Viral Response to Specifically Targeted Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis C and the Implications for Treatment Success by Curtis L Cooper

“…The attrition rate of agents within this class has been high due to various toxicities. Regardless, several STAT-C molecules are poised to become the standard of care for HCV treatment in the foreseeable future. …”
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Recent Advances in Our Understanding of HLA-G Biology: Lessons from a Wide Spectrum of Human Diseases by Fabio Morandi, Roberta Rizzo, Enrico Fainardi, Nathalie Rouas-Freiss, Vito Pistoia

“…HLA-G is a HLA-class Ib molecule with potent immunomodulatory activities, which is expressed in physiological conditions, where modulation of the immune response is required to avoid allograft recognition (i.e., maternal-fetal interface or transplanted patients). …”
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Performance Analysis of Two Different Types of Waiting Queues with Working Vacations by M. Sundararaman, D. Narasimhan, P. Rajadurai

“…This work examines a new class of working vacation queueing models that contain regular (original) and retrial waiting queues. …”
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Coastal Groundcherry, Physalis angustifolia by Debbie Miller, Mack Thetford, Chris Verlinde, Gabriel Campbell, Ashlynn Smith

“…This plant is found throughout coastal counties on the west coast of Florida—except for the Big Bend region and the extreme southeasternmost counties—and more broadly west to Louisiana. …”
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A General System for Automatic Biomedical Image Segmentation Using Intensity Neighborhoods by Cheng Chen, John A. Ozolek, Wei Wang, Gustavo K. Rohde

“…The approach is based on a supervised learning strategy that utilizes intensity neighborhoods to assign each pixel in a test image its correct class based on training data. We describe methods for modeling rotations and variations in scales as well as a subset selection for training the classifiers. …”
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Adaptive Finite-Time Fault-Tolerant Control for Half-Vehicle Active Suspension Systems with Output Constraints and Random Actuator Failures by Jie Lan, Tongyu Xu

“…The problem of adaptive finite-time fault-tolerant control (FTC) and output constraints for a class of uncertain nonlinear half-vehicle active suspension systems (ASSs) are investigated in this work. …”
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Recovery and separation of iron from iron ore using innovative fluidized magnetization roasting and magnetic separation by Yu J., Han Y., Li Y., Gao P.

“…The XRD, VSM, and optical microscopy (OM) analyses revealed that most of the hematite, except some coarse grains, was selectively converted to magnetite, and that the magnetic properties were greatly enhanced. …”
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A Semiparametric Approach for Modeling Partially Linear Autoregressive Model with Skew Normal Innovations by Leila Sakhabakhsh, Rahman Farnoosh, Afshin Fallah, Mohammadhassan Behzadi

“…The nonlinear autoregressive models under normal innovations are commonly used for nonlinear time series analysis in various fields. However, using this class of models for modeling skewed data leads to unreliable results due to the disability of these models for modeling skewness. …”
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FraudMiner: A Novel Credit Card Fraud Detection Model Based on Frequent Itemset Mining by K. R. Seeja, Masoumeh Zareapoor

“…This paper proposes an intelligent credit card fraud detection model for detecting fraud from highly imbalanced and anonymous credit card transaction datasets. The class imbalance problem is handled by finding legal as well as fraud transaction patterns for each customer by using frequent itemset mining. …”
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Travel Demand-Based Assignment Model for Multimodal and Multiuser Transportation System by Bingfeng Si, Xuedong Yan, Hunjun Sun, Xiaobao Yang, Ziyou Gao

“…Subsequently, the generalized travel cost is formulated considering the properties of both traveller and transport mode. …”
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Multi-level agent architecture for war games by YU Xiaohan, YUAN Duo, YAO Changhua

“…The complexity of war games poses challenges for single-technique-built agents, as it requires balancing between coarse-grained strategic adjustments and fine-grained action control, thus limiting agent performance. …”
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Hurricane Dennis' Impact on Cuban Agriculture by William A. Messina, Jr., Thomas H. Spreen

“… Between July 7 and July 9, 2005, Hurricane Dennis moved along the southern coast of Cuba then moved across the island, enveloping nearly the entire country with strong hurricane and tropical storm force winds and driving rain. …”
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WE INTER-ARE: THE PANDEMIC CHALLENGE REDEFINING HUMANS AND COMMUNITIES by K. Abraham

“…Given that social hierarchies attribute higher and lower status to human beings based on their race, class, caste and gender identity, and legitimise the exploitation of other human beings and the earth, re-thinking our hierarchical positioning as “masters” of this universe becomes imperative. …”
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Da Invenção da Escrita à Alfabetização e à Literacia by José Morais

“…Este texto contém uma análise de uma série de questões e de opções relacionadas com a importância da linguagem escrita, da sua aprendizagem e do seu impacto: por um lado, no desenvolvimento das capacidades cognitivas e, subsequentemente, das ideias e do conhecimento científico; e, por outro lado, dada a prevalência das ambições egoístas dos seres humanos, na inevitável criação de antagonismos, desigualdades e opressões de uns sobre os outros, que culminam em lutas de classes impiedosas. Assim, embora eu tenha sobretudo escrito artigos científicos nos habituais moldes estandardizados, é hoje minha opção assumir a liberdade de escrever fora desses moldes sem, porém, renunciar ao raciocínio científico.…”
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Le traitement médiatique des violences faites aux femmes : entre instrumentalisation et invisibilisation by Association Faire Face

“…Moreover, focusing on violence perpetrated by certain populations (racialized and / or from the popular class) invisibilizes violent acts perpetrated by men from other social groups as well as the specific violence experienced by racialized women in the public space. …”
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A SMARCA2 Mutation in the First Case Report of Nicolaides-Baraitser Syndrome in Latin America: Genotype-Phenotype Correlation by Ana Isabel Sánchez, Jorge Armando Rojas

“…The most important characteristics include intellectual disability, peculiar facial features including sparse scalp hair, coarse facial features, low frontal hairline, and microcephaly, and seizures. …”
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Classification of diabetic retinopathy stages based on neural networks by M. M. Lukashevich, Y. I. Golub

“…Neural network models were trained and results were evaluated with class imbalance taken into account.…”
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Dry Deposition from Sahara Sources Regions of Western Africa by B. Douaiba, A. Azzi, A. Khorsi, A. Benlefki

“…In the present work, the dry deposition mechanisms of mineral dust are analysed during an event on the 3 March 2004 over the Northwest African coast. This particular case was chosen based on the strong dry removal that occurred, rendering it ideal for examining the deposition processes. …”
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HIJRA, BETWEEN SOCIOLOGICAL AND THEOLOGICAL PHENOMENON by Firmansyah Firmansyah

“…Hijrah is seen as shifting religious labeling, only existing in the crowd that eventually creates a logical deadlock and forms a new social class. As a result, it is clear that the Hijrah group does not offer individual independence but gives birth to a generation with exclusive minded.…”
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State-of-the-Art Developments of Acoustic Energy Transfer by Md Rabiul Awal, Muzammil Jusoh, Thennarasan Sabapathy, Muhammad Ramlee Kamarudin, Rosemizi Abd Rahim

“…From the review, it is evident that, among all the classes of wireless energy transfer, AET is the safest technology to adopt. …”
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