International Aspects of Investment Liberalization in the PRC: A Case of EU-China Cooperation by D. A. Potapov

“…In doing so the author attempts to link the evolution of investment regulation in the PRC with the dynamics of international relations development and the changing role of China as a regional and global actor. …”
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Proliferative and viability effects of two cyanophages on freshwater bloom-forming species Microcystis aeruginosa and Raphidiopsis raciborskii vary between strains by Nada Tokodi, Antonia Łobodzińska, Barbara Klimczak, Adam Antosiak, Sara Młynarska, Sigitas Šulčius, Sarit Avrani, Takashi Yoshida, Dariusz Dziga

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The Culture of the BBC: A Personal Appreciation by Lord Asa Briggs

“…Cet article entend apporter une vision personnelle et indépendante de l’évolution des valeurs affichées par la BBC depuis sa création en 1922. …”
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A Machine Learning Approach for the Autonomous Identification of Hardness in Extraterrestrial Rocks from Digital Images by Shuyun Liu, Haifeng Zhao, Zihao Yuan, Liping Xiao, Chengcheng Shen, Xue Wan, Xuhai Tang, Lu Zhang

“…Understanding rock hardness on extraterrestrial planets offers valuable insights into planetary geological evolution. Rock hardness correlates with morphological parameters, which can be extracted from navigation images, bypassing the time and cost of rock sampling and return. …”
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Impact of trapping on tritium self-sufficiency and tritium inventories in fusion power plant fuel cycles by Samuele Meschini, Rémi Delaporte-Mathurin, George R. Tynan, Sara E. Ferry

“…The novelty of this work is the integration of an explicit, physics-based model for tritium trapping, evolution of damage-induced traps, and component replacements into a dynamic, system-level model of a fuel cycle. …”
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Des livres dans la tête : la bibliothèque imaginaire chez Bradbury, Canetti et Joyce by Tatjana Barazon

“…Ray Bradbury évoque une évolution effrayante dans Fahrenheit 451, il dépeint la destruction des livres par le feu. …”
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Evaluation and comparison of methods for neuronal parameter optimization using the Neuroptimus software framework. by Máté Mohácsi, Márk Patrik Török, Sára Sáray, Luca Tar, Gábor Farkas, Szabolcs Káli

“…We identified several algorithms, including covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy and particle swarm optimization, that consistently, without any fine-tuning, found good solutions in all of our use cases. …”
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Cubic-quartic optical solitons with polarization-mode dispersion by the improved adomian decomposition scheme by Afrah M. Almalki, A.A. AlQarni, H.O. Bakodah, A.A. Alshaery, Ahmed H. Arnous, Anjan Biswas

“…Utilizing the Improved Adomian Decomposition Method (IADM), the study improves the solution of complex-valued nonlinear evolution equations. It identifies a strong correlation between numerical results and earlier analytical soliton expressions from Zahran and Bekir. …”
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Bayesian Approach to Equipartition Estimation of Magnetic Field Strength by Adam A. Zychowicz, Krzysztof T. Chyży

“…Magnetic fields, together with cosmic rays (CRs), play an important role in the dynamics and evolution of galaxies, but are difficult to estimate. …”
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Design and Optimization of a Coherent Beamforming Network for an Aperiodic Concentric Ring Array by Armando Arce, Enrique Stevens-Navarro, Marco Cardenas-Juarez, Ulises Pineda-Rico, Jorge Simon, Marco A. Panduro

“…The optimization of the aperiodic layout on the antenna aperture (radii and interelement antenna spacings) is done by the differential evolution algorithm. Numeric experimentation demonstrates the performance advantages and capabilities of the proposed coherent network configuration with a nonuniform aperture over its uniform counterpart, with an improvement in average equal to −8.7 dB of side lobe level and 3.9 dB of directivity. …”
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Natural products based on Correa's cascade for the treatment of gastric cancer trilogy: Current status and future perspective by Wenhao Liao, Jing Wang, Yuchen Li

“…Gastric carcinoma (GC) is a malignancy with multifactorial involvement, multicellular regulation, and multistage evolution. The classic Correa's cascade of intestinal GC specifies a trilogy of malignant transformation of the gastric mucosa, in which normal gastric mucosa gradually progresses from inactive or chronic active gastritis (Phase I) to gastric precancerous lesions (Phase II) and finally to GC (Phase III). …”
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Secondary nucleation guided noncovalent synthesis of dendritic homochiral superstructures via growth on and from surface by Sai Rachana Pramatha, Dasari Srideep, Udaijit Pattnaik, Rahul Sahu, Devamrutha Ilayidathu Suresh, Aditya Chandrakant Yadav, Chinmayee Muduli, Sandeep K. Reddy, Satyaprasad P. Senanayak, Kotagiri Venkata Rao

