Identifying Key Factors towards Highly Reflective Silver Coatings by Bo Zheng, Lai Peng Wong, Linda Y. L. Wu, Zhong Chen

“…It is found that surface roughness plays a critical role in determining the reflectance, while the crystal orientation has negligible effect. The mean reflectance and one-way ANOVA analysis indicate that the single crystal Ag foils with three orientations performed statistically the same in the same roughness group at significance level α = 0.05. …”
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Analysis of Proximal Femoral Parameters in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis by Máté Burkus, Ádám T. Schlégl, Kristóf József, Ian O’Sullivan, István Márkus, Miklós Tunyogi-Csapó

“…This is postulated to be due to mechanical compensation for altered balance and centre of gravity associated with a scoliosis deformity, although the observed difference likely has negligible clinical effect.…”
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Reliable Alignment in Total Knee Arthroplasty by the Use of an iPod-Based Navigation System by Paola Koenen, Marco M. Schneider, Matthias Fröhlich, Arne Driessen, Bertil Bouillon, Holger Bäthis

“…We could prove very good precision for the DASH system, which is comparable to established navigation devices with only negligible expenditure of time compared to conventional TKA.…”
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Linear Multivariate Decision Trees for Fast QTMT Partitioning in VVC by Jose N. Filipe, Luis M. N. Tavora, Sergio M. M. Faria, Antonio Navarro, Pedro A. A. Assuncao

“…The experimental results show a Complexity Gain of approximately 16% with a negligible BD-Rate loss of only 0.06%, surpassing current state-of-the-art methods in terms of complexity gain per percentage point of BD-Rate loss.…”
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Contributions of distractor dwelling, skipping, and revisiting to age differences in visual search by Iris Wiegand, Mariska van Pouderoijen, Joukje M. Oosterman, Kay Deckers, Gernot Horstmann

“…In conclusion, under conditions of poor guidance, dwelling and revisiting have a major contribution to search times and age-related slowing in difficult visual search, while skipping is largely negligible.…”
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Experimental Investigation of Thermal Modal Characteristics for a Ship’s Foundation under 300°C by Zheyu Ding, Hongbai Bai, Yiwan Wu, Yue Zhu, Yichuan Shao

“…The results indicate that the effect of ceramic rods on the modal characteristic of the foundation is negligible. The results also show that the greater the vibration response amplitude is as the temperature increases and the first-order natural frequency does not change, the smaller the second-order natural frequency and the damping ratio will become smaller. …”
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Reflection of two-dimensional surface polaritons by metallic nano-plates on atomically thin crystals by Lee Seojoo, Kang Ji-Hun

“…Through our rigorous model, we reveal that, for strongly confined 2DSPs having much larger momentum than free space photons, the interaction results in almost total internal reflection of 2DSPs as the radiative coupling of the 2DSPs to free space is negligible. We also find that the reflection involves an anomalous phase shift dependent on the thickness of the nano-plate, due to the temporary storing of electromagnetic energy in the evanescent waves induced near the edge of the nano-plate. …”
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The Vertebral Column, Ribs, and Sternum of the African Giant Rat (Cricetomys gambianus Waterhouse) by Matthew Ayokunle Olude, Oluwaseun Ahmed Mustapha, Temitope Kehinde Ogunbunmi, James Olukayode Olopade

“…The diameter of the vertebral foramen was the largest at C1 and the smallest at the S4; the foramina were negligibly indistinct caudal to the sacral vertebrae. …”
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Effect of implant abutment surface treatments on bacterial biofilm composition and structure by Eduardo Anitua, Alia Murias-Freijo, Roberto Tierno, Ricardo Tejero, Mohammad Hamdan Alkhraisat

“…Time showed a significant effect on diversity and also on the abundance of several bacterial taxa.Conclusions These results indicate that the effect of the three tested abutment surfaces on biofilm structure and composition was negligible, whereas patient and time exert strong influences on bacterial biofilm formation at different scales.…”
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Valuation of Guaranteed Unitized Participating Life Insurance under MEGB2 Distribution by Haitao Zheng, Junzhang Hao, Manying Bai, Zhengjun Zhang

“…Crisis events have significantly changed the view that extreme events in financial markets have negligible probability. Especially in the life insurance market, the price of guaranteed participating life insurance contract will be affected by a change in asset volatility which leads to the fluctuations in embedded option value. …”
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Extending OpenStack Monasca for Predictive Elasticity Control by Giacomo Lanciano, Filippo Galli, Tommaso Cucinotta, Davide Bacciu, Andrea Passarella

