Introduction to Dossier: Lessons from Latin America on the rational choice, cognitive and institutional approaches to policy change by Fontaine, Guillaume

“…Rational choice- with its theories of incrementalism, multiple currents and punctuated equilibrium- privilege the decision-making process and the rational nature of the individual actor. …”
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Exploring the Association between Allogenic Blood Transfusion and Postoperative Infection Risk Following Intracranial Surgery: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Analysis by Sakshi Kadian, Priyanka Gupta, Sharmistha Pathak, Ashutosh Kaushal, Nishant Goyal, Siddharth Chakraborty

“…However, allogenic blood transfusion has various adverse consequences, including the transmission of blood-borne infection and immune consequences. While multiple studies have indicated an increased incidence of postoperative infections among patients receiving allogenic blood transfusions, these investigations have primarily focused on non-neurosurgical populations. …”
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Were It a New-Made World: Hawthorne, Melville and the Unmasking of America by Michael Broek

“…Utilizing Ernest Gellner and Benedict Anderson’s definition of “nationalism,” this article concerns American nationalism and aesthetics and argues that Hawthorne and Melville were among the first American imaginative writers to challenge the myth of American Exceptionalism in terms of their aesthetic operations, insofar as Hawthorne’s sense of ambiguity and Melville’s sense of multiple perspectives challenges the validity of any single monological narrative of national identity. …”
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Detection of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation in Stroke/Tia Patients by Muhib Khan, Daniel J. Miller

“…One-third of stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) are cryptogenic, and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) has been suggested as a possible cause for these cryptogenic strokes. Multiple studies have recently evaluated long-term cardiac rhythm monitoring with good yield for PAF. …”
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Resveratrol as a potential broad-spectrum compound for cancer treatment by Li Kar Stella Tan, Chee Wun How, Jhi Biau Foo, Kooi Yeong Khaw, Bey Hing Goh, Yong Sze Ong

“…Natural products, specifically phytochemicals, have gained much attention due to their ability to target multiple interconnected pathways. Resveratrol (RSV), the stilbenes found in red wine, is one of the phytochemicals that exhibits various pharmacological therapeutic effects including cancer. …”
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Resource Allocation Algorithm in Uplink OFDMA-Based Decode-and-Forward Relay Systems with Proportional Rate Constraints by Cuiru Zhao, Youming Li, Bin Chen, Ting Zou, Xiaoqing Liu

“…For orthogonal frequency division multiple access-based decode-and-forward（OFDMA-DF）relay uplinks communication system，a new algorithm with proportional fairness constraints of users’ rate was presented.The new algorithm was divided into two steps.Firstly，under equal power distribution，the user with the lowest proportional capacity had the option to pick which subcarrier and relay to use.Then，based on this basis，power allocation was optimized on subcarriers and the power allocation results were given.Analysis results demonstrate that the new algorithm can not only obtain high system capacity，but also guarantee fairness between users.…”
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Le Remix comme forme littéraire : essai sur les publications récentes de Caroline Bergvall by Vincent Broqua

“…But Bergvall’s remixability is not formal or technological, it is a poetics and a politics of multiplicity that seeks to define how to live together now.…”
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Hashish Body Packing: A Case Report by Manuel Jesus Soriano-Perez, Jose Luis Serrano-Carrillo, Inmaculada Marin-Montin, Alfonso Cruz-Caballero

“…Plain abdominal radiograph showed multiple foreign bodies within the gastrointestinal tract. …”
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KiFramework — A Federated Learning Platform with an Innovative Communication Protocol by Jakub Michalek, Vaclav Oujezsky, Vladislav Skorpil

“…Our research provides a comprehensive solution to optimize communication and ensure seamless collaboration among multiple servers, improving applications’ efficiency using federated learning.…”
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Crosstalk between fat tissue and muscle, brain, liver, and heart in obesity: cellular and molecular perspectives by Zixuan Jia, Ziqi Wang, Huixin Pan, Jing Zhang, Qinglu Wang, Caixia Zhou, Jun Liu

“…Abstract A high-fat diet and physical inactivity are key contributors to obesity, predisposing individuals to various chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes, which involve multiple organs and tissues. To better understand the role of multi-organ interaction mechanisms in the rising incidence of obesity and its associated chronic conditions, treatment and prevention strategies are being extensively investigated. …”
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Airway Management in a Patient with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome by John F. Gamble, Dinesh J. Kurian, Andrea G. Udani, Nathaniel H. Greene

