The Great Age of the Car is on Its Way by Ferdinand Dudenhöffer

“…Abstract Contrary to some transport scientists, we are convinced that the passenger car has a great future ahead of it. On the one hand, economic growth in many countries will boost car density, i. e. more people will be able to afford their own car. …”
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Cross-Border Cooperation as Part of the Irish Peace Process: Opportunities, Impacts And Challenges by Andy Pollak

“…This article looks at the level of interaction between North and South on the island; asks what role the EU has played in this process and what are the challenges of measuring the impact of such cooperation; outlines the work of the Centre for Cross Border Studies, and looks ahead to the challenges facing cross-border cooperation in a period of severe financial and economic constraints.…”
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Returning Merchandise: Registering a Consumer Complaint by Mary N. Harrison

“…Many times there would be no need to return items if the customer shopped carefully and planned ahead. However, even the most efficient shopper will occasionally find it necessary to return a purchase for exchange or replacement. …”
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Returning Merchandise: Registering a Consumer Complaint by Mary N. Harrison

“…Many times there would be no need to return items if the customer shopped carefully and planned ahead. However, even the most efficient shopper will occasionally find it necessary to return a purchase for exchange or replacement. …”
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Non-Invasive Cancer Detection Using Blood Test and Predictive Modeling Approach by Tarawneh AS, Al Omari AK, Al-khlifeh EM, Tarawneh FS, Alghamdi M, Alrowaily MA, Alkhazi IS, Hassanat AB

“…Ahmad S Tarawneh,1 Ahmad K Al Omari,2,3 Enas M Al-khlifeh,4 Fatimah S Tarawneh,5 Mansoor Alghamdi,6 Majed Abdullah Alrowaily,7 Ibrahim S Alkhazi,8 Ahmad B Hassanat1 1Department of Information Technology, Mutah University, Al-Karak, Jordan; 2Department of Nursing, Jordanian Royal Medical Services, Amman, Jordan; 3Department of Nursing, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan; 4Department of Applied Biology, Al-Balqa Applied University, Salt, Jordan; 5Department of Nursing, Princess Muna College of Nursing, Mutah University, Al-Karak, Jordan; 6Department of Computer Science, Applied College, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia; 7Department of Computer Science, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Jouf University, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia; 8Department of Computer Science, College of Computers and Information Technology, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Enas M Al-khlifeh, Department of Applied Biology, Al-Balqa Applied University, Salt, Jordan, Tel +962792007289, Email Al-khlifeh.en@bau.edu.joPurpose: The incidence of cancer, which is a serious public health concern, is increasing. …”
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Prognostic Value of the Preoperative Lymphocyte‐to‐Monocyte Ratio for Postoperative Adverse Events in Patients with Acute Type a Aortic Dissection by Jia L, Wang Y, Wang J, Lin Y, Wang C, Chen C

“…Limin Jia,1 Yanfeng Wang,2 Junqiang Wang,1 Yulian Lin,1 Chunguo Wang,1 Caihua Chen1 1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province Affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University, Taizhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Geriatrics, Taizhou Central Hospital (Taizhou University Hospital) of Zhejiang, Taizhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Caihua Chen, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University, No. 150, Ximen Street, Linhai City, Taizhou, Zhejiang, 317000, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86-13867656416, Email Chencaihua2024@163.comObjective: To investigate the prognostic value of the preoperative lymphocyte‐to‐monocyte ratio (LMR) for postoperative adverse events in patients with acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD).Methods: A retrospective study of the clinical data collected in our hospital between March 2015 and January 2024 was performed on 290 patients diagnosed with ATAAD who underwent surgical treatment and met the inclusion criteria for patient selection. …”
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A closer look at IIsaac Oluwole Delano’s A Dictionary of Yoruba Monosyllabic Verbs by Toyin Falola, Michael Oladejo Afolayan

“…We spoke to the utility of the dictionary and lamented over its obvious underutilization. We then went ahead to provide the various types of dictionaries and their value as a modern research tool. …”
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Kensington ou Tintin au pays des Runologues by Christophe Bord

“…The following pages present a survey of the century-old, fairly heated debate over the most famous runic forgery of all time known as the Kensington inscription, from the name of the place where it was found at the very end of the nineteenth century by a Swedish farmer in the “Scandinavian” state of Minnesota.Although crushing new evidence speaking against the authenticity of the monument surfaced a few years ago, a group of unwavering believers are still championing the cause of what they see as irrefutable proof of Scandinavian presence in the heart of the New World a century ahead of Columbus. We also suggest some of the (subconscious) causes of their “faith”.…”
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Raising Healthy Children: Frugal Shopping Tips for Families by Julie M. Martinez, Shari Bresin, Karla P. Shelnutt

“…This publication will discuss ways to plan ahead and strategies to help stretch your food dollars. …”
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Raising Healthy Children: Frugal Shopping Tips for Families by Julie M. Martinez, Shari Bresin, Karla P. Shelnutt

