Dynamic Response of Asymmetric and Nonlinear Packaging System under Random Excitation by Song-Ping Yang, Zhi-Wei Wang

“…Then, the generalized PDFs of the response peaks are defined and examined by three common distributions. The investigation shows that “inverse excitation cushion factors” (IECFs) have a significance on effecting the displacement PDFs approaching different distributions. …”
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Thin Film CIGS Solar Cells, Photovoltaic Modules, and the Problems of Modeling by Antonino Parisi, Luciano Curcio, Vincenzo Rocca, Salvatore Stivala, Alfonso C. Cino, Alessandro C. Busacca, Giovanni Cipriani, Diego La Cascia, Vincenzo Di Dio, Rosario Miceli, Giuseppe Ricco Galluzzo

“…For this reason, a greater effort is required to ensure that the perspectives of the electrical engineer and the material scientist are given an opportunity for a closer comparison and a common language. Derived parameters from ongoing experiments have been used for simulation with the different approaches, in order to develop a set of tools which can be used to put together modeling both at single cell structure and complete module levels.…”
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How Do Foreign Students from Different Collectivist Countries Perceive Interpersonal Emotion Regulation? A Thematic Analysis in Lithuania by Tomas Saulius, Romualdas Malinauskas

“…Using semi-structured interviews as a method of data collection and thematic analysis as a method of data analysis, we found that the majority of participants used IER to provide psychological support to their colleagues and friends in a variety of contexts—64% of participants highlighted cognitive strategies as key in emotional regulation, especially the use of temporal perspective shifting—and that, finally, the majority of the participants highlighted the evident results of the interventions, the most common of which was the increased adaptive behavior of the targets of IER. …”
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Aortic Graft Infection as a Cause of Multiple Brain Infarcts by Vassiliki Tsirka, Jelena Maletic, Panagiotis Ioannidis, Dimitrios Karacostas

“…Brain embolism of cardiac origin is common in clinical practice. However, embolic brain infarcts due to aortic graft infection are very rare. …”
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Applications of Multimodal Imaging in Central Serous Chorioretinopathy Evaluation by Mary Ho, Gabriel Li, Andrew Mak, Danny Ng, Lawrence Iu, Frank Lai

“…Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) is a macular disease characterized by serous retinal detachment commonly involving the macular region. CSCR has a wide spectrum of clinical presentations. …”
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Case Report - Severe hypospadias in 46, XY karyotype patients: is third level genetic testing always mandatory? by Giorgia Romano, Giovanni Rollo, Lorna Spagnol, Mafalda Mucciolo, Ottavio Adorisio, Massimiliano Silveri

“…While genetic investigation isn't routine for all severe hypospadias cases, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies have influenced the rate of correct diagnoses, reduced diagnostic delay, and helped to determine the need for focused medical care and timely treatment. Too commonly, surgeons tend to attach importance to malformation repair and disregard the genetic diagnoses, but we believe that precise genetic diagnosis improves the accuracy of DSD management in terms of prognostic predictions, the development of an individualized management plan and the determination of treatment options.…”
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MESHING STIFFNESS AND DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF GEAR TOOTH SPALLS FAULT BASED ON IMAGE PROCESSING by LIU WenZheng, ZHU RuPeng, ZHOU WenGuang, SHANG YouWei

“…In the calculation of gear mesh stiffness. Common method is to simplify the tooth surface spalls to a specific regular shape for research, which has great limitations. …”
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WHEAT GENETIC RESOURCES IN KYRGYZSTAN by M. Dzhunusova, D. Ten, N. Aubekerova

“…Several ecological groups are recognized in Kyrgyzstan. The most common ecotypes, subrigidum and rigidum, are related to the Iran-Asian subspecies. …”
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Vitiligo and cutaneous malignancy: what is the risk? by Sahngeun Jenny Mun, Monisha Gupta

“…Unfortunately, this is not a common knowledge amongst patients, general practitioners (GPs) and dermatologists, which is a disservice to patients with vitiligo. …”
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PET/CT Imaging in Oncology: Exceptions That Prove the Rule by M. Casali, A. Froio, C. Carbonelli, A. Versari

“…In particular, staging, restaging, follow-up and response to treatment of tumors are the most common applications in oncologic field. Many neoplasms show increased glucose metabolism and consequent 18F-FDG uptake. …”
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Participation et gestion dans les parcs nationaux de montagne : approches anglo-saxonnes by Stéphane Héritier

“…Since the seventies, public participation has become a common practice in parks’ management, even if reality does not fit always perfectly with theory. …”
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Pediatric progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy presenting with neuroregression in a child with newly diagnosed HIV by Payal Keswaani, Shreya Chauhan, Praveen Kumar

