Market Development Strategies for Florida Fresh Sweet Corn: Findings from a Consumer Survey, 2001 by Tom Stevens, Robert Degner, Kimberly Morgan, Chris deBodisco, Lisa House

“…In 2001, the Council contracted with the Florida Agricultural Market Research Center at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences to conduct a consumer survey to evaluate existing and potential impediments to future market growth for both wholesale and retail stages and to make recommendations for specific marketing strategies that could increase Council members' profitability. …”
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A Fast Region-Based Segmentation Model with Gaussian Kernel of Fractional Order by Bo Chen, Qing-Hua Zou, Wen-Sheng Chen, Yan Li

“…In this proposed model, the energy function with value of [−1, 1] is built, the local mean and global mean of the inside and outside of the evolution curve are employed, and the segmentation results are obtained by controlling the expansion and contraction of the evolution curve. The model is simple and easy to implement; it can also protect weak edges because of considering more statistical information. …”
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Development of Smart Sensing Technology Approaches in Structural Health Monitoring of Bridge Structures by Arvindan Sivasuriyan, D. S. Vijayan, A. LeemaRose, J. Revathy, S. Gayathri Monicka, U. R. Adithya, J. Jebasingh Daniel

“…In recent years, immense development in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of bridges helps address the life span and reliability of bridge structure at contrasting phases of their service life. This article provides a detailed understanding of bridge monitoring, and it focuses on sensors utilized and all kinds of damage detection (strain, displacement, acceleration, and temperature) according to bridge nature (scour, suspender failure, disconnection of bolt and cables, etc.) and environmental degradation under static and dynamic loading. …”
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Market Development Strategies for Florida Fresh Sweet Corn: Findings from a Consumer Survey, 2001 by Tom Stevens, Robert Degner, Kimberly Morgan, Chris deBodisco, Lisa House

“…In 2001, the Council contracted with the Florida Agricultural Market Research Center at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences to conduct a consumer survey to evaluate existing and potential impediments to future market growth for both wholesale and retail stages and to make recommendations for specific marketing strategies that could increase Council members' profitability. …”
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Investigating smart water distribution via sensor networks: a brief examination by Dmitriy Vladislav

“…An attempt is made in this place studies illustrations to justify water encumber customers; facts losses, able to be contracted helping cure selections and moreover to build a clean, reliable and unfamiliar water transfer finish. …”
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Incorporation of Polymers into Calcined Clays as Improved Thermal Insulating Materials for Construction by Serina Ng, Bjørn Petter Jelle

“…To further improve its thermal insulation property, polymer-calcined clay complexes (PCCs) were produced in a one-pot synthesis. Two contrasting polymers, polystyrene (PS) and polyethylene glycol (PEG), were employed. …”
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In vivo Evaluation of Patellar Tendon Stiffness in Individuals with Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome by Hsin-Yi Liu, Michelle Boling, Darin Padua, R. Alexander Creighton, Paul Weinhold

“…Subjects were asked to perform isometric maximal voluntary contractions of the knee extensors while their knee extension torque was monitored and the displacement of the patellar tendon was recorded with an ultrasonic system. …”
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Multiple Osteomas in Middle Ear by Yongxin Li, Qiuhuan Li, Shusheng Gong, Honggang Liu, Zilong Yu, Luo Zhang

“…Here we describe a patient with multiple middle ear osteomas arising from the promontory, incus, Eustachian tube, and bony semicanal of tensor tympani muscle. This patient also contracted the chronic otitis media in the ipsilateral ear. …”
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Analytical solutions for Maxwell-scalar system on radially symmetric spacetimes by I. Andrade, D. Bazeia, M. A. Marques, R. Menezes, G. J. Olmo

“…The stability of the solutions against contractions and dilations, following Derrick’s argument, and around small fluctuations in the fields is also investigated. …”
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A Novel Optimal Robust Design Method for Frequency Regulation of Three-Area Hybrid Power System Utilizing Honey Badger Algorithm by Rajendra Kumar Khadanga, Smruti Ranjan Nayak, Sidhartha Panda, Deepa Das, B. Rajanarayan Prusty, Preeti Ranjan Sahu

