Is the Iron Silk Road Really So Important? Rail Freight Use on China’s “Silk Road Economic Belt” by P. Bucsky, T. Kenderdine

“…This article provides numerous data sources and estimates on China–Europe rail freight traffic and demonstrates that the actual transported quantity of goods is probably lower than anticipated or reported. The article also analyses the political development of the CR Express rail freight system and China’s wider “Transport Power” policy. …”
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Cost-Effectiveness of Extracorporeal Photopheresis in Patients With Chronic Graft-vs-Host Disease by Adrian Peacock, Frances C. Dehle, Oscar A. Mesa Zapata, Francesca Gennari, Maro R.I. Williams, Nada Hamad, Stephen Larsen, Simon J. Harrison, Colman Taylor

“…Health states in the model included treatment response, disease progression, and death. Transition probabilities were obtained from Australian-specific registry data and randomized controlled evidence. …”
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Analysis of the Impact of Different Forecasting Techniques on the Inventory Bullwhip Effect in Two Parallel Supply Chains with a Competition Effect by Xigang Yuan, Xiaoqing Zhang, Dalin Zhang

“…The results show that the MMSE forecasting technique can reduce the lead-time demand forecast error to the largest extent, and the inventory bullwhip effect can obtain the lowest level using the MMSE method: retailer-1 can reduce the inventory bullwhip effect by using the MA technique, when the self-price sensitivity coefficient, the price autoregressive coefficient, and the probabilities associated with customers choosing retailer-1’s product are very low.…”
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La momie de Thèbes au musée Redpath? by Loïc Lefebvre

“…Comme la recherche est une composante importante du mandat du musée universitaire, il ne faut probablement pas s’étonner que l’engouement scientifique pour la momie de Thèbes justifie son statut d’objet phare.…”
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Nitrogen Sorptiometric Study of Phosphation and Dispersion of Lanthanum(III) Oxide on Alumina Catalysts by Gamal A.H. Mekhemer, Ali F. Bukhzam, Amal S. El-Towaty, Mohamed I. Zaki

“…Phosphation led to the improvement of the two-dimensional lanthanum(III) oxide dispersion (probably in monolayers) rather than the three-dimensional one, most likely through direct bonding of the phosphate groups to exposed La 3+ sites. …”
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Reinforcement Learning-Based Resource Allocation Scheme of NR-V2X Sidelink for Joint Communication and Sensing by Zihan Li, Ping Wang, Yamin Shen, Song Li

“…In order to overcome the challenges in the distributed resource allocation of sidelink JCS with a full-duplex, this paper has proposed a novel consecutive-collision mitigation semi-persistent scheduling (CCM-SPS) scheme, including the collision detection and Q-learning training stages to suppress collision probabilities. Theoretical performance analyses on Cramér–Rao Lower Bounds (CRLBs) have been made for the sensing of sidelink JCS. …”
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Renal function in Ankylosing Spondylitis by Renu Saigal, Arun Kumar Agrawal, Laxmikant Goyal, Abhishek Agrawal, Naveen Gupta

“…Renal abnormalities were more prevalent in cases taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for < 48 months than cases taking these drugs for ≥48 months, suggesting that these renal abnormalities were probably not due to NSAIDs-induced nephropathy but may be due to AS itself. …”
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An approach of steel plate hybrid bonding technique to externally bonded fibre-reinforced polymer strengthening system by Xue Zhang, Zhimin Wu, Ye Cheng

“…Moreover, the stress concentration, which probably results in a premature fracture of fibre-reinforced polymer laminates as that performed for available hybrid bonding anchorage techniques, can be eliminated by introducing a steel plate between the mechanical fasteners and fibre-reinforced polymer strips. …”
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Liver Injury Patterns and Hepatic Toxicity among People Living with and without HIV and Attending Care in Urban Uganda by Clara Wekesa, Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi, Gregory D. Kirk, Ponsiano Ocama

“…The evaluation of the patterns of liver injury, derived from liver chemistry panels, often may narrow on probable causes of the liver insult especially when coupled with clinical history, examination, and other diagnostic tests. …”
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Hagiografía valenciana (1470-1600) by José Luis Canet

