THE TRANSITION “SCHOOL – UNIVERSITY”: PREDICTORS OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS by T. A. SAPRYKINA

“…The theme of factors of academic achievement of students, on the one hand, is well developed in the American research tradition, where this issue is highlighted in hundreds of works and dozens of different experimental plans. …”
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ViPErLEED package II: Spot tracking, extraction, and processing of I(V) curves by Michael Schmid, Florian Kraushofer, Alexander M. Imre, Tilman Kißlinger, Lutz Hammer, Ulrike Diebold, Michele Riva

“…Even for complex structures with hundreds to a few thousand diffraction beams, this step takes less than a minute. …”
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Solving Integral Equations by Means of Fixed Point Theory by E. Karapinar, A. Fulga, N. Shahzad, A. F. Roldán López de Hierro

“…Naturally, this problem has occupied the minds of mathematicians since the dawn of algebra. There are hundreds of techniques for solving many classes of equations, facing the problem of finding solutions and studying whether such solutions are unique or multiple. …”
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The influence of weapons development throughout history and the protection of the civilian population: Issues of application of international conventions by Lopičić-Jančić Jelena Đ., Vasić Ljubica M.

“…Numerous wars and armed conflicts have been waged for the last hundred years worldwide. They have resulted in the deaths and injuries of the civilian population, as well as the destruction of cities, villages, settlements, economic facilities and other infrastructure. …”
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Reinforcement learning-based real-time video streaming control and on-device training research by Huanhuan ZHANG, Anfu ZHOU, Huadong MA

“…Service platforms centered on the Internet of things and mobile Internet are in accelerating process.Hundreds of millions of end-users communicate through network real-time video services, which have become an irreplaceable core tool in human’s digital life.However, the Internet is becoming dynamic, and heterogeneous, which imposes stringent requirements on real-time video streaming control technology.Moreover, the QoE of real-time video is not satisfactory.An adaptive reinforcement learning-based video intelligent transmission algorithm was designed, which can deal with heterogeneous network environment.And then, an effective end-to-end on-device training framework was designed to decrease server overhead, and a detailed evaluation and analysis on the neural network design and structure was provided.Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively predict heterogeneous network bandwidth, and reduces the bandwidth prediction error by 48.48%, comparing with the representative streaming control algorithm.The effective bandwidth prediction can further improve the user QoE, such as improving the video fluency by 60.65%, and improving the video quality by 16.52%.Besides, the analysis can provide empirical insights for further study, and holds potential to push the development of intelligent video applications.…”
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Systematic coarse-graining of sequence-dependent structure and elasticity of double-stranded DNA by Enrico Skoruppa, Helmut Schiessel

“…Coarse-grained models have played an important role in the study of the behavior of DNA at length scales beyond a few hundred base pairs. Traditionally, these models have relied on structurally featureless and sequence-independent approaches, such as the twistable wormlike chain. …”
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Investigating the antecedents of innovative behaviors in the hotel industry of Turkey by Sima Rahimizhian, Foad Irani

“…The person-environment fit (P–E fit) theory evaluated prominent organizational factors driving employees' innovative behavior. Two hundred seventy-two valid surveys were obtained among full-time employees of green hotels operating in Turkey. …”
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The Current Updates of the Progresses and the Challenges of Recognition of Customary Forests in Indonesia by Rikardo Simarmata

“…Over the last seven years, the state has formalized hundreds of thousands of hectares of customary forest, which was unprecedented. …”
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“He’d seen it in the words of Owen and Brooke”: The Influence of Great War Poetry on Post-Millennium Soldier Poets by Felix Behler

“…One of the most noteworthy indicators of this is John Jeffcock’s anthology Heroes (2011), which has collected a hundred poems written by British soldiers who fought in recent conflicts – Iraq and Afghanistan in particular. …”
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Investigation of the Effects of Titanate as Coupling Agent and Some Inorganic Nanoparticles as Fillers on Mechanical Properties and Morphology of Soft PVC by Morteza Hajian, Gholam Ali Koohmareh, Afsaneh Mostaghasi

“…The impact strength, elastic modulus and toughness of the samples were enhanced after addition of 0–10 part of filer in hundred parts of resin (phr) nano-CaCO3, nano-TiO2, and nano-ZnO due to improvement of compatibility of the polymer and the nano-particles. …”
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Modeling the consequences of age-linked rDNA hypermethylation with dCas9-directed DNA methylation in human cells. by Yana Blokhina, Abigail Buchwalter

“…Ribosomal DNA (rDNA) genes encode the structural RNAs of the ribosome and are present in hundreds of copies in mammalian genomes. Age-linked DNA hypermethylation throughout the rDNA constitutes a robust "methylation clock" that accurately reports age, yet the consequences of hypermethylation on rDNA function are unknown. …”
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The Chinese State, Incomplete Proletarianization and Structures of Inequality in Two Epochs by Wu Jieh-min, Mark Selden

