Understanding sudden larch death – from epidemiology to host resistance by Dun, H

“…In younger stands most trees died within 6-12 months of first infection but some still survived, although with severe branch dieback, more than three years later. Older stands with >95% mortality had occasional very healthy trees at least seven years after first reported infection. …”

Effect of educational intervention on the intention to provide family-centered care among selected hospitals’ paediatric nurses in Tehran, Iran by Rostami, Forouzan

“…The educational intervention (twoday education classes) was conducted during the first month, and the effects on dependent variables of the study were assessed almost immediately after the intervention and three months later. In the intervention group, nurses were provided with presentations and internet-based education concerning FCC, in addition to booklets and pamphlets. …”
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From Research to Search: Technologies and Techniques of Legal Research, 1880-1980 by Reiss Sorokin, Alex

“…Excursus two tells the story of what came out of the system’s promise in light of later developments. Focusing on the chasm that developed between lawyers and technologists in defining the system in the 1970s, it explains how an approach that focused on the system as a product prevailed over an approach that viewed the system as a service to the profession. …”
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Synthesizing photorealistic images with deep generative learning by Zheng, Chuanxia

“…In this chapter, a novel probabilistically principled framework is proposed, which achieved state-of-the-art results for this new task and has become the benchmark for later works. However, my subsequent observation is that architectures based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) model long-range dependencies via many stacked layers, where holes are progressively influenced by neighboring pixels, resulting in some artifacts. …”
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Innovation and firm survival: the role of timing, funding, and networks by Gao, Ming

“…By contrast, engaging in innovation at a later stage when firms are more stabilized would be more beneficial to firm survival. …”
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Cell-free hemoglobin mediated oxidative stress is associated with acute kidney injury and renal replacement therapy in severe falciparum malaria: an observational study by Plewes, Katherine, Kingston, Hugh W.F., Ghose, Aniruddha, Maude, Richard J., Herdman, M. Trent, Leopold, Stije J., Ishioka, Haruhiko, Hasan, Md. Mahtab Uddin, Haider, Md. Shafiul, Alam, Shamsul, Piera, Kim A., Charunwatthana, Prakaykaew, Silamut, Kamolrat, Yeo, Tsin Wen, Faiz, Md. Abul, Lee, Sue J., Mukaka, Mavuto, Turner, Gareth D. H., Anstey, Nicholas M., Jackson Roberts II, L., White, Nicholas J., Day, Nicholas P. J., Hossain, Md. Amir, Dondorp, Arjen M.

“…Plasma F2-IsoPs and IsoFs inversely correlated with pH, positively correlated with creatinine, PfHRP2 and fractional excretion of sodium, and were higher in patients later requiring hemodialysis. Plasma F2-IsoP concentrations also inversely correlated with red cell deformability and were higher in fatal cases. …”
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Edible Bird's Nest treatment effects on subchondral bone and articular cartilage changes and synovial fluid proteome profiles in an osteoarthritis rabbit model by Syed Sulaiman, Sharifah Zakiah

“…For chemically induced group, OA progression is the highest during early stage indicated by high upregulation of apolipoprotein I-IV precursor and serpin peptidase inhibitor protein during week 4 but were later downregulated. The results showed different pathogenic mechanisms for both induction method. …”
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Ranging-based adaptive navigation for autonomous micro aerial vehicles by Nguyen, Pham Nhat Thien Minh

“…Motivated by these issues, this thesis is dedicated to studying infrastructure-free navigation schemes that can achieve a high level of flexibility, portability and practicality for autonomous operations of multi-MAV systems in GPS-denied environments. As will be shown later, rangingbased integrated estimation-control technique, i.e. adaptive navigation, is the key in our approach towards this objective. …”
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汉唐女性复仇叙事研究 = A study on female revenge narratives from the Han to Tang dynasties by 戴倩倩 Dai, Qianqian

“…Existing literature mainly focuses on later literary studies, but it is equally important that we should revisit to the origins. …”
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Efficient circuit-designs using spintronic devices by Deb, Suman

