Helpful Details for Commercial Propagation of Woody Plant Stem Cuttings by Thomas H. Yeager

“… This three-page fact sheet provides details that are very important for successful propagation of woody plant stem cuttings, such as sanitation, quality of cuttings, the time of year/day to take cuttings, stem size diameter and length of cutting, location of cuts/terminal bud removal, and environmental conditions. …”
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The Impact of Transport Mode and Carbon Policy on Low-Carbon Retailer by Yi Zheng, Xue Yang, Wen Jiang

“…Low-carbon retail has become a strategic target for many developed and developing economies. …”
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Female genital cutting in Malaysia: a mixed-methods study by Abdul Rashid, Yufu Iguchi

“…Objective This study aimed to understand the reasons for the practice by the Muslim community, traditional practitioners and the views of religious scholars as well as the medicalisation trend of the practice of female genital cutting (FGC).Design This is a mixed-method (qualitative and quantitative) study. A questionnaire was created and used by three trained research assistants for the quantitative component of the study. …”
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A Trusted Federated Learning Method Based on Consortium Blockchain by Xiaojun Yin, Xijun Wu, Xinming Zhang

“…To address these issues, we propose a blockchain-based trusted federated learning method that integrates FL with consortium blockchain technology. …”
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Multiple Fault Identification Method in the Frequency Domain for Rotor Systems by Nicolò Bachschmid, Paolo Pennacchi

“…Real machines can be affected by several different types of faults; moreover sometimes also two different faults may develop simultaneously. A model based method for identifying multiple faults acting simultaneously on a rotor system in the frequency domain is briefly described and its robustness with regards to measuring and modelling errors is evaluated, by means of numerical simulations performed on the models of two typical power plant machines: a steam turbogenerator and a gas turbogenerator.…”
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Systematic Reduction of the Detailed Kinetic Mechanism for the Combustion of n-Butane by Chunhui Liu, Zhengxing Zuo, Huihua Feng

“…First, a skeletal mechanism, including 89 species and 440 elementary reactions, was derived from a 230-species detailed mechanism using path flux analysis (PFA). …”
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Evaluation of the Methods for Response Analysis under Non-Stationary Excitation by R.S. Jangid, T.K. Datta

“…For this purpose, responses of the SDOF system to uniformly modulated non-stationary random ground excitation are obtained by the three methods and they are compared. In addition, the relative computational efforts for different methods are also investigated.…”
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A Latent Implementation Error Detection Method for Software Validation by Jiantao Zhou, Jing Liu, Jinzhao Wu, Guodong Zhong

“…More accurate models are characterized to leverage the effectiveness of the model-based software verification and testing combined method.…”
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Comparison of natural and artificial vasopressin deficiency: why the latter is lethal? by D. Zelena

“…The transgenic mouse technology is widespread, however, untill now 22.0 % of tested null mutations was found to be lethal. The complete lack of vasopressin (AVP) resulted also in preweaning lethality. …”
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The Local Triangle Structure Centrality Method to Rank Nodes in Networks by Xiaojian Ma, Yinghong Ma

“…Some traditional local based evaluation methods had given many discussions on ranking important nodes. …”
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COMPARISON AND ANALYSIS OF TWO METHODS OF AXIAL FATIGUE STRENGTH CALCULATION by ZHENG YuTian, LIU ShaoJun

“…Comparative analysis of two methods of analysis shaft fatigue strength including Chinese Machine Design Handbook method and American National Standard namely AGMA（ American Gear Manufacturers Association） standard ANSIAGMA 6001-D97 method. …”
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Comparison of Methods for Estimating Mechanical Properties of Wood by NIR Spectroscopy by L. R. Schimleck, J. L. M. Matos, R. Trianoski, J. G. Prata

“…Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy provides a rapid alternative to traditional methods of wood property assessment. For organizations who assess wood properties on a large scale, multisite, multispecies calibrations are of practical interest. …”
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Research on the cloud services provider-oriented services selection method by Yun-yong ZHANG, Su-fen LI, Jun WU, Bing-yi FANG

“…In order to select services more accurately,firstly,a detailed process for services selection was proposed from the perspective of cloud services providers.Secondly,a services selection mathematical programming model was pro-posed for the selection of cloud services by considering two kinds of factors:QoS attributes and services scheduling re-lated parameters,and the model was solved by the GA-based algorithm.Finally,a case study is conducted to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach.…”
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Finite Element Method in Numerical Modeling of Hydrodynamics and Water Quality by 龙江, 吴亚帝, 李适宇, 刘新媛

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At the Museums. An Exhibition on Whistler and Tanagras, Ruth Allen and Linda Merrill by Jaimee Uhlenbrock

“…Titled Recasting Antiquity: Whistler, Tanagra, & the Female Form, it was curated by Ruth Allen and Linda Merrill.…”
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Application of big data method in forecasting the risk of tariff recovery by Yadi ZHAO, Zhao WU, Qingbing LI, Xiaofeng CHEN, Baoting WANG

“…Based on the historical data of electricity customers,the model index system was determined according to the customers’ basic attributes,the electricity consumption and the payment behavior,the customers’ credit,the industry prospects’ information and so on.Through the correlation coefficient matrix and the information value of the index,the index variables that enter the model were selected.At the same time,the best grouping method was used to group variables and WOE (weight of evidence) transformation was carried out.Based on the processed data,the logic regression algorithm were used to construct the electricity cost risk forecasting model of the electric customers,and output variable standard score card was quantified according to the model results.Thus the customers were divided into high,middle and low risk users that could provide the basis for taking differential marketing measures to the different customers.…”
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Recent trends in user studies: action research and qualitative methods by T.D. Wilson

“…</i> It attempted to set out what was, for the time, a novel perspective on appropriate methodologies for the study of human information seeking behaviour, focusing on qualitative methods and action research, arguing that the application of information research depended up its adoption into the managerial processes of organizations, rather than its self-evident relationship to any body of theory.…”
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Lightweight decentralized learning-based automatic modulation classification method by Jie YANG, Biao DONG, Xue FU, Yu WANG, Guan GUI

“…In order to solve the problems in centralized learning, a lightweight decentralized learning-based AMC method was proposed.By the proposed decentralized learning, a global model was trained through local training and model weight sharing, which made full use of the dataset of each communication nodes and avoided the user data leakage.The proposed lightweight network was stacked by a number of different lightweight neural network blocks with a relatively low space complexity and time complexity, and achieved a higher recognition accuracy compared with traditional DL models, which could effectively solve the problems of computing power and storage space limitation of edge devices and high communication overhead in decentralized learning based AMC method.The experimental results show that the classification accuracy of the proposed method is 62.41% based on RadioML.2016.10 A.Compared with centralized learning, the training efficiency is nearly 5 times higher with a slight classification accuracy loss (0.68%).In addition, the experimental results also prove that the deployment of lightweight models can effectively reduce communication overhead in decentralized learning.…”
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Method of single satellite passive geolocation using spatial sparsity by Caiyong HAO, Heng LIU

“…To address this issue，a method of single satellite passive geolocation using spatial sparsity was presented. …”
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Construction method of optimal codebook based on Zadoff-Chu matrix by Yubo LI, Shengyi LIU, Jingjing ZHANG, Dongyan JIA

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