Macroscopic neutrinoless double beta decay: Long range quantum coherence by Gordon Baym, Jen-Chieh Peng

“…The accidental background for MDBD originating from two separate single beta decays, which contains two final state neutrinos, can be readily rejected by measuring the energy of the detected two electrons. …”
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Authenticity Detection of Black Rice by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Support Vector Data Description by Hui Chen, Chao Tan, Zan Lin

“…Based on both the first two principal components (PCs) and original variables, three types of data descriptions were constructed. …”
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Hacer vivir y dejar morir: foucault y la genealogía del racismo by Eduardo Mendieta

“…Finalmente, discutimos las formas en las cuales el análisis inmensamente original de Foucault en racismo puede ser utilizado en el contexto estadounidense para comprender la reiteración y virulencia de actos de violencia contra los sujetos racialmente marcados, y como esto desafía la filosofía política de nuestros tiempos.…”
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Simulation Experiment Study on Impacting the δD Value of Aromatic Compounds by Yi Duan, Yingzhong Wu, Lantian Xing, Yingqin Wu, Yang Zhao, Zhongping Li, Lanhua Ma

“…The low δD values of these steroids should originate from isotopic fractionation during isoprenoid lipid biosynthesis.…”
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Heterogeneous Social Linked Data Integration and Sharing for Public Transportation by Wei Zhao, Bing Zhou, ChaoYang Zhang

“…It is challenging to provide personalized and adaptable public transportation services for citizens because the public transportation data originate from different devices and are heterogeneous in nature. …”
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Features of Legal Regulation of Employment Contracts with Seasonal and Temporary Employees by A. Ya. Radzividlo

“…The employment contract as the basis of the origin of labor relations with seasonal and temporary employees has been researched. …”
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Ocular Circulation and Chronic Ocular Ischemic Syndrome before and after Carotid Artery Revascularization Surgery by Shoichiro Kawaguchi, Jun-ichi Iida, Yoshitomo Uchiyama

“…We examined ninety patients with carotid artery stenosis (more than 50% stenosis) at its origin treated with carotid endarterectomy (N=56) or carotid artery stenting (N=34). …”
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The Transition from Song to Poetry in Latvian Literature in the Second Half of the 19th Century by Māra Grudule

“…The Singing Revolution and similar song- and singing-related references are traditionally associated with the image of Latvians. The origins of written Latvian are also related to song: the oldest known Christian song in Latvian, dating from 1530, is also one of the oldest examples of Latvian-language text. …”
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Doctrine of the revival of Russia as a political basis of development of the institute of presidency in democratic transit: new moments by V. V. Tyan

“…His commitment to the origins of Russian statehood helped create a goal-oriented team of strategic management. …”
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Cortical direction selectivity increases from the input to the output layers of visual cortex. by Weifeng Dai, Tian Wang, Yang Li, Yi Yang, Yange Zhang, Yujie Wu, Tingting Zhou, Hongbo Yu, Liang Li, Yizheng Wang, Gang Wang, Dajun Xing

“…We identified a direction-tuned gain mechanism for interlaminar signal transmission, which likely originated from both feedforward connections across the input and output layers and recurrent connections within the output layers. …”
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Determination of Hydrogeochemistry, Drinking and Irrigation Properties of Groundwaters in the Northwest Section of Afyon Plain by Can Başaran, Hüseyin Manap

“…However, the elements such as nitrate, arsenic, fluorine and boron, detected at some water points and exceeding the limit value may originate from domestic-agricultural wastes and fertilizers. …”
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Identification of a Multicriteria Decision-Making Model Using the Characteristic Objects Method by Andrzej Piegat, Wojciech Sałabun

“…In the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method and similar methods, when a new alternative is added to the original alternative set, the evaluation base and the resulting evaluations of all objects change. …”
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Validity and measurement invariance of abbreviated scales of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y) in a population of Italian young adults by Giuseppe Valente, Pierluigi Diotaiuti, Stefano Corrado, Beatrice Tosti, Alessandra Zanon, Stefania Mancone

“…IntroductionThis study evaluates the validity and measurement invariance of the 8-item scales of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) across gender and age. Originally developed by Spielberger (STAI-Y), these scales have been shortened to create more efficient versions without compromising psychometric robustness.MethodsA sample of Italian young adults, aged between 18 and 36 years, completed the abbreviated scales. …”
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An enhanced dung beetle optimizer with multiple strategies for robot path planning by Wei Hu, Qi Zhang, Shan Ye

“…Abstract In order to make up for the shortcomings of the original dung beetle optimization algorithm, such as low population diversity, insufficient of global exploration ability, being easy to fall into local optimization and unsatisfactory convergence accuracy, etc. …”
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PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY OF JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET by Oksana F. Tereshkun

“…The task is to examine the works of José Ortega y Gasset, first, the origin and the main stages of technological development; secondly, the relationship of natural circumstances, humans and technology; third, the relationship of the inner world of man and technology; fourth, the relationship of the world of culture and their life projects with technology; fifthly, the interplay of modern technology and "human mass". …”
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Centra, zázemí a periferie hospodářského života raně novověké společnosti v zemích České koruny. O smyslu hospodářských dějin raného novověku by Václav Ledvinka

“…It describes the structure of the urban network and the hierarchy of urban settlements in the 17th century, captures the original traces of war damage, and suggests the possibility of following the trends of early modern urbanisation in the territory of the former Bechyňsko region in a long wave from the end of the Thirty Years’ War to the beginning of industrialisation and the new “industrial” urbanisation in the 19th century. …”
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Interdisciplinarity through internationality: Results from a US–Mexico graduate course bridging computational and plant science by Daniel H. Chitwood, Alejandra Rougon‐Cardoso, Robert VanBuren

“…We created an interdisciplinary class originally intended to bridge computational and plant science that eventually became international in scope, including students from the United States and Mexico. …”
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Prediction Model of Minimum Void Ratio for Various Sizes/Shapes of Sandy Binary Mixture by Chaojie Shen, Zhaoyang Xu, Jie Yin, Jinfeng Wu

“…Based on a study of binary mixtures of natural sand from three different origins and iron particles of two different shapes, this paper analyzes the influence factors of the minimum void ratio, and a quadratic nonlinear model is proposed for estimating the minimum void ratio of binary mixture. …”
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A conceptual replication of an implicit test of grammatical gender effects on inanimate concepts by Devyani Mahajan, Frank H. Durgin

“…A second version of the study was conducted in the native languages of Spanish and German speakers, as a closer attempt at a replication of Konishi’s original study. The results of both studies provided evidence against the grammatical-gender hypothesis. …”
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Characterization of Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis by Niovis Sosa Barberena, Roberto Angel Polo Amarante, Sandra Nancy Mendez Rogríguez, Mabel Sosa Barberena

“…General variables such as age, sex, and place of origin were analyzed, in addition to the causes of the disease, length of time on hemodialysis, type of vascular access, and prevalence of hepatitis C. …”
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