How do individuals with mental health disorder and spinal cord injury gain access to participate in voluntary sport groups in Switzerland? by Florence Epiney, Siegfried Nagel, Christopher Klenk

“…Research so far has looked mainly at what factors influence successful participation in (leisure time) PA for ISCIs (Jaarsma et al., 2014; Williams et al., 2014) and for IMHDs (Epiney et al., 2023; Firth et al., 2016), but not the process of access. …”
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Improvement of and Parameter Identification for the Bimodal Time-Varying Modified Kanai-Tajimi Power Spectral Model by Huiguo Chen, Ting Zhong, Guocui Liu, Junru Ren

“…Based on the Kanai-Tajimi power spectrum filtering method proposed by Du Xiuli et al., a genetic algorithm and a quadratic optimization identification technique are employed to improve the bimodal time-varying modified Kanai-Tajimi power spectral model and the parameter identification method proposed by Vlachos et al. …”
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Convergence of an Iterative Algorithm for Common Solutions for Zeros of Maximal Accretive Operator with Applications by Uamporn Witthayarat, Yeol Je Cho, Poom Kumam

“…The results obtained in this paper extend and improve the corresponding results of Qin et al. 2011 from Hilbert spaces to Banach spaces and Petrot et al. 2011. …”
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Similarities and differences between exosystem-model-based disturbance observer and model error compensator by Kana Shikada, Noboru Sebe

“…This observer is constructed against the augmented system model, which consists of nominal plant and disturbance-generating models. Ohnishi et al. proposed to cancel out the effect of uncertainties with its estimated disturbance. …”
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Angular Leaf Spot: A Bacterial Disease in Strawberries in Florida by Natalia A. Peres, Silvia I. Rondon, James F. Price, Daniel J. Cantliffe

“… Angular Leaf Spot (ALS) is a bacterial disease caused by Xanthomonas fragariae Kennedy & King, a pathogen highly specific to wild and cultivated strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa Duchesne (Legard et al. 2003). ALS is an important disease on winter strawberry production worldwide. …”
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Stability problem of some nonlinear difference equations by Alaa E. Hamza, M. A. El-Sayed

“…The case when r=0 has been investigated by Camouzis et. al. [1], and for r=0 and p=2 by Camouzis et. al. [2].…”
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A New Improved Kurtogram and Its Application to Bearing Fault Diagnosis by Xinghui Zhang, Jianshe Kang, Lei Xiao, Jianmin Zhao, Hongzhi Teng

“…The results demonstrate it can locate resonant frequency band with a high reliability than two previous developed methods by Lei et al. and Wang et al. especially for the incipient faults under low load.…”
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On the (im)possible validation of hydrogeological models by Andréassian, Vazken

“…This paper revisits the controversy on the validation of hydrogeological models, 30 years after it broke out with the publications by [Konikow and Bredehoeft, 1992a] and [de Marsily et al., 1992]. In that debate, [Konikow and Bredehoeft, 1992a] argued that the word “valid” was misleading to the public and should not be used with respect to models. …”
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Restoration Strategy Based on Optimal Relay Node Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks by Xiaoding Wang, Li Xu, Shuming Zhou

“…To address this issue, plenty of heuristics, such as STP-MSP (Cheng et al., 2008), MST-1 t RN (Lloyd et al., 2007), and CORP (Lee and Younis, 2010) are deeply pursued. …”
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Robustness of optimal controls for a class of mathematical models for tumor anti-angiogenesis by Heinz Schättler, Urszula Ledzewicz, Benjamin Cardwell

“…We describe optimal protocols for a class of mathematical models fortumor anti-angiogenesis for the problem of minimizing the tumorvolume with an a priori given amount of vessel disruptive agents.The family of models is based on a biologically validated model byHahnfeldt et al. [9] and includes a modification byErgun et al. [6], but also provides two new variations thatinterpolate the dynamics for the vascular support between theseexisting models. …”
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Comment on “Examination of a Theoretical Model of Streaming Potential Coupling Coefficient” by P. W. J. Glover

“…Recently, Luong and Sprik published an article that compared measurements that had been made on 20 samples of saturated rock with a number of empirical models and Glover et al.’s 2012 theoretical model for zeta potential and streaming potential coefficient. …”
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Pseudoangiomatous Stromal Hyperplasia: A Case Report by Yazan A. Masannat, Stephen Whitehead, Ian Hawley, Lesley Apthorp, Elizabeth F. Shah

“…It was first reported in 1986 when Vuitch, Rosen, and Erlandson described nine cases of benign well-circumscribed, breast masses that simulated vascular lesions consisting of mammary stromal proliferations (Vuitch et al. (1986)). Since then there have been few reported cases of PASH in the literature (Taira et al. (2005)). …”
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Security Analysis and Improvement of an Anonymous Authentication Scheme for Roaming Services by Youngsook Lee, Juryon Paik

“…We also show how the security weaknesses of He et al.’s scheme can be addressed without degrading the efficiency of the scheme.…”
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Orkney snork nie! by Stephan Bouwer

“…With the "auteurism" viewpoint (vide Lapsley et all, Reader-response Criti cism (Allen et al) and the British Cul tural Studies (Birmingham) approach (Fiske et al) as point of departure, the popular Afrikaans sitcom ORK NEY SNORK NIE! …”
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Angular Leaf Spot: A Bacterial Disease in Strawberries in Florida by Natalia A. Peres, Silvia I. Rondon, James F. Price, Daniel J. Cantliffe

“… Angular Leaf Spot (ALS) is a bacterial disease caused by Xanthomonas fragariae Kennedy & King, a pathogen highly specific to wild and cultivated strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa Duchesne (Legard et al. 2003). ALS is an important disease on winter strawberry production worldwide. …”
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Taking offense: Religion, art and visual culture in plural configurations, by Christiane Kruse, Birgit Meyer, and Anne-Marie Korte (eds.) 2018 by Tammy Wilks

“…To ask then, 'What makes an image offen -sive?' (Meyer et al. 2018:11) is to understand that, what counts as offense, is determined by a particular set of conditions and configurations of power by 'interpretative communities' (Chidester 2018:291) who use the potency of images to negotiate being human. …”
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Attacks on One Designated Verifier Proxy Signature Scheme by Baoyuan Kang

“…But, in this paper, we will show some attacks on Yu et al.'s scheme. So, their scheme is not secure.…”
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‘Florida Beauty’ Strawberry by Vance M. Whitaker, Natalia A. Peres, Shinsuke Agehara

“…Comparisons are made to the current industry standard cultivars ‘Florida Radiance’ (Chandler et al. 2009) and Sweet Sensation® ‘Florida127’ (Whitaker et al. 2015) (hereafter referred to as ‘Florida127’). …”
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Existence and Global Exponential Stability of Periodic Solution to Cohen-Grossberg BAM Neural Networks with Time-Varying Delays by Kaiyu Liu, Zhengqiu Zhang, Liping Wang

“…In our result, the hypothesis for monotonicity ineqiality conditions in the works of Xia (2010) Chen and Cao (2007) on the behaved functions is removed and the assumption for boundedness in the works of Zhang et al. (2011) and Li et al. (2009) is also removed. …”
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Cuban Agriculture Before 1959: The Social Situation by José Alvarez

“…Jolliffe et al. (1958) is perhaps the most quoted study on pre-1959 research on nutrition but, as explained below, it refers to a narrow universe. …”
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