Intravenous Proton Pump Inhibitors before Endoscopy in Bleeding Peptic Ulcer with High-Risk Stigmata: A Multicentre Comparative Study by Christopher N Andrews, Adrian Levy, Martin Fishman, Michael Hahn, Kenneth Atkinson, Peter Kwan, Robert Enns

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Sydney Carton’s Other Doubles by Joel J. Brattin

“…Utilizing close examination of the revisions in Dickens’s remarkable manuscript of the novel (now in the Forster Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London), I consider several other figures that double Carton: Mr. Stryver, the ‘lion’ to Sydney’s ‘jackal’; Charles Dickens, Carton’s own creator; the innocent young seamstress who shares his fate at the guillotine in the final chapter; and finally—and perhaps most revealingly—Sydney Carton himself.…”
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The Empire of Beasts Then and Now: Political Cartoons and New Trends in Victorian Animal Studies by Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill

“…In exhibiting and displaying such animals as the lion, the tiger, the crocodile and the bear while dealing with colonial issues, the popular British cartoons acted as complex rhetorical structures that helped to powerfully influence mass opinion and consequently harnessed the public support for the Empire. …”
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Cement Transport Vehicle Routing with a Hybrid Sine Cosine Optimization Algorithm by Vu Hong Son Pham, Van Nam Nguyen

“…To demonstrate the advantages of the developed hybrid sine cosine algorithm, this algorithm is evaluated and compared with modern algorithms such as sine cosine algorithm, dragonfly algorithm, grey wolf optimizer, ant lion optimizer, particle swarm optimization, modified hybrid particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithm, and the double-population genetic algorithm in case studies. …”
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Britannia : Grandeur et infortune d’une allégorie nationale dans l’univers du cartoon britannique 1842-1999 by Gilbert Millat

“…Britannia, sometimes accompanied by the emblematic British Lion, has long been personifying justice, liberty, and the British Empire on coins and stamps as well as in graphic satire. …”
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A Novel Hybrid Radial Basis Function Method for Predicting the Fresh and Hardened Properties of Self-Compacting Concrete by Zhangabay Nurlan

“…The RBFNN method's key parameters are optimized using ant-lion optimization (ALO) and biogeography optimization (BBO) algorithms. …”
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Managing Uncertainty: Company’s Adaptive Capabilities during Covid-19 by Iva Atanassova, Peter Bednar

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First in situ calcite U–Pb dating revealing the past episodes of the 2019 Le Teil Earthquake (France) by Gébelin, Aude, Matonti, Christophe, Larroque, Christophe, Carr, Patrick, Ampuero, Jean-Paul

“…In agreement with relative chronology data based on microstructural observations, our results allow us to define four main tectonic events: A first event from ~90 to 75 interpreted to reflect a thermal subsidence at the regional scale (Ardèche—South-East basin of France), a second event bracketed between ~60 to 50 Ma related to the N–S trending shortening of the South-East basin, a third tectonic event dated from ~40 to 37 Ma that we interpret to reflect the opening of the Gulf of Lion and European Cenozoic Rift System (ECRIS), and a fourth and final event at ~25 Ma that very likely represents a middle to late stage of the ECRIS. …”
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Dual FOPID-neural network controller based on fast grey wolf optimizer: application to two-inputs two-outputs helicopter by Amar Rezoug, Jamshed Iqbal, Abdelkrim Nemra

“…The DRF-FG showed robustness in trajectory tracking compared to the controllers based on the Ant Lion Optimizer (DRF-A) and the Whale Optimization Algorithm (DRF-W). …”
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Design and optimal tuning of fractional order PID controller for paper machine headbox using jellyfish search optimizer algorithm by Divya Nataraj, Manoharan Subramanian

“…Furthermore, comparative analyses with other optimization techniques, including Moth Flame Optimization (MFO), Ant Lion Optimization (ALO), and Elephant Herding Optimization (EHO), reveal that the JSO algorithm provides higher accuracy and stability in diverse operating conditions. …”
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An effective vessel segmentation method using SLOA-HGC by Zerui Liu, Junliang Du, Weisi Dai, Wenke Zhu, Ziqing Ye, Lin Li, Zewei Liu, Linan Hu, Lin Chen, Lixiang Sun

