Quest Narratives and Heroine Journeys: the road to freebirth and the joy of undisturbed physiological birth by Gemma McKenzie

“…This methodology produces a range of outputs, including I-Poetry. Previous scholars have noted the difficulty in presenting results from VCRM research and have devised varied and creative ways of subverting these obstacles. …”
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Modified compact tension specimen for experiments on cement based materials: comparison of calibration curves from 2D and 3D numerical solutions by S. Seitl, V. Viszlay

“…The focus of contribution is to compare selected outputs from numerical solution of 2D (plane strain conditions) with 3D models. …”
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Extension of simultaneous Diophantine approximation algorithm for partial approximate common divisor variants by Wonhee Cho, Jiseung Kim, Changmin Lee

“…Abstract A simultaneous Diophantine approximation (SDA) algorithm takes instances of the partial approximate common divisor (PACD) problem as input and outputs a solution. While several encryption schemes have been published and their securities depend on the presumed hardness of variant of the PACD problem, fewer studies have attempted to extend the SDA algorithm to be applicable to these variants. …”
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2D Direction of Arrival Estimation for Cross Array in the Presence of Mutual Coupling by Weiwei Hu, Aijun Zhang, Changming Wang

“…Then a new matrix is constructed with the proper entries of cross covariance matrix of the chosen elements outputs on x-axis and z-axis. Propagation method (PM) and rotational invariance techniques for uniform linear array (ULA) are utilized in the constructed matrix to obtain two parameters correlated with elevations and azimuths. …”
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Statistical methods in grape and wine research for quantifying the impact of climate change by German Puga, Kym Anderson

“…It first focuses on how to estimate appropriate models of the impact of climate or weather on wine-related outputs. It then explains the challenges of using those statistical estimates to predict the impact of climate change. …”
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A Review of Data Envelopment Analysis in Airline Efficiency: State of the Art and Prospects by Qiang Cui, Li-Ting Yu

“…The paper begins with an overall review of the existing literature, and then the radial DEA, nonradial DEA, network DEA, dynamic DEA, and DEA models with undesirable outputs applied in airline efficiency are introduced. …”
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Influence of Worm-wheel Rotational Deflection on Meshing Performance of the Cylindrical Roller Enveloping Internal Engagement Worm Gear by Song Yuanhong, Deng Xingqiao, Jiang Yuanyuan

“…The cylindrical roller enveloping end-face internal engagement worm gear with the worm-wheel rotational deflection is a novel transmission that can achieve multi-load and different corner angular outputs. Analysis of the effect of the worm gear deflection angle on potential root-cutting and rotation of performance is important for understanding the device. …”
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Centralized Resource Allocation for Connecting Radial and Nonradial Models by A. Mirsalehy, M. R. Abu Bakar, G. R. Jahanshahloo, F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, L. S. Lee

“…In the offered model, all of the inputs and outputs, respectively, decrease and increase simultaneously. …”
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Research Agenda 2020 - 2025 by Kabale University

“…There is sufficient evidence indicating that universities with a clear research roadmap, increased investments in research, and increased research outputs have a higher potential for growth.5 The KABRA shall provide a roadmap for research activities and show the footprint of Kabale University in the knowledge society.…”
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Methodological and practical aspects of using satellite imagery to assess the military impact on soils by Vitalii Lebed, Maksym Solokha, Vadym Solovei, Anatolii Kucher, Ludmila Vorotyntseva

“…A spatial layer of objects was developed to represent various types of military-induced soil degradation within the community, including damage from continuous shelling (craters from shells, rockets, and bombs); soil compaction from the movement of military vehicles (tracks and pathways); fortification structures (defensive fighting positions and dugouts); and fires caused by shelling. Using high-resolution satellite imagery, the number of craters and the soil mass loss caused by explosions, the areas of burned and compacted land, as well as the length of anti-tank ditches and defensive fighting positions with dugouts, were calculated at the test site. …”
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The Social Construction of Categorical Data: Mixed Methods Approach to Assessing Data Features in Publicly Available Datasets by Theresa Willem, Alessandro Wollek, Theodor Cheslerean-Boghiu, Martha Kenney, Alena Buyx

