Reliability Analysis of Survivable Networks under the Hostile Model by Sebastián Laborde, Franco Robledo, Sergio Nesmachnow

“…This article studies the Generalized Steiner Problem with Node-Connectivity Constraints and Hostile Reliability and introduces a metaheuristic resolution approach based on Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure and Variable Neighborhood Descent. Under the hostile model, nodes and links are subject to probabilistic failures. …”
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CONSTRUCTING METAMORPHOSIS OF IMAGES FOR THE OBJECTS ON THE BASIS OF SOLVING EULER-POINCARE EQUATIONS by S. V. Leichter

“…An algorithm for solving the diffeomorphic transformation equation is developed on the basis of the gradient descent method. The considered problem of comparing two images can be used for constructing optimal metamorphosis of images, when there is no exact correspondence between the target image and the final image of the diffeomorphism. …”
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A Nation Wins its Spurs: Military Performances and National Identity in New Zealand’s Royal Visits, 1901-1927 by Christopher McDonald

“…It examines the visits’ military narrative, showing how rhetoric and performances cast Pākehā (New Zealanders of British descent) as a martial people who combined patriotism and vigour. …”
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Moving up North by Olivette Otele

“…The article examines the experiences of a few people of African descent in Britain, from economic migrants to refugees and asylum seekers in the last part of the 20th century and early 21st century. …”
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Medical image of the week: constrictive pericaditis by Alzoubaidi M, Bloom J, Mosier J, Snyder L

“…A cardiac catheterization revealed elevated right-sided pressure; markedly elevated left ventricular end diastolic pressure; equalization of LV-RV diastolic pressures; and sharp Y descent on the right atrial pressure waveform; which is all suggestive of constrictive physiology. …”
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Stator winding fault diagnosis of induction motor operating under the field-oriented control with convolutional neural networks by M. Skowron, M. Wolkiewicz, G. Tarchała

“…A convolutional neural network (CNN), trained with a Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum method is used. This kind of deep-trained neural network allows to significantly accelerate the diagnostic process compared to the traditional methods based on the Fast Fourier Transform as well as it does not require stationary operating conditions. …”
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Abraham's Legacy: Togetherness of Christian and Islamic Faith by Bobby Kurnia Putrawan, Edward Everson Hanock

“…Through literature studies, some data about Abraham are described in a narrative manner with the aim of being based on Abraham's inheritance, namely blessings, descent and land implemented correctly and proportionally. …”
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Determination of loads in the ultralight helicopter blades by Vitaly Dudnik

“…The methodology for the load determination consisted of deformation measurements using strain gauges in various flight modes from hovering to maximum speed flight, including climb, descent, acceleration, and braking. Ultralight helicopters occupy the smallest cost niche and, as a rule, full-fledged fatigue studies are not performed for such helicopters. …”
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Guilty Style: Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts and E.M. Forster’s Legacy in the Age of Autofiction by Niklas Cyril Fischer

“…Building on existing scholarship, it adopts the concepts of spectral legacy and dialogue as a framework for thinking of legacies that are not a matter of straight descent, but of a later work standing in a more oblique relation to its precursor. …”
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Verses on Slaves in the Holy Quran between Rhetorical Indications and Legislative Purpose by Ali Abdullah Ahmed Al-Hurirat

“…The researcher attempted to respond to the suspicions that cannot stand in front of this Qur'anic legislation that dealt with a phenomenon that existed before it came; this legislation conquered it during a brief period of complete descent of the Qur’an. The study used the inductive method by collecting the verses talking about slaves. …”
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The Saxon Connection: St Margaret of Scotland, Morgan Colman’s Genealogies, and James VI & I’s Anglo-Scottish Union Project by Joseph B.R. Massey

“…Some works, however, argued that James also had the senior Saxon hereditary claim to the English throne due his descent from St Margaret of Scotland—making his hereditary claim superior to that of any English monarch from William the Conqueror onwards. …”
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Size-Change Termination, Monotonicity Constraints and Ranking Functions by Amir M. Ben-Amram