“…Mais le groupe qui a probablement le plus de valeur pour l’analyse des mentalités est constitué par les livres pieux, qui étaient à la recherche d’un large public, souvent populaire.…”
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A Comparative FEM Analysis of a Substituted 3D-Printed U-Joint with PLA and ABS Materials by Mohammad Sajjad Mahdieh, Golshid Fathinasab

“…Because of undergoing fatigue loads, the failure occurrence in U-joints is very probable. Therefore, an attempt is made here to substitute this part with a 3D-printed one. …”
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Pochodzenie rodu Branickich herbu Gryf. Pogląd historyka ustroju i prawa by Tomasz Kruszewski

“…Disputes over the methodology of researching knightly families in Poland will most probably continue. In this context, views of Jan Adamus are worth mentioning, albeit distantly considered by Krzysztof Mosingiewicz. …”
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The Great Curse: Excommunication, Canon Law and the Judicial System in Late Medieval Society, Through the Eyes of an English Preacher by Leo Carruthers

“…On devine chez l’auteur anonyme un curé de paroisse, voire un chanoine augustin, ayant probablement suivi une formation juridique ; en tout cas il fait montre d’un intérêt particulier pour la question.…”
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Social Well-Being of Higher School Teachers: Social Context and Measurement Criteria by L. A. Osmuk, V. A. Yablonskaya

“…Although slightly more than half “probably wouldn’t change” their profession for any other, not everyone can fully adapt to the new and constantly changing higher education system requirements. …”
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Project Portfolio Resource Risk Assessment considering Project Interdependency by the Fuzzy Bayesian Network by Libiao Bai, Kaimin Zhang, Huijing Shi, Min An, Xiao Han

“…In this method, the project portfolio resource risk factors are first identified by taking project interdependency into consideration, and then the Bayesian network model is developed to analyze the risk level of the identified risk factors in which expert judgments and fuzzy set theory are integrated to determine the probabilities of all risk factors to deal with incomplete risk data and information. …”
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Retrospective Study Comparing Clinical Outcomes of Fixed Dental Prostheses in Matched Groups of Bruxer and Nonbruxer Patients by Mohammed Hawthan, Bruno R. Chrcanovic, Christel Larsson

“…The criteria for the diagnosis of “possible” and “probable” sleep or awake bruxism were used. A matched group of nonbruxers was selected on the basis of similarities in four factors, patients’ gender and age, number of prosthetic units of the FDPs, and follow-up time. …”
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Drying Grain Pretreated by Low-Voltage Spark-Discharge Plasma Channel by Ivan A. Shorstkii

“…The electron microscopy showed that the dielectric substrate accelerated moisture removal, probably as a result of the emerging surface effects that developed a new continuum in the grain structure. …”
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Developing a New Interval Type-2 Hesitant Fuzzy TOPSIS-Based Fuzzy Best-Worst Multicriteria Decision-Making Method for Competitive Pricing in Supply Chain by Farhad Salimian, Maryam Damiri, Mahyar Ramezankhani, Saeed Khakshouri Fariman

“…The results show that the most probable dimension of social responsibility in knowledge-based businesses in the oil sector, according to the research, is the environmental dimension in social responsibility, which may produce competitive supply chain pricing mechanisms based on profitability. …”
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Evaluation of Chopped Sugarcane Storage in Different Periods of the Season and Their Influence on the Sugar and Ethanol Process by Leonardo Lucas Madaleno, Camila Carla Guimarães, Elaine Hartmann Ferri, Rodrigo Vezzani Franzé

“…In terms of the quality of the process and products, a reduction in starch levels was detected with storage of the extracted juice and syrup, probably due to the metabolism of the chopped sugarcane. …”
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Multivariate Drought Frequency Analysis and Risk Assessment: A case study for Kahramanmaras Province by Musa Eşit, Mehmet İshak Yüce

“…Finally, depending on the appropriate marginal distributions, the conditional return probabilities and periods of the drought parameters of Kahramanmaras province were obtained after the most appropriate copula function was calculated. …”
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