Road safety behavior and related injuries among college students of urban Bengaluru by Rana Sarvar, P. K. Sreenath Menon, M. D. Sangeetha

“…RESULTS: About 28% of the students reported experiencing injuries in the past 30 days. Among injuries, 56% of the students had road traffic accidents (RTAs), followed by 39% who had a fall history. …”
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The Importance of Plants in Ancient Cultures Against the Background of New Research Concerning Intelligence of Plants by Agnieszka Tańczuk

“…Myths from various parts of the globe, illustrate how important a role plants had in the past, that they were much more than food, medicine, or refuge. …”
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Espaços ficcionalizados em Desterro,de Luis S. Krausz: um ensaio em geografia literária by Georg Wink

“…Furthermore, different functions areattributed to the fictionalized spaces. In a second step, in line with the samemethod, I will test the potential of maps in providing an interpretative frameworkfor the analysis. …”
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More than twenty years of European policy for the development of the information society by Claudio Feijóo, José Luis Gómez-Barroso, Edvins Karnitis

“…This diversion of the course that had been taken in the past represents a worrying backward step, which is aggravated when considering the situation described in a not so encouraging preview of the results of eEurope.…”
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Debate strategies and tactics by Paul Schutte

“…This aspect has been neglected to a large extend in the past. Therefore this study gives a qualitative analysis of the Mandela versus De Klerk trend setting debate – a first for South Africa – as a step towards understanding and evaluating the processes involved in debating. …”
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Updated COVID-19 Condition in Australia by Ke-Yan Loo, Vengadesh Letchumanan, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Jodi Woan Fei Law

“…The early stages of the pandemic were crucial as detecting the virus earlier on was a critical step in protecting the community from the coronavirus. …”
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Neutrophil-derived Oxidants and Proteinases as Immunomodulatory Mediators in Inflammation by V. Witko-Sarsat, B. Descamps-Latscha

“…Among them, tumour necrosis factor-α and interleukin-8, are elective targets for such a modulation. Moreover, ROI and proteinases are also able to modulate the adhesion process of neutrophils to endothelial cells, which is a critical step in the inflammatory process.…”
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Denoising of Tourist Street Scene Image Based on ROF Model of Second-Order Partial Differential Equation by Xiaofeng Yang

“…By improving the diffusion coefficient and introducing a curvature operator that can distinguish details such as edges, it can effectively denoise the tourist street scene image, and it also has a good effect on avoiding the step effect. …”
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Changes in Tolaki People Burial in Southeast Sulawesi: From Boat-Shaped Grave Coffin (Soronga) to Boat-Shaped Islamic Tomb (Koburu Bangga) by Syahrun Syahrun, Basrin Melamba

“…It is also affected by maritime world at the past as well as technology that lived in the past used by a collective memory.…”
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The consequences of changes in forest land cover in the Alpine and Jurassic massifs on the physico-chemical status of deep lake waters by Van Tuan Nghiem, Rachid Nedjai, Nacer Nasreddine Messaoud

“…This work focuses on an analysis of land cover (vegetation), using four satellite images spanning the period from 1975 to 2006, and calls on hydrogeochemical modelling (WARMF) to evaluate changes in the physico-chemical quality, i.e. acidification, of deep lake waters. This first step is followed by a predictive phase prior to measuring the intensity of the physico-chemical changes (pH and redox) over the next 20 years to 2030. …”
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Blended Features Classification of Leaf-Based Cucumber Disease Using Image Processing Techniques by Jaweria Kainat, Syed Sajid Ullah, Fahd S. Alharithi, Roobaea Alroobaea, Saddam Hussain, Shah Nazir

“…We proposed a cucumber leaf recognition approach, consisting of five steps: preprocessing, normalization, features extraction, features fusion, and classification. …”
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The high cancer incidence in young people in Italy: do genetic signatures reveal their environmental causes? by Ruggero Ridolfi

“…Determining the ethical, legal and economic consequences of known cancer causative agents in young people will be a crucial step for a serious reconsideration of primary prevention.…”
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The Case for Brutalist Honesty in Medical Education by Markle DT

“…Compared to the past, students now have access to a wealth of outside data to evaluate their curricular progress and career prospects against, and yet institutions are lagging behind in openly disclosing information related to metrics of student success (course passing rates, number of repeat students per class, Step 1 pass rate, etc.) that would engender trust and afford students greater agency in their academic decisions.Approach: In developing a new academic counseling office, the author deployed a method of using brutalist honesty as a means of student support, both in terms of answering all curriculum questions truthfully no matter the topic and with individualized data analytics to provide objective evidence as to student performance progress. …”
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Smart bus ticketing system through IoT enabled technology by Agyan Kumar, Antônio Clécio Fontelles Thomaz

“…As the project grows in size, all of the data will be transferred to the cloud. As we advance toward a smart bus pass generation system, the trouble of keeping change in pockets will soon be a thing of the past. …”
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MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC STATION MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING SYSTEM by I. Elzein, Yu. N. Petrenko

“…The system under consideration consists of a solar array with nonlinear time-varying characteristics, a step-up converter with appropriate filter.The proposed algorithm has the advantages of maximizing the efficiency of the power utilization, can be integrated to other MPPT algorithms without affecting the PVM performance, is excellent for Real-Time applications and is a robust analytical method, different from the traditional MPPT algorithms which are more based on trial and error, or comparisons between present and past states. …”
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Old Fears, New Hopes. Flemish TV fiction and National Identity in the 21st Century by Alexander Dhoest

“…The overarching narrative about TV drama and TV more generally is one of continuous change. Taking a step back, in this paper I reflect on changes and continuities in the past 25 years. …”
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The unexpected role of the STING protein in lipid metabolism by Vila, Isabelle K., Laguette, Nadine

“…Detection of cytosolic pathological nucleic acids is a key step for the initiation of innate immune responses. …”
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Avoidance High-Frequency Chattering Second-Order Sliding Mode Controller Design: Buck Converter in Wind Power System by Yigeng Huangfu, Ruiqing Ma, Abdellatif Miraoui

“…Meanwhile, the Buck converter taken as a step-down converter is usually adopted in wind power system, because of its simple structure and good linearity. …”
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Dans la vallée des tombes temporelles : monumentalité, temporalité et histoire dans la science-fiction by Raino Isto

“…One necessary step in advancing this understanding is a consideration of how monuments themselves have been represented in sf literature. …”
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High-Speed Data-Driven Methodology for Real-Time Traffic Flow Predictions: Practical Applications of ITS by Hyun-ho Chang, Byoung-jo Yoon

“…This result suggests that the proposed algorithm can be also effectively employed as a preprocess to select useful past cases for advanced learning-based forecasting models.…”
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