Impact of Cyclonic Storm “Sitrang” over the Bay of Bengal on Heavy Rain and Snow in Eastern Tibet by Xiaotao Zhao, Lunzhu Danzeng, Qu Chi, Xulin Ma, Yuting Tan, Luozhu Duodian, Ranzhen Danzeng

“…Rainstorms and blizzards are common extreme weather events occurring in the eastern Tibet region. …”
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Adaptive clustering federated learning via similarity acceleration by Suxia ZHU, Binke GU, Guanglu SUN

“…In order to solve the problem of model performance degradation caused by data heterogeneity in the federated learning process, it is necessary to consider personalizing in the federated model.A new adaptively clustering federated learning (ACFL) algorithm via similarity acceleration was proposed, achieving adaptive acceleration clustering based on geometric properties of local updates and the positive feedback mechanism during clients federated training.By dividing clients into different task clusters, clients with similar data distribution in the same cluster was cooperated to improve the performance of federated model.It did not need to determine the number of clusters in advance and iteratively divide the clients, so as to avoid the problems of high computational cost and slow convergence speed in the existing clustering federation methods while ensuring the performance of models.The effectiveness of ACFL was verified by using deep convolutional neural networks on commonly used datasets.The results show that the performance of ACFL is comparable to the clustered federated learning (CFL) algorithm, it is better than the traditional iterative federated cluster algorithm (IFCA), and has faster convergence speed.…”
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Delay discounting predicts COVID-19 vaccine booster willingness by Julia G. Halilova, Samuel Fynes‑Clinton, Caitlin M. Terao, Donna Rose Addis, R. Shayna Rosenbaum

“…Thematic coding revealed that the most common reason for booster willingness was protection against COVID-19, and for unwillingness was non-necessity. …”
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Facts about Wildlife Diseases: South Tick Associated Rash Illness or "STARI" by Katherine Sayler, Carisa Boyce, Samantha Wisely

“… Southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI) is a human tick-borne disease that occurs following the bite of Amblyomma americanum, the lone star tick, which is the most common and aggressive human-biting tick in the South, accounting for over 90% of human tick bites in the region. …”
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Frontiers of fracture and fatigue: Some recent applications of the local strain energy density by Filippo Berto, S.M.J. Razavi, J. Torgersen

“…Attempting to strike a common ground will connect various physical events/phenomena as a natural result of curiosity arising in course of joint research activities. …”
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A Rare Presentation of Checkpoint Inhibitor Induced Distal RTA by Andrew V. Doodnauth, Miriam M. Klar, Zohra R. Malik, Krunal H. Patel, Samy I. McFarlane

“…However, immune-related renal adverse events remain low, representing only a small incidence of reported cases. Common renal toxicity described includes acute interstitial nephritis, minimal change disease, and immune complex glomerulonephritis. …”
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Le retour des hommes sur la scène méditerranéenne by Jean-Robert Henry

“…The necessity to go back to a free circulation of the persons and to take Mediterranean sea as a common human space, on the European model, is a claim formulated by more and more significant representatives of the society, as manifests the very clear advice of the euro-Mediterranean civil Forum of Marrakech in November 2006.This question is now reaching the European authorities, which put on agenda for 2007 a reflexion on the new migratory policy of Europe. …”
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Biaxial Loading Capacity of H-Type Reinforced Concrete Electric Poles by Abolfazl Eslami, Moein Ramezanpour, Ehsan Hematpoury Farokhy, Mohammad Dehghani Sanij

“…The current study was aimed at developing the biaxial bending interaction curves for H-type utility poles considering the measurements stipulated by the relevant standards and codes. Towards this, two commonly used H-type electric poles (i.e., 9 and 12 m ones with a normal strength of 400 kgF) were constructed, cured, and loaded at angles of 0, 30, 60, and 90 degrees with respect to their minor principal axes. …”
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Genetic, Functional, and Immunological Study of ZnT8 in Diabetes by Qiong Huang, Jie Du, Chengfeng Merriman, Zhicheng Gong