“…WHS is a rare 4p microdeletion syndrome resulting in multiple congenital abnormalities, including craniofacial deformities. …”
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Research on critical SNR and power allocation of artificial noise assisted secure transmission by Hao DENG, Huiming WANG

“…A comprehensive performance analysis of artificial noise (AN) assisted secure transmission in multiple-input single-output (MISO) wiretap channels was presented.It was shown that the AN scheme did not always improve the security,and provided an exact signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) threshold below which AN did not work.An explicit result of the optimal power allocation (OPA) using the lower bound to the ergodic secrecy rate (ESR) was presented and the OPA for the worst case without the knowledge of the eavesdropper’s relative distance was also provided.Simulations demonstrate that the proposed power allocation result achieves a higher ESR than the equal one.…”
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Biblia în limba română by Eugen Munteanu

“…Les perspectives de recherche sont multiples et complémentaires. Sur l’appui de l’approche philologique, on peut ouvrir des voies de connaissance interdisciplinaire, sur lesquelles pourraient collaborer beaucoup de spécialistes: des téologiens, des historiens (de la culutre, des arts et des mentalités), traducteurs, anthropologues, ethnologues, informaticiens et philosophes.…”
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The Effect of a Service Experience Cost on a Queueing System by Xuelu Zhang, Qing Ma

“…However, there might exist multiple individual equilibrium thresholds in an observable case. …”
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Opacités et implicites : ce que Parcoursup fait au groupe professionnel des enseignant·es by Alexie Geers, Florence Legendre, Samuel Pinto

“…Our analysis is based on socio-ethnographic research conducted in an high school. The multiple and nebulous prescriptions redefine the license and mandate (Hughes, 1996) of teachers by broadening their field of action opaquely. …”
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Triangulation: Establishing the Validity of Qualitative Studies by Lisa A. Guion, David C. Diehl, Debra McDonald

“… Triangulation is a method used by qualitative researchers to check and establish validity in their studies by analyzing a research question from multiple perspectives. This revised 3-page fact sheet presents five types of triangulation. …”
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A High-Performance Parallel FDTD Method Enhanced by Using SSE Instruction Set by Dau-Chyrh Chang, Lihong Zhang, Xiaoling Yang, Shao-Hsiang Yen, Wenhua Yu

“…We introduce a hardware acceleration technique for the parallel finite difference time domain (FDTD) method using the SSE (streaming (single instruction multiple data) SIMD extensions) instruction set. The implementation of SSE instruction set to parallel FDTD method has achieved the significant improvement on the simulation performance. …”
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Multi-service transmission method based on multi-chirp-rate CSS by ZHAO Qi-ming1, ZHANG Qin-yu1, ZHANG Nai-tong1

“…A novel multi-services transmission scheme based on multi-chirp-rate CSS was proposed,which provided dif-ferent quality of transmission to services on the physical layer.Using fractional fourier transform（FrFT）,signals of dif-ferent services could be recognized and classified.Multi-services transmission problem had been simplified into trans-form domain multiplexing/ multiple access design and suppress the interference of other different service signals.By the collaborative design of services frequencies and time slots,and application of filtering in transform domain,the problem of services signals interference had been settled.…”
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Monotone and Concave Positive Solutions to a Boundary Value Problem for Higher-Order Fractional Differential Equation by Jinhua Wang, Hongjun Xiang, Yuling Zhao

“…By using fixed point theorem, we obtain some new results for the existence and multiplicity of solutions to a higher-order fractional boundary value problem. …”
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Game model based security strategy of heterogeneous controllers in the cloud by Juntai HU, Zhenyu WU, Xiao FU, Yichao WANG

“…Deploying multiple heterogeneous controllers at the control level of a software-defined data center is an effective way to increase security.In view of the deployment strategy of controllers under different security requirements of the network,a game model was presented.Specifically,firstly,the game theory was used to depict the attack and defense game model and solve the Nash equilibrium,and then guided the design of security strategy.Secondly,the impact of the strategy of attack and defense on the security status of the control layer were analyzed.Finally,the simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed equilibrium strategy,and describe the dynamic interaction strategy.…”
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