The Barcelona Historical Marriage Database and the Baix Llobregat Demographic Database. From Algorithms for Handwriting Recognition to Individual-Level Demographic and Socioeconomi... by Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora, Alícia Fornés, Oriol Ramos Terrades, Josep Lladós, Jialuo Chen, Miquel Valls-Fígols, Anna Cabré

“…The two databases started as part of different interdisciplinary research projects at the crossroads of Historical Demography and Computer Vision. …”
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Next-generation sequencing in soybean breeding and genetic research by M. T. Menkov, I. V. Rozanova, A. Ya. Evlash, E. K. Khlestkina

“…The review summarizes the results of large-scale soybean sequencing projects, including pan-genome works. Methods used for high-resolution genetic mapping, such as the SNP array analysis and the GBS (genotyping-by-sequencing) technique, are described. …”
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Pre-failure indicators detected by Acoustic Emission: Alfas stone, cement-mortar and cement-paste specimens under 3-point bending by Stavros K. Kourkoulis, Ioanna Dakanali

“…In this direction, an attempt is here described to enlighten the signals recorded, in case a series of structural materials (natural and artificial), ex-tensively used for restoration projects of classic monuments in Greece, are subjected to 3-point bending. …”
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Non-targeted Metabolomic Analysis of Differences in the Composition of Different Rice Varieties for Baijiu Production by LIU Maoke, TIAN Xinhui, LIU Yao, TANG Yuming, QIN Jian, FENG Jun, LIU Chengyuan

“…A comparison between PXY and JKY yielded 326 differential metabolites (variable importance in projection (VIP) > 1 and P < 0.05), including the major components of Baijiu, such as lactic acid, ferulic acid and fumaric acid, as well as important substrates that supported brewing microorganism growth, such as melibiose, maltose, glucose and lactulose. …”
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Goat Production in El Salvador: A Focus on Animal Health, Milking Hygiene, and Raw Milk Quality by Kristina Linderot de Cardona, Abelardo De Gracia Scanapieco, Peggy G. Braun

“…The information obtained in this investigation will serve as a base for future projects.…”
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Comparison of Three Statistical Downscaling Methods and Ensemble Downscaling Method Based on Bayesian Model Averaging in Upper Hanjiang River Basin, China by Jiaming Liu, Di Yuan, Liping Zhang, Xia Zou, Xingyuan Song

“…Many downscaling techniques have been developed in the past few years for projection of station-scale hydrological variables from large-scale atmospheric variables to assess the hydrological impacts of climate change. …”
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Developing an efficient and optimized irrigation plan under varying water-supply regimes by Purushottam Agrawal, Jitendra Sinha, Nilima Jangre, Fanesh Kumar, Kamalkant, Alok Sinha, Ashwin Singh, Ashes Banerjee, Akella Satya Venkatesh, Srinivas Pasupuleti

“…Crop development relies on water availability, needs, and application, necessitating large irrigation projects to ensure sustainable and equitable agriculture in the long term. …”
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Cosmologies with Scalar Fields from Higher Dimensions Applied to Bianchi Type VIh=-1 Model: Classical and Quantum Solutions by J. Socorro, L. Toledo Sesma, Luis O. Pimentel

“…Also the corresponding Wheeler-DeWitt (WDW) equation in the context of Standard Quantum Cosmology is solved, building a wavepacket when the scalar fields have a hyperbolic behavior, obtaining some qualitative results when we analyze the projection plane to the wall formed by the probability density. …”
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A Data-Driven Method for Predicting the Cutterhead Torque of EPB Shield Machine by Kairong Hong, Fengyuan Li, Zhenjian Zhou, Feng Li, Xunlin Zhu

“…Through the test experiments of construction data in Zhengzhou, Luoyang, and Dalian shield projects, the results show that the proposed segmented modeling method possesses good adaptability and the cutterhead torque prediction model has high prediction accuracy.…”
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Weakened future surface warming in China due to national planned afforestation through biophysical feedback by Shuaifeng Song, Xiaodong Yan, Xuezhen Zhang, Zhibo Gao, Wenqiang Xie

“…The additional cooling effect offsets about 3.69% of the projected LST increase due to global warming and even overcompensates the LST increase in southwestern China. …”
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Metabolomic Evaluation of Chronic Periodontal Disease in Older Adults by Wellington F. Rodrigues, Camila B. Miguel, Ferdinando Agostinho, Gabriela V. da Silva, Javier E. Lazo-Chica, Sandra M. Naressi Scapin, Marcelo H. Napimoga, Carlos A. Trindade-da-Silva, José E. Krieger, Alexandre da Costa Pereira, Carlo J. Freire Oliveira, Siomar de Castro Soares, Carlos Ueira-Vieira

