Optimization of flat to round transformers with self-fields using adjoint techniques by L. Dovlatyan, B. L. Beaudoin, S. Bernal, I. Haber, D. Sutter, T. M. Antonsen, Jr.

“…The optimization is based on a gradient descent algorithm in which the gradient is calculated using adjoint methods that prove to be very computationally efficient. …”
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On the Forensic Use of Y-Chromosome Polymorphisms by Peter de Knijff

“…Before describing the various applications of short-tandem repeats (STRs) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on the Y-chromosome, I will discuss a few often ignored aspects influencing proper use and interpretation of Y-chromosome information: (i) genotyping Y-SNPs and Y-STRs, (ii) Y-STR haplotypes shared identical by state (IBS) or identical by descent (IBD), and (iii) Y-haplotype database frequencies.…”
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Posthuman Rights by Steen Christiansen

“…In other words, if most recent catastrophe fictions express an anxiety over human descent into depravity and a loss of what makes us human, Splice asks the persistent question of what constitutes the “life” in the right to life. …”
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Psyche’s Daughter of Today: Sara Jeannette Duncan and the New Woman by Michelle Gadpaille

“…The heroine; Elfrida Bell; descends from artist; to muse; to model; to painted image—a descent framed by a rival male artist and a hostile London art scene. …”
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Prostate Cancer Genomics Research Disparities in Africa: Advancing Knowledge in Resource Constrained Settings by Pedro W. Fernandez PhD

“…Prostate cancer disproportionately affects men of African descent and it is estimated that Africa will bear the highest disease burden in the next decade. …”
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Cystic fibrosis in South Africa: A changing diagnostic paradigm by M Pepper, C Stewart, J van Rensburg, M Alessandrini

“…Cystic fibrosis (CF), one of the most commonly observed and diagnosed fatal monogenic disorders globally, was initially thought to affect individuals of Caucasian/European descent almost exclusively. It is increasingly appreciated, however, that non-Caucasian populations are also affected by this condition. …”
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An Outcast’s Identity Is No Joke: the Myth of Sisyphus in Joker by Jaime Segura San Miguel

“…These ideas are expounded and practiced with the analysis of Todd Phillips’s Joker (2019), and how its protagonist, Arthur Fleck, can be read as a revisitation of Albert Camus’s Sisyphus in his The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), which informs the main character’s katabasis, or descent into the depths of society and his own psyche in a quest for identity.…”
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Epistasis and evolution: recent advances and an outlook for prediction by Milo S. Johnson, Gautam Reddy, Michael M. Desai

“…Abstract As organisms evolve, the effects of mutations change as a result of epistatic interactions with other mutations accumulated along the line of descent. This can lead to shifts in adaptability or robustness that ultimately shape subsequent evolution. …”
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Switch Approach of Control Zone and Optimization Zone for Economic Model Predictive Control by X. Wan, B.-J. Liu, Z.-S. Liang, X.-L. Luo

“…The solution of economic model predictive control is gradient descent method. However, economic constraint condition makes the response too long. …”
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The global convergence of spectral RMIL conjugate gradient method for unconstrained optimization with applications to robotic model and image recovery. by Nasiru Salihu, Poom Kumam, Aliyu Muhammed Awwal, Ibrahim Mohammed Sulaiman, Thidaporn Seangwattana

“…Subsequently, the search direction is sufficiently descent independent of any line search technique. …”
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A New Spectral Three-Term Conjugate Gradient Method with Random Parameter Based on Modified Secant Equation and Its Application to Low-Carbon Supply Chain Optimization by Guoling Zhou, Yueting Yang, Mingyuan Cao

“…Then, the search direction satisfying the sufficient descent condition is obtained. The global convergence of new method is proved under appropriate assumptions. …”
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Temperature-sensitive Recurrent, Reversible Auditory Neuropathy in Two Iranian Siblings by Nasrin Yazdani, Mohsen Ahadi

“…Two sibling cases with a temperature-sensitive form of auditory neuropathy from a consanguineous marriage of Iranian descent have been described. They complained about the temporary loss of hearing and compromised speech comprehension after a slight fever or elevating the body temperature by vigorous exercises. …”
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Correction: Where are race-based oral health inequities bound? Protocol for a systematic review on interventions to tackle racial injustice in dental outcomes by João L. Bastos, Helena M. Constante, Helena S. Schuch, Dandara G. Haag, Sonia Nath, Roger K. Celeste, Carol C. Guarnizo-Herreño, Mary J. McCallum, Lisa M. Jamieson

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A general learning scheme for classical and quantum Ising machines by Ludwig Schmid, Enrico Zardini, Davide Pastorello

“…In this paper, we propose a new machine learning model that is based on the Ising structure and can be efficiently trained using gradient descent. We provide a mathematical characterization of the training process, which is based upon optimizing a loss function whose partial derivatives are not explicitly calculated but estimated by the Ising machine itself. …”
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A Simple Learning Approach for Robust Tracking Control of a Class of Dynamical Systems by Mahmut Reyhanoglu, Mohammad Jafari

“…In the developed design, the cost function based on the desired closed-loop error dynamics is minimized by means of gradient descent technique. A stability proof for the closed-loop nonlinear system is provided based on the pseudo-linear system theory. …”
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What Are Karelians Made of, RuNet? by Teemu Oivo

“…Moreover, they depict the critique and rejection of issues such as Karelian culture, language, and descent due to their perceived juxtaposition against Russianness.…”
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Doing Business the Chinese Way? On Manadonese Chinese, Entrepreneurship in North Sulawesi by Michael Jacobsen

“…Of special interest in this connection are questions of inter-ethnic integration versus assimilation together with questions of descent and ethnic classification in the relation to the surrounding non-Chinese community.…”
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VARIABILITY, LANGUAGE CHANGE, AND THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH by James Milroy

“…Firts, it is shown that the history of British Received Pronunciation is not one of direct descent from a single uniform ancestral variety. It is then demonstrated that pre-vocalic [h] and [hw] in English have a long history as variables and that loss of [h] in these combinations is not a recent event. …”
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Optimal Control of Anti-Angiogenesis and Radiation Treatments for Cancerous Tumor: Hybrid Indirect Solver by Iman Alimirzaei, Alaeddin Malek

“…By combining steepest descent, conjugate gradient, and Armijo techniques, a novel hybrid indirect iterative solver is designed. …”
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Genetic ancestry testing, whiteness and the limits of anti-racism by Katharine Tyler

“…I analyse the ways in which ideas and images of British indigeneity and shared human descent that support white Western racial hierarchies, power and privileges emerge in the posts that responded to the newspaper article.…”
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