Investigation of ANN Architecture for Predicting Load-Carrying Capacity of Castellated Steel Beams by Thuy-Anh Nguyen, Hai-Bang Ly, Van Quan Tran

“…With the optimal ANN architecture [9-1-1] containing one hidden layer, the performance of the ANN model is evaluated based on statistical criteria such as R2, RMSE, and MAE. …”
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Building an African Counter-Terrorism Architecture by Jolaade Omede, Arinze Ngwube

“…To tackle these issues, nation-states, sub-regional, regional and continental bodies face the daunting task of evolving effective strategies for checkmating or containing the phenomenon. Indeed, many African countries have come to be faced with the problem of how to curtail the activities of terrorist groups, most of who operate on an established external link with notable and wealthy global insurgency groups. …”
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Application of Force-Moment Sensors in Manipulator Control Systems by I. N. Scherbak

“…Maintenance of contact between an object and a manipulator is rather complicated task and it does not have definitive solution. The paper contains mathematical description of various manipulator control methods with application of feedback force loop. …”
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Optimization of hybrid photovoltaic-thermal systems integrated into buildings: Impact of bi-fluid exchangers and filling gases on the thermal and electrical performances of solar c... by Kokou Aménuvéla Toka, Yawovi Nougbléga, Komi Apélété Amou

“…We present a photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) system with a two-channel heat exchanger. The upper channel contains a stagnant fluid, which acts as a heat shield, while the lower, open channel ensures the continuous circulation or evacuation of heat transfer air. …”
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Agricultural Technology for Phytophage and Phytopathogen Resistant Planting Material by Evgenia A. Dyukova, Ekaterina G. Ulyanova, Maria A. Osintseva, Victoria A. Kryuk

“…The technology was able to improve the survival rate of pine seedlings in forest container nurseries in the harsh climate of West Siberia.…”
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Hierarchical Modeling and Dynamic Analysis of Hoist System in Electric Mining Shovel by Wei Sun, Jianan Du, Lintao Wang, Penglong Luan, Jie li

“…In order to analyze the vibration of the EMS hoist system, a coupled dynamic model is proposed using the hierarchical modeling method, which contains couplings of bolt, bear, coupling, rope, and gear mesh. …”
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Métaphores temporelles et offrandes alimentaires : pratiques d’élaboration du sens rituel by Aline Hémond

“…The first one consists in displaying on the ground all of the food items which constitute the ritual deposit and the second is conformed by a ritual container made of a agave filled with food which is thrown in the abyss and has to reach the bottom without overturning. …”
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Soil data from the Barbastro-Balaguer gypsum belt, NE SpainMendeley Data by Juan Herrero, María Tierra, Carmen Castañeda

“…In the absence of a soil map, our dataset can help in the decisions to be made by the authorities, as is the case for water allocation to irrigated estates both in operation and planned, or for authorizations for the spreading of pig slurry.The herein presented soil data were collected with the classical techniques of pedological prospection. The dataset [1] contains the scans in .TIFF format of 150 whole thin sections of the soils, under both plane polarized light (PPL) and cross polarized light (XPL). …”
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Guar, jantar, wheat straw, and rice hull composts as replacements for peat in muskmelon transplant production by Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad Arif Ali, Donald Smith, Timothy Schwinghamer, John R. Lamont, Niaz Ahmed, Sajjad Hussain, Muhammad Arshad

“…Fresh weight, height, and root length were generally greater for seedlings grown in media-containing rice hull compost than for those grown in media-containing other composts. …”
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Scheme of extending elliptic curve method to three phases by Guiwen LUO

“…Elliptic curve method for integer factorization (ECM) is one of the most popular integer factorization algorithms,and it was firstly proposed by Lenstra in 1985.The original ECM contained just first phase.Since its invention,researches about the algorithm and implementation emerged up,among which the most important improvement is the extension to two phases proposed by Brent and Montgomery.This improvement tremendously strengthened ECM's capacity and efficiency.Elliptic curve method was extended to three phases.Extension method is kind of like “mixing together” the first phase and second phase.Compared to the best current two phases ECM,the new algorithm shows 2 advantages.First,under the same factorization parameters,the proposed algorithm improves the probability of finding out prime factor at the expense of negligible increasement of time.Second,when searching the same prime factor,the proposed algorithm can utilize smaller “smoothness parameters”.…”
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Identification of bla OXA−51−23−58, bla VIM , bla NDM, and bla IMP carbapenemase genes in Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from hospitalized patients by Kosar Salmani Nasrabadi, Yasaman Ahmadi, Seyed Mahdi Ghasemi, Dariush Shokri