“…Progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy is a rare demyelinating condition of the central nervous system that results from infection with human polyomavirus 2 commonly referred to as the John Cunningham virus (JCV). …”
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Software and hardware co-design of lightweight authenticated ciphers ASCON for the internet of things by Jing WANG, Lesheng HE, Zhonghong LI, Luchi LI, Hang YANG

“…ASCON was the most promising algorithm to become an international standard in the 2021 NIST lightweight authenticated encryption call for proposals.The algorithm was designed to achieve the best performance in IoT resource-constrained environments, and there was no hardware IP core implementation based on this algorithm in the open literature.A software-hardware collaborative implementation method of ASCON was proposed, which improved the speed and reduced the memory footprint of ASCON in IoT security authentication applications through hardware means such as S-box optimization, prior calculation and advanced pipeline design.As a comparison, ASCON has been transplanted on the common IoT embedded processor platform.The results showed that the described method was more than 7.9 times faster, while the memory footprint was reduced by at least 90%.The schemes can be used for the design and implementation of IoT security application-specific integrated circuits or SoCs.…”
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STRESS-BASED FATIGUE LIFE MODEL UNDER ASYMMETRICAL LOADS by SU YunLai, LU Shan, DONG DengKe, CHEN XianMin, CHEN Li

“…Eighteen sets of fatigue test data from twelve kinds of aeronautical materials in various loading conditions were employed to validate the predict accuracy of modified Walker model,and the results were compared with other commonly used models. The study shows that the influence of maximum stress on mean stress effect varies with materials,while the prediction accuracy of the modified Walker model for each group of test data is better than that any other candidate models to varying degrees.…”
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Important Things to Know about Medicare: Chapter Nine--How should I decide how I want to get my Medicare? by Amanda Terminello, Martie Gillen

“… Important Things to Know about Medicare is a series of 10 publications that will cover the most common Medicare concerns. The series will provide general information about Medicare, including the four major plans, supplemental policies, interactions with different types of insurance, and assistance programs. …”
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Coronary-Cameral Fistula Connecting the Left Anterior Descending Artery and the First Obtuse Marginal Artery to the Left Ventricle: A Rare Finding by Abdul Mannan Khan Minhas, Ehtesham Ul Haq, Ahmed Arslan Yousuf Awan, Arshad Ameer Khan, Ghazanfar Qureshi, Pragathi Balakrishna

“…We describe a case of 49-year-old woman who presented with worsening exertional dyspnea and leg swelling. …”
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Using Large Institutional or National Databases to Evaluate Prostate Cancer Outcomes and Patterns of Care: Possibilities and Limitations by Daniel Su, Thomas L. Jang

“…Prostate cancer is the most common non–skin-related cancer in men. With advances in technology, the care and treatment for men with this disease continues to become more complex. …”
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Catalytic Synthesis of the Biofuel 5-Ethoxymethylfurfural (EMF) from Biomass Sugars by Dayong Yu, Xiaofang Liu, Jingjing Jiang, Yixuan Liu, Jinyu Tan, Hu Li

“…., zeolites, heteropolyacid-based hybrids, and SO3H-based catalysts), ionic liquids, mixed acid catalysts, and deep eutectic solvents (DESs). Except for the commonly used ethanol solvent, this review also summarizes the influence of the cosolvent system (e.g., ethanol/dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), ethanol/tetrahydrofuran (THF), and ethanol/γ-valerolactone (GVL)) on the EMF yield.…”
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Survey on privacy protection indoor positioning by Zhiheng WANG, Yanyan XU

“…Smartphones are usually provided with indoor positioning services by third-party positioning service providers, in which the unique privacy leakage risk has become a major factor limiting its development.How to protect the privacy of users and data in the positioning process has become an important issue to be solved.The research progress of indoor positioning privacy protection in recent years was reviewed.The commonly used indoor positioning technologies were introduced, different implementation architectures of indoor positioning systems and their threat models, privacy protection requirements were discussed, security technologies applied to indoor positioning privacy protection were summarized, indoor positioning privacy protection schemes for different architectures were classified and introduced, and the performance of different schemes and their advantages and disadvantages were comprehensively compared and analyzed, and finally future research trends were summarized and looked forward to.…”
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Thyroid Storm in the Heart: Graves’ Disease Masquerading as Dilated Cardiomyopathy in an Elderly Male by Susheel K. Malani, Chigullapalli Sridevi, Ajitkumar Krishna Jadhav, Digvijay D Nalawade

“…Graves’ disease commonly presents with thyroid and extrathyroid manifestations. …”
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