“…Managing such rules at scale is cumbersome, especially when resources require non-negligible time to be instantiated. This paper introduces an architecture for predictive cloud operations, which enables orchestrators to apply time-series forecasting techniques to estimate the evolution of relevant metrics and take decisions based on the predicted state of the system. …”
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Changes on Sugar and Starch Contents during Seed Development of Synergistic Sweet Corn and Implication on Seed Quality by Bhornchai Harakotr, Warisa Sutthiluk, Panumart Rithichai

“…The regression analysis revealed that seed germinability could be predicted by total starch content in synergistic sweet corn lines during seed development stages; however, this prediction seemed to be negligible in sweet corn genotypes equipped with a single-recessive gene. …”
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The reproduction number $R_t$ in structured and nonstructured populations by Tom Burr, Gerardo Chowell

“…Other methods to estimate $R_t$ arebased on explicit models such as the SIR model; therefore, onemight expect the WT method to be more robust to departures from SIR-type behavior.This paper uses simulated data to compare the quality of daily $R_t$ estimates based on a SIR model tothose using the WT method for both structured(classical SIR assumptions are violated) and nonstructured (classical SIR assumptions hold) populations.By using detailed simulations that record the infection day of each new infectionand the donor-recipient identities, the true $R_t$ and the generation interval pdf isknown with negligible error. We find that the generation interval pdf is timedependent in all cases, which agrees with recent results reported elsewhere.We also find that the WT method performs essentially the samein the structured populations (except for a spatial network) as it does in the nonstructured population. …”
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Effect of Fused Filament Fabrication Parameters on Selected Indicators for Assessing Technological Quality of Shaped Models by Marek Łoś, Wojciech Zawadka, Krzysztof Nadolny

“…The study showed a negligible effect of material fill rate on surface roughness parameters as well as on the dimensions and shape accuracy. …”
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Magnetically activated carbon fibers felt (MACFF) as an effective adsorbent for successful removal of cephalexin and amoxicillin from water by Ali Maghsoudi, Alireza Khajeh-Amiri

“…Notably, ampicillin had a negligible tendency to be adsorbed on MACFF. The adsorption of cephalexin, amoxicillin, and ampicillin on the MACFF was also studied by the XPS analysis, demonstrating the interaction between cephalexin and amoxicillin with the surface of MACCF. …”
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Insécurité du logement et insécurité alimentaire dans l’Inuit Nunangat by Séraphin Guy Balla Ndegue, Caroline Hervé

“…Les solutions à l’insécurité alimentaire doivent donc, sans négliger les autres aspacts, prendre en compte la question du logement ; ce qui requiert aussi d’impliquer les Inuits eux-mêmes dans les décisions y afférentes. …”
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Deformation and Failure Law of Roadway along Goaf and Reserve Width of Section Coal Pillar by Yunsheng Chen, Jian Sun, Di Pang, Ruofei Zhang

“…It was a non-negligible problem in the reserve of section coal pillar in coal mining. …”
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Effects of Irreducible Fluid Saturation and Gas Entry Pressure on Gas Production from Hydrate-Bearing Clayey Silt Sediments by Depressurization by Xiaolong Ma, Youhong Sun, Wei Guo, Rui Jia, Bing Li

“…In addition, the capillary pressure increased obviously with the increase in gas entry pressure, but the effect on gas production was small and the effect on water production could be negligible. In conclusion, irreducible water and gas saturation had an important effect on the gas production from gas hydrate, whereas the effects of gas entry pressure could be ignored.…”
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FBG-Based UV-Curing Kinetics Analysis by Exothermic Behavior by Wen Yan, Zhenhua Bi, Ying Song, Xinpu Zhang

“…Compared with curing process evaluation based on refractive index variation, this FBG-based exothermic behavior monitoring has the ability to extract more details of the curing process, and some curing stages with negligible refractive index changes also can be distinguished. …”
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Study on Rheology Properties, Durability and Microstructure of UHPSCC Contains Garnet, Basalt, and Pozzolan by Alireza Rashno, Mohamadreza Adlparvar, Mohsen Izadinia

“…The above tests show that this type of concrete has rheology properties in the acceptable range EFNARC, ultra-high compressive strength, negligible surface water absorption, minimal chlorine ion migration coefficient, and very high-level electrical resistance has this type of concrete in the ultra-high concrete cluster.…”
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