Improving the thermal and hydrophobic properties of bamboo biocomposite as sustainable acoustic absorbers by Hassan Irvani, Hassan Asilian Mahabadi, Ali Khavanin, Ali Safari Variani

“…The average sound absorption for composites based on raw fiber and modified with STA and ATH in the range of 630–6300 Hz was 0.51 and 0.472, respectively. …”
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Detection of mental disorders other than depression with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale in a sample of pregnant women in northern Mexico by Cosme Alvarado-Esquivel, Antonio Sifuentes-Alvarez, Carlos Salas-Martinez

“…Three hundred pregnant women attending prenatal consultations in a public hospital in Durango City, Mexico submitted a validated EPDS and were examined for mental disorders other than depression using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - 4th Ed. …”
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Features of the motivational profile of police officers’ personality by O. M. Smirnova

“…It has been determined that police officers are generally characterized by: the desire for interesting and socially useful work; the need for self-improvement, growth and development of both a personality, as well as high wages and material rewards, the desire to work with a attractive set of benefits and allowances; the need for enthusiasm from other people to make others appreciate the merits, achievements and successes of an individual; the need for a clear work structuring, the availability of a feedback and information, which allows you to assess the results of the work; the need to reduce uncertainty and to establish the rules and guidelines for the implementation of work.…”
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Kitap Tanıtımı: Sistem Bağlamında Din Eğitimi by Ayşe Betül Balıkçı

“…İslam’ın öznitelikleri doğrultusunda evrensel, genel geçer inanılan dinin eğitimini formüle etme amacında olan çalışma, din eğitimi alanına farklı bir bakış açısı sunmaktadır. 11 bölüm, giriş ve sonuç bölümlerinden oluşmakta ve kalp eğitimine özel bir önem atfetmektedir. Çalışma, temelde İslam dini ile diğer dinleri ayırır ve yaratıcının tevhid ilkesinin yeryüzüne bir yansıması olarak bütünlük ve ahenkten hareketle din eğitiminin ilkelerini belirlemeye çalışır. …”
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Massive MIMO channel estimation and feedback based on compressed sensing by Pan MAO, Xiaoguang HUANG, Wei WANG, Jian SONG

“…Focused on the issue that the problem of low precision of channel estimation and complex feedback scheme in massive MIMO system,a compression sampling matching pursuit (BCC-CoSAMP) algorithm based on coefficient correlation was proposed in the differential channel estimation and feedback scheme.In this algorithm,the inner product of the relationship between two vectors in the CoSAMP algorithm was replaced by the vector relation based on the correlation coefficient,so the atoms with strong correlation of the original signal were quickly selected to improve the accuracy of channel estimation.The simulation results show that the proposed BCC-CoSAMP algorithm has an improved channel estimation accuracy compared with the CoSAMP algorithm and an average increase of the total system rate of 1.25 bit/(s.Hz) at low signal to noise ratio (SNR).…”
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COMPARATIVE CLIMATIC CHARACTERISTICS BETWEEN THE WINTER OF 2011–2012 AND THE WINTER OF 1953–1954 IN THE SOUTH OF ROMANIA by ION MARINICĂ, ANDREEA FLORIANA MARINICĂ, OCTAVIA BOGDAN

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Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension and Its Associated Risk Factors: Results from Baseline Survey of SWADES Family Cohort Study by M. D. Saju, Komal Preet Allagh, Lorane Scaria, Shinto Joseph, Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan

“…The prevalence of hypertension was higher among persons with comorbidities (diabetes 64.5%, transient ischemic attack 54.7%, and heart disease 64.4%). Prevalence was lower among persons who did regular vigorous intensity exercise versus those who did moderate intensity exercise (32% vs. 45.7%) and among nonsmokers versus smokers (42.2% vs. 46.6%). …”
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L’université de Strasbourg de 1919 à 1939 : s’ouvrir à l’international mais ignorer l’Allemagne by Françoise Olivier-Utard

