Expanding the knowledge of Brazilian Gastrotrich biodiversity: Freshwater Paucitubulatina (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotida) from Northeastern Brazil by Axell Kou Minowa, André Rinaldo Senna Garraffoni

“…In the present study, we report the partial results of an expedition that, for the first time, sampled the inland waters of Alagoas, Bahía, and Pernambuco states, Northeast Region, Brazil, and found ten species belonging to five genera of Chaetonotidae. …”
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BEING STRONGER IN NEW GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN AFTER THE PANDEMIC: SEEKING TO INCREASE FOREIGN TRADE VOLUME AND EMPLOYMENT SIMULTANEOUSLY IN TURKEY ECONOMY by Yunus Emre Aydınbaş, İlkay Güler

“…As a result of the analysis, sectors having the advantage of Turkey's foreign trade is as follows: “manufacture of food products”, “manufacture of textiles”, "manufacture of other non-metalic mineral products", "construction" “manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials” and “manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products, manufacture of electrical equipment”. …”
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Load forecasting of microgrid based on an adaptive cuckoo search optimization improved neural network by Liping Fan, Pengju Yang

“…The mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of the ICS-BP forecasting model was 1.13%, which was very close to an ideal prediction model, and was 52.3, 32.8, and 42.3% lower than that of conventional BP, cuckoo search improved BP, and particle swarm optimization improved BP, respectively, and the root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), and mean square error (MSE) of ICS-BP were reduced by 75.6, 70.6, and 94.0%, respectively, compared to conventional BP. …”
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Planning Optimization of the Distributed Antenna System in High-Speed Railway Communication Network Based on Improved Cuckoo Search by Zhaoyu Chen, Yanheng Liu, Geng Sun, Xu Zhou, Boyu Li, Shuang Liang, Qianyu Zhou

“…Moreover, ICSDC algorithm has better performance in terms of the convergence rate and accuracy compared with the conventional cuckoo search algorithm, the particle swarm optimization, and the firefly algorithm.…”
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Forecasting Method for Urban Rail Transit Ridership at Station Level Using Back Propagation Neural Network by Junfang Li, Minfeng Yao, Qian Fu

“…Key predictors are obtained through partial correlation analysis. The performance of the proposed model is compared with three other benchmark models, which are linear model with population per distance band, BPNN model with total population, and linear model with total population, using four measures of effectiveness (MOEs), maximum relative error (MRE), smallest relative error (SRE), average relative error (ARE), and mean square root of relative error (MSRRE). …”
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Carbonate Hydroxyapatite and Silicon-Substituted Carbonate Hydroxyapatite: Synthesis, Mechanical Properties, and Solubility Evaluations by L. T. Bang, B. D. Long, R. Othman

“…The Si-substituted CO3Ap reduced the powder crystallinity and promoted ion release which resulted in a better solubility compared to that of Si-free CO3Ap. The mean particle size of Si-CO3Ap was much finer than that of CO3Ap. …”
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Multifocal Extranodal Involvement of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma by Devrim Cabuk, Y. Taha Gullu, Ilknur Basyigit, Ozgur Acikgoz, Kazım Uygun, Kursat Yildiz, Fusun Yildiz

“…The patient is still under treatment of R-ICE (rituximab-ifosfamide-carboplatin-etoposide) chemotherapy and partial regression of pulmonary lesions was noted after 3 courses of treatment.…”
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Feasibility Study on the Use of a Portable NIR Spectrometer and Multivariate Data Analysis to Discriminate and Quantify Adulteration in Fertilizer by Ernest Teye, Charles L. Y. Amuah, Kofi Atiah, Ransford Opoku Darko, Kwadwo Kusi Amoah, Emmanuel Afutu, Rebecca Owusu

“…NIR models were built based on support vector machine (SVM) and random forest (RF) for identification, while different types of partial least square regression (PLS, iPLS, Si-PLS, and GaPLS) were used for quantification purposes. …”
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Reputation detection based on incomplete distribution for mobile agent in wireless sensor networks by Yang Yang, Xiaoyu Jin, Su Yao, Xuesong Qiu, Liu Liu

“…Traditional access control strategies such as hybrid encryption mechanism, partial results of the package, and other methods have some defects in the application. …”
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Surgical Management of Pilocytic Astrocytoma of the Optic Nerve: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Ifeoluwa Apanisile, Tamás Karosi

