Le diverse facce della montagna in declino: un’esperienza lombarda by Luisa Pedrazzini

“…The lack of snow and dramatic ice melting put in crisis local economy, with decline and recession and is the origin of great natural disasters too, causing a radical change in the way of life of the Alps’ inhabitants. …”
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Dinamika Kehidupan Kethoprak di Kabupaten Pati 1950-2007 by Azmi Globalian Nazal, Dhanang Respati Puguh

“…Kethoprak is a traditional performing art originating from Surakarta. Kethoprak is not able to develop optimally in its ownregion, because it cannot compete with wayang wong. …”
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From Multivalent Writing to a Poetics of the Book: A Media-Specific Analysis of Mary Ruefle’s A Little White Shadow by Catherine Ann Winters

“…This work of erasure reproduces the marks Ruefle made to obscure words in the source text of the same name by Emily Malbone Morgan, published in 1889, by creating a facsimile of the original altered with white correction fluid. By utilizing the material object as an essential element of the poem, Ruefle engages this form to move beyond the concept of the book as object or apparatus for presenting poetry. …”
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Algorithmic Generation of Parameterized Geometric Models of the Aortic Valve and Left Ventricle by Nikita Pil, Alex G. Kuchumov

“…In particular, we developed 22 variations of left ventricular geometries, including one original model, seven models with varying wall thicknesses, seven models with varying heights, and seven models with varying shapes. …”
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Research on Orbital Angular Momentum Mode Detection in an Atmospheric Environment with Fusion Transfer Learning by Chenghu Ke, Youmei Chen, Xizheng Ke

“…The results show that compared with traditional convolutional neural networks, the modal classifier proposed in this paper reduces the dataset size to 1/10 of the original and successfully improves the OAM detection accuracy by 15.84%. …”
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Toward Enhanced Prediction of High‐Impact Solar Energetic Particle Events Using Multimodal Time Series Data Fusion Models by Pouya Hosseinzadeh, Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi, Shah Muhammad Hamdi

“…Abstract Solar energetic particle (SEP) events, originating from solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections, present significant hazards to space exploration and technology on Earth. …”
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Ippolit Bogdanovich and Voltaire’s 'Épître à l’impératrice de Russie': Adapting Praise by Andrew Kahn

“…Ippolit Bogdanovich was one of the most versatile poets of the period, appreciated for his original compositions and recognised for his adaptations of French poetry. …”
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Analysis of user behavior and satisfaction under the elderly adaptation mode of an APP based on the fuzzy-IPA model by Jian Yang, Taotao Yang, Lu Li

“…The key findings are as follows: (1) The APP aging mode is quite popular; (2) middle-aged and elderly users hesitate to use the aging mode due to “loss of original functions” and “secondary interface layout and font adjustments”; (3) better user experience in the aging mode leads to higher satisfaction, whereas higher initial expectations lead to lower satisfaction; (4) four aspects-“simple operation,” “ease of learning,” “understanding of function descriptions,” and “effective help system”-have high importance but low satisfaction levels. …”
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Regional Aggressive Root Resorption Caused by Neuronal Virus Infection by Inger Kjær, Carsten Strøm, Nils Worsaae

“…The purpose is to present cases with idiopathic (of unknown origin) root resorption occurring regionally. Two cases of female patients, 26 and 28 years old, referred with aggressive root resorption were investigated clinically and radiographically. …”
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The Psychometric Properties of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) in Patients with Life-Threatening Illnesses by Maede Naghiyaee, Bahman Bahmani, Ali Asgari

“…The confirmatory factor analysis supported the original two-factor model of the MLQ, comprised of the presence of meaning (five items) and search for meaning (five items). …”
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From Stars to Stones: The Cultural and Linguistic Roots of the Name ‘Skardu’ by Muhammad Nazir, Sajjad Hussain

“…Drawing from linguistic analysis and historical texts the current study examines the origin of the name Skardu from the Tibetan word Skar-mDo, usually referred to as a star-lit fort /valley or starry place. …”
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Defense scheme for the world state based attack in Ethereum by Zhen GAO, Dongbin ZHANG, Xiao TIAN

