Utility-Oriented Placement of Actuator Nodes with a Collaborative Serving Scheme for Facilitated Business and Working Environments by Chi-Un Lei, Woon Kian Chong, Ka Lok Man

“…Through spreading serving duties among correctly located ANs, deployment cost can be reduced, utility of ANs can be fully utilized, and the system longevity can be improved. …”
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Endosperm culture-based allotriploid hybrid production from an interspecific cross of Haemanthus spp.: new insights into polyploidization and hybridization by Arisa Nakano, Masahiro Mii, Yoichiro Hoshino

“…ITS sequencing and karyotype analyses detected that all the 16 pairs of plantlets analyzed were hybrids, indicating that most endosperm-derived plantlets were allotriploid with a parental chromosome ratio of 2:1 (maternal: paternal). …”
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Knuckle-walking and behavioural flexibility in great apes by Emily LR Tarrega-Saunders, Charlotte King, Alice M Roberts, Susannah KS Thorpe

“…Furthermore, the potential for plasticity in anatomical development presents challenges to evolutionary predictions that are based on tight links between skeletal form and locomotor function. …”
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Eurocentrism, Afrocentrism, Postcolonialism and Hybridity in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and August Wilson’s Radio Golf by Olfa Gandouz

“…The spirit of Beneatha will be analysed with a focus on Frantz Fanon’s arguments against ‘négritude’ and Eurocentrism. …”
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Exploration of Key Factors in the Preparation of Highly Hydrophobic Silica Aerogel from Rice Husk Ash Assisted by Machine Learning by Yun Deng, Ziyan Sha, Xingxing Wang, Ke Duan, Weijie Xue, Ian Beadham, Xiaolan Xiao, Changbo Zhang

“…Notably, the water contact angle of HSA produced using nitric acid as a catalyst can reach as high as 159.5°, classifying it as a superhydrophobic material. …”
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Patient-Related Determinants of Glycaemic Control in People with Type 2 Diabetes in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: A Systematic Review by Mohammed J. Alramadan, Afsana Afroz, Sultana Monira Hussain, Mohammed Ali Batais, Turky H. Almigbal, Hassan Ahmad Al-Humrani, Ahmed Albaloshi, Lorena Romero, Dianna J. Magliano, Baki Billah

“…Factors associated with poor glycaemic control include longer duration of diabetes, low level of education, poor compliance to diet and medication, poor attitude towards the disease, poor self-management behaviour, anxiety, depression, renal impairment, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia. …”
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تأثیر مجموعات المکتبة المرکزیة بجامعة القاهرة فى البحث العلمى فى تخصص المکتبات والمعلومات : دراسة تحلیلیة... by د.سرفیناز أحمد حافظ

“…The study concerned with approved theses in the years 2016/2017,applying the citation analysis approach in order to measure the impact of theCairo University Central Library in serving specialized scientific research.The study tried to answer the following questions: first of all the extent towhich the Central Library of Cairo University fulfills the needs of postgraduatestudents in the field of libraries and information through its printed and electronicresources. …”
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CAR T-cell detection scoping review: an essential biomarker in critical need of standardization by Naomi Taylor, Nirali N Shah, David P Turicek, Victoria M Giordani, Josquin Moraly

“…The expansion and persistence of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells in patients are associated with response, toxicity, and long-term efficacy. …”
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Clinical Application of Partial Splenic Embolization by Yong-Song Guan, Ying Hu

“…It is also performed to exclude splenic artery aneurysms from the parent vessel lumen and prevent aneurysm rupture, to treat splenic artery steal syndrome and improve liver perfusion in liver transplant recipients, and to administer targeted treatment to areas of neoplastic disease in the splenic parenchyma. …”
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IL-34 Suppresses Candida albicans Induced TNFα Production in M1 Macrophages by Downregulating Expression of Dectin-1 and TLR2 by Rong Xu, Hong-Fan Sun, David W. Williams, Adam V. Jones, Ali Al-Hussaini, Bing Song, Xiao-Qing Wei

