De musica latine scribenda: How to approach a Latin text as a composer without summoning a demon in the process (2022) by Juan Carlos Aliaga del Bosque

“…This first paper on the topic addresses the use of Latin language in musical composition, as many others have tackled its pronunciation in performance but there is not much written about how a composer can use the language confidence and efficiency. In this paper, the concepts of syllable length and tonic accent in Latin will be introduced and they will be explained and applied through musical examples from different historical periods. …”
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What drives the profitability of banking sectors in the European Union? The machine learning approach by Bernardelli Michał, Korzeb Zbigniew, Niedziółka Paweł

“…These include cost efficiency and default risk. The study’s novelty lies in the reliance on a broad spectrum of explanatory variables assigned to three groups of factors, reference to all EU countries, and decomposition of the sample to identify similarities among the determinants of profitability.…”
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HEAT EXCHANGE AND AERODYNAMICS OF THE COMBINED TUBING BUNDLES WITH CROSS INCLINED FINS by Knyazyuk V. I, Lagutin A. E., Stoyanov P. F.

“…The empirical correlations for heat transfer and flow friction of tubes with inclined fins at different orientation finned tubes relatively of air flow are presented. …”
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Iran’s Past Future: A Critique on the Book Iranian Ministry and Bureaucracy (Vezarat & Divansalari) in the Islamic Era by Morteza Bahrani

“…In my opinion, the future of Iran’s progress is first and foremost dependent on the deconstruction of its bureaucratic (Divansalari) relations. This bureaucracy, instead of order and efficiency, and transparency, leads to obscurity. …”
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Investigating the Effects of Atmospheric Stratification on Coronal Active Region Field Modeling by Oliver Rice, Christopher Prior

“…We also test whether these effects can be approximated using a variation of the more computationally efficient magnetofrictional model, finding a number of simple adaptations of the standard magnetofrictional model, which capture the effect of the chromospheric stratification well.…”
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The effect of ultrasound on birch sawdust during simultaneous pretreatment and hemicellulose’s chemical conversion by Salla Kälkäjä, Tao Hu, Stéphane Baup, Jean-Marc Lévêque, Katja Lappalainen

“…Based on the results obtained, ultrasound combined with hot water / diluted acid treatment shows potential for the efficient utilization of birch sawdust for platform chemicals.…”
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Seed morphoanatomy may confer restraints against the germination of Pouteria glomerata (Sapotaceae) in a Neotropical wetland by Liana Baptista de Lima, Ana Paula Sales de Araujo Franco, Edna Scremin-Dias, Vanessa Couto Soares, Rosani do Carmo de Oliveira Arruda, Geraldo Alves Damasceno Junior

“…The treatments to overcome seed dormancy were not efficient to break dormancy. The morphoanatomical analysis suggested that the dormancy of P. glomerata seeds may be related to an impermeable seed coat and undifferentiated or immature embryo indicating a morphophysiological dormancy. …”
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Organizing and Querying the Big Sensing Data with Event-Linked Network in the Internet of Things by Yunchuan Sun, Hongli Yan, Junsheng Zhang, Ye Xia, Shenling Wang, Rongfang Bie, Yingjie Tian

“…This paper studies the organization of big sensing data with event-linked network ( ELN ) model, where events are regarded as primary units for organizing data and links are used to represent the semantic associations among events. Several different types of queries on the event-linked network are also explored, which are different from queries on traditional relational database. …”
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Evaluation of the Bioavailability of Iodine and Arsenic in Raw and Cooked <i>Saccharina japonica</i> Based on Simulated Digestion/Caco-2 Cell Model by Na Li, Zhaomeng Geng, Yingying Guo, Xinyue Dai, Wenjia Zhu, Lin Yao, Yanhua Jiang, Xiaojuan Wang, Hao Dong, Huijie Wang, Lianzhu Wang

“…Kelp is a traditional healthy food due to its high nutritional content; however, its relatively high contents of iodine and arsenic have raised concerns about its edible safety. …”
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Insect Pest Control from Chemical to Biotechnological Approach: Constrains and Challenges by Stefano Civolani, Massimo Bariselli, Riccardo Osti, Giovanni Bernacchia

