A New Rule-Based Classification Method Using Shape-Based Properties of Spectral Curves by Songuel Polat, Alain Tremeau, Frank Boochs

“…In this article, a new general classification approach is presented that uses the geometric shape of spectral signatures instead of purely statistical methods. In contrast to classical classification approaches (e.g., SVM, KNN), not only are reflectance values taken into account, but also parameters such as curvature points, curvature values, and the curvature behavior of spectral signatures are used to develop shape-describing rules in order to use them for classification by a rule-based procedure with IF-THEN queries. …”
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Local Spatial Analysis of the Crash Frequency of Food Delivery Motorcyclists vs. Nondelivery Motorcyclists in relation to Points of Interest by I Gede Brawiswa Putra, Pei-Fen Kuo, Dominique Lord

“…In addition, most crash and POIs studies have utilized typical restaurant datasets instead of specific restaurants partnered with OFDS, which might bias the impact of traffic safety estimation. …”
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Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Stroke Prevention in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia by Sebastiaan Velthuis, Martin J. Swaans, Johannes J. Mager, Benno J. W. M. Rensing, Lucas V. A. Boersma, Martijn C. Post

“…We report a case of percutaneous closure of the left atrial appendage, which might be a good alternative strategy instead of chronic oral anticoagulation to protect patients with high-risk AF and HHT from cerebral embolic strokes.…”
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Ground Pearls, Earth Pearls, Pearl Scale, Margarodes spp. (Insecta: Hemiptera: Margarodidae) by Anthony Camerino

“…While retaining well-developed fossorial legs with numerous setae (which scale insects do not have), ground pearls do not possess the ability to secrete scales similar to their scale relatives (Beardsley and Gonzalez). Instead, the ground pearls excrete a waxy covering that totally surrounds their body with the exception of their piercing- sucking mouthparts. …”
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Miscalculation in Proxy War: The United States and Russia in Syrian Civil War from the Neoclassical Realist Perspective by Osman ŞEN, Mehmet ŞAHİN

“…In this perspective, states do not always act rationally. Instead, they can fail because of miscalculations. …”
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Iatrogenic Spinal Cord Injury during Removal of the Inferior Articular Process in the Presence of Ossification of the Ligamentum Flavum by Shane M. Burke, Steven W. Hwang, Mina G. Safain, Ron I. Riesenburger

“…To prevent this outcome, we urge careful review of CT imaging in the preoperative setting and advocate the use of a high-speed drill instead of an osteotome during bone removal in the setting of an adjacent area of OLF.…”
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Du caboclo à l’indigène : réflexions sur l’ethnogenèse au Brésil by Florent Kohler

“…Hence the emergence, instead of that of the marginalized caboclo, of a new figure: that of « the Native ». …”
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Massive Fluctuations in Deconfining SU(2) Yang-Mills Thermodynamics by Ingolf Bischer

“…Explicit calculation shows that although the behaviour of the 2PI three-loop contribution at low temperatures displays hierarchical suppression compared to lower loop orders, its high-temperature expression instead dominates all lower orders. However, an all-loop-order resummation of a class of 2PI bubble diagrams is shown to yield an analytic continuation of the low-temperature hierarchy to all temperatures in the deconfining phase.…”
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Strategic Uncertainty in Markets for Nonrenewable Resources: A Level-k Approach by Ingmar Vierhaus, Roel van Veldhuizen, Armin Fügenschuh

“…Existing models of nonrenewable resources assume that sophisticated agents compete with other sophisticated agents. This study instead uses a level-k approach to examine cases where the focal agent is uncertain about the strategy of his opponent or predicts that the opponent will act in a nonsophisticated manner. …”
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Modeling Spatial Riding Characteristics of Bike-Sharing Users Using Hotspot Areas-Based Association Rule Mining by Chao Sun, Jian Lu