“…Of these, 15 metabolites showed a variable importance with projection score>1 and were associated with periodontal disease. …”
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Solu: a cloud platform for real-time genomic pathogen surveillance by Timo Saratto, Kerkko Visuri, Jonatan Lehtinen, Irene Ortega-Sanz, Jacob L. Steenwyk, Samuel Sihvonen

“…Additionally, academic projects often do not meet the privacy requirements of healthcare providers. …”
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Frictional Characteristics of Granite Fault under Imposed Dynamic Normal Disturbance Loads by Guojian Cui, Chuanqing Zhang, Qiming Xie

“…Fault activation induced by dynamic normal disturbance loads resulting from activities such as blasting, excavation, and earthquakes has the potential to trigger significant geological disasters, such as rock bursts, posing a threat to the stability and safety of rock engineering projects. In this study, we report on laboratory experiments to investigate the response of simulated faults. …”
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L’intégration d’étrangers dans la santería et le culte d’Ifá à La Havane by Emma Gobin

“…In particular, the paper argues that the bonds Cuban priests establish with foreigners—through ritual kinship or through increasingly numerous ceremonial collaborations with initiates from abroad—constitute an additional component in the micro-conflicts that ordinarily pervade religious practice and can, on a larger scale, have an influence on the power relations that create oppositions between different ‘elite’ groups (some of them deeply committed to projects of ritual ‘reform’). While adopting a predominantly micro-political interpretation, the paper also considers the ritual implications of these dynamics.…”
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Reconfiguración del estado colombiano: el difícil balance entre consenso y coerción by Daniel James Hawkins

“…Estas interacciones ofrecen una ilustración ejemplar de la reconfiguración a múltiples escalas de la política en la economía del mundo actual.This article analyzes the transformation of the Colombian national State under the government of Álvaro Uribe, focusing on Plan Colombia and the State projects that flow from it, in order to reflect on the militarization of state and the social repression associated with both. …”
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An Improved EMD-Based Dissimilarity Metric for Unsupervised Linear Subspace Learning by Xiangchun Yu, Zhezhou Yu, Wei Pang, Minghao Li, Lei Wu

“…Thirdly, considering the limitations of the original Locality Preserving Projections (LPP), we proposed the Block Structure LPP (BSLPP), which effectively preserves the structural information of face images. …”
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The EU Nitrates Directive: A European Approach to Combat Water Pollution from Agriculture by Gert J. Monteny

“…Action programmes are valuable tools to enforce measures that lead to a reduction of the water pollution by agricultural activities. Regional projects show that significant improvements can be achieved (e.g., reduced fertiliser inputs) while maintaining crop yields and thus maintaining the economic potential of agriculture.…”
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Trends in the disease burden of cystic echinococcosis in China, 1990–2044 analysis and forecasting study by Jianping Li, Jingjing Wei

“…The overall disease burden of cystic echinococcosis is projected to increase gradually between 2020 and 2044, with men exhibiting higher incidence, prevalence, and DALY rates than women.…”
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Modality Specific Cerebro-Cerebellar Activations in Verbal Working Memory: An fMRI Study by Matthew P. Kirschen, S. H. Annabel Chen, John E. Desmond

“…Verbal working memory (VWM) engages frontal and temporal/parietal circuits subserving the phonological loop, as well as, superior and inferior cerebellar regions which have projections from these neocortical areas. Different cerebro-cerebellar circuits may be engaged for integrating aurally- and visually-presented information for VWM. …”
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Nondestructive Detection of Moisture Content in Palm Oil by Using Portable Vibrational Spectroscopy and Optimal Prediction Algorithms by Ernest Teye, Charles L. Y. Amuah, Tai-Sheng Yeh, Regina Nyorkeh

“…Several preprocessing methods such as standard normal variant (SNV), multiplicative scatter correction (MSC), Savitzky–Golay first derivative (SGD1), Savitzky–Golay second derivative (SGD2) together with partial least square (PLS) regression techniques, full PLS, interval PLS (iPLS), synergy interval PLS (SiPLS), genetic algorithm PLS (GAPLS), and successive projection algorithm PLS (SPA-PLS) were comparatively employed to construct an optimum quantitative prediction model for moisture content in crude palm oil. …”
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