Three Extensions of Tong and Richardson’s Algorithm for Finding the Optimal Path in Schedule-Based Railway Networks by J. Xie, S. C. Wong, S. M. Lo

“…Third, as high-speed railways have low-frequency running patterns, their passengers may prefer to wait at home or at the office instead of at the station. Thus, consideration of a waiting penalty is needed. …”
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Maternal Perceptions of Self-Weight and Child Weight May Influence Milk Choice of Participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) by Loan P. Kim, Nelly Mallo

“…Mothers who perceived their child to be overweight were more likely to make a healthier food choice for their family, namely, choosing reduced-fat milk instead of whole milk. Qualitative interviews revealed a cultural preference for larger size children, and mothers defined healthy weight for their child as a function of (1) the child’s ability to be as active as other children their age, regardless of child’s BMI, and (2) the pediatrician’s opinion of the child’s weight status. …”
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Seismic Performance Evaluation of Footing-to-Circular RC Pier Connection Reinforced by High-Manganese Steel Bars (HMSBs) by Jung-Kyun Kim, Hak-Eun Lee, Jongmin Kim, Jiho Moon

“…In this study, reinforcing bars made of high-manganese steel (HMSBs) with high strength and ductility were installed in the connection instead of conventional reinforcing bars to improve the seismic performance. …”
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Enforced disappearances, multiple motherhoods: outlines for a communicational mapping of absences by Alba Shirley Tamayo-Arango, Katherinne Arenas-López

“…Rather than searching for answers, it was possible instead to formulate new questions about trajectories, connections, cuts, linkages and disjunctions among subjects. …”
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Students Attitude Towards LGBTQ; the Future Counselor Challenges by Zadrian Ardi, Frischa Meivilona Yendi, Ifdil Ifdil

“…This behavior is not the result of a single major factor, its formation occurs throughout the individual life span instead. The sexual behavior disorientation is a phenomenon that is always happening almost in all communities in various countries, which in the modern world popular with the term LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer). …”
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A Vision of the Policy Concerning the Financing and Management of Physical Infrastructure in Network Industries in Slovenia by Dejan Makovšek, Klavdij Logožar

“…Until now, no government in Slovenia has adopted a systemic approach to infrastructure-related issues; instead, they have let partial interests prevail. …”
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L’écriture du monde (II). by Nicolas Perreaux

“…At European level, the analyzes also show a gradual standardization of the lexicon between 1150 and 1350, which we compare to the formation of Europe itself – because it does not prevent regionalization, promoting instead the reconciliation of a universal Church (Ecclesia) and local churches. …”
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Language-in-Education Policy for English Language Teaching in Public Schools of Kazakhstan: Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Approaches by Dinara Imanova, Assel Akzhigitova, Anastassia Zabrodskaja

“…This paper criticises the ELT policymaking for the marginalisation of the voices of EL teachers. Instead, it advocates a more participatory approach at the bottom of policymaking, which embodies educators themselves. …”
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Resilient Cultural Practices in Mexican Immigrant Families: Children’s Helping and Parental Goals and Aspirations by Angélica López-Fraire, Maricela Correa-Chávez

“…Based on previous research in Mexico, we expected to find differences between the families related to familiarity with middle-class ways of organizing learning (associated with increased schooling) or familiarity with LOPI. Instead, we found that children in all families were helping at home and that when parents spoke about the goals and values they hoped their children remembered, they consistently spoke about the importance of community, family, and respect in a pattern that is consistent with the ideas of LOPI regardless of increased school experience. …”
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Fast plasma production by intense femtosecond extreme ultraviolet and x-ray pulses by C. Fasolato, E. Stellino, F. Sacchetti, C. Petrillo

