Theoretical Study of the π-Bridge Influence with Different Units of Thiophene and Thiazole in Coumarin Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Rody Soto-Rojo, Jesús Baldenebro-López, Daniel Glossman-Mitnik

“…Furthermore, chemical reactivity parameters, such as chemical hardness, electrophilicity index, and electroaccepting power, were obtained and analyzed, whose values predicted the properties of the dyes in addition to the rest of the studied molecular properties. …”
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A State Feedback Controller Based on GCC Algorithm against Wind-Induced Motion for High-Rise Buildings with Parametric Uncertainties by Zuohua Li, Chaojun Chen, Jun Teng, Junkai Dong, Beichun Lin

“…A ten-storey frame with an AMD system is taken as a numerical example, and its control effect and AMD parameters are viewed as the control indexes. The performance of the proposed robust controller is compared with a conventional controller based on the classical LQR algorithm. …”
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Increased arterial stiffness is associated with poorer social cognition in older age by Sarah A. Grainger, Tom G. Bailey, Natalie K. Vear, Jessica K. Mead, Xanthia E. Bourdaniotis, Jeff S. Coombes, Jenna L. Taylor

“…The results revealed that arterial stiffness was a significant predictor of ToM performance when indexed via the RMET and the TASIT, accounting for 11% and 9% of unique variance in scores, respectively. …”
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Towards the Establishment of Relationship between Macroeconomic Indicators and Cost of Public Educational Buildings in Ghana by Richard Oduro Asamoah, Bernard Kofi Baiden, Gabriel Nani

“…The study revealed that respondents were satisfied with cost management procedures and practices and mainly relied on cash flow, progress reporting, and project cost control methods as means of monitoring and managing project cost. Relative important index, prime rate, interest rate, and inflation were some of the macroeconomic components that professionals considered having impact on cost. …”
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Evaluation of PE Films Having NIR-Reflective Additives for Greenhouse Applications in Arid Regions by Syed K. H. Gulrez, Ahmed M. Abdel-Ghany, Ibrahim M. Al-Helal, Saeed M. Al-Zaharani, Abdullah A. Alsadon

“…The melt viscosity was measured by stress-controlled rotational rheometer and melt flow index (MFI) instruments. Rheological measurements indicated that the blend formulations with NIR-reflective additive have similar melt viscoelastic behavior (storage modulus and dynamic viscosity) to the control resin. …”
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Development of a Safety Evaluation Model for Provincial Highway by Li Yuan, He-wei Yuan, Yong-feng Ma, Ying-wei Ren

“…The approach will also result in a safety index to indicate the safety performance level of the provincial highway. …”
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Chrysene alters the expression pattern of HSP70 genes in mandarin fish by Yufei Liu, Tiantian Chen, Jinliang Zhao, Xiaowu Chen

“…There are 16 HSP70 genes in mandarin fish, and their protein three-dimensional structures were constructed. The aliphatic index of the 16 mandarin fish HSP70sranges from 73.50 (HSPa4b) to 99.46 (HSPa13), and all are hydrophilic proteins, with seven of them being unstable proteins. …”
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Fractal Characteristic of Rock Cutting Load Time Series by Hongxiang Jiang, Changlong Du, Songyong Liu, Kuidong Gao

“…The box-counting dimension can be an evaluation index to assess the extent of rock crushing or cutting. …”
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Ruptured Rudimentary Horn Pregnancy at 25 Weeks with Previous Vaginal Delivery: A Case Report by Deepa V. Kanagal, Lokeshchandra C. Hanumanalu

“…It can be missed in routine ultrasound scan and in majority of cases it is detected after rupture. It requires a high index of suspicion. We report a case of G2PlL1 with rupture rudimentary horn pregnancy at 25 weeks of gestation which was misdiagnosed as intrauterine pregnancy with fetal demise by ultrasound, and termination was attempted and the case was later referred to our hospital after the patient developed hemoperitoneum and shock with a diagnosis of rupture uterus. …”
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Business model innovation: towards a conceptual framework by Irina Saur-Amaral, Raquel Reis Soares, João F. Proença

