Cortical Visual Performance Test Setup for Parkinson’s Disease Based on Motion Blur Orientation by M. Erdem Isenkul

“…The aim of this article is to develop a visual performance test that can examine the effects of Parkinson’s disease on the visual cortex, which can be a subtitle scoring test in UPDRS. However, instead of showing random images and asking for discrepancies between them, it is expected that the questions to be asked to patients should be provable in the existing cortex models, should be deduced between the images, and produce a reference threshold value to compare with the practical results. …”
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A Finite Difference Method for Solving Unsteady Fractional Oldroyd-B Viscoelastic Flow Based on Caputo Derivative by Fang Wang, Yu Wang

“…In order to improve the degree of accuracy, the mixed partial derivative including the fractional derivative in the differential equation is converted effectively by integrating by parts instead of by direct discretization. Then, the stability, convergence, and unique solvability of the difference scheme are verified. …”
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Evaluation of the Influencing Factors of Using Underground Space of Abandoned Coal Mines to Store Hydrogen Based on the Improved ANP Method by Wang Liu, Peng Pei

“…First, the Apriori algorithm is applied to mine association rules between indicators, eliminate unnecessary influence relationships, simplify the network structure model, and optimize the ANP weight calculation results; second, the solution method of judgment matrix is improved with triangular fuzzy numbers, and the index weight is solved by fuzzy nine marks instead of the method of nine scale, which is convenient for experts to give the fuzzy scale while better reflecting the opinions of experts. …”
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Clinicoradiological Correlation of Macropsia due to Acute Stroke: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Mayra Johana Montalvo, Muhib Alam Khan

“…The difference of our case as compared to previous case reports is that the lesion in our patient spared Brodmann area 17 (calcarine cortex) and therefore did not present symptoms of quadrantanopsia. Instead, the patient presented isolated hemimacropsia, therefore suggesting that the anatomical lesion causing hemimacropsia is located in the ventral portion of the occipitotemporal projection, more specifically Brodmann areas 18 (parastriate) and 19 (peristriate).…”
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Granulation and Convectional Driving on Stellar Surfaces by Johannes Tschernitz, Philippe-A. Bourdin

“…New models reveal that surface convection is instead strongly driven by cooling from above. We compare two simulations of surface convection, one with a significant heating from below and one without. …”
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Xenophobia in South Africa by Zama Mthombeni

“…The paper makes the claim that marginalised South Africans are ‘Native Foreigners’, as opposed to simply perpetrators, drawing on Neocosmos’ idea of native foreigners. Instead of being considered as a problem that needs ubuntu’s salvation, the paper argues that anti-immigrant organisations should be understood as a sign of unsolved colonial and political problems that need to be addressed. …”
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Determination of Allowance Time by Work Sampling and Heart Rate in Manufacturing Plant in Juárez México by Karen Y. Ferreira García, Jorge de la Riva Rodriguez, Jaime Sánchez Leal, Rosa M. Reyes-Martínez, Arturo Woocay Prieto

“…The resulting allowance after the study was 15% instead of 6.3%, increasing the standard time and causing a decrease in personnel turnover and absenteeism and consequently increasing the production capacity and the reduction of costs.…”
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POLITICAL BEHAVIOR AND ELECTORAL VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA: ANALYSIS OF THE 2011 AND 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS by IBIRONKE B. DOMINION ADIGUN

“…Therefore, this paper outlines the common challenges of election and why the political actors prefer electoral violence instead of a free and fair election. Using both primary and secondary data, that is, the historical analysis of data, from different scholarly works, this paper found out that it is germane to analyze the reasons why elections in Nigeria can never be credible and possible solutions, with specific focus on the 2011 and 2015 general elections from the comparative analysis perspectives. …”
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From Multivalent Writing to a Poetics of the Book: A Media-Specific Analysis of Mary Ruefle’s A Little White Shadow by Catherine Ann Winters

“…Ultimately, she rejects the idea that the poetry book is dead with the caveat that the codex as a de facto form that does not affect the meaning of the poetry is dying. Instead, Ruefle weaves our expectations and assumptions about the medium into her erasure poem to make this formerly default form an active part of her project.…”
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‘Only Brooks of Sheffield’: Conversation, Crossover Writing, and Child and Adult Perspectives in David Copperfield and Its Juvenile Adaptations by Hannah Field

