The Numerical Simulation of Hard Rocks for Tunnelling Purposes at Great Depths: A Comparison between the Hybrid FDEM Method and Continuous Techniques by Nicholas Vlachopoulos, Ioannis Vazaios

“…Continuum numerical modelling and discontinuum techniques have been employed in order to capture the complex nature of fracture initiation and propagation at low-confinement conditions surrounding an underground opening. …”
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Quantifying the spatial patterns of retinal ganglion cell loss and progression in optic neuropathy by applying a deep learning variational autoencoder approach to optical coherence... by Jui-Kai Wang, Jui-Kai Wang, Brett A. Johnson, Zhi Chen, Zhi Chen, Honghai Zhang, Honghai Zhang, David Szanto, Brian Woods, Brian Woods, Michael Wall, Young H. Kwon, Young H. Kwon, Edward F. Linton, Edward F. Linton, Andrew Pouw, Mark J. Kupersmith, Mark J. Kupersmith, Mark J. Kupersmith, Mona K. Garvin, Mona K. Garvin, Mona K. Garvin, Mona K. Garvin, Randy H. Kardon, Randy H. Kardon

“…We propose a booster Variational Autoencoder (bVAE) to capture spatial variations in RGC loss and generate latent space (LS) montage maps that visualize different degrees and spatial patterns of optic nerve bundle injury. …”
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On Zero-Inflated Hierarchical Poisson Models with Application to Maternal Mortality Data by Kassim Tawiah, Samuel Iddi, Anani Lotsi

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Gravity-based microfiltration reveals unexpected prevalence of circulating tumor cell clusters in ovarian and colorectal cancer by Anne Meunier, Javier Alejandro Hernández-Castro, Nicholas Chahley, Laudine Communal, Sara Kheireddine, Newsha Koushki, Nadia Davoudvandi, Sara Al Habyan, Benjamin Péant, Anthoula Lazaris, Andy Ng, Teodor Veres, Luke McCaffrey, Diane Provencher, Peter Metrakos, Anne-Marie Mes-Masson, David Juncker

“…Results Here, we show that GµF optimized for cell cluster isolation captures cCTCs from blood while minimizing unwanted cluster disaggregation, with ~85% capture efficiency. …”
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Lengths of Stay and Stopover Strategies of Western Sandpipers During Migration at Two Sites in British Columbia, Canada by Anne L. Blondin, Mark C. Drever, Scott A. Flemming, Wendy E. Easton, Mark Maftei, Yuri Zharikov, Nils Warnock, Erica Nol

“…Birds captured at Tofino had shorter tarsi, as well as higher mass during southward migration compared to Western Sandpipers captured at the Fraser River Estuary. …”
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Degradation of amyloid β-peptides catalyzed by nattokinase in vivo and in vitro by Aixin Ni, He Li, Ruya Wang, Rentong Sun, Yingjiu Zhang

“…Although nattokinase (NK) degrades Aβ40, the details of NK’s capture of various Aβ species and reduction of plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 are uncharacterized. …”
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El movimiento estudiantil «Rhodes debe caer» (Rodhes Must Fall): las universidades sudafricanas como campo de lucha by Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni

“…En términos generales, el artículo ofrece un marco teórico e histórico, así como una interpretación del terreno, del que puede extraerse un significado más profundo de los actuales movimientos estudiantiles.…”
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PROGRAM AND APPARATUS UNIT FOR MONITORING OF CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM BASED ON TONOMETRY by S. V. Shilko, V. V. Shevtsov

“…The actuality of tonometry method and apparatus for non-invasive determination of biomechanical characteristics of cardiovascular system has been shown. …”
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Le discours des Comices : un discours modèle by Anne Herschberg Pierrot

“…In an official speech, published in the Journal de Rouen on July 22nd 1853, Flaubert found a sentence from the Agricultural association (« Comices agricoles ») speeches that he had actually written himself the previous evening. This article presents and reprints the speeches quoted by the Journal de Rouen.…”
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Influence of Frequency Converters on Insulation of Power Supply Cables at Oil-Producing Stations by D. I. Zalizny, O. G. Shirokov, S. N. Koukharenko, E. Y. Ustimenko

