Optimum Synthesis of Pencil Beams with Constrained Dynamic Range Ratio by Marko Matijascic, Maja Jurisic Bellotti, Mladen Vucic, Goran Molnar

“…By incorporating these problems into a branch and bound algorithm, the procedures for global optimizations are formed which systematically search the space of all coefficient signs. The method for minimization of sidelobe power is further analyzed in the context of beam efficiency. …”
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Dynamic Schedule-Based Assignment Model for Urban Rail Transit Network with Capacity Constraints by Baoming Han, Weiteng Zhou, Dewei Li, Haodong Yin

“…As splitting the origin-destination demands into the developed schedule expanded network with time-space paths, the model transformed into a dynamic schedule-based assignment model. …”
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Engagement of Facilities Management in Design Stage through BIM: Framework and a Case Study by Ying Wang, Xiangyu Wang, Jun Wang, Ping Yung, Guo Jun

“…Based on the framework, the paper explores how BIM will beneficially support FM in the design phase, such as space planning and energy analysis. A case study of using BIM to design facility managers’ travelling path in the maintenance process is presented. …”
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Stratification of the Low-Latitude and Near-Equatorial F2 Layer, Topside Ionization Ledge, and F3 Layer: What We Know about This? A Review by M. V. Klimenko, B. Zhao, A. T. Karpachev, V. V. Klimenko

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The impact of digitalization on forming modern youth political leadership by O. A. Sudorgin, A. V. Agafonov

“…The authors consider how the use of digital means of communication, social networks, and digital ecosystems contributes to the activation of youth participation in political life, accelerates the process of forming youth political leaders, providing their “promotion” in the online space and supporters mobilization. Challenges and threats of digitalization faced by youth and young political leaders have been considered. …”
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Fault-Tolerant Guidance of Rocket Vertical Landing Phase Based on MPC Framework by Jingqi Li, Yaosong Long, Mao Su, Lei Liu, Bo Wang, Zhongtao Cheng

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A Hybrid Fuzzy Genetic Algorithm for an Adaptive Traffic Signal System by S. M. Odeh, A. M. Mora, M. N. Moreno, J. J. Merelo

“…They are, essentially, rule-based systems, in which the definition of these rules and fuzzy membership functions is generally based on verbally formulated rules that overlap through the parameter space. They have a great influence over the performance of the system. …”
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Conservative Nonsurgical Approach for Management of a Case of Type II Dens in Dente by Navin S. Agarwal, Shishir Singh, Padmini Chandrasekhar, Gaurav Kulkarni, Rajesh Podar

“…Biodentine was used to obturate the entire canal space. Subsequent follow-up radiographs till 24 months showed significant periapical healing and resorption of extruded calcium hydroxide.…”
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General encoding of canonical k-mers by Wittler, Roland

“…The approach is introduced for canonicalization under reversal and extended to canonicalization under reverse complementation. We further present a space and time efficient bit-based implementation for the DNA alphabet. …”
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Treatment of a Prolonged Air Leak with Radiotherapy: A Case Report by Erdoğan Çetinkaya, M. Akif Özgül, Şule Gül, Ertan Çam, Yakup Büyükpolat

“…Pneumothorax is defined as air in the pleural space. Depending on the severity of the pneumothorax, treatment consists of oxygen therapy, simple aspiration, tube thoracostomy, and pleurodesis. …”
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Kobus Schoeman: A “bridge-builder” practical theologian, bridging divides in the publics of the church, the academy, and society by D.N. Andrew

“…These endeavours show the many ways in which Schoeman can be described as a “bridge-builder” who refused to be irrelevant and impractical in his theological journey and who demonstrates how the local congregation can become a safe space for reflexive praxis, an “ecclesiology from below” in the truest sense. …”
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Optimizing Red Blood Cell Consumption Using Markov's Decision-Making Process (Case study: Blood Bank of Zanjan Province Blood Transfusion Center) by Mahdi Yousefi Nejad, Mehran Khayat Rasouli, Zohreh Khalilpour

“…According to the novelty of this approach and the lack of familiarity with its difficulties, a scaling is applied in order to reduce the size of problem space, which can lower the accuracy of the solution. …”
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An Unconditionally Stable Positivity-Preserving Scheme for the One-Dimensional Fisher–Kolmogorov–Petrovsky–Piskunov Equation by Sangkwon Kim, Chaeyoung Lee, Hyun Geun Lee, Hyundong Kim, Soobin Kwak, Youngjin Hwang, Seungyoon Kang, Seokjun Ham, Junseok Kim

“…In this study, we present an unconditionally stable positivity-preserving numerical method for the Fisher–Kolmogorov–Petrovsky–Piskunov (Fisher–KPP) equation in the one-dimensional space. The Fisher–KPP equation is a reaction-diffusion system that can be used to model population growth and wave propagation. …”
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MIRACLES AND THE PERFECTION OF BEING: THE THEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS by Alexis V. Halapsis

“…Methodology is underpinned with the idea that every cultural-historical community envisions the reality principles according to the beliefs inherent to it which accounts for the formation of the unique “universes of meanings”. The space of history acquires the Non-Euclidean properties that determine the specific cultural attitudes as well as part and parcel mythology of the corresponding communities. …”
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A Model Reduction Method for Parallel Software Testing by Tao Sun, Xinming Ye

“…If the place and the transition are in a parallel structure, then many execution sequences will be removed from the state space. We have proved the equivalence and have analyzed the reduction effort, so that we could get the same testing result with much lower testing workload. …”
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Vascular Wall-Resident Multipotent Stem Cells of Mesenchymal Nature within the Process of Vascular Remodeling: Cellular Basis, Clinical Relevance, and Implications for Stem Cell Th... by Diana Klein

“…Until some years ago, the bone marrow and the endothelial cell compartment lining the vessel lumen (subendothelial space) were thought to be the only sources providing vascular progenitor cells. …”
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Les marqueurs de changement de topique du discours en roumain : évolution sémantique et rôle pragmatique by Alice Ionescu, Cecilia-Mihaela Popescu

“…This paper attempts to describe how adverbs and adverbial expressions of manner and space came to function as discourse markers of topic shifting in contemporary Romanian and to sketch a possible typology of these markers. …”
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Parking, travel behavior, and working from home by Hao Ding, Michael Manville

“…Drawing on the California Household Travel Survey, we first show that most households have residential parking included in the rent or purchase price of their home, that most employed individuals have free parking at work, and most vehicle trips end with a free parking space, usually off-street. Furthermore, we confirm that most cars are mostly parked; the median household vehicle in California spends 23 hours a day parked. …”
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Polarization of homogeneous groups of territorial entities by S. Sh. Aslaeva

“…The object of the study is the economic space of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The subject of the research is the essence of polarity, polarization and leveling in the socio-economic development of territorial entities. …”
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Pyogenic granuloma causing midline diastema: A rare case report by Anjan Jana, Santanu Mukhopadhyay, Abu Faijal Karim

“…This case report describes the presentation and management of a 12-year-old female patient with a tissue mass and spacing between her upper front teeth. Clinical examination revealed a reddish pink, lobulated tissue mass measuring approximately 1.5 cm × 2 cm, extending from the upper labial frenum to the incisive papilla and involving the interdental gingiva of the two central incisors. …”
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