Grading and prognostic factors of papillary renal cell carcinoma by Zhang, Stella Yun Ting

“…More tumours occur on the left side of the kidney than the right side; and incidence of PRCC more or less follows the population proportion that more Chinese are affected by PRCC than the rest of the population.…”
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Populist attitudes, subjective social status, and resentment in Italy by Melli, G, Scherer, S

“…This study finds that subjective status matters more than objective conditions for populist attitudes. …”

Multilevel converter-based grid-connected energy storage systems by Deng, Han

“…Singapore enjoys more solar irradiance than other temperate countries, thus the solar Photovoltaic (PV) is one of the most promising renewable energy sources for the electricity generation in Singapore. …”
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Investigation on energy output structure of explosives near-ground explosion by Xu, Wen-long, Wang, Cheng, Yuan, Jian-ming, Goh, Wei-liang, Li, Tao

“…Owing to the exothermic effect of aluminum powder, the pressure drop of aluminized explosives is slower than that of RDX explosives. At 5.0 m from the initiation point, the peak overpressure of aluminized explosives is larger than that of RDX explosives. …”
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Effects of variety and stage of fruit ripeness on the physicochemical and sensory characteristics of deep‐fat‐fried banana chips by Ammawath, Wanna, Che Man, Yaakob, Yusof, Salmah, A Rahman, Russly

“…The moisture content and water activity of Abu chips were lower than those of Nangka chips. The texture of chips prepared from Abu at stage 'green' showed more crispness than the other three samples. …”
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A scalable variational inference approach for increased mixed-model association power by Loya, H, Kalantzis, G, Cooper, F, Palamara, PF

“…We applied Quickdraws to 79 quantitative and 50 binary traits in 405,088 UK Biobank samples, identifying 4.97% and 3.25% more associations than REGENIE and 22.71% and 7.07% more than FastGWA. …”

Probability and Random Processes / by Grimmett, Geoffrey R., author 208677, Stirzaker, David R., author 656424

“…This third edition emphasizes modeling and understanding rather than abstraction. Many important random processes are developed in the text through examples. …”

Effects of positive education approach on academic boredom, intrinsic motivation, positive emotions and thought-action repertoire among private college students in Shaanxi Province... by Jie, Zheng

“…An examination of the mean scores indicated a significantly lower level of LRB in the experimental group (M=22.00, SD=7.59) than in the control group (M=31.11, SD=8.28) (p .01); a significantly lower level of CRB in the experimental group (M=21.14, SD=7.24) than in the control group (M=31.17, SD=9.40) (p .01); a significantly higher level of IM in the experimental group (M=62.52, SD=12.07) than in the control group (M=54.30, SD=14.35) (p .01); a significantly higher level of PE in the experimental group (M=28.43, SD=6.29) than in the control group (M=25.51, SD=5.41) (p .01); a significantly higher level of TAR in the experimental group (M=9.27, SD=5.70) than in the control group (M=5.48, SD=4.01) (p .01). …”
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Analysis of visitors’ mobility patterns through random walk in the Louvre Museum by Yoshimura, Yuji, Sinatra, Roberta, Krebs, Anne, Ratti, Carlo

“…Since the probability of the appearance of short combinations of nodes is higher than that of long combinations of nodes, shorter path sequences tend to appear more frequently than longer path sequences. …”
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Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory by Hao, Xiangpeng, Zhou, Xinjing, Yu, Xiangyao, Stonebraker, Michael

“…Remote memory (i.e., tiered memory), connected to host servers via high-speed interconnect protocols such as RDMA and CXL, is expected to deliver 100x (less than 1us) lower latency than SSD and be more cost-effective than local DRAM through pooling or adopting cheaper memory technologies. …”
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Spectral, spatial, and temporal characteristics of underwater ambient noise in the Beaufort Sea in 1994 and 2016 by Chen, R., Poulsen, A., Schmidt, H.

“…Spectral comparison shows noise within 20–350 Hz is ∼30 dB louder in 1994 than 2016; however, this is likely due to higher array self noise during SIMI94. …”
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Properties and flexural performance of iron ore tailings concrete by Oritola, Sikiru Folahan

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Weight, volume and surface area of placenta of normal pregnant women and their relation to maternal and neonatal parameters in Malay, Chinese and Indian ethnic groups by Sivarao, S., Vidyadaran, M.K., Jammal, A.B.E., Zainab, S., Goh, Y.M., Ramesh, K.N.

“…Indian babies weight and length were less than Chinese and Malay babies (P<0.05) while booking weight of Indian mothers was less than those of Chinese mothers (P<0.05). …”
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Control of wafer-scale non-uniformity in chemical-mechanical planarization by face-up polishing by Mau, Catherine (Catherine K.)

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A comparison of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor kidney outcome trial participants with a real-world chronic kidney disease primary care population by Forbes, AK, Hinton, W, Feher, MD, Elson, W, Ordóñez-Mena, JM, Joy, M, Fan, X, Banerjee, D, Cole, NI, Munro, N, Whyte, M, Suckling, RJ, Swift, PA, de Lusignan, S

“…We hypothesized that SGLT2 inhibitor kidney outcome trials are more representative of people with co-existing T2D than those without, and that EMPA-KIDNEY is more representative than previous trials.…”

DUMPLIN' / by Murphy, Julie, 1985- author 616876

“…Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.…”

Wire sweep analysis for 16L SOIC package by Gao, Zheng Yu.

“…Taguchi Methods, DOE is also using to optimize molding process. 16L SOIC is our test vehicle, our target is reduce wire sweep from more than 10% to less than 5%.…”
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Effects of load handling and aging on balance control by Tan, Sherri Xue Qi.

“…This indicates that the Young group can handle heavier loads better than the Mature group. Therefore, the Young group is more suitable in the construction industry than the Mature group. …”
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Effects of accuracy of incentive weights when rewarding non-financial value drivers. by Khim, Kelly.

“…I use an experiment to examine how the accuracy of relative incentive weights on non-financial value drivers in incentive contracts affect managerial performance in firms where intangible assets are more important than tangible assets for future financial performance. …”
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Exchange rate prediction using computational intelligence by Kurniawan, Nikolas

“…The four best algorithms are used for the hybrid algorithm development which truncates the direction error even further than any single method with the accuracy of almost 90%.…”
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