Linguistic variation in the interpretation and production of Italian motion event constructions in younger and older adults: evidence for language change? by Anna Michelotti, Ioli Baroncini, Helen Engemann

“…We simulated the chain of language change adopting an apparent-time approach and investigated whether the impact of semantic properties (the manner verb’s association with directional motion) on the interpretation and productions of SF Italian constructions was affected by participants’ age. …”
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Framing the Land: Canadian Landscapes Revisited in Jin-me Yoon and Lorraine Gilbert’s Photography by Gwendolyne Cressman

“…While the photographers engaged in geographical and topographical expeditionary missions envisioned the land as the epitome of the sublime landscape, the Group of Seven painters of the 1920s and 1930s later sought to express the essence of Canada’s northern identity through the celebration of a mythical wilderness. This manner of framing the land implied that what was kept outside of the frame or conversely included within its bounds, was often informed by hierarchical relations and colonialist visions of the land. …”
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„Raportul ONU privind promovarea și protecția drepturilor omului în contextul schimbărilor climatice” by Daniela Albu

“…By ensuring access to credible and transparent information, the states should give the opportunity to every citizen to adapt and manage extreme situations in a timely manner. The responsibility of the business environment in preventing negative effects that some development projects could have on the climate and human rights is also highlighted. …”
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Feasts of Indifference: Racialization, Affect, and Necropolitics in 1X War Games by Mahshid Mayar

“…In other words, instead of planning how to best train for, track down, encounter, and ultimately fight against this enemy, the choice that these controversial, post-9/11games offer is to simply eliminate the already out-at-large, under-armed, erratic Muslim enemy in a drone-like, distanced, and lackluster manner. As I suggest in this essay, 1X games promote unappealing and non-immersive, yet overtly political projects of death. …”
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Controlled Sink Mobility Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks by Metin Koç, Ibrahim Korpeoglu

“…A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of hundreds or thousands of sensor nodes organized in an ad hoc manner to achieve a predefined goal. Although WSNs have limitations in terms of memory and processors, the main constraint that makes WSNs different from traditional networks is the battery problem which limits the lifetime of a network. …”
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Dynamic assignment and maintenance of positional identity in the ventral neural tube by the morphogen sonic hedgehog. by Eric Dessaud, Vanessa Ribes, Nikolaos Balaskas, Lin Lin Yang, Alessandra Pierani, Anna Kicheva, Bennett G Novitch, James Briscoe, Noriaki Sasai

“…Morphogens are secreted signalling molecules that act in a graded manner to control the pattern of cellular differentiation in developing tissues. …”
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« Running Riot » : la violence et les communautés punks au Royaume-Uni, 1975-1984 by Andrew H. Carroll

“…Fort de leur expérience au carnaval de Notting Hill en 1976, The Clash enregistre son premier single « White Riot » et contribue très tôt à établir l’obsession d’une communauté punk en plein essor pour la violence : dans le contexte des crises sociales et économiques de la fin des années 1970 et du début des années 1980, les troubles et attaques de rue sont monnaie courante. Cependant, l’agressivité véhiculée par le punk était plus qu’un simple constat de la banalité de la violence pendant cette période. …”
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Research on optimization of indoor positioning batch ranging system based on DS-TWR algorithm by Hongwei SUN, Xuehong CAO, Liangbao JIAO, Lin MENG, Ziheng LIU, Feng YUAN

“…Aiming at the current problems of the ultra wide band (UWB) indoor positioning system based on the double sided two-way ranging (DS-TWR) algorithm, there are more communication times and a higher conflict rate in a multi-tag environment, an improved algorithm was proposed.The Hash algorithm to hash and distribute the communication content between the tag and the anchor was used, so that the anchor could reply to multiple tags in a regular and unified manner during each ranging process, which greatly reduced the number of times the anchor sends RES (responds) data.Experimental results show that the improved algorithms’ communication times between a tag and the anchor were reduced by 15% compared with the traditional DS-TWR algorithm, which increases the time proportion of the anchor receiving state in ranging, thereby reducing the anchor receiving RNG (range) data.The collision rate of packets, the success rate of ranging has increased by 43.6%.Due to the reduction in the number of communications required in each positioning cycle and the reduction in the collision rate between data packets, a smaller channel capacity would be required, thereby increasing the label capacity of the positioning system, which has strong engineering significance.…”
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Henry Rider Haggard’s Posthumanist Eco-consciousness by Sinan AKILLI

“…Writing his “imperial romances” in the wake of the beginnings of what is now called the Anthropocene age, Haggard observed and understood the changing relationships between the human society and the more-than-human world in this historical period. In a manner that would be unexpected of an author widely labeled as ‘a man of his times’—and therefore a pro-imperial propagandist—in postcolonial literary criticism, he was critical of the anthropocentric ways of western civilization. …”
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Comparison between DSQIID total / sub-item scores and plasma p-tau elevation in adults with Down's syndrome. by Makiko Shinomoto, Chisen Takeuchi, Harutsugu Tatebe, Fukiko Kitani-Morii, Takuma Ohmichi, Yuzo Fujino, Kanako Menjo, Naoto Terada, Miho Osako, Yoko Mochizuki, Satoshi Teramukai, Takahiko Tokuda, Toshiki Mizuno, Takashi Kasai

