Leber hereditary optic neuropathy by R. Liutkevičienė, A. Sidaraitė, I. Kozlovskaja, V. Ašmonienė, N. Jurkutė

“…However, better understanding of disease mechanisms and ongoing treatment trials are promising and brings hope for patients. In this article we summarize clinical presentation, diagnostic features, and treatment of LHON. …”
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Functional Evaluation of Asibot: A New Approach on Portable Robotic System for Disabled People by Alberto Jardón, Concepción A. Monje, Carlos Balaguer

“…Our main objective is to develop a new concept of portable robot able to support the elderly and those people with different levels of disability during the execution of daily tasks, such as washing their face or hands, brushing their teeth, combing their hair, eating, drinking, and bringing objects closer, among others. Our prototype, ASIBOT, is a five degrees of freedom (DOF) self-contained manipulator that includes the control system and electronic equipment on board. …”
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Utilising Smartphone Light Sensors to Measure Egg White Ovalbumin Concentration in Eggs Collected from Yinchuan City, China by Linlin Liu, Hualin Bi

“…Cost-effective, portable, and rapid smartphone sensors will play a critical role in bringing chemical detection technologies from central laboratories to simple laboratories, such as those of schools in less-developed area. …”
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An Optimized Collision Avoidance Decision-Making System for Autonomous Ships under Human-Machine Cooperation Situations by Xiaolie Wu, Kezhong Liu, Jinfen Zhang, Zhitao Yuan, Jiongjiong Liu, Qing Yu

“…Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASSs) are attracting increasing attention in recent years as it brings new opportunities for water transportation. …”
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Publishing, bookselling and the World Wide Web by Amanda Spink

“…This working paper brings together concepts and ideas about the role of information in the future of humanity. …”
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Beyond the Convergence-Divergence Divide: Comparing Banking Regulation in Latin America by Mario Schapiro

“…Conversely, Chile, a market-friendly country, has not adhered to international capital rules on the same level. …”
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Design of PV, Battery, and Supercapacitor-Based Bidirectional DC-DC Converter Using Fuzzy Logic Controller for HESS in DC Microgrid by Senthil Kumar Ramu, Indragandhi Vairavasundaram, Belqasem Aljafari, Tareq Kareri

“…When sudden changes in irradiance occur, the proposed FLC brings the voltage back to the desired level in terms of transient response like 33 ms settling times and 19% overshoot values. …”
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Global Analysis of a Discrete Nonlocal and Nonautonomous Fragmentation Dynamics Occurring in a Moving Process by E. F. Doungmo Goufo, S. C. Oukouomi Noutchie

“…., 1997), the resolvent approximation (Yosida, 1980), Duhamel formula (John, 1982), and Dyson-Phillips series (Phillips, 1953) to establish the existence of a solution for a discrete nonlocal and nonautonomous fragmentation process in a moving medium, hereby, bringing a contribution that may lead to the proof of uniqueness of strong solutions to this type of transport and nonautonomous fragmentation problem which remains unsolved.…”
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A Comprehensive Review of Serious Games in Health Professions by Francesco Ricciardi, Lucio Tommaso De Paolis

“…The use of new technology such as virtual reality and e-learning brings new possibilities with significant improvement in learning outcomes. …”
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Medical Image Segmentation for Mobile Electronic Patient Charts Using Numerical Modeling of IoT by Seung-Hoon Chae, Daesung Moon, Deok Gyu Lee, Sung Bum Pan

“…Internet of Things (IoT) brings telemedicine a new chance. This enables the specialist to consult the patient’s condition despite the fact that they are in different places. …”
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Latina Community College Presidents: Drawing from Cultural Intuition to Disrupt Leadership Norms in Higher Education by Cynthia Estrada, Eric R. Felix, Erin Nicole Reyes Vedar, Elizabeth Jimenez Perez

“…This study documents the unique personal and professional experiences that Latina leaders bring to the role of community college president. …”
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Influence of terms of fabrication on electrical and photoelectric properties of photocell on base of Schottky barrier contact Pd-n-GaAs by A. I. Blesman, R. B. Burlakov

“…There is shown that air annealing of structures n-n+-GaAs-AuGe under (200–210) C within 30 minutes before precipitating a film Pd on n-GaAs brings: to the reduction on two orders direct Idir and inverse Iinv currents (under 0,5 V), to reduction on three orders of density of the current of the saturation J0 , to reduction of capacities of photocells before values (241– 233) pF under inverse tensions (0,22–0,96) V, reduction of the current of the short circuit of photocells and to increase their photovoltage that connected with formation fine insulator film on n-GaAs under air annealing of structures n-n+-GaAs-AuGe.…”
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O constructo economia plural nos estudos relacionados com a economia solidária: revisão sistemática no período 2000-2016 by Suzana Melissa de Moura Mafra da Silva, Washington José de Souza, Ana Paula Borba Costa

“…This text brings results of a qualitative research, carried out from an approach of systematic review of the literature on academic production regarding plural economics, having as reference the use of the plural economy construct in national and international scientific texts, available in the Portal de Periódicos Capes. …”
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Lithuania in the Centrai and Eastem Europe of the 16th-18th Centuries: "Feudal Reaction" or Peripheral Capitalism? by Darius Žiemelis

“…Wallerstein provides of the second serfdom in Central and Eastern Europe (especially in the Polish-Lithuanian state) with earlier interpretations of it (especially in Marxist historiography) and attempts to provide an answer that will bring greater focus to later investigations by establishing greater explanatory power of the comparative conceptions. …”
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Two-Stage GPR Image Inversion Method Based on Multi-Scale Dilated Convolution and Hybrid Attention Gate by Mingze Wu, Qinghua Liu, Shan Ouyang

“…In practical applications, the complexity and nonuniformity of underground structures bring noise and clutter interference, making GPR inversion problems more challenging. …”
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Entre fidélité et adaptation : la traduction en chinois de la chanson « Penser l’impossible » dans Mozart, l’opéra rock by Miao Li

“…La traduction de chansons représente d’autant plus un défi en chinois, langue monosyllabique où le traducteur se doit de respecter la versification et la fluidité chantable. He Cheng, traductrice de Mozart, l’Opéra rock, dont il sera question ici, privilégie ainsi une traduction fluide et cohérente. …”
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İTAAT KÜLTÜRÜNÜN OLUŞMASINDA HADİSLERİN ROLÜ by İlyas Canikli

“…Contrary to that main conception, it is a common fact that there are some hadithes in the hadith litarature which bring the rulers’ rights in the foreground and force the ruled ones to abide them unconditionally. …”
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A Resilience-Based Security Assessment Approach for CBTC Systems by Ruiming Lu, Huiyu Dong, Hongwei Wang, Dongliang Cui, Li Zhu, Xi Wang

“…With the continuous exposure of information technology vulnerabilities, security risks are increasing, and information is easy to use by malicious attackers, which can bring huge property and economic losses. The communication-based train control (CBTC) system is the most important subsystem of urban rail transit. …”
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DEPENDENCE OF A GAS-PHASE DNA GLOBULE SIZE ON CHAIN LENGTH by T. N. Goryachkovskaya, A. S. Kozlov, V. M. Popik, N. A. Kolchanov, S. E. Peltek

“…Modern trends in using DNA in nano- and biotechnologies generated the need for new methods of analyzing DNA molecules with up-to-date equipment. …”
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A Logistic Growth Model with Discrete-Time Delay and a Restriction on Harvesting by Martin Anokye

“…In the event that the agency detects overfishing, all fish harvesting is prohibited, with the fishing control parameter raised in order to bring the fish back to full stock, while the catchability coefficient is set to zero. …”
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