METHOD OF IDENTIFICATION OF THERMOPHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THERMAL INSULATION MATERIALS INTENDED FOR TEMPERATURE CONTROL OF EQUIPMENT IN ZERO GRAVITY CONDITIONS by N.O. Borshchev

“…Next, the problem of minimizing this functional is solved using the conjugate directions method with a preliminary selection of the descent step, based on the minimum of the target functional at the next iterations, starting from the second. …”

Precision medicine considerations for the management of heart disease and stroke in East Asians by Candida L Goodnough, Eric R Gross

“…Importantly, people of East Asian descent are more likely to carry a loss-of-function point mutation in aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2), ALDH2*2, which reduces ALDH2 enzymatic activity by at least 40% relative to wild type ALDH2. …”
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Filling the Joints: Completion and Recovery of Incomplete 3D Human Poses by Dennis Bautembach, Iason Oikonomidis, Antonis Argyros

“…We present a comparative study of three matrix completion and recovery techniques based on matrix inversion, gradient descent, and Lagrange multipliers, applied to the problem of human pose estimation. 3D human pose estimation algorithms may exhibit noise or may completely fail to provide estimates for some joints. …”
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Genomic microsatellites identify shared Jewish ancestry intermediate between Middle Eastern and European populations by Hillel Jossi, Feldman Marcus W, Gefel Dov, Wang Chaolong, Stone Lewi, Kopelman Naama M, Rosenberg Noah A

“…</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>These results support the view that the Jewish populations largely share a common Middle Eastern ancestry and that over their history they have undergone varying degrees of admixture with non-Jewish populations of European descent.</p>…”
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Von der gelenkten Wirtschaft zur Kriegswirtschaft by György Lengyel

“…The latter, primarily intellectuals and smallholders of aristocratic descent, when forced to take employment, monopolized most of the administrative and army-positions. …”
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Reconstruction of potential function in inverse Sturm-Liouville problem via partial data by Mehmet Açil, Ali Konuralp

“…Taking account of R\"{o}hrl's objective function, the steepest descent method is used in the computation of potential functions. …”
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Chinese Canadian Librarians by Yanli Li

“…To increase representation in librarianship, library school students and first-generation immigrants of Chinese descent need to be inspired to enter librarianship and reach higher professional goals. …”
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Once Were Warriors, but how about Maoritanga Now? Novel and Film as a Dialogic Third Space by Cornelis Martin Renes

“…Under the direction of Lee Tamahori, also of mixed descent, the novel found its way to the screen in 1995 and thus reached a world audience. …”
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Image Classification Method Based on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Defects Detection for Casting by Chaoyue Liu, Yulai Zhang, Sijia Mao

“…All agents work together to determine the image type and update the parameters of the models by the stochastic gradient descent method. The new method maintains high accuracy. …”
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Continuous deformation analysis and contact force estimation for pneumatic bending actuators interacting with environment by Namdar Ghalati, Mohammad Hadi, Ghafarirad, Hamed

“…Then, the contact force between the actuator and an object located in a specific position is estimated utilizing the Gradient Descent optimization method. Experimental results verified the combinatorial proposed approach for both force estimation and structure deformation.…”
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IMPLEMENTASI MAQĀṢID AL-SHARĪ'AH DALAM HUKUM EKONOMI ISLAM by Syufa'at

“…The public interest that intended by Islamic law is the goodness in this life and in the hereafter, not solely in the world live. maslahah in the Shariah perspective is based on five principles called al-mabādi'al-khamsah or al-uṣūl alkhamsah namely: keeping religion (hifẓ al-dīn), keeping the soul (hifẓ al-nafs), keeping mind (hifẓ al-‘aql), keeping property (hifẓ al-māl), and keeping descent (hifẓ al-nasl). Maqāṣid al-sharī’ah implementation of some economic problems is to answer the reality of modern society to face the challenges of basic needs such as clothing, food, shelter, health, education, employment, sanitation, energy, transport and information. …”
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La visión femenina de una vida auténtica en la novela El velo pintado de W. Somerset Maugham by Antonio Malo

“…In this sense we can consider this novel as a descent into the depths of the human heart, crushed under layers of social stereotypes, personal prejudices and, in general, hypocrisy. …”
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Space-Varying Iterative Restoration of Diffuse Optical Tomograms Reconstructed by the Photon Average Trajectories Method by Kravtsenyuk Olga V, Lyubimov Vladimir V, Konovalov Alexander B, Vlasov Vitaly V

“…Two iterative algorithms for solving a system of linear algebraic equations, the conjugate gradient algorithm for least squares problem and the modified residual norm steepest descent algorithm, are used for deblurring. It is shown that a <inline-formula><graphic file="1687-6180-2007-034747-i1.gif"/></inline-formula> gain in spatial resolution can be obtained.…”
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Joint Optimization Method of Spectrum Resource for UAV Swarm Information Transmission by Di Wu, Yu Zhang, Yong Chen

“…We decompose the original mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem into multiple sub-problems based on the block coordinate descent (BCD) technique, and then solve them based on convex optimization and successive convex approximation (SCA) technique. …”
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A Case Report of a Teaspoon Portion of Fava Beans Caused Severe Hemolysis in G6PD-Deficient Baby: Time to Include G6PD Enzyme Testing in the Premarital Screening Program and Newbor... by Ahmad Alqarni, Ahmed Hjazi

“…A 2-year-old baby of Arabian descent presented to the emergency department (ED) with signs of acute hemolytic anemia due to consuming a teaspoon portion of fava beans. …”
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Travel with Diabetes: A Comprehensive Review for Clinicians by Venkatraman Rajkumar

“…This article discusses blood glucose monitoring, air travel security, precautions with continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps during ascent and descent of aircraft, insulin dosage adjustments during travel beyond time zones, proper preservation of insulin in extreme temperatures, and adaptation to high altitude, hot and cold environments for patients with diabetes. …”
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Designing optimal networks for multicommodity transport problem by Alessandro Lonardi, Enrico Facca, Mario Putti, Caterina De Bacco

“…Finally, we provide an efficient implementation of our model which converges faster than standard optimization methods based on gradient descent.…”
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Systematic versus informal application of culturally relevant pedagogy: Are performance outcomes different? A study of college students by Maura A. E. Pilotti, Hissa Al Mubarak

“…Students of Middle Eastern descent who were enrolled in either a history or a critical thinking course were exposed to one of the two conditions. …”
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Airplane headache – an underestimated problem? by Marcin Kulczyński, Michał Marciniec, Klaudia Sapko, Ewa Papuć, Konrad Rejdak

“…The airplane headache is an incident of severe, clinically stereotypical pain during ascent or descent of an airplane. The entity is considered rare; however, growing numer of passengers in air transport results in better recognition of the problem. …”
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Silica Microspheres for Economical Advanced Solar Applications by Maha M. Khayyat

“…The bottom-up grown nanowires were doped with aluminum (Al) throughout the growth process, and then the p–n junctions were formed with descent efficiency. Further work is required to optimize the growth of Si-NWs between the spun microspheres based on the growth parameters including etching time, which should lead to more efficient PV cells.…”
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