From biology to physics and the unknown: What would it mean to understand consciousness? by Charles Capaday

“…I do not discuss the theory per se, but review two of its recent experimental tests for the purpose of urging caution in the interpretation of their results. …”
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A Toy Model for the Global Annual Number of Tropical Cyclones by Yufeng Zhou, Yanluan Lin

“…Then we propose a new scaling of annual TC number, framed as a spatiotemporal packing problem determined by the total spatiotemporal area available for TC formation and the average area occupied by each TC. …”
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ANALYSIS OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL MANAGEMENT AT AIRPORTS WITH LOW FLIGHT INTENSITY IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES by E. E. Nechaev, P. S. Surint

“…It is a very important problem for Russia because most airports do not provide more than 10 movements per day. …”
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Detection of Low-Frequency Mutations in Exon 8 of the TP53 Gene by Constant Denaturant Capillary Electrophoresis (CDCE) by P.O. Ekstrøm, A.-L. Børresen-Dale, H. Qvist, K.E. Giercksky, W.G. Thilly

“…We extended our development of the means to measure point mutations at the DNA level to the problem of detecting TP53 gene variants in the area around tumors where mutant fractions are expected to be as low as one mutant per 1000 wild-type (WT) sequences. …”
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Suicide in Turkey: its changes and regional differences by Yakar Mustafa, Temurçin Kadir, Kervankıran İsmail

“…The crude suicide rate per 100,000 population increased from 1.95 in 1975 to 1.69 in 1980, to 2.42 in 1990, to 2.67 in 2000 and increased to 4.19 in 2013. …”
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Algorithms for Simulation of Shunt Currents in a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery by Decebal Aitor Ispas-Gil, Ekaitz Zulueta, Javier Olarte, Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede

“…This being rather trivial, the real problem lies in automating the generation of the matrices relative to the system of equations. …”
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Research on the contact characteristics and modification of axle sleeve type spline pair of gauge-changeable wheelset by TANG Jiacheng, HUANG Zhihui, PENG Yueyang, JIANG Xutao

“…Regarding the contact problem of axle sleeve type spline pair in the wheel axle structure of 1 435 mm/1 520 mm gauge-changeable bogie with a speed of 400 kilometers per hour, the contact pressure distribution was studied under different gauge and misalignment angles, and the influence of crowned modification and gear tip rounding on the contact pressure distribution on the tooth surface of spline pair was studied in the paper with ABAQUS software. …”
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Wildlife vertebrate mortality in roads from Santa Fe Province, Argentina by Andrés M. Attademo, Paola M. Peltzer, Rafael C. Lajmanovich, Gustavo Elberg, Celina Junges, Laura C. Sanchez, Agustín Bassó

“…Two people monitored the roads on foot (1 000-m line transects), 3 times a month (36 samples per road). We found 2 024 vertebrate road killed specimens representing 61 species (7 amphibians, 15 reptiles, 32 birds, and 7 mammals). …”
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How Bees Deter Elephants: Beehive Trials with Forest Elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis) in Gabon. by Steeve Ngama, Lisa Korte, Jérôme Bindelle, Cédric Vermeulen, John R Poulsen

“…In this context, crop-raiding animals like elephants quickly become "problem animals". To deter elephants from raiding crops beehives have been successfully employed in East Africa; however, this method has not yet been tested in Central Africa. …”
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The concept of controlled current output of ICCP anodes by Sergi George, Seneviratne Gamini, Male Tori, Simpson David

“…Extensive zoning could also be avoided by using a combination of anodes of different maximum current output per zone fed by the same feeder wire or conductor bar. …”
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Durability of Goods – Economic, Legal and Informational Aspects by S. L. Kalachev, I. A. Makhotina

“…Summarized information of recommended service life and average amount of work per breakdown fixed in relative inter-state standards was provided. …”
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APLIKASI PROGRAM LINIER INTEGER 0-1 UNTUK MENYUSUN JADWAL USULAN PIKET SATPOL PP by Koko Hermanto, Ryan Suarantalla, Sahdan Sahdan

“…A zero-one integer linear programming with the Lindo software approach can be used to solve the cyclical scheduler method problem. The cyclical scheduling method is one of the scheduling methods that can be used to schedule work picks from Satuan Polisi Pamong Praja (Satpol PP), where each Satpol PP will work within a specified period of 5 days and will repeat periodically. …”
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Effects of presentation delivery rate on errors in simultaneous interpreting: A pilot study by Aulia Addinillah Arum

“…Although the success of information rendition in simultaneous interpreting (SI) is susceptible to many factors, the speed of the source speech (SS) is perceived as one of the most challenging problem triggers. However, previous studies that examine the effects of SS in SI have reported different results. …”
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Upaya Peningkatan Kemampuan Perawat dalam Pemberdayaan Keluarga untuk Meningkatkan Ketahanan Keluarga Orang dengan Skizofrenia (ODS) di Kota Padang by Dewi Eka Putri, Rika Sarfika, Feri Fernandes, Bunga Permata Wenny, Rika Sabri, Gusti Sumarsih

“…The problem that often occurs in people with schizophrenia (ODS) is relapse. …”
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Small interval interpolation fitting bootstrapping method based on residue number system by LI Huixian, WANG Fulei, SHEN Chun, LIU Shiyuan, PANG Liaojun

“…Aiming at the problem that the bootstrapping time of approximate homomorphic encryption scheme is too long, a small interval interpolation fitting method based on residue system is proposed. …”
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THE EFFECT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE ON INCOME INEQUALITY: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL PANEL DATA ANALYSIS by Abdullah Takım, Sena Gültekin

“…Even if macroeconomic indicators such as economic growth, foreign trade, inflation, employment have improved in certain periods, regardless of the economic model applied and the level of development, income inequality at the global level, aside from decreasing, continues to be a political, social, demographic, ethical and economic problem. Because of this importance of income inequality, it is of great importance to reveal the macroeconomic factors that cause income inequality in detail. …”
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Improving Balanced Accuracy for Minority Plant Species under Data Imbalance by Ruben Gonzalez-Villanueva, Jose Carranza-Rojas

“…Regardless of the widely known success of deep learning in classification, such models are commonly measured by metrics that do not account for data imbalance, especially in terms of predictions per class, ignoring minority classes. This can be a problem, as minority classes are often the most difficult to predict and collect data for. …”
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A Method for Localization of Cellular Users From Call Detail Records by Steven W. Ellingson

“…A common problem in justice applications is localization of a user of a cellular network using a call detail record (CDR), which typically reveals only the base station and sector to which the user was connected. …”
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The role of entrepreneurship in enhancing economic development: the mediating role of gender and motivations by Valentina Diana Rusu, Angela Roman, Carmen Boghean, Florin Boghean

“…The level of economic development is measured by GDP per capita. Entrepreneurship rates by gender and motivations are used to test the mediating role. …”
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Modeling and Analyzing Taxi Congestion Premium in Congested Cities by Changwei Yuan, Dayong Wu, Dali Wei, Hongchao Liu

“…Traffic congestion is a significant problem in many major cities. Getting stuck in traffic, the mileage per unit time that a taxicab travels will decline significantly. …”
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