AN IMPROVED FUZZY K-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHM BASED ON WEIGHT ENTROPY MEASUREMENT AND CALINSKI-HARABASZ INDEX by Nguyễn Như Đồng, Phan Thành Huấn

“…The advantage of this method is that it does not only create efficient clustering but also has the ability to measure clusters and rate clusters to find the optimal number of clusters for practical needs. …”
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Des conflits autour de projets d’installations de stockage de déchets : les irréversibilités dans l’usage du droit administratif by Laura Chatel, Perrine Vincent, Jacques Mery, Marta Matias-Mendes

“…The reversibility, which is inherent to any recourse to litigation, appears to be an important key to reading the landfills project implementation processes and the associated conflicts, capable to highlight the stakeholder’s ability to adapt their strategies depending on the temporalities involved.…”
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THE ORGANIZATION OF STUDENTS' SELF-STUDY IN PIANO CLASS FOR VARIABLE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES by Veronika S. Korina

“…The author substantiates the necessity to revise the traditional approaches to self-study organizing, emphasizes the importance of forming mental abilities, memory and thinking, reveals the content of the concept "musician-pedagogue's professional self-study in piano class", identifies the key areas of students' self-study according to theoretical disciplines and courses of the curriculum. …”
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Writing Instructional Objectives by R. Kirby Barrick, Andrew C. Thoron

“…Instructional objectives identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities that students will possess upon successfully learning the material. …”
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Advances in Meniscal Tissue Engineering by Umile Giuseppe Longo, Mattia Loppini, Francisco Forriol, Giovanni Romeo, Nicola Maffulli, Vincenzo Denaro

“…Meniscal tears are the most common knee injuries and have a poor ability of healing. In the last few decades, several techniques have been increasingly used to optimize meniscal healing. …”
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Nonoscillatory Central Schemes for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws in Three-Space Dimensions by Andrew N. Guarendi, Abhilash J. Chandy

“…Parallel scaling analysis and grid-independent results including contours and isosurfaces of density and velocity and magnetic field vectors are shown in this study, confirming the ability of these types of solvers to approximate the solutions of hyperbolic equations efficiently and accurately.…”
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Photocatalytic Activity of Nanosized Cadmium Sulfides Synthesized by Complex Compound Thermolysis by Yingchun Yu, Youxian Ding, Shengli Zuo, Jianjun Liu

“…The results of photocatalytic degradation of rhodamine B (RB) show that the activity order of CdS concerning the phase compositions is of cubic > hexagonal > cubic + hexagonal, where the CdS with the cubic phase has the best photocatalytic degradation activity of RB due to its larger abilities of adsorption and absorbance and smaller particle size of about 10∼13 nm.…”
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Artificial intelligence across oncology specialties: current applications and emerging tools by Frank Lin, Tim Rattay, John Kang, Evangelia Katsoulakis, Kyle Lafata, Ellen Kim, Christopher Yao, Harsha Nori, Christoph Ilsuk Lee

“…The depth and breadth of data are outpacing our natural ability to interpret it. Artificial intelligence (AI) provides a solution to ingest and digest this data deluge to improve detection, prediction and skill development. …”
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Resveratrol as a potential broad-spectrum compound for cancer treatment by Li Kar Stella Tan, Chee Wun How, Jhi Biau Foo, Kooi Yeong Khaw, Bey Hing Goh, Yong Sze Ong

“…Natural products, specifically phytochemicals, have gained much attention due to their ability to target multiple interconnected pathways. …”
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The Processing of Global and Local Visual Information in Alzheimer’s Disease by Eriko Matsumoto, Yoshitaka Ohigashi, Misato Fujimori, Etsuro Mori

“…We use a visual attention task introduced by Navon (1977) to examine the function to integrate local visual stimuli into global image. Although the ability to identify solid digits ether of large and small size presented at the same exposure duration, EOAD performance was poor in the global perception especially at the short duration (20~msec). …”
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« La durabilité forte : enjeux épistémologiques et politiques, de l’économie écologique aux autres sciences sociales » by Valérie Boisvert, Leslie Carnoye, Rémy Petitimbert

“…Strong sustainability immediately became part of the interplay of actors and conflicts of legitimacy that still weigh on its heuristic scope, as well as on its ability to nurture the plurality of representations of social relations with the environment.…”
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Voltage/Current-Mode Multifunction Filters Using Current-Feedback Amplifiers and Grounded Capacitors by Jiun Wei Horng, Pei-Young Chou, Jian-Yu Wu

“…The proposed circuits offer the following features: no requirements for component matching conditions, low active and passive sensitivities, employing only grounded capacitors, and the ability to obtain multi-function filters from the same circuit configuration.…”
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Research on Adaptive Trajectory Tracking Algorithm for a Quadrotor Based on Backstepping and the Sigma-Pi Neural Network by Zhiming Chen, Kang Niu, Lei Li

“…Simulation results are shown to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy, which could reduce tracking error, decrease tracking time, and improve the anti-interference ability of the system.…”
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Digital Innovations and Technological Sovereignty by Ina Schieferdecker, Christoph March

“…Rather than the autarchy from foreign technologies, this comprises the ability to define and establish core requirements on and properties of technologies, which safeguard the self-determination of citizens in the digital age. …”
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Application status quo and thinking of narrative medicine in geriatrics teaching by Huichan Yuan, Yahui Wang, Ruizhen Zhao, Bin Luo, Jing Chen, Kai Lv

“…Narrative medicine emphasizes the social, relational, and psychological dimensions of patient care, fostering students’ development in areas such as empathy, humanistic values, self-reflection, psychological resilience, moral beliefs, professional integrity, and the ability to build harmonious interpersonal relationships. …”
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La multiplicité des discours sur le corps chez les Suruí du Rondônia (Amazonie brésilienne) by Cédric Yvinec

“…., but rather as discourse that makes it possible to claim certain abilities in very specific contexts, faced with various categories of relations, for a varying duration. …”
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Use of SPY Elite Fluorescence Imaging in Creation of a Continent Urinary Diversion by Ali Hajiran, David Zekan, Tyler Trump, Dylan Dangerfield, Adam Luchey

“…The use of SPY Elite Fluorescence Imaging has recently grown popular among multiple surgical specialties, including colorectal, plastic, endocrine, ophthalmologic, and vascular surgery, due to its ability to quickly and accurately assess tissue perfusion and guide intraoperative decision making. …”
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Carbon Sources for Yeast Growth as a Precondition of Hydrogen Peroxide Induced Hormetic Phenotype by Ruslana Vasylkovska, Natalia Petriv, Halyna Semchyshyn

“…In general, our data indicate that (i) hydrogen peroxide induces hormesis in a concentration-dependent manner; (ii) the effect of hydrogen peroxide on yeast reproductive ability depends on the type of carbon substrate in growth medium; and (iii) metabolic and growth rates as well as catalase activity play an important role in H2O2-induced hormetic response in yeast.…”
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Uwagi na temat roli nauk przyrodniczych i nowej duchowości w ochronie przyrody by Adam B. Kubiak

“…This paper presents contemporary motives o f preserving the nature, scientific ways of it’s realization, and chosen issues o f so called „ecological spirituality”. Reflection on the abilities and perils of science and spirituality, with reference to philosophy and practical conservation activity, will be led. …”
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A PSO-Based Hybrid Metaheuristic for Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Problems by Le Zhang, Jinnan Wu

“…To enhance the exploration ability of the hybrid metaheuristic, a simulated annealing hybrid with a stochastic variable neighborhood search is incorporated. …”
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