“…We perform systematic literature review based on 316 valid papers indexed on ISI Current Contents, published between 2000 and 2015. …”
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Arteriojejunal Fistula Presenting with Recurrent Obscure GI Hemorrhage in a Patient with a Failed Pancreas Allograft by Nirmit Desai, Sagar Patel, Chinyere Nwosu, Lok Sung, Carl Tack, Jonathan M. Buscaglia, Edward P. Nord, Nand K. Wadhwa

“…Deployment of a covered endovascular stent into the right external iliac artery over the fistula site resulted in immediate hemodynamic stabilization. A high index of suspicion for arterioenteric fistulae is needed for diagnosis of this uncommon but eminently treatable form of GI hemorrhage in this patient population.…”
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NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE LIGHT OF BIBLIOMETRICS (BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS DEPARTMENT) by Nikolay A. Mazov, Vadim N. Gureyev

“…The most part of publications indexed in international bibliometric databases is published in Russian serials translated into English. …”
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Farmers’ adaptation strategies to climate change on agricultural production in Arsi zone, Oromia National Regional State of Ethiopia by Ibsa Dawid, Ephrem Boka

“…Descriptive statistics, Mann–Kendall statistical test, the weighted average index, and a multivariate probit model were used. …”
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SPACIER: on-demand polymer design with fully automated all-atom classical molecular dynamics integrated into machine learning pipelines by Shun Nanjo, Arifin, Hayato Maeda, Yoshihiro Hayashi, Kan Hatakeyama-Sato, Ryoji Himeno, Teruaki Hayakawa, Ryo Yoshida

“…As a proof-of-concept study, we synthesized optical polymers that surpass the Pareto boundary formed by the tradeoff between the refractive index and the Abbe number.…”
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Effect of Free Formaldehyde on Chemical Structure and Thermal Properties of Nano-Titanium Dioxide Resin by Li Lv, Airong Wang, Yingying Zhong

“…The degradation behavior of formaldehyde was studied by using the degradation rate of formaldehyde in the container as the evaluation index. The influence of the photocatalytic coating on the degradation rate of formaldehyde under different loading conditions, different temperatures, and different humidity was investigated. …”
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Modeling the Formation Mechanism of Food Safety Risk in Catering O2O Distribution Link by Ting Wu, Yilei Pei, Dandan Li, Peng Su

“…The results of our experiment include identifying the risk factors that may be faced by food safety in the distribution link from five perspectives: O2O catering enterprise’s own risk, logistics distribution team’s distribution risk, O2O catering platform supervision risk, user-supervision risk, and government department supervision risk, and establishing a risk index evaluation system based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process. …”
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Beam-like damage detection methodology using wavelet damage ratio and additional roving mass by Juliana C. Santos, Marcus V. G. de Morais, Marcela R. Machado, Ramon Silva, Erwin U. L. Palechor, Welington V. Silva

“…Thus, a frequency-shift curve is observed, and different damage identification techniques were used, such as the discrete wavelet transform and the derivatives of the frequency-shift curve. A new index called wavelet damage ratio(WDR) is defined as a metric to measure the damage levels. …”
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The Virtual Meets the Real in Sports World: Is There a Circular Effect Between Traditional Sports and eSports Fan Identification? by Andre Ferreira Gavinho Cardoso, Victor Manoel Cunha de Almeida

“…The Points of Attachment Index was applied with the theoretical background used mainly being the Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979). …”
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Gastric Emphysema in a Critically Ill Patient Successfully Treated without Surgery by Hiromi Ihoriya, Tetsuya Yumoto, Masaya Iwamuro, Noritomo Fujisaki, Takaaki Osako, Hiromichi Naito, Atsunori Nakao

“…A 62-year-old Japanese male with a history of heavy alcohol consumption and smoking was admitted to the emergency intensive care unit due to severe hypercapnic respiratory acidosis. His body mass index was only 12.6. Ten days after initiation of enteral feeding, he complained of abdominal pain. …”
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Influence of Light Exposure during Cold Storage of Minimally Processed Vegetables (Valeriana sp.) by Angela Zappia, Alessandra De Bruno, Rosita Torino, Amalia Piscopo, Marco Poiana

“…In particular, light influenced significantly the browning index and hue angle with a significance level of p<0.01 and p<0.05, respectively, whereas both exposure conditions affected total bacterial count and pH (p<0.01). …”
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