The relationship between fiscal federalism and fiscal discipline: panel quantile regression approach by Kayode Olaide, Josine Uwilingiye, Beatrice D. Simo-Kengne

“…The design of fiscal decentralization apparatus should be appropriately tailored towards each country’s peculiar characteristics and government fiscal stance. …”
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Big Data Analysis Using Apache Spark MLlib and Hadoop HDFS with Scala and Java by Hoger Khayrolla Omar, Alaa Khalil Jumaa

“…Hadoop is a good big data analyzing technology, but it is slow because the Job result among each phase must be stored before the following phase is started as well as to the replication delays. …”
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Ecology and the evolution of cooperation by partner choice and reciprocity by Marcelino Fuentes

“…Abstract Organisms help each other to get resources, protection from enemies, and other goods, but not as much as would be best for their population. …”
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Fourth World Congress of Sports Physical Therapy Scientific Abstracts by International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy, International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy

“…The accuracy and content of each abstract remain the responsibility of the authors.…”
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Access and sustainment of ELMy H-mode operation for ITER pre-fusion power operation plasmas using JINTRAC by E. Tholerus, L. Garzotti, V. Parail, Y. Baranov, X. Bonnin, G. Corrigan, F. Eriksson, D. Farina, L. Figini, D.M. Harting, S.H. Kim, F. Koechl, A. Loarte, E. Militello Asp, H. Nordman, S.D. Pinches, A.R. Polevoi, P. Strand

“…Assuming that these results extrapolate to ITER operation regimes, the 7.5 MA/2.65 T hydrogen plasma scenario is likely to access stable type-I ELMy H-mode operation also at 20 MW of ECRH.…”
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Effect of Breed on the Composition of Cow Milk under Traditional Management Practices in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria by K Adesina

“…Twelve lactating cows comprising four each of white Fulani (WF), Red Bororo (RB) and Muturu (MT) breeds were hand-milked 7 days post-partum before morning grazing. …”
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Risk of Stroke Associated with Temperature and PM2.5: Taiwan Stroke Registry-based Study by Fung-Chang Sung, Hei-Tung Yip, Cheng-Li Lin, Jiann-Shing Jeng, Jiunn-Tay Lee, Yu Sun, Cheng-Yu Wei, Po-Yen Yeh, Kuang-Hsi Chang, Shang-Yu Chien, Kai-Cheng Hsu, TSR team

“…The study found that incident strokes increased with the PM2.5 level in each temperature zone except for the 30+°C stratum. …”
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Assessing Soil Tolerance Limit for Two Soil Orders Surrounding Sulaimani City by Marwa Abubakr Ahmed, Kamal Sharif Qadir

“…The soil orders in the two studied sites were determined through describing the soil profile properties which were known as Vertisols and Mollisols respectively. Each site was divided into 16 sub-sites using the grid point system. …”
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Wreathing, discrete gauging, and non-invertible symmetries by Julius F. Grimminger, William Harding, Noppadol Mekareeya

“…These actions are studied in terms of how each permutation cycle acts on the superconformal index of the theory in question. …”
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Early Detection of Oncological Diseases of the Digestive System (Guidelines of the Russian Gastroenterological Association and the Russian Association of Oncologists for Primary Ca... by V. T. Ivashkin, I. V. Mayev, A. D. Kaprin, M. Yu. Agapov, D. N. Andreev, A. S. Vodoleev, M. Yu. Zharkova, M. P. Korolev, Yu. A. Kucheryavyi, T. L. Lapina, M. V. Mayevskaya, A. V. Okhlobystin, Ch. S. Pavlov, A. V. Paraskevova, S. S. Pirogov, E. A. Poluektova, D. E. Rumyantseva, A. S. Trukhmanov, P. V. Tsarkov, A. A. Sheptulin, O. S. Shifrin

“…The guidelines comprise sections devoted to esophageal adenocarcinoma, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma and extrahepatic bile duct and gall bladder cancer, as well as pancreatic cancer. Each section contains information on risk factors and precancerous diseases, which allows a physician to identify whether a particular patient falls into the risk group of digestive system neoplasms. …”
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Extraction of a low grade zinc ore using gravity and froth flotation methods by Alabi Oladunni Oyelola, Dalhatu Aboki Abdu, Abere Dare Victor, Magnus T Igonwelundu, Bala Meshack Bosan, Araoye Babatunde Oyebode