“…The pump pulses, promoting electrons from delocalized valence band states, excite the system often through multiphoton absorption processes and/or shock wave propagation. Instead, the use of FEL radiation as a pump allows triggering electron transitions from bound, core states to nearly free levels above the Fermi energy, promptly generating a highly excited state, toward the warm dense matter regime. …”
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Developing a Suitable Model for Water Uptake for Biodegradable Polymers Using Small Training Sets by Loreto M. Valenzuela, Doyle D. Knight, Joachim Kohn

“…These models give very good correlations (R2>0.78 for test set) but very low accuracy on cross-validation sets (less than 19% of experimental points within experimental error). Instead, using consolidated parameters like equilibrium water uptake a good model is obtained (R2=0.78 for test set), with accurate predictions for 50% of tested polymers. …”
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50 Years of scientific thought on Machine Diagnostics in PolanD anD its influence on MaritiMe aPPlications by Klekot Grzegorz, Dąbrowski Zbigniew, Dziurdź Jacek

“…The example presented in the second part of the article demonstrates that the well-known and technically important task of diagnosing a gear set can now be solved without looking for a classic state→symptom relationship through an accurate dynamic description of the machine and comparing it with the results of an experiment, but instead by comparing observations at different points in the n-dimensional space with an abstract pattern generated by a sequence of logical transformations. …”
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Nonstationary Generalised Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity Modelling for Fitting Higher Order Moments of Financial Series within Moving Time Windows by Luke De Clerk, Sergey Savel’ev

“…When we assume a Gaussian conditional distribution, we fail to capture any empirical data when fitting the first three even moments of financial time series. We show instead that a mixture of normal distributions is needed to better capture the higher order moments of the data. …”
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The potential of fluorogenicity for single molecule FRET and DyeCycling by Srijayee Ghosh, Sonja Schmid

“…DyeCycling addresses this problem by using reversibly – instead of covalently – coupled FRET fluorophores, through which it can break the photobleaching limit and theoretically provide unlimited observation time. …”
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Episodic focus formulation in media scholars’ data interaction by Laura Korkeamäki, Heikki Keskustalo, Sanna Kumpulainen

“…Episodic focus formulation includes several focus formulation episodes during task performance processes that gradually lead to focus, but instead of considering the larger task, this happens during a subtask. …”
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Impact of Different Electrolytes on the Machining Rate in ECM Process by K. G. Saravanan, R. Prabu, A. R. Venkataramanan, Eden Tekle Beyessa

“…It is also known as a reverse electroplating process where metal removal is achieved instead of metal deposition on the metal surface. …”
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About the confusion-matrix-based assessment of the results of imbalanced data classification by V. V. Starovoitov, Yu. I. Golub

“…It is shown that to represent confusion matrices it is better to use absolute values of object distribution by classes instead of relative ones, since they give an idea of the amount of data tested for each class and their imbalance. …”
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Evaluation and Selection of Manufacturing Suppliers in B2B E-Commerce Environment by Quan Zhang, Zhen Guo, Feiyu Man, Jiyun Ma

“…Linguistic terms, preference orderings, or interval numbers are commonly used to express the performances of the suppliers accurately instead of crisp values when the available information is uncertain or incomplete. …”
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Relationships between Kováts Retention Indices and Molecular Descriptors of 1-(2-Hydroxy)-3-Arylpropane-1,3-Diones by Gustavo P. Romanelli, Jorge L. Jios, Juan C. Autino, Lázaro F.R. Cafferata, Eduardo A. Castro

“…Multiple regression analysis yields satisfactory results when one resorts to several variables equations, instead of computing just one-variable formulae. Average absolute deviations from experimental results are rather low, which seems to point out the suitability of the present approach.…”
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The Fault Feature Extraction of Rolling Bearing Based on EMD and Difference Spectrum of Singular Value by Te Han, Dongxiang Jiang, Nanfei Wang

“…Nowadays, the fault diagnosis of rolling bearing in aeroengines is based on the vibration signal measured on casing, instead of bearing block. However, the vibration signal of the bearing is often covered by a series of complex components caused by other structures (rotor, gears). …”
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