“…Ethereum is taken as the representative platform of the second generation of blockchain system.Ethereum can support development of different distributed applications by running smart contracts.Local database is used to store the account state (named world state) for efficient validation of transactions, and the state root is stored in the block header to guarantee the integrity of the state.However, some researches revealed that the local database could be easily tempered with, and attackers can issue illegal transactions based on the modified account state to obtain illegitimate benefits.This world-state based security problem was introduced, and the preconditions for attack were analyzed.Compared with the two common security threats under the PoW (proof of work) consensus, it was found that when the attacker controls the same mining computing power, the world-state based attack brought higher risk, and the success rate approached 100%.In order to deal with this threat, a practical scheme for attack detection and defense was proposed accordingly.The secondary verification and data recovery process were added to the Ethereum source code.The feasibility and complexity of the proposed scheme was evaluated with single-machine multi-threading experiments.The proposed scheme improves Ethereum’s tolerance to malicious tampering of account state, and is applicable to other blockchain platforms applying local database for transaction validation, such as Hyperledger Fabric.In addition, the time and computational overhead brought by the proposed scheme are not prominent, so it has good applicability and induces acceptable impact on the performance of original system.…”
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Open-Source Telemedicine Platform for Wireless Medical Video Communication by A. Panayides, I. Eleftheriou, M. Pantziaris

“…Objective video quality assessment is based on PSNR ratings, following calibration using the variable frame delay (VFD) algorithm that removes temporal mismatch between original and received videos. Clinical evaluation is based on atherosclerotic plaque ultrasound video assessment protocol. …”
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Strategy Committees on European Public Boards: Characteristics and Tasks by Małgorzata Kuczara

“…The voluntary nature of revealing information about SCs implies that reported characteristics and tasks may not fully represent the actual state. Originality/Value: It is the first study to explore SCs in various European countries by showing their scale, structures, compositions and especially the tasks they declare and handle.…”
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El registro burocrático del mérito: condiciones morales y lealtad. Un estudio de los legajos personales de los comandantes en jefe de la armada argentina (1955-1983) by Ivonne Barragán Sáez

“…Analiza un corpus documental original, que no cuenta con antecedentes de análisis sistemáticos, los legajos de conceptos y de servicios de catorce comandantes. …”
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Peripheral Gangerene, an Unusual Presentation of Infantile Kawasaki: A Case Report and Literature Review by Fatemeh Tahghighi, Maryam Bakhtiari Koohsorkhi, Vahid Ziaee

“…The diagnosis of Kawasaki disease and echocardiographic evaluation of the coronary arteries should be considered in young infants with prolonged fever of unknown origin. Peripheral gangrene is a rare but important complication of infantile Kawasaki disease, although the exact mechanism in not fully understood.…”
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Distribution and genetic diversity of three apple viruses in Belarus by P. V. Kuzmitskaya, O. Yu. Urbanovich

“…The study of phylogenetic relationships between viruses isolated in different countries did not reveal any clear-cut relationship between their geographical origin and the degree of similarity of virus genome fragments.…”
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The Secret Life of Secret Agents: Alan Bennett and John Schlesinger’s An Englishman Abroad (1983) and A Question of Attribution (1991) by Nicole Cloarec

“…Although biopics are still widely held in critical disdain, a number of new stimulating perspectives on the genre have recently emerged. One original approach consists in tackling the biopic as a form of adaptation and an example of intermedial rewriting, thus enabling to overreach the traditional fiction-versus-fact debate. …”
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CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELIABILITY OF INTUITIVE MORAL DECISIONS by V. V. Nadurak

“…The work is based on the methodological attitude of empirical ethics, involving the use of findings from empirical research in ethical reflection and decision making. Originality. The main kinds of intuitive moral decisions are identified: 1) intuitively emotional decisions (i.e. decisions made under the influence of emotions that accompanies the process of moral decision making); 2) decisions made under the influence of moral risky psychological aptitudes (unconscious human tendencies that makes us think in a certain way and make decisions, unacceptable from the logical and ethical point of view); 3) intuitively normative decisions (decisions made under the influence of socially learned norms, that cause evaluative feeling «good-bad», without conscious reasoning). …”
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Prime-number-assisted block-based neighbor discovery protocol in wireless sensor networks by Woosik Lee, Jong-Hoon Youn, Teukseob Song

“…For example, for two sensors whose duty cycles are different, if the lengths of their discovery schedules are relatively prime, the prime-number-assisted block-based neighbor discovery protocol simply uses the balanced incomplete block design–based neighbor discovery protocol without adding any additional active slots; otherwise, it changes the original balanced incomplete block design–based schedule using a prime number. …”
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