“…It is seen that the said regulator is more viable for the frequency control contrasted with the regular regulator by considering a change in system parameters and different paces of RES penetration. …”
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TRANSLATION STRATEGIES OF BUSINESS-RELATED WORDS AND TERMS IN THE PRESS RELEASES OF EUROPEAN COMMISSION by Rosita Šimonytė Juškauskė, Ieva Brazauskaitė Zubavičienė, Jolanta Bareikienė, Asta Pukienė

“…The paper suggests the theoretical background of translation strategies and the practical analysis of 96 examples of business-related words and terms in the source language with their corresponding translations into the target language. The descriptive contrastive linguistic method has been applied for processing the data selected. …”
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Dynamic effects and information quantifiers of statistical memoryof MEG's signals at photosensitive epilepsy by R. M. Yulmetyev, E. V. Khusaenova, D. G. Yulmetyeva, P. Hänggi, S. Shimojo, K. Watanabe, J. Bhattacharya

“…We study two independentstatistical memory quantifiers that reflect the dynamicalcharacteristics of neuromagnetic brain responses on a flickeringstimulus of different colored combinations from a group of controlsubjects, which are contrasted with those from a patient with PSE.We analyze the frequency dependence of two memory measures forthe neuromagnetic signals. …”
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Compressive Strength Prediction of Self-Compacting Concrete-A Bat Optimization Algorithm Based ANNs by Amir Andalib, Babak Aminnejad, Alireza Lork

“…The correctness of the bat-based neural network model is then substantiated by contrasting its performance with that of the particle swarm optimization and teaching-learning-based optimization algorithms employed to train a neural network model. …”
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Periodic Solutions for Nonlinear Integro-Differential Systems with Piecewise Constant Argument by Kuo-Shou Chiu

“…Then we construct appropriate mappings and employ Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem to show the existence of a periodic solution of this type of nonlinear differential equations. We also use the contraction mapping principle to show the existence of a unique periodic solution. …”
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A Novel Cuckoo Search Optimized Deep Auto-Encoder Network-Based Fault Diagnosis Method for Rolling Bearing by Jinyu Tong, Jin Luo, Haiyang Pan, Jinde Zheng, Qing Zhang

“…Second, the sparse penalty term and contractive penalty term are used simultaneously to regularize the loss function of auto-encoder to enhance the feature learning ability of networks. …”
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A Criticism of the Kyoto Protocol with an Objective Approach by Z. Fuat Toprak, Sertaç Atabey

“…In this study: 1) what obligations the articles of the Kyoto Protocol impose on the countries that are party to the protocol, 2) whether the articles of the protocol are impartial, equal, and fair in their obligations to the contracting countries and their binding, 3) how the economic support of developed countries to reduce emissions to developing countries can be evaluated in the context of the principle of equality/justice, 4) it has been discussed whether the non-bindingness of the countries those are not party to the protocol. …”
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Rationale for Antioxidant Supplementation in Sarcopenia by Francesco Cerullo, Giovanni Gambassi, Matteo Cesari

“…In fact, skeletal muscle is a highly oxygenated tissue and the generation of reactive oxygen species is particularly enhanced in both contracting and at rest conditions. It has been suggested that oral antioxidant supplementation may contribute at reducing indices of oxidative stress both in animal and human models by reinforcing the natural endogenous defenses. …”
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Post-cholecystectomy functional disorders of the sphincter of Oddi after by Yu. M. Pantsyrev, S. G. Shapoval’yants, S. A. Chernyakevich, A. G. Pankov, I. V. Babkova, S. Yu. Orlov, N. V. Zubova

“…Functional SO disorders (spasm of papilla of Vater, hyper- and hypokinetic dyskinesia, increased frequency of contractions, local stenosis of papilla of Vater in combination to sphincter dysfunction) were diagnosed in all patients, who underwent endoscopic SO manometry. …”
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Design and Construction of a Hydraulic Lift. by Ndahura, Dickens

“…This project is mainly focused on the force acting on the hydraulic lift when it is extended and contracted. Generally, a hydraulic lift is used for lifting and holding heavy-weight components. …”
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Topographie et restitution du chantier de l’aqueduc d’Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) by Robert Fabre, Philippe Leveau, Vincent Dumas

“…The route would then be divided into sections and the construction work allocated to contractors. When the slope was too steep, a drop was created. …”
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