The Bifurcation Curves of a Category of Dirichlet Boundary Value Problems by Huizeng Qin, Youmin Lu

“…We prove first that all positive solutions of the first problem are less than or equal to σ, obtain more specific lower and upper bounds for these solutions, and compute a curve in the σK -plane with accuracy up to 10−6, below which the first problem has a unique positive solution and above which it has exactly three positive solutions. …”
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Analysis of Strengthening Mechanism of the Steep Slope Embankment through Centrifugal Model Test by Jie Liu, Bin Wang, Yunlong Sun, Bin Wang

“…In the design of a geogrid, reinforcements should be sparsely arranged in the upper section of the embankment and densely arranged in the lower section. For equally spaced reinforcements, the geogrid should be strengthened in the middle and lower sections of the embankment.…”
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Improved artificial fish-swarm algorithm based on adaptive vision for solving the shortest path problem by Xian-min MA, IUN L

“…To solve basic artificial fish-swarm algorithm(AFSA)’s drawbacks of low convergence rate in the latter stage,a large amount of computation and easiness of trapping in local optimal solution,caused by the constant vision of the artificial fish,an improved artificial fish-swarm algorithm based on adaptive vision(AVAFSA) was proposed.The improved algorithm only adjusted the vision of the preying behavior of artificial fish to make the vision gradually decrease with the increase of the number of iterations of the algorithm.When the value became less than half the initial value,it made the value be equal to half the initial value.The proposed improved artificial fish swarm algorithm was applied to the static shortest path problem based on road network to provide customers with the best path.Simulation results depict the improved algorithm has higher convergence rate,a smaller amount of calculation,and is more accurate and stable than the basic AFSA and ant colony optimization(ACO).…”
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THE SOCIAL IDEAS OF ANTANAS KAUPAS by Valdas Pruskus

“…Kaupas kept to the view that total welfare may only be reached through a close collaboration of various social groups in which all members of society could be assured of equal rights and possibilities to disclose their abilities and initiative. …”
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FraudMiner: A Novel Credit Card Fraud Detection Model Based on Frequent Itemset Mining by K. R. Seeja, Masoumeh Zareapoor

“…In order to handle the anonymous nature of the data, no preference is given to any of the attributes and each attribute is considered equally for finding the patterns. The performance evaluation of the proposed model is done on UCSD Data Mining Contest 2009 Dataset (anonymous and imbalanced) and it is found that the proposed model has very high fraud detection rate, balanced classification rate, Matthews correlation coefficient, and very less false alarm rate than other state-of-the-art classifiers.…”
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Construction method of type-Ⅱ even-length Z-complementary pair with large zero correlation zone width by Xiaoyu CHEN, Lianfeng SUN, Yihan ZHANG

“…The construction method of Type-Ⅱ even-length Z-complementary pair (ZCP) was proposed by using the inter-leaving technique.The basic framework of interleaving structure with Golay complementary pair (GCP) and its mate as the basic sequences was proposed.Furthermore, the necessary conditions were given for the framework in order that the resulting ZCP could have large zero correlation zone (ZCZ) width.The main parameter form of the constructed ZCP was((2k+1)N,(2k+1)N-k)-ZCP, where N was the length of the chosen GCP.Although not all even lengths can be covered, the constructed ZCP has the ZCZ width that can achieve or approach the upper bound of Type-Ⅱ even-length binary ZCP, and has small peak-to-mean envelope power ratio whose value is less than or equal to 4.The resultant sequences can be applied to multi-carrier spread spectrum system to eliminate more asynchronous interference and reduce nonlinear distortion.…”
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Commoning Cosmopolitanism: Solidarity Beyond Capital, Borders, and Sameness by Óscar García Agustín, Martin Bak Jørgensen

“…Approaches to situated and located cosmopolitanism offer the opportunity to think of the formation of a universal community, which demands equality and social justice and is rooted in urban and local practices. …”
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The implication of Brexit on Africa’s regional integration by Chwaro Koosentse, Thabang Motswaledi, Olerato Manyaapelo

“…Because of the diverse and multiple regional organizations, the study utilizes the African Union (AU) as an example to illustrate the impact Brexit will bear on regional institutions and equally impact on individual states’ quest to continue integrating with other states. …”
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Deep reinforcement learning-based resource joint optimization for millimeter-wave massive MIMO systems by LIU Qingli, LI Xiaoyu, LI Rui