“…Size-Change Termination (SCT) is a method of proving program termination based on the impossibility of infinite descent. To this end we may use a program abstraction in which transitions are described by monotonicity constraints over (abstract) variables. …”
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Hypertension and arterial stiffness in heart transplantation patients by João David de Souza-Neto, ĺtalo Martins de Oliveira, Hermano Alexandre Lima-Rocha, José Wellington Oliveira-Lima, Fernando Bacal

“…RESULTS: In a group of 85 adult heart transplantation patients, hypertension was independently associated with arterial stiffness (OR 4.98, CI 95% 1.06-23.4) as well as systolic and diastolic blood pressure averages and nighttime descent. CONCLUSIONS: Measurement of ambulatory arterial stiffness index is a new, non-invasive method that is easy to perform, may contribute to better defining arterial stiffness prognosis and is associated with hypertension.…”
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Postscript – Shackled Hong Kong, Invaded Ukraine, Encroached Taiwan: Stirrings across the Chinese Communist Frontiers in a World Transformed by Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine by Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh

“…From Hong Kong’s journey since the tumultuous struggle for democracy under the shadow of the tentacles of the authoritarian People’s Republic of China overlord till the dark descent into outright suppression of dissent beneath the pall of a Beijing central State-imposed draconian “national security law”, to the increasingly repressive authoritarian Russia’s Putin regime launching an outright murderous irredentist military invasion of Ukraine and blatant annexation of Ukrainian territories, to the increasingly frequent and numerous mainland China warplane flybys crossing the median line in the Taiwan Strait, the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship’s continued bullying military harassment in the skies and waters off Taiwan’s coast and threatening live-fire military exercises encircling the vibrantly liberal democratic Taiwan with Chinese missiles flying over the free island nation during the military drills, this article explores the current continuing assault on the liberal democratic world from repressive authoritarian powers.…”
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ON THE USE OF THE CAPITAL LETTER BY PORTUGUESE HERITAGE LANGAUGE STUDENTS IN SWITZERLAND by Ana Margarida Azevedo Caetano, Henrique Barroso

“…This article focuses on a case study developed in 2017 with a sample of  portuguese Heritage Language students, living in Zürich (Switzerland), and intends to be a reflection on the deviations in the graphic representation of the capital letter by some bilingual Portuguese descent students. Starting from the empirical hypothesis that the cause of these deviations consists in the transfer from German to Portuguese, the intervention procedure implemented in the group of informants under study was based on a sequence of two exercises at different evaluative moments, allowing, in this way, to collect and analyze data, in order to assess the class and subclass of words that register the highest percentage of deviant occurrences and to understand if the metalinguistic reflection contributes (or not) to the use of capital letters in accordance with the European Portuguese orthographic standard.…”
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A Composite Initialization Method for Phase Retrieval by Qi Luo, Shijian Lin, Hongxia Wang

“…Many recently proposed methods for phase retrieval such as PhaseMax and gradient-descent algorithms enjoy benign theoretical guarantees on the condition that an elaborate estimate of true solution is provided. …”
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Perspectives of 4-H Professionals: Practices to Engage Immigrant Youth in 4-H Teens as Teachers Programs by Fe Moncloa, Esther Rodriguez

“…Five professionals are immigrants, and six are of White European descent. Building on the essential elements of teenagers as teachers programs and immigrant mentoring research, 4-H professionals indicated that cultural competence, including empathy and commitment to immigrant teens, is essential. …”
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Ethnic interaction and integration in Gondär (Ethiopia): the case of the Amhara and Tigre, 1930–1970s by Tesfamichael Fentie Derso

“…These individuals, who are of both Amhara and Tigre descent, reside in the study area and are sometimes referred to as ‘double face jackets’.…”
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Coarse Fingerprint Registration Using Orientation Fields by Yager Neil, Amin Adnan

“…The final algorithm follows the path of steepest descent in the parameter space to quickly find solutions that are locally optimal. …”
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Embodying the nation and the political contention: naturalised athletes changing (sportive) nationalism at the Beijing 2022 Olympics by Veronica Strina, Francesca Vomeri

“…The two American-born sportswomen of Chinese descent, Gu Ailing and Zhu Yi, have been in the news spotlight for renouncing their US citizenship to compete under the Chinese flag, thus being caught in the middle of the Sino-US tensions. …”
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