“…Based on the antibiotic resistance pattern, 25 isolates were chosen for PCR analysis targeting bla OXA−51, bla OXA−23, blaOXA−58, bla NDM, bla IMP, and bla VIM genes PCR results revealed that among the selected isolates, 15 (60.0%) harbored the bla OXA−23 gene, 23 (92.0%) contained the bla OXA−51 gene, and 1 (4.0%) isolate carried the bla NDM gene. …”
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FINANCIAL-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PRODUCER GROUPS IN POLAND, AND CONDITIONS FOR THE FUNCTIONING OF PRODUCER GROUPS by Dawid Olewnicki, Ewa Sabała, Dagmara Stangierska

“…Organizations on the fruit and vegetable market show significant variation in functioning as well as in the production andeconomic results achieved.The aim of the article is to assess the financial and economic situation and provide strategic analysis of the conditions for the operation of fruit and vegetable producer groups in Poland.Research was conducted on the basis of data contained in the financial statements from 2016-2017 and the financial liquidity and profitability ratios calculated on their basis. …”
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Optimising deep learning models for ophthalmological disorder classification by S. Vidivelli, P. Padmakumari, C. Parthiban, A. DharunBalaji, R. Manikandan, Amir H. Gandomi

“…The Ocular Disease Intelligent Recognition (ODIR) database is used for experiments, and it contains fundus images of the patient’s left and right eyes. …”
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Remediation of Soils Contaminated by Fluoride Using a Fermentation Product of Seaweed (Eucheuma cottonii) by Ruth Lorivi Moirana, Josephine Mkunda, Marcos Paradelo, Revocatus Machunda, Kelvin Mtei

“…Furthermore, the amendment also enhanced microbial mass and diversity in the soil. The FSW contains organic acids which participate in ionic bonding with the multivalent cations in the soil. …”
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Essence and prospects of media criticism research in contemporary Russia by R.P. Bakanov

“…At present, this field of activity is mainly reflected in newspapers and magazines and online publications that contain media assessments (usually television). The authors of such texts are mainly critics, professionals who have many years of experience in journalism, art criticism, and other types of criticism (for example, theatrical, film criticism). …”
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Biopharmaceutical characterisation of ciprofloxacin-metallic ion interactions: Comparative study into the effect of aluminium, calcium, zinc and iron on drug solubility and dissolu... by Stojković Aleksandra, Tajber Lidia, Paluch Krzysztof J., Djurić Zorica, Parojčić Jelena, Corrigan Owen I.

“…In the present work, comparative in vitro ciprofloxacin solubility and dissolution studies were performed in the reactive media containing aluminium hydroxide, calcium carbonate or zinc sulphate. …”
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On ∼n Notion of Conjugacy in Some Classes of Epigroups by Aftab Hussain Shah, Amal S. Alali, Mohd Rafiq Parray

“…∼n is an equivalence relation in any semigroup, coincides with the usual group theoretic notion if the underlying semigroup is a group, and does not reduce to a universal relation even if S contains a zero. In this paper, we study ∼n notion of conjugacy in some classes of epigroups. …”
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Postscript on the «Siberian Century»: response to Alexey Sushko by P. A. Eltsov

“…The article contains a reply to the critical comments by Alexey Sushko on the translation of the separate chapter from the book «Long Telegram 2: Neo-Kennanite Approach to Russia» by the American anthropologist, historian and political scientist Peter Eltsov. …”
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Deux fragments d’un nécrologe de la Trinité de Fécamp (XIe-XIIe siècles). Étude et édition critique d’un document mémoriel exceptionnel by Stéphane Lecouteux

“…The composite miscellany Paris, BnF, nouv. acq. lat. 2389 contains, on folios 33 and 34, two fragments of a necrology copied at the end of the 11th century, which was then added to throughout the following century. …”
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Modelling the air quality impacts of a zero emission zone scenario in the city of Milan by Andrea Piccoli, Valentina Agresti, Marco Bedogni, Giovanni Lonati, Guido Pirovano

“…The road traffic emission reduction introduced by the ZEZ30 scenario compared to the BAS30 scenario is high in the model cells contained within the ZEZ area (complete removal of NOx emissions and up to −45% PM2.5), but given the limited area of the ZEZ the citywide reduction of emissions is 2.24% for NOx and 0.91% for PM2.5. …”
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