Comparative Cognitive Science and Convergent Evolution: Humans and Elephants by Ross Don

“…In thus under-emphasizing convergent evolution, this skew systematically misidentifies several crucial explanatory targets, particularly where cultural evolution is concerned. …”
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Long Memory and Fractality in the Universe of Volatility Indices by Bikramaditya Ghosh, Elie Bouri

“…The long memory of the SKEW index is strong before the onset of three crisis periods, but eases afterwards. …”
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Doppler auxiliary time synchronization algorithm for underwater acoustic sensor network by Xiao-ning FENG, Zhuo WANG, Xiao-long ZHU, Wen ZHANG

“…Time synchronization problem in underwater acoustic sensor networks (UWSN) was studied.Due to the propagation of acoustic signals in underwater environment and nodes movement bring some problems to time synchronization.A distributed time synchronization algorithm was proposed based on Doppler method,called NU-Sync.NU-Sync solved the problem of uncertainty propagation delay caused by nodes movement through calculating relative velocity.And autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) was used as beacon node which can save energy consumption in the process of calculation clock skew.Simulation resulted show NU-Sync achieves high level time synchronization precision.…”
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The complete mitochondrial genomes of five critical phytopathogenic Bipolaris species: features, evolution, and phylogeny by Xinzheng Song, Yuehua Geng, Chao Xu, Jiaxin Li, Yashuang Guo, Yan Shi, Qingzhou Ma, Qiang Li, Meng Zhang

“…The mitogenomes of the five Bipolaris species mainly comprised the same set of 13 core protein-coding genes (PCGs), two rRNAs, and a certain number of tRNAs and unidentified open reading frames (ORFs). The PCG length, AT skew and GC skew showed large variability among the 13 PCGs in the five mitogenomes. …”
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Phylogenetic and Comparative Genomics Study of <i>Cephalopina titillator</i> Based on Mitochondrial Genomes by Huaibing Yao, Wanpeng Ma, Zhanqiang Su, Yuanyuan Yan, Yang Li, Weidong Cui, Jie Yang, Faqiang Zhan, Min Hou

“…The mitogenome showed a high A + T content (73.31%), positive AT-skew (0.12), and negative GC-skew (−0.34) base composition patterns. …”
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Generalised Dirac-Schrödinger operators and the Callias Theorem by Koen van den Dungen

“…We consider generalised Dirac-Schrödinger operators, consisting of a self-adjoint elliptic first-order differential operator $\mathcal {D}$ with a skew-adjoint ‘potential’ given by a (suitable) family of unbounded operators. …”
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Comparison of confidence interval construction methods for discrete biological data by Alesia Kanopaitė, Eduardas Mickevičius, Marijus Radavičius

“…The dist­ributions take only a few nonzero values with relatively large proportion of zeros, are very skewed and have irregular tails. In this case the normal approximation, the student c.i. is based on, of the distribution of the sample mean is not sufficiently accurate for small samples. …”
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Primary Atopic Disorders: Expanding Field of Inborn Errors of Immunity by Güzin Özçifci, Sena Nur Arbağ, Yasemin Kendir-Demirkol, Joshua D Milner

“…Liable genetic alterations lead to signaling pathways and cellular functioning changes, which skew to type-2 immune responses. Elucidation of these pathways and identifying these disorders have the utmost importance, since early identification of some of these disorders significantly changes the prognosis and targeted treatments offer improved outcomes. …”
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Detecting Spatial Clusters via a Mixture of Dirichlet Processes by Meredith A. Ray, Jian Kang, Hongmei Zhang

“…We proposed an approach that has the ability to detect spatial clusters with skewed or irregular distributions. A mixture of Dirichlet processes (DP) was used to describe spatial distribution patterns. …”
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Doubts on Kissinger´s method of kinetic evaluation based on several conceptual models showing the difference between the maximum of reaction rate and the extreme of a DTA peak by Šesták J., Holba P., Živković Ž.

