Some problems of investigating street fraud and the ways to solve them by K. D. Zaiats

“…Indeed, unlike other crimes, they are reflected not so much in material traces as in acts of intellectual nature: the reporting of false information, the use of fictitious documents, specific attributes, and many others. Gathering evidence of such an order requires an extraordinary level of professionalism. …”
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Validation of System Dynamics Models – a Case Study by Justyna Lemke, Małgorzata Łatuszyńska

“…The authors focus their particular attention on that part of the model which deals with a storehouse, one of the company production units. …”
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Spatial and Temporal Variability of Sea Surface Temperature in Eastern Marginal Seas of China by Renhao Wu, Jianmin Lin, Bo Li

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Esophageal Involvement in Wegener’s Granulomatosis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Glen A Fallows, Sean F Hamilton, Douglas S Taylor, S Bharati Reddy

“…Wegener’s granulomatosis is characterized by a granulomatous arteritis involving the upper and lower respiratory tracts, progressive glomerulonephritis and systemic symptoms attributable to small vessel vasculitis. Although multisystemic manifestations are frequent, involvement of the gastrointestinal tract is uncommon. …”
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Health-Related and Psychosocial Factors Associated with Prostate Cancer Stage at Diagnosis among Males Participating in Alberta’s Tomorrow Project by Michelle L. Aktary, Brittany Shewchuk, Qinggang Wang, Eric Hyndman, Lorraine Shack, Paula J. Robson, Karen A. Kopciuk

“…This study aimed to examine associations between sociodemographic characteristics, health history, health practices, and psychosocial factors and PCa stage at diagnosis among males participating in Alberta’s Tomorrow Project (ATP), a prospective cohort in Alberta, Canada. The study included males aged 35–69 years who developed PCa until January 2018. …”
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Distributed user privacy preserving adjustable personalized QoS prediction model for cloud services by Jianlong XU, Jian LIN, Yusen LI, Zhi XIONG

“…Personalized quality of service （QoS） prediction is crucial for developing high-quality cloud service system.However, the traditional collaborative filtering method, based on centralized training, presents challenges in protecting user privacy.In order to effectively protect user privacy while obtaining highly accurate prediction effect, a distributed user privacy adjustable personalized QoS prediction model for cloud services （DUPPA） was proposed.The model adopted a “server-multi-user” architecture, in which the server coordinated multiple users, handled multiple users’ requests for uploading model gradients and downloading global model, and maintained global model parameters.To further protect user privacy, a user privacy adjustment strategy was proposed to balance privacy and prediction accuracy by adjusting the initialization proportion of local model parameters and gradient upload proportion.In the local model initialization stage, the user calculated the difference matrix between the local model and the global model, and selected the global model parameters corresponding to the larger elements in the difference matrix to initialize the local model parameters.In the gradient upload stage, the user can select some important gradients to upload to the server to meet the privacy protection requirements of different application scenarios.To evaluate the privacy degree of DUPPA, a data reconstruction attack method was proposed for the distributed matrix factorization model gradient sharing scheme.The experimental results show that when DUPPA sets the gradient upload proportion to 0.1 and the local model parameter initialization proportion to 0.5, the predicted MAE and RMSE are reduced by 1.27% and 0.91%, respectively, compared with the traditional centralized matrix factorization model.Besides, when DUPPA sets the gradient upload proportion to 0.1, the privacy degree is 5 times higher than when the gradient upload proportion is 1.And when DUPPA sets the local model parameter initialization proportion to 0.5, the privacy degree is 3.44 times higher than when the local model parameter initialization proportion is 1.…”
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« Backward India » by François Durand-Dastès

“…In this paper, we seek to show which kind of problems are attached to that very notion, what can be learned from the spatial setting of backward districts. …”
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Estructura y dinámica de la población gallega entre 1950 y 2020. Entre la inercia y el pesimismo demográfico by Antía Pérez-Caramés

“…The period covered is between 1950 and 2020. Special attention is paid to the phenomenon of demographic ageing and also to the contribution of natural growth and migratory movements to population dynamics. …”
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Weed Control for Winter Faba Bean Cover Crop in South Florida by Dennis C. Odero

“…Faba bean provides nitrogen in agricultural systems through the unique process of biological fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by symbiosis with Rhizobium bacteria. …”
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A clinical study of the immunogenicity and protective potency of a live recombinant GamLPV vaccine for intranasal use for the prevention of whooping cough in adult volunteers by Alevtina A. Lidzhieva, Alisa Yu. Medkova, Sergey V. Kulikov, Ludmila N. Sinyashina, Rezida A. Sioundioukova, Andrey P. Markov, Aleksey B. Verveda, Natalia E. Abaeva, Irina N. Chernyshova, Marina V. Gavrilova, Kristina K. Bushkova, Ilya N. Dyakov, Gennady I. Karataev

