The Vandal habrosýne and its Significance in Procopius’ Narrative on the Rise and Fall of the Vandal State by Michał Stachura

“…If we should recognize that what we have here is a particular literary allusion, a re-application of a Herodotean pattern for the purpose of recounting a contemporary story, this passage takes on a new meaning: representing the former affluence and the present misery of the Vandals serves as a starting point to deliberations on human helplessness in the face of Fate, while referring to habrosýne, as a stereotypical characteristic attributed to the Lydians, is an additional clue to put us on a track leading to associations between the two narratives.…”
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Age-dependent male mating investment in Drosophila pseudoobscura. by Sumit Dhole, Karin S Pfennig

“…We also found that larger male mating investments resulted in higher fitness payoffs. Our results show that male and female ages interact to form a complex pattern of age-specific male mating investment and fitness.…”
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Time series analysis of malaria in pregnancy, using wavelet and SARIMAX models. by Dolapo Oluwaseun Oniyelu, Olaiya Folorunsho, Lawrence Adewole, Emmanuel Afolabi Bakare, Chukwu Okoronkwo, Nelson Eze, with ICAMMDA Team

“…Thus, SARIMAX was adopted for Cross River, Enugu, Ondo, and Yobe; while ARIMA was used for Kebbi and Niger States. …”
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Psychosocial and cognitive risk factors for orthorexia nervosa: an integrative review of recent literature by Vitória Morelli Guerrazzi, Isadora Paiva Abbondanza, Leticia Bragalia Passarella, Emily Godoi Pereira, Thiago Bonafé, Maíra Pieri Ribeiro

“…Digital content that promotes restrictive diets and fitness practices has contributed significantly to the dissemination of rigid and potentially harmful eating patterns, especially among adolescents and women. …”
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Well-Being and Influencing Factors in Urban Ecological Recreation Spaces: A Human–Nature Interaction Perspective by Jiaxiao Feng, Chen Cao, Huafang Qiao, Shuangyu Xie

“…Results show that mental health had the highest score, while survival security scored the lowest. NDVI positively influenced all well-being dimensions, while fitness facilities and higher education levels showed negative effects. …”
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Nitrogen source orchestrates pH modulation and secondary metabolism in Trichoderma harzianum by Stefania Vitale, Felice Salzano, Alessia Staropoli, Roberta Marra, David Turrà, Matteo Lorito, Francesco Vinale

“…This nitrogen-dependent pH modulation pattern was conserved across Trichoderma species, as demonstrated by parallel responses in T. asperellum. …”
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Probable developmental, neurological and evolutionary trend in complex morphological structures: foramen magnum outlines analytic comparisons in four orders; Chiroptera: (Eidolon h... by Oluwale Michael Samuel, Olumayowa Olawumi Igado

“…Malformation manifestation possibilities increased along both domestication and phylogenetic levels confirming evolutionary trend and pattern in FM construction among species understudied.…”
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UWB Base Station Deployment Optimization Method Considering NLOS Effects Based on Levy Flight-Improved Particle Swarm Optimizer by Shengliang Wang, Ming Gao, Ling’ai Li, Dong Lv, Yingqi Li

“…The ultra-wideband (UWB) base station (BS) deployment pattern seriously affects mobile tag positioning accuracy, but the traditional classical deployment methods, such as rectangular and diamond deployment, cannot take into account the influence of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) occlusion, which leads to a blind area in positioning. …”
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Short-term associations of diarrhoeal diseases in children with temperature and precipitation in seven low- and middle-income countries from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia in th... by Nasif Hossain, Lina Madaniyazi, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Dilruba Nasrin, Xerxes Tesoro Seposo, Paul L C Chua, Rui Pan, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Masahiro Hashizume

“…Diarrhoeal surveillance system settings should be conceptualized based on the observed pattern of climate change in these locations.…”
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QuantiFly: Robust Trainable Software for Automated Drosophila Egg Counting. by Dominic Waithe, Peter Rennert, Gabriel Brostow, Matthew D W Piper

“…Many laboratories count Drosophila eggs as a marker of fitness. The existing method requires laboratory researchers to count eggs manually while looking down a microscope. …”
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Role of crustal assimilation in the evolution of andesitic and dacitic magmas from Makran volcanic arc with special reference to Pb isotopes by Zahra Firouzkouhi, Ali Ahmadi

“…Pb isotopic modeling indicates up to 15% crustal contribution in andesitic and dacitic rocks, best fitting a mix of upper and minor lower crust. Taftan volcano samples show the highest crustal assimilation, while Bazman and Shahsavaran samples display less (2-8%) assimilation. …”
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Time-varying MVAR algorithms for directed connectivity analysis: Critical comparison in simulations and benchmark EEG data. by Mattia F Pagnotta, Gijs Plomp

