Adaptive Balancing of Series-Connected SiC MOSFETs Based on Active Clamping and Comparison Circuitry by Shuai Shao, Wentao Cui, Yibo Jiang, Xingyu Pei, Junming Zhang

“…This voltage balance is achieved through a local comparison circuit with the threshold set at the blocking voltage of the SiC MOSFET in its OFF state. …”
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The phenomenon of laziness as a risk factor of high school students' fascination with gadgets by Ranno I. Sunnatova

“…In the study presented in the paper, the term passion for computer games and viewing social networks is used as a predictor of computer addiction and, which is not legally defined as addiction, but its blocking effect on the educational activity and productivity of schoolchildren can be stated. …”
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Effect of Clinical Sandblasting on the Surface Roughness of Zirconia Cores for all Ceramic Crowns and their Fracture Resistance after the Addition of Repair. by Mohammed Thamir Yassin, Shatha Abdullah Salih

“…Materials and Methods: Zirconia cores (n=21) were digitally designed and milled from ZirCAD LT B1 (IPS e.max® ZirCAD ) blocks using arum 5x-300 Pro (ARUM DENTISTRY). These cores were randomly divided into three groups: Group A: n=8, sandblasted with 50 μm aluminum oxide, and veneered with packable Z350 composite. …”
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Combination of GLP-1 Receptor Activation and Glucagon Blockage Promotes Pancreatic β-Cell Regeneration In Situ in Type 1 Diabetic Mice by Liangbiao Gu, Dandan Wang, Xiaona Cui, Tianjiao Wei, Kun Yang, Jin Yang, Rui Wei, Tianpei Hong

“…Glucagon receptor (GCGR) monoclonal antibody (mAb), a preclinical agent that blocks glucagon pathway, can promote the recovery of functional β-cell mass in type 1 diabetic mice. …”
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Rethinking the Lake History of Taylor Valley, Antarctica During the Ross Sea I Glaciation by Michael S. Stone, Peter T. Doran, Krista F. Myers

“…During its advance, the RIS was grounded along the southern Victoria Land coast, completely blocking the mouths of several of the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDVs). …”
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Mutual Coupling Reduction between Two Closely Spaced Antennas with a General PMC Symmetry Plane for Mobile Terminals by Yijiao Fang, Jiangwei Zhong, Yao Nie, Maosheng Fu

“…This kind of PMC structure can effectively activate the in-phase coupling current and cancel the antiphase coupling current raised by the original perfect electric conductor (PEC) equivalent interface, thereby blocking the energy coupling from one antenna input port to another. …”
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Dynamics of dormancy regulation in ‘Sonata’ strawberry and its relation to flowering and runnering by Anita Sønsteby, Ola M. Heide

“…Results SD induced constrained leaf and inflorescence growth at both 6 and 18 ℃, while the typical strawberry semi-dormant condition was attained only by exposure to SD at 18 ℃ for 10 weeks, which also completely blocked runner formation. The constrained leaf and inflorescence growth observed in plants grown in SD at 18 ℃ were partially reversed by 6 weeks of chilling and gradually overcome in successively emerging leaves. …”
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Game-related statistics that discriminate between winning and losing u-17 men's and women's basketball teams by Boris Karasek, Mladen Mikić

“…The following game-related statistics were gathered from the official box scores of the Basketball Federation of Serbia: 2- and 3-point field-goals (successful and unsuccessful), free throws (successful and unsuccessful), defensive and offensive rebounds, assists, steals, turnovers, blocks (committed and received), and fouls (committed and received). …”
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Rapid Point-of-Care Influenza Testing for Patients in German Emergency Rooms – A Cost-Benefit Analysis by Roland Diel, Albert Nienhaus

“…The major part of the cost savings, €113.17 or 94.4%, was due to the POC test´s high specificity, which led to 91% reduction in needless bed-blocking on the first day of hospitalization. However, as the sensitivity of 75.3% was only slightly higher than that of conventional clinical judgement, improved classification of patients with true influenza and a correspondingly lower rate of illness in hospital employees could not be achieved. …”
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Allometric Growth of the Freshwater Crab Potamon algeriense (Bott, 1967) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamidae) in Oued Zegzel, a Mountain Stream, in the Northeast of Morocco by Soufiane Fadlaoui, Mohammed Mahjoub, Ouahid El Asri, Mohammed Melhaoui

