A Novel 2D Metal Flow Model for Hot Rolling of Aluminum Alloy Thick Plate by Pujun Hao, Jingna Liu, Chihuan Yao

“…Considering the serious inhomogeneous distribution of plastic deformation in the rolling process of thick plate, a novel 2D metal flow model is proposed with a quadratic distribution of flow velocity in the thickness direction instead of an equal value used in traditional metal flow models. …”
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The Pyramid and the Mosaic. Otto Neurath’s encyclopedism as a critical model by Andrea Alberto Dutto

“…Otto Neurath, one of the founding members of the Vienna Circle, took up a firm opposition in relation to his colleagues. Instead of searching for an ideal language, he asserted the possibility of a ‘universal empiricist slang’, including both everyday and scientific language. …”
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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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Verification of color characteristics of document images captured in uncontrolled conditions by I.A. Kunina, O.A. Padas, O.A. Kolomyttseva

“…This paper examines a presentation attack when a color photo of a gray copy of a document is presented instead of the original color document during remote user identification. …”
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T Cells in Gastric Cancer: Friends or Foes by Amedeo Amedei, Chiara Della Bella, Elena Silvestri, Domenico Prisco, Mario M. D'Elios

“…Unfortunately T cells, instead of protecting from the onset of cancer, can contribute to oncogenesis. …”
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Tourism and the demonstration effect: Empirical evidence by J. Carlos Monterrubio, M. Marivel Mendoza-Ontiveros

“…Nevertheless, it also shows that local social groups do not copy tourist behaviour blindly; instead, residents are also critical in demonstration effect processes. …”
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The Mustachioed Woman, or The Problem of Androgyny in Victoria Cross’ Six Chapters of a Man’s Life by Ana Raquel Rojas

“…The novel focuses on the impossibility of seeing androgyny as a coherent gender identity; instead, androgyny is presented as fragmented and illegible. …”
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Experimental assessment of energy consumption: a comparative study between motor-controlled and valve-controlled cylinders in knuckle boom crane operations by Wei Zhao, Morten Kjeld Ebbesen, Michael Rygaard Hansen, Torben Ole Andersen

“…Experimental results demonstrate that using the motor-controlled crane instead of the valve-controlled crane results in 60%–64% total energy savings. …”
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Distributed Bayesian Inference for Consistent Labeling of Tracked Objects in Nonoverlapping Camera Networks by Jiuqing Wan, Li Liu

“…In our framework, the number of objects presenting in the monitored region does not need to be specified beforehand. Instead, it can be determined automatically on the fly. …”
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A New Improved Kurtogram and Its Application to Bearing Fault Diagnosis by Xinghui Zhang, Jianshe Kang, Lei Xiao, Jianmin Zhao, Hongzhi Teng

“…A new improved Kurtogram was proposed in this paper. Instead of Kurtosis, correlated Kurtosis of envelope signal extracted from the wavelet packet node was used as an indicator to determine the optimal frequency band. …”
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AN EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR MINING FREQUENT ITEM-SETS CONTAINING A CONSTRAINT SUBSET by Dương Văn Hải, Trương Chí Tín

“…Recently, many studies showed that the mining of frequent item-sets with often changed constraints should be based on the lattice of closed item-sets and generators instead of mining them directly from the database. …”
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Archiving Our Bodies: by Storm Madsen

“…I look at the corporeal traces the artworks display: wound scabs, blood drops, and crotch imprints, and find that they present a proof of trans becoming which, I would like to suggest, counters hegemonic narratives of transition and disturbs the notion of proof in relation to trans life; to highlight instead, the slowness, temporal multiplicity, and volatile uncapturability of trans embodiment. …”
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Protecting Children 'from Sex and Violence in the Media: by Marioll Hayes Hull Marioll Hayes Hull

“…Throughout the world, a growing number of nations are moving away from direct authoritarian control of media. Instead, they are moving toward combining government influence with free-market forces. …”
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La régulation des goûts by Christian Barrère

“…On the basis of the Foucault’s approach, the paper studies the microphysics of the regulations of tastes. Instead of reducing regulation to the result of the working of a specific and unique device, governed by the capitalist power, as Marcuse (1968), Galbraith (1968) and Baudrillard (1970, 1972), it considers a world regulation where firms try to turn tastes towards their goods, in a context of institutions (taste épistémès, cultural and social norms, taste heritages) and apparels (media, commercial networks…) playing on tastes and regulating some sides of them. …”
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“I Want That”: Human-in-the-Loop Control of a Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arm by Katherine M. Tsui, Dae-Jin Kim, Aman Behal, David Kontak, Holly A. Yanco

“…Our research focuses on replacing a manufacturer-provided, menu-based interface with a vision-based system while adding autonomy to reduce the cognitive load. Instead of manual task decomposition and execution, the user explicitly designates the end goal, and the system autonomously retrieves the object. …”
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Sekwencjonowanie genomu/eksomu człowieka - aspekt bioetyczny by Andrzej Kochański

“…Thus, at present geneticists have access to the whole genome instead of separate/selected genes. Clinical genetics in the era of genomic sequencing has to cope with new challenges concerning the confidentiality of genetic data, genetic discrimination, genetic and clinical determinism, or incidental findings detected in genome analysis. …”
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Social media and culture clash: Examining cultural influence on Facebook crisis communication in Botswana by Chedza Simon

“…Semi-structured interviews with 20 Botswana PR practitioners revealed that they use Facebook to manage crises, but do not engage in online dialogue with the public. Instead, they post status updates and switch to offline cultural communication platforms for face-to-face dialogue. …”
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Experimental Motion Analysis of Radially Rotating Beams Using High-Speed Camera and Motion Analyzer by K.H. Low, Michael W.S. Lau, K.K. Low

“…The results show that the beam does not behave in a clamped-free or a pinned-free fashion, but instead occurs at an intermediate boundary between these two classical conditions.…”
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Chrysoperla Mohave (Banks) Neuroptera: Chrysopidae: Two Familiar Species in an Unexpected Disguise by Charles S. Henry

“…Therefore, C. mohave is not a monophyletic taxon, but instead it is a color morph that has arisen independently at least twice in separate lineages of Chrysoperla. …”
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Impact of Aging in Microglia-Mediated D-Serine Balance in the CNS by Sebastián Beltrán-Castillo, Jaime Eugenín, Rommy von Bernhardi

“…A mild chronic inflammatory state, like that observed in aged individuals, affects microglial function, inducing a dysfunctional phenotype that potentiates neuroinflammation and cytotoxicity instead of neuroprotection in response to additional challenges. …”
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