“… BackgroundIn data-sparse areas such as health care, computer scientists aim to leverage as much available information as possible to increase the accuracy of their machine learning models’ outputs. As a standard, categorical data, such as patients’ gender, socioeconomic status, or skin color, are used to train models in fusion with other data types, such as medical images and text-based medical information. …”
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CD63 Promotes Hemocyte-Mediated Phagocytosis in the Clam, Paphia undulata by Mingjia Yu, Shanjun Yang, Hongxia Sun, Qiang Xia

“…The complete cDNA of Pu-CD63 is 1,738 bp in length with an open reading frame (ORF) of 849 bp, encoding a 282 amino acid protein with four putative hydrophobic transmembrane helixes. Bioinformatic analysis revealed that Pu-CD63 contains one putative YXXØ consensus motif of “110-YVII-113” and one N-glycosylation site “155-NGT-157” within the large extracellular loop (LEL) region, supporting its conserved function in plasma membrane and endosomal/lysosomal trafficking. …”
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A minimal gene set characterizes TIL specific for diverse tumor antigens across different cancer types by Zhen Zeng, Tianbei Zhang, Jiajia Zhang, Shuai Li, Sydney Connor, Boyang Zhang, Yimin Zhao, Jordan Wilson, Dipika Singh, Rima Kulikauskas, Candice D. Church, Thomas H. Pulliam, Saumya Jani, Paul Nghiem, Suzanne L. Topalian, Patrick M. Forde, Drew M. Pardoll, Hongkai Ji, Kellie N. Smith

“…Most of these TIL are characterized by a tissue resident memory gene expression program. Putative tumor-reactive cells (pTRC) identified via MANAscore in anti-PD-1-treated lung tumors had higher expression of checkpoint and cytotoxicity-related genes relative to putative non-tumor-reactive cells. pTRC in pathologically responding tumors showed distinguished gene expression patterns and trajectories. …”
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Malaria exposure remodels the plasma proteome of Ghanaian children by Aisha M. Mohammed, Charles Ochieng’ Olwal, Andrea Fossati, Nancy K. Nyakoe, Jacqueline M. Fabius, Martin Gordon, Benjamin J. Polacco, Danielle L. Swaney, Gordon A. Awandare, Nevan J. Krogan, Mehdi Bouhaddou, Yaw Bediako

“…Conclusions Our findings confirm earlier reports and identify putative signature proteins implicated in immune tolerance to malaria. …”
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Genetic Transformability of Selected Kenyan Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) Genotypes with IPT Gene Using Cotyledonary Node Explants by Purity G. Limbua, Mathew P. Ngugi, Richard O. Oduor

“…Transformation frequency was calculated as a percentage of the number of putative transformants divided by the total number of infected cotyledonary nodes. …”
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Quorum sensing-mediated inter-specific conidial anastomosis tube fusion between Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and C. siamense by Nikita Mehta, Abhishek Baghela

“…Post CAT fusion, the resulting conidia gave rise to putative heterokaryotic progenies with variable colony characteristics as compared to their parental strains. …”
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The unified theory of acceptance and use of DingTalk for educational purposes in China: an extended structural equation model by Yukun Hou, Zhonggen Yu

“…This study aimed to extend the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) by incorporating new constructs and examining the factors that affect users’ behavioral intention and use behavior of DingTalk. …”
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Web 2.0 Students Adoption Model for Learning in Universities: A Case of Muni University, Uganda by Phelix, Businge Mbabazi, Nicholas, Nkamwesiga, Ritah, Nafuna, Patricia, Kyomugisha

“…The results confirm several relationships in the UTAUT model as proposed by Venkatesh et al. [2] in predicting the behavioral Intention to use Web 2.0 for learning. …”
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Expression and Characterization of Coprothermobacter proteolyticus Alkaline Serine Protease by Tanveer Majeed, Romana Tabassum, William J. Orts, Charles C. Lee

“…A putative protease gene (aprE) from the thermophilic bacterium Coprothermobacter proteolyticus was cloned and expressed in Bacillus subtilis. …”
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Efficient and secure message authentication scheme for VANET by Li-bing WU, Yong XIE, Yu-bo ZHANG

“…Per-formance analysis show that compared with the most recent proposed schemes the proposed scheme decreases the com-putation cost and communication cost.…”
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