It’s long-term, well it’s for life basically: Understanding and exploring the burden of immunoglobulin treatment in patients with primary immunodeficiency disorders by Georgina Jones, Eva Brown Hajdukova, Esmee Hanna, Rosie Duncan, Brendan Gough, Jane Hughes, Debbie Hughes, Fran Ashworth, Johan Prevot, Jose Drabwell, Leire Solis, Nizar Mahlaoui, Anna Shrimpton

“…This paper describes the burden of receiving immunoglobulin (Ig) treatment from the perspective of patients diagnosed with a Primary Immunodeficiency (PID). Thirty semi-structured interviews with patients receiving intravenous (n=21) and subcutaneous immunoglobulin (n=9) therapy, either at home or in hospital were undertaken. …”
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Analysis and Case Study of Internal Forces in Nut Column Transmission System of Shiplifts by WANG Di, LIAO Le-kang, JIN Liao

“…These expressions accurately characterized the distinct mechanical behavior of the force transmission system under different loading scenarios. [Results] Theoretical predictions were validated through physical model testing, yielding several key findings. (1) Model validation: At x=L=4 950 mm, both deflections and internal forces of the nut column and adjustment beam approached zero, demonstrating the validity of the semi-infinite beam assumption. …”
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Telepharmacy for outpatients with cancer: An implementation evaluation of videoconsults compared to telephone consults using the CFIR 2.0 by Marissa Ryan, Elizabeth C. Ward, Clare Burns, Christine Carrington, Katharine Cuff, Mhairi Mackinnon, Centaine L. Snoswell

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Pinching Sudakov by A. V. Belitsky, L. V. Bork, V. A. Smirnov

“…We find their operator content in terms of matrix elements of Wilson lines on semi-infinite and finite intervals for the jet and ultrasoft functions, respectively. …”
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The impact of drought on forest spring phenology in northern China by Haowen Hu, Pengcheng Xue, Shaodong Huang, Zong Wang, Nina Xiong, Liang Shi, Boyi Liang, Jia Wang

“…In humid region, drought causes an advance in the SOS for most areas, whereas in semi-arid region, the forests experience a pronounced delay in SOS due to drought conditions. (3) We further explored the different impact patterns of spring phenology during drought years across various hydroclimatic regions: in humid regions during dry years, SOS is primarily driven by elevated temperatures; conversely, in arid and semi-arid regions, SOS is predominantly influenced by water deficiency resulting from drought conditions. …”
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Structural Controllability of Boolean Control Networks under Partial Information by Qinyao Pan, Jie Zhong, Shalin Tong, Bowen Li, Xiaoxu Liu

“…Then, by referring to semi-tensor product (STP) techniques, several types of SC are presented according to different issues of Boolean functions. …”
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Traveling waves in a free boundary problem for the spread of ecosystem engineers by Maryam Basiri, Frithjof Lutscher, Abbas Moameni

“…Our model consisted of suitable and unsuitable habitat, each a semi-infinite interval, separated by a moving interface. …”
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Conceptual Correspondence Monitoring: Multimode Information Logistics Approach by Peteris Rudzajs, Marite Kirikova

“…Usually the monitoring of conceptual correspondence requires manual, semi-automatic, and automatic information processing and exposes high level of complexity. …”
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Secure communication approach for Internet of things based on C-RAN fronthaul compression by Yong WANG, Mu ZHOU, Zengshan TIAN, Jinjun WU

“…A resource allocation algorithm was proposed for downlink C-RAN secure communication system.This algorithm jointly optimized the parameters of base station (BS) mode,quantized noise and beamforming under the constraints of SINR requirements of Internet of things information receiver,eavesdropped receiver and fronthaul link capacity.Such a design was a non-convex optimization problem,and a step-by step optimization algorithm was proposed to decompose the original optimization problem efficiently.Semi-definite technique and function smoothing approach were adopted,and the local optimization solution of the original problem was obtained by the iterative different of convex method.Bi-section approach was further proposed to determine BS mode,and the transmitting power of the BSs were finally optimized.Simulation results indicate that the proposed joint optimization algorithm achieves better performance than group sparse optimization algorithm and baseline algorithm,and it has approximate optimal performance as the exhaustive search algorithm.…”
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Deep Encoding of Etymological Information in TEI by Jack Bowers, Laurent Romary

