Emotionally and Biased on the Anniversary of ‘Slavic Dialogues’ by Elena Getova, Lilia Ivanova

“…A personal assessment of the achievements and scholarly contributions of the Slavic Dialogues journal of the Plovdiv University, on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary. …”
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Smartphone-Based Care Platform Versus Traditional Care in Primary Knee Arthroplasty in the Unites States: Cost Analysis by Jess H Lonner, Ashwini Naidu-Helm, David Van Andel, Mike B Anderson, Richard Ditto, Roberta E Redfern, Jared Foran

“… AbstractCost savings were achieved with the use of a smartphone-based care management platform, considering several health care resources following knee arthroplasty procedures without negatively impacting clinical outcomes.…”
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Comparison of Late HIV Diagnosis as a Marker of Care for Aboriginal Versus Non-Aboriginal People Living with HIV in Ontario by Denise Jaworsky, LaVerne Monette, Janet Raboud, Doe O’Brien-Teengs, Christina Diong, Sandra Blitz, Sean B Rourke, Mona R Loutfy, OHTN Cohort Study Team

“…BACKGROUND: Studies have found that Aboriginal people living with HIV/AIDS (APHAs) are more likely than non-APHAs to receive suboptimal HIV care, yet achieve similar clinical outcomes with proper care.…”
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Fixed Point Results in Quasi-Cone Metric Spaces by Fawzia Shaddad, Mohd Salmi Md Noorani

“…The main aim of this paper is to prove fixed point theorems in quasi-cone metric spaces which extend the Banach contraction mapping and others. This is achieved by introducing different kinds of Cauchy sequences in quasi-cone metric spaces.…”
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Rurality and Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Mechanical Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke by Cassidy Lavin, Jacob Epstein, Alvin Huanwen Chen, Minahil Cheema, Jerry Yang, Alexa Aquino, Angie Chan, Nancy Le, Gillian Cooper, Ambra Palushi, Chad Schrier, Dheeraj Gandhi, Seemant Chaturvedi, Jessica Downing, Quincy K. Tran

“…Conclusions: Patients transferred from rural areas for MT for AIS-LVO, at our institution, had a similar likelihood of achieving 90-day mRS 0–2 as those transferred from urban areas.…”
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Microwave Assisted Synthesis of Phenol-Formaldehyde Resole by Subhash Chandra Bajia, Pawan Swarnkar, Sudesh Kumar, Birbal Bajia

“…An efficient synthesis of phenol-formaldehyde resin has been achieved by using conventional as well as microwave irradiation. …”
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Research of a Wheel-legged Obstacle Crossing Robot by Wang Yueqin, Tan Xiaolan, Ban Xiang, Li Dingyu, Yue Shidi

“…To meet the requirement of mobile robots to achieve high mobility and strong obstacle-crossing in complex and variable environment, a design scheme of passive transformable wheel-legged obstacle-crossing robot is proposed. …”
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Dynamic traffic balancing scheme for LB-BvN to guarantee in-order packet delivering by HU Hong-chao, GUO Yun-fei, PANG lin, BU You-jun

“…Due to its outstanding extensibility performance,the LB-BvN switch had attracted much attention recently in the switching technology academia.However,the problem that it might disturb the sequences of packets made it not so applicable in practice.To overcome this,the principles for guaranteeing packets in order switching were first discussed.Then,based on these principles,it focused on research on the transmission characteristics in network traffic and came up with DFA and DFS algorithms.DFA assigned the switching paths to each flow based on their transport layer parameters to make sure that each packet in the flow were in order.DFS was more sophisticated than DFA in that it first divided flows into flowlets.In this way,the flowlets in the flows were in order.Both DFA and DFS could achieve in order packets switching with limited flow states maintained in the line-cards.Simulation results show that both DFA and DFS can achieve good performance.…”
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Right heart reverse remodeling: “facta non verba” by Tommaso Recchioni, Giovanna Manzi, Alexandra Mihai, Francesca Ileana Adamo, Annalisa Caputo, Domenico Filomena, Giorgia Serino, Silvia Papa, Nadia Cedrone, Carmine Dario Vizza, Roberto Badagliacca

“…In this clinical setting the primary treatment goal is to achieve low mortality risk and right heart reverse remodeling (RHRR). …”
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Implications of the EU Regulation on Public Oversight Systems for Statutory Auditors by Ana Gisbert, Begoña Navallas, Pablo Gómez-Carrasco, Elena de las Heras

“…Despite recent progress in strengthening public audit oversight systems in Europe, in this paper we address the issues where little harmonisation has been achieved. Based on the content of the European Directives, we show how significant differences still exist and affect the EU system of public audit oversight. …”
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A Bi-Level Probabilistic Path Planning Algorithm for Multiple Robots with Motion Uncertainty by Jingchuan Wang, Ruochen Tai, Jingwen Xu

