A bad dream come true: ICT patent prosecution against EU competition law by Niccolò Galli

“…Although the data on European ICT patent prosecution reveals a ‘bad dream’ of entry barrier features prone to anti-competitive practices, the article acknowledges the limited scope under the existing jurisprudence for EU competition law intervention to awaken from it. Indeed, the data on the European ICT patent landscape hint at substantial patent prosecution cost and timing, rising patent applications and granted patents owned by a few large ICT undertakings, and rare administrative oppositions, especially between symmetric firms. …”
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Two-dimensional cylinderical bioheat transfer through cloth-insulated human skin by Rouf Gulzar, Mir Aijaz, Javid Gani Dar, Ibrahim M. Almanjahie

“…Monitoring temperature profiles of in vivo tissues under harsh conditions is indeed an interesting problem but the problem becomes challenging when the body is covered by clothes. …”
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Your Clean Graphene is Still Not Clean by Ondrej Dyck, Aisha Okmi, Kai Xiao, Sidong Lei, Andrew R. Lupini, Stephen Jesse

“…Abstract Researchers working with thin samples, such as monolayer graphene, are consistently struggling against contamination. Indeed, the problem of hydrocarbon contamination is known from the earliest days of electron microscopy and efforts to reduce this problem are ubiquitous to almost all high‐vacuum experiments. …”
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L’évolution de l’affirmative action aux États-Unis sous la présidence de George W. Bush by Marie-Christine Pauwels

“…While many affirmative action measures have indeed been scaled back since the Reagan years, new, innovative strategies are emerging today to protect equal opportunity in public contracting, education and employment. …”
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Caffeine as an Active Molecule in Cosmetic Products for Hair Loss: Its Mechanisms of Action in the Context of Hair Physiology and Pathology by Ewelina Szendzielorz, Radoslaw Spiewak

“…Nevertheless, the metabolic activity of caffeine and its ability to enter and accumulate in the hair follicles combined with the results of available clinical trials seem to indicate that caffeine could indeed prove as an effective and safe option in the management of hair loss.…”
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Neoliberal Timescapes of Infrastructuring an Environmental Footprint: Configuring Carbon Emissions as Flexibly Substitutable Placeholders by Ingmar Lippert

“…I show that achieving such stability over time is indeed a critical project because the socio-technical relations of the infrastructure routinely threaten such stability. …”
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Neural network as a mirror of social attitudes: analysis of distortions in generative images by A. G. Tertyshnikova, U. O. Pavlova, M. D. Starovoytova

“…The results of approbation show that the information returned by AI contains social stereotypes, primarily related to gender and age, which means that AI can indeed be used as a tool for studying social stereotypes. …”
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Combined Nonlinear Analysis of Atrial and Ventricular Series for Automated Screening of Atrial Fibrillation by Juan Ródenas, Manuel García, Raúl Alcaraz, José J. Rieta

“…Finally, the combination of this algorithm with the classical analysis of RR series variability also yielded a promising trade-off between AF accuracy and detection delay. Indeed, this combination provided similar accuracy than RR-based methods, but with a significantly shorter delay of 10 beats.…”
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Cooperative learning in Initial Teacher Education: student experiences by Leah O’Toole

“…This often means that, drawing on their ‘apprenticeship of observation’ (Lortie 1975, 2002), student teachers tend not to use such approaches with children (Bąbka 2012), perhaps due to low self-efficacy beliefs about implementing group work in classrooms (Ruys et al. ibid) and so the ‘social pedagogic potential’ of classroom and indeed university-based learning is therefore unrealised (Blatchford et al. 2003). …”
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L’apprentissage autorégulé : quand la métacognition orchestre motivation, volition et cognition by Mireille Houart

