A Path to the Stars: The Evolution of the Species by Fabrizio Vitali, Guido Chincarini, Mario Zannoni, Stefano Covino, Emilio Molinari, Stefano Benetti, Carlotta Bonoli, Favio Bortoletto, Enrico Cascone, Rosario Cosentino, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Vincenzo De Caprio, Massimo Della Valle, Alberto Fernandez-Soto, Dino Fugazza, Enrico Giro, Demetrio Magrin, Giuseppe Malaspina, Lech Mankiewicz, Raffaella Margutti, Ruben Mazzoleni, Luciano Nicastro, Alberto Riva, Marco Riva, Ruben Salvaterra, Paolo Spanò, Monica Sperandio, Mauro Stefanon, Gino Tosti, Vincenzo Testa

“…Then, we proposed to study the feasibility of a 4 m fast pointing class telescope, equipped with a multichannel imagers, from Visible to Near Infrared. In this paper, we present the main result of the feasibility study we performed so far.…”
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Sistemas Fisiográficos del Área Natural Protegida "Valle Cretácico"; Provincia de Río Negro by Nora Romina Solorza, Marcos Damián Mare

“…Given this context, the Rio Negro provincial government has materialized in 2010 an old regulation initiative aimed at sustainable management of those lands. This paper is a revised and shortened version of the biophysical studies of carried out as a part of the interdisciplinary technical reports for the "Management Plan of the Protected Natural Area (PNA) Cretaceous Valley" of the Rio Negro Province. …”
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Evolving concepts in intracranial pressure monitoring - from traditional monitoring to precision medicine by Rohan Mathur, Lin Cheng, Josiah Lim, Tej D. Azad, Peter Dziedzic, Eleanor Belkin, Ivanna Joseph, Bhagyashri Bhende, Sudha Yellapantula, Niteesh Potu, Austen Lefebvre, Vishank Shah, Susanne Muehlschlegel, Julian Bosel, Tamas Budavari, Jose I. Suarez

“…However, this one-size fits all approach has been criticized and there is a need to develop personalized, evidence-based and possibly multi-factorial precision-medicine based approaches to the problem. This paper provides historical and physiological context to the problem of elevated ICP, provides an overview of the challenges of the current paradigm of ICP management strategies, and discusses advances in ICP waveform analysis, emerging non-invasive ICP monitoring techniques, and applications of machine learning to create predictive algorithms.…”
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A fuzzy logic approach within the DPSIR framework to address the inherent uncertainty and complexity of water security assessments by Liang Yuan, Zhijie Zhou, Weijun He, Xia Wu, Dagmawi Mulugeta Degefu, Juan Cheng, Lin Chai, Thomas Stephen Ramsey

“…Quantitative and qualitative assessments are crucial means to understand the status of water security. In this paper, an index system for evaluating and diagnosing water security in the Mekong River Basin (MRB) was constructed based on the DPSIR model. …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Edward Page, Konrad Ott

“…Fulfilling its interdisciplinary approach, IGJR 3/2009 brings together articles from distinct, but overlapping, disciplines including ethics (Lumer), epistemology (Hillerbrand), social contructivism (Rothe) and political science (Oleson et al.). The paper of Christoph Lumer (University of Siena, Italy) establishes a new criterion for our moral duties, dubbed ‘progressive norm welfarism’, and deduces a principle of ‘no harm to developing countries’ from it. …”
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On the Exponential Atom-Bond Connectivity Index of Graphs by Kinkar Chandra Das