“…These new biotechnologies can revolutionise the sector despite some constrains related to the regulatory restrictions present in different countries.…”
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Isolation and Characterization of Biosurfactant-Producing Bacteria from Amapaense Amazon Soils by Elisa Maria de Oliveira, Victor Hugo Gomes Sales, Marcelo Silva Andrade, Jerri Édson Zilli, Wardsson Lustrino Borges, Tiago Marcolino de Souza

“…Cluster analysis classified genetically related isolates in different groups, which can be connected to differences in the amount or the sort of biosurfactants. …”
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Incentive Rules as an Institution of Civil Law of Ukraine by Yu. I. Chalyi

“…Incentives encourage obligated parties to fulfil their obligations not just properly (statistically normal), i.e. in compliance with only the minimum sufficient requirements, but with the maximum possible effort (most efficiently, quickly, economically in the interests of the legally entitled party to the legal relationship, etc.) …”
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Mezclas etanol-gasolina como combustible de motores de encendido por chispa by Rodríguez Luis Arnoby, Ray Long Bill

“…They followed the s e characteristic curves for power, torque, specific fuel consumption and efficiency with the following differences from gasoline to straight ethanol: maximun power and torque decreased 10.6% and 8.7% respectively; specific fuel consumption and efficiency increased 49% and 5.2%.…”
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Construction of equivalent DFN model based on screening of main control fracture scale of coal samples by Ding LANG, Zixin ZHANG, Yongping WU, Yang YU, Jiandong YU, Xiaobo WU, Yao ZHANG

“…The joints of different scale levels in coal and rock are staggered and the distribution law is very different, which has an important influence on their deformation and failure characteristics. …”
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Evaluation of the effect of DRG payment policy based on interrupted time series modeling: evidence from a tertiary hospital in Anhui Province by Guangju Mo, Erchang Zhu, Xinlei Fang, Jingbo Ma, Sijing Kong, Xuan Guo, Zheng Lu

“…Abstract Background The payment methodology for diagnosis-related groups (DRG) has implications for both society and medical institutions. …”
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Reliable method for generating double-stranded DNA vectors containing site-specific base modifications by Damien Brégeon, Paul W. Doetsch

“…Cells of all living organisms are continuously exposed to physical and chemical agents that damage DNA and alter the integrity of their genomes. Despite the relatively high efficiency of the different repair pathways, some lesions remain in DNA when it is replicated or transcribed. …”
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Vacant Urban Spaces: Definitions, Challenges and Perspectives in Urban Regeneration by Amine Mseddi

“…This multidisciplinarity produces an issue of terminology in the scientific body related to urbanism and landscape architecture. More academic clarity is needed to have more efficiency concerning the perspectives of vacant spaces. …”
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Les disciples de la « mission française » et la réception de l’anthropologie structurale au Brésil by Afrânio Garcia Jr.

“…In order to explicit the efficiency of the alliance of the PPGAS/MN “founding fathers”, the author first reviews their social and intellectual paths based on diverse social capital, careers and prestige. …”
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New Results for the Pointing Errors Model in Two Asymptotic Cases by Maoke Miao, Xiao-yu Chen, Rui Yin, Jiantao Yuan

“…The normalized mean-squared error (NMSE) performance metric is employed to quantify the accuracy of different models. For the case that the beam width is relatively larger than the detection aperture, we propose the three kinds of models that have the form of <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$c_{1} \exp (-c_{2}r^{2})$</tex-math></inline-formula>. …”
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Effect of Structure on Osteogenesis of Bone Scaffold: Simulation Analysis Based on Mechanobiology and Animal Experiment Verification by Jialiang Li, Zhongwei Sun, Xinyu Wei, Qinghua Tan, Xijing He

“…This study provided and confirmed a simulation analysis method based on mechanical regulation theory, which is more efficient and economical for analyzing tissue healing in bioengineering.…”
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