“…Surgical intervention of unilateral ONAs is a relatively safe procedure, allowing complete or partial tumor removal with minimal morbidity and low recurrence rate.…”
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BANKING SERVICE INNOVATIONS AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN ILORIN METROPOLIS OF NIGERIA by Lukman Adebayo Oke ABDULRAUF, Emmanuel Semilore Tinuoye, Yusuf Olamilekan Quadri, Fatai Akosile

“…Descriptive statistics and Partial Least Square Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) were employed in the analysis of data collected through structured questionnaire. …”
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Determinants of intention to use FinTechs services by accounting students: a mixed methods approach by Anderson Betti Frare, Carla Milena Gonçalves Fernandes, Mariele Castro dos Santos, Alexandre Costa Quintana

“…A survey resulted in a sample of 107 students, and the data was analyzed with a mixed-method approach: partial least squares - structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). …”
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Parenteral Nutrition in Liver Resection by Carlo Chiarla, Ivo Giovannini, Felice Giuliante, Francesco Ardito, Maria Vellone, Agostino Maria De Rose, Gennaro Nuzzo

“…Albeit a very large number of experiments have assessed the impact of various substrates on liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy, a limited number of clinical studies have evaluated artificial nutrition in liver resection patients. …”
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A Concise and Comprehensive Description of Shoulder Pathology and Procedures: The 4D Code System by Laurent Lafosse, Tom Van Isacker, Joseph B. Wilson, Lewis L. Shi

“…Secondary elements can be added if there is observed pathology, including acromioclavicular joint, glenohumeral joint, labrum, tear configuration, location and extent of partial cuff tear, calcific tendonitis, fatty infiltration, and neuropathy. …”
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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Anatase TiO2 Nanorods Prepared by Hydrothermal Method by Ming-Jer Jeng, Yi-Lun Wung, Liann-Be Chang, Lee Chow

“…We found that the synthesized TiO2 nanorods were thin and long when smaller TiO2 particles were used, while larger TiO2 particles produced thicker and shorter nanorods. …”
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Insight on the complete process of photoacoustic generation and propagation of cerebrovascular in brain via multi-physics coupling method by Shangkun Hou, Anzhi Lv, Jiabin Lin, Bokang You, Shuaixin Huang, Xianlin Song

“…The diffusion equation is approximated by the partial differential equations in the form of coefficients in the mathematical module of COMSOL to describe laser propagation in brain tissue. …”
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Two Sisters with Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemosiderosis by Mehmet Gencer, Erkan Ceylan, Muharrem Bitiren, Ahmet Koc

“…She had also suffered from dry cough and gradually increasing dyspnea for two years. She had partial pneumothorax in the right lung and diffuse infiltration in other pulmonary fields on chest radiography. …”
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Rheological Behavior of Gassy Marine Clay: Coupling Effects of Bubbles and Salinity by Zhuanzhuan Zhang, Xionghuan Tan, Lizhong Wang, Gang Cao, Yuan Lin, Yi Hong

“…It was proposed that the effect of bubbles, whether strengthening or weakening, was determined by the size of bubbles with respect to the characteristic size of the particle structure formed by clay particles. A theoretical model was developed, which reasonably captures rheological behaviors of gassy clays.…”
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Dynamic Wave-Induced Settlement Behavior of a Caisson Breakwater Built on a Sandy Seabed by Gichun Kang, Tae-Hyung Kim, Jiseong Kim, Seong-Kyu Yun

“…Breakwater settlement is caused by a decrease of effective stress of seabed during partial liquefaction due to wave-induced cyclic loads, which occurs due to an increase in excess pore pressure and the combination of oscillatory and residual pore water pressures. …”
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Nondestructive Detection of Moisture Content in Palm Oil by Using Portable Vibrational Spectroscopy and Optimal Prediction Algorithms by Ernest Teye, Charles L. Y. Amuah, Tai-Sheng Yeh, Regina Nyorkeh

“…Several preprocessing methods such as standard normal variant (SNV), multiplicative scatter correction (MSC), Savitzky–Golay first derivative (SGD1), Savitzky–Golay second derivative (SGD2) together with partial least square (PLS) regression techniques, full PLS, interval PLS (iPLS), synergy interval PLS (SiPLS), genetic algorithm PLS (GAPLS), and successive projection algorithm PLS (SPA-PLS) were comparatively employed to construct an optimum quantitative prediction model for moisture content in crude palm oil. …”
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