“…The dynamics of elimination of attenuated B. pertussis bacteria after the first and second intranasal administration of GamLPV to volunteers was estimated by using qPCR. …”
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A Mixed Project-and-Stock Portfolio Optimization Model with Mean-SemiVariance-SemiEntropy Approach by Amirhosein Khayyatian, Majid Shakhsi-Niaei

“…By incorporating project investments alongside traditional stocks, the proposed model offers more efficient portfolios that can lead to improved return/risk ratios for investors seeking to optimize their overall financial strategy.Design/methodology/approach: An attempt has been made to bridge the gap between the distinct spaces of projects and stocks to facilitate their joint analysis. …”
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The behavior of the Bacillus probiotic species under conditions of co-cultivation by O. V. Knysh, A. V. Martynov, S. I. Pokhyl, N. I. Skliar

“…The change of colonization and antagonistic properties, which provide bacteria with competitive advantages in the development of new spaces, deserves special attention. The aim of this research was to study the features of the mutual influence of probiotic bacilli: B. clausii, B. coagulans and B. subtilis on growth, swimming and swarming motility when co-cultivated on agar media of different solidity. …”
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Effectiveness of Implementing Vertical Space Utilization in Badung District by I. W.A. Puspanegara, N. M.J. Senastri, I. N.A. Puspadma

“…The absence of community participation in monitoring the use of vertical space can result in a lack of attention to violations that occur directly in the field. …”
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Therapeutic Effect of Ginsenoside Rd on Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis Model Mice: Regulation of Inflammation and Treg/Th17 Cell Balance by Bo Jin, Chixiao Zhang, Yu Geng, Mei Liu

“…Ginsenoside Rd treatment on EAE mice ameliorated the severity of EAE and attenuated the characteristic signs of disease. Ginsenoside Rd displayed the therapeutic function to EAE by modulating inflammation and autoimmunity, via the downregulation of related proinflammatory cytokines IL-6 and IL-17, upregulation of inhibitory cytokines TGF-β and IL-10, and modulation of Treg/Th17 imbalance. …”
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ÇOCUKLARDA DAİMİ BİRİNCİ BÜYÜK AZI DİŞ ÇEKİM NEDENLERİ VE ETKİLERİ by Fulden Şenyurt, Ebru Hazar Bodrumlu

“…Bu dişlerin tedavi planlamasındaki hatalar;  komşu dişin çekim alanına devrilmesi, karşıt dişin boşluğa doğru ekstrüzyonu, orta hattın çekim boşluğuna doğru kayması, asimetrik çiğneme alışkanlıklarının oluşması ve çekim boşluğundaki alveoler kemiğin atrofisinden dolayı periodontal problemlerin oluşması gibi birçok probleme neden olabilmektedir. …”
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Sustained effects of bladder point-of-care ultrasound simulation exercise on nursing students: A prospective cohort study by Tomoyoshi Naito, Akiko Hashizumi, Masako Sakai, Emiko Yamamura, Miho Iwase, Kiyomi Yamada, Masako Watanabe, Nobuo Kimura, Takako Kato, Eiko Fujimoto, Rie Kashihara

“…Conclusion The bladder POCUS simulation exercise is effective in continuously improving the clinical performance of nursing students for ultrasound examinations even at 1-month follow-up, increasing their confidence and promoting a self-directed learning attitude.…”
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Insect Management for Legumes (Beans, Peas) by Susan E. Webb

“… Many different insects attack leguminous vegetables. Aphids damage terminals, whiteflies feed on sap and transmit bean golden mosaic virus, and caterpillars like bean leafroller and beetles feed on leaves. …”
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O Baptistério de Lídia no Norte da Grécia by Katerina Seraïdari

“…O artigo examina como este icônico batismo (supostamente o primeiro no continente europeu) foi comemorado pela primeira vez no século XIX pelo estudioso grego Lampakis, que transformou a água do rio Filipos em uma exposição museológica em Atenas. Com a construção de uma igreja, o que antes era relocalizável é monumentalizado e ancorado no chão; graças à mobilidade internacional que este batistério gera, até mesmo o território é requalificado. …”
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Сільське кладовище в метеорологічній магії українців Полісся by Олександр Васянович

“…The article examines the village cemetery as a sacred place in the beliefs of the Ukrainians of Polissia. Attention was drawn to the causes of the drought, in particular, when suicide victims (hangmen, drowning) were buried in the cemetery. …”
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Smart Defect Detection in Aero-Engines: Evaluating Transfer Learning with VGG19 and Data-Efficient Image Transformer Models by Samira Mohammadi, Vahid Rahmanian, Sasan Sattarpanah Karganroudi, Mehdi Adda

“…We conclude that the difference in performance across all metrics can be attributed to the adoption of the transformer-based architecture by the DeiT model as it does this well in capturing complex patterns in data. …”
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