Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Nanoantenna for Localized Fluorescence by Isa Kocakarin, Korkut Yegin

“…The surface plasmon effect is proven by considering perfect electric conductor model of gold instead of its modified Drude model.…”
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Motion Objects Segmentation and Shadow Suppressing without Background Learning by Y.-P. Guan

“…According to the fact that the saturation component is lower in the region of shadow and is independent of the brightness, HSV color space is selected to extract foreground motion region and suppress shadow instead of other color models. A local adaptive thresholding approach is proposed to extract initial binary motion masks based on the results of the wavelet transformation. …”
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Autonomous Navigation of Robots Based on the Improved Informed-RRT∗ Algorithm and DWA by Jun Dai, Dongfang Li, Junwei Zhao, Yanqin Li

“…Second, the search scope of the potential optimal parent node becomes the constructed path, instead of the node tree, which reduces the number of nodes to be searched and improves the navigation efficiency. …”
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Analysis of Urban Car Owners Commute Mode Choice Based on Evolutionary Game Model by Huawei Gong, Wenzhou Jin

“…With the aggravation of the traffic congestion in the city, car owners will have to give up commuting with private cars and take the public transportation instead. The paper uses the replication dynamic mechanism to simulate the learning and adjustment mechanism of the automobile owners commuting mode selection. …”
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What is urea-triazone nitrogen? by Guodong Liu, Jeffrey Williamson

“…To avoid or minimize leaf burning, urea-triazone N fertilizers can be used instead of the traditional N sources. But growers have concerns about the safety of using triazone N fertilizers for commercial crop production because the fertilizers are still new to them. …”
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The Role of the Risk-Neutral Jump Size Distribution in Single-Factor Interest Rate Models by L. Gómez-Valle, J. Martínez-Rodríguez

“…Moreover, we analyze the effect of estimating the risk-neutral jump size instead of assuming that it is artificially absorbed by the jump intensity, as usual in the interest rate literature. …”
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In Search of a Function for BCLAF1 by Haya Sarras, Solmaz Alizadeh Azami, J. Peter McPherson

“…We also present recent findings from our laboratory and others indicating a role for BCLAF1 in post-transcriptional processes that impact mRNA metabolism, instead of a direct role for this protein in apoptosis or transcription.…”
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Logosowy charakter wiary według Josepha Ratzingera – Benedykta XVI by Krzysztof Góźdź

“…Neither is it an intricate philosophical system. Instead, he defines faith as “finding a way towards wisdom, rationality and factuality; [that is] a way towards perceiving reality in full.” …”
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Can humanitarian interventions help create global peace? Common practices, normative change and the end of nationalism by Michael Haiden

“…Some evidence suggests that they save lives and shorten hostilities, whereas other works in the literature call this into question. Instead of discussing these proximate effects, however, this essay focuses on their effects on long-term peacekeeping. …”
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ACCOUNTING FOR THE QUALITY OF MANAGEMENT IN THE ASSESSMENT OF BUSINESS VALUE by V. I. Busov

“…In calculating the discount rate, instead of the expert assessment method used in practice, a method for calculating the management risk premium to the risk-free rate, which gives a more objective result, has been offered. …”
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Encoding of Variant Taxonomies in TEI by Helena Bermúdez Sabel

“…The method proposed in this paper does not advocate for a controlled vocabulary to categorize types of variants. What it offers instead is a pliable encoding method that allows the editor to include multiple layers of information in each apparatus tagset.…”
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Les dispositifs optiques au XIXe siècle et la production des images dans Madame Bovary by Jeanne Bem

“…Drawing on the writings of Jonathan Crary and Rosalind Krauss, I argue that Flaubert (who, in addition, had had personal experiences with hallucinatory visions) was not primarily attracted to the idea of the artist as a “realist.” Instead, he considered himself as a visual artist, a producer of autonomous images. …”
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Measuring Intergenerational Justice by Laurence J. Kotlikoff

“…It also points out that government debt -- the conventional metric for assessing generational fiscal justice,– has no grounding in economic theory. Instead, official debt is the result of economically arbitrary government labelling decisions: whether to call receipts “taxes” rather than “borrowing” and whether to call payments “transfer payments” rather than “debt service”. …”
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Lyapunov Stability of the Generalized Stochastic Pantograph Equation by Ramazan Kadiev, Arcady Ponosov

“…To prove stability, we check that the solutions of the equation belong to a suitable space of stochastic processes, instead of searching for an appropriate Lyapunov functional. …”
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A New Fuzzy System Based on Rectangular Pyramid by Mingzuo Jiang, Xuehai Yuan, Hongxing Li, Jiaxia Wang

“…The novelty of the proposed system is mainly in the compound of the antecedents, which is based on the proposed rectangular pyramid membership function instead of t-norm. It is proved that the system is capable of approximating any continuous function of two variables to arbitrary degree on a compact domain. …”
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Louis H. Sullivan: that Object He Became by Dan Snyder

“…It excavates an understanding that suggests that Sullivan deliberately constructed an alternative epistemology that overcame a whole host of bipolar oppositions to include male and female. He opted instead for an emotive and fluid ontology where the fixed category of being dissolves in vital consubstantiation – and it was eroticised. …”
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The Ghosts of Justice and the Law of Historical Memory by Mónica López Lerma

“…., shadows, the repressed, eternal return, ghosts, and blindness) stress the importance of coming to terms with the “ghosts of the past.” The law focuses instead on other words and images (i.e., foundation, reconciliation, concord, and closure) that allude to the idea of historical progress, it will be argued, without proper acknowledgment of the injustices of the past. …”
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Beyond Life Years Lost, Using Different Outcomes for Population Modelling in Tobacco Harm Reduction by Prasad Krishna, Hill Andrew, Fiebelkorn Stacy, Edward Lauren

“…Where the reduction in health risk for smokers who switch to the product instead of continuing to smoke, but also the product’s potential effects and rate of uptake among non-smokers must be taken into account.…”
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Implementation of Low-Cost UHF RFID Reader Front-Ends with Carrier Leakage Suppression Circuit by Bin You, Bo Yang, Xuan Wen, Liangyu Qu

“…The proposed design brings a significant improvement of the reading performance by adopting a carrier leakage suppression (CLS) circuit instead of a circulator which is utilized by most of the conventional RF front-end circuit. …”
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Nonstationary First Threshold Crossing Reliability for Linear System Excited by Modulated Gaussian Process by Rita Greco, Giuseppe Carlo Marano, Alessandra Fiore, Ivo Vanzi

“…The most convenient way to approach this evaluation relies on working in the time domain, where a common assumption used is to adopt the modulation of stationary envelope process instead of the envelope of modulated stationary one, by utilizing the so-called “preenvelope” process. …”
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