Dangerous Liaisons? by Norman L Jones

“…A case in point was a few days last month during which I attended a well-sponsored meeting of the Ontario Lung Association, reviewed a couple of papers reporting drug trials, read of the threats of litigation made by pharmaceutical companies to two Ontario researchers, heard of a public apology made by the New England Journal of Medicine regarding reviewers' conflicts of interest and received a critical letter from Dr Rob McFadden, an associate editor of the Canadian Respiratory Journal, about a sponsored publication that accompanied the last issue of 1999. …”
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Detecting and Preventing Sybil Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Message Authentication and Passing Method by Udaya Suriya Raj Kumar Dhamodharan, Rajamani Vayanaperumal

“…Highly critical attacks of various kinds have been documented in wireless sensor network till now by many researchers. The Sybil attack is a massive destructive attack against the sensor network where numerous genuine identities with forged identities are used for getting an illegal entry into a network. …”
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A Survey of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes—Part II: Control Methods by Daisuke Takahashi, Yang Xiao, Fei Hu

“…Along with several mathematical models, researchers develop autonomous systems whether they involve medical devices or not to compensate metabolic disorders and these autonomous systems employ their own control methods. …”
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Generating a Spatiotemporal Dynamic Map for Traffic Analysis Using Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram by Yudi Li, Lei Zhu, Jian Sun, Ye Tian

“…Transportation simulation and analysis projects that utilize maps with inappropriate fidelity levels carry a significant risk of having poor runtime or poor prediction performance. To address this, researchers use map abstraction method to abstract out a simplified map with fewer links and nodes based on the original full detailed map. …”
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دور المجاورین فى بنیة مکتبات مکة المکرمة خلال العصر الایوبى:دراسة تاریخیة by د. منصور سعید محمد

“…The conclusion includes the findings reached andthe recommendations made by the researcher. Among the most importantof these findings is that the number of Al-Mujawirin in Mecca during theAyyubid Period was 158, 30 of them (about 19%) had a role in theconstruction of Mecca's libraries during the Ayyubid Period. …”
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A cell structure implementation of the multigrid method for the two-dimensional diffusion equation by Yongho Choi, Youngjin Hwang, Soobin Kwak, Seokjun Ham, Jyoti, Hyundong Kim, Junseok Kim

“…This work provides an accessible and efficient framework for understanding and applying the multigrid method, thereby simplifying its implementation for researchers and practitioners.…”
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Performance analysis of insertion loss incorporated hybrid precoding for massive MIMO by Tadele A. Abose, Thomas O. Olwal, Muna M. Mohammed, Murad R. Hassen

“…Due to an increase in the number of users and a high demand for high data rates, researchers have resorted to boosting the capacity and spectral efficiency of the next-generation wireless communication. …”
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A learning‐based approach to regression analysis for climate data–A case of Northeast China by Jiaxu Guo, Yidan Xu, Liang Hu, Xianwei Wu, Gaochao Xu, Xilong Che

“…We also analyze the precipitation trends in Northeast China under the three Shared Socio‐economic Pathways (SSPs). This will help researchers to analyze the long‐term evolution and factors of climate.…”
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Enhancing undrained shear strength prediction: a robust hybrid machine learning approach with naïve Bayes modeling by Chen Fang, Ying Li, Yang Shi

“…The results, therefore, provide geotechnical engineers and researchers with considerable benefits. They give a sound basis that is data-driven for the assessment of USS in soft sensitive clays and advance the safety and stability of civil engineering projects.…”
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Functions and Authorities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Crime Scene by Y. V. Grinenko

“…The functions and powers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the field of combating crime are researched. The expediency and necessity of studying the functions and powers as structural elements of the administrative and legal status of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is emphasized, which is especially relevant in connection with the reform of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and bringing their service activities to NATO standards. …”
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Clearing the forest, adding social struggles: territorialities and alternatives in the Argentinian environmental disaster by Joaquin Ulises Deon

“…Resistance against the above process in the Gran Chaco and Espinal ecoregions is researched as a case of emancipatory social action. …”
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Toward sustainable desalination: a patent analysis of technology-development trajectories by Kyungsun Lee, Wendy Jepson

“…Research and development (R&D) in desalination has enabled innovations and expanded global water-supply capacity to enhance water security. …”
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Strain Measuring of Composite Grid Using Digital Image Correlation by Chhoung Lim, Yeongseok Jeong, Suchart Limkantanyu, Minho Kwon

“…It has been used by numerous researchers since it can measure the deformation of specimens without interference because it is contactless. …”
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SDFMUCR: Software-defined and fuzzy-based multi-hop unequal cluster routing by Lu Sixu, Wu Muqing, Zhao Min

“…Recently, wireless sensor networks play an important role in our life. Researchers give more and more attention to the design of the routing algorithm. …”
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Evaluating Affective User-Centered Design of Video Games Using Qualitative Methods by Yiing Y’ng Ng, Chee Weng Khong, Robert Jeyakumar Nathan

“…In recent years, researchers and practitioners in the human-computer interaction (HCI) community have placed a lot of focus in developing methods and processes for use in the gaming field. …”
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Application of Gene Expression Programming and Support Vector Regression models to Modeling and Prediction Monthly precipitation by Abazar Solgi, Heidar Zarei

“…The appropriate performance of intelligent models leads researchers to use them for predicting hydrological phenomena more and more. …”
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An Efficient Feature Subset Selection Algorithm for Classification of Multidimensional Dataset by Senthilkumar Devaraj, S. Paulraj

“…Multidimensional medical data classification has recently received increased attention by researchers working on machine learning and data mining. …”
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Less Is More in Digital Games Too: A Comparative Analysis of Visual Elements of Physical and Digital Versions for Two Tabletop Games by Darijo Čerepinko, Robert Štefanović, Krunoslav Hajdek, Petar Miljković

“…The changing habits of consuming entertainment via digital channels have been well researched in contemporary academic papers, as has the migration of different forms and formats into digital environments. …”
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Bifurcation of a Fractional-Order Delayed Malware Propagation Model in Social Networks by Changjin Xu, Maoxin Liao, Peiluan Li

“…In the past few decades, numerous researchers put up various kinds of malware propagation models to analyze the dynamic interaction. …”
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A Survival Analysis on Fuel Cell Technology Patent Maintenance and Values Exploration between 1976 and 2001 by Seng-Su Tsang, Feng-Chen Chang, Wen-Cheng Wang

“…Fuel cell R&D activities desirably arrive in patents; the costly maintenance fee challenges managers as well as researchers to whether or not renew existing patents. …”
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