Distinct types of fibrocyte can differentiate from mononuclear cells in the presence and absence of serum. by S John Curnow, Marianne Fairclough, Caroline Schmutz, Steve Kissane, Alastair K O Denniston, Kate Nash, Christopher D Buckley, Janet M Lord, Mike Salmon

“…<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>We show here that fibrocytes grown in the absence of serum (SF) differentiate more efficiently from peripheral blood mononuclear cells than CD14(+) monocytes, and respond to serum by losing their spindle-shaped fibrocyte morphology. …”
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The Physics and Metaphysics of Social Powers: Bridging Cognitive Processing and Social Dynamics, a New Perspective on Power Through Active Inference by Mahault Albarracin, Sonia de Jager, David Hyland

“…We argue that power through scripts stems not only from associations with influential agents but also from the ability to efficiently process information, creating a feedback loop of increasing influence. …”
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Preparation of Polysaccharide-Based Microspheres by a Water-in-Oil Emulsion Solvent Diffusion Method for Drug Carriers by Yodthong Baimark, Yaowalak Srisuwan

“…They were spherical in shape with a rough surface and good dispersibility. …”
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Abnormal events detection using spatio-temporal saliency descriptor and fuzzy representation analysis by R. Tino Merlin, R. Karthick, A. Aalan Babu, G. Vennira Selvi, D. Usha, R. Nithya

“…This feature descriptor efficiently describes the shape and speed of the object. …”
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Describing Pulmonary Nodules Using 3D Clustering by Amera Al-Funjan, Farid Meziane, Rob Aspin

“…Computer-aided detection (CAD) systems efficiently succeeded in the nodule detection by 2D processing of computed tomography (CT)-scan lung images; however, the nodule (tumor) description in more detail is still a big challenge that faces these systems.Materials and Methods. …”
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Quality of service guarantee mechanism for enterprise video conference by Jian-feng DENG, Ling ZHANG, Jie ZHOU

“…The QoS problem under the controlled enterprise network environment was addressed,and a novel QoS management mechanism for video conference at the enterprise level was proposed.This novel mechanism analyses the conference organization mode and transferring mode,and transforms the guarantee of video conference to the guarantee of a flow group with temporal information.This mechanism provides the bandwidth reservation through the management of network priority bandwidth.It authenticates labels and shapes the data flow at the edge of the network,and uses DiffServ to priority forward the media flow in the core network,and therefore guarantees the reservation of bandwidth for authorized users.Experimental results and analysis show that the proposed mechanism can provide the necessary bandwidth for the media flow when network congestion happens,and then can efficiently and effectively guarantee QoS for enterprise video conference.…”
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Deformation Reconstruction and High-Precision Attitude Control of a Launch Vehicle Based on Strain Measurements by Liang Zhuang, Zhang Yulin

“…The development of launch vehicles has led to higher slenderness ratios and higher structural efficiencies, and the traditional control methods have difficulty in meeting high-quality control requirements. …”
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Effects of scanning strategy on the magnetic and mechanical properties of laser-based powder bed fused Nd-Fe-B magnets by Xin Ming, Xu Han, Jiantao Zhou, Jiefu Xiong, Lichen Wang, Dan Liu, Baogen Shen

“…In the past decades, laser-based powder bed fusion (LPBF) has been well-established for near-net-shape forming Nd-Fe-B magnets, efficiently employing the rare-earth elements (REE) and exhibiting the potential for directly fabricating magnets with complex shapes. …”
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A study on plant root apex morphology as a model for soft robots moving in soil. by Anand Kumar Mishra, Francesca Tramacere, Roberto Guarino, Nicola Maria Pugno, Barbara Mazzolai

“…Plants use many strategies to move efficiently in soil, such as growth from the tip, tropic movements, and morphological changes. …”
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Significance of crown-down root canal preparation technique in endodontic therapy by using the hydroxylapatite sealer by Teodorović Nevenka, Martinović Željko

“…These findings suggested that the crown-down preparation technique efficiently cleaned and shaped the root canal, and that the hydroxylapatite-based material created the homogenous and hermetic root canal obturation, so this methodology could be recommended for the endodontic therapy.…”
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The Mentor’s Role Within the Company by Małgorzata Baran

“…Mentoring is an approach to business management which facilitates the utilization of human resources in the enterprise efficiently. Mentoring can be found in all shapes and sizes – ranging from formalized structures to loosely formed relationships – resulting in the retention of the most valuable employees within the firm, and providing the transfer of knowledge, skills and experience among employees. …”
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Study on Shale Adsorption Equation Based on Monolayer Adsorption, Multilayer Adsorption, and Capillary Condensation by Qing Chen, Yuanyuan Tian, Peng Li, Changhui Yan, Yu Pang, Li Zheng, Hucheng Deng, Wen Zhou, Xianghao Meng

“…The evaluation of pore structure plays a critical role in exploring shale gas efficiently. Nitrogen adsorption experiment is one of the significant approaches to analyze pore size structure of shale. …”
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An Automatic Welding Seam Extraction Method for Butt Workpieces with Varying Seam Widths Based on DLP Vision by Linbo Hao, Huaming Wang, Zeyu Sun, Yiming Wang, Bin Li, Shaohua Jiang, Zhiqiang Liu

“…The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed seam extraction method can accurately, robustly, and efficiently extract the butt seams with varying widths.…”
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An integral equation method in conformal mapping of regions with circular slit by Yue Shan, Yibin Lu

“…Numerical simulations show that the method efficiently and stably handles flow fields in multi-connected regions, providing a reliable tool for applications in engineering and physical sciences.…”
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Physical Modeling of Core Losses in Ferrite E-Cores by Theophane Dimier, Jurgen Biela

“…To include efficiently the geometry of the core into the calculation of core losses, this article presents the Combined Field and Material Model (CFM²) for E- or U-cores. …”
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Holographic energy correlators for soft walls by Csaba Csáki, Steven Ferrante, Ameen Ismail

“…Building on a recent computation in a minimal hard-wall model of confinement, we show that the shockwave method for efficiently computing energy correlators in AdS generalizes to an arbitrary warped geometry. …”
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BEACON—automated aberration correction for scanning transmission electron microscopy using Bayesian optimization by Alexander J. Pattison, Stephanie M. Ribet, Marcus M. Noack, Georgios Varnavides, Kunwoo Park, Earl J. Kirkland, Jungwon Park, Colin Ophus, Peter Ercius

“…Here, we present an automated method of correcting first- and second-order aberrations called BEACON, which uses Bayesian optimization of the normalized image variance to efficiently determine the optimal corrector settings. …”
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Optimization Design of Hybrid Mufflers on Broadband Frequencies Using the Genetic Algorithm by Min-Chie CHIU

“…Using the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, a coupling wave equation for the perfo- rated dissipative chamber is simplified into a four-pole matrix form. To efficiently find the optimal shape within a constrained space, a four-pole matrix system used to evaluate the acoustical performance of the sound transmission loss (STL) is eval- uated using a genetic algorithm (GA). …”
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Comparison of gel swelling under organic vapor and in organic solvent by M. Erdoğan, Ö. Pekcan

“…An equation is derived for low quenching efficiencies to interpret the behavior of P lifetimes during swelling. …”
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Structural design and analysis of a picking robot arm using parallel grippers by Fengfeng Wang, Yechen Fan

“…The end-effector features a parallel gripper structure to efficiently pick crops of various shapes and sizes, with finite element simulations confirming its structural rationality. …”
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