“…We locate the discussion in relation to theories of original accumulation, proletarianization, wage stagnation, and low consumption in the emerging capitalist world economy of which China has been a part since the 1970s.2 We hope to add to that discussion by exploring a range of structures that have produced incomplete proletarianization and inequality during two periods of socialist transition (1950s to 1970) and capitalist transition (1970s to present).Following three decades during which China experienced the world’s most rapid growth, and in which billionaires emerged at a record rate in 2010, hundreds of millions of urban laborers, particularly the more than one hundred million migrant laborers, continue to receive not only a low but even a relatively declining share of the gross domestic product, leaving many at subsistence levels, with meager welfare benefits and bereft of basic citizenship rights.3 We use the term “laborers” to highlight the conditions of the laboring poor—rural migrant workers (nongmingong), farmers, the urban underclass, recently joined by redundant state-owned enterprise workers—examining their situation in relative as well as absolute terms. …”
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Evaluation of Yield, Yield Component and Usefulness Indices of Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and Maize (Zea mays) Intercropping under Inoculation with Rhizobium phaseoli by Ebrahim Zolfagari Kotbehsara, Peyman Sharifi, Mohammad Hossein Ansari

“…The effect of intercropping were significant on plant height, ear length, number of grains in ear, grain yield, biological yield and harvest index and interaction effects of two factor were significant on ear length and hundred grain weightUnder both inoculated and non-inoculated conditions, the Land Equivalence Ratio (LER) exceeded 1 across all intercropping ratios, demonstrating the superiority of intercropping over monoculture in these systems. …”
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The influence of the El Niño phenomenon on appearance of large-scale forest fires and their ecological consequences by L. F. Chernogor, A. N. Nekos, G. V. Titenko, L. L. Chornohor

“…Smoke ejections approached 10 Mt, which was one hundred thousand times higher than the norm. There were about 0,5 Gt of carbon dioxide ejections. …”
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Efficacy of PD-1 blockade plus chemotherapy in patients with oncogenic-driven non-small-cell lung cancer by Haowei Wang, Lei Cheng, Jian Chen, Peixin Chen, Zhuoran Tang, Qianyi Wang, Ying Ma, Chao Zhao, Xuefei Li, Tao Jiang, Fei Zhou, Xiaoxia Chen, Caicun Zhou

“…Whether NSCLC patients with oncogenic drivers could benefit from PD-1 blockade plus chemotherapy remains undetermined. Methods Three hundred twelve NSCLC patients with at least one oncogenic driver alteration received PD-1 plus chemotherapy or each monotherapy were retrospectively identified. …”
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The History of Miss Jane Pittman by Christopher Mulvey

“…And his main fictional device to establish that truth is to tell the history of the hundred years since Emancipation as the story of one woman. …”
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KV7 Channels Regulate Firing during Synaptic Integration in GABAergic Striatal Neurons by M. Belén Pérez-Ramírez, Antonio Laville, Dagoberto Tapia, Mariana Duhne, Esther Lara-González, José Bargas, Elvira Galarraga

“…This modulation occurs on sub- and suprathreshold responses and lasts during the whole duration of the responses, hundreds of milliseconds, greatly altering SPNs firing properties. …”
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Comparison of Photopic Negative Response of Full-Field and Focal Electroretinograms in Detecting Glaucomatous Eyes by Shigeki Machida, Kunifusa Tamada, Taku Oikawa, Yasutaka Gotoh, Tomoharu Nishimura, Muneyoshi Kaneko, Daijiro Kurosaka

“…To compare the photopic negative response (PhNR) of the full-field electroretinogram (ERG) to the PhNR of the focal ERGs in detecting glaucoma. Methods. One hundred and three eyes with glaucoma and 42 normal eyes were studied. …”
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Three-dimensional photoluminescence imaging of threading dislocations in GaN by sub-band optical excitation by Matthias Daeumer, Jae-Hyuck Yoo, Zhiyu Xu, Minkyu Cho, Marzieh Bakhtiary-Noodeh, Theeradetch Detchprohm, Yuxuan Zhang, Vijay Gopal Thirupakuzi Vangipuram, Vishank Talesara, Yibo Xu, Edward Letts, Daryl Key, Tian T. Li, Qinghui Shao, Russell Dupuis, Shyh-Chiang Shen, Wu Lu, Hongping Zhao, Tadao Hashimoto, Ted A. Laurence

“…Galvanometric-driven PL imaging allows the microstructure of hundreds of devices to be characterized in a single session, enhancing the screening process through the addition of device specific TD location tracking and density mapping. …”
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Clinical Characteristics of Recurrent Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma in High-Incidence Area by Jia-Xin Li, Tai-Xiang Lu, Ying Huang, Fei Han

“…To describe the clinical characteristics of the patients who suffered from relapse after conventional irradiation for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Methods. Three hundred and fifty-one consecutive patients with first-time recurrent NPC between January 1999 and July 2005 were included. …”
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