“…Zinc accumulation in cell granules is manipulated by ZnT8, a zinc transporter expressed predominately in pancreatic α and β cells. A common ZnT8 gene (SLC30A8) polymorphism increases the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and rare mutations may present protective effects. …”
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Organizational Gameplay: The Player as Designer of Character Organizations by Luciano R. Coutinho, Victor M. Galvão, Antônio de Abreu Batista, Bruno Roberto S. Moraes, Márcio Regis M. Fraga

“…., definitions of roles, collective strategies, and social norms). During the game, commanded by the player, artificial agents are then instantiated to play the roles and to follow the strategies and norms as defined in the organizational specification. …”
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Innate and Adaptive Cell Populations Driving Inflammation in Dry Eye Disease by José L. Reyes, Danielle T. Vannan, Bertus Eksteen, Imelda Juárez Avelar, Tonathiu Rodríguez, Marisol Ibet González, Alicia Vázquez Mendoza

“…Dry eye disease (DED) is the most common ocular disease and affects millions of individuals worldwide. …”
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Iatrogenic Femoral Arteriovenous Fistula with Pseudoaneurysm Associated with Worsening Heart Failure Years after Percutaneous Impella Placement by Andy Y. Wang, Ali Al Jabri, Edward R. Jewell, Angela L. Jellison

“…He was discovered to have a new, high-flow common femoral artery to femoral vein AVF with an associated PSA. …”
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Climate Change and Florida: Frequently Asked Questions by Joshua Papacek, Ashley Smyth, Holly Abeels, Alicia Betancourt

“…The purpose of this new 8-page FAQ document is to provide answers to commonly asked questions regarding climate change. …”
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An MBS-Assisted Femtocell Transmit Power Control Scheme with Mobile User QoS Guarantee in 2-Tier Heterogeneous Femtocell Networks by Jenhui Chen, Chih-Cheng Yang, Shiann-Tsong Sheu

“…This study investigates how to adjust the transmit power of femto base station (FBS) to mitigate interference problems between the FBSs and mobile users (MUs) in the 2-tier heterogeneous femtocell networks. A common baseline of deploying the FBS to increase the indoor access bandwidth requires that the FBS operation will not affect outdoor MUs operation with their quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. …”
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The Role of FRMD7 in Idiopathic Infantile Nystagmus by Rachel J. Watkins, Mervyn G. Thomas, Chris J. Talbot, Irene Gottlob, Sue Shackleton

“…The inheritance patterns are heterogeneous, however the most common form is X-linked. FRMD7 resides at Xq26-27 and approximately 50% of X-linked IIN families map to this region. …”
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When a sore throat turns into deadly multiple serous cavity effusions: the role of Prevotella oris in rapidly progressing infection—a case report by Fangqi Zhang, Juan-Li Wang, Jian Zhu, Shaokui Si, Hao Guo, Xiang Yue, Wei Wen

“…The aim of this study is to expand clinical awareness of this common symptom and its potentially fatal outcome.…”
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Meditation as an Adjunct to the Management of Multiple Sclerosis by Adam B. Levin, Emily J. Hadgkiss, Tracey J. Weiland, George A. Jelinek

“…The current literature varies in quality; however common positive effects of meditation include improved quality of life (QOL) and improved coping skills. …”
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Effect of Sound Absorption on Noise Reduction in the Automotive Industry by Cüneyt Kurtay, Muammer Yaman

“…Industrial noise is one of the most common physical factors that cause annoyance and damage to workers' health in the long term. …”
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Chromosome-scale assembly and annotation of the wild wheat relative Aegilops comosa by Hongna Li, Shams ur Rehman, Rui Song, Liang Qiao, Xiaohua Hao, Jing Zhang, Kairong Li, Lifeng Hou, Wanyi Hu, Le Wang, Shisheng Chen

“…Abstract Wild relatives of wheat are valuable sources for enhancing the genetic diversity of common wheat. Aegilops comosa, an annual diploid species with an MM genome constitution, possesses numerous agronomically valuable traits that can be exploited for wheat improvement. …”
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Testing the Strength of Chaotic Systems as Seeds in a Pseudo Random Bit Generator by Lazaros Moysis, Marcin Lawnik, Christos Volos, Murilo S. Baptista, Sotirios K. Goudos, George F. Fragulis

“…Driven by these facts, this work studies the performance of a common modulo-based bit generator under different chaotic maps. …”
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