Thermal Conductivity of Thermally Insulated Concretes in a Nuclear Safety Vessel of Reactor Vault: Experimental Interpretation by M. Anish, T. Arunkumar, J. Jayaprabakar, Sami Al Obaid, Saleh Alfarraj, M. M. Raj, Assefa Belay

“…To minimize heat conduction in concrete, different lightweight aggregates and vermiculite are employed as coarse aggregate alternatives.Both linear and plane heat source approaches are used to calculate the thermal conductivity values of the specimens. …”
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Finite-Time Robust Stabilization for Stochastic Neural Networks by Weixiong Jin, Xiaoyang Liu, Xiangjun Zhao, Nan Jiang, Zhengxin Wang

“…This paper is concerned with the finite-time stabilization for a class of stochastic neural networks (SNNs) with noise perturbations. …”
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Mining EEG with SVM for Understanding Cognitive Underpinnings of Math Problem Solving Strategies by Paul Bosch, Mauricio Herrera, Julio López, Sebastián Maldonado

“…A binary classification problem was constructed using correlations and phase synchronization between different electroencephalographic channels as characteristics and, as labels or classes, the math performances of individuals participating in specially designed experiments. …”
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Air transport risk modelling simulation of the impact of the sanctions on Russia by A. A. Bychkova

“…The analysis of the current civil aviation fleet of the country has been carried out and the normative service life of different class categories aircraft studied. The dynamics of changes in the state aircraft fleet over the last 10 years (since the beginning of the sanctions politics has a starting point from the accession of the Republic of Crimea in 2014) has been considered. …”
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Growing Plums in Florida by Mercy Olmstead, E. P. Miller, Peter C. Andersen, Jeffrey G. Williamson

“… Plums could be a potential crop for growers and homeowners in Florida and other mild winter areas throughout the Gulf coast, but many plum varieties will not grow well enough in Florida to produce fruit. …”
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Best Practices for Scalloping: From the Boat to Your Plate by Brittany Hall-Scharf, Sarah Ellis, Savanna C. Barry

“…Currently, the state allows the recreational harvest of scallops in several Florida Gulf Coast counties (http://myfwc.com/fishing/saltwater/recreational/bay-scallops/). …”
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Credit card fraud detection through machine learning algorithm by Agyan Panda, Bharath Yadlapalli, Zhi Zhou

“…Designing fraud detection algorithms is particularly difficult because to the non-stationary distribution of data, excessively skewed class distributions, and continuous streams of transactions. …”
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Déconstruction et bioconception des bateaux de plaisance : de nouveaux paradigmes pour l’industrie nautique française by Nicolas Bernard

“…Some companies in this sector are even taking a pioneering approach by designing units in bio-materials, while the principle of eco-navigation is developing on the coasts of France, which is reflected in many eco-responsible practices. …”
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Funnel-Based Adaptive Neural Fault-Tolerant Control for Nonlinear Systems with Dead-Zone and Actuator Faults: Application to Rigid Robot Manipulator and Inverted Pendulum Systems by Ymnah Alruwaily, Mohamed Kharrat

“…This study addresses an adaptive neural funnel fault-tolerant control problem for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems with actuator faults and input dead zone. …”
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Growing Plums in Florida by Mercy Olmstead, E. P. Miller, Peter C. Andersen, Jeffrey G. Williamson

“… Plums could be a potential crop for growers and homeowners in Florida and other mild winter areas throughout the Gulf coast, but many plum varieties will not grow well enough in Florida to produce fruit. …”
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Eltrombopag Improves Refractory Thrombocytopenia in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Natsuki Shima, Keiichi Sumida, Masahiro Kawada, Akinari Sekine, Masayuki Yamanouchi, Rikako Hiramatsu, Noriko Hayami, Eiko Hasegawa, Tatsuya Suwabe, Junichi Hoshino, Naoki Sawa, Kenmei Takaichi, Kenichi Ohashi, Takeshi Fujii, Yoshifumi Ubara

“…She was treated with steroids, intravenous cyclophosphamide, intravenous immunoglobulin, and plasma exchange, but her thrombocytopenia did not improve. Renal biopsy showed class IV-S(C) + V lupus nephritis, according to the classification of the International Society of Nephrology/Renal Pathology Society. …”
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Theoretical and Numerical Experiences on a Test Rig for Active Vibration Control of Mechanical Systems with Moving Constraints by M. Rinchi, E. Gambini

“…They have been successfully codified and implemented for vibrating structures whose uncertain parameters could be assumed to be time-invariant. Unfortunately a wide class of mechanical systems, such as machine tools with carriage motion realized by a ball-screw, are characterized by time varying modal parameters. …”
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The Art of Goodbye: Exploring Health Concerns by Lynda Spence

“…The condition and culture of the patient and family, religion, spirituality, education, occupation, social class, friends, and personal preferences can affect end-of-life care. …”
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The Structure of Disjoint Groups of Continuous Functions by Hojjat Farzadfard, B. Khani Robati

“…We describe the general structure of groups of continuous self functions on I which are disjoint, that is, the graphs of any two distinct elements of them do not intersect. Initially the class of all disjoint groups of continuous functions is divided in three subclasses: cyclic groups, groups the limit points of their orbits are Cantor-like sets, and finally those the limit points of their orbits are the whole interval I. …”
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Sum of Bernoulli Mixtures: Beyond Conditional Independence by Taehan Bae, Ian Iscoe

“…The large-sample distribution of the empirical frequency and its use in approximating the risk measures, value at risk and conditional tail expectation, are presented for a new class of models which we call double mixtures. Several illustrative examples with a Beta mixing distribution, are given. …”
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PRACTICE OF COOPERATION OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION AND EMPLOYERS` ORGANIZATIONS IN RUSSIA ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT OF THE “STATE UNIVERSITY O... by T. V. Suvalova

“…The main areas of interaction have been listed, such as the creation and maintenance of a club of graduates of the department, work with students of the center of additional professional education, holding round tables, master classes by employers on the territory of the university, participation in the career day, organization and holding of the annual All-Russian Inter-University Personnel Forum named after A. …”
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Convergence Analysis of the Preconditioned Group Splitting Methods in Boundary Value Problems by Norhashidah Hj. Mohd Ali, Abdulkafi Mohammed Saeed

“…The construction of a specific splitting-type preconditioner in block formulation applied to a class of group relaxation iterative methods derived from the centred and rotated (skewed) finite difference approximations has been shown to improve the convergence rates of these methods. …”
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Whole-genome sequence of bioactive streptomycete derived from mangrove forest in Malaysia, Streptomyces sp. MUSC 14 by Hooi-Leng Ser, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Wen-Si Tan, Wai-Fong Yin, Kok-Gan Chan

“…Isolated from the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, Streptomyces sp. MUSC 14 has shown significant antioxidant capacity. …”
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Extremum Modified First Zagreb Connection Index of n-Vertex Trees with Fixed Number of Pendent Vertices by Sadia Noureen, Akhlaq Ahmad Bhatti, Akbar Ali

“…In this paper, the graphs with maximum/minimum ZC1∗ value are characterized from the class of all n-vertex trees with fixed number of pendent vertices (that are the vertices of degree 1).…”
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The Lukan periplus of Paul's third journey with a textual conundrum in Acts 20:15 by M. Wilson

“…It closes with a brief history of Erythrae’s significance in the Greco-Roman world and why a stop there by Paul’s coasting vessel was likely during this part of the journey. …”
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