Hayekian Hurdles: Challenges to Cryptocurrency as a Viable Basis for a New Monetary Order by Luís Pedro Freitas, Jorge Cerdeira, Diogo Lourenço

“…This paper explores why cryptocurrencies have not met the expectations of their proponents, particularly those who saw them as a step towards Friedrich Hayek’s vision for competitive currency issuance. …”
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A structured framework for pediatric endocrine resident rotations: a single center experience by Rachel Zipursky, Alaina P. Vidmar, Clement C. Cheung

“…In an era where overall popularity of pediatric endocrinology is dwindling, but need for specialized expertise is growing, this is a step towards increased resident exposure to the subspeciality.…”
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Rhetoric by Avistotel: a Legal View by K. Kh. Rekosh

“…As far as the evolution of law is concerned, instead of legal technique there was rhetoric (especially in its methodological form, defined by Aristotle), which can be considered as a step towards creating the law as a design in ancient Greece. …”
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A Role for the Cytoskeleton in Heart Looping by Kersti K. Linask, Michael VanAuker

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RNA diagnostics and therapeutics: a comprehensive review by Adeela Fathima Saju, Aditi Mukundan, Divyashree MS, Raghu Chandrashekhar, Archana Mahadev Rao

“…RNA-focused therapy and diagnostics have been making waves in molecular biology due to the advantages RNA has over DNA; for instance, the ability of RNA to target nearly any genetic component in the cell is a big step in treating disorders. Moreover, RNA-based diagnosis of diseases is only becoming increasingly popular, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought up the need for cost-effective and efficient diagnosing kits for the vast majority. …”
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A Technique Socratic Questioning-Guided Discovery by M. Hakan Türkçapar, A. Emre Sargýn

“…In this method it is aimed to make the client notice the piece of knowledge which he could notice but is not aware with a series of questions. Socratic method or guided discovery consists of several steps which are: Identifying the problem by listening to the client and making reflections, finding alternatives by examining and evaluating, reidentification by using the newly found information and questioning the old distorted belief and reaching to a conclusion and applying it. …”
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A Technique Socratic Questioning-Guided Discovery by M. Hakan Türkçapar, A. Emre Sargın

“…In this method it is aimed to make the client notice the piece of knowledge which he could notice but is not aware with a series of questions. Socratic method or guided discovery consists of several steps which are: Identifying the problem by listening to the client and making reflections, finding alternatives by examining and evaluating, reidentification by using the newly found information and questioning the old distorted belief and reaching to a conclusion and applying it. …”
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A multiscale model for multivariate time series forecasting by Vahid Naghashi, Mounir Boukadoum, Abdoulaye Banire Diallo

“…In our framework, we further design a multi-step linear decoder to generate the final predictions for the purpose of reducing over-fitting and noise effects. …”
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Mucormycosis Associated with Global Coronavirus Disease-19 Pandemic: A Study of Fungal Profile from a Tertiary Health-care Center by Snigdha Purohit, Kavita Mourya, Nazneen Pathan, Sunita Agarwal, Vithika Vyas, Aruna Vyas

“…Seventy-four percent of patients presented with a history of diabetes mellitus, 50% had a history of steroids taken in their past, and 48% had a history of oxygen therapy taken at the time of COVID-19 positivity (52%) samples positive for mucormycosis. …”
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A Long Journey of Historical Research and Scientific Publication by Purnawan Basundoro

“…This paper describes the steps of historical research as well as the possibility of publishing the results in international journals. …”
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Tips on Establishing a Robotics Program in an Academic Setting by William D. Steers

“…Over the past 5 years, robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery has gone from being a novelty to an accepted approach for intra-abdominal and pelvic surgery. …”
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Intelligent Object Manipulation for a Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arm by R. A. M. Abayasiri, A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, R. A. R. C. Gopura, Kazuo Kiguchi

“…This development represents a significant step forward in creating user-friendly and adaptive assistive technologies for wheelchair users.…”
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The European summer heatwave of 2019 – a regional storyline perspective by T. Klimiuk, P. Ludwig, A. Sanchez-Benitez, H. F. Goessling, P. Braesicke, P. Braesicke, J. G. Pinto

“…Secondly, the global storylines were dynamically downscaled using the regional ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic model in Climate Limited-area Mode (ICON-CLM) to a EURO-CORDEX domain with a horizontal resolution of 12 km, and, thirdly, they were downscaled to a central European (German) domain with a resolution of 3 km. …”
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Milestones in Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering History: A Comparative Review by Isabel M. del Águila, José Palma, Samuel Túnez

“…We present a review of the historical evolution of software engineering, intertwining it with the history of knowledge engineering because “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” …”
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Is it Time to Recognize Political Anxiety as a Social Determinant of Health? by Brandon Ambrosino

“…Simply suggesting the patient be mindful about their political content could be a good first step.     People experience anxiety for a variety of reasons. …”
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Genome editing using CRISPR/ Cas9 system: a practical guide by A. G. Menzorov, V. A. Lukyanchikova, A. N. Korablev, I. A. Serova, V. S. Fishman

“…Over the past few years, the CRISPR/Cas techniques have become a revolution in genome editing. …”
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A Fast Imaging Technique Applied to 2D Electrical Resistivity Data by Raffaele Martorana, Patrizia Capizzi

“…An implementation of this technique is proposed here, considering a two-step approach. Initially a damped least squares solution is obtained after a full matrix inversion of the linearized geoelectrical problem. …”
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A Consensus Community-Based Spider Wasp Optimization for Dynamic Community Detection by Lin Yu, Xin Zhao, Ming Lv, Jie Zhang

“…Consensus community is the knowledge formed by the swarm summarizing the current state as well as the past history. By maintaining certain inter-population consensus community during the evolutionary process, the population in the current time window can evolve in a similar direction to those in the previous time step. …”
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Understanding the educational inequalities in suicide attempts and their mediators: a Mendelian randomisation study by Jing Wang, Ye Yang, Rui Gao, Lilu Ding, Jiahao Zhu, Dan Zhou, Yingjun Li, Houpu Liu

“…We systematically evaluated 42 putative mediators within the causal pathway connecting reduced educational attainment to suicide attempts and employed two-step and multivariable MR to quantify the proportion of the mediated effect.Results In the combined analysis of iPSYCH and FinnGen, each standard deviation (SD) decrease in genetically predicted educational attainment (equating to 3.4 years of education) was associated with a 105% higher risk of suicide attempts (odds ratio (OR): 2.05; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.81 to 2.31). …”
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An Experimental Investigation of Karanja Biodiesel Production in Sarawak, Malaysia by Dewi Harreh, A. A. Saleh, A. N. R. Reddy, S. Hamdan

“…A one-step transesterification process utilizing 7 : 1–10 : 1 wt% methanol (CH3OH) and 0.5–1.2 wt% sodium hydroxide (NaOH) at 65°C for 1.5 hrs has been used for the biodiesel production yielding 84% conversion. …”
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