“…The exponential atom-bond connectivity index is defined as follows: <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>e</mi><mi mathvariant="script">ABC</mi></msup><mo>=</mo><msup><mi>e</mi><mi mathvariant="script">ABC</mi></msup><mrow><mo>(</mo><mo>Υ</mo><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>=</mo><mstyle displaystyle="true"><munder><mo>∑</mo><mrow><msub><mi>v</mi><mi>i</mi></msub><msub><mi>v</mi><mi>j</mi></msub><mo>∈</mo><mi>E</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mo>Υ</mo><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></munder></mstyle><mspace width="0.166667em"></mspace><msup><mi>e</mi><msqrt><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mfrac><mrow><msub><mi>d</mi><mi>i</mi></msub><mo>+</mo><msub><mi>d</mi><mi>j</mi></msub><mo>−</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow><mrow><msub><mi>d</mi><mi>i</mi></msub><mspace width="0.166667em"></mspace><msub><mi>d</mi><mi>j</mi></msub></mrow></mfrac></mstyle></msqrt></msup><mo>,</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> where <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mi>d</mi><mi>i</mi></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> is the degree of the vertex <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mi>v</mi><mi>i</mi></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> in <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mo>Υ</mo></semantics></math></inline-formula>. In this paper, we prove that the double star <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>D</mi><msub><mi>S</mi><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>3</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> is the second maximal graph with respect to the <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mi>e</mi><mi mathvariant="script">ABC</mi></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> index of trees of order <i>n</i>. …”
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Estimación de Erosión Hidrica de Suelos para plan de Manejo del Campo Forestal Aguas Frías, Patagonia Argentina by Ana Cecilia Dufilho, María Cristina Frugoni, Pablo Macchi, Alan Thot

“…It is then necessary, to characterize the actual and potential erosion, that would allow to carry out with measures monitoring to implement controls and mitigation. Paper presents, pedology map by interpreting and georreferencing satellite images by a Geographical Information System. …”
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Evaluating the Impact of Simulated Patients on Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes of Laypeople Following a Basic First Aid Course: Protocol for a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

“…It has already been shown that simulated patients have an added value in teaching emergency care to healthcare professionals. This paper describes the protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial that will investigate the influence of using a simulated patient during basic first aid training for laypeople on their knowledge, skills and self-efficacy. …”
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CHARACTERISTICS OF CIRCADIAN BLOOD PRESSURE PROFILE IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH THYROID FUNCTION by Nataliia Kuz, Tetiana Solomenchuk

“…The paper presents the results of a study of circadian arterial blood pressure (ABP) profile in patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) and their association with thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels. …”
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Componentes y Dinámica Natural del Ambiente - Ciudad de Neuquén- by Olga Capua, Elsie Marcela Jurio

“…Furthermore, the scarse plant covering and soil characteristics favor the direct action of wind on the surface incrementing the processes of erosion-deflation, abrasion and attrition, and build farms. This paper considers the interaction of biophysical elements of nature (climate, topography, vegetation, soil, water), agents and processes generating the forms of relief, in a systemic approach to understand the natural dynamics, to preserve balance and to generate the basis to elaborate land use strategies.…”
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ASKAP Observations of the Radio Shell in the Composite Supernova Remnant G310.6-1.6 by Wenhui Jing, Jennifer L. West, Xiaohui Sun, Wasim Raja, Xianghua Li, Lingxiao Dang, Ping Zhou, Miroslav D. Filipović, Andrew M. Hopkins, Roland Kothes, Sanja Lazarević, Denis Leahy, Emil Lenc, Yik Ki Ma, Cameron L. Van Eck

“…This poses a challenge for understanding the evolution of SNRs. The results of this paper demonstrate the potential of the ASKAP EMU and POSSUM surveys to discover more objects of small angular size and low surface brightness.…”
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Phasic and periodic change of drought under greenhouse effect by Yang Li, Zhicheng Zheng, Yaochen Qin, Haifeng Tian, Zhixiang Xie, Peijun Rong

“…However, the phases and periodicity of drought changes in the ESAC remain largely unknown. Thus, this paper aims to identify the periodic characteristics of meteorological drought changes. …”
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Image Segmentation Method of Chinese Yam Leaves in Complex Background Based on Improved ENet by LU Bibo, LIANG Di, YANG Jie, SONG Aiqing, HUANGFU Shangwei

