Sampling Efficiency in Spatially Varying Soils for Slope Stability Assessment by Yajun Li, Cheng Qian, Kang Liu

“…Due to the inherent soil spatial variability and usually limited scope of site exploration programs, the design parameters are usually uncertain at locations where test samples are not taken. This uncertainty often propagates to the response of geotechnical structures such as soil slopes. …”
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L’humain et l’écran, à l’écran : The Cat, the Reverend and the Slave d’Alain Della Negra et Kaori Kinoshita (2010) by Anaïs Guilet

“…It portrays three users of Second Life and offers an unprecedented view on an interfaced, mediated way of life. …”
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A Subgrid Parameterization for Wind Turbines in Weather Prediction Models with an Application to Wind Resource Limits by B. H. Fiedler, A. S. Adams

“…A subgrid parameterization is offered for representing wind turbines in weather prediction models. …”
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Framing the Land: Canadian Landscapes Revisited in Jin-me Yoon and Lorraine Gilbert’s Photography by Gwendolyne Cressman

“…This manner of framing the land implied that what was kept outside of the frame or conversely included within its bounds, was often informed by hierarchical relations and colonialist visions of the land. …”
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WiFi Indoor Positioning Based on EGA-PF and Fernet Algorithm by Yanchun Wang, Shaoye Sun, Fengjuan Miao, Ying Xia

“…Finally, to ensure the offline fingerprint database’s security, encrypting fingerprint database using the Fernet algorithm, and database is decrypted when the positioning request is received in the online phase. …”
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Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Heat Treatment Low-alloy Wear-resistant Steel NM450 by Wu　Zhennan, Yao　Kaiyang, Tao　Yun, Zhou　Weichen, WanXin　, Song　Xinli

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Quantifying the degree of change in supply chain determinants and resilience during the 2014–2015 economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic: placing emphasis by R. S. Rogulin

“…The most important drivers of global supply chain resilience that need to be developed to offset the effects of major crises have been identified. …”
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Coastal Inlet Analysis by Image Color Intensity Variations: Implications for the Barrier Coast of Ukraine by Ilya V. Buynevich, Oleksiy V. Davydov, Duncan M. FitzGerald

“…Yet, they have morphosedimentary elements and morphodynamic behaviors that are similar to their tidal counterparts, especially microtidal (often wave-dominated) inlets. Increasingly, remote sensing technologies (aerial and satellite imagery, small unmanned aerial vehicles, etc.) are employed as sources of high-definition spatial databases. …”
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大學教師學術發表影響力之影響因素 Factors Influencing Publication Impact of Faculty by 郭玲玲 Ling-Ling Kueh, 許清芳 Ching-Fan Sheu

“…Despite their professional and research interests, faculty members’ academic research output and impact patterns are often shaped by the opportunities created and the requirements imposed by their affiliated institutions (Way et al., 2019). …”
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The Chinese version of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation Questionnaire: psychometric properties among adolescent students by Mengjun Zhu, Xing’an Yao, Abu Talib Mansor

“…Concurrent criterion validity, and incremental validity were demonstrated by the SOC Questionnaire and the LES.ConclusionThe 17-item, 3-factor SOC Questionnaire demonstrated strong reliability and validity, thus offering a new multidimensional of the SOC Questionnaire to evaluate intentional self-regulation among adolescents in schools.…”
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House Price Prediction: A Multi-Source Data Fusion Perspective by Yaping Zhao, Jichang Zhao, Edmund Y. Lam

“…By adopting a multi-source data fusion perspective and considering a wide range of influential factors, our approach offers valuable insights into house price prediction. …”
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Ten Strategies for Working With Your Home Owner Association to Convert to a Florida-Friendly Yard by Gail Hansen de Chapman, Claire Lewis

“…This 9-page fact sheet offers several strategies for working within HOA regulations to gain approval for a Florida-Friendly landscape. …”
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Do current maternal health staffing and bed occupancy benchmarks work in practice? Results from a simulation model by Giorgia Gon, Carolin Vegvari, Rebecca F Baggaley, Said Mohammed Ali, Salma Abdi Mahmoud, Farhat Jowhar

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Analysis of the Queueing-Inventory System with Impatient Customers and Mixed Sales by Yuying Zhang, Dequan Yue, Li Sun, Jinpan Zuo

“…The customer arrived waits for service with a probability p or is lost forever with a probability 1−p when the server is off due to a vacation. Customers are impatient during period when the customer is waiting for service in the queue or when the server is off due to a vacation. …”
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Systematic literature review on Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition (CPPD) nomenclature: condition elements and clinical states— A Gout, Hyperuricaemia and Crystal-Associated Disease... by Georgios Filippou, Antonella Adinolfi, Emilio Filippucci, Nicola Dalbeth, Robert Terkeltaub, Tristan Pascart, Edoardo Cipolletta, Silvia Sirotti, Charlotte Jauffret, Sara Tedeschi, Daniele Cirillo, Luca Ingrao, Alessandro Lucia

“…CPPD clinical phenotypes were often described as ‘pseudo-form’ labels.Conclusion Those results demonstrate the heterogeneity of labels used to describe CPPD condition concepts, with wide variation in condition labels in the medical literature. …”
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Collective Expert Perspectives on the Use of Safinamide as Adjunctive Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease: Online-Based Delphi Survey by Atsushi Takeda, Yoshio Tsuboi, Masahiro Nomoto, Hideki Mochizuki, Nobutaka Hattori

“…Published clinical evidence supports safinamide as an effective therapy for Parkinson’s disease (PD) with wearing-off. However, to date, no consensus recommendations have been available to guide physicians in Asia on the optimal use of safinamide in clinical practice. …”
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Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis and Diabetes Insipidus in a Young Smoker by K. Earlam, C. A. Souza, R. Glikstein, M. M. Gomes, S. Pakhalé

“…High resolution CT (HRCT) of the thorax findings includes centrilobular nodules and cysts that are bizarre in shape, variable in size, and thin-walled. Often the diagnosis can be made based on the appropriate clinical presentation and typical imaging findings. …”
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Cylindrical Bending of Deformable Textile Rectangular Patch Antennas by Freek Boeykens, Luigi Vallozzi, Hendrik Rogier

“…Unlike previous contributions, which concerned only qualitative studies by means of measurements and numerical full-wave simulations, the proposed model offers advantages in terms of physical insight, accuracy, speed, and cost.…”
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Agonistic anti-NKG2D antibody structure reveals unique stoichiometry and epitope compared to natural ligands by Daniel Fallon, Ching-Shin Huang, Jingya Ma, Christopher Morgan, Zhaohui Sunny Zhou

“…This binding interaction, as compared to NKG2D natural ligands, suggests there may be unique mechanisms to engage this receptor while offering possible benefits when incorporated into an IgG-based therapeutic.…”
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Severe Aplastic Anemia following Acute Hepatitis from Toxic Liver Injury: Literature Review and Case Report of a Successful Outcome by Kamran Qureshi, Usman Sarwar, Hicham Khallafi

“…HAAA has a very poor outcome and often requires bone marrow transplant (BMT). The findings of immune related myeloid injury implied the use of immunosuppressive therapy (IST) and led to improved survival from HAAA. …”
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