Estimation of Individual Tree Structure and Wood Density Parameters for <i>Ginkgo biloba</i> Using Terrestrial LiDAR and Resistance Drill Data by Ting Li, Xin Shen, Kai Zhou, Lin Cao

“…To explore the extraction accuracy of individual tree structure parameters based on LiDAR technology, as well as the correlation between individual tree structure parameters, resistance value and wood density can be beneficial for providing new ideas for predicting wood density. …”
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Morphological Changes in the Bone Marrow of the Dogs with Visceral Leishmaniasis by Claudia Momo, Ana Paula Prudente Jacintho, Pamela Rodrigues Reina Moreira, Danísio Prado Munari, Gisele Fabrino Machado, Rosemeri de Oliveira Vasconcelos

“…There were no statistical differences between the three clinical groups regarding parasite load and lesion intensity. …”
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Oversized cells activate global proteasome-mediated protein degradation to maintain cell size homeostasis by Shixuan Liu, Ceryl Tan, Chloe Melo-Gavin, Miriam B Ginzberg, Ron Blutrich, Nish Patel, Michael Rape, Kevin G Mark, Ran Kafri

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Glaucoma &quot;landscape&quot; in Russia, CIS and Eastern European countries: what has changed over 15 years? by A.Yu. Brezhnev, E.A. Egorov, V.P. Erichev, A.V. Kuroyedov, P.Ch. Zavadskiy, M. Bozic, N.N. Voronova, M.F. Dzhumova, N.V. Ivanova, T.A. Imshenetskaya, T.G. Kamenskikh, L.N. Marchenko, N.A. Sobyanin, V.F. Ekgardt

“…Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Simferopol, Russian Federation </p> <p> ⁸Belarusian State Medical University, Minsk, Belarus </p> <p> ⁹Belarusian Medical Academy of Post-Diploma Education, Minsk, Belarus </p> <p> ¹⁰V.I. …”
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Circularly Polarized Triband Printed Quasi-Yagi Antenna for Millimeter-Wave Applications by Dalia M. Elsheakh, Magdy F. Iskander

“…The paper includes comparison between simulation and experimental results.…”
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Regulatory Bitcoin privacy-preserving mixing service by Zijian BAO, Qinghao WANG, Yongxin ZHANG, Bin WANG, Ning LU, Wenbo SHI

“…With the deepening of research on Bitcoin privacy protection,Bitcoin,a new type of digital currency,has become more difficult to regulate.A Bitcoin privacy protection confusion scheme with regulatory RBmix is proposed for this problem.The model of RBmix uses a fair blind signature algorithm and introduces trusted third parties with regulatory,anonymity,scalability,Bitcoin compatibility,and anti-DoS aggression.Experimental results show that the RBmix protocol has good scalability and execution efficiency.…”
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Equality, Difference, and the Possibility of Peaceful Coexistence: A Critical Review of the Book Can We Live Together? Equality and Difference by Aliashraf Nazari

“…On the one hand, we are witnessing growing universalism and homogeneity, and on the other, identity groups in the form of particularism and construct various forms of nationalism and a sense of religious, cultural, ethnic and political belonging. Providing an appropriate response to such a situation becomes even more important when we see the fragmentation of experience, fluidity and constant change, the importance of large financial, technological and media organizations instead of institutions, the end of the age of order, and we are at the beginning of the age of change and the rise of the risk society. …”
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Identification of Buffalo Breeds Using Self-Activated-Based Improved Convolutional Neural Networks by Yuanzhi Pan, Hua Jin, Jiechao Gao, Hafiz Tayyab Rauf

“…Hence, it is essential to recognize the best Buffalo breed for a high milk- and meat yield to meet the world’s demands and breed production. …”
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Caching strategy based on transmission delay for D2D cooperative edge caching system by Yan CAI, Fan WU, Hongbo ZHU

“…To meet the requirements of 5G system with low delay and high reliability, for a single-caching D2D cooperative edge caching system, an optimization of the caching strategy based on transmission delay was proposed.The dynamic distributions of requesting users and idle users were modeled as the independent homogeneous poisson point process (HPPP) utilizing the stochastic geometry theory.Comprehensively considering the content popularity, user location information, device transmission power and interference, the relationship between the average transmission delay of user and the cache probability distribution was derived.Taking the average transmission delay as the objective function, the optimization problem was established, and a low complexity iterative algorithm was proposed to obtain the cache strategy with sub-optimal average transmission delay.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed optimization cache strategy is superior to several common cache strategies in terms of transmission delay.…”
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Pencegahan Kecurangan Pengelolaan Dana Desa: Peran Pengendalian Internal dan Masyarakat by Indra Riyanto Deza, Dwi Cahyo Utomo

