Morbidity Cost and Willingness to Pay for Healthcare Insurance among Wheat Farmers in Jigawa State of Nigeria by Mohammed Sanusi Sadiq, Muhammad Ahmad, Emmanuel Gama, Abbas Sambo

“…Empirically, the majority of farmers utilised an accumulation strategy for livelihood sustenance, alongside enterprise diversification – which acted as a catalyst in increasing their stocks and consumption outcomes, thus smoothing their income and consumption. …”
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Formation of ZrO2 with unusual morphology and Zr surface patterning via one-step anodization of zirconium in aqueous electrolyte by Olena Tynkevych, Katarzyna Ryczek, Tomasz Kuciel, Leszek Zaraska

“…Finally, the procedure of Zr anodization was also found to be an effective strategy for the generation of nanosized patterns with precisely defined morphologies on the metal surface.…”
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Mechanism of Hydraulic Fracturing Cutting Hard Basic Roof to Prevent Rockburst by Jianqiao Luo, Shaohong Yan, Tuo Yang, Haoqi Mu, Wensheng Wei, Yupeng Shen, Hongtao Mu

“…Due to the rockburst occurrence mechanism and the quantitatively elastic strain energy analytical formula, a preconditioning water jet cutting induced fracture surface to create orientation-controllable hydraulic fracture strategy is proposed to guard against the high hazard caused by the massive elastic strain energy, which accumulated in the coal body in front of the working face and coal pillar.…”
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Stability Study of Distributed Drive Vehicles Based on Estimation of Road Adhesion Coefficient and Multi-Parameter Control by Peng Ji, Fengrui Han, Yifan Zhao

“…First, a seven-degree-of-freedom (7-DOF) vehicle dynamics model is established and optimized with a layered control strategy. The upper-level control module calculates the desired yaw rate and sideslip angle using the two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) vehicle model and estimates the road adhesion coefficient by using the singular-value optimized cubature Kalman filtering (CKF) algorithm; the middle-level utilizes the second-order sliding mode controller (SOSMC) as a direct yaw moment controller in order to track the desired yaw rate and sideslip angle while also employing a joint distribution algorithm to control the torque distribution based on vehicle stability parameters, thereby enhancing system robustness; and the lower-level controller performs optimal torque allocation based on the optimal tire loading rate as the objective. …”
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Optimal Connection of Offshore Wind Farm with Maximization of Wind Capacity to Power Systems considering Losses and Security Constraints by Leandro A. Vasconcelos, João A. Passos Filho, Leonardo W. de Oliveira, Othon F. Avila

“…The objective of this work is to present a methodology to determine the optimal OWF connection point in a power system, with maximum penetration of firm wind power and minimum loss, considering security constraints related to the “N−1” contingency criterion, exchange limits between areas, and a strategy to reduce the number of constraints in the optimization problem. …”
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Distributed Compressed Hyperspectral Sensing Imaging Incorporated Spectral Unmixing and Learning by Hua Xiao, Zhongliang Wang, Xueying Cui, Liping Wang, Hongsheng Yang, Yingbiao Jia

“…Extensive experimental results on five real hyperspectral datasets demonstrate that the proposed spectral library learning, abundance initialization, and reconstruction strategy can effectively improve the compressed sensing reconstruction accuracy, outperforming the existing state-of-the-art methods.…”
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Muslim-Consumers Behaviour in Willingness to Buy Halal Food in Japan by Inayah Swasti Ratih, Muhammad Dzulfaqori Jatnika, Alfadhila Khairil Sinatrya, Nur Syamsiyah

“…The implication is to improve the development strategy of halal food products industry in Japan and to improve understanding and knowledge of halal food products. …”
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La santé et la sécurité au travail des travailleurs immigrants à Montréal : résultats d’une enquête exploratoire by Sylvie Gravel, Laurence Boucheron, Michel Kane

“…Work is also their principal strategy for integration, and also one of the main reasons for emigrating. …”
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IALight: Importance-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Arterial Traffic Cooperative Control by Lu WEI, Xiaoyan ZHANG, Lijun FAN, Lei GAO, Jian YANG

“…To enhance practicality and safety for real-world applications, we adopt a green duration optimisation strategy under a cyclic fixed phase sequence. Comprehensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world traffic scenarios demonstrate that the proposed IALight outperforms the traditional and deep reinforcement learning baselines by more than 20.41% and 17.88% in average vehicle travel time, respectively.…”
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Novel solutions and stability of quaternion differential equations: symmetry and asymmetry analyses using matrix representation and Lyapunov methods by Prasantha Bharathi Dhandapani, Anthony Raj Abraham, Hijaz Ahmad, Taha Radwan

