CLIMATIC PATTERN ANALYSIS OF RAINFALL AND DRY SPELLS DURING THE AGRICULTURAL SEASON IN MALAWI by Medrina Linda Mloza Banda, Wim Cornelis, Henry R. Mloza Banda

“…The study identified the basic structural characteristics of dry spells, seasonal, and extreme rainfall events to offer localized information which in data-scarce regions is typically extrapolated from syntheses of regional or satellite climate data. …”
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From Material to Solution: Implementing Shape Memory Behavior of Thermoplastic Polymers in Commercial FEA Software for Structural Analysis by Fabian Neumann, Ferdinand Cerbe, Michael Sinapius

“…The production of one-piece composite hollow profiles with undercuts presents significant challenges to conventional mold concepts. …”
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Improvements in Drill-Core Headspace Gas Analysis for Samples from Microbially Active Depths by Kazuya Miyakawa, Fumiaki Okumura

“…The significant variations in carbon isotopic compositions previously reported were caused by microbial methane oxidation after sampling and contamination by groundwater from different depths. …”
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The WellNext Scan: Validity evidence of a new team-based tool to map and support physicians' well-being in the clinical working context. by Sofiya Abedali, Joost van den Berg, Alina Smirnova, Maarten Debets, Rosa Bogerd, Kiki Lombarts

“…Exploratory factor analysis detected three composite scales of well-being (energy and work enjoyment, meaning, and patient-related disengagement) and five explanatory factors (supportive team culture, efficiency of practice, job control and team-based well-being practices, resilience, and self-kindness). …”
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Transportation Policy and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: What Counts as Evidence in Tribal Policy Contexts? by Cole Grisham

“…Evidence-based policy making is the notion that policy decisions should be based on (1) rigorous data collection and research and (2) focus on ‘what works.’ …”
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Protein structural domain-disease association prediction based on heterogeneous networks by Jingpu Zhang, Lianping Deng, Lei Deng

“…Small proteins are often found to be composed of only a single domain, while most large proteins consist of multiple domains for achieving various composite cellular functions. A dysfunction in domains may affect the function of proteins in some disease. …”
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Striving for a life out of shadows: informal entrepreneurial dynamics in time of crisis by Jacques Yana Mbena, Kwabena Obiri Yeboah

“…The novelties in that regard are: (1) While most of the variables related to the composite of innovativeness reinforce the desire to formalize, the variable of “routine” plays a hindering role. (2) The composite of proactiveness is not significantly related to the willingness to formalize. (3) The composite of risk-taking has proven significant to IVent’s transformation aims. …”
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Wrist accelerometry and machine learning sensitively capture disease progression in prodromal Parkinson’s disease by Anoopum S. Gupta, Siddharth Patel

“…Abstract Sensitive motor measures are needed to support trials in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Wrist sensor data was collected continuously at home from 269 individuals with PD (106 with prodromal PD). …”
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Improving the criteria-based evaluation assessment for master’s research in engineering programs by I. A. Chekardovskaya, S. M. Chekardovskiy, M. N. Chekardovskiy

“…The methodology proposed for calculating a composite research assessment provides a holistic and objective evaluation of the research conducted, independent of the opinions of supervisors or individuals.…”
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Determination of Dynamic Stress in Fibre Reinforced Materials under Impact Load by D.H. Müller, Th. Franz, A. Tenzler

“…The potential value of the developed experimental method is demonstrated exemplary for an arbitrary composite.…”
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Active Silica Diagenesis in the Deepest Hadal Trench Sediments by Min Luo, Weiding Li, Sonja Geilert, Andrew W. Dale, Zijun Song, Duofu Chen

“…Abstract Porewater dissolved silicic acid (DSi) concentrations and stable Si isotope compositions (δ30Si) together with biogenic silica (bSiO2) contents of sediments in five sediment cores collected from the southern Mariana Trench are presented. …”
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Multipath and Deep Learning-Based Detection of Ultra-Low Moving Targets Above the Sea by Zhaolong Wang, Xiaokuan Zhang, Weike Feng, Binfeng Zong, Tong Wang, Cheng Qi, Xixi Chen

