Liberal Way of Life as a Political Philosophical Problem: Review of the Book: Lefebvre, A. (2024). Liberalism as a Way of Life. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 285 p... by Vladimir A. Gutorov, Aleksandr A. Shirinyants

“…Lefebvre, a mixture of liberalism and other ideologies and systems, including capitalism (with its individualism, materialism and instrumentalism), democracy (with its latent populism), nationalism and internationalism (with their patriotism and often chauvinism), meritocracy (with its calculations of value and reward), as well as overtly illiberal forces. …”
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Enhancing the Transformer Model with a Convolutional Feature Extractor Block and Vector-Based Relative Position Embedding for Human Activity Recognition by Xin Guo, Young Kim, Xueli Ning, Se Dong Min

“…Meanwhile, the absolute position embedding (APE) in existing Transformer models cannot accurately represent the distance relationship between individuals at different time points. To further explore positional correlations in temporal signals, this paper introduces the Vector-based Relative Position Embedding (vRPE), aiming to provide more relative temporal position information within sensor signals for the Transformer model. …”
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Challenges in Patients with Trisomy 21: A Review of Current Knowledge and Recommendations by Jennifer Robinson, Manca Tekavčič Pompe, Christina Gerth-Kahlert

“…We recommend the following examination schedule for these patients: first, ophthalmological examination at 6–12 months of age, then once in 3–6 months for children under 2 years of age, once in 6 months for children 2–5 years of age, annually for children 5–10 years of age, and thereafter, to be decided on an individual basis depending on the presenting ocular abnormalities of the patient.…”
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Proposed reference intervals of serum insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) levels in older Japanese populations by Tsuyoshi Isojima, Akira Shimatsu

“…Based on our results, we proposed that individuals aged >80 years can be evaluated using the references set at the age of 80 years. …”
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Online Voltage Regulation With Minimum Disturbance for Distribution Grid Without System Knowledge by Hamad Alduaij, Yang Weng

“…Nowadays, increasing distributed energy resources turns individual customers into “generators,” and two-way power flow between customers makes the grid prone to power outages. …”
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Forecasting Travel Speed in the Rainfall Days to Develop Suitable Variable Speed Limits Control Strategy for Less Driving Risk by Ping Wang, Yajie Zhang, Saisai Wang, Li Li, Xiaohui Li

“…However, it is hard to develop suitable VSL aligning with travel speed of mainstream that it affected by the traffic flow, rainfall intensity, individual travel speed, peak hours, working days, random events, and so on. …”
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Polymorphisms of Il-10 (-1082) and RANKL (-438) Genes and the Failure of Dental Implants by Rodrigo Ribeiro, Rayanne Melo, Pedro Tortamano Neto, André Vajgel, Paulo Roberto Eleutério Souza, Renata Cimões

“…Genetic polymorphisms in certain cytokines and chemokines have been investigated to understand why some individuals display implant flaws despite having few risk factors at the time of implant. …”
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Identification of Antibiotic Resistance of Acinetobacter baumannii in Iraqi Patients by Maha E. Zidan, Jaleel Samanje, Hiba Mansour Nasir

“…Two-hundred clinical smaples were collected including (burns, sputum, urine and wound swabs) from individuals suffering from different complaints such as surgical and wound infections, burns inflammation, inflammation of the urinary tract, pneumonia and COVID-19 patients. 86 A. baumannii bacterial isolates could be picked up from these samples using routine test and VITEK-2 system. …”
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Self-Regulated Learning is not for Everyone: Towards an Explanation for the Heterogeneous Effects of Interventions by M. S. Khamidulina, N. G. Maloshonok

“…Based on these data, a conceptual model was created that explains the differences in the effectiveness of interventions depending on the individual characteristics of the students and the characteristics of the intervention itself. …”
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Features of the Relationship between Cardiorhythm Regulation and Components of Internal Picture of Disease in Students by O.E. Elnikova, A.V. Dobrin

“…The results obtained allow us to say that there is a correlation between the individual components of IPD and the parameters of regulation of heart rate variability. …”
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Las bajas anormales en el contrato de obra by Luis Castel Aznar, Laura Montalbán-Domingo, Joaquín Catalá Alís

