When Three Trees Go to War by van Iersel, Leo, Jones, Mark, Weller, Mathias

“…Here, we show that, for k ≥ 3 the answer is at least (3 /2 − ε)n. Concretely, we prove that, for each ε > 0, there is some n ∈ N such that three n-leaf caterpillar trees can be constructed in such a way that any network displaying these caterpillars contains at least (3 /2 − ε)n reticulations. …”
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The effect of loading rate on fracture energy of asphalt mixture at intermediate temperatures and under different loading modes by M.R.M. Aliha, M. Fakhri, E. Haghighat Kharrazi, F. Berto

“…At intermediate service temperatures hot mix asphalt (HMA) concretely are subjected to different loading rates due to movement of vehicles which can significantly affect their mechanical characteristics and final service load. …”
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Automatical sampling with heterogeneous corpora for grammatical error correction by Shichang Zhu, Jianjian Liu, Ying Li, Zhengtao Yu

“…To address this issue, we propose an automatic sampling approach to effectively select high-quality samples from different corpora and filter out irrelevant or harmful ones. Concretely, we first provide a detailed analysis of error type and sentence length distributions on all datasets. …”
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Slurry and Technology Optimization for Grouting Fissures in Earthen Sites with Quicklime by Kai Cui, Fei Feng, Wen-wu Chen, Dong-hua Wang, Xiao-hai Wang

“…The curing age was optimized according to the intensity and tensile and flexural strengths of the concretion. The selected slurry and curing age were then applied to testing traditional grouting technology and optimized grouting technology (i.e., microlime piles in the fissure) in fissure grouting field experiments. …”
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Asymptomatic cholecystitis and its controversial issues in biliary surgery by Sergey Yurievich Muraviev, Evgeniy Alexandrovich Tarabrin, Alexey Leonidovich Shestakov, Irina Alexandrovna Tarasova, Ivan Alexandrovich Markov, Vadim Sergeevich Razumovsky, Anna Victorovna Ananichuk, Andrey Pavlovich Fabrika, Valeria Alexandrovna Stener, Mehrshad Ebrahimnezhad, Denis Vasilievich Orlushin, Anna Nikolaevna Zavyalova

“…That is why most cases of postcholecystectomy syndrome occur in patients operated on for asymptomatic cholecystitis.The unwillingness to discover the secret of stone formation and asymptomatic cholecystitis in humans when concretions in the gallbladder are detected without reference to surgery, to indicate the trajectory of the examination, leads to a number of tactical errors, preserving the risk of PES, and erasing practical recommendations for the management of such patients. …”
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A Multi-Agent Approach to Modeling Task-Oriented Dialog Policy Learning by Songfeng Liang, Kai Xu, Zhurong Dong

“…Therefore, this paper proposes a new multi-agent group collaboration mechanism for dialogue policy learning, named GMPL. Concretely, we employ an Actor-Critic network to implement the proposed model, alternately updating individual dialogue agents to optimize policy selection. …”
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SE-HCL: Schema Enhanced Hybrid Curriculum Learning for Multi-Turn Text-to-SQL by Yiyun Zhang, Sheng'an Zhou, Gengsheng Huang

“…We design a model-agnostic framework named Schema Enhanced Hybrid Curriculum Learning (SE-HCL) for multi-turn Text-to-SQL to help the models gain a full contextual semantic understanding. Concretely, We measure the difficulty of the data from both a structural and model perspective. …”
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The Stylistics of Attār's The Conference of the Birds based on Halliday's Functional Linguistics by Khadijeh Bahrami Rahnama

“…Material processes play a significant role in concretizing the spiritual evolution illustrated in The Conference of the Birds. …”
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Numerical Simulation Research and Application of Support Design of Broken Rock Mass in Submarine Gold Mine by Yu-yun Fan, Ming-wei Jiang, Li Cheng, Xi Wang, Xing-quan Liu, Chunlong Wang, Kexu Chen

“…In order to solve the problem that the broken rock mass is easy to collapse and fall during the excavation of a submarine gold mine, two kinds of bolt-mesh-concreting combined support schemes are designed by means of field engineering geological investigation, indoor rock mechanics test, rock mass quality classification, and theoretical analysis. …”
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Document-level relation extraction via dual attention fusion and dynamic asymmetric loss by Xiaoyao Ding, Dongyan Ding, Gang Zhou, Jicang Lu, Taojie Zhu

“…This paper proposes a novel framework for Document-level RE with two techniques, dual attention fusion and dynamic asymmetric loss. Concretely, to obtain more interdependency feature learning, we construct entity pairs and contextual matrixes using multi-head axial attention and co-attention mechanism to learn the interaction among entity pairs deeply. …”
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Reframing the filter bubble through diverse scale effects in online music consumption by Dougal Shakespeare, Victor Chareyron, Camille Roth