“…The DSQIID total scores tended to be positively associated with age, and some sub-scores increased in an age-dependent manner. DSQIID total scores and some sub-scores were also positively correlated with plasma p-tau levels, while all significant correlations disappeared after adjusting for age. …”
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Osteopetrosis and Hip Fracture. Case Report and Literature Review by Liyanira Alonso Leiva, José Julio Requeiro Molina, Ana María Machado Consuegra

“…It is transmitted in both an autosomal dominant and recessive manner. Its early diagnosis makes it possible to treat the underlying pathology and the fracture early, in order to achieve bone consolidation and incorporate patients into their daily lives with a favorable evolution. …”
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Transformer-Based Model for Monocular Visual Odometry: A Video Understanding Approach by Andre O. Francani, Marcos R. O. A. Maximo

“…We contribute by presenting the TSformer-VO model based on spatio-temporal self-attention mechanisms to extract features from clips and estimate the motions in an end-to-end manner. Our approach achieved competitive state-of-the-art performance compared with geometry-based and deep learning-based methods on the KITTI visual odometry dataset, outperforming the DeepVO implementation highly accepted in the visual odometry community. …”
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Automatic speech recognition predicts contemporaneous earthquake fault displacement by Christopher W. Johnson, Kun Wang, Paul A. Johnson

“…The results demonstrate that earthquake faults emit seismic signatures in a similar manner to laboratory and numerical simulation faults, and artificial intelligence models developed for encoding audio of speech may have important applications in studying active fault zones.…”
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Normal and Accidental Scenarios Analyses with MELCOR 1.8.2 and MELCOR 2.1 for the DEMO Helium-Cooled Pebble Bed Blanket Concept by Bruno Gonfiotti, Sandro Paci

“…Thanks to the new features introduced in these latest 2.1.x versions, the main phenomena occurring in the helium-cooled blanket concepts of DEMO can be simulated in a basic manner. For this purpose, several analyses during normal and accidental DEMO conditions have been executed. …”
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Optimal Insurance Indemnity for the Insured with Low Risk Tolerance by Jiesong Zhang, Cailing Li

“…Hence, we establish a corresponding insurance model in which the insured’s initial wealth is designed in such a manner that it only needs to cover the premium. Further, the model considers an introduced risk level that is less than the maximal possible loss. …”
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A deep learning‐based attack on text CAPTCHAs by using object detection techniques by Jiawei Nian, Ping Wang, Haichang Gao, Xiaoyan Guo

“…The attack was also evaluated on four click‐based CAPTCHAs that cannot be attacked in the end‐to‐end manner used by previous attacks, and the results demonstrated that within one step, the proposed approach achieves high success rates on both click‐based CAPTCHAs and schemes based on large‐scale character sets, such as Chinese character sets.…”
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Porosity Characteristics of Chars Derived from Different Lignocellulosic Materials by Laila B. Khalil

“…The precursors which were treated in this manner were fruit stones and nut shells (peach, apricot and olive stones; date pits, almond, hazel nut and pistacio shells), fibrous materials (sugar cane bagasse, date palm branches and leaves, cotton stalks and wood meal), corn cobs, rice husks, alkali-washed rice hulls and barbecue charcoal. …”
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Exploration of Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing Monitoring Technology in Reservoir Management—Taking a Reservoir in South China as an Example by SUN Wen, SUN Bo

“…In order to improve the technological level and efficiency of water conservancy project supervision,a drinking water reservoir management department in South China took the lead in building a set of intelligent patrol systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).The system included UAVs,UAV automated airports,meteorological monitoring devices,and UAV dispatch and control platforms,and it integrated technologies such as UAV autonomous driving,remote-sensing monitoring,geospatial perception,and artificial intelligence,achieving intelligent flight operations of UAVs in a round-the-clock,fully automatic,and highly frequent manner.It changed traditional routine inspection methods for reservoir security,environment,and land space,greatly improved working efficiency and regulatory effectiveness,and reduced the occurrence of safety incidents around the reservoir,which provided a certain reference value for its application and promotion in the daily management of water conservancy projects.However,the technical issues such as battery life,communication interference,and intelligent perception in the application of UAVs in the industry,as well as the lack of UAV hardware quality and flight standards caused by incomplete industry regulation,collectively limited the orderly development of the industry,and it must be taken seriously by industry-related regulatory authorities.…”
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Pattern-Based Test Suite Reduction Method for Smart Contracts by Tomasz Górski

“…The article presents the test suite reduction method for smart contracts, which exploits the knowledge of their design manner. In particular, the design of a mechanism for evaluating the list of verification rules controlling the execution of transactions was used. …”
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A Gamified Active-Learning Proposal for Higher-Education Heterogeneous STEM Courses by Mario J. Duran, Juan J. Aciego, Ignacio Gonzalez-Prieto, Juan Carrillo-Rios, Angel Gonzalez-Prieto, Alicia Claros-Colome

“…A full subject design is presented in a comprehensive manner aiming for satisfying courses with a heterogeneous students’ profile. …”
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