Key Performance Indicators in Freestyle Swimming: Comparing Start, Turn, and Swimming Velocity in Top-Elite Female Junior and Adult Swimmers by Chantal Widmer, Julia Hernandez, Michael Romann, Wolfgang Taube, Dennis-Peter Born

“…Discussion/Conclusion For both junior and adult swimmers, swimming velocity had the greatest effect on race results. While the effect of start performance decreased from short to long race distances, turn performances showed a U-shaped, hence largest effect on middle-distance races, i.e. 200 m and 400 m. …”
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Funding for China’s Top Universities: Does Size Matter? by S. S. Donetskaya, Liang Bin

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A Comparative Analysis of the Performance of Leading Countries in Conducting Artificial Intelligence Research by Ahmed H. Al-Marzouqi, Alya A. Arabi

“…When normalized to the number of researchers and gross expenditures on research and development (GERD), again, India was the best with 36.8 AI publications per thousand researchers and 0.77 AI publications per million GERD in 2020. …”
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Modelling the strategies for age specific vaccination scheduling during influenza pandemic outbreaks by Diána H. Knipl, Gergely Röst

“…Finding optimal policies to reduce the morbidity and mortality of the ongoing pandemic is a top public health priority. Using a compartmental model with age structure and vaccination status, we examined the effect of age specific scheduling of vaccination during a pandemic influenza outbreak, when there is a race between the vaccination campaign and the dynamics of the pandemic. …”
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Unlocking the link: predicting cardiovascular disease risk with a focus on airflow obstruction using machine learning by Xiyu Cao, Jianli Ma, Xiaoyi He, Yufei Liu, Yang Yang, Yaqi Wang, Chuantao Zhang

“…Results The cross-sectional analysis showed that there was a significant positive correlation between AO occurrence and CVD prevalence, indicating that AO is an important risk factor for CVD (all P < 0.05). …”
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Violence and Memory in the Multiple Versions of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen by John K. Young

“…As Claudia Rankine’s 2014 collection Citizen shifts from racialized micro-aggression to police and other white violence against African Americans, the text makes artful use of blank space, with a verso page reading simply “November 23, 2012 / In memory of Jordan Russell Davis” (on the left-hand side) and the recto page bearing only the words “February 15, 2014 / The justice system” along the top of the right-hand page. …”
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CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES REGARDING THE EXTENSION OF THE “NEW START” TREATY: CAN THE USA AND RUSSIA PRESERVE EXISTING STRATEGIC ARMS CONTROL? by Marina Kostic

“…Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on measures for further reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms (“New START”) is the last pillar of the arms control regime on which the end of the Cold War and the new world order rested. Its expiration on 5 February 2021 is a top security challenge and indicates a possible new strategic arms race. …”
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India’s Policies in Support of the New Space by I. V. Danilin, E. P. Shavlay

“…The latter is not limited to established large companies but includes small and medium-sized innovative enterprises, forming the so-called New Space. Among the countries facing such a multifaceted challenge is India, whose space industry is pursuing a catch-up strategy in many respects and has only recently stepped up the growth of the commercial space segment.Considering the key importance of the public support for this segment, the article discusses the main trends, factors, and specifics of the Indian New Space policy. …”
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A Novel Approach of Impulsive Signal Extraction for Early Fault Detection of Rolling Element Bearing by Hu Aijun, Lin Jianfeng, Sun Shangfei, Xiang Ling

“…The combination Top-Hat (CTH) is proposed to extract the impulsive signal and enhance the impulsiveness of the bearing fault signal, and the envelope analysis is applied to reveal the fault-related signatures. …”
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JAUNOSIOS KARTOS KATALIKŲ INTELEKTUALŲ POŽIŪRIS Į FAŠIZMĄ IR NACIONALSOCIALIZMĄ TARPUKARIO LIETUVOJE by Valdas Pruskus

“…Supažindinama su katalikų intelektualų požiūriu į rasizmo teoriją ir praktiką. …”
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Phylogeny, Phytomedicines, Phytochemistry, Pharmacological Properties, and Toxicity of Croton gratissimus Burch (Euphorbiaceae) by Kirkland Dingili Magwilu, Joseph Mwanzia Nguta, Isaac Mapenay, Dorine Matara

“…It is mainly found in rocky hills as a scrub that is about 12–15 m tall. Its leaves are glossy, green on the top, and silvery underneath. …”
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Danish Digital Design and the Gradual Erosion of Technology Neutral Administrative Law by Michael Gøtze

“…As the notion of technology neutral administrative law is gradually eroding, this article calls for a more reality-based discussion about the level of citizens’ rights vis-à-vis public authorities. …”
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Exosome proteomic analyses identify inflammatory phenotype and novel biomarkers in African American prostate cancer patients by Gati K. Panigrahi, Prakash P. Praharaj, Hiroki Kittaka, Asit R. Mridha, Olen M. Black, Rakesh Singh, Roger Mercer, Adrie van Bokhoven, Kathleen C. Torkko, Chapla Agarwal, Rajesh Agarwal, Zakaria Y. Abd Elmageed, Hariom Yadav, Santosh K. Mishra, Gagan Deep

“…Interestingly, African American PCa E006AA‐hT cells secreted exosomes strongly induced a proinflammatory M2‐phenotype in macrophages and showed calcium response on sensory neurons, suggesting a neuroinflammatory response. …”
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Prognostic prediction for inflammatory breast cancer patients using random survival forest modeling by Yiwei Jia, Chaofan Li, Cong Feng, Shiyu Sun, Yifan Cai, Peizhuo Yao, Xinyu Wei, Zeyao Feng, Yanbin Liu, Wei Lv, Huizi Wu, Fei Wu, Lu Zhang, Shuqun Zhang, Xingcong Ma

“…The C-index of RSF model was 0.7704 and the area under curve (AUC) values for 1, 3, 5 years in training and validation datasets were 0.879–0.955, suggesting the excellent predictive performance of RSF model. …”
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Machine Learning-Based Diabetes Risk Prediction Using Associated Behavioral Features by Ayodeji O. J. Ibitoye, Joseph D. Akinyemi, Olufade F. W. Onifade

“…These top-15 feature pairs were fed into five different ML models (decision tree (DT), neural networks (NN), random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM) and extreme gradient boosting (XGB)) for predicting the likelihood of diabetes, while also feeding the direct features (without correlated pairing) separately into the same 5[Formula: see text]ML models. …”
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871 – 1918 by Arzu Melek Ozgumus

“…Under Wilhelm II’s leadership, he encourages further technological and industrial development, paving the way to German Empire to get a unique place in global trade with its specialization. …”
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Comparison of CBCT Prescriptions among Different Campuses of East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine by Cody C. Phen, Gerard A. Camargo, Wenjian Zhang

“…For races, Caucasian 1106, African-American 156, American Indian/Alaskan Native 32, Asian 18, mixed 13, other 73. …”
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