Multifunctional properties of chemically reduced graphene oxide and silicone rubber composite: Facile synthesis and application as soft composites for piezoelectric energy harvesti... by Vineet Kumar, Tapas Kumar Mandal, Anuj Kumar, Md Najib Alam, Nargish Parvin, Sang Woo Joo, Dong Joo Lee, Sang-Shin Park

“…In the present work, chemically reduced graphene oxide (CRGO) was synthesized by ‘top-down’ using the modified Hummers’ method. CRGO and room-temperature-vulcanized silicone rubber (RTV-SR) were mixed to prepare composites with different CRGO loadings. …”
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Delineation of competence between public authorities in the field of legal regulation of institutions of municipal democracy by Svetlana V. Narutto

“…The issues of determining the level of legal regulation of instruments of direct municipal democracy – elections, referendum, recall of an elected person, voting on changes in the boundaries of the municipality and the transformation of the municipality – are analyzed through the prism of judicial practice.The main results and scope of their application. …”
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Evaluation of Pap Smear Results of Women in the Turkish Population by Age Group by Fatma Horasan, Esin Kasap

“…Among the microscopic findings, superficial squamous cells, polymorphonuclear (PMN) leukocytes, lactobacilli, squamous metaplasia, mature squamous cells, immature squamous cells, and endocervical cells were observed. The presence of transformation components, other quality indicators, and non-neoplastic conditions varied significantly across different age groups. …”
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The characterization of OfRGA in regulation of flower size through tuning cell expansion genes by Qianqian Wan, Mei Lu, Gege Jiang, Jiexin Shao, Tao Chen, Liyuan Yang, Irshad Ahmad Khan, Jinping Deng, Shiwei Zhong, Yiguang Wang, Zheng Xiao, Qiu Fang, Hongbo Zhao

“…A negative association was observed between OfRGA expression and petal size across four different Osmanthus fragrans cultivars. Transformation experiments in tobacco revealed that transgenic plants overexpressing OfRGA exhibited increased plant height, greater node spacing, shorter leaf length, and wider leaves during the vegetative phase. …”
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Patterns for translation of compound nouns in the Russian, English, and German languages by T.K. Ivanova, N.V. Arzhantseva, I.V. Erofeeva

“…The purpose has been fulfilled using the following methods: comparative and des­criptive methods, as well as the method of structural and semantic analysis based on the onomasiological approach. …”
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Nomads’ Settlement: A perspective of settlers Talkhab settlement (Ilam Province) by Alireza Gholami, Eskandar Seidaie, Ahmad Taghdisi

“…To help avert the process, experts have proposed different approaches among which settlement plan rendered as most appropriate. …”
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The evolving role of national central banks by V. V. Kuznetsova, O. I. larina

“…The authors use general scientific and special research methods, including comparative legal analysis and the method of systematization. …”
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Efficacy and safety of immune checkpoint inhibitors rechallenge in advanced solid tumors: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Jiahui Cao, Xinyao Ding, Jianan Ji, Lin Zhang, Chengyan Luo

“…Meanwhile, we conducted a meta-analysis of objective response rates (ORR), disease control rates (DCR), and immune-related adverse events (irAEs) for reuse of ICIs using Freeman-Tukey double arcsine transformation method.ResultsSixty eligible studies were included in the meta-analysis, and the results revealed that those who discontinued ICIs therapy and reused ICIs had an ORR of 21.6% [95% confidence interval (CI): 17.6, 25.7] and a DCR of 55.8% (95% CI: 50.0, 61.5). …”
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Lexico-semantic group «fantastic birds» as a fragment of the russian language picture of the world by E. N. Zubkova

“…The analysis of paradigmatic connections and similar changes in the semantic structure of the borrowed and Russian nominations related to the lexico-semantic group “Fantastic Birds”, the meanings of which respectively get or actualize the Russian linguoculture national specifics, is fundamentally new in the article.The article concludes that the original mythological meaning of the nominations has transformed into the meaning of ‘fantastic bird’, which gradually loses its connection with mythology and acquires characteristic parameters that are significant for Russian speakers, the volume and degree of expression of which is associated with the location of lexemes in the field structure of the lexico-semantic group «Fantastic birds» in the Russian linguoculture.Based on the contexts of existence of lexeme which were obtained using the sampling method through the National Corps of the Russian language, the author found that the Russian language is characterized by the development on the basis of the studied nominations of proper names, which are homonymous words in relation to these lexemes, the appearance of ethnospecific semes in the meaning structure of the nominations, contamination of the meanings of some words, the formation of the same type of cognitive metaphor based on the direct meaning of the lexemes, reflecting the similarity, contiguity and associative connections between the target area and the source area in the Russian language.The research materials were obtained during the work with different types of Russian dictionaries (encyclopedic, mythological, ethnolinguistic, etymological, historical, explanatory, dictionaries of foreign words) and the National Corps of the Russian language and cover the period from the 11th to the 21st centuries.…”
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Quantification of health by scaling similarity judgments. by Alexander M M Arons, Paul F M Krabbe