“…Professors organised exchanges even with non French speaking universities, attended symposia and published articles in foreign reviews up to September 1939, when the University of Strasbourg had to move to Clermont-Ferrand. …”
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Cognitive Impairment in Opium Use Disorder by Hossein Sanjari Moghaddam, Behrang Shadloo, Helen Shahkhah, Abbas Tafakhori, Maryam Haghshomar, Shakila Meshkat, Vajiheh Aghamollaii

“…This cross-sectional study is aimed at assessing the effects of opium use disorder (OUD) on attention, working memory, and information-processing speed. …”
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Partycypacyjny wymiar antypolityki – od modelu do badań empirycznych by Jacek Ziółkowski

“…The article’s main goal is to concentrate on the participatory (passive) aspect of anti-politics, which involves citizens’ extremely negative assessments and attitudes towards politics and politicians, as well as their declining political participation. …”
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The Greenhouse Effect: Using Student-Generated Agricultural Data to Warm Up Students for Data-Based Decision Making by Shonda Kuiper, Abhishek Chakraborty, Tyler George, Lisa W. Kay, Lawrence M. Lesser, Ginger Rowell, Dennis Pearl, Scott Crawford, Anna Olsen

“…This allowed us to evaluate the differences in student learning and attitudes when students have a stronger connection with the data through an interactive—and hopefully fun—data-collection process than they do when they are given a worksheet with a pre-collected dataset. …”
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Survey on the privacy-preserving content based image retrieval by Ying WU, Xuan LI, Biao JIN, Rongrong JIN

“…With the widespread popularity of smart devices and social media,the number of image data is exponentially increasing.The data owners tend to outsource the local data to the cloud servers,where data is stored,shared and retrieved.However,the content of users’ image data contains a lot of sensitive information,which may be exposed to the attackers and the incomplete trusted cloud servers,resulting in a serious risk of privacy leakage to users.The research progress of the content-based image retrieval technology under the privacy-preserving in recent years were reviewed,and the key image cryptographic technology were summarized,including homomorphic encryption,randomized encryption and comparative encryption.Around these techniques,the typical solutions are analyzed and compared in detail,and the improvement strategies of index construction are introduced.Finally,the future research directions are discussed.…”
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Inequalities for a Unified Integral Operator for Strongly α,m-Convex Function and Related Results in Fractional Calculus by Chahn Yong Jung, Ghulam Farid, Kahkashan Mahreen, Soo Hak Shim

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The three geologic regions of Puebla State, Mexico by Gilberto Silva-Romo, Claudia Cristina Mendoza-Rosales, Wendy Vanesa Morales Barrera, Yoalli Bianii Hernández-Marmolejo

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La familia como unidad de supervivencia, de sentido y de cambio en las intervenciones psicosociales: intenciones y realidades by Ángela Hernández Córdoba

“…En educación, los niños y niñas son inadaptados al medio escolar. En la atención psicojurídica, son víctimas y victimarios. …”
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The hard sphere view of the outer core by George Helffrich

“…Other variants also fit core wavespeeds but require implausibly low liquid mean atomic weight implying excessive incorporation of hydrogen or helium in the core. …”
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Trends in the use of information and communication technologies in the teaching of foreign languages and translator training by N. Kovalchuk

“…The author highlights the positive attitude of the translation industry towards ICT and the significant gap between its needs and the content of the training of future translators. …”
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Cardiovascular sudden death and its progression between cross-disciplinarity and cross-sectorial approach by Luis A. Ochoa Montes, Rafael E. Araujo González, Daisy Ferrer Marrero

“…It is necessary to abandon positions and trends which center cardiovascular sudden death in a single medical specialty, mainly with regards to its causes, since it is an entity which requires an integrated vision from the different specialties and levels of attention.…”
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Sankce vůči českým královským městům roku 1547 v kontextu habsburské politiky první poloviny 16. století („Gentský ortel“ v politické propagandě stavovského odboje)... by Petr Vorel

“…Under the threat of a military attack, the citizens of Ghent decided to surrender to the Emperor, and expected negotiations about the payment of the monarchal financial demands to follow. …”
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Biblical spirituality: an "other" reading (allègoria) by Kees Waaijman

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