Am I My Brother’s Keeper? African American Men’s Health Within the Context of Equity and Policy by Okechuku Kelechi Enyia MPH, Yashika J. Watkins PhD, MPH, Quintin Williams PhD

“…The uniqueness of being male and of African descent calls for a critical examination and deeper understanding of the psycho-socio-historical context in which African American men have lived. …”
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Agent Collaborative Target Localization and Classification in Wireless Sensor Networks by Sheng Wang, Liang Ding, Dao-wei Bi, Xue Wang

“…In localization, estimate oftarget location is obtained by steepest descent search. The search algorithm adapts tomeasurement environments by dynamically adjusting its termination condition. …”
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Modifications of Flower Pollination, Teacher-Learner and Firefly Algorithms for Solving Multiextremal Optimization Problems by Pavel Sorokovikov, Alexander Gornov

“…This approach is established by employing both globalized nature-inspired methods as well as local descent methods for exploration and exploitation. …”
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Undergraduate Experience of a Black Haitian-American Female at a Competitive Predominantly White Institution by Kareen Odate

“…As a higher education professional of more than 20 years, the author shares her own journey as a traditional age Black, female, urban student of Haitian descent, who attended a competitive PWI over 25 years ago. …”
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Enhancing the LR Parsing Strategy Using Incremental GPLR Parsing Method by Mouiad Abid Hani, Methaq Ibraheem Hashim

“…Parsers in modern integrated development environments (IDEs) for generalpurpose languages are virtually all of ad hoc, recursive descent variety. While such parsers have many disadvantages when compared with machine-generated LALR(1) parsers but they have two major good qualities: they are not restricted to any finite of lookahead, and in IDE, they can re-parse parts of a file as they change rather than reparsing the entire file. …”
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Efficient Bayesian inference for mechanistic modelling with high-throughput data. by Simon Martina Perez, Heba Sailem, Ruth E Baker

“…Inspired by the method of Stochastic Gradient Descent, we propose a minibatch approach to approximate Bayesian computation. …”
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Modified subgradient extragradient algorithms for systems of generalized equilibria with constraints by Lu-Chuan Ceng, Li-Jun Zhu, Tzu-Chien Yin

“…The proposed algorithms are based on the subgradient extragradient rule with linear-search process, Mann implicit iteration approach, and hybrid deepest-descent technique. Under mild restrictions, we demonstrate the strong convergence of the proposed algorithms to a common solution of the investigated problems, which is a unique solution of a certain hierarchical variational inequality defined on their common solution set.…”
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Research on escalators used as evacuation stairs under fire scenarios by Chunhua Zhang, Xin Wu, Jinquan Chen, Hai Shen

“…And compared to the normal descent of the fire shutter (only the staircase evacuation, 2 people not evacuate completed), the evacuation of people is completed and the efficiency of evacuation is improved. …”
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Robot Skill Learning Based on Dynamic Motion Primitives and Adaptive Control by ZHANG Wenan, GAO Weizhan, LIU Andong

“…Moreover, radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) is introduced into DMP to establish the RBF-DMP method, which is able to learn the central position and weight of Gaussian basis through gradient descent and improves the accuracy of skill modeling. …”
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Pengenalan rambu lalu lintas menggunakan convolutional neural networks by Mutaqin Akbar

“…Algoritme pelatihan yang digunakan adalah Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). Pada tahap pelatihan dengan menggunakan 1750 data citra latih, 48 filter dan laju pelatihan 0,005, dihasilkan galat 0,005 dan akurasi 100 %. …”
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Optimum contribution selection for conserved populations with historic migration by Wellmann Robin, Hartwig Sonja, Bennewitz Jörn

“…</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The most promising approach was constraining migrant contributions while maximizing the conditional probability that two alleles randomly chosen from the offspring population are not identical by descent, given that both descend from native founders.…”
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On physics-informed neural networks for quantum computers by Stefano Markidis

“…We show that the optimizer exploration of the training landscape in the case of quantum PINN is not as effective as in classical PINN, and basic Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) optimizers outperform adaptive and high-order optimizers. …”
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PERAN CYBER ARMY TERHADAP EKSISTENSI BUDAYA MELAYU RIAU by Yudi Daherman, Tessa Shasrini, Harry Setiawan

“…The result is dominant respondents are of Malay ethnic descent. The effect obtained is that the role of the cyber army affects the existence of Riau Malay culture, it is known by looking at the probability value which is 0.00 less than 0.05. …”
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Calibration of the angle measurement error caused by the industrial reducer performance test instrument torsional deformation by Zhen Yu, Zongrui Hao

“…Based on the analysis, a new method of calibrating the angle measurement error based on the improved B-spline curve fitting-gradient descent and particle swarm optimization -radial basis function neural network (IBSCF-GDPSO-RBF) method is proposed. …”
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From one Darwin to another: Charles Darwin’s annotations to Erasmus Darwin’s ‘The Temple of Nature’ by Eva Guadalupe Hernández-Avilez, Rosaura Ruiz-Gutiérrez

“…This paper purposes that Charles Darwin’s annotations indicate his and his grandfather’s shared interest in the competition for reproduction (sexual selection) and point to a more remarkable resemblance between Erasmus Darwin’s The Temple of Nature and Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man (1871) rather than to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection (The Origin of Species), to which Erasmus’s ideas are more often compared.…”
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Black Motherhood Politics in Costa Rica: Diasporic Genealogies and Links to the State by Marianela Muñoz-Muñoz

“…Her election builds on the work of three generations of women whose engagement in formal politics is rooted in their intertwined identities as Black, women, and of West Indian descent. By recovering a racialized, gendered, and ethnicized lineage of community activism, relationships, and networking—which I call “Little’s links” to honor the legacy of the writer and activist Eulalia Bernard Little—I argue that in Costa Rica, Caribbean identity and Black motherhood politics have influenced Black women’s engagement in national politics. …”
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Modeling Parallel Robot Kinematics for 3T2R and 3T3R Tasks Using Reciprocal Sets of Euler Angles by Moritz Schappler, Svenja Tappe, Tobias Ortmaier

“…The method allows completely removing the redundant coordinate in 3T2R tasks and to solve the inverse kinematics for general serial and parallel robots with the gradient descent algorithm. The functional redundancy of robots with full mobility is exploited using nullspace projection.…”
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Jus Sanguinis, “Effective Nationality” and Exclusion: Analysing Citizenship Deprivation in the UK by Kim McGuire

“…The legal concept of jus sanguinis draws upon genealogy: “A line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor”. However, the imagined communities to which someone perceives they belong, through ancestral lineage, or cultural, political or religious affinity are often highly contested cultural notions, not least in times of political unrest. …”
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Interweaving Creative Critical Sense-Making through a Body of Koloa by Dagmar Dyck, Caroline Scott Fanamanu

“…The inclusion of my own experiences and artworks as a visual artist of Tongan and German descent, grounds the research project and offers voice to my creative critical sense-making process. …”
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A Modified Dai–Liao Conjugate Gradient Method Based on a Scalar Matrix Approximation of Hessian and Its Application by Branislav Ivanov, Gradimir V. Milovanović, Predrag S. Stanimirović, Aliyu Muhammed Awwal, Lev A. Kazakovtsev, Vladimir N. Krutikov

“…The leading idea is to combine search directions in accelerated gradient descent methods, defined based on the Hessian approximation by an appropriate diagonal matrix in quasi-Newton methods, with search directions in DL-type CG methods. …”
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