Near-Infrared All-Silicon Photodetectors by M. Casalino, G. Coppola, M. Iodice, I. Rendina, L. Sirleto

“…The former are constituted by a Fabry-Perot microcavity incorporating a Schottky diode, and their performance in terms of responsivity, free spectral range, and finesse was experimentally calculated in order to prove an enhancement in responsivity due to the cavity effect. …”
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Improvement on the Key Element of Flexible U-Shaped Steel Support and Its Field Applications by Zhili Su, Shengguo Jing, Wenbing Xie, Qingteng Tang, Xingkai Wang

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Town Councils as Policy Instruments for Community Engagement: Local Diversity Within a Centralized Response to the COVID Pandemic in England by Susan Ball

“…The response of two town councils to the delays and confusion arising from the process of translation by ministers and Whitehall officials of directions from Downing Street is described. …”
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The “State Interest” and Humanitarian Diplomacy of Oliver Cromwell by L. I. Ivonina

“…Aware of the complicated domestic political situation in France and of the goals of French foreign policy, he was sure that Prime Minister Cardinal Mazarin was unlikely to give up the alliance with London in response to the London’s support of the Protestant subjects of the Duke of Savoy. …”
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Reconstructing Legal Protection Regulations for Parties in Franchise Agreements Based on Dignified Justice by Suhaila Zulkifli, Tajuddin Noor

“…However, weaknesses in existing regulations, particularly Government Regulation No. 42 of 2007 and Minister of Trade Regulation No. 71 of 2019 hinder legal certainty and protection for franchisors and franchisees. …”
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The Waste Management System in the Parking and Traders Arrangement in the Borobudur Temple Area, Central Java, Indonesia by S. Isworo, E. Jasmiene and P. S. Oetari

“…Waste will be collected at a certain site and stored temporarily in line with the technical instructions for the Minister of Environment and Forestry’s Regulation. …”
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Experiences and Challenges Implementing Uganda's Revised English Literature Curriculum: Problematization of Colonization. by Ocan, Johnson

“…Contribution: Regarding the contributions of the study, the overhaul of the curriculum was "overdue," according to Hon. Janet Museveni, Minister of Education, Sports and Science who stated in Parliament that the antiquated curriculum was anti-intellectual and opposed to cultural action. …”
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Experiences and challenges Implementing Uganda's Revised English Literature Curriculum: Problematization of Colonization. by Johnson, Ocan

“…Contribution: Regarding the contributions of the study, the overhaul of the curriculum was "overdue," according to Hon. Janet Museveni, Minister of Education, Sports and Science who stated in Parliament that the antiquated curriculum was anti-intellectual and opposed to cultural action. …”
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Drzewa – pomniki przyrody jako element krajobrazu kulturowego by Agnieszka Affek-Starczewska, Krzysztof Starczewski, Zbigniew Pawlonka, Janina Skrzyczyńska

“…e analysis was conducted on sites with monumental trees in six regions: Siedlce, Mińsk Mazowiecki, Biała Podlaska, Repki, Czeremcha, and Mrozy, as well as the towns: Siedlce, Biała Podlaska and Minsk Mazowiecki. …”
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Recovery of image blocks using the method of edge orientation projections by GE Shi-ming, CHENG Yi-min, ZENG Dan, HE Bing-bing

“…In compressed image transmission, channel interference often results in data missing in image blocks. A method was presented based on edge orientation projections for recovery of missing image blocks. …”
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Fuzzy evaluation for response effectiveness in cases of incomplete information by Fenghua LI, Yongjun LI, Zhengkun YANG, Han ZHANG, Lingcui ZHANG

“…In order to appropriately select and adjust response countermeasures,it is necessary to evaluate response effectiveness.Although a large amount of effort has been spent on the evaluation of risk and threat situations,the existing schemes are not suitable to evaluate response effectiveness,because the sechems require that all the information used for evaluation is complete,which is difficult to implement in the real environment.To address the problem,a fuzzy scheme was proposed to deal with incomplete information (i.e.,missing elements of judgment matrix and missing data of indicators) and the response effectiveness was evaluate.Firstly,a hierarchical indicator tree was design to characterize the effectiveness from the perspectives of both attack and defense.Then,the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) was used to calculate the comprehensive weight of each indicator.Finally,the response effectiveness was calculated using fuzzy comprehensive evaluation.In particular,to deal with the problem of incompleteness of fuzzy judgment matrix in the process of FAHP,the missing elements were completed based on the transitivity of elements.And to deal with the problem of loss data in the comprehensive evaluation,the missing data was completed based on matrix completion.The experimental results show that the proposed scheme can accurately recover the missing data and can effectively evaluate the effectiveness of response.…”
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Enseigner et apprendre en présentiel by Liudmyla Holubnycha, Tetiana Shchokina, Natalia Soroka

