Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly Research by Yuerong Hu, Jana Diesner, Ted Underwood, Zoe LeBlanc, Glen Layne-Worthey, John Stephen Downie

“…With this method, our research reveals for the first time the scale of the phenomena of incentivized book reviews that is well known to users of Goodreads but remains largely anecdotal. …”
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An Enhanced Approach of Image Steganographic Using Discrete Shearlet Transform and Secret Sharing by Yasir Ahmed Hamza, Nada Elya Tewfiq, Mohammed Qasim Ahmed

“…According to the experimental results, the proposed method is achieved better imperceptibility for the stego image with the payload capacity equal to (1 bpp). …”
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Finding Multiple Optimal Solutions to an Integer Linear Program by Random Perturbations of Its Objective Function by Noah Schulhof, Pattara Sukprasert, Eytan Ruppin, Samir Khuller, Alejandro A. Schäffer

“…Using these metrics, we provide empirical results demonstrating that MORSE outperforms the Gurobi method and unweighted variations of the MORSE method on a set of 20 Mixed Integer Programming Library (MIPLIB) instances and on a combinatorial optimization problem in cancer genomics.…”
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Quantifying the analysis uncertainty for nowcasting application by Y. Zhu, Y. Zhu, A. Atencia, M. Dabernig, Y. Wang, Y. Wang

“…<p>This study proposes a method to quantify uncertainty represented by errors in very-high-resolution near-surface analysis, specifically for weather nowcasting applications. …”
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Study of the influence of premarital education and consultation on the couples compatibility in the first three years of their marital life among married young people of Isfahan an... by mosayeb khaledi sardashti, Asghar mohammadi, Seyed Ali Hashemianfar

“…The sample size determined by Cochran's formula and is equal to 387. The samples were chosen by availability sampling method. …”
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Analysis of the Relationship Between the Housing Units Density in the Building and the Indoor Environmental Satisfaction of the Residential Complex (Case study: Sepahan-Shahr Town... by Homayoon Nooraie, Motahar Shamohammadi

“…Then, the required data were collected by documentary and field methods (observation and questionnaire). For this purpose, stratified random sampling method was used with equal allocation method and 136 residential units in Sepahan-Shahr were questioned. …”
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Assessment of Incidence of Allergic Rhinitis in Chronic Rhinosinusitis Patients: A Prospective Analysis by Mumtaz Ahmad Umar, Ayesha Jawad, Mirza Nasheed Baig, Nighat Arif, Saira Iftikhar, Mohibullah Mushwani

“…Based on the inclusion criteria, 100 patients with chronic rhinosinusitis were enrolled in the study after obtaining ethical approval, using consecutive sampling technique. The skin prick method was used for the diagnosis of allergic rhinitis.  …”
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Spatial Analysis of the Enjoyment Degree for the Townships of Esfahan Province based on ICT Indices by Hosein Sarami, Sayyed Ali Mousavi, Rasoul Babanasab

“…Based on the purpose, the research is applied-developmental research, and based on the method it is descriptive, quantitative and analytical. 23 townships of Esfahan Province include statistical society of the research. …”
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A hybrid model of ARIMA and MLP with a Grasshopper optimization algorithm for time series forecasting of water quality by Jie Su, Ziyu Lin, Fengwei Xu, Gholamreza Fathi, Khalid A. Alnowibet

“…In the proposed hybrid method, the ability of the ARIMA and the MLP model are exploited. …”
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The effects of the integrative strategy on fostering reflective thinking and imparting basic basketball offensive techniques to female students by Missaa Nadem, Nadeema Badr Mohammed, Huda Badwe Shbeeb, Iqbal Abdul Hussein Neamah, Najlaa Abbas AL-Zuhairi, Nihad Mohammed Alwan

“…Research methodology: the researcher chose the experimental methodology with the two equal group's method. Finding the community and choosing the right sample for the study's kind and goals are essential to the accomplishment of any research project. …”
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The effect of exercises in the third intensity zone of the strength characteristic of speed for the legs on some physiological and biochemical indicators for handball players by Nada Abdulsalam Sabri, Hanan Murad Al-Agele, Huda Badwi Shbeeb, Suhad Qassem Saeed Al-Mousawi