“…To reduce deviation from modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) and improve objectivity and accuracy, we impose spatial constraints using the hotspot detection model instead of the square grid and traditional traffic zone. …”
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RECENT ADVANCES IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OF OIL POLLUTED SURFACE AND GROUNDWATER IN THE NIGERIAN CONTEXT by Joshua Ighalo, Adewale George Adeniyi, Kevin Shegun Otoikhian

“…It was observed that most studies are still focusing on evaluating the problems instead of finding actual solutions. Development of workable and novel solutions are urgently needed. …”
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Le coenseignement dans une classe hétérogène promeut-il une différenciation pédagogique ? by Myriam Janin, Gilles Moreau, Marie Toullec-Théry

“…As such, educational differentiation is reduced to the presence of the special education teacher and their interactions with students with disabilities. Instead, balance can be achieved through mutual planning time of the teaching, where clues collected during the sessions and didactic issues are worked on jointly. …”
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Premières observations sur les ateliers de verriers de la rue Marie-Clémence-Fouriaux à Reims/Durocortorum by Aurore Louis, Pascal Stocker

“…Although the layout of the building can be compared to other Gallo-Roman workshops (domed ovens, pits or hearths for annealing, and waste disposal areas), the construction technique differs, in that raw earth materials (bricks, cob) were frequently used instead of the typical terracotta materials. The shape of the intended finished products is not identifiable, though it was possible to ascertain that they were made of standardized, colorless, blue-green glass, which is a mixture of antimony and manganese bleached glass.…”
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Establishment of a Mesenchymal Stem Cell Bank by Khushnuma Cooper, Chandra Viswanathan

“…Being a very rich source, instead of discarding this tissue, we worked on banking these cells for regenerative medicine application for future use. …”
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The Partial Inner Product Space Method: A Quick Overview by Jean-Pierre Antoine, Camillo Trapani

“…In this context, it is often said that such families should be taken as a whole and operators, bases, and frames on them should be defined globally, for the whole family, instead of individual spaces. In this paper, we will give an overview of PIP-spaces and operators on them, illustrating the results by space families of interest in mathematical physics and signal analysis. …”
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A Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet Reversed Angina without Medications or Procedures by Daniele Massera, Tarique Zaman, Grace E. Farren, Robert J. Ostfeld

“…He declined both drug therapy and invasive testing. Instead, he chose to adopt a whole-food plant-based diet, which consisted primarily of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, potatoes, beans, legumes, and nuts. …”
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Lyme Disease in the Era of COVID-19: A Delayed Diagnosis and Risk for Complications by Cheryl B. Novak, Verna M. Scheeler, John N. Aucott

“…We describe a patient with fever and myalgia who did not have COVID-19 but instead had Lyme disease. We propose that the co-occurrence of COVID-19 and Lyme disease during the spring of 2020 resulted in a delayed diagnosis of Lyme disease due to COVID-19 pandemic-related changes in healthcare workflow and diagnostic reasoning. …”
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An Incremental-Hybrid-Yager’s Entropy Model for Dynamic Portfolio Selection with Fuzzy Variable by Yin Li, Jian Tao, Yazhi Song

“…Different from the traditional multiperiod portfolio, we design the ratio threshold to divide asset price into different time interval and use state instead of time point to model the dynamic portfolio process. …”
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Mères et fils dans le théâtre de la Renaissance anglaise by Marie-Hélène Besnault

“…Shakespeare brilliantly puts an end to this scarcity of dialogues between mothers and sons with plays like Richard III, Coriolanus, and, above all, Hamlet, which this short study eludes. Instead, it focuses on the “‘bard’s” few predecessors and immediate successors, to find continuity, changes, borrowings and new trends concerning reproachful mothers and sons. …”
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Urban strategic foresight in European territories – Lessons from Geneva and Luxembourg by Panos Mantziaras

“…It argues that design approaches, methodologies and tools can no longer be based on the ideology of anthropocentric dominance over the biosphere: instead, architecture must sustain a primary role in becoming a spokesperson for the crucial challenges of our time.   …”
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