Real-Time Safety Risk Assessment Based on a Real-Time Location System for Hydropower Construction Sites by Hanchen Jiang, Peng Lin, Qixiang Fan, Maoshan Qiang

“…The method provides construction managers who are in charge of safety with more abundant information to reduce the uncertainty of the site. …”
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The Vertebral Column, Ribs, and Sternum of the African Giant Rat (Cricetomys gambianus Waterhouse) by Matthew Ayokunle Olude, Oluwaseun Ahmed Mustapha, Temitope Kehinde Ogunbunmi, James Olukayode Olopade

“…Animals used had an average body mass of 730.00±41.91 gm and body length of 67.20±0.05 cm. The vertebral formula was found to be C7, T13, L6, S4, Ca31–36. …”
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Active Joint Mechanism Driven by Multiple Actuators Made of Flexible Bags: A Proposal of Dual Structural Actuator by Hitoshi Kimura, Takuya Matsuzaki, Mokutaro Kataoka, Norio Inou

“…The joint torque is estimated based on the following factors: empirical formula for the flexible actuator torque, geometric relationship between the joint and the actuator, and the principle of virtual work. …”
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Accumulation of Deficits as a Proxy Measure of Aging by Arnold B. Mitnitski, Alexander J. Mogilner, Kenneth Rockwood

“…In a representative database of elderly Canadians we found that deficits accumulated at 3% per year, and show a gamma distribution, typical for systems with redundant components that can be used in case of failure of a given subsystem. …”
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Co(II) and Cd(II) Complexes Derived from Heterocyclic Schiff-Bases: Synthesis, Structural Characterisation, and Biological Activity by Riyadh M. Ahmed, Enaam I. Yousif, Mohamad J. Al-Jeboori

“…Complexes of the general formula [M(L)2]Cl2 (where M = Co(II) or Cd(II), L = L1 or L2) have been obtained from the reaction of the corresponding metal chloride with the ligands. …”
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ISMAC: An Intelligent System for Customized Clinical Case Management and Analysis by Mingyu You, Chong Chen, Guo-Zheng Li, Shi-Xing Yan, Sheng Sun, Xue-Qiang Zeng, Qing-Ce Zhao, Liao-Yu Xu, Su-Ying Huang

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Complements and coregularity of Fano varieties by Fernando Figueroa, Stefano Filipazzi, Joaquín Moraga, Junyao Peng

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Renal Function and Ultrasound Imaging in Elderly Subjects by Luca Zanoli, Giulia Romano, Marcello Romano, Stefania Rastelli, Francesco Rapisarda, Antonio Granata, Pasquale Fatuzzo, Mariano Malaguarnera, Pietro Castellino

“…We evaluated in elderly subjects (a) the ability of GFR formulas to discriminate chronic kidney disease (CKD), (b) the correlation between renal morphology and function, and (c) the usefulness of combined r-US and GFR formulas to detect CKD. …”
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Formulation and Physical Evaluation of Hand Sanitizer Gel with Various Concentration Ambon Banana Peel Extract (Musa paradisiaca var. sapientum (L)) by Ginanjar Putri Nastiti, Mayu Rahmayanti, Dimas Febrian Rezky

“…Hand washing is an activity that can reduce microorganism contamination, but some people whose work environment is far from hand washing facilities will experience difficulties. …”
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Verbascoside exerts an anti-atherosclerotic effect by regulating liver glycerophospholipid metabolism by Peng Lei, Jialin Lü, Tie Yao, Peng Zhang, Xin Chai, Yuefei Wang, Miaomiao Jiang

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Development of Coconut Milk-Based Spicy Ice Cream as a Nondairy Alternative with Desired Physicochemical and Sensory Attributes by K. D. S. S. Perera, O. D. A. N. Perera

“…Physicochemical properties of spicy coconut ice cream were more or less similar to that of normal coconut ice cream and in compliance with the Sri Lankan standards. …”
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The Effect of the Addition of Chokeberry Fiber on the Quality of Sheep’s Milk Fermented by Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Lactobacillus acidophilus by K. Szajnar, M. Pawlos, A. Znamirowska

“…In the milk sample without fiber addition, a more significant number of viable cells were counted for L. acidophilus by 0.5 log CFU g-1 more than the milk fermented with L. rhamnosus. …”
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Proportional-Switch Adjustment Process-Based Day-by-Day Evolution Model for Mixed Traffic Flow in an Autonomous Driving Environment by Yihao Huang, Han Zhang, Aiwu Kuang

“…The daily dynamic evolution model can capture the temporal evolution of traffic flow in road networks, with a focus on the daily path choice behavior of travelers and the evolving traffic flow in the network. …”
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Development of New Gluten-Free Maize-Field Bean Bread Dough: Relationships Between Rheological Properties and Structure of Non-Gluten Proteins by Awatif Fetouhi, Agnieszka Sujak, Leila Bentallah, Agnieszka Nawrocka, Monika Szymańska-Chargot, Marta Tomczyńska-Mleko, Agnieszka Wójtowicz, Mohammed Nasreddine Zidoune

“…This work aimed to examine the rheological properties and structural features of newly developed gluten-free doughs with maize (M), field bean (FB), maize-filed bean (MFB), and maize-field bean improved with hydrothermally-treated maize (IMFB), and compare them with soft wheat (SW) dough as a control. …”
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The Laguerre Constellation of Classical Orthogonal Polynomials by Roberto S. Costas-Santos

“…A linear functional <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi mathvariant="bold">u</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula> is classical if there exist polynomials <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>ϕ</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>ψ</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo form="prefix">deg</mo><mi>ϕ</mi><mo>≤</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo form="prefix">deg</mo><mi>ψ</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi mathvariant="script">D</mi><mfenced separators="" open="(" close=")"><mi>ϕ</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>)</mo><mi mathvariant="bold">u</mi></mfenced><mo>=</mo><mi>ψ</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mi mathvariant="bold">u</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi mathvariant="script">D</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula> is a certain differential, or difference, operator. …”
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Thurstonian Scaling for Sensory Discrimination Methods by Jian Bi, Carla Kuesten

“…Ten basic sensory discrimination methods including six forced-choice methods and four methods with response bias are used in this paper to estimate <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mi>d</mi><mo>′</mo></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> values and their variances. …”
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On the Work of Cartan and Münzner on Isoparametric Hypersurfaces by Thomas E. Cecil, Patrick J. Ryan

“…A hypersurface <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mi>M</mi><mi>n</mi></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> in a real space form <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow><mi mathvariant="bold">R</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mi>S</mi><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>, or <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mi>H</mi><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> is isoparametric if it has constant principal curvatures. …”
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USSD: Unsupervised Sleep Spindle Detector by Edgardo Ramirez, Pablo A. Estevez, Martin D. Adams, Claudio A. Perez, Marcelo Garrido Gonzalez, Patricio Peirano

“…The USSD performances on the labeled MASS-SS2 and INTA-UCH datasets yield F1-scores of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.72 \pm 0.02$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.72 \pm 0.04$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, respectively. …”
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Tools for the Analysis of Quantum Protocols Requiring State Generation Within a Time Window by Bethany Davies, Thomas Beauchamp, Gayane Vardoyan, Stephanie Wehner

“…To maintain sufficient quality for an application, each resource state is discarded from the memory after <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$w$</tex-math></inline-formula> time steps. …”
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Nonperturbative correlation functions from homotopy algebras by Keisuke Konosu, Yuji Okawa

“…We present a new form of the formula which does not involve such division. …”
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