“…In the final section, I argue that the relative unimportance of conversation in the adaptations, as opposed to Dickens’s novel, cannot be attributed to concerns with suitability or intelligibility alone. Instead, Dickens’s preoccupation with conversations between adults and children relates to David Copperfield’s original status as a crossover or cross-written text that would have been read by a mixed-age audience. …”
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Esophageal Motility Disorders: Current Concepts of Pathogenesis and Treatment by Peter J Kahrilas

“…No attempt was made to be comprehensive or inclusive of the literature because fewer than 10% of citations are discussed. Instead, emphasis was placed on new developments in diagnosis, therapeutics, and practice patterns. …”
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How Criteria Weights Influence Performance in Evaluating Logistic Productivity: An Application in the Emerging Markets Logistics Index by Seda Abacıoğlu, Elif Bulut

“…This study differs from other studies in the literature because it preferred the Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index (AEMLI) instead of the Logistic Performance Index (LPI) and used MEREC-based MABAC-MAIRCA methods.…”
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Hereditary Hyperferritinemia-Cataract Syndrome in 3 Generations of a Family in East Tennessee by Heidi A. Worth, Zachary Marlette, David Aljadir, Ronald Lands

“…The result is often an expensive, invasive evaluation for iron overload, followed by a well-intended prescription for a series of phlebotomies that delivers morbidity instead of benefit. We present a father with an elevated ferritin and heterozygosity for H63D HFE mutation whose clinical course followed this path. …”
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Characterising the alternative and polar questions of Irish by Brian Nolan

“…Alternative questions do not allow for yes-no answers. Instead, an appropriate answer must contain one of a selection from the alternative choice options listed in the framing of the question. …”
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Evolutionary plasticity and functional repurposing of the essential metabolic enzyme MoeA by Daniela Megrian, Mariano Martinez, Pedro M. Alzari, Anne Marie Wehenkel

“…In Archaea, we find an ancestral duplication, with one paralog that may bind tungsten instead of molybdenum. Early eukaryotes acquired MoeA from Bacteria, MogA fused with MoeA in the opisthokont ancestors, and it finally gained roles in anchoring inhibitory neurotransmitters. …”
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Correspondence: Can Menstrual Cycle Length Predict Cardiovascular Risk in Healthy Indian Females? by Avnesh Kumar Singh, Shikha Singh

“…The sampling technique should be stratified instead of relying on convenient sampling. Stratified sampling is used to separate the population into smaller groups that may differ significantly from one another. …”
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In Ovo Vaccination Technology: An Alternative Approach to Post-Hatch Vaccination in Modern Poultry Operations by Wafaa A. Abd El-Ghany

“…Moreover, vaccines used for prevention of mycoplasmosis and coccidiosis could be applied in ovo instead of in post-hatching application. It can be concluded that in ovo vaccination is a rapidly growing trend of vaccine technology, and it can replace post-hatching vaccination conventional methods.…”
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Osmanlı Diplomasisinde “Musalahalar Devletler İledür” Kaidesi by Hilal ÇİFTÇİ

“…In the period when the state was weakened and fell out of power, instead of being the party determining the rules of diplomacy, she continued her existence with the diplomatic balance policy as a part of European States law. …”
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Approximate Relationship for the Bond-Slip Using a Concrete Damage-Plastic Model by Ramin Tabatabaei Mirhosseini, Ehsan Araghizadeh, Soroush Rashidi

“…Finally, using the results obtained from the amount of slip in models, an approximate mathematical relationship between the slip of the rebar inside the concrete can be obtained in terms of the resistance of the ring contact element (instead of the concrete surrounding). This formula can be used to calculate the bond-slip rate of all the rebars of a structure. …”
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An Alternating Variable Step-Size Adaptive Long-Range Prediction of LMS Fading Signals by Xi Liao, Rui Xue, Dan-feng Zhao, Yang Wang

“…At a second stage, eigenvalue decomposition method is applied to predict future long-range channel state instead of weighted prediction. Finally, combining variable step-size least mean squares and adaptive long-range prediction, we introduce the VSS-ALRP algorithm to predict LMS channel fading signals in the case of “ good ” state, and the obtained prediction results would be revised based on the linear prediction of error when shadowing condition is in the “ bad ” state. …”
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