“…Experimental results show that the proposed joint optimization method significantly improves the throughput and energy efficiency of the system compared with the single-stage all-digital precoding and hybrid precoding equal resource allocation methods and the particle swarm optimization-based resource allocation algorithm.…”
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Analyzing Black Hole Super-Radiance Emission of Particles/Energy from a Black Hole as a Gedankenexperiment to Get Bounds on the Mass of a Graviton by A. Beckwith

“…Use of super-radiance in BH physics, so dE/dt<0 specifies conditions for a mass of a graviton being less than or equal to 1065 grams, allows for determing what role additional dimensions may play in removing the datum that massive gravitons lead to 3/4th the bending of light past the planet Mercury. …”
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L'environnement socio-spatial comme facteur d'émergence des maladies infectieuses by François Taglioni, Jean-Sébastien Dehecq

“…Although it has been established emergence factors on a regional scale are nevertheless widely related to social-spatial variables, and given equal hazard, the risk is not proportionally more important than in the known most vulnerable countries. …”
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Dimension reduction for maximum matchings and the Fastest Mixing Markov Chain by Jain, Vishesh, Pham, Huy, Vuong, Thuy-Duong

“…. \] Our bound is optimal under the Small Set Expansion Hypothesis, and answers a question of Olesker-Taylor and Zanetti, who obtained such a result with $\log \Delta $ replaced by $\log |V|$.In order to obtain our result, we show how to embed a negative-type semi-metric $d$ defined on $V$ into a negative-type semi-metric $d^{\prime }$ supported in $\mathbb{R}^{O(\log \Delta )}$, such that the (fractional) matching number of the weighted graph $(V,E,d)$ is approximately equal to that of $(V,E,d^{\prime })$.…”
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Pouvoir et légitimité des figures de l’Etat au Chili de 1810 à 1861 by Nathalie Jammet

“…It was also necessary to justify the movement to independence by ending with the colonial spirit. The equality of anyone to the law, which used to be a widespread ideal, motivated a re-organisation of the judicial power. …”
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eHealth platforms as user–data communication: Examining patients’ struggles with digital health data by Mahnke Martina Skrubbeltrang, Nielsen Mikka

“…Third, we investigate how health data affects patients’ experiences of being involved as equal partners and how access to data potentially enhances patient empowerment, but also how expectations are sometimes unfulfilled. …”
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Play and participation in preschool children’s project activities by Joanna Ludwika Pękala, Kamila Wichrowska

“…The implementation of the BRIDGING project in Poland became an opportunity to develop the idea of equal involvement of adults and children. This idea has been disseminated in the local community, firstly among parents, and also among other people involved in the project through activities (including play activities) undertaken during the project. …”
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Smart resetting: An energy-efficient strategy for stochastic search processes by Ofir Tal-Friedman, Tommer D. Keidar, Shlomi Reuveni, Yael Roichman

“…For a diffusing particle, a lower bound exists for the energetic cost of reaching the target, which is attained at low resetting rates and equals the direct linear transportation cost against fluid drag. …”
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Grass Carp, the White Amur: Ctenopharyngodon idella Cuvier and Valenciennes (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae: Squaliobarbinae) by Emma N.I. Weeks, Jeffrey E. Hill

“…Concerns of escape and reproduction, and the potential impacts that colonization of the fish could have on native flora and fauna led to research that developed a non-reproductive fish, which was equally effective in controlling hydrilla. In the warm waters of Florida, with abundant food, grass carp grow quickly at around 2 lbs/month or 0.91 kg/month and may achieve weights of 97 lbs (44 kg). …”
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Formation of Residual Bubbles in Diesel Engine Nozzle and Their Influence on Initial Jet by Xiaonan Ni, Hua Wen

“…The method of combining experiment and numerical simulation was used to study the cavitation and gas backflow phenomena during nozzle off-flow stage and the influence of residual bubbles on the initial jet in the near field. An equal-size optical nozzle based on acrylic material is designed, and the injection process of the fuel nozzle is photographed using high-speed photography technology. …”
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Situating the Russian Advocacy of Traditional Values in the Geopolitical Context by Gökten Doğangün

“…Built on the tripartite of cultural authenticity, sovereignty, and anti-Westernism, the discourse of traditional values conveys the resistance to the imposition of liberal values regarding gender equality and sexual diversity as the constitutive parameters of modernity. …”
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On Simple Graphs Arising from Exponential Congruences by M. Aslam Malik, M. Khalid Mahmood

“…The number of nontrivial self-loops of the graph G(n) has been determined and shown to be equal to ∏i=1r(ϕ(piki)+1). It is shown that the graph G(n) has 2r components. …”
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