“…This result is likely due to the matrix representation strategy and the use of the Picard–Lindelöf theorem, which is an important consequence of traditional ordinary differential equations (ODE) formulations. …”
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Euroscepticism in Italy: Evolution of Northern League Political Program by O. N. Barabanov, M. O. Shibkova

“…However, while confronting the Northern League policy with that of National Front in France and UKIP in the United Kingdom, the authors come to the conclusion that Euroscepticism for the former is just a sign of the shift in priorities rather than a strategy as for the latter. This can be explained by the fact that National Front and UKIP are still to fight for the place in the national mainstream, while Northern League has become its integral part long before. …”
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«ST. PETERSBURG VODOKANAL» EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPING WASTEWATER DISPOSAL FACILITIES AS THE STEPS TOWARDS TRANSITION TO THE BEST AVAILABLE TECHNIQUES by Sergey N. Volkov, Olga N. Rublevskaya, Irina O. Tikhonova, Tatiana V. Guseva, Matti Iikkanen

“…The article formulates recommendations on improving BAT-related regulatory legal acts based on the results of the case study and notes the expediency for developing a national strategy in the field of using sewage sludge as a secondary resource.…”

A comprehensive review of the roles of T-cell immunity in preeclampsia by Xu Peng, Ibeh Chinwe Oluchi-Amaka, Joanne Kwak-Kim, Joanne Kwak-Kim, Xiuhua Yang

“…Promoting alloantigen-specific Treg cells is a potential preventive and therapeutic strategy for PE. However, ensuring the safety of mothers and infants is of the utmost importance since the risk-benefit ratio of reproductive and obstetric conditions differs significantly from that of immune diseases that pose a life-threatening risk. …”
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Scale-free topology optimization for software-defined wireless sensor networks: A cyber-physical system by Ru Huang, Xiaoli Chu, Jie Zhang, Yu Hen Hu

“…The multiple-factor-driven virtual force field and network division–oriented particle swarm algorithm are introduced into the deployment strategy of super-node for the implementation in wireless sensor networks topology initialization, which help to rationally allocate heterogeneous network resources and balance the energy consumption in wireless sensor networks. …”
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Optimizing Lightweight Material Selection in Automotive Engineering: A Hybrid Methodology Incorporating Ashby’s Method and VIKOR Analysis by Edoardo Risaliti, Francesco Del Pero, Gabriele Arcidiacono, Paolo Citti

“…In this context, lightweighting is a very effective design strategy for which materials selection plays a key role. …”
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Design and Control of an Upper Limb Bionic Exoskeleton Rehabilitation Device Based on Tensegrity Structure by Peng Ni, Jianwei Sun, Jialin Dong

“…The experimental results show that the exoskeleton rehabilitation device has good flexion motion stability and assist ability and has significant advantages in volume and mobility. The control strategy proposed in this paper has high control precision and adaptive ability and has potential application value in the field of medical rehabilitation.…”
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Accurate assembly of full-length consensus for viral quasispecies by Jia Tian, Ziyu Gao, Minghao Li, Ergude Bao, Jin Zhao

“…Results In this paper, we developed FC-Virus, a de novo genome assembly strategy specifically targeting highly diverse viral populations. …”
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Russian Civilizational Identity as the Basis of Value Integrity and State Policy by Maria M. Mchedlova

“…Flowing into the political and instrumental field, this provision becomes the basis of the state policy for the preservation and strengthening of traditional Russian spiritual and moral values Under the pressure of the linear modernization dichotomy traditional/ modern, there is unconditional support for the chosen state strategy for the preservation and promotion of traditional spiritual and moral values, which indicates the unifying and deep nature of the traditional reservoir of values as a semantic core the Russian civilization. …”
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Connecting electronic health records to a biomedical knowledge graph to link clinical phenotypes and molecular endotypes in atopic dermatitis by Francesca Frau, Paul Loustalot, Margaux Törnqvist, Nina Temam, Jean Cupe, Martin Montmerle, Franck Augé

“…Since biomedical knowledge graphs (BKGs) are limited to the integration of prior knowledge data and do not integrate real-world data (RWD) that would allow for the incorporation of patient level information, we propose a first step towards using RWD, BKGs and graph machine learning (ML) to enable a fully integrated precision medicine strategy. In this study, we established a link between RWD and a BKG. …”
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The Effectiveness of Group Training Based on Cognitive Load Theory on Understanding the Concepts of Science and Academic Enthusiasm in Elementary Male Students by Mehdi Starami, Siavash Talepasand

“…The findings indicated that the cognitive load theory-based group instruction strategy was effective in improving science concept understanding (p < 0.01) and academic motivation (p < 0.05, t = 3.01). …”
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