“…First, the image features of the target, multipath, and sea clutter in the real-measured range-Doppler (RD) map are analyzed, based on which the target and multipath are defined together as the generalized target. Then, based on the composite electromagnetic scattering mechanism of the target and the ocean surface, a scattering-based echo generation model is established and validated to generate sufficient data for DL network training. …”
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Distributed OPGW abnormal vibration monitoring and forewarning based on LSTM by Tianlong Bu, Hanpeng Kou, Dapei Zhang, Zhenhua Feng, Helen Law, Bin Wang

“…Analyzing and predicting abnormal vibrations in optical fiber composite overhead ground wire (OPGW) transmission lines accurately is a challenging task. …”
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Outcomes of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy by New York Heart Association Class: A Patient‐Level Meta‐Analysis by Nishkala Shivakumar, Daniel J. Friedman, Marat Fudim, William T. Abraham, John G. F. Cleland, Anne B. Curtis, Michael R. Gold, Valentina Kutyifa, Cecilia Linde, James Young, Anthony Tang, Antonio Olivas‐Martinez, Lurdes Y.T. Inoue, Gillian D. Sanders, Sana M. Al‐Khatib

“…Background Data on the benefits of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in patients with severe heart failure symptoms are limited. …”
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Latent class analysis of cardiac structure and function and association with premature cardiovascular disease: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study by Michael C. Wang, Toluwalase Awoyemi, Norrina B. Allen, Ravi Shah, Matthew Nayor, Yuan Luo, Joao A.C. Lima, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, Sadiya S. Khan

“…This suggests potential utility of a composite echocardiography-based index for prioritizing prevention strategies earlier in the life course.…”
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Heavy boron isotopes in plume-derived magmas trace recycled water in deep-mantle reservoir by Jian Xu, Xiao-Ping Xia, Omar Bartoli, Le Zhang, Yong Wang, Jin-Long Ma, Ze-Xian Cui, Yan-Qiang Zhang, Qing Yang, Qiang Wang, Yi-Gang Xu

“…The observed heavy δ11B values (up to +27.6‰) fall outside the range of known mantle compositions, but similar to those of slab serpentinites. …”
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CaeMmCom – Corpus altaegyptischer multimodaler Communication. Der Aufbau einer multimodalen Datensammlung altägyptischer Kommunikate by Rebecca Döhl, Silvia Kutscher, Jens-Martin Loebel

“…The focus is on the construction of a digital corpus, which collects data for graphic communication and develops methods to systematically describe, annotate and visualise texts, images, and text-image-compositions, as well as their spatial meaning. …”
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Prognostic Value of Hospital Frailty Risk Score and Clinical Outcomes in Critical Limb‐Threatening Ischemia and End‐Stage Kidney Disease by Monil Majmundar, Wan‐Chi Chan, Vivek Bhat, Kunal N. Patel, Kirk A. Hance, Georges Hajj, Axel Thors, Kamal Gupta

“…Primary outcomes of interest included in‐hospital composite of death or major amputation and in‐hospital death. …”
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Troponin I potential in assessing the unfavorable outcome risk in patients with cardiovascular diseases by A. A. Ivanova, R. V. Ievlev, V. A. Kutsenko, A. V. Kapustina, A. E. Imaeva, Yu. A. Balanova, V. A. Metelskaya, S. A. Shalnova, O. O. Drapkina

“…Kaplan-Meier survival curves showed significantly lower probability of composite endpoint absence in individuals with hs-cTnI levels ³4/6 pg/ml in both study groups.Conclusion. …”
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Dielectric Behavior of Ceramic (BST)/Epoxy Thick Films by N. Hadik, A. Outzourhit, A. Elmansouri, A. Abouelaoualim, A. Oueriagli, E. L. Ameziane

“…Among the dielectric mixing models presented, the model of Lichtenecker shows the best fit to the experimental data for both composites.…”
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