“…The tasks are to find out the pluses of offline training in comparison with the online format; to reveal the minuses of the traditional educational form in comparison with the online format on the basis of real teaching experience; and to check whether the pluses or the minuses of offline training have a greater influence on intermediate students’ learning results. …”
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Less Is More: Evaluating the Benefits of Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery by Ali A. Mohamed, Rakan Alshaibi, Steven Faragalla, Garrett Flynn, Asad Khan, Emma Sargent, Youssef Mohamed, Camberly Moriconi, Cooper Williams, Zev Karve, Daniel Colome, Phillip Mitchell Johansen, Brandon Lucke-Wold

“…Our research underscores the importance of adopting MISS techniques to optimize patient care in neurosurgical spine treatment.…”
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Use of a Modified Nance Appliance for Esthetic Rehabilitation of a Child Patient with Rare Nonfamilial and Nonsyndromic Oligodontia by Abbas O. Al-Ahmadi, Ali A. Assiry, Siraj D. A. A. Khan, Anand Marya, Adith Venugopal, Mohmed Isaqali Karobari

“…The present case report is about a 4-year-old female patient with multiple missing (both primary and permanent) teeth with esthetic and social problems. …”
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Geopolitical (non) opportunities vs. "late" response of the foreign political service of North Macedonia in the process of European integration by Jelisavac-Trošić Sanja, Arnaudov Mitko

“…Another significant moment that was missed in the European integration process of Skopje, covers the period from 2006 to 2017 with two stages: the period leading up to the NATO Summit in Bucharest in 2008 and the period after this summit, up to the change of power of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, which has led to a multiple crisis within that country. …”
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CORRECTION OF DISCARDED HMITS OF AUTOMATIC LINE OF SORTING BY PROCESSIBILITY OF NON-TUMED CASTINGS OF NIPPLES OF MALLEABLE CAST IRON KCh30-6 AT CHANGING OF THEIR SIZES by S. G. Sandomirski, V. A. Vershinin

“…The methods of correction of rejected limits of automated control line and automated sorting on processibility of unturned nipple castings of malleable cast iron KCh 30-6 on the basis of devices M axi-P is developed and implemented in production of Minsk plant of heating equipment.…”
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Analysis of Noise Characteristics of Multichannel Systems of the Formation of Signals of Georadars with Synthesized Aperture by Oleg R. Kuzichkin, Dmitriy I. Surzhik, Gleb S. Vasiliev, Igor A. Kurilov, Nikolai V. Dorofeev

“…It is established that the phase noise of the output signals of the formers at the 1 kHz detuning from the carrier oscillation at the output frequencies of the devices in the range from 500 to 3500 MHz is characterized by a level of minus 100 - minus 130 dB. In this case, the circuit of the signal former based on a hybrid frequency synthesizer with direct digital synthesizer as a reference oscillator of a phase locked loop is characterized by the worst noise characteristics but with the highest degree of autocompensation (about 13 dB). …”
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Analysis of Driver Gaze and Attention to Traffic Signs by Shabnam Shabani, Steven Beauchemin, Michael Bauer

“…For ADASs to determine the importance of a driver seeing or missing a sign, it is important to understand the driving environment and situation. …”
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Scattered Data Processing Approach Based on Optical Facial Motion Capture by Qiang Zhang, Xiaoying Liang, Xiaopeng Wei

“…Based on the facial motion data obtained using a passive optical motion capture system, we propose a scattered data processing approach, which aims to solve the common problems of missing data and noise. To recover missing data, given the nonlinear relationships among neighbors with the current missing marker, we propose an improved version of a previous method, where we use the motion of three muscles rather than one to recover the missing data. …”
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On the relationship of interior-point methods by Ruey-Lin Sheu, Shu-Cherng Fang

“…In this paper, we show that the moving directions of the primal-affine scaling method (with logarithmic barrier function), the dual-affine scaling method (with logarithmic barrier function), and the primal-dual interior point method are merely the Newton directions along three different algebraic paths that lead to a solution of the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions of a given linear programming problem. We also derive the missing dual information in the primal-affine scaling method and the missing primal information in the dual-affine scaling method. …”
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