Evaluation of the Project P.A.T.H.S. Based on Students’ Weekly Diaries: Findings from Eight Datasets by Daniel T. L. Shek, Rachel C. F. Sun

“…A total of 1,138 students who participated in the program were randomly invited (from the whole grade or in some classes) to write a piece of journal in the form of a weekly diary in order to reveal their perceptions and feelings regarding the program and the perceived benefits of the program. …”
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Dynamic of a TB-HIV Coinfection Epidemic Model with Latent Age by Xiaoyan Wang, Junyuan Yang, Fengqin Zhang

“…The host population is divided into five subclasses of susceptibles, latent TB, active TB (without HIV), HIV infectives (without TB), and coinfection class (infected by both TB and HIV). The model exhibits three boundary equilibria, namely, disease free equilibrium, TB dominated equilibrium, and HIV dominated equilibrium. …”
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Development of Pasta Products with Nonconventional Ingredients and Their Effect on Selected Quality Characteristics: A Brief Overview by R. A. T. Nilusha, J. M. J. K. Jayasinghe, O. D. A. N. Perera, P. I. P. Perera

“…Pasta is a widely consumed food in all over the world. Coarse semolina obtained from durum wheat and water are the main ingredients of conventional pasta products. …”
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A Robotic Brain Scheme: Proposal Originated by a Modular Robotic Control by J. Negrete-Martínez

“…Motor behavior includes all the final motion units. Each of these five classes roughly corresponds to areas in a vertebrate’s brain and proved to be an effective robotic brain scheme as they assist in the development of greater complexity in robotic brains and a means to compare different implementations. …”
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Augmented Twin-Nonlinear Two-Box Behavioral Models for Multicarrier LTE Power Amplifiers by Oualid Hammi

“…A novel class of behavioral models is proposed for LTE-driven Doherty power amplifiers with strong memory effects. …”
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Three-Dimensional Pseudomanifolds on Eight Vertices by Basudeb Datta, Nandini Nilakantan

“…But, normal d-pseudomanifolds form a broader class than triangulations of connected closed d-manifolds for d≥3. …”
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Fatigue strength of corroded bolted connection by Paolo Zampieri, Andrea Curtarello, Carlo Pellegrino, Emanuele Maiorana

“…Fatigue test specimens, were made up using S355 structural steel plates joined together with preloaded M12 bolts of class 10.9 with a geometry that corresponds to the ?…”
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Generalized Characteristic Polynomials of Join Graphs and Their Applications by Pengli Lu, Ke Gao, Yang Yang

“…In this paper, we define two classes of join graphs: the subdivision-vertex-vertex join G1⊚G2 and the subdivision-edge-edge join G1⊝G2. …”
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Activity Graph Feature Selection for Activity Pattern Classification by Kisung Park, Yongkoo Han, Young-Koo Lee

“…Activity pattern classification is a technique that predicts class labels of people such as individual identification, nationalities, and jobs. …”
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Electromyographic Pattern Analysis and Classification for a Robotic Prosthetic Arm by M. José H. Erazo Macias, S. Alejandro Vega

“…The results show very good separability of classes of movements when a learning pattern classification scheme is used, and a superposition of any composite motion to the three basic primitive motions—humeral rotation in and out, flexion and extension, and pronation and supination. …”
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Promoción turística, clase social e identidad cultural en las obras de Gonçal Arnús (1908), Antoni Muntanyola (1932) y Xavier Calderó (1932) by Saida Palou Rubio

“…All three works present a powerful territorial and class worldview and are written by authoritative voices, power brokers, who generate dominant discourses and hegemonic categories of tourism. …”
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Cinquante ans depuis la révolution des œillets by Lincoln Secco, Osvaldo Coggiola

“…The issues that drove it were common to post-war European societies: decolonization, political democracy (fight against authoritarianism and dictatorships), intensification of class clashes. In Portugal, these problems were concentrated and exploded in a short space of time, thanks to a major crisis in the Armed Forces. …”
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Dilatometric Microdrive of small spacecraft with resonant microwave accelerator by I. S. Vavilov, A. I. Lykyanchik, P. S. Yachmenev, R. N. Litau, I. A. Kuzmenko

“…The article contains the research of the authors in the field of jet propulsion systems with low energy consumption of small spacecraft (SSC) of nanosatellite class. The paper presents the concept of a Microdrive combining thermogasdynamic and electrodynamic methods of creating a jet thrust. …”
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Hybrid optimal control for HIV multi-drug therapies: A finite set control transcription approach by Divya Thakur, Belinda Marchand

“…In this study, the treatment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection is investigated through an optimal structured treatment interruption (STI) schedule of two classes of antiretroviral drugs, mainly, reverse transcriptase inhibitors and protease inhibitors. …”
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Extended Brauer analysis of some Dynkin and Euclidean diagrams by Agustín Moreno Cañadas, Pedro Fernando Fernández Espinosa, José Gregorio Rodríguez-Nieto, Odette M Mendez, Ricardo Hugo Arteaga-Bastidas

“…., giving a closed formula for the dimensions of algebras induced by significant classes of Brauer configurations) is generally a tricky problem. …”
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Family resilience: report of a research with female same-sex couples with children by Paula Machado, Elaine Rabinovich

“…Methods: A qualitative study was carried out; three female couples were interviewed, all of them belonging to class B, and reached through the snowball method, with children being generated from assisted reproduction procedures. …”
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Proximal Alternating Direction Method with Relaxed Proximal Parameters for the Least Squares Covariance Adjustment Problem by Minghua Xu, Yong Zhang, Qinglong Huang, Zhenhua Yang

“…This problem may arise in several areas of numerical linear algebra or come from finance industry or statistics and thus has many applications. For solving this class of matrix optimization problems, many methods have been proposed in the literature. …”
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Generalizing Robust Control Barrier Functions From a Controller Design Perspective by Anil Alan, Tamas G. Molnar, Aaron D. Ames, Gabor Orosz

“…This paper presents a generalized RCBF framework that unifies and extends existing notions of RCBFs for a broad class of model uncertainties. Main results are conditions for robust safety through generalized RCBFs. …”
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VIETNAMESE PREHISTORIC MARINE CULTURES - OUTSTANDING HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL VALUES by Nguyễn Khắc Sử

“…Vietnamese prehistoric marine culture is the culture of ancient communities who had no written languages, social classes, or states. The inhabitants lived in coastal environments, exploited marine resources, had relations with broad surrounding areas, and created a bold marine culture (Nguyen, 1997, pp. 16-28). …”
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Effects of Various Flavonoids on the α-Synuclein Fibrillation Process by Xiaoyun Meng, Larissa A. Munishkina, Anthony L. Fink, Vladimir N. Uversky

“…In this study 48 flavonoids belonging to several classes with structures differing in the position of double bonds and ring substituents were tested for their ability to inhibit the fibrillation of α-synuclein in vitro. …”
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