lower the gas index is required for disaster occurrence. The results have certain guiding significance for coal energy mining and the control of coal-gas outburst in deep coal mining.…”
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Frailty and the Risk of Polypharmacy in the Older Person: Enabling and Preventative Approaches by Martin C. Nwadiugwu

“…Reducing delayed referrals and extended hospitalization with electronic health record systems and using the signs of frailty from the Electronic Frailty Index (EFI) to predict polypharmacy for frail older persons are preventative approaches that proactively respond to frailty associated with the risk of polypharmacy.…”
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Delay-Dependent Finite-Time H∞ Filtering for Markovian Jump Systems with Different System Modes by Yong Zeng, Jun Cheng, Shouming Zhong, Xiucheng Dong

“…By using the new augmented multiple mode-dependent Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and employing the proposed integrals inequalities in the derivation of our results, a novel sufficient condition for finite-time boundness with an H∞ performance index is derived. Particularly, two different Markov processes have been considered for modeling the randomness of system matrix and the state delay. …”
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Economic Analysis for Setting Appropriate Repair Cycles on the Fixed Materials and Facilities in the Public Rental Housing by Sung-Min Choi, Yeon-Sil Lee

“…Currently, repair and maintenance cycles that follow the completion of construction facilities lead to the necessitation of subsequent data on the analysis of study and plan for maintenance. As such, an index of evaluation was drafted and a plan of maintenance cycle was computed using the investigation data derived from surveying target housing units in permanent rental environmental conditions, with a minimum age of 20 years, and their maintenance history. …”
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