“…This publication will discuss ways to plan ahead and strategies to help stretch your food dollars. …”
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"DO NOT LET LAURELS CARRY YOU AWAY, THEY ARE CHEAP STUFF..." (VAVILOV’S ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF G. D. KARPECHENKO AS A LEADER OF GENETIC RESEARCH AT VIR) by M. A. Vishnyakova

“…As a result, for the years ahead, theoretical justification and experimental implementation of new methods of breeding material development was identified. …”
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Low failure recovery cost controller placement strategy in software defined networks by Qi WU, Hongchang CHEN

“…The controller placement is an important problem in software defined networks.Existing researches pay more attention to deploying controller planning for node failures and ignore the fact that the link failure can also effect the network drastically.To solve the problem,a mathematical model for the controller placement that plans ahead for the link failures to avoid a drastic increase failure recovery cost was proposed.To solve the model,an algorithm based on simulated annealing was designed.The simulation results show that the proposed model and algorithm can improve the robustness of the network.The maximum failure recovery cost is significantly reduced when a link falls in failures.…”
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Anomaly detection model based on multi-grained cascade isolation forest algorithm by Xiaohui YANG, Shengchang ZHANG

“…The isolation-based anomaly detector,isolation forest has two weaknesses,its inability to detect anomalies that were masked by axis-parallel clusters,and anomalies in high-dimensional data.An isolation mechanism based on random hyperplane and a multi-grained scanning was proposed to overcome these weaknesses.The random hyperplane generated by a linear combination of multiple dimensions was used to simplify the isolation boundary of the data model which was a random linear classifier that can detect more complex data patterns,so that the isolation mechanism was more consistent with data distribution characteristics.The multi-grained scanning was used to perform dimensional sub-sampling which trained multiple forests to generate a hierarchical ensemble anomaly detection model.Experiments show that the improved isolation forest has better robustness to different data patterns and improves the efficiency of anomaly points in high-dimensional data.…”
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Predicting Last Spring Freezing Day in West and Northwest of Iran by Hasan Zolfaghari, Gholamreza Zahedi, Tayebe Sajjadifar

“…Biggest errors in this work belong to Arak station with 1.1142 % and smallest errors belong to Mahabad station with 0.254 %. It was concluded that zonation of the religion based on accomplished prediction exposed effects of the both height and topography.…”
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Data management based on blockchain and edge computing for Internet of things by Guanjie CHENG, Zhengjie HUANG, Shuiguang DENG

“…The popularity of smart devices has driven the development of the application of Internet of things (IoT) technology,and the resulting massive amount of IoT data has brought challenges to traditional centralized data management methods,such as performance,privacy,and security.Therefore,a data management framework of IoT based on blockchain and edge computing was proposed to support the distributed IoT data management.The distributed storage and access control could be provided by the framework for the IoT data.At the same time,a set of the built-in encryption scheme was designed to protect the data security and privacy and safeguard the data ownership.By introducing edge computing,the scalability bottleneck of the blockchain the system was relieved.The processes of data storage and data access based on this framework were given,and the algorithm of the system implementation based on the smart contract technology was explained in detail.Experiments show that the IoT data management system based on this framework outperforms the traditional cloud-based data management systems.…”
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DÜŞÜNCE DENEYLERİNİN DOĞASI VE İŞLEVİ by Lokman Çilingir

“…Ancak düşünce deneylerinin önemli bir kısmı, en azından ilk bakışta, olgusal bilgiyi tecrübi (laboratuvar tekniğine dayalı) değil de a priori şekilde tasarlama olanağı olarak kabul edildiğinden, deneyci ekolden gelen çoğu bilim felsefecisi düşünce deneylerinin “deney” statüsünü kuşkuyla karşılamıştır. Bilimsel sahada olduğu kadar felsefi sahada da düşünce deneylerine sıkça başvurulur. …”
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Disaster Planning Tips for Older Adults by Carolyn S. Wilken, Linda B. Bobroff, Emily Minton

“…Communications often are down early in a disaster, so knowing where to meet loved ones or friends ahead of time is helpful. Use the special tips in this 4-page revised fact sheet to plan and prepare for any emergency. …”
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Platelet‐activating factor: a potential therapeutic target to improve cancer immunotherapy by Qi Yan, Hemn Mohammadpour

“…The tumor microenvironment (TME) fosters cancer progression by supporting the differentiation and proliferation of myeloid‐derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), which play a critical role in suppressing immune responses and facilitating tumor growth. Recent findings by Dahal et al. reveal that platelet‐activating factor (PAF), a lipid mediator elevated in the TME, contributes to the differentiation of neutrophils into immunosuppressive neutrophils. …”
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Analysis of Shiftability of Transmission Synchronizer based on Bench Test by Zhong Zifeng, Lu Jian

“…The simulation data are compared with test data,the analysis results show that they are basically identical,the difference is that the simulation shifting time is slightly ahead of the bench test time,the feasibility and accuracy of simulation results are verified.…”
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A Conceptual Critique of Asia Versus the West by Mazdak Rajabi

“…The book commences from the point which has not hitherto been considered, except for Ahmad Fardid, who has invented the term “Westernized” by which he explains the relation of “us” and the West, but his lectures had not been published before Shayegan wrote his book. …”
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