“…The absence of this term skews the evaluated values of activation energies.…”
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Sociology of the COVID-19 Lockdown: Critical Analysis of Its Effects on Private School Teacher Wellbeing by Denis, Sekiwu, Johnson, Ocan

“…In education, research focus is skewed towards how school closure affected the psychological disposition of learners, ignoring debate on COVID-19 effects on teachers’ social and economic wellbeing. …”
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IL-33 Mediates Lung Inflammation by the IL-6-Type Cytokine Oncostatin M by Fernando Botelho, Anisha Dubey, Ehab A. Ayaub, Rex Park, Ashley Yip, Allison Humbles, Roland Kolbeck, Carl D. Richards

“…The IL-6-type cytokine Oncostatin M (OSM) elevates lung inflammation, Th2-skewed cytokines, alternatively activated (M2) macrophages, and eosinophils in C57Bl/6 mice in vivo. …”
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Extended Kalman Filter-Based Approach for Autonomous Synchronization and Ranging in GPS-Denied Environments by Xiaobo Gu, Weiqiang Tan, Di Zhang, Yudong Lu, Ruidian Zhan

“…An estimator based on the Extended Kalman filter (EKF) is derived, according to which, the clock skew, clock offset, and ranging information can be jointly estimated. …”
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The Mushroom Agaricus blazei Murill Elicits Medicinal Effects on Tumor, Infection, Allergy, and Inflammation through Its Modulation of Innate Immunity and Amelioration of Th1/Th2 I... by Geir Hetland, Egil Johnson, Torstein Lyberg, Gunnar Kvalheim

“…These effects are mediated through the mushroom's stimulation of innate immune cells, such as monocytes, NK cells, and dendritic cells, and the amelioration of a skewed Th1/Th2 balance and inflammation.…”
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Leadership Perceptions, Educational Struggles and Barriers, and Effective Modalities for Teaching Vertigo and the HINTS Exam: A National Survey of Emergency Medicine Residency Prog... by Mary McLean, Justin Stowens, Ryan Barnicle, Negar Mafi, Kaushal Shah

“…Introduction: The utility of the three-part bedside oculomotor exam HINTS (head impulse test, nystagmus, test of skew) in the hands of emergency physicians remains under debate despite being supported by the most recent literature. …”
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Gyrodactylus pseudorasborae (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea) with a phylogeny of Gyrodactylidae parasites by Xinyi Zeng, Ye Li, Yang Liu, Yaoying Chen, Yajing Liu, Mengwei Song, Tao Chen

“…The mitogenome of G. pseudorasborae presents a clear bias in nucleotide composition with a negative AT skew and a positive GC skew except for NCR. All tRNAs have the typical cloverleaf secondary structure except for tRNA Cys , tRNA Ser1 , and tRNA Ser2 , which lack the dihydrouridine (DHU) arm. …”
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Consumer Labels can Convey Polyphenolic Content: Implications for Public Health by Andrew L. Waterhouse

“…Equivalency scales may be useful but may skew content of many foods towards the high-equivalency substances, even while the full beneficial effects of each individual substance is poorly described.…”
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Contribution of geotagged Twitter data in the study of a social group’s activity space by Alexandre Cebeillac, Yves-Marie Rault

“…We argue that the varying motivation to post on social media tend to skew the representativeness of social groups sampled on a spatial criterion. …”
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Multi-level feedback based time synchronization algorithm for wireless sensor networks by HUANGFU Wei1, ZHOU Xin-yun1, CHEN Can-feng3

“…Aiming at the fast and efficient time synchronization protocol for the wireless sensor networks under resource constraints, a novel feedback-based full-scale time synchronization（FTS） algorithm was proposed.The basic idea of FTS is to execute iteratively time synchronization downlink operations on all the nodes of the wireless sensor network and collect the two-way path delay information from only a part of nodes to calculate the average delay adjustment per hop.The stochastically feedback scheme is adopted to reduce the uplink packets.The FTS algorithm also consists of the mechanisms of synchronization error monitoring and clock skew correction.The FTS was implemented on the popular TelosB sensor nodes from UC Berkeley.The experiments show that FTS is a fast, resource-efficient algorithm with ra-tional synchronization precision.…”
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Between exacerbation and alleviation? by Tom O’Regan

“…The same widening gap between rich and poor, the uneven and often skewed benefits of globalisation, and political disruption all sit alongside and intersect with a changing communication environment. …”
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