“… Objective: preparing exercises for the third intensity zone for strength and speed for the legs, and identifying their effect on some physiological and biochemical indicators for (the level of lactic acid concentration, the concentration of sodium bicarbonate, the concentration level of (potassium K+) and (sodium Na+) in the blood, and the number of breathing times (RF) Research methodology: the experimental research method was adopted by designing the experimental and control groups on a sample of Army Sports Club players amounting to (16) players, deliberately selected (100%) from their community using a comprehensive enumeration method, and then divided into two groups of equal number, After determining the tests for physiological and biochemical indicators, these exercises were experimented with, adopting the use of different training tools, by regulating the training load for each player at an intensity of (85%) to (95%), repetitions of (5-10), groups of (3-5), and the duration of the rest periods. …”
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How can municipal control ensure the security of the urban environment? Reform of control‐supervision activities and judicial practice by Ekaterina S. Shugrina

“…The article discusses the current model of municipal control in Russia, analyzes the relevant regulations and judicial practice.The purpose of the article is to confirm or refute the hypothesis that municipal control can be effective from the standpoint of ensuring the security of the urban environment.The methodological basis of the study includes general‐scientific methods (analysis and synthesis, system‐structural approach) as well as academic methods (formal‐legal method, method of interpretation of legal acts).Results and scope of their application. …”
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Intraoperative ICG-Fluorescence Imaging of Lymph Nodes in Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy in Patients with Bladder Cancer by V. N. Pavlov, M. F. Urmantsev, M. R. Bakeev

“…Intraoperative imaging using indocyanine green now appears to be a contemporary and relevant method for intraoperative imaging of sentinel lymph nodes. …”
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IN VITRO TESTING OF CLOVE EXTRACTS IN INHIBITING AND KILLING STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS AND ESCHERICHIA COLI by Nadia Dwi Rahmawati, Tri Nur Kristina, Endang Sri Lestari, Hardian Hardian

“…MIC was measured with dilution method, while MBC with streak method. Negative controls were only used to monitor the quality of this work. …”
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Udokumentowanie otrzymania środków pieniężnych dowodem przekazania – Glosa do uchwały Naczelnego Sądu Administracyjnego z 20.03.2023 r., III FPS 3/22, LEX nr 3508011 by Wiktor Gnych-Pietrzak

“…The paper uses primarily the case study method, supplemented by a dogmatic-legal and analytical method. …”
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Construction of a model of subsoil moisture movement in cultivated slope lands by Andrey A. Mikhaylin

“…To study the moistening process in the slope soil layer treated by the new method, the following assumptions were made: the soil skeleton was geometrically unchanged; hysteresis was excluded in the system under consideration; the moisture inside the soil was not compressed; the air pressure inside the treated soil horizon was equal to the atmospheric pressure; capillary and gravitational phenomena were the main causes of moisture movement inside the treated layer; subsoil moisture transfer was related to isothermal processes; the Cartesian coordinate system was used, and the z-axis was directed vertically upwards. …”
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Dynamic Graph Neural Network for Garbage Classification Based on Multimodal Feature Fusion by Yuhang Yang, Yuanqing Luo, Yingyu Yang, Shuang Kang

“…Moreover, on the public TrashNet dataset, the proposed method demonstrates equally outstanding classification performance and robustness, achieving an overall accuracy of 99.49%. …”
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Position Detection System for Moving-Magnet Linear Motors Based on a Magnetoresistive Sensor Array by Jun Wang, Xiang Chen, Quyan Chen, Qing Xi, Haiyang Sun

“…At present, the magnetic grid-scale and grating-scale are the most widely used traditional detection methods. However, these are not suitable for position detection with moving-magnet linear motors. …”
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Fusing Horizon Information for Visual Localization by Cheng Zhang, Yuchan Yang, Yiwei Wang, Helu Zhang, Guangyao Li

“…In autonomous driving, place recognition is equally crucial and of great significance. Existing place recognition methods are deficient in local feature extraction and position and orientation errors can occur during the matching process. …”
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Adaptive and Asymmetrical Blending for Bi-Directional Inter Prediction of Various Visual Contents in Video Coding by Minhun Lee, Donggyu Sim

“…This study presents a comprehensive approach using adaptive and asymmetrical blending for the GPM (AAGPM) to enhance the performance of the blending technique by introducing two novel blending methods: a difference-based adaptive blending method and an implicitly asymmetrical blending mechanism. …”
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