“…The purpose is to integrate in one coherent framework both digital representations of legacy dictionaries and born-digital lexical databases that are constructed manually or semi-automatically. We provide examples from many different types of etymological phenomena from traditional lexicographic practice, as well as analytical approaches from functional and cognitive linguistics such as metaphor, metonymy, and grammaticalization, which in many lexicographical and formal linguistic circles have not often been treated as truly etymological in nature, and have thus been largely left out of etymological dictionaries. …”
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A COMPOSITION PATCH ANTENNA by S. A. Pogarsky, D. V. Mayboroda, S. M. Mykhaliuk

“…Numerical simulations were carried out within a semi-open resonator model, with proper account of all the boundary conditions as specified in the finite-element method. …”
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Emic and Etic Perspectives on HR Practice for Managing Human Resource Issues Affected by the Prevalence of Informal Networks in Arab Countries by Sa’ad Ali, David Weir, Munirah Sarhan AlQahtani, Mansour Mrabet

“…Whilst research on Wasta has been improving in quantity and quality, there is still much more to know about the interactions between the different parties in Wasta transactions, the role of power in this process and how it impacts HR functions. …”
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On the study of Rainbow Antimagic Coloring of Special Graphs by Dafik Dafik, Riniatul Nur Wahidah, Ermita Rizki Albirri, Sharifah Kartini Said Husain

“…If every edge has different weight, the function  is called an edge antimagic vertex labeling. …”
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Wortbildung als Stance-Ressource im Online-Kommentieren: Theoretische Zusammenführung und empirische Einsichten am Beispiel zweier Konstruktionsfamilien by Sören Stumpf, Marie-Luis Merten

“…The empirical study is based on a corpus consisting of more than 10,000 internet comments on health news. We identify different semi-schematic word formation constructions that are used for stancetaking and that can be assigned to two families of constructions ([X-Gegner/Verweigerer/Skeptiker/Befürworter] and [X-Fraktion/Lobby/Mafia]). …”

ENVELOPE FLUCTUATIONS DISTRIBUTION OF SIMPLE RADAR PULSE BACKSCATTERING IN RARIFIED MEDIUM by D. A. Denisenkov, A. G. Gorelik, S. F. Kolomietc

“…Two main distribution models are considered: lognormal and "logo-gamma-functional". It is concluded that, despite the absence of qualitative differences, the difference in the form of the distributions obtained with different equipment can be a natural consequence of significant discrepancies in the peak power and / or the width of the antenna pattern. …”
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Numerical investigation of seabed changes of caisson breakwater suspended on piles by Rana N. Zedan, I. M. H. Rashwan, A. S. Koraim, H. Omara

“…However, many breakwaters lose their stability and function due to scour. In the present study, a three-dimensional numerical model is developed to investigate modifying the caisson’s cross section for different four scenarios on controlling the scour progress around a semi-immersed caisson suspended on piles under wave action. …”
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A Legendre–Galerkin spectral method for option pricing under regime switching models by Abdelmajid Ezzine, Abdellah Alla, Nadia Raissi

“…Furthermore, the stability and convergence analysis are carried out for both the semi-and fully discretization of the resulted coupled PDE system. …”
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Travelling wave solutions of the reaction-diffusion mathematical model of glioblastoma growth: An Abel equation based approach by Tiberiu Harko, Man Kwong Mak

“…By using the integrability conditions for the Abel equationseveral classes of exact travelling wave solutions of the general reaction-diffusion equation that describes glioblastoma growth are obtained, corresponding to different forms of the product of the diffusion and reaction functions. …”
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Sliding Intermittent Control for BAM Neural Networks with Delays by Jianqiang Hu, Jinling Liang, Hamid Reza Karimi, Jinde Cao

“…With the adjustable parameter taking different particular values, such a sliding intermittent control method can comprise several kinds of control schemes as special cases, such as the continuous feedback control, the impulsive control, the periodically intermittent control, and the semi-impulsive control. …”
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Fundamental solution of the time-space bi-fractional diffusion equation with a kinetic source term for anomalous transport by Anis Allagui, Georgii Paradezhenko, Anastasiia Pervishko, Dmitry Yudin, Hachemi Benaoum

“…Using the Laplace-Fourier transforms method, it is shown that the parametric solutions are expressed in terms of the Fox’s H-function that we evaluate for different values of $$\alpha$$ α and $$\beta$$ β .…”
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