“…The possible approaches to the solution of the problem are proposed on the basis of a harmonic analysis of actually measured voltages and currents in a cable.…”
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Magnetically Triggered Monodispersed Nanocomposite Fabricated by Microfluidic Approach for Drug Delivery by O. Yassine, E. Q. Li, A. Alfadhel, A. Zaher, M. Kavaldzhiev, S. T. Thoroddsen, J. Kosel

“…Compared to external thermal actuation that heats the entire surrounding or embedded heaters that need complex fabrication steps, the magnetic actuation provides localized heating and is easy to implement with our microfluidic fabrication method.…”
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La superación de los tutores como premisa en la formación de profesionales. Perfil Servicios Farmacéuticos by Carmen Díaz Dorado, Felicia Margarita Llerena Bermúdez, María Cristina Núñez Martínez, Grisell Menéndez Rodríguez, Lourdes González Pérez

“…Se emplearon los siguientes métodos teóricos: analítico-sintético, inductivo-deductivo e histórico-lógico y entre los métodos empíricos se utilizó el análisis de documentos, mediante los cuales fue posible determinar las tendencias y regularidades actuales del tema revisado. Los resultados confirmaron la necesidad de superación de los tutores de este perfil, de manera que ostenten un conjunto de conocimientos, actitudes y habilidades que le permitan desarrollar su labor, acorde a las exigencias actuales de</p>…”
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Texture feature column scheme for single‐ and multi‐script writer identification by Faycel Abbas, Abdeljalil Gattal, Chawki Djeddi, Imran Siddiqi, Ameur Bensefia, Kamel Saoudi

“…A novel descriptor by crossing the local binary patterns (LBP) with different configurations that allows capturing the local textural information in handwriting using a column histogram is introduced. …”
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Smoke Simulation with Detail Enhancement in Ship Fires by Rui Tao, Hongxiang Ren, Xiao Yang, Delong Wang, Jian Sun

“…In our approach, a geometric method is employed to efficiently capture the stretching of vortex structures. The computational results demonstrate that turbulence details can be effectively captured in a low-resolution grid while maintaining the real-time performance of the simulation. …”
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Unsupervised SAR Image Segmentation Based on a Hierarchical TMF Model in the Discrete Wavelet Domain for Sea Area Detection by Jiajing Wang, Shuhong Jiao, Lianyang Shen, Zhenyu Sun, Lin Tang

“…The WHTMF model can precisely capture the global and local image characteristics in the two-pass computation of posterior distribution. …”
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Fractional-Order Modeling of Arterial Compliance in Vascular Aging: A Computational Biomechanical Approach for Investigating Cardiovascular Dynamics by Mohamed A. Bahloul, Yasser Aboelkassem, Zehor Belkhatir, Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati

“…<italic>Methods:</italic> A novel fractional-order modified arterial Windkessel model that incorporates a fractional-order capacitor (FOC) element is proposed to capture the complex and frequency-dependent properties of arterial compliance. …”
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Creating Semantic Learner Groups in Distance Education Using the GraphSAGE approach by Chetoui Ismail, El Bachari Essaid, Ait Lahcen Yassine

“…Traditional techniques often fall short in capturing the complex relationships inherent in such data. …”
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POT-Based Estimation of the Renewal Function of Interoccurrence Times of Heavy-Tailed Risks by Abdelhakim Necir, Abdelaziz Rassoul, Djamel Meraghni

“…Our results provide actuaries with confidence bounds for the renewal function of dangerous risks.…”
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On Certain Matrices of Bernoulli Numbers by Ruiming Zhang, Li-Chen Chen

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SUBSTANTIATION AND METHODOLOGY FOR ASSESSMENT OF HEALTHY LIFESTYLE FORMATION IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE by M. M. Potiazhenko, G. V. Nevoitt

“…Its quintessence consists in actualization of the healthy lifestyle issue in each country in order to reduce morbidity and mortality.…”
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