“…Optimization training with Sparrow-Integrated Lion Optimization Algorithm (SLOA) employs sparrow stochastic updating and annealing to fine-tune parameters. …”
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Simulation and Prediction of Injection Pressure in CO2 Geological Sequestration Based on Improved LSO Algorithm and BP Neural Networks by Miaomiao Liu, Xiaofei Fu, Shanpo Jia, Yongsheng Zhang, Yuying Zhang, Dan Yao

“…In order to avoid the occurrence of caprock integrity damage and gas escape due to injection pressure overrun in CO2 sequestration, an optimized back propagation (BP) neural network model based on Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) and an improved lion swarm optimization (ILSO) algorithm is proposed for the maximum sustainable injection pressure prediction. …”
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Isolation of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 Strain from Fecal Samples of Zoo Animal by Aseel Mohammed Hamzah, Aseel Mohammed Hussein, Jenan Mahmoud Khalef

“…The isolation and characterization of Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains from 22 out of 174 fecal samples from petting zoo animals representing twenty-two different species (camel, lion, goats, zebra, bear, baboon monkey, Siberian monkey, deer, elk, llama, pony, horses, fox, kangaroo, wolf, porcupine, chickens, tiger, ostrich, hyena, dogs, and wildcats) were investigated. …”
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Abundance, Species Diversity, and Distribution of Diurnal Mammals in Humbo Community-Based Forest Area, Southern Ethiopia by Adanech Lemma, Wondimagegnehu Tekalign

“…In terms of relative abundance, Anubis baboon (28.4% and 28.1%) and common duiker (19.4% and 11.4%) were the most abundant species, while warthog (12.1% and 8.9%) and lion (0.7% and 0.4%) were the least abundant during the wet and dry seasons, respectively. …”
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Multistrategy Harris Hawks Optimization Algorithm Using Chaotic Method, Cauchy Mutation, and Elite Individual Guidance by Lei Wen, Guopeng Wang, Longwang Yue, Xiaodan Liang, Hanning Chen

“…Through the simulation experiments on CCCHHO with 11 different benchmark functions, CCCHHO is better than the gray wolf optimization algorithm (GWO), the Salp swarm algorithm (SSA), the ant lion optimization algorithm (ALO), and three improved HHO algorithms in terms of convergence speed and optimization accuracy, whether it is a unimodal benchmark function or a multimodal benchmark function. …”
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Thabo Mbeki’s Decolonial Idea of an African in the African Renaissance by William Jethro Mpofu

“…It is the uprooted, displaced, and dispossessed African represented in Mbeki who makes the remark that: ‘At times, and in fear, I have wondered whether I should concede equal citizenship of our country to the leopard and the lion, the elephant and the springbok, the hyena, the black mamba and the pestilential mosquito.’ …”
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Use of a Sendai virus-based vector for effcient transduction of pinniped fbroblasts by V. R. Beklemisheva, A. G. Menzorov

“…We performed delivery of genetic constructions carrying fluorescent proteins to fbroblasts of seven Pinnipeds: northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus), Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), Baikal seal (Pusa sibirica), ringed seal (Phoca hispida), and spotted seal (Phoca largha). …”
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El petróleo y la carrera por los recursos estratégicos en Malvinas, Atlántico Sur y Antártida by Julián Bilmes

“…En las aguas de las Islas Malvinas, usurpadas a la Argentina por Reino Unido en 1833, se anuncia el próximo inicio de la fase de extracción petrolera con el proyecto Sea Lion, luego de décadas de prospecciones y exploraciones del gran potencial hidrocarburífero de la zona. …”
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From ex vivo to in vivo chimeric antigen T cells manufacturing: new horizons for CAR T-cell based therapy by E. Pinto, L. Lione, M. Compagnone, M. Paccagnella, E. Salvatori, M. Greco, V. Frezza, E. Marra, L. Aurisicchio, G. Roscilli, A. Conforti

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Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria: Biofilm Formation and Corrosive Activity in Endodontic Files by Fabiano Luiz Heggendorn, Aline Guerra Manssour Fraga, Dennis de Carvalho Ferreira, Lucio Souza Gonçalves, Viviane de Oliveira Freitas Lione, Márcia Teresa Soares Lutterbach

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