Quinoline derivatives as possible lead compounds for anti-malarial drugs: Spectroscopic, DFT and MD study by Bhaskaran Sureshkumar, Yohannan Sheena Mary, Chacko Yohannan Panicker, Somasekharan Suma, Stevan Armaković, Sanja J. Armaković, Christian Van Alsenoy, Badiadka Narayana

“…DFT calculations have been used to obtain global and local quantum-molecular descriptors including frontier molecular orbitals, charge distribution by molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) surface, average local ionization energy (ALIE) surface, and Fukui functions. Natural bond order (NBO) analysis has been performed in order to investigate hyper-conjugative properties. …”
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The Historical Value and Contemporary Role of Vernacular Wisdom: The Case of Zengchong Village by Yong Shao, Le Zhang

“…By adhering to vernacular wisdom, the unique production modes and lifestyles shown in vernacular heritage created an ideal harmonious living environment in consensus with nature using orderly and rational methods for using natural resources. …”
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Pico-Sat to Ground Control: Optimizing Download Link via Laser Communication by Revital Marbel, Boaz Ben-Moshe, Tal Grinshpoun

“…By using lasercom, the suggested solution requires no frequency licensing and therefore allows such satellites to communicate with any optical ground station on Earth. Naturally, in order to allow laser communication from a low Earth orbit satellite to a ground station, accurate aiming and tracking are required. …”
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Dual ideal theory on L-algebras by Chun Ge Hu, Xiao Guang Li, Xiao Long Xin

“…Then, we prove that these dual ideals induce congruence relations and quotient $ L $-algebras on bounded $ L $-algebras. Naturally, in order to construct the first isomorphism theorem between bounded $ L $-algebras, the relationship between dual ideals and morphisms between bounded $ L $-algebras is investigated and that the kernels of any morphisms between bounded $ L $-algebras are dual ideals is proven. …”
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The Vese-Chan model without redundant parameter estimation for multiphase image segmentation by Jie Wang, Zisen Xu, Zhenkuan Pan, Weibo Wei, Guodong Wang

“…In this paper, we propose an automatic construction method for characteristic functions via transformation between a natural number and its binary expression, and thus, the characteristic functions of empty phases can be written and recognized naturally. In order to avoid the redundant parameter estimations of these regions, we add area constraints in the original model to replace the corresponding region terms to preserve its systematic form and achieve high efficiency. …”
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Ján Smrek (Galloping Days) by Michal Habaj

“…An inevitable condition of Smrek´s model of world is an ethic, and moral attitude, which are parts of natural/inartificial order. They are guarantees for keeping continuity of existence in both individual and generic levels (in the context of Bergson´s life philosophy). …”
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Towards the Anthropocene : colossal naturality in disordered territories by Zivkovic, Sasa, M. Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Sensing the anomeric effect in a solvent-free environment. by Cocinero, E, Carçabal, P, Vaden, T, Simons, J, Davis, B

“…Complexes formed between the peptide and the α- or β-anomers of d-galactose are nearly identical structurally; however, the strength of the polarization of their interactions with the peptide differs greatly. Natural bond order calculations support this observation, and together they reveal the dominance of the exo- over the endo-anomeric effect. …”

Analysis of students’ generated questions in laboratory learning environments by Juan Antonio Llorens-Molina, Jesús María Llorens de Jaime, Isidora Sanz Berzosa

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Envelope statistics of self-motion signals experienced by human subjects during everyday activities: Implications for vestibular processing. by Jérome Carriot, Mohsen Jamali, Kathleen E Cullen, Maurice J Chacron

“…Our findings have important consequences for understanding the coding strategies used by the vestibular system to process natural second-order self-motion signals.…”
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Existence of a Thermodynamic Spin-Glass Phase in the Zero-Concentration Limit of Anisotropic Dipolar Systems by Juan Carlos Andresen, Helmut G. Katzgraber, Vadim Oganesyan, Moshe Schechter

“…The nature of ordering in dilute dipolar interacting systems dates back to the work of Debye and is one of the most basic, oldest and as-of-yet unsettled problems in magnetism. …”
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Topological squashed entanglement: Nonlocal order parameter for one-dimensional topological superconductors by Alfonso Maiellaro, Antonio Marino, Fabrizio Illuminati

“…Here we show that the end-to-end, long-distance, bipartite squashed entanglement between the edges of a many-body system, defined in terms of the edge-to-edge quantum conditional mutual information, is the natural nonlocal order parameter for topological superconductors in one dimension as well as in quasi-one-dimensional geometries. …”
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Perception of temporal asymmetries in dynamic facial expressions by Maren eReinl, Andreas eBartels

“…We recorded natural movies of faces that increased or decreased their expressions of fear, and played them either in the natural frame order or reversed from last to first frame (reversed timeline). …”
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COVID-19 and its impact on mental health as a function of gender, age, and income by Namrata Gulati, Chandni Nanda, Ramandeep Kaur Hora

“…As the dependent variable has an ordered nature, an ordered logit model has been used for regression. …”
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Analysis of Survival Data: Challenges and Algorithm-Based Model Selection by Kaushik Sarkar, Ranadip Chowdhury, Aparajita Dasgupta

“…Extended Cox models and marginal models are used in case of multivariate ordered failure events and the type of model depends upon the presence of clustering and nature of ordering. In the presence of heterogeneity, a shared frailty model is used that is analogous to mixed models. …”
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Approximation Relations on the Posets of Pseudoultrametrics by Svyatoslav Nykorovych, Oleh Nykyforchyn, Andriy Zagorodnyuk

“…The text focuses on the natural partial order on the set of all pseudoultrametrics on a fixed (not necessarily finite) set. …”
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El fundamento y el uso de las clasificaciones científicas: dinámicas desfasadas by María L. Christiansen Renaud

“…This paper sets out epistemological problems raised by psychological and psychiatric classificatory practices, and it examines critically some premises supported by antipsychiatric movement against the psychiatric naturalism. In order to tackle the heated debate about the Reality / Construction of mental disorders —and its taxonomical implications— the famous Ian Hacking´s thesis about the looping e#ect derived from classificatory practices is proposed and analyzed. …”
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Les limites de la cartographie des risques littoraux : des perspectives pour la compréhension de tous by Aurélie Arnaud

“…Moreover, coastal communities have the highest number of natural disaster order - Catnat (ONRS, 2011 and BD GASPAR). …”
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Can the Fluxionality in Borospherene Influence the Confinement-Induced Bonding between Two Noble Gas Atoms? by Ranita Pal, Pratim Kumar Chattaraj

“…The bonding analysis includes the natural bond order (NBO), Bader’s Atoms-in-Molecules electron density analysis (AIM), and energy decomposition analysis (EDA), revealing the non-covalent nature of the interactions between the Ne atoms and that between the Ne and the cage atoms. …”
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Psychopathy to Altruism: Neurobiology of the Selfish–Selfless Spectrum by James W. H. Sonne, Don M. Gash

“…The age-old philosophical, biological, and social debate over the basic nature of humans as being “universally selfish” or “universally good” continues today highlighting sharply divergent views of natural social order. Here we analyze advances in biology, genetics and neuroscience increasing our understanding of the evolution, features and neurocircuitry of the human brain underlying behavior in the selfish–selfless spectrum. …”
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