“…This model aims to help teachers and trainers guide students in their autonomous learning. Indeed, this model should allow the education stakeholders to mobilize the knowledge acquired about these different concepts, to identify in which part of the learning process the students’ difficulties lie and then to support them in a targeted way towards more autonomous learning.Including metacognition in a model of self-regulated learning preserves the essential components of metacognition in order to design pedagogical actions : metacognitive strategies, metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive experiences.Integrating volition into our model offers the advantage of allowing teachers to take account of a difficulty encountered by a majority of students at present (starting work and remaining focused), and therefore helping them to act pedagogically.Our objective here is to describe this model in theory and in practice. …”
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« La propagande soviétique de 1917 à 1991 : paix et désarmement au service de l’idéologie ? » by Jacques Le Bourgeois

“…But without resorting to a shortcut that is furthermore fallacious, we find it interesting to show, thanks to posters of Soviet propaganda and in the light of the historical context, from 1917 to 1991, how the set of themes was instrumentalized, while being at the same time the very essence of a doctrine which presented millenarian aspects. Indeed, the Soviet Peace is not basically of the same nature as the capitalist peace. …”
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Large-scale database analysis of anomalous thermal conductivity of quasicrystals and its application to thermal diodes by Takashi Kurono, Jinjia Zhang, Yasushi Kamimura, Keiichi Edagawa

“…Here, we show that this is indeed a very distinct property of quasicrystals through analysis using a large physical property database ‘Starrydata’. …”
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Quantum Computation via Multiport Discretized Quantum Fourier Optical Processors by Mohammad Rezai, Jawad A. Salehi

“…The light's image is the primary source of information carrier in nature. Indeed, a single photon's image possesses a vast information capacity that can be harnessed for quantum information processing. …”
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Development of animal models to study aggressive thyroid cancers by Shovan Dutta, Jeffrey A Knauf

“…Recent studies exploring the genomic landscape of advanced thyroid cancer have identified several cooperating mutations, which are secondary genetic alterations that work alongside driver mutations to promote thyroid tumor progression. Indeed, mice with a combination of oncogenic drivers and common cooperating alterations have been developed, demonstrating that these alterations function in conjunction with the oncogenic driver to promote the progression to advanced thyroid cancer. …”
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Implementation of International Norms in Russia: The Case of Higher Education by A. Crowley-Vigneau, A. A. Baykov, Ye. Kalyuzhnova

“…Attempts to levy the advantages of both systems have had opposite results. Indeed, the risks of sudden change are multifold: the sudden “catch-up” mode leads to resistance and to a decline in the overall quality of education in those universities lacking the institutions to support the fast tempo of change. …”
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Deep-Learning-Based Method for the Identification of Typical Crops Using Dual-Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar and High-Resolution Optical Images by Xiaoshuang Ma, Le Li, Yinglei Wu

“…Experimental results also support the conclusion that using multiple features from multi-source data can indeed improve the performance of the network.…”
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The politics of gating (A response to Private Security and Public Space by Manzi and Smith-Bowers) by Rowland Atkinson

“…Critically then the risk is that ignoring the political and normative aspects of gating, as I believe Manzi and Smith-Bowers do, may lead to further and deeper socio-spatial segregation that itself excludes the voice of social groups least able to challenge or, indeed, reside in gated developments and the additional security that they appear to offer. …”
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Measuring Migration Status Based on the Place of Marriage Overestimates the Share of Male Migrants in Historical Populations. Evidence From Dutch Marriage Certificates by Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, Paul Puschmann

“…The analyses show that identifying migrants based on place of marriage causes indeed a significant overestimation of male migrants, but not of female migrants. …”
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Social communication networks and videoconferencing by Ian Saunderson, Gideon de Wet

“…However, communication management strategies are indeed required to ensure that the quality of information disseminated over the social network contributes to sound managerial outcomes. …”
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Probiotics for the Control of Parasites: An Overview by Marie-Agnès Travers, Isabelle Florent, Linda Kohl, Philippe Grellier

“…These studies indicate that probiotics might indeed provide a strain-specific protection against parasites, probably through multiple mechanisms. …”
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