A theoretical model for substance abuse in the presence of treatment by Asha Saidi Kalula, Farai Nyabadza

“…Numerical simulations were performed to fit the model to available data for methamphetamine use in the Western Cape and to determine the role played by some key parameters. The model was also fitted to data on methamphetamine users who enter rehabilitation using the least squares curve fitting method. …”
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A Novel DV-Hop Localization Method Based on Hybrid Improved Weighted Hyperbolic Strategy and Proportional Integral Derivative Search Algorithm by Dejing Zhang, Pengfei Li, Benyin Hou

“…However, this algorithm also has some defects, such as poor localization accuracy and vulnerability to network topology. …”
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Eliza Haywood’s Female Spectator: Between Literature and Journalism by Tatiana V. Yakushkina

“…The necessity of transforming female novel lovers into readers of a new quality required Haywood to use, besides some literary techniques, a number of educational and didactic ones. …”
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Volumetric and acoustic properties of binary solutions of water and acetonitrile at 298.15K, 303.15K, 308.15K, 313.15K, 318.15K, and 323.15K by Sharmin Sultana, Md. Niamat Ullah, Syeda Khurshida Begum

“…The experimental and their derived properties were fitted to appropriate polynomial equations. Analysis of the results indicates a significant interstitial accommodation of free molecules of one component into the structural network of the other, mainly at the water-rich region in the water - acetonitrile system.…”
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Sonochemical-assisted fabrication of biologically active chiral poly(ester-imide)/TiO2 bionanocomposites derived from L-methionine and L-tyrosine amino acids

“…The scanning electron microscopy (SEM), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) results indicated that there is no aggregation of a large quantity of particles. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) confirmed that the heat stability of the BNC polymers in the temperature range of 400–800ºC was enhanced by addition of TiO2 nanoparticles. …”
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Multi‐Frequency Oscillatory Hydraulic Tomography Improves Heterogeneity Imaging and Resolution and Reduces Uncertainty by Jeremy R. Patterson, Michael Cardiff

“…A more direct approach to mapping heterogeneity over a range of scales is by inducing aquifer flow at various scales and analyzing spatially distributed pressure responses, so‐called Hydraulic Tomography (HT). …”
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New Radiocarbon Dates of Neolithic Sites in the Middle Volga and Kama-Vyatka Basin by Konstantin M. Andreev, Marianna A. Kulkova, Alexey V. Petrozhitskiy

“…The results are rather contradictory. In some cases, the older age can be explained by the hard water reservoir effect associated with cooking of fish food inside of pottery. …”
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Education for citizenship as a scientific problem by E. V. Putilov

“…Solving this problem is the goal of our research.The methodological basis of the research is based on socio-pedagogical concepts of civic education, the use of scientific methods (theoretical analysis of scientific literature, normative documents, products of teachers’ activities; descriptions; interpretation; generalizations).The research results: conceptual models of citizenship in some countries have been described; the essence of the phenomenon «Russian patriotism» has been revealed; aspects of citizenship education in modern pedagogical discourse have been outlined.Key conclusions: 1) in the scientific literature, four models of citizenship have been revealed: American, British, German and Russian; 2) the core of the concept of «citizenship» is the presence among citizens of a particular country of a number of personal qualities as personal results of educational activities; 3) the pedagogical content of citizenship is associated with the justification of this term as a subject of educational activity; highlighting the totality of civic qualities as personal results of educational activities; creation of a nurturing educational environment; teachers’ possession of the necessary competencies that allow them to carry out this work…”
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Microsaccades and covert attention: Evidence from a continuous, divided attention task by Aimee Elizabeth Ryan, Brendan Keane, Guy Wallis

“…Analysis failed to reveal a link between task accuracy and the direction of a microsaccade. …”
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The Church and its bishops in the Ostrogothic Italy: a study of the ownership relations by Alexander Kovalev

“…This article is an attempt to address a range of problems related to the study of church property in Italy during the Ostrogothic domination (493–554). …”
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ORDOVICIAN (DARRIWILIAN–KATIAN) BRACHIOPODS FROM THE SOUTHEASTERN MARGIN OF AVALONIA (CONDROZ INLIER, BELGIUM) by Yves Candela, DAVID A.T. HARPER, BERNARD MOTTEQUIN

