Dynamics of revolving D-branes at short distances by Satoshi Iso, Noriaki Kitazawa, Hikaru Ohta, Takao Suyama

“…Since the one-loop open string amplitude cannot be calculated exactly, we instead employ an efficient method of partial modular transformation. …”
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Innovative Smart Road Stud Sensor Network Development for Real-Time Traffic Monitoring by Zhimin Tao, Wei Quan, Hua Wang

“…Compared to the traditional traffic detectors and road studs, SRS nodes are installed on lane lines instead of lane center to enable the additional applications besides the detection function, such as traffic monitoring, congestion warning, routing guidance, and so on. …”
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Pareto Optimality Conditions and Duality for Vector Quadratic Fractional Optimization Problems by W. A. Oliveira, A. Beato-Moreno, A. C. Moretti, L. L. Salles Neto

“…It shows that sufficient Pareto optimality conditions and the main duality theorems can be established without the assumption of generalized convexity in the objective functions, by considering some assumptions on a linear combination of Hessian matrices instead. The main aspect of this contribution is the development of Pareto optimality conditions based on a similar second-order sufficient condition for problems with convex constraints, without convexity assumptions on the objective functions. …”
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Mathematical Model of Solid Food Pasteurization by Ohmic Heating: Influence of Process Parameters by Francesco Marra

“…For these reasons, colder external shells are the critical areas to be monitored, instead of internal points (typically geometrical center) as in classical pure conductive heat transfer. …”
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Two Bootstrap Strategies for a k-Problem up to Location-Scale with Dependent Samples by Jean-François Quessy, François Éthier

“…This accounts for the fact that one works with empirically standardized data instead of the original observations. Simulations reported show the nice sample properties of the method based on Cramér-von Mises and characteristic function type statistics. …”
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Statistical expertise in the Ecuadorian public administration: Emergence and legitimation mechanisms by Byron Villacís

“…This text provides useful insights for efforts that attempt to show that statistics are not objective and isolated devices, but instead are the result of social relations that need to be approached from a historical perspective.…”
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Review of statistical methods for survival analysis using genomic data by Seungyeoun Lee, Heeju Lim

“…The common characteristic of survival analysis is that it contains “censored” data, in which the time to event cannot be completely observed, but instead represents the lower bound of the time to event. …”
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A Decision-Making Model for Deterring Food Vendors from Selling Harmless Low-Quality Foods as High-Quality Foods to Consumers by Po-Yu Chen

“…Such static protective measure is ineffective. Instead, the extent of punishment should be based not only on the extent of false labeling, but also on the frequency of food sampling as well as the number of samples obtained for food inspections. …”
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Exploring Migration Motivations from Developed to Developing Countries: A Study of American Emigrants to Developing Countries by Mustafa Şeref Akın

“…Our findings reveal that economic opportunities are not the primary driver of early decision-making. Instead, motivations for migration are deeply rooted in social and psychological aspects, such as detachment from home communities and personal growth and fulfillment. …”
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Towards a global knowledge for environmentally sustainable development agenda in 21 st century southern Africa by Stanford Garikayi Mukasa

“… After three decades of research and theorizing on the information and communication approach to development, there is no universal consensus among researchers, academics, communication practitioners and development experts on the age-Old question: how does communication and information causally relate to development? What has, instead, emerged is an alphabet soup of theories, concepts, approaches, paradigms and models on how information and communication might impact on development. …”
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Quantile-Based Estimative VaR Forecast and Dependence Measure: A Simulation Approach by Khreshna Syuhada, Risti Nur’aini, Mahfudhotin

“…When there is a tail dependence, the use of upper and lower tail dependence provides a better forecast instead of the single correlation coefficient.…”
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Extending FABRIK with Obstacle Avoidance for Solving the Inverse Kinematics Problem by Songqiao Tao, Huajin Tao, Yumeng Yang

“…Since forward and backward teaching inverse kinematics (FABRIK) is a forward and backward iterative method that finds updated joint positions by locating a point on a line instead of using angle rotations or matrices, it has the advantages of fast convergence, low computational cost, and visualizing realistic poses. …”
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HPM-Based Dynamic Sparse Grid Approach for Perona-Malik Equation by Shu-Li Mei, De-Hai Zhu

“…In order to decrease the calculation amount introduced by the change of the external grid points, the Newton interpolation technique is employed instead of the traditional Lagrange interpolation operator, and the condition number of the discretized matrix different equations is taken into account of the choice of the external grid points. …”
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Quasi-Normal Modes: The “Electrons” of Black Holes as “Gravitational Atoms”? Implications for the Black Hole Information Puzzle by Christian Corda

“…In fact, it is shown that the time evolution of this “Bohr-like BH model” obeys a time dependent Schrödinger equation which permits the final BH state to be a pure quantum state instead of a mixed one. Thus, information comes out in BH evaporation in agreement with the assumption by ’t Hooft that Schröedinger equations can be used universally for all dynamics in the universe. …”
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Mechanical Behaviour of Polymer Matrix Composite Reinforced by Silicon Carbide Particles by Muna Noori Ismael, Hazim F. Hassan

“… In various fields, Polymer-based composites are used extensively instead of traditional materials. The hand lay-up technology has been employed to prepare the composites of Silicon carbide particles-epoxy. …”
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Efficient group-based discovery for wireless sensor networks by Pengpeng Chen, Ying Chen, Shouwan Gao, Qiang Niu, Jun Gu

“…In this article, we propose a novel efficient group-based discovery method based on relative distance, which makes a delicate trade-off between discovery delay and energy consumption. Instead of directly referring to the wake-up schedules of a whole group of nodes, efficient group-based discovery selectively recommends nodes that are most likely to be neighbors, in which the probability is calculated based on the nodes’ relative distance. …”
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Nonlinear Vibration Analysis of Rotor considering Cogging and Harmonic Effects by Shanle Li, Feng Liu, Hongyan Wang, Haijun Song, Kuilong Yu

“…When the cogging and harmonics were taken into consideration simultaneously, the vibration of rotor decreased instead, which means that stator slots have the effect of reducing vibration in rotor system. …”
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A New Multiface Target Detection Algorithm for Students in Class Based on Bayesian Optimized YOLOv3 Model by Dongmei Shi, Hongyu Tang

“…The algorithm uses deep separable convolution instead of conventional convolution to improve the Darknet-53 basic network, and it reduces the amount of calculation and parameters of the network. …”
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Automatic detection and tracking the moving objects observed by an unmanned aerial vehicles video camera by R. S. Zhuk

“…If the displacement of the tracked points is not fixed on several adjacent frames, they are being deleted, and new points from the areas presumably belonging to moving objects in the current frame are added instead. On each frame the points similar by the location and shape of trajectories of movement are combined into groups that presumably correspond to moving objects. …”
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Spinoza’s Evanescent Self by Sanja Särman

“…Minds, for Spinoza, do not have substantial status, they are instead merely complexes of ideas (2p15), and thus complex modes of the one substance: God. …”
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