Preparation and Antifiltration Performance of Organic Zirconium Crosslinker for Guar Gum-Fracturing Fluid by Yirong Chen, Yufang Wang, Wei Wei, Jiahui He

“…The results show that the antifiltration ability of guar gum-fracturing fluid is inversely proportional to the fluid viscosity. …”
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Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Element Bearing Using an Adaptive Multiscale Enhanced Combination Gradient Morphological Filter by Yuanqing Luo, Changzheng Chen, Shuang Kang, Pinyang Zhang

“…This design enhances the ability of MECGMF to extract impulse signals from strong background noise. …”
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Are You My Host? An Overview of Methods Used to Link Bacteriophages with Hosts by Paul Hyman

“…Host range can be divided into multiple host ranges, each defined by how far the phage can progress in the infection cycle. For example, the ability to effect genome entry (penetrative host range) is different than the ability to produce progeny (productive host range). …”
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Static and Dynamic Experiment Evaluations of a Displacement Differential Self-Induced Magnetorheological Damper by Guoliang Hu, Wei Zhou, Mingke Liao, Weihua Li

“…This paper presents the development of a novel magnetorheological damper (MRD) which has a self-induced ability. In this study, a linear variable differential sensor (LVDS) based on the electromagnetic induction mechanism was integrated with a conventional MRD. …”
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Analysis of money management skills as a character building of responsibility and creativity in elementary school students by Prihatin Sulistyowati, Sudarmiatin Sudarmiatin, Rosyid Al Atok

“…This study aims to describe the results of the analysis of the ability of elementary school students to manage their money creatively and responsibly. …”
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Degradation Data-Driven Remaining Useful Life Estimation in the Absence of Prior Degradation Knowledge by Yong Yu, Changhua Hu, Xiaosheng Si, Jianxun Zhang

“…The fusion algorithm presented herein addresses this challenge by combining the excellent modeling ability of Bayesian updating method for the multilevel data and the prominent estimation ability of ECM algorithm for incomplete data. …”
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Need for cognition, academic self-efficacy and parental education predict the intention to go to college—evidence from a multigroup study by Lina Kramer, Stefanie Lüdtke, Philipp Alexander Freund

“…Beyond cognitive ability and personal traits, social background constitutes an important factor. …”
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Therapeutic Potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine by Devang M. Patel, Jainy Shah, Anand S. Srivastava

“…Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are stromal cells that have the ability to self-renew and also exhibit multilineage differentiation into both mesenchymal and nonmesenchymal lineages. …”
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The Impact of Parental Verbal Abuse on Adolescent Decision-Making in North Binjai, Indonesia by Sabrina Dwi Putri, Muhammad Putra Dinata Saragi

“…Verbal abuse by parents can significantly affect adolescents' decision-making abilities. This qualitative study investigated the experiences of five adolescents aged 16-20 years in North Binjai, Indonesia who were subjected to verbal violence by their parents. …”
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The Effect of Temperature on Dynamic Characteristics of Frozen Clay under Principal Stress Rotation by Bin-Long Zhang, Da-Yan Wang, Zhi-Wei Zhou, Wei Ma, Le-Le Lei

“…A decrease in temperature can improve the stiffness of the frozen clay, reduces its energy dissipation, and enhances its ability to resist dynamic loading. However, the principal stress rotation phenomenon may aggravate the damage of frozen clay and increase the energy dissipation and reduces its ability to resist dynamic loading. …”
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Application of Multitask Joint Sparse Representation Algorithm in Chinese Painting Image Classification by Dongyu Yang, Xinchen Ye, Baolong Guo

“…Experiments show that the multiscale grayscale cooccurrence matrix algorithm outperforms the traditional grayscale cooccurrence matrix algorithm and the color grayscale cooccurrence matrix algorithm. The discriminative ability of multiple features for target recognition is integrated by multitask learning, thus improving the robustness and generalization ability of the algorithm; meanwhile, the recognition accuracy is improved by using a two-level multitask learning mode to exclude the interference of a large number of irrelevant dictionary atoms. …”
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The pressure of academic stress and self-efficacy among student by Ilham Khairi Siregar, Permata Sari, Mohamad Rizal Pautina, Ryan Hidayat Rafiola

“…The phenomenon that occurs is that students are not so confident in their abilities that they cause academic stress in achieving their college goals. …”
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Few-shot Learning: Methods and Applications by Li Jiaxiang, Li Mingyang

“…Data augmentation-based FSL enhances the model's generalization ability by generating or expanding existing data. …”
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SPEECH PRODUCTION IN ENGLISH BY STUDENTS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT: AN ACOUSTIC PHONETIC APPROACH by Diana Anggraeni, Donal Fernado Lubis

“…Children with special needs have taken wider attentions in research, especially in finding solutions of how to improve their abilities in communication. The purpose of this research is to identify the challenges and barriers in speech production in English by students with hearing impairments in Pangkalpinang City. …”
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Auditory risk recognition is socially transmitted across territory borders in wild birds by Jakub Szymkowiak

“…Although auditory risk recognition is ubiquitous in animals, it remains unclear how individuals gain the ability to recognize specific sounds as cues of a threat. …”
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Optimal Three-Dimensional Sensor Placement for Cable-Stayed Bridge Based on Dynamic Adjustment of Attenuation Factor Gravitational Search Algorithm by Bo Gao, Zhihui Bai, Yubo Song

“…The results show that the improved algorithm has a good optimization ability and can accurately and efficiently determine the optimal placement of sensors.…”
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Occupational therapists’ experiences of working with people with dementia: a qualitative study by Johannes Österholm, Åsa Larsson Ranada

“…The results are exploratory and additionally research is needed to understand the therapists’ experiences of working with persons with dementia.Significance Everyday activities should be tailored to the person’s abilities, with an emphasis on facilitating the person in carrying them out rather than the social environment taking them over.…”
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Modulation of cytokine production by carnitine by Nicola M. Kouttab, Claudio De Simone

“…The ability of carnitine congeners to modulate cytokine production by human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) was investigated. …”
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Seismic Performances of Replaceable Steel Connection with Low Yield Point Metal by Haoxiang He, Kui Chen, Ruifeng Li

“…The analysis results approve that the replaceable connection can confine the major damage in the replacement material and have better energy dissipation ability, safety reserves, and resilient ability.…”
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Exercise Recommendation Model Based on Cognitive Level and Educational Big Data Mining by Yongming Pu, Hongming Chen

“…There are differences in the learning ability and cognitive ability of different learners. …”
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