Design and development of second-generation titanium oxide photocatalysts to better our environment—approaches in realizing the use of visible light by Masakazu Anpo, Masato Takeuchi

“…In outdoor field reactivity tests, these V or Cr ion-implanted titanium oxide photocatalysts showed four to three times higher photocatalytic reactivity for those photocatalytic reactions under solar beam irradiation, as compared with the original unimplanted titanium oxide photocatalyst. …”
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Quasi-biennial oscillation: laboratory experiments by Semin, Benoît, Pétrelis, François

“…We present the details of our experimental set-up, and we explain which improvements allowed us to obtain quantitative measurements during long times. We show experimentally the feedback of the mean flow on the waves, which is one of the key ingredient of the oscillation. …”
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Rate and Associated Factors of Suicidal Behavior among Adolescents in Bangladesh and Indonesia: Global School‐Based Student Health Survey Data Analysis by M. Marthoenis, S. M. Yasir Arafat

“…Factors that independently increased the likelihood of suicidal behavior include female gender, missed class, physical fight four times or more, experienced bullying, anxiety, loneliness, rarely eating fruit, current alcohol use, and sedentary behavior (p<0.05). …”
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The Effects of Vitamin D Supplement on Prevention of Recurrence of Preeclampsia in Pregnant Women with a History of Preeclampsia by Sanam Behjat Sasan, Farnaz Zandvakili, Nasrin Soufizadeh, Elaheh Baybordi

“…The risk of preeclampsia for the control group was 1.94 times higher than that for the intervention group (95% CI 1.02, 3.71). …”
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Problems and Risks of Digitalization in Higher Education by M. V. Pashkov, V. M. Pashkova

“…If these risks are not timely addressed, it may jeopardize the creative self-organization of educators and students, hinder the development of diverse and ethically responsible practices of technology use, and further make the higher education system unbalanced and more dependent on commercial technology companies. …”
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Emotional responses of college students to filtered fluorescent lighting in a classroom (v3) by Hon K. Yuen, Anna L. Wood, Jane E. Krentel, Robert A. Oster, Anthony D. Cunningham, Gavin R. Jenkins

“…During each phase, students rated 18 pairs of words from the Mehrabian and Russell pleasure, arousal, and dominance semantic differential scale at least four times to assess the emotional impact of the lighting conditions…”
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A Hardware Accelerator for the Inference of a Convolutional Neural network by Edwin González, Walter D. Villamizar Luna, Carlos Augusto Fajardo Ariza

“…The results show that the co-processing scheme operating at a conservative speed of 100 MHz can identify around 441 images per second, which is about 17% times faster than a 650 MHz - software implementation. …”
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A Review of “Access to Care” Issues in Aortic Stenosis Patients: A Negative Report Card by Adam M. Reisman, MD, Sammy Elmariah, MD, MPH

“…Although several strategies have been raised by experts within the field to help and improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with aortic valve disease, timely referral to a heart valve team specialist whenever aortic valve replacement is being considered likely remains the most pertinent intervention. …”
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Summer Watering Patterns of Mule Deer in the Great Basin Desert, USA: Implications of Differential Use by Individuals and the Sexes for Management of Water Resources by Andrew V. Shields, Randy T. Larsen, Jericho C. Whiting

“…We deployed remote cameras at all known water sources (13 wildlife water developments and 4 springs) on one mountain range in western Utah, USA, during summer from 2007 to 2011 to document frequency and timing of water use, number of water sources used by males and females, and to estimate population size from individually identified mule deer. …”
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Baseband Transceiver Design of a High Definition Radio FM System Using Joint Theoretical Analysis and FPGA Implementation by Chien-Sheng Chen, Chyuan-Der Lu, Ho-Nien Shou, Le-Wei Lin

“…Content includes data format allocation, constellation mapping, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation of the transmitter, timing synchronization, OFDM demodulation, integer and fraction carrier frequency (integer carrier frequency offset (ICFO) and fractional CFO (FCFO)) estimation, and channel estimation of the receiver. …”
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Entrepreneurship education: Exploring the missing piece in Ethiopian primary and secondary education pogrammes by Adane Tessera Biru, Reda Darge Negassi

“…To employ these unemployed persons is a big challenge for authorities. In hard times when educated persons can’t get jobs, it becomes a challenge for states. …”
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The inclusion of downy mildews in a multi-locus-dataset and its reanalysis reveals a high degree of paraphyly in Phytophthora by F. Runge, S. Telle, S. Ploch, E. Savory, B. Day, R. Sharma, M. Thines

“…Our results demonstrate that Phytophthora is at least six times paraphyletic with respect to the downy mildews. …”
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CO2 adsorption on microporous metal–organic frameworks unravelled by high-resolution X-ray computed tomography by Diponker Karmoker, Jorge Martinez-Garcia, Damian Gwerder, Benjamin Fumey, Andreas Borgschulte, Philipp Schuetz

“…Additionally, the permeability near the particle surface is found to be 6.39 times higher than inside the particle. Potential CO2 location sites at the particle surfaces were also identified and visualized. …”
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Internationalization of Higher Education in China: Modern Trends by S. S. Donetskaya, Yan Zhan

“…The number of foreign students increased in 2016 compared to 2000 by 8.4 times, reaching almost 450 thousand people. The possibilities for foreign students to choose profession and university have expanded. …”
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Sustainability in higher education: Comparison of the Asia-Pacific region and Serbia by Đukić Gordana, Ilić Biljana

“…The fact that a billion times smaller enemy (virus) can put all the achievements of the previous civilization to the test testifies to how powerless man is before nature. …”
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Kinetics Study of Oxidative Desulfurization of Real Diesel Fuel Over Uncoated and Coated Nano-catalysts in an Oscillatory Helical Baffled Reactor by Amer Nawaf, Basma Abdul Majeed

“…The experimental work of the oxidative desulfurization process was utilized in an oscillatory helical baffled reactor under moderate conditions: residence times 3-9 min, oxidation temperatures 50-80 ℃, amplitude of oscillation 2-8 mm, and frequency of oscillation 0.5-2 min with 0.4 g of nano-catalyst with constant pressure. …”
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Analysis of global experience in creating digital platforms and related risks by T. B. Timofeeva, E. A. Ozdoeva

“…The analysis allows us to conclude that the most dangerous types of digital risk are associated with problems of data security and confidentiality.Timely identification and qualitative risk analysis of digital platforms will ensure the stability of their operation and ensure the successful implementation of the digital transformation of the Russian economy.…”
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A Pharmacotherapy and ECT resistant OCD patient&#146;s Cognitive Behavioral Therapy by Tacettin KURU, M. Hakan T&Uuml;RK&Ccedil;APAR

“…In the first 6 months of entering to clinic pharmacotherapy and 3 times a week in 20 ECT session was completed but he didn&#146;t answer to these treatments. …”
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Effects of Fungi-Mediated Solid-State Fermentation on Phenolic Contents and Antioxidant Activity of Brown and White Teff (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter) Grains by Yoseph Asmelash Gebru, Desta Berhe Sbhatu

“…Different food processing methods including fermentation have been applied since ancient times to aid bioaccessibility and improve the properties of food products. …”
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Clinical utility of combined contrast-enhanced ultrasound and intracavitary contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the percutaneous treatment of pyogenic liver abscess by Giampiero Francica

“…Throughout the follow-up period, CEUS and IC-CEUS facilitated monitoring of PLA evolution, providing crucial information, especially with IC-CEUS, on the optimal timing of catheter removal. No adverse events occurred after CEUS and IC-CEUS. …”
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