“…In recent years, methods to concretely appraise this debate have taken a comparative turn, with emerging research strands seeking to assess the influence of algorithmic recommendations relative to users’ organic behaviour (i.e. those with a relative lack of algorithmic influence). …”
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Hryhorii Skovoroda's Aphoristics: Structural, Semantic and Stylistic Aspects by Yuliya Kalashnyk

“…The conciseness and, at the same time, the depth of Hryhorii Skovoroda's thinking are demonstrated by aphorisms represented by simple sentences, often complicated by various syntactic elements that concretize the thought, concentrating it around one grammatical center. …”
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Contribution des objets dans le traitement des relations chez le babouin : une question d’entraînement by Anaïs Maugard, Joël Fagot

“…Chez l'homme, le traitement des relations implique l'intégration de plusieurs niveaux d'informations comprenant les éléments concrets (les objets) ainsi que leurs relations. Les études chez l’animal se sont focalisées sur leur capacité à traiter des relations et peu d'attention a été accordée à la contribution des objets dans ce processus ainsi qu’aux facteurs susceptibles d’affecter cette contribution. …”
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Réactions et redressement face au COVID-19 dans des destinations historiques urbaines (étude de cas en Belgique et aux Pays-Bas) by Dominique Vanneste, Vere Van Meeteren, Bart Neuts

“…Cet article s’intéresse à un hiatus potentiel au niveau de la mise en oeuvre, en examinant comment les acteurs locaux ont géré concrètement la pandémie du COVID-19 à la fois dans l’urgence et dans des stratégies de redressement à long terme. …”
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Making Systemic Risk Assessments Work: How the DSA Creates a Virtuous Loop to Address the Societal Harms of Content Moderation by Niklas Eder

“…Conventional reference points for content moderation regulation, such as terms and conditions, contractual freedom, fundamental rights and expertise, do not provide practical and legitimate bases to concretize risk assessment obligations. Public actors, such as the European Commission, should refrain from defining substantive standards, too, as they are directly bound by freedom of expression guarantees. …”
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In Sight of Mont Blanc: an Approach to Ruskin’s Perception of the Mountain by Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

“…A travers quelques exemples concrets d’esquisses et de descriptions de tableaux de Claude ou de Turner, nous verrons comment le regard du critique évolue et produit une vision changeante de la montagne, de simple objet d’étude à véritable métaphore de l’être humain…”
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THE QUALITY OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS IN THE UNIVERSITY THROUGH STUDENTS’ EYES by S. S. Kotova, I. I. Hasanova

“…The conducted research allowed us to concretize the requirements and consumer expectations of educational services, to develop and implement a road map aimed at improving the quality of university education services.…”
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SEMANTIC SYNCRETISM AS A REGULATOR OF DYNAMIC STABILITY IN THE LEXICAL SYSTEM OF A LANGUAGE by Marina Vas. Pimenova

“…The transformation of semantic syncretism through the narrowing-concretization of the syncretic meaning is presented simultaneously with the expansion of its lexical expression with the help of minimal units of the Old Russian text (syncretemes) based on metonymy. …”
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General Theoretical Provisions of Forensic Psychology by O. M. Tsilmak

“…The scientific novelty of the study is that: 1) the author for the first time: a) has defined the content of the objective, subjects of study, the object of study and the subject matter of study of forensic psychology; b) has specified the list of functions of scientific and applied provisions of forensic psychology (gnosiological, interpretative, explanatory, noteworthy, critical, practically applied, communicative, organizational, creative, perceptual, prognostic and synthesizing); and has considered their content; c) has distinguished the sections of forensic psychology (general theoretical provisions of forensic psychology, psychological peculiarities of judicial activity, psychological characteristics of a judge’s personality, psychological characteristics of the participants in court proceedings) in accordance with the directions of the subject of study, and the tasks are specified for each of them; 2) has improved the content of the concept of “forensic psychology”; 3) the principles of scientific and applied provisions of forensic psychology (legality, integrity, complexity, comprehensiveness, objectivity, consistency, systematicity, concreteness, determinism and flexibility) and their content have been further developed. …”
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CONTRADICTION OF FREEDOM AND PARADOXES OF RESPONSIBILITY (ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS) by Z. V. Stezhko, Y. G. Stezhко

“…Berdyaev and others; the basic principles of social philosophy ‑ social determinism, the concreteness of truth, rationality, interconnection and development, the requirements of comprehensiveness and criticism. …”
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