“…These taxa are assigned with variable degrees of confidence to existing taxa or described under open nomenclature. An age range of Darriwilian to Katian is confirmed. Multivariate numerical analyses (Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling together with Network Analysis) indicate close comparison with other Avalonian faunas. …”
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The U.S.-China Rivalry in Africa: Challenges and Prospects by V. K. Parkhomenko

“…On the basis of a wide range of primary sources and recent researches, the author provides an in-depth analysis of both the current state and prospects for interaction between the two powers in Africa. …”
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Lycopene Inhibits Propagation of Chlamydia Infection by Naylia A. Zigangirova, Elena Y. Morgunova, Elena D. Fedina, Natalia V. Shevyagina, Tatiana G. Borovaya, Vladimir G. Zhukhovitsky, Nigel H. Kyle, Ivan M. Petyaev

“…In the present paper, we report that lycopene, one of the main dietary carotenoids, which is present in tomato and some other fruits, has a strong inhibitory effect on C. trachomatis and C. pneumoniae infections in alveolar macrophages. …”
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Preliminary Minimum Reporting Requirements for In-Vivo Neural Interface Research: I. Implantable Neural Interfaces by Calvin Eiber, Jean Delbeke, Jorge Cardoso, Martijn de Neeling, Sam John, Chang Won Lee, Jerry Skefos, Argus Sun, Dimiter Prodanov, Zach McKinney

“…Continued neurotechnological innovation requires the development of some minimal standards to promote integration between this broad spectrum of technologies and therapies. …”
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Employing the Oncolytic Vesicular Stomatitis Virus in Cancer Virotherapy: Resistance and Clinical Considerations by Alaa A. Abdelmageed, Stephen Dewhurst, Maureen C. Ferran

“…VSV’s potential as an oncolytic virus has garnered attention; however, resistance to VSV-mediated oncolysis has been observed in some cell lines and tumor types, limiting its effectiveness. …”
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On Fitting Renewable Energy Sources Data: Using a New Trigonometric Statistical Model by Mahmoud M Elsehetry, Ahmed W Shawki, Mohamed G Khalil, Tamer S Helal

“…To illustrate the effectiveness of the maximum likelihood, Cramer-von Mises, least squares, Anderson-Darling (AD), weighted least squares, and the right-tail AD estimators of the ATKE distribution parameters, we conducted an extensive simulation analysis. Additionally, the adaptability of the provided model was examined using a dataset of renewable energy sources, demonstrating that, in comparison to some other competing models that contain two, three and four parameters, the suggested model could potentially utilize to fit these data. …”
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The Capacity Inner and Outer Bounds for the Wireless Interference Channel with a Cognitive Relay by Elaheh Asadollahi Yazdi, Ghoushe Abed Hodtani, Hossein Khoshbin Ghomaash

“…Various scenarios about transmitter power levels and noise variance are considered to encompass a diverse range of real-world conditions. The inner and outer bounds provided in this paper become valuable tools for various aspects of practical analysis, for example, the inner bound can be used to investigate the coverage region and the outer bound for the outage probability, thereby, facilitating practical decision-making in wireless communication system design and optimization.…”
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Three-Point Iterated Interval Half-Cutting for Finding All Local Minima of Unknown Single-Variable Function by Romanuke Vadim

“…The presented approach is a significant and important contribution to the field of numerical estimation and approximate analysis. Although the method does not assure obtaining all local minima (or maxima) for any function, setting appropriate minimal and maximal numbers of subintervals makes missing some minima (or maxima) very unlikely.…”
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Extracellular Vesicles: Recent Advances and Perspectives by Enrico Ragni

“…Indeed, the biological roles of EVs range from immune modulation to tissue repair and contributions to cancer, neurodegeneration, musculoskeletal pathologies, and other disorders. …”
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BIOLOGICAL FEATURES AND SOWING QUALITIES OF NON-CLOTTING GARLIC, DEPENDING ON THE LOCATION OF THE GARLIC CLOVES IN THE BULB by A. I. Кilinchuk, V. F. Botnari

“…In the bulb structure the peripheral cloves of garlic have some increase in their quality over internals (the ratio is in the range of 60:40%). …”
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