“…Crabs were collected monthly over one year (October 2017 to September 2018) by excavating burrows and searching under blocks. A total of 669 crabs were obtained, 291 females and 378 males. …”
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Production scheduling with multi-robot task allocation in a real industry 4.0 setting by Zohreh Shakeri, Khaled Benfriha, Mohsen Varmazyar, Esma Talhi, Anthony Quenehen

“…It involves non-identical parallel machines and robots with varying capabilities overseeing material handling under blocking conditions. The case study is based on a real Industry 4.0 scenario, where the layout restricts each robotic arm’s access, requiring strategic buffer placement for part transfers. …”
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Impact of nitrogen fertilization and rootstock genotype on growth and fruit quality of Nules clementine by Fatima Ezahra Omari, Lhou Beniken

“…A split-plot design with three blocks of repetitions (two trees per bloc per treatment, n=6) was employed in this experiment. …”
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The Deformation Behavior and Failure Modes of Surrounding Rock after Excavation: A Experimental Study by Jinping Liang, Haoyong Jing, Xiaorui Li, Gongyu Hou

“…A large number of rock slices are generated at the opening curved free surface and then fell off, whose morphology is similar to the rock blocks that fell off after caving failure and rock burst in situ field. …”
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Mechanical Coupling between Endoderm Invagination and Axis Extension in Drosophila. by Claire M Lye, Guy B Blanchard, Huw W Naylor, Leila Muresan, Jan Huisken, Richard J Adams, Bénédicte Sanson

“…The AP cell elongation gradient remains when mesoderm invagination is blocked but is abolished in the absence of endoderm invagination. …”
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Semi-Uniform Metal Foam Distribution in Parabolic Trough Collector: An Experimental Approach for Enhancing Thermal Performance Under Iraqi Weather Conditions by Mustafa F. Hasan, Mohammed A. Nima

“…Tests were conducted with a 30% filling ratio (FR) of copper foam blocks, consisting of 10 discs, each 45 mm thick, semi-uniformly spaced along the receiver pipe. …”
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Presegmenter Cascaded Framework for Mammogram Mass Segmentation by Urvi Oza, Bakul Gohel, Pankaj Kumar, Parita Oza

“…The proposed presegmenter attention (PSA) blocks are introduced in the second-stage segmentation model to enable dynamic adaptation to the most informative regions within the mammogram images based on the generated saliency map. …”
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Satisfaction of Students with the Quality of Educational Services at Technical University by D. V. Maltsev, D. S. Repetskiy

“…The sample is presented for all structural divisions: faculties and branches, as well as the content of questionnaires on blocks of questions. The results of the level of satisfaction with the quality of educational activities are analyzed, in particular: the content of educational programs, the implementation of educational programs, the conditions for ensuring the educational process, the quality of teaching, knowledge control and training. …”
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Big Data Cleaning Based on Improved CLOF and Random Forest for Distribution Networks by Jie Liu, Yijia Cao, Yong Li, Yixiu Guo, Wei Deng

“…Aiming at the diversity and complexity of data missing forms in power big data, this paper has improved the Random Forest imputation algorithm, which can be applied to various forms of missing data, especially the blocked missing data and even some completely missing horizontal or vertical data. …”
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Bond Strength and Deflection of Four Types of Bonded Lingual Retainers by Amin Golshah, Shirin Asadian Feyli

“…In this in vitro, experimental study, 160 extracted, mandibular incisors were mounted in acrylic blocks in sets of two and randomized into four groups for bonding of 1.0.010 × 0.026-inch Bond-A-Braid®, 0.012 × 0.027-inch Retanium®TM, 0.038 × 0.016-inch Ortho FlexTech®, and 0.0175-inch three-strand retainer wires; 15 mm of passive wire was adhered to the lingual tooth surface using Transbond XT composite. …”
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PD-1 Blockade in Advanced Melanoma in Patients with Hepatitis C and/or HIV by Diwakar Davar, Melissa Wilson, Chelsea Pruckner, John M. Kirkwood

“…Given hypothesized risk of triggering exacerbations of autoimmune diseases and/or chronic viral infections, clinical trials (including regulatory studies) evaluating checkpoint blocking antibodies PD-1 and CTLA-4 have excluded patients with autoimmune diseases, chronic hepatitis B/C virus (HBV/HCV), and/or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections. …”
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