An Adaptive Image Inpainting Method Based on Continued Fractions Interpolation by Lei He, Yan Xing, Kangxiong Xia, Jieqing Tan

“…The proposed method included two steps; firstly, Thiele’s rational interpolation combined with the mask image was used to interpolate adaptively the intensities of damaged points to get an initial repaired image, and then Newton-Thiele’s rational interpolation was used to refine the initial repaired image to get a final result. In order to show the superiority of the proposed algorithm, plenty of experiments were tested on damaged images. …”
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Discovery and Exclusion Prospects for Staus Produced by Heavy Higgs Boson Decays at the LHC by Ernesto Arganda, Victor Martín-Lozano, Anibal D. Medina, Nicolas I. Mileo

“…Here, we study the performance of such search strategy by confronting it with the complementary mixing pattern in which decays of both the CP-even and CP-odd heavy Higgs bosons contribute to the production of τ~1τ~2∗+c.c pairs. Again, we focus on final states with two opposite-sign tau leptons and large missing transverse energy. …”
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Risk Assessment of the Rockburst Intensity in a Hydraulic Tunnel Using an Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets-TOPSIS Model by Xin-Bao Gu, Qi-Hong Wu, Ying Ma

“…Then, the weighed decisive matrix is calculated. Finally, the degree of membership at different levels regarding the rockburst intensity is obtained. …”
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Evolución de la concentración de ácido ascórbico durante el proceso de deshidratación de frutos de la rosa mosqueta (Rosa Eglanteria L.) by B. N. Pirone, M. R. Ochoa, A. G. Kesseler, A. De Michelis

“…Los resultados obtenidos permiten indicar que efectivamente ocurre degradación del nutriente estudiado, que los mecanismos de la degradación siguen diferentes caminos según la temperatura analizada y que el contenido residual final es prácticamente independiente de la temperatura utilizada. …”
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Highly Efficient and achromatic mid-infrared silicon nitride meta-lenses by Abdullah Maher, Mohamed A. Swillam

“…The two designs are modeled by inverse design with topology optimization problem with Kreisselmeier–Steinhauser (k–s) aggregation objective function, while the final design is depended on novel inverse design optimization problem with double aggregation objective function that can target bifocal points along the wavelength band producing high efficiency achromatic broadband multi-focal meta-lens under very high numerical apertures ( $$N{A}_{1} = 0.9, \, N{A}_{2}=0.88$$ ).…”
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IMIGRAÇÃO E DIREITOS NA REGIAO NOROESTE PAULISTA by Marcelo Alario Ennes

“… Este trabalho procura compreender o processo imigratório no Brasil ao explorar os aspectos legais das relações entre imigrantes e brasileiros do final do século XIX e inicio do século XX. Para isto, problematiza o debate e a criação de leis como expressões de concepções de direitos e de identidade nacional desenvolvidas e difundidas por forcas político-partidárias. …”
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Facile Preparation and Photoinduced Superhydrophilicity of Highly Ordered Sodium-Free Titanate Nanotube Films by Electrophoretic Deposition by Minghua Zhou, Huogen Yu

“…It was found that the self-assembled formation of highly ordered sodium titanate nanotube films was accompanied with the effective removal of sodium ions in the nanotubes during the electrophoretic deposition process, resulting in the final formation of protonated titanate nanotube film. …”
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Graphical Optimization Method for Symmetrical Bidirectional Corridor Progression by Kai Lu, Shuyan Jiang, Yiming Zhao, Yongjie Lin, Yinhai Wang

“…Giving the conditions for stopping rotation transformation and determining rotation points, rotation directions, and rotation angles, the second round of PTC line rotation transformation achieves the final optimization of the common signal cycle and offsets. …”
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The Use of START/STOPP Criteria for Elderly Patients in Primary Care by Muhteşem Erol Yayla, Uğur Bilge, Elif Binen, Ahmet Keskin