“…Resident macrophages exhibit phenotypic plasticity and may transform into inflammatory M1 macrophages for immunity or anti-inflammatory M2 macrophages for tissue repair. …”
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Efektivitas terapi shalat bahagia untuk meningkatkan self acceptance pada siswa sekolah menengah atas by Yugo Al Ghaffar, Sigit Muryono

“…The sample consisted of 12 grade 11 students at SMAN 60 Jakarta. Research data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney test with the help of SPSS Ver.26 software. …”
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Involvement of PPARs in Cell Proliferation and Apoptosis in Human Colon Cancer Specimens and in Normal and Cancer Cell Lines by G. Martinasso, M. Oraldi, A. Trombetta, M. Maggiora, O. Bertetto, R. A. Canuto, G. Muzio

“…This involvement was confirmed using specific antagonists of two PPARs. Moreover, the results obtained on treating cell lines with PPAR ligands confirm observations in colon cancer: there is an inverse correlation between PPARα and Bcl-2 and between PPARγ and c-Myc.…”
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Música popular campesina. Usos sociales, incursión en escenarios escolares y apropiación por los niños y niñas: la propuesta musical de Velosa y Los Carrangueros by Tomás Sánchez Amaya, Alejandro Acosta Ayerbe

“…En orden a la fundamentación teórica, la propuesta acude a algunos desarrollos propuestos por la etnomusicología, y para su fundamentación metodológica a elementos que aporta el análisis de contenido…”
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Les politiques paysagères des documents d’urbanisme sont-elles évaluables ? by Didier Labat

“…On which objects should we focus the analysis ? How can we interpret the evolution of landscapes ? …”
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Light-weighted vehicle detection network based on improved YOLOv3-tiny by Pingshu Ge, Lie Guo, Danni He, Liang Huang

“…The K -means algorithm was used to cluster nine anchor boxes to achieve multi-scale prediction, especially for small targets. …”
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Crecer en movimiento. Abordaje etnográfico del desarrollo infantil en comunidades Mbya (Argentina) by Carolina Remorini

“…Me propongo analizar y discutir algunos resultados de una investigación etnográfica desarrollada en comunidades Mbya Guaraníes (Misiones, Argentina) acerca de las representaciones y prácticas relacionadas con la crianza y el desarrollo infantil. …”
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The impact of weather factors on operation of radiation heating system by V. I. Karagusov, I. S. Kolpakov

“…The work of radiation panels is affected by a number of weather factors such as cloudiness, temperature and humidity of atmospheric air, precipitation, fog, season of year and day, sun position angles and inclination angles of solar panels. With an insolation area of a solar collector of 0.02 m2, it is capable to produce about 1...2 W (50...100 W/m2) in winter and 5...8 W (250...400 W/ m2) in summer. …”
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Optimization Control of Cooperative Trajectory towards Dual Arms Based on Time-Varying Constrained Output State by Hui Zhang, Wenbin Zha, Xiangrong Xu, Yongfei Zhu

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Households Sociodemographic Profile as Predictors of Health Insurance Uptake and Service Utilization: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Municipality of Ghana by Eric Badu, Peter Agyei-Baffour, Isaac Ofori Acheampong, Maxwell Preprah Opoku, Kwasi Addai-Donkor

“…Data were collected using a semistructured questionnaire. Data were analysed using descriptive and multiple logistics regression at 95% CI using STATA 14. …”
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Gradient Based Multipath Reliable Transmission Strategy with Fault Tolerance for Wireless Sensor Networks by Hongbing Li, Qingyu Xiong, Weiren Shi, Cheng Zeng, Min Fan

“…It also establishes the transmission mathematical model to analyze the performance of the network. Simulation shows that this strategy has good performance of fault tolerance. …”
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