Adaptive Freeshape Clustering for Balanced Energy Saving in the WirelessHART Networks by Guangbing Xiao, Jiamin Shi, Ning Sun, Yong Chen, Yong Zhang

“…The frequent data convergecasting from the sensor nodes to the gateways may cause imbalanced energy consumption in the Wireless Highway Addressable Remote Transducer (WirelessHART) networks, yielding a short network lifetime and frequent failures in the data acquisition. …”
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Excited states of mono- and biruthenium(II) complexes adsorbed on nanocrystalline titanium dioxide studied by electroabsorption spectroscopy by Daniel Pelczarski, Błażej Gierczyk, Maciej Zalas, Malgorzata Makowska-Janusik, Waldemar Stampor

“…The extracted values of relevant parameters, relating to molecular dipoles after optical MLCT (metal-to-ligand-charge-transfer) excitation, exhibit a clearly noticeable increase for Ru complexes adsorbed on TiO2, but they are too small to be attributed to excitation associated with the direct transfer of an electron from the dye adsorbate to the TiO2 semiconductor. …”
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Contribution of Phosphorylation Modification to Stability and Antibacterial Activity of Egg White Protein Nanogels Loaded with Cinnamon Bark Essential Oil by Sheng-Qi Rao, Xin-Ru Gao, Hui Liu, Zhi-Rong Wang, Zhen-Quan Yang

“…Compared to EWP-CBEO nanogels without chemical phosphorylation, the obtained P-EWP-CBEO nanogels have shown smaller average hydrodynamic diameter (133.6 nm), relatively uniform size distribution (polydispersity index around 0.265), enhanced negative surface charge (−35.4 mV), and improved stability under the conditions of high temperature (up to 90 °C) and ionic strength (up to 200 mM NaCl). …”
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Statistical production of Bc mesons in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC energy by Shouxing Zhao, Min He

“…The recombination production of Bc mesons in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC energy is facilitated by the abundant and highly thermalized charm (c) quarks transported in the deconfined medium created. …”
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Corneal Backscatters as an Objective Index for Assessing Fuchs’ Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy: A Pilot Study by Hsueh-Yen Chu, Ching-Hsi Hsiao, Phil Yeong-Fong Chen, David Hui-Kang Ma, Chee-Jen Chang, Hsin-Yuan Tan

“…Morphologically, hanging-hammock patterns were noted on the densitograms of FECD patients, which were different from the high-back chair patterns in normal subjects. Quantitatively, mean AD and DM/AD were both elevated in FECD patients as compared with normal subjects (P=0.01 and 0.025, resp.). …”
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Benjamin’s gamble: commodifying life in the age of heroic demise by Stephanie Polsky

“…In the last years of his life Walter Benjamin’s critical project was centred on locating a threshold between Paris of the nineteenth century and Berlin of the twentieth that would reveal an affinity between two ages, which together set the parameters of modernity itself. …”
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Climate change and the single cell by Derek T. A. Lamport

“… In The Power of Movement in Plants, Charles Darwin details many examples of oscillatory growth, recently exemplified at the single-cell level by pollen tube tip oscillations and associated ion fluxes, particularly of Ca2+and H+. …”
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Theoretical and Numerical Research on V-Cut Parameters and Auxiliary Cuthole Criterion in Tunnelling by Xiaoming Lou, Bao Wang, En Wu, Mingwu Sun, Ping Zhou, Zhenchang Wang

“…A theoretical solution for increasing the critical depth of the auxiliary center cuthole and the criteria for increasing the cuthole diameter of various types of cutholes when the rock attributes, explosive properties, and cuthole dip angle are constant are proposed. (1) If charging length le < 0.75H/sin θ, no auxiliary cuthole is needed. (2) If 0.75H/sin θ < le < 0.75H/sin θ + (2∼4) × 0.1, a central vertical auxiliary hole is needed. (3) If 0.75H/sin θ + (2∼4) × 0.1 < le < 0.75(H/sin θ + Hi/sin θi), a shallow inclined hole is needed. (4) If le > 0.75(H/sin θ + Hi/sin θi), both the central vertical cuthole and the shallow inclined cuthole are needed. …”
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Classification by production: an alternative criterion to categorization by Luis Yáñez, Nidia Rojas, Ricardo Aparicio, Manuel Mazzei, Eugenio Maldonado, Jairo Fernández, Nicola Fabbozzo, Rafael Rincón, Rafael Urdaneta

