A Globally Optimal Robust Design Method for Complex Systems by Yue Chen, Jian Shi, Xiao-jian Yi

“…In order to decouple dimensions, a maximum solution hyperbox, expressed by intervals with respect to each design parameter, is sought. …”
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Functionalized Selenium Nanoparticles Enhance Anticancer Efficacy of Doxorubicin for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Therapy by Min Guo, Ying Tang, Liang Hua, Wanling Li, Guifang Gong, Yali Zhu, Bing Zhu, Yu Xia

“…In this drug delivery system, hyaluronic acid (HA) was used as a tumor-targeted moiety to bind with its receptor highly expressed in hepatocellular carcinoma cells. The transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and dynamic light scattering assays showed that HA-Se@DOX was a small and high stable nanocomposite. …”
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INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR AND EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR by Anes Hrnjić, Amila Pilav-Velić, Irma Đidelija, Hatidža Jahić

“…The results showed that job satisfaction expressed through compliance of challenging tasks, management practices, working conditions, corporate culture, compensation system, and professional competence significantly increases employees´  innovative behavior in the process of creating novel methods, techniques and instruments of labor or finding original solutions for on-going issues and changes in the business environment. …”
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Geometrically Nonlinear Analysis for Elastic Beam Using Point Interpolation Meshless Method by Cheng He, Xinhai Wu, Tao Wang, Huan He

“…Owing to the advantages of the intrinsic beam theory, the resulted equations are expressed in first-order partial differential form with second-order nonlinear terms. …”
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Analyzing Teachers’ Views on Education and Teaching Process within the Context of “Banking Education” by Adem Nefayaz, Ayhan Ural

“…On the other hand, teachers’ opinions on the dimension of education and teaching processes are that as expressed in the banking education model, the practices of recitation-oriented, rote-learning, and summative assessment continue. …”
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Bridging the Divide: Grouping EFL Undergraduate Students Based on Their Language Proficiency by Shahida Nurmatova, Osman Albdulkadir Ahmed

“…The results and findings of this research revealed that the majority of the study samples expressed their approval regarding the concept, for it was beneficial for both parties. …”
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Fuel Consumption Using OBD-II and Support Vector Machine Model by Tamer Abukhalil, Harbi AlMahafzah, Malek Alksasbeh, Bassam A. Y. Alqaralleh

“…The relationships are expressed as polynomial equations. The method which is composed of an SVM (support vector machine) classifier combined with Lagrange interpolation, is used to define the relationship between the two engine parameters and the overall fuel consumption. …”
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Metabolic and Morphological Aspects of Adaptation of Alkaliphilic Bacillus aequororis 5-DB and Alkali-Tolerant Bacillus subtilis ATCC 6633 to Changes in pH and Mineralization by Yuliya Maksimova, Ann Eliseeva, Aleksandr Maksimov

“…The resistance of B. aequororis 5-DB to low pH was expressed in higher metabolic activity, maintenance of ΔpH, and no significant cell damage. …”
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A Series Solution for the Vibration of Mindlin Rectangular Plates with Elastic Point Supports around the Edges by Fuzhen Pang, Haichao Li, Yuan Du, Shuo Li, Hailong Chen, Ning Liu

“…The supplementary functions are expressed as the combination of trigonometric functions and a single cosine series expansion and are introduced to remove the potential discontinuities associated with the original admissible functions along the edges when they are viewed as periodic functions defined over the entire x-y plane. …”
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A Convex Approach for Trajectory Optimization of Super-Synchronous-Transfer-Orbit Large Launch Systems with Time-Position Constraints by Yuan Li, Ruisheng Sun, Wei Chen, Nan Yang

“…To improve the computational performance of the algorithm, the terminal orbital element constraints are expressed in the perifocal coordinate system with second-order equations. …”
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Dynamic Analysis of Rectangular Plate Stiffened by Any Number of Beams with Different Lengths and Orientations by Yuan Cao, Rui Zhong, Dong Shao, Qingshan Wang, Xianlei Guan

“…According to IFSM, the displacement field of the plate and the stiffening beams are expressed as a combination of the Fourier cosine series and its auxiliary functions. …”
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Relationship of Middle School Student STEM Interest to Career Intent by Rhonda Christensen, Gerald Knezek

“…Among the middle school students who completed surveys for the MSOSW project, 46.6% expressed a desire to pursue a career in STEM at the time of the post test. …”
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Standardization of Alternative Methods for Nanogenotoxicity Testing in Drosophila melanogaster Using Iron Nanoparticles: A Promising Link to Nanodosimetry by Venkatachalam Deepa Parvathi, Kalyanaraman Rajagopal, Ravindran Sumitha

“…The wing spot assay has expressed transparent lack of toxicity in the studied concentrations of nanoiron. …”
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Nurses and Physicians Attitudes toward Nurse-Physician Collaboration: A Survey from Gaza Strip, Palestine by Aymen Elsous, Mahmoud Radwan, Samah Mohsen

“…Response rate was 42.8% (75.6% for nurses and 24.4% for physicians). Nurses expressed more positives attitudes toward collaboration than physicians (M ± SD on four-point scale: 3.40±0.30 and 3.01±0.35, resp.) and experience duration was not proved to have an interesting influence. …”
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Dynamic Stiffness Formulation for Free Vibration of Truncated Conical Shell and Its Combinations with Uniform Boundary Restraints by Chunyu Zhang, Guoyong Jin, Zhihao Wang, Xuqin Qian, Linghua Tian

“…The displacement fields are expressed as power series, and the coefficients of the series are obtained as recursion formula by substituting the power series into the governing equations. …”
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Regulatory T Cells in Autoimmune and Viral Chronic Hepatitis by Pascal Lapierre, Alain Lamarre

“…The liver can induce the conversion of naïve CD4+ T cells to CD4+ regulatory T cells and induce tolerance to locally expressed antigens. This tolerance mechanism is carefully regulated in physiological conditions but any imbalance could be pathological. …”
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Behaviour of Human Erythrocyte Aggregation in Presence of Autologous Lipoproteins by C. Saldanha, J. Loureiro, C. Moreira, J. Martins e Silva

“…For the same range of lipoprotein concentrations expressed as percentage of osmolality variation, the EAI variation was positive and higher in presence of HDL-C than upon enrichment with LDL-C (P<0.01). …”
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Entre désir de nature et peur de l’abandon : quelles attentes paysagères après l’arasement des barrages hydroélectriques de la Sélune ? by Marie-Anne Germaine, Ludovic Drapier, Laurent Lespez, Marie-Jo Menozzi, Olivier Thomas

“…The comparison of the landscape projects presented by the experts and the expectations expressed by the inhabitants pleads in favour of finding ways of more effectively taking the landscape into account. …”
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Public Perception of Environmental Pollution in Warri, Nigeria by AA Obafemi, OS Eludoyin, BM Akinbosola

“…Data were acquired by administering questionnaire among the residents of study area using random sampling method and descriptive statistics was used to explain the frequencies of variables being expressed in percentages. The result of the analysis showed that 72.4% of total respondents affirmed that air pollution was greatest among other types of pollution while the major source of pollution was oil spillage and gas flaring and there is no time that pollution cannot occur as 52.6% of respondents agreed on this. …”
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Effect of Cold Plasma on Quality Retention of Fresh-Cut Produce by Hadi Bagheri, Sepideh Abbaszadeh

“…In this review, first, an introduction to minimal processing and its effect on fresh-cut product quality was expressed, and then, the methods used to maintain fresh-cut product quality after minimal processing were reviewed. …”
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