Social assistance and non-agriculture employment in rural China: evidence from the Rural Minimum Living Security (Rural Dibao) by Dian Chen, Xiangming Fang

“…The program primarily boosts temporary work rather than formal employment or self-employment. …”
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Microfinance Institution Services and Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Kabale District Uganda by moses Agaba

“…Savings literacy, debt literacy, and investment literacy programs helped business owners safely manage their income, expenses, and savings, make clear financial decisions, repay loans on time, and diversify their investments, all of which boosted the performance of SMEs. By enhancing SME governance, boosting business vision through achieved goals and plans, and inspiring employees to work hard for better, the development of managerial skills positively impacted the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Neural-Network and Fuzzy Auto-Tuning Sliding Mode Controls for Overhead Cranes under Payload and Cable Variations by Muhammad A. Shehu, Ai-jun Li, Bing Huang, Yu Wang, Bojian Liu

“…In this work, the nonlinear model of the overhead crane was established and the sliding mode control (SMC) was proposed that ensured the existence of sliding motion in the presence of payload and hoisting height variations, and viscous frictions. …”
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Airport Arrival Flow Prediction considering Meteorological Factors Based on Deep-Learning Methods by Zhao Yang, Yifan Wang, Jie Li, Liming Liu, Jiyang Ma, Yi Zhong

“…This study presents a combined Long Short-Term Memory and Extreme Gradient Boosting (LSTM-XGBoost) method for flight arrival flow prediction at the airport. …”
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ASPECTS OF THE VOCAL-SYMPHONIC GENRE by Lucian GHIŞA

“… The vocal-symphonic genre is expressed by employing an apparatus that includes the orchestra, the choir and the soloists. It is to be found in several instances: the musical theatre – opera; without means of theatrical expression – oratorio, and cantata. …”
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Preferences substantiation for non-destructive diagnostic methods selecting pores diffusion coefficient in block products by V. P. Belyaev, M. P. Belyaev, L. G. Varepo, P. S. Belyaev, V. V. Pavlinov

“…The developed technique obviates long transducer calibration stage for each new porous material and diffusing polar solvent, increasing the analysis efficiency. …”
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IMRAS-Immunization with radiation-attenuated Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites by mosquito bite: Cellular immunity to sporozoites, CSP, AMA1, TRAP and CelTOS. by Martha Sedegah, Michael R Hollingdale, Harini Ganeshan, Maria Belmonte, Jun Huang, Arnel Belmonte, Sandra Inoue, Rachel Velasco, Bradley Hickey, Nimfa Teneza-Mora, Joanne Lumsden, Sharina Reyes, Jo Glenna Banania, Anatalio Reyes, Ivelese Guzman, Thomas L Richie, Judith E Epstein, Eileen Villasante

“…Three protected subjects were later boosted and were protected suggesting that protection could be extended to at least 67 weeks.…”
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Topologically consistent regression modeling exemplified for laminar burning velocity of ammonia-hydrogen flames by Hui Du, Tianyu Wang, Haogang Wei, Guy Y. Cornejo Maceda, Bernd R. Noack, Lei Zhou

“…Four regression models, Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP), eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), Random Forest (RF), and Light Gradient Boosting Machine (Light GBM), are trained using the data generated by a modified GRI3.0 mechanism. …”
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An Online Degradation Feature Extraction Technique for Shore Bridge Gearbox Based on Morphological Fractal Dimension and Sliding Window Weibull Fitting by Dejian Sun, Bing Wang, Xiong Hu, Wei Wang

“…In order to solve the degradation feature extraction issue of hoisting mechanism gearbox, an online degradation feature extraction technique based on morphological fractal dimension and sliding window Weibull fitting is proposed. …”
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Chaos in the butterfly cone by Márk Mezei, Gábor Sárosi