“…Similarity data were transformed into interval-level scales with metric and non-metric multidimensional scaling algorithms. …”
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Development of a relay-vector control system for a multi-phase semiconductor converter of electric energy by S. V. Panteleev, A. N. Malashin

“…An objective function of this type allows one to take into account different values of the amplitudes of the base voltage vectors of the semiconductor switch in the transformed orthogonal coordinate systems. …”
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Legal mentality and causes of corruption in Ukraine by Dovhanych V.

“…The methods of comparative analysis and expert survey are used to establish cause and effect relationships. …”
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Blue to Yellow Photoluminescence Emission and Photocatalytic Activity of Nitrogen Doping in TiO2 Powders by Gabriela Byzynski, Caue Ribeiro, Elson Longo

“…TiO2:N was therefore synthesized using a modified polymeric method and N doping was performed by calcination with urea. …”
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Synthesis of some new N3 substituted 5-hydroxy-7-methyl-3H-thiazolo[4,5-b]pyridin-2-ones as potential biologically active compounds by T. I. Chaban, V. V. Ohurtsov, V. S. Matiichuk, O. V. Honcharenko, I. H. Chaban

“…We continue to research different activities and chemical transformation of these substances with the prospect of studying biological activities.…”
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Smart Assistant for Deaf and Mute Using Micro:bit by Entesar Alasaad

“…Therefore, to overcome this difficulty, sign language emerged as a method of non-verbal communication commonly used by deaf and mute people. …”
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Peculiarities of the EU financial policy in the non-banking financial services market by H.A. Faraponov

“…The research employed general scientific methods of cognition: analysis and synthesis; induction and deduction; systematization; comparative method; structural-functional approach; elements of forecasting. …”
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Universal Modeling for Non-Destructive Testing of Soluble Solids Content in Multi-Variety Blueberries Based on Hyperspectral Imaging Technology by Lingqi Meng, Guoliang Chen, Dayang Liu, Ning Tian

“…A partial least squares regression (PLSR) model was constructed by combining different preprocessing methods such as Savitzky–Golay (S-G), multiplicative scatter correction (MSC) and standard normal variable transformation (SNV). …”
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Deterministic Trajectory Design and Attitude Maneuvers of Gradient-Index Solar Sail in Interplanetary Transfers by Marco Bassetto, Giovanni Mengali, Alessandro A. Quarta

“…A gradient-index solar sail (GIS) is a special type of refractive sail, in which the membrane film design is optimized though a transformation optics-based method. In this case, the membrane film is designed to achieve a desired refractive index distribution with the aid of a waveguide array to increase the sail efficiency. …”
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The Right to Access the Internet and Modern Models of Digital Discrimination by E. L. Sidorenko, N. Yu. Molchakov

“…The approach proposed in the article to determine the key parameters of the right to the Internet was substantiated mainly on the basis of the application of comparative legal, formal legal and axiological methods.The methodology of the research made it possible to formulate and substantiate the conclusion that the right to the Internet in the face of modern legal and political challenges is undergoing a qualitative transformation both in the direction of expanding the positive obligations of the state to overcome the digital divide, and in the direction of restricting the right to freedom of Internet communication under the auspices of ensuring the right to privacy and the need to respect the public interest. …”
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Music is an Architecture Revived: a Gothic Cathedral as a Model for a Perfect Musical Composition as Seen by Vincent D’Indy by Elena V. Rovenko

“…The latter was initiated by d’Indy himself in his Cours de Composition Musicale. A step-by-step method of putting the cyclic principle into practice, regardless of the artistic material, is derived by applying the comparative analysis, which helps to develop universal models for working with repetitive patterns in spatial and temporal arts. …”
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