Société du risque, environnement et potentialisation des menaces : un défi pour les sciences sociales by Lionel Charles, Bernard Kalaora

“…The lack of reflexivity, of innovation and explorative capacity, the emergency and emotion tyranny result in the amplification of threats and fears and the activation of security and identity discourses which, instead of mobilizing energies, paralyse them, amplifying the sideration. …”
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A New Data Coding Algorithm for Secure Communication of Image by Hidayet Oğraş

“…It successfully recovers secret images at the receiver’s side using secret code series derived from both the secret and reference images, instead of direct transmission of secret image. The image information can be retrieved only through the same reference image, the same system parameters and identical code series using the proper decoding technique at the receiver. …”
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GTrust: Group Extension for Trust Models in Distributed Systems by Robson de Oliveira Albuquerque, Luis Javier García Villalba, Tai-Hoon Kim

“…In many cases it may be necessary to trust the whole system instead of one particular entity. In such cases group trust represents the trust of their particular members. …”
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Leadless pacemaker implantation in a patient with congenital azygos continuation of the inferior vena cava by Lanyan Guo, Minxia Zhang, Ying Zhao, Qun Yan, Xuyang Feng, Ling Tao

“…Then, we decided to change the implantation strategy, the LP implantation was successfully performed via right jugular vein instead of the classical IVC route. Finally, venous computed tomography (CT) angiography was conducted to testify such venous developmental abnormality. …”
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Enhanced Asymmetric Bilinear Model for Face Recognition by Wenjuan Gong, Weishan Zhang, Jordi Gonzàlez, Yan Ren, Zhen Li

“…In this work, we propose enhanced asymmetric model for illumination-robust face recognition. Instead of initializing the factor probabilities randomly, we initialize them with nearest neighbor method and optimize them for the test data. …”
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Solar System Motions and the Cosmological Constant: A New Approach by Lorenzo Iorio

“…We compare such an extra rate to the estimated corrections to the planetary perihelion precessions by taking their ratio for different pairs of planets instead of using one perihelion at a time for each planet separately, as done so far in literature. …”
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Compact Two-Section Half-Wave Balun Based on Planar Artificial Transmission Lines by Changjun Liu, Zhenyu Yin, Yilan Yang, Wen Huang

“…The compact balun is based on conventional and ameliorated planar artificial transmission lines instead of microstrip transmission lines. The main advantage of the proposed balun is its size reduction, which occupies only about 10% of a conventional one. …”
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Reading the Sensual in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room by Ronnel Keith Berry, Michael Thomas

“…Baldwinian sensuality is divorced from its hedonistic interpretation, instead expressing a form of knowledge and a practice of living in openness to each other and the complexity of our humanity. …”
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Total Variation Regularization of Matrix-Valued Images by Oddvar Christiansen, Tin-Man Lee, Johan Lie, Usha Sinha, Tony F. Chan

“…We treat the diffusion matrix D implicitly as the product D=LLT, and work with the elements of L as variables, instead of working directly on the elements of D. …”
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Dual feature-based and example-based explanation methods by Andrei Konstantinov, Boris Kozlov, Stanislav Kirpichenko, Lev Utkin, Vladimir Muliukha

“…The convex hull allows us to consider a dual representation of instances in the form of convex combinations of extreme points of a produced polytope. Instead of perturbing new instances in the Euclidean feature space, vectors of convex combination coefficients are uniformly generated from the unit simplex, and they form a new dual dataset. …”
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Expanding the Reach of Laparoscopic Surgery: Combined Methylene Blue and Embolization Coil Marking for Preoperative Abdominal Tumor Localization by Brendan O'Sullivan, Bradley J. McCann, Kurtis A. Hinton, Christopher D. Yeisley, Prasad Krishnakurup

“…By increasing cases performed via laparoscopy instead of an open approach, image-guided preoperative localization can lead to improved patient outcomes…”
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FloorLoc-SL: Floor Localization System with Fingerprint Self-Learning Mechanism by Kornkanok Khaoampai, Kulit Na Nakorn, Kultida Rojviboonchai

“…Moreover, the mobile phone can exchange fingerprints with others via virtual ad hoc network instead of learning all floor fingerprints by themselves only. …”
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Robust Wavelet Estimation to Eliminate Simultaneously the Effects of Boundary Problems, Outliers, and Correlated Noise by Alsaidi M. Altaher, Mohd Tahir Ismail

“…The proposed methods combine thresholding estimator with either a local polynomial model or a polynomial model using the generalized least squares method instead of the ordinary one. A primary step that involves removing the outlying observations through a statistical function is considered as well. …”
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Regulatory Impact Assessment in Macedonia and Estonia: Lessons (to be) Learned by Marija Risteska

“…The analysis shows that in Macedonia RIA was mostly conceived as part of an economic reform package and has resulted in RIA being confined to specific sectors instead of being made fully part of the general policy-making. …”
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Street Level Burocrats, welfare locale e transizione digitale: ostacoli e spazi di innovazione sociale by Maurizio Busacca

“…However, this organisational behaviour reflects a discrepancy between institutional priorities, oriented towards activation and innovation logics, the organisational ones described above, and the individual ones of the professionals, who instead recognise the importance of digital skills for the job placement of beneficiaries and individually compensate for organisational deficiencies by introducing technological practices outside of organisational strategies. …”
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Die Waardes, Verwagtings en Bevredigings van Suid-Afrikaanse T elevisienuuskykers by Linda Venter, Nina Overton

“…This finding provides evidence against the criticism that since a gratification is ex pected and sought, it must necessarily be obtained. Instead, it is found that television news programmes in South Africa, while ef fective, are imperfect providers of news related gratifications sought. …”
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Optimized fatigue performance of martensitic stainless steel AISI 440C using deep rolling integrated into hardening process by Donhongprai P., Juijerm P.

“…Moreover, the maximum fatigue life was detected in this research, when the optimized annealing had been performed instead of the second tempering process.…”
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Bone Remineralization around Dental Implants following Conservative Treatment after Peri-Implantitis by Algirdas Puisys, Viktorija Auzbikaviciute, Renata Simkunaite-Rizgeliene, Dainius Razukevicius, Rokas Linkevicius, Tomas Linkevicius

“…The surgical treatment method was rejected and performed conservative treatment instead. The outcome is promising; periapical radiographs three months later showed bone remineralization as well as stable bone after 10 years. …”
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On Particle Swarm Optimization for MIMO Channel Estimation by Christopher Knievel, Peter Adam Hoeher

“…An extension of PSO termed cooperative PSO (CPSO) is applied for MIMO channel estimation, providing faster convergence and, thus, lower overall complexity. Instead of determining the average iterations needed empirically, a method to calculate the maximum number of iterations is developed, which enables the evaluation of the complexity for a wide range of parameters. …”
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Giving ourselves the edge: capitalising on collaboration by Jill Hanson, Alison Pope, Carolina Salinas

“…We conclude that an evolving framework of third-space professionals which is firmly part of the real institutional fabric leads to less reliance on project-based reinventions and instead fosters a steady rate of beneficial progress for the entire learning community. …”
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