Output-Based Control of Robots with Variable Stiffness Actuation by Gianluca Palli, Claudio Melchiorri

“…Moreover, the proposed controller does not require the knowledge of the whole robot state: only the positions of the actuators and of the joints are necessary. …”
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Dermoid Cyst of the Pancreas: A Report of an Unusual Case and a Review of the Literature by Aynur Albayrak, Umran Yildirim, Metin Aydin

“…Therefore, we want to summarize the literature on this rare entity knowledge.…”
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Pseudoaneurysm of the Common Carotid Artery in an Infant due to Swallowed Fish Bone by Moulion Tapouh Jean Roger, Fokou Marcus, Fongang Emmanuel, Moifo Boniface, Juimo Alain Georges

“…It was treated by resection and end-to-end anastomosis with satisfactory outcome after one-year follow-up. To the best of our knowledge, this is the largest carotid artery pseudoaneurysm ever described in children.…”
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The Possibilistic Mean-Variance Model with Uncertain Possibility Distributions by Furkan Göktaş

“…After laying down the theoretical points of our approach, we illustrate it with a real-world example in the literature by using a software package for convex optimization. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper that considers uncertain possibility distributions in the possibilistic MV model.…”
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Fatal Infection Caused by Chromobacterium violaceum: A Case Report from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Bangladesh by Sadia Sharmin, Aflatun Akter Jahan, S. M. Mostofa Kamal, Protim Sarker

“…We have described here a fatal case of C. violaceum infection in a tertiary care hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of C. violaceum infection in Bangladesh.…”
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Geohistorical Structural Design Tables for the Building Stones of the Maltese Archipelago by Lino Bianco

“… The engineering properties of building materials are essential knowledge when it comes to structural design. In 1885, the Crown Agents for the Colonies published a study on the resistance of Malta stone to cracking and crushing, in an attempt to develop stress design tables for local masonry. …”
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Rethinking Ḥadīth (Prophetic Traditions) as ‘Natural’ Narrative: In the Framework of Fludernik’s ‘Natural’ Narratology by Fatma Yüksel Çamur

“…Ḥadīth transmission is also an experience referringto narration of prophetic knowledge from one generation to the next. In thisarticle, I try to discuss to what extent ḥadīth can be considered‘natural’ narrative in the framework of Fludernik’s theory.…”
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GABAB Encephalitis: A Fifty-Two-Year-Old Man with Seizures, Dysautonomia, and Acute Heart Failure by Matthew C. Loftspring, Eric Landsness, Lindsey Wooliscroft, Robert Rudock, Sally Jo, Kevin R. Patel

“…Here we present a case of GABAB encephalitis presenting with encephalopathy, status epilepticus, dysautonomia, and acute heart failure. To our knowledge, heart failure and dysautonomia have not yet been reported with this syndrome.…”
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Quantitative Studies of Low Impact Development Literaturein China by SUN Shiqin, HOU Jingwei

“…In the perspective of core journals, and master's and doctoral theses, and based onthe literature about low impact development (LID)retrieved from the China National KnowledgeInfrastructure (CNKI), this paper analyzes the annual publication trends, source journals, topicdistributions,number of citation and keyword clustering of literature, and discusses the rules andtrend of quantitative research on LID in China by the methods of socioeconomics, ecology,mathematical modeling, and systematics & spatial optimization.The results show that: The quantityof literature about the LID since 2009 increases rapidly in China, with wider researchperspectives, larger research scales, deeper research goals, and better research system.Modelsand methods are diversified, but there are some shortcomings such as rely too much on models, andlimitations to scheme diversification. …”
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Groups of Gamers: Market Segmentation of Brazilian Electronic Gamers by Lucas Souza, Ana Augusta Freitas, Luiz Fernando Heineck, Jorge Luiz Wattes

“…However, organizations in this industry do not know the profile of their consumers. In view of this knowledge gap, the objective of this research paper is to analyze groups of electronic games consumers in the Brazilian market, in terms of their socio-demographic, behavioral, and expenditure characteristics. …”
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Molecular Modeling Studies of Some Uracil and New Deoxyuridine Derivatives by Yousra Abdel-Mottaleb, M. S. A. Abdel-Mottaleb

“…The great medical importance of these and similar molecular systems requires research on their quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) in order to further improve our knowledge about how receptor binding, selectivity, and pharmacological effects are achieved. …”
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The European Degree by Sara Cardona Rubio

“…For example, the consolidation of the knowledge economy; the need to achieve strategic autonomy; and the urgency of combating growing social inequalities, which contribute to creating polarised societies. …”
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The tumour histopathology "glossary" for AI developers. by Soham Mandal, Ann-Marie Baker, Trevor A Graham, Konstantin Bräutigam

“…By providing this essential knowledge to the computational community, we aim to accelerate the development of AI algorithms for cancer research.…”
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The Role of MIF in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Yuriko I. Sánchez-Zamora, Miriam Rodriguez-Sosa

“…This review highlights our current knowledge about the involvement of MIF in both types of diabetes in the clinical environment and in experimental disease models.…”
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Problems and prospects of the Russian Federation customs authorities digitalisation by I. A. Aksenov

“…The methodological basis of the study is a set of measures of scientific knowledge, including general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, induction and deduction, as well as private scientific methods: system analysis, logical method. …”
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Benign eyelid lesions and its histopathological picture: A case-series by Shalini Kumari

“…This series highlights the importance of achieving higher diagnostic accuracy with thorough knowledge of clinical features and subsequent confirmation with histopathological analysis.…”
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Yorùbá Philosophy and Contemporary Nigerian Realities by Adeshina Afolayan

“…Specifically, it is grounded on the urgency of interrogating Nigeria’s postcolonial realities in the light of Yorùbá philosophical insights that, among other things, enable a rethinking of postcolonial social practices especially as sites of identity, agency, knowledge, objectivity, and even of resistance and power. …”
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Le rapport ordinaire à l’héritage bâti de l’époque de la colonisation française en Algérie : L’exemple de l’hôtel de ville de Kherrata (Bejaia) by Idir Benaidja

“…The methodology combines architectural and urban knowledge of the city with a questionnaire designed to understand the representations that the population has of this built as a heritage object.…”
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Examining Science Teachers’ Decisions about Nuclear Power Plants from the Perspective of Normative Decision Theory by Nurhan Ozturk, Esra Bozkurt-Altan

“…For the analysis of the data the opinions of the teachers were discussed according to the steps of the decision-making process based on normative decision theory. The knowledge levels of science teachers about nuclear power plants were mostly found to be partially sufficient. …”
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Numerical Investigation of Shock Wave Diffraction over a Sphere Placed in a Shock Tube by Sergey Martyushov, Ozer Igra, Tov Elperin

“…It is therefore not surprising that this subject was extensively investigated in the past. While accurate knowledge is available for the drag coefficient of a sphere in a steady flow condition, the case where the flow is time dependent is still under investigation. …”
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