“…At this liberation sieve size, the low grade zinc ore was subjected to four different beneficiation methods using five kilograms (5kg) each as charge into  Wilfley shaking Table, Humphrey spiral concentrator, Air floating Machine and one kilogram (1kg) for froth flotation. …”
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A Collaborative Data Network for the Asia Oceania Region Enabled by Emerging Technologies to Foster Innovation in a Secure and Open Environment by Alison Specht, Kim Bryceson, Shoufeng Cao, Margaret O’Brien, S. M. Guru, Pedro Pizzigatti Correa, Michelle Waycott

“…The use of blockchain will ensure the information about each dataset (metadata, provenance, and access rights) is immutably connected to each dataset. …”
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Design and Application of a Test Rig for Stationary Component Performance Measurement of Centrifugal Compressors by K. Zhao, Y. Liu, Y. Zhang, X. Liu, H. Shi

“…Flow field parameters are measured at the inlet and outlet of each model-scale stationary component using a five-hole probe. …”
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Research on coupling evacuation of escalator and staircase in fire scenario. by Chunhua Zhang, Xin Wu, Hai Shen

“…The available safe evacuation time of each evacuation exit was explored by analyzing the smoke transport, temperature, CO concentration and visibility of each floor of the mall under different fire source locations when the fire shutter was lowered to 1.8m from the ground. …”
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Poetics of Friction by Nadja Ben Khelifa, Étienne Allaix, Jörg Sternagel

“…Called by these questions, our panel attempts to collaboratively work on corresponding responses within a poetics of friction that is rehearsed, acted out, and tried out in a setting where forces come into play that resist relative motions of solid approaches and beliefs sliding against each other: Whereas the three panelists – a multimedia artist, a cultural theorist, and a philosopher – call with their spoken words, screened images and handout materials, the members of the audience respond to these calls: Like the wheel that needs the concrete surface against its rubber to spin in movement, or the piece of wood that needs the wooden stick rotating against its bark to spark a flame, members of Performance Philosophy need frictions with which both Performance artists and Philosophy scholars slide against each other to spin, to move, to carry on, to reflect, to struggle, to doubt, to aim, to spark flames of inspiration. …”
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Evaluation of Some Properties of Acrylic Resin Denture Base Reinforced with Calcium Carbonate Nano-Particles by Jawad Mikael, Salem Al-Samaraie, Fahd Ikram

“…Materials and methods: CaCO3 nanofiller particles (coated with a special coupling agent) were dispersed and sonicated in the acrylic monomer (liquid) in different percentages, then mixed with acrylic powder. For each test 60 specimens were prepared, the specimens were divided into 6 groups (10 for each) coded I to VI. …”
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Color Stability and Surface Roughness of Different Composite Resins after Using Different Polishing Systems. by Hisham Z. Abdullah, Bassam K. Amin

“…Method: Twenty disk-shaped specimens (were compacted into the custom-made cylindrical plastic mold that had an internal diameter of 10 mm and a depth of 2 mm) were prepared for each composite resin type (3M Z350, Tokoyama Palfique, and Shofu Beautifil II) for a total of 60 specimens, each composite group was divided into two subgroups according to the polishing system (n=10) (Shofu super-snap polishing disks and Eve Diacomp Plus Twist wheel). …”
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Selecting the Best Music for the Moment in a Music and Imagery Session by Petra Jerling, Carmen Angulo Sánchez-Prieto, Isabel Solana Rubio

“…In this way, we acknowledged each other’s processes as clients, therapists, and witnesses. …”
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Recommended System Optimization in Social Networks Based on Cooperative Filter with Deep MVR Algorithm by Kim Hung Pho

“…Today, social networks have become very popular due to their high usage in communicating with each other. But this popularity requires the development of a backend to communicate with each other. …”
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Investigation of multi-input convolutional neural networks for the prediction of particleboard mechanical properties by Shuoye Chen, Shunsuke Sakai, Miyuki Matsuo-Ueda, Kenji Umemura

“…For multi-input CNNs, the combination of the upper surface and cross-sectional images produced the highest scores when the model merged the information from each image at early stage, outperforming single-input CNNs. …”
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