“…Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm achieves improved system efficiency and also has acceptable real-time performance.…”
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Wide field of view large aperture meta-doublet eyepiece by Anna Wirth-Singh, Johannes E. Fröch, Fan Yang, Louis Martin, Hanyu Zheng, Hualiang Zhang, Quentin T. Tanguy, Zhihao Zhou, Luocheng Huang, Demis D. John, Biljana Stamenic, Juejun Hu, Tian Gu, Arka Majumdar

“…At the design wavelength of 633 nm, the meta-optic doublet achieves comparable performance to a refractive lens-based eyepiece system. …”
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Socio-economic features of innovative development of subjects of Siberian Federal District by E. A. Pogrebtsova

“…The purpose of the study is to identify areas of socio-economic development of the subjects of the Siberian Federal District as an innovative vector. To achieve the goal, the following tasks are defined: to assess the achievement of macroeconomic indicators of the subjects, to identify the development of the educational and digital development of the regions; determine the directions of innovative improvement.…”
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Use of a Free Vascularized Medial Femoral Condyle Flap for Revision Surgery in a Pediatric Patient with Congenital Pseudarthrosis of the Clavicle by Atsuro Murai, Kaoru Tada, Mika Nakada, Masashi Matsuta, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

“…However, in some cases, bone fusion cannot be achieved at the first surgery, and an additional surgery is required. …”
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Maximizing the Rate of IRS-Assisted Downlink NOMA Systems by Xinying Li, Haixia Wei, Haiyan Huang, Cuiran Li, Lijun Zhang

“…The simulation results suggest that the algorithm described in this paper can significantly increase the signal’s achievable rate compared to the nondeployed IRS and IRS random phase-shifting schemes.…”
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The Stability of a Two-Axis Gimbal System for the Camera by Nguyen Cong Danh

“…Gimbal or an inertial stabilization platform (ISP) is used to stabilize the line of sight of an object or device that is tracking another object (LOS) with stationary or moving targets or targets moving forward. It can achieve precision when there is isolation between the tracker and the gimbal base. …”
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Ultraviolet spectral broadening by stimulated rotational Raman scattering on nitrogen pumped with signal laser injection by Xiangbing Wang, Xiangxu Chai, Ping Li, Bo Zhang, Qihua Zhu, Xiaocheng Tian, Ju Wang, Zhaoyu Zong, Song Zhou, Ke Yao, Sen Li, Junpu Zhao, Zhitao Peng

“…Theoretical calculations show that 2% bandwidth spectral broadening can be achieved by injecting 20 kW/cm2 signal light at 2.2 GW/cm2 flux of the pump laser. …”
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Uplink assisted downlink channel estimation method of extra-large scale MIMO-OTFS system by Xumin PU, Kaiyuan DENG, Qianbin CHEN

“…A low complexity downlink channel estimation method for high-speed mobile scenarios was proposed for the extra-large scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) system.Different from the existing studies, the proposed method considers the significant spatial non-stationary characteristics of extra-large scale MIMO-OTFS system.Based on the visible path region, an enhanced sparse orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) algorithm with low complexity was proposed, uplink-assisted downlink channel estimation was achieved using the mapping relationship between the uplink and downlink channels in the frequency-division duplex (FDD) mode.Simulation results show that the proposed uplink-assisted downlink channel estimation method can accurately represent the non-stationary of the system, and achieve significant improvement in the channel estimation performance while reducing the computational complexity , and still perform well in high-mobility IoT scenarios.…”
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Volume-hiding encrypted multi-map scheme based on hierarchical structure by Jing CHEN, Hanxing LI, Kun HE, Meng JIA, Yuqing LI, Ruiying DU

“…The volume-hiding encrypted multi-map (EMM) scheme is able to prevent attackers from inferring plaintext through the volume leakage, but existing solutions have problems with large storage and search computational costs.Based on the characteristic that the volume of the searched data often follows Zipf’s law, a hierarchical volume-hiding EMM scheme was proposed.Compared to the plain scheme that filled all keys’ volumes equally, converting the filling of the overall data into the filling of multiple sub-data blocks could reduce storage costs, and also achieved constant level complexity query overhead.Security analysis shows that the proposed scheme can achieve hidden matching volume without loss of query results.Simulation results show that compared with the most efficient scheme XorMM, the proposed scheme can increase the storage overhead by 10%, reduce the search computing overhead by 90%, and significantly improve the search efficiency.…”
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Gearbox Fault Diagnosis based on GAF-inceptionResNet by Changwen Li, Peng Li, Hua Ding

“…The test results show that the model can achieve a fault diagnosis accuracy of 99.59%. It can effectively achieve good gearbox fault identification and classification.…”
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