“…La muestra se somete a un análisis estadístico que busca comprender la influencia individual de estas variables. Se emplea la regresión lineal para evaluar la influencia conjunta de dichas variables en el número y porcentaje de ofertas en presunción de anormalidad. …”
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Multimodal Opera Performance Form Based on Human-Computer Interaction Technology by Lin Wu

“…To give the opera audience a high-quality viewing experience, the immersive theatre performance has been simulated. Fifty individuals have been used in the experimental assessment and performance studies. …”
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COMPARISON OF OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE IN MANAGERS AND NON-MANAGERS EMPLOYED AT MEAT INDUSTRY ‘OVAKO’ VISOKO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Goran Riđić, Minela Ahmić, Ognjen Riđić, Senad Bušatlić

“…Selection process was simple random sampling, which means that every single individual had the equal opportunity to be selected. …”
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Brown-McLean syndrome secondary keratoconus by Qi Wan, Li Chen, Ran Wei, Ying-ping Deng, Ke Ma, Jing Tang

“…Case report We present a unique case of unilateral Brown-McLean Syndrome (BMS) with concurrent keratoconus in an 18-year-old male patient. The individual sought medical attention due to poor vision in the right eye, which had been unnoticed for a month. …”
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Advanced Shuttle Strategies for Parallel QCCD Architectures by Weining Dai, Kevin A. Brown, Thomas G. Robertazzi

“…However, the scalability of TI systems is hampered by the limited capacity of individual ion traps, necessitating intricate ion shuttling for advanced computational tasks. …”
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Factors influencing implementation of health-promoting interventions at workplaces: Protocol for a scoping review. by Kaung Suu Lwin, Aliza K C Bhandari, Phuong The Nguyen, Junko Saito, Akiko Yaguchi-Saito, Erika Ota, Taichi Shimazu

“…Two authors will be responsible for individually screening the corresponding articles by first reading the titles and abstracts and then the full texts to assess whether they meet the inclusion criteria. …”
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The activities of the Ukrainian SSR militia in combating crime in the early 1960s. by V. A. Grechenko

“…As in previous years, the militia used mainly operational measures to combat crime, and also carried out some preventive work among the population to identify and verify signals of death threats, as well as criminal intentions and intentions of individual citizens. Given the growth of economic crime, considerable attention was paid to strengthening the agent apparatus, in particular at facilities where large amounts of material assets were concentrated and could be stolen. …”
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Cultivars and lines added to the gene pool of VIR’s durum wheat collection in 2000–2019. by O. A. Lyapunova, A. S. Andreeva

“…It can be fulfilled by sending requests for seeds to other genebanks, through the exchange with the collections of foreign research centers, contacts with individual breeders or breeding centers in Russia, or when crop cultivars are submitted to VIR from the State Register of Breeding Achievements Approved for Utilization in Russia. …”
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Multi-metabolic altered patterns and cardiovascular risk factors associated to hypertension in the community. by Alexis Ocampo Segura., Yoel Alberto Hernández Rodríguez., Benigno Figueiras Ramos., Raúl López Fernández, Mikhail Benet Rodríguez

“…<strong><br />Method:</strong> Study of non paired cases and controls . the cases gathered 60 hypertensive patients aged 18 or more years without discrimination of sex, skin color, and other socio demographic features of the population and the control group gathered 60 non- hypertensive individuals from the same population. <strong><br />Results:</strong> Family history of hypertension OR:64( 29:14,19) and alcohol consumption OR: 19,8 ( 4,6:84,8) were the most frequent risk factors in the population. …”
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THE IMPACT OF PERSONAL INNOVATIVENESS ON THE BEHAVIORAL INTENTION TO USING TOURISM MOBILE APPLICATIONS OF GENERATION Z IN HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM by Nguyen Thi Bich DAO, Do Nguyen Tuan ANH

“…To test the proposed hypotheses, the study conducted an online survey using Google Forms targeting Generation Z individuals living and working in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. …”
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