Diagnosis of Parasitic Diseases: Old and New Approaches by Momar Ndao

“…These include immunoassays, molecular-based approaches, and proteomics using mass spectrometry platforms technology. This review summarizes the progress in new approaches in parasite diagnosis and discusses some of the merits and disadvantages of these tests.…”
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Learning, Teaching and First Aid in times of COVID-19

“…The editorial cites among other factors the disparities in opportunities for schooling and online education between the wealthy and poor, stressing that shifting to online first aid education is not happening in a vacuum and is not only about changing the tools and platforms (as challenging as they might be), but also about adapting what is already available to take account of the developing situation, alterations in population needs and adapting to first aid learning in diverse settings where many of those differences are not known or obvious to us.…”
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American media, Scandinavian audiences: Contextual fragmentation and polarisation among Swedes and Norwegians engaging with American politics by Robinson Jessica Yarin

“…This article sheds light on the relationship between the sometimes-conflated concepts of fragmentation and polarisation and provides a discussion of the implications of political information sharing on transnational digital platforms.…”
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The Stability of a Two-Axis Gimbal System for the Camera by Nguyen Cong Danh

“…Gimbal or an inertial stabilization platform (ISP) is used to stabilize the line of sight of an object or device that is tracking another object (LOS) with stationary or moving targets or targets moving forward. …”
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Dispositifs à variables inconnues by Emmanuel Grimaud

“…Roleplay, speculative interaction scenarios, quirky machines, experimental platforms or experiment apparatuses can produce effects that reset a problem or question, even if (especially if) one does not control all of the variables. …”
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Polymers for Cardiovascular Stent Coatings by Anne Strohbach, Raila Busch

“…Polymers have found widespread applications in cardiology, in particular in coronary vascular intervention as stent platforms (scaffolds) and coating matrices for drug-eluting stents. …”
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Women’s struggle and media reform: The Swedish Women’s Associations’ Radio Committee, 1933–1940 by Stiernstedt Fredrik

“…The committee was a joint effort by many established women’s organisations in Sweden, formed with the goal of strengthening the role of women in the developing public service radio, and especially providing a platform for women to raise demands on influence in the decision-making around the development of this new media form. …”
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Distributed Intelligent Assistance Robotic System with Sensor Networks Based on Robot Technology Middleware by Songmin Jia, Zhengyin Dong, Xiuzhi Li, Xiongwei Pang, Bing Guo, Shuang Wang, Ke Wang

“…The system is composed of embedded distributed sensor networks and multirobot intelligent platform. In the proposed system, we use SP 2 ATM (simultaneous path planning and topological mapping) with RBPF (Rao-Blackwellized particle filter) for path planning and localization of mobile robots. …”
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Antiswing Control and Trajectory Planning for Offshore Cranes: Design and Experiments by Ronny Landsverk, Jing Zhou, Daniel Hagen

“…The method was tested on a Comau robot mounted on a Stewart platform at the Norwegian Motion Laboratory. Simulation and experimental results comparing payload transfers with and without applying the anti-swing control method validates it's effectiveness.…”
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PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES OF E-LEARNING SYSTEM by T. Yu. Krotenko

“…In this сonnection, ambiguous understanding of the goals of digitalization, the mismatch of the electronic and traditional approaches to learning, incompleteness of a single terminology platform, a significant difference of the main theories used in developing practical tools of e-learning, the lack of leading psycho-pedagogical concept of online learning, which could be used by both developers of training programs and users-teachers, insufficient base of empirical research, - they lead to confusion of all subjects of the educational process, to the lack of a clear understanding of what and how to teach and what might happen as a result. …”
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Threats from the Dark: A Review over Dark Web Investigation Research for Cyber Threat Intelligence by Randa Basheer, Bassel Alkhatib

“…In this review, we demonstrate the significance of studying the contents of different platforms on the Dark Web, leading new researchers through state-of-the-art methodologies. …”
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Do digital influencers successfully contribute to reducing the gap between customers and companies? by Isaac Moreira, Paulo Stenzel, João M. Lopes, José Oliveira

“…It was also found that the most used platform for digital strategies is Instagram, due to its ease of communication and number of active users. …”
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Co-Creating Knowledge Online: Approaches for Community Artists by Shea Pip

“…This position advocates that practitioners move beyond situating the Internet as a platform for dissemination and a tool for co-creating media, to embrace its knowledge collaboration potential.…”
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Analytical Analysis for Parameter Design of Attached Nonlinear Energy Sink by Tianjiao Zhang, Luyu Li, Yilin Zheng

“…Therefore, this study aims to determine the parameter range in which the SMR can occur. The platform phenomenon and other related phenomena are observed while analyzing slow-varying equations. …”
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Learner support in a distributed learning environment:the use of WWW-based teachware packages by Christian Langenbach, Freimut Bodendorf

“…A relatively recent development which has not yet gained widespread acceptance is the use of the World Wide Web (WWW) as a basis and platform for distributed computer assisted teaching and learning. …”
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Norway Reimagined by Ratilainen Saara

“…Employing multimodal discourse analysis to the social media platform VKontakte, I examine how Russophone audiences of global television imagine the country of origin of their object of fandom, and how spatial imaginations embedded in this process contribute to popular geopolitics of Norden – that is, to geopolitical reasoning of narratives and representations of Nordic countries available through popular culture. …”
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Ethical issues in online interpreting training by Liu Hongyan, Lei Zhenhui

“…We suggest developing professional interpreting learning platforms and software, adopting virtual reality technology, compiling a multimodal corpus, and establishing a virtual community to achieve better learning outcomes.…”
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User-Generated Translation Community in Online Video Streaming: The Social-Digital Dynamics of YouTube-Focused Fansubbing Channels on Bilibili by Sijing Lu

“…The results indicate that Youzimu’s self-mediated network is predicated upon the ongoing exchange of diverse forms of capital, affording fan translators within the platform a degree of productive autonomy in their translation efforts. …”
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Floating Photovoltaic Systems in Italy: Challenges and Future Prospects in an Uncertain Regulatory Framework by Tedioli Francesco

“…This innovative technology involves the installation of solar panels on floating platforms, offering a number of advantages over traditional land-based photovoltaic systems. …”
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Performance analysis of a satellite–multi-terrestrial relay network with hardware impairments using switch-and-stay combining scheme by Kefeng Guo, Bangning Zhang, Yuzhen Huang, Daoxing Guo

“…Space information networks are proposed to broaden the observation area and realize continuous information acquisition using satellites and high-altitude platform stations. Space information networks are able to enhance detection and transmission capabilities compared to the current single Earth observation satellite. …”
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