“…We also compared two ways of exploiting repeated observations: single-trial modeling followed by averaging, and multi-trial modeling where one tvMVAR model is fitted across all trials. Results from numerical simulations and from benchmark EEG recordings showed that: i) across a broad range of model orders all algorithms correctly reproduced patterns of interactions; ii) signal downsampling degraded connectivity estimation accuracy for most algorithms, although in some cases downsampling was shown to reduce variability in the estimates by lowering the number of parameters in the model; iii) single-trial modeling followed by averaging showed optimal performance with larger adaptation coefficients than previously suggested, and showed slower adaptation speeds than multi-trial modeling. …”
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Genre as diversity, and rhetorical mode as unity in language use by José Luiz Meurer

“…Within this perspective I propose that while genres stand for diversity and fit the notion of specific text type identifiable by specific format and used in specific social contexts to fulfil specific functions, rhetorical modes stand for unity as they constitute general patterns of language organisation strategically used by authors/ writers as linguistic resources in the creation of specific genres. …”
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Image rain removal network based on checkerboard transformer and CNN hybrid mechanism. by Yutian Yang, Jianyu Lin, Xinyue Dai, Zhipei Zhang, Shuijin Zhang, Yingyu Chen, Guangxin Kong, Xin Li

“…The network seamlessly integrates the advantages of Transformer and fitted neural network (CNN) in a checkerboard architecture, fully utilizing the global modeling capability of Transformer and the local feature extraction efficiency of CNN.ChessFormer adopts a multilevel feature extraction and progressive feature fusion strategy to efficiently achieve the rain line while preserving the We design a multidimensional transposed attention (MSTA), which enhances the network fusion for different rain patterns and mechanism image textures by combining self-attention with gated phase operation. …”
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Constitutive model of metal rubber material considering plastic accumulation behavior by FENG Zhipeng, YANG Fang, FU Hailong, AI Shigang, WANG Yue, YUAN Liangyang

“…Due to the complex and varied interlocking patterns of internal metallic helical coils during cold compression molding, residual stresses typically exist after forming. …”
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Low susceptibility of invasive red lionfish (Pterois volitans) to a generalist ectoparasite in both its introduced and native ranges. by Paul C Sikkel, Lillian J Tuttle, Katherine Cure, Ann Marie Coile, Mark A Hixon

“…Lionfish in both ranges had very few gnathiids when compared with other species, suggesting that lionfish are not highly susceptible to infestation by generalist ectoparasitic gnathiids. While this pattern implies that release from gnathiid infestation is unlikely to contribute to the success of lionfish as invaders, it does suggest that in environments with high gnathiid densities, lionfish may have an advantage over species that are more susceptible to gnathiids. …”
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APPLICATION OF DBSCAN FOR CLUSTERING SOCIETY BASED ON WASTE MANAGEMENT BEHAVIOR by Hafizh Syihabuddin Al Jauhar, Solimun Solimun, Rahma Fitriani

“…This research aims to answer the challenge of identifying the characteristics of the Batu City community in waste management, where traditional clustering techniques are often suboptimal due to the presence of noise or objects that do not fit the general pattern. As a solution, the Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) algorithm is applied, which allows the clustering of objects based on local density and detects the presence of noise or outliers in the data. …”
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Mathematical modelling of golden apple drying and performance evaluation of solar drying systems using energy and exergy approach by Halefom Kidane, Istvan Farkas, Janos Buzás

“…The average exergy efficiency followed the same pattern as energy efficiency, with SAH 1 and Dryer 1 being higher than SAH 2 and Dryer 2 on both days. …”
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Analysis of Airport Risk Propagation in Chinese Air Transport Network by Xuejun Zhang, Shuaizhe Zhao, Hao Mei

“…We study the regular pattern of risk propagation from perspectives of time and space. …”
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Antecedents and consequences of professional competence of school administrators with emphasis on environmental sustainability and sustainable development by mohamadreza rasouli, ghafar tari, hossein Baghaei

“…The research findings indicated that the model of professional competence of managers includes competence-building skills, managerial competencies, ethical competencies and professional behavior, manager development, social indicators of managers, establishment of work groups for performance improvement and green competence, attitude competencies, knowledge competencies, educational competencies, commercialization competencies of knowledge, skills and technology, work ethic, consumption pattern improvement, participation in development, and moving towards national empowerment, leading to the realization of work ethic results, consumption pattern improvement, participation in development, movement towards national empowerment, diversity management, and enhancing the relationship between humans and nature. …”
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