Imaging the Morrow A Sandstone Using Shear Wave VSP Data, Postle Field, Oklahoma by Naser Tamimi, Thomas L. Davis

“…Characterization of the Morrow A sandstone reservoir in Postle Field, Texas County, Oklahoma, is challenging due to its small thickness, low acoustic impedance contrast with the surrounding Morrow shale, and lithological heterogeneity. …”
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Inequality in breast cancer: Global statistics from 2022 to 2050 by Ling Liao

“…In 2022, Africa shows the highest positive slope values of age-standardized rates (world) of mortality vs. incidence, both for those under 40 (0.346) and those 40 and older (0.335). These values contrast with those for Asia (0.085, 0.208), Europe (0.002, −0.014), Latin America and the Caribbean (0.17, 0.303), Northern America (−0.078, −0.188), and Oceania (0.166, −0.001). …”
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Life insurance premium and Covid-19 by Glušac Danijela

“…We consider it important to comprehensively explain the premium as an essential element of the life insurance contract. The analysis includes how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting life insurance premiums. …”
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Topological phases driven by orbital entanglement in Transition Metal Oxide Perovskite interfaces by Gabay, Marc

“…In this report we present a study of select topological properties at surfaces or heterostructure interfaces of a subset of these perovskites when the orientation of the structure is along the (001) or (111) direction. In contrast to the extensively studied classes of topological insulators, topology in these systems is a characteristic property of the conducting regime, thus endowing the compounds with potential spintronic and quantum computing functionalities. …”
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A Novel k-out-of-n Oblivious Transfer Protocol from Bilinear Pairing by Jue-Sam Chou

“…Therefore, when used in certain applications, such as mental poker games and fair contract signings, some extra mechanisms must be combined to ensure the security of the protocol. …”
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3D Dynamic Modeling of the Head-Neck Complex for Fast Eye and Head Orientation Movements Research by Daniel A. Sierra, John D. Enderle

“…The soft tissues, namely, the ligaments, intervertebral disks, and facet joints, are modeled considering their physiological roles and dynamics. In contrast with other head and neck models developed for safety research, the model is aimed to study the neural control of the complex during fast eye and head movements, such as saccades and gaze shifts. …”
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‘Splendid Little Soldiers’—Invasion, Empire and the Fantasy of Dominance in Saki’s When William Came by Petra Rau

“…Saki’s solutions to these contemporary fears endorse a muscular masculinity and a redemptive militarism in strong contrast to the homoerotic interests of his earlier years and works. …”
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Inter-subjectivity and Domestication in the Making of a Global Region: Territorialization of Salmon in the Chilean Patagonia by Gustavo Blanco Wells, Alberto Arce, Eleanor Fisher

“…Employing ethnographic methods, this study examines the possibilities of considering inter-subjectivities in the processes of conforming important regions in the global production of foods in contrast to some perspectives that emphasize inter-objectivity in analyzing human and non-human relations. …”
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'Gelukkig hij die uw kinderen zal grijpen' by H. G. L. Peels

“…This imprecatory prayer, which still forms one of the most troublesome dimensions of Scripture for modern Bible-readers, is usually explained very negatively as a human but intolerable expression of personal or national rancour/hostility, and as such put in sharp contrast with the New Testament message of love for the enemy. …”
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Evolution of concept of esophageal motor disturbances in pathogenesis of gastroesophageal reflux disease by V. T. Ivashkin, A. S. Trukhmanov

“…There are several components of TLESR mechanism: decrease of the lower esophageal sphincter pressure, modulated by inhibiting impulses; decrease of compression by crures of diaphragm; intensive contraction of longitudinal muscles of the esophagus; relaxation of circular musculature layer at its distal part. …”
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Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Edmonton, Alberta: An Emergency Department-Based Study by Thomas J Marrie, Jane Q Huang

“…The admission rate increased with increasing age, peaking at 4639/100,000/year for those 90 years of age and older. In contrast, the percentage of patients who were admitted to an intensive care unit was highest for those in the younger age groups between 17 and 59 years of age. …”
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An elementary approach to modeling drug resistance in cancer by Cristian Tomasetti, Doron Levy

“…In this work we consider the problem ofdrug resistance in cancer, focusing on random genetic point mutations.Most previous works on mathematical models of such drug resistancehave been based on stochastic methods. In contrast,our approach is based on an elementary, compartmental system of ordinarydifferential equations.We use our very simple approach to derive resultson drug resistance that are comparable to those that were previously obtained using much more complex mathematical techniques.The simplicity of our model allows us to obtain analytic results forresistance to any number of drugs.In particular, we show that the amountof resistance generated before the start of the treatment, and present at some given time afterward, always depends onthe turnover rate, no matter how many drugs are simultaneously used inthe treatment.…”
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AN ASSESSMENT OF STATE AND CRISIS OF LEGITIMACY IN DEMOCRACY: A FOCUS ON THE FOURTH REPUBLIC by Lambe Emmanuel Oyewole

“… The state is a creation of the people through the social contract. However, the Nigerian state seems to have been hijacked by a few, who use the authority inherent to serve and protect their interests. …”
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Classical and quantum spin liquids by Capponi, Sylvain

“…When considering magnetic systems in the thermodynamic limit and at low enough temperature, one finds typically magnetically ordered phases. In contrast, in the high-temperature regime, the interactions between the spin degrees of freedom become less relevant and the system loses its order: this is a paramagnet. …”
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Optimal Estimators for Threshold-Based Quality Measures by Aaron Abrams, Sandy Ganzell, Henry Landau, Zeph Landau, James Pommersheim, Eric Zaslow

“…We prove that for distributions on a compact space, there is always an optimal estimator that is translation invariant, and we conjecture that this conclusion also holds for any distribution on ℝ. By contrast, we give an example showing that, it does not hold for a certain distribution on an infinite tree.…”
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Evaluation and Injection Parameter Optimization for Polymer Flooding with Different Kinds of Profile Control Agents by Yikun Liu, Qingjun Deng, Gang Chen, Shuang Liang, Lingyun Chen

“…Injecting profile control agent (PCA) into deep reservoir can decrease the inefficient circulation of injected water effectively, which is critical to improve polymer flooding in heterogeneous reservoir. Polymer flooding contrast experiments were carried out with three PCAs, respectively; the influence of different injection times on recovery is analyzed, and the best injection rate of PCA is determined. …”
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The crystal structure of N-(6-chloro-2-methyl-2H-indazol-5-yl)acetamide, C10H10ClN3O by Du Yi-Jing, Sun Hong-Shun, Wang Jian-Qiang, Guo Cheng

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Identification Procedures as Tools for Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery by Susanne Seibold, Claus-Peter Fritzen

“…Recently, this conventional field of application is being extended to fault detection and system diagnosis. In contrast to conventional approaches, identification procedures try to establish an unequivocal relation in between the damage and specific mechanical parameters, based on a suitable model. …”
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Negotiated coexistence and environmental governance in protected nature areas of Peru by Mattias Borg Rasmussen

“…An argument is developed about the consolidation of a social contract for conservation understood as the process that allows the establishment of reciprocal recognition between the protected area institution and local organizations. …”
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An Improved Nonhomogeneous Grey Model with Fractional-Order Accumulation and Its Application by Shuanghua Liu, Qin Qi, Zhiming Hu

“…In particular, two examples are conducted to validate the superiority of the proposed model in contrast with other benchmarks, and the experimental results show that the mean absolute percentage error of the proposed approach is 808692% and 6.0706%, respectively, indicating the proposed approach performs better than other competing models.…”
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