“…In the absence of an institution in charge of the Stud Book, over time, this scarce information was lost to the point where it was impossible to recover it. …”
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The Specific Features of the Contemporary Russian Foreign Energy Policy Shift in Modern Times by E. S. Leonov

“…In recent years there has been brewing up a necessity in Russia to change direction of its external energy policy radically as a result of unconstructive and hugely politically charged approach of the EU - main and traditional partner of Russia - to settlement of fundamental issues in bilateral cooperation. …”
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Particle motion and QPOs around Euler-Heisenberg black hole immersed in cold dark matter halo by G. Mustafa, S.K. Maurya, Tayyab Naseer, Arzu Cilli, Ertan Güdekli, Assmaa Abd-Elmonem, Neissrien Alhubieshi

“…This black hole solution is characterized by five parameters, namely, the black hole mass M, the feature radius R, the parameter ρ describing the density of the cold dark matter halo, the quantum electrodynamics parameter α, and the black hole charge Q. We confine ourselves to an equatorial plane and examine the stability of equatorial circular orbits with the help of the effective potential. …”
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Teoria e políticas de reconhecimento by Adriana Ribeiro de Macedo

“… As teorias do reconhecimento vêm sendo intensamente debatidas nas últimas décadas a partir da análise de que as lutas de classe não confrontavam formas de discriminação por raça, gênero, etnia e orientação sexual. Axel Honneth e Charles Taylor são pensadores importantes nessa discussão. …”
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Mechanical ventilation in patients diagnosed with COVID -19 by Adisnay Rodríguez Plasencia, Jennifer Lisette Miranda Miranda, Rider Fabiàn Donoso Noroña, Elisabeth Germania Vilema Vizuete

“…A population of 176 patients who were treated in the Intensive Care Unit and who met the following inclusion criteria: connected patients to mechanical ventilation and that the doctor in charge agreed to include them in the research were analyzed.…”
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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Modulates Neurogenesis and Microglia Activation in the Mouse Brain by Anton Pikhovych, Nina Paloma Stolberg, Lea Jessica Flitsch, Helene Luise Walter, Rudolf Graf, Gereon Rudolf Fink, Michael Schroeter, Maria Adele Rueger

“…Multisession tDCS at a sublesional charge density led to a polarity-dependent downregulation of the constitutive expression of Iba1 by microglia in the mouse cortex. …”
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Visual Emotive Meaning in Conservation Advocacy: An Analysis of WWF’s Public Service Announcements by Xu Song, Kesumawati A. Bakar

“…World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has developed a diverse range of emotionally-charged print Public Service Announcements (PSAs) to draw the public’s attention to wildlife conservation. …”
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COMMERCIAL BANKS’ FACILITIES AND SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISES GROWTH IN KWARA STATE by Kayode David KOLAWOLE

“…Hence, interest rate and other charges should be managed in a way that it will favor the growth of SMEs in Kwara state. …”
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Civil Liability of Persons Related to Blood Transfusion with Allocation to the Blood Bank Department in the Conditions of Corona by Samaneh Zolfaghari, Abdolreza Farhadian

“…Finally, compensation for both material and moral damage, depending on the effectiveness of the performance of each of the above-mentioned departments, is charged to them individually or jointly.…”
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Political Bias in Large Language Models: A Comparative Analysis of ChatGPT-4, Perplexity, Google Gemini, and Claude by Tavishi Choudhary

“…This research systematically evaluates their responses to politically charged prompts and questions from the Pew Research Center&#x2019;s Political Typology Quiz, Political Compass Quiz, and ISideWith Quiz. …”
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Lithium-Ion Battery Capacity Estimation: A Method Based on Visual Cognition by Yujie Cheng, Laifa Tao, Chao Yang

“…First, the acquired charging current or discharge voltage data in each cycle are arranged to form a two-dimensional image. …”
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“A glass half full” or “a breastless dwarf”: Metaphorical talk in women’s accounts of Turner syndrome by Kamila Ciepiela

“…The analysis is carried out with metaphor operationalized as a framing device in discourse, whose main function is to impose a particular axiologically-charged construal of TS. Metaphorical concepts lying at the basis of the metaphors used were identified and grouped into four themes: (i) diagnosis and therapy; (ii) Turner syndrome (iii) appearance (iv) self-esteem and social positioning. …”
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