“…The files of the subjects were surveyed retrospectively for the final one year in the digital environment, using the Family Medicine Information System. …”
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Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas by Víctor Sierra Matute

“…Specifically, the study analyzes Sor Juana’s final poetic work, the Enigmas ofrecidos a la Casa del Placer (1695), comprising twenty unanswerable poetic enigmas. …”
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Worker Protection Standard: Additional Requirements for Agricultural Employers of Workers by Frederick M. Fishel

“…The entire document is posted on their website at https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-09/documents/htcmanual_final.pdf. This document will address the additional requirements for agricultural employers of workers under the revised WPS. …”
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Penal Vs. Confiscation-Only Approaches in Money Laundering Control by Bikelis Skirmantas, Pranka Darius, Dainauskaitė Goda

“…The data encompasses discontinued pre-trial investigations, final court judgments in criminal proceedings, and court decisions in civil proceedings against suspicious assets arising from discontinued pre-trial investigations. …”
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MIND MAPPING: A WAY TO HONE EFL NINTH GRADERS’ WRITING SKILL AT AN ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL by Yelni Erniyati

“…The data also indicated that there are enhancements of students’ writing after they were taught using mind-mapping technique which could be seen from the improvements of students’ score from the preliminary data to the final data. Consequently, mind mapping technique is highly recommended in teaching and in improving students’ writing.…”
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Ectopic Functioning Adrenocortical Oncocytic Adenoma (Oncocytoma) with Myelolipoma Causing Virilization by Lea F. Surrey, Ashesh A. Thaker, Paul J. Zhang, Giorgos Karakousis, Michael D. Feldman

“…This case demonstrates a diagnostic challenge in which correlation with histology, immunohistochemistry, and serum endocrine studies led to the final diagnosis.…”
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Concurrent Polycythemia of Undetermined Etiology and Smouldering Plasma Cell Myeloma by Roula Katerji, Chad A. Hudson

“…A battery of genetic and biochemical tests ruled out various congenital polycythemias, leading to a final diagnosis of polycythemia of undetermined etiology and smouldering plasma cell myeloma. …”
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Vicente Alanís, un pintor sevillano en la Baja Extremadura. Revisión a su catálogo de obras. by Álvaro Cabezas García

“…En 1795 ejecutó la pintura de Ánimas de la parroquia de Santa María de la Encina y San Juan Bautista de la pacense localidad de Burguillos del Cerro, un lienzo que testimonia, en un lugar ajeno a los centros de poder, el aroma del pensamiento histórico al final del Antiguo Régimen y demuestra la importancia del tráfico de ideas e influencias en el ámbito artístico. …”
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Reasons to fight: preliminary results on motivations to combat fake news by Wenting Yu, Qing Yan

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Improving smuon searches with neural networks by Alan S. Cornell, Benjamin Fuks, Mark D. Goodsell, Anele M. Ncube

“…We propose a new search involving a neural network discriminator as a final cut and show that different signal regions can be defined using networks trained on different subsets of signal samples (distinguishing low-mass and high-mass regions). …”
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Propiedades psicométricas de un instrumento de las competencias genéricas del egresado de una universidad privada de Cali, Colombia by Víctor Hugo Charria Ortiz, Kewy Sarsosa Prowesk, Felipe Ortiz Arenas

“…Se aplicó a una muestra de 574 egresados pertenecientes a las once carreras, obteniendo un instrumento final con 33 competencias genéricas, con un coeficiente alfa de Cronbach de 0,912 y se aceptan los 33 ítems del instrumento.…”
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Analysis of Top Quark Pair Production Signal from Neutral 2HDM Higgs Bosons at LHC by Majid Hashemi, Mahbobeh Jafarpour

“…The production mechanism is pp→H/A→tt¯ assuming a fully hadronic final state through t→Wb→jjb. In order to distinguish the signal from the main background which is the standard model tt¯, we benefit from the fact that the top quarks in signal events acquire large Lorentz boost due to the heavy neutral Higgs boson. …”
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