“…Detailed analysis of kinetics and temporal evolution of morphology indicates that the formation of dendritic homochiral superstructures proceeds via growth on the surface and growth from the surface of the seeds. …”
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Analog Replicator of Long Chaotic Radio Pulses for Coherent Processing by Lev Kuzmin, Elena Efremova, Pavel Vladyka, Vadim Itskov

“…To repeat the shape of oscillations for an arbitrarily long period of time is not a problem for digital chaotic oscillators, but for analog systems, this is a challenge due to the impossibility of controlling the initial conditions and the evolution of the analog trajectory. In this paper, a new method for generating chaos is proposed, which can both change and repeat the shape of a chaotic signal of arbitrary duration, i.e., long chaotic radio pulses. …”
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Genotype Diversity of Newcastle Disease Virus in Nigeria: Disease Control Challenges and Future Outlook by Muhammad Bashir Bello, Khatijah Mohd Yusoff, Aini Ideris, Mohd Hair-Bejo, Ben P. H. Peeters, Abdurrahman Hassan Jibril, Farouk Muhammad Tambuwal, Abdul Rahman Omar

“…The aetiology of the disease is an avian paramyxovirus type-1 or Newcastle disease virus (NDV), whose isolates are serologically grouped into a single serotype but genetically classified into a total of 19 genotypes, owing to the continuous emergence and evolution of the virus. In Nigeria, molecular characterization of NDV is generally very scanty and majorly focuses on the amplification of the partial F gene for genotype assignment. …”
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Contribution of Dr. Vladimir A. Koshkin to the development of plant physiology at VIR by B. V. Rigin, I. G. Loskutov, I. I. Matvienko, Z. A. Shchedrina, R. A. Abdullaev, E. V. Zuev, E. E. Radchenko

“…Koshkin, there was no change in the sign of the photoperiodic reaction in the generic evolution of Triticum L. and Aegilops L., while the spring forms of bread and durum wheat widespread in the equatorial zone demonstrated weak photoperiod sensitivity. …”
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Revolutionizing Health Care: The Transformative Impact of Large Language Models in Medicine by Kuo Zhang, Xiangbin Meng, Xiangyu Yan, Jiaming Ji, Jingqian Liu, Hua Xu, Heng Zhang, Da Liu, Jingjia Wang, Xuliang Wang, Jun Gao, Yuan-geng-shuo Wang, Chunli Shao, Wenyao Wang, Jiarong Li, Ming-Qi Zheng, Yaodong Yang, Yi-Da Tang

“…Breakthroughs, like GPT-4 and BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformer), demonstrate LLMs’ evolution through improved computing power and data. …”
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Biotransformation of sludges from dairy and sugarcane industries through vermicomposting using the epigeic earthworm Eisenia fetida by Dayanand Sharma, Rajnikant Prasad, Bhavesh Patel, Chintak Kamalesh Parashar

“…The germination index and carbon to nitrogen ratio were found to be 100 to 121% and 9 to 11, respectively, along with the negligible carbon dioxide evolution in every combination that revealed the maturity and stability of vermicomposting.Conclusion The vermicompost obtained from the combination of dairy (milk processing unit) and sugarcane industries press mud sludge was rich in nutrients and suitable to utilize as nutrients (fertilizer) for the crops. …”
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Aspiration can decline epidemic disease by Khadija Khatun, Md. Mamun-Ur-Rashid Khan, Jun Tanimoto

“…This study delves into the relationship between individual vaccination aspirations and their repercussions within the SEIRS epidemic framework, exploring effects on vaccination behavior, infection dynamics, and societal outcomes through the Vaccination Game concept. The co-evolution of epidemic dynamics and individual decision-making is examined, utilizing the social efficiency deficit (SED) to quantify a social dilemma. …”
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Understanding the influence of hydrogen on BCC iron grain boundaries using the kinetic activation relaxation technique (k-ART) by Aynour Khosravi, Jun Song, Normand Mousseau

“…Moreover, with detailed information about the evolution landscape around the GB, we find that the saturation of a GB with hydrogen both stabilizes the GB by shifting barriers associated with Fe diffusion to higher energies and reducing the number of diffusion events. …”
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A method for diagnosing the implosion symmetry in inertial confinement fusion with wide-angle VISAR by Wu Yuji, Guan Zanyang, Zhang Qing, Jing Longfei, Ren Kuan, Liang Juxi, Chen Xudan, Li Yulong, Wang Feng

“…Hydrodynamic calculations showed that the radiation-temperature distribution on the surface of capsule was spatially continuous, indirectly proving the applicability of the method. The evolution of P2 asymmetry at different positions of the capsule was examined through an eight-beam laser indirect-drive experiment at a 10 kJ-level laser facility, proving the feasibility of the method. …”
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