“…Metode analisis data menggunakan uji analisis regresi linier berganda. Hasil temuan menunjukan bahwa variabel sistem pengendalian internal berpengaruh positif terhadap pencegahan kecurangan pengelolaan dana desa. …”
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Drains vs. no drains following burr-hole evacuation of chronic subdural hematoma by Sajag Gupta

“…While no recurrence was detected in 81 (81%) of the patients [group A: 46 (92%) vs. group B: 35 (70%)]. The difference between the two groups was statistically insignificant. …”
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Effect of COVID-19 on Severity of Signs and Symptoms of Autoimmune Diseases by Ramand Mohammed Haji, Nabaz Ali Ahmed, Shakhawan Azad Ahmed

“…The result reveals that the range of their age started from 42 to 74 years old with mean±standard deviation (57.3 ± 8.06) and most of the cases 15(45.5%) were between (55-65) years old, followed by less than 55 years old 13(39.4%) and more than 65 years old age 5(3.8%) cases respectively. …”
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Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie by Iria Gonçalves

“…While the latter had other means of responding to these crises and these phenomena have been better studied there, we barely know how rural people reacted to such adversities. …”
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Performance analysis of dual-hop PLC-FSO communication system by Shenghai CHEN, Xiaoqin YAN, Sai LI, Liang YANG

“…A dual-hop power line communication and free-space optical communication (PLC-FSO) system was proposed, where an amplify-and-forward (AF) relay was applied to help the signal transmission between the PLC link and the FSO link.More specifically, it was assumed that the PLC link was affected by both additive background noise and impulsive noise, and the channel fading followed log-normal distribution, while the fading induced by the atmospheric turbulence in the FSO link followed a Gamma-Gamma distribution, and the effect of pointing errors was also considered.Based on this model, closed-form expressions for the outage probability, bit error rate, and the channel capacity were derived.In addition, asymptotic analysis for the outage probability and BER, and upper bound expression for the channel capacity were presented.Finally, the accuracy of the analytical results was justified through Monte-Carlo simulations.The results show that the system outage probability decreases as the pointing error parameter increases and the smaller the PLC link impulse noise, the lower the bit error rate.The system capacity increases as the turbulence intensity decreases.…”
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A deterministic model of schistosomiasis with spatial structure by Fabio Augusto Milner, Ruijun Zhao

“…It has been observed in several settings that schistosomiasis is lessprevalent in segments of river with fast current than in those with slow current.Some believe that this can be attributed to flush-away of intermediate hostsnails. …”
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Holography for confined and deformed theories: TsT-generated solutions in type IIB supergravity by Federico Castellani, Carlos Nunez

“…Our results offer an improved understanding of the connections between the type IIB deformed backgrounds and the dual QFTs.…”
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Optimization of excess energy storage from an islanding micro-hydropower system as an alternative to dump loads by Daniel H. Ngoma, Banet Masenga, Lucy Petro

“…In this scenario the energy storage option have been considered and based on the analysis, hydrogen energy storage has been considered. …”
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Facts about Wildlife Diseases: South Tick Associated Rash Illness or "STARI" by Katherine Sayler, Carisa Boyce, Samantha Wisely

“…STARI is often described as a “Lyme-like illness” because it causes a rash like the “bulls eye” rash associated with Lyme. …”
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Survivability of Probiotic Microflora in Fermented and Non-Fermented Mare’s Milk: A Comparative Study by Anna Mituniewicz-Małek, Małgorzata Ziarno, Izabela Dmytrów, Katarzyna Szkolnicka

“…<i>lactis</i> BB-12), as well as one unfermented beverage (using 40% commercial kumis and 7% LA-5). …”
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Sub-2W tunable laser based on silicon photonics power amplifier by Neetesh Singh, Jan Lorenzen, Muharrem Kilinc, Kai Wang, Milan Sinobad, Henry Francis, Jose Carreira, Michael Geiselmann, Umit Demirbas, Mikhail Pergament, Sonia M. Garcia-Blanco, Franz X. Kärtner

“…The power levels demonstrated here reach and surpass that of many benchtop systems which truly makes the silicon photonics based integrated LMA device poised towards mass deployment for high power applications without relying on benchtop systems.…”
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