“…Finally, we comment on the generalization of the chaos bound to boosted and rotating ensembles and clarify some recent results on this in the literature.…”
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Śmierć dziecka i żałoba rodziców jako zagadnienie duszpasterskie by Janusz Kościelniak

“…W pierwszej omówiono zagadnienie straty bliskiej osoby i jej wpływu na życie osobiste i rodzinne, w następnej zagadnienie żałoby, a ostatnia część związana jest z pomocą osobom doświadczonym śmiercią dziecka. …”
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Management of Urinary Incontinence in Complete Bladder Duplication by Injection of Bulking Agent at Bladder Neck Level into the Proximal Urethra by Reza Khorramirouz, Seyedeh Sanam Ladi Seyedian, Sorena Keihani, Abdol-Mohammad Kajbafzadeh

“…The patient was treated with bulking agent injection at the incompetent bladder neck and proximal urethra with resolution of incontinence, obviating the need for extensive surgeries.…”
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An investigation of machine learning methods applied to genomic prediction in yellow-feathered broilers by Bogong Liu, Huichao Liu, Junhao Tu, Jian Xiao, Jie Yang, Xi He, Haihan Zhang

“…In this study, seven different ML methods—support vector regression (SVR), random forest (RF), gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), light gradient boosting machine (LightGBM), kernel ridge regression (KRR) and multilayer perceptron (MLP) were employed to predict the genomic breeding values of laying traits, growth and carcass traits in a yellow-feathered broiler breeding population. …”
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Pressure treatment enables white-light emission in Zn-IPA MOF via asymmetrical metal-ligand chelate coordination by Qing Yang, Weibin Wang, Yunfeng Yang, Pengyuan Li, Xinyi Yang, Fuquan Bai, Bo Zou

“…Here, we achieve a high-performance white-light emission with photoluminescence quantum yield of 81.3% via boosting triplet excitons distribution through pressure treatment in single-component Zn-IPA metal-organic frameworks. …”
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„Bogactwo” Bożego miłosierdzia w listach św. Pawła by Zbigniew Rycerz

“…Punktem wyjścia czyni osobiste doświadczenie miłosierdzia Bożego w życiu apostoła. …”
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A machine-learning-based hardware-Trojan detection approach for chips in the Internet of Things by Chen Dong, Jinghui Chen, Wenzhong Guo, Jian Zou

“…After that, we use the scoring mechanism of the eXtreme Gradient Boosting to set up a new effective feature set of 49 out of 56 features. …”
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Machine learning analysis of rivaroxaban solubility in mixed solvents for application in pharmaceutical crystallization by Mohammed Alqarni, Ali Alqarni

“…Using a dataset with over 250 data points and including solvents encoded with one-hot encoding, four models were compared: Gradient Boosting (GB), Light Gradient Boosting (LGB), Extra Trees (ET), and Random Forest (RF). …”
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Knee Sepsis after Suprapatellar Nailing of an Open Tibia Fracture: Treatment with Acute Deformity and External Fixation by Chelsea E. Minoughan, Adam P. Schumaier, Frank R. Avilucea

“…A resultant soft-tissue defect over the fracture site obviated primary closure. Creation of an acute deformity stabilized by a Taylor spatial frame allowed primary wound closure. …”
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Mini-Extruder for 3D Magnetoactive Polymer Printing by Nina Prem, Dirk Sindersberger, Gareth J. Monkman

“…The extruder merges the respective components automatically during extrusion which obviates the need for premixing and vacuum evacuation. …”
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: “A CAMBRIDGE MASS”. ABOUT A NEWLY DISCOVERED MANUSCRIPT AND A WORLD PREMIERE, IN CONVERSATION WITH MAESTRO ALAN TONGUE by Bianca ŢIPLEA TEMEŞ

“…Recently, the conductor Alan Tongue discovered at the Cambridge University Library a manuscript signed by Vaughan Williams: a Mass for soloists, choir and orchestra, written in 1899, with the academic purpose of obtaining the title of Doctor of Music. …”
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