The African Economies and Agricultural Value-Added – Contribution to GDP. Top Economies of 20 Countries in Africa 2012 by Hemmali Nagmy, Patrik Rovny, Lucia Vilhanová

“…In this paper the economic fundamentals of African selected countries are explained in order to place these countries’ economies in perspective before continuing to examine the GDP settings of the countries in order to similarly place their agricultural sectors in perspective. …”
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Improved Method for Predicting the Performance of the Physical Links in Telecommunications Access Networks by Ferenc Lilik, Szilvia Nagy, László T. Kóczy

“…The basis of the operable and tested method will be introduced, then an improved version is shown, in which the problems derived from sampling of continuous functions of electrical parameters are eliminated by wavelet transformation. …”
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Scenario-Planning Method for Cost Estimation Using Morphological Analysis by Sae-Hyun Ji, Joseph Ahn

“…Furthermore, this method can provide a contingency plan to cushion against uncertainties.…”
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Irrigation System Descriptions for Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Crops in Florida by Jonathan Henry Crane, Haimanote Bayabil, Edward A. Evans, Fredy Ballen

“… Florida's tropical and subtropical fruit crop industries use various irrigation systems, including high-volume systems designed for irrigation and freeze protection, drip systems for herbaceous fruit crops (papaya, banana), and microsprinkler types, mainly for irrigation and fertigation. There continues to be a steady stream of potential tropical and subtropical fruit producers in Florida, many with little to no knowledge of the various types or purposes of various irrigation system that have been used successfully for the past 60 years. …”
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Nurses’ Attitude About Pap Smear As An Early Screening Method For Cervical Cancer In The Private Hospital by Marlina Elfrida Sinaga, Puji Astutik, Belet Lydia Ingrit, Fransiska Ompusunggu

“…The conclusion of this study is that the positive attitude of nurses towards early detection of pap smears is expected to be maintained and furthermore the hospital continues to provide health facilities for female nurses to carry out early detection of cervical cancer as an annual program from hospital. …”
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Morphable 3D-Mosaics: A Hybrid Framework for Photorealistic Walkthroughs of Large Natural Environments by Nikos Komodakis, Georgios Tziritas

“…To this end, based just on a sparse set of real stereoscopic views from the scene, a set of morphable 3D-mosaics is automatically constructed first, and then, during rendering, a continuous morphing between those 3D-mosaics that are nearby to the current viewpoint is taking place. …”
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Restriction Analysis of Transport Policy for Bridges Using the Trajectory Data by Zhenghua Hu, Jibiao Zhou, Shuichao Zhang, Songhan He, Bo’an Yu

“…Roads are becoming increasingly congested with continuous rise in the number of vehicles. Restriction policies are selected to alleviate congestion in many cities. …”
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A Prediction-Correction Dynamic Method for Large-Scale Generalized Eigenvalue Problems by Xin-long Luo, Jia-ru Lin, Wei-ling Wu

“…Second, according to the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions of this special equality-constrained problem, a special continuous dynamical system of differential-algebraic equations is obtained. …”
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The Role of Leukotriene Receptor Signaling in Inflammation and Cancer by Ramin Massoumi, Anita Sjölander

“…In addition, we delineate how continuous CysLT1 receptor activation and signaling can increase cell survival and proliferation as important early steps toward oncogenicity.…”
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Basic Parameters of Drying Device with Inner Netted Receptacle by A. A. Askarova, O. Zh. Apbozov

“…Specific feature of the accepted drying device design is that the process is carried out in continuous mode: temperature and  heated air velocity along the height and width of the drying chamber are unchangeable due to design of heat supply channel located inside of netted receptacle. …”
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La Collaboration comme mode d’exercice au sein de l’agence d’architecture d’Eugène Beaudouin by Anne-Sophie Cachat-Suchet

“…After the Second World war, Beaudouin took the lead alone as the head of his new architectural agency, yet sources reveal that he continued to work in the same way, collaborating with others. …”
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Conservative Medical Management of a Tracheal Perforation after Blunt Trauma in a Patient with SARS-CoV-2 by Mateo Zuluaga-Gómez, Daniel González-Arroyave, Carlos M. Ardila

“…The tomography revealed an anterior and proximal tracheal lesion, a 2-mm solution of continuity of the anterior infraglottic airway in the proximal third with subcutaneous emphysema and a decrease in the diameter of the airway at the level of the glottis. …”
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Doctoral training strategy at the Cienfuegos University of Medical Sciences: experiences and results five years after its implementation by Miriam Iglesias León, Norma Mur Villar, José Aurelio Quiñones Díaz, Anays Núñez Herrera

“…The health professionals' permanent or continuous training and improvement process, requires that medical sciences cuban universities search for creative alternatives to train their professionals as science doctors. …”
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MODERNIZATION, OPTIMIZATION, BUREAUCRATIZATION... WHAT AWAITS HIGHER SCHOOL TOMORROW? by Lyudmila F. Krasinskaya

“…The author strongly argues that the continuous reforming of education system has not brought positive results, and expresses a hope in positive changes in this sphere owing to the inner capability of the pedagogical community.…”
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Oral Syphilis: A Reemerging Infection Prompting Clinicians’ Alertness by Sebastian Dybeck Udd, Bodil Lund

“…Despite seven visits to six different medical doctors, a patient who presented with oral syphilis was continuously misdiagnosed. After 6 months of increasing complaints and deteriorating severity of disease, the patient was referred to an oral and maxillofacial surgeon where the correct diagnosis was determined and proper treatment initiated.…”
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Professional and public accreditation as a management mechanism tool of socio-economic processes in the field of additional professional education by I. I. Deren, K. A. Erina

“…The article is devoted to the system analysis of organizations implementing programs of additional professional education as an element of the continuing education system in the Russian Federation. …”
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Efficient Method to Approximately Solve Retrial Systems with Impatience by Jose Manuel Gimenez-Guzman, M. Jose Domenech-Benlloch, Vicent Pla, Jorge Martinez-Bauset, Vicente Casares-Giner

“…This novel technique does not rely on the numerical solution of the steady-state Kolmogorov equations of the Continuous Time Markov Chain as it is common for this kind of systems but it considers the system in its Markov Decision Process setting. …”
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Effect of Different Parameters on Mechanical and Erosion Wear Behavior of Bamboo Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Composites by Anu Gupta, Ajit Kumar, Amar Patnaik, Sandhyarani Biswas

“…The application of natural fibers as reinforcement in polymer composites has been continuously growing during the last few decades. These composites find diverse applications in hostile environment where they are exposed to external attacks such as solid particle erosion. …”
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Heparan sulphate inhibition of cell proliferation induced by TGFβ and PDGF by lan E. Silber, Jeanine M. Walenga, Jawed Fareed, Elizabeth J. Kovacs

“…In contrast, beef lung heparin, chondroitin sulphate, and dermatan sulphate failed to block growth factor induced proliferation. Continuous presence of HS was not required, suggesting that the inhibitory effects resulted from a direct effect on the cell rather than an interaction of the GAG with growth factors. …”
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Dynamics of a brake system governed by modified Burridge-Knopoff-Pad model by Oma Nfor Nkeh, Akoni Brikly Njinabo, Waindim Yisa Tufoin Albert, Kenfack Djifack Hunnel

“…Our investigation brings into sharp focus the role of nonlinearity, and strongly suggests that the instability of perturbed continuous wave is physically manifested as brake squeal noise. …”
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