“…[Objective]Crop leaf area is an important indicator reflecting light absorption efficiency and growth conditions. This paper established a diverse Chinese yam image dataset and proposesd a deep learning-based method for Chinese yam leaf image segmentation. …”
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Palette-based image recoloring based on moving least squares(基于移动最小二乘的图像重着色) by 周家伟(ZHOU Jiawei), 黄子康(HUANG Zikang), 彭俊豪(PENG Junhao), 李盛善(LI Shengshan), 刘晓静(LIU Xiaojing), 杜正君(DU Zhengjun)

“…Addressing this issue, this paper introduces a novel image recoloring algorithm based on moving least squares, significantly enhancing the locality and precision of color editing. …”
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Implication of Galaxy-scale Negative Feedback by One of the Most Powerful Multiphase Outflows in a Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxy at Intermediate Redshift by Xiaoyang Chen, Masayuki Akiyama, Kohei Ichikawa, Yoshiki Toba, Toshihiro Kawaguchi, Takuma Izumi, Toshiki Saito, Daisuke Iono, Masatoshi Imanishi, Kianhong Lee, Hiroshi Nagai, Hirofumi Noda, Abdurro’uf, Mitsuru Kokubo, Naoki Matsumoto

“…Ultra- and hyperluminous IR galaxies (U/HyLIRGs) are thought to represent a transition phase of galaxies from a rapidly growing period to a quiescent status as gas is swept out by outflows, providing a laboratory in which to investigate outflows and their feedback effects on hosts. In this paper we report recent Gemini and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of a HyLIRG, J1126, at z = 0.46842, which has been identified with a puzzling coexistence of a fast ionized outflow (>2000 km s ^−1 ) and an intense starburst (star formation rate of 800 M _⊙ yr ^−1 ). …”
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Crack of a helicopter main rotor actuator attachment: failure analysis and lessons learned by L. Allegrucci, F. De Paolis, A. Coletta, M. Bernabei

“…In detail, the present paper deals with the fracture analysis results. The servo actuator attachment material is a 2014 Aluminum alloy extrudate, undergone to T651 heat treatment. …”
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HSTC: hybrid traffic scheduling mechanism in time-sensitive networking by Changchuan YIN, Yanjue LI, Hailong ZHU, Xinxin HE, Wenxuan HAN

“…However, after adjusting sampling period by our scheme, the bandwidth occupation of ST traffic was greatly reduced. ②Traffic scheduling priority: weighted ranking scheme proposed in this paper had the best performance. Performance ranking of other schemes was the maximum packet length first, the shortest deadline first, and the minimum sampling period first. …”
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Application of mind-mapping combined with scenario simulation method in clinical teaching and training of cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills of nursing students (思维导图联合情景模拟的教学方式在... by ZHAO Lina (赵丽娜), LIU Ai (刘爱), WANG Honghong (王虹虹), WANG Xiaojie (王小杰), TONG Lu (佟璐), ZHANG Ji (张继), ZUO Lin (左琳), MING Yue (明月), CHEN Xinxin (陈鑫鑫), WANG Yuanyuan (王媛媛)

“…Results Nursing students in the study group achieved higher scores of theoretical knowledge (theory paper) and practical skills compared to those in the control group (P＜0. 01). …”
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Case Reports: The core of practice-based evidence by Antonio Villa

“…A case report is a type of scientific paper that describes a patient-centred clinical pathway, which depends on medical doctor’s viewpoint, clinical insights and professional skills [1]. …”
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Potential Antidepressant Effects of Omeprazole Introduced Through Network Analysis and Systems Biology Should Be Interpreted with Caution in the Clinical Environment by Seyed-Ali Mostafavi

“…In conclusion, the methodology for the identification of the link between genetic markers and medications initially proposed in this paper provides a strong groundwork for subsequent research; while also pointing at the need to pay sufficient care to the side effects of medications like Omeprazole on the patient’s mental state. …”
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