“…Whereas domain wall motion-based threshold activation unit has previously been demonstrated for neuromorphic circuits, it remains well-known that neurons with threshold activation cannot completely learn non-linearly separable functions. Our research in the later half of the thesis addresses this fundamental limitation by proposing two novel domain wall motion-based dual-threshold activation units (AUs). …”
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Synthesisation, characterisation and water adsorption on novel functional metal organic frameworks for heat transformation process by Han, Bo

“…The MOFs such as Al-Fum, UiO-66(Zr), MOF-801 (Zr) and AL-Fum/zeolite composites are at first synthesised and later the MOFs are post synthesised with various alkali dopants and the additives (-NH2, -N, -OH and -CH3). …”
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Energy storage management for renewable energy systems by Feng, Xue

“…Energy storage systems, which can be used to store the surplus generation from renewable sources and later deliver the energy when generation is insufficient due to weather conditions, provide effective solutions to the intermittent issue and economical concerns with renewable energy generation. …”
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Differences in the effectiveness of individual-level smoking cessation interventions by socioeconomic status by Theodoulou, A, Fanshawe, TR, Leavens, E, Theodoulou, E, Wu, AD, Heath, L, Stewart, C, Nollen, N, Ahluwalia, JS, Butler, AR, Hajizadeh, A, Thomas, J, Lindson, N, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…Studies must have assessed or reported smoking quit rates, split by any measure of socioeconomic status (SES) at longest follow‐up (≥ six months), and been published in 2000 or later. <p><b>Data collection and analysis </b></p> We followed standard Cochrane methods for screening, data extraction, and risk of bias assessment. …”

Understanding lived experiences of bereaved parents of children with chronic life-threatening Illness : towards a culture-specific and meaning-oriented narrative E-writing interven... by Dutta, Oindrila

“…It is a misconception that death occurs only in later life. Statistics show that an estimated 6.3 million children under age 15 died in 2017, with the vast majority of deaths - 5.4 million - occurring in the first five years of life. …”
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Evaluation of Enterococcus hirae isolated from vegetable wastes as probiotic and improvement of immune response in African catfish (Clarias spp.) by Hamid, Nur Hidayahanum

“…The selected LABs were identified as E. hirae (later named as E. hirae UPM01 and UPM02). Probiotic properties evaluation of both E. hirae showed that they could survived at pH 2 up to 9 (p<0.05). …”
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Automated detection and localization of myocardial infarction with staked sparse autoencoder and TreeBagger by Zhang, Jieshuo, Lin, Feng, Xiong, Peng, Du, Haiman, Zhang, Hong, Liu, Ming, Hou, Zengguang, Liu, Xiuling

“…The experiment and verification datasets include healthy controls, various types of MI with anterior, anterior lateral, anterior septal, anterior septal lateral, inferior, inferior lateral, inferior posterior, inferior posterior lateral, lateral, posterior, and posterior lateral, from PTB diagnostic ECG database. …”
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Seismic performance of continuous link reinforced concrete beam-column connections subjected to earthquake loading by Mohammadamin Azimi

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Structural analyses of common planted trees in Singapore by Chan, Swee Yee

“…The results showed the maximum stresses usually occurred on the connection of trunk-lateral or lateral-sinker root. The comparison of effectiveness of the windward roots and leeward roots was done by cutting the lateral roots of tree model and applying the bending moment induced by wind loading from different directions. …”
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4D printing of butterfly scale-inspired structures for wide-angle directional liquid transport by Liu, Xiaojiang, Li, Boyuan, Gu, Zhongze, Zhou, Kun

“…Specifically, high transport efficiency and programmable forward/lateral transport paths are simultaneously achieved by the ultra-wide-angle transport, where liquid fills the lateral path before being transported forward. …”
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Spectral domain optical coherence tomography with extended depth-of-focus by aperture synthesis by Bo, En, Liu, Linbo

“…However, the DOF was proportional to the square of the lateral resolution. Consequently, a trade-off existed between the DOF and lateral resolution, and researchers had to weigh and judge which was more important for their research reasonably. …”
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