The Contours of Locke’s General Substance Dualism by Graham Clay

“…Nonetheless, I show that minimal commitments about Locke’s primary/secondary quality distinction are sufficient to derive some substantive conclusions about his positions on these issues, as well as that he is a general substance dualist.…”
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Research on energy management of multi-user mobile edge computing offloading by Luyao WANG, Wenqian ZHANG, Guanglin ZHANG

“…In mobile edge computing system,the quality of computing experience can be improved greatly by offloading computing tasks from mobile devices to mobile edge computing servers.Consider incorporating renewable energy into a multi-user mobile edge system.Moreover,a battery as an energy harvesting device was added to the model to harvest energy and storage.The task allocation strategy in mobile edge computing system was formulated through the resource management algorithm based on reinforcement learning,which achieved the cost minimization of mobile devices (including delay cost and computing cost).The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm significantly minimizes the cost of mobile devices compared with other algorithms.…”
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À propos de quelques angles morts de la théorie politique environnementale. Approche critique à la lumière de la pensée de Günther Anders by Bruno Villalba

“…However, this theoretical proposal minimizes some of the consequences of its own findings, by formulating spatial and temporal contradictions and reconstructing artificial separations between constraints. …”
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Optimal Stroke Path for Reciprocating Heat Engines by Mahmoud Huleihil

“…By testing piston motion in reciprocating heat engines as a control variable, one could find piston trajectories, different from the conventional near sinusoidal motion that should increase power production. This results from minimizing frictional losses. The purpose of this study is to determine piston trajectories that are optimal for noncombustion strokes in reciprocating engines, in the sense of minimizing frictional dissipation and hence maximizing efficiency and power. …”
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Collider tests of nanohertz gravitational waves by Li Shao-Ping

“…We present an MeV-scale first-order phase transition from a minimal dark sector to explain the gravitational waves, with a focus on the collider tests via the Higgs portal interaction. …”
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Large Conization and Laparoendoscopic Single-Port Pelvic Lymphadenectomy in Early-Stage Cervical Cancer for Fertility Preservation by Polat Dursun, Mete Caglar, Huseyin Akilli, Ali Ayhan

“…Incorporation of single-port laparoscopy into the minimally invasive fertility sparing management of the cervical cancer will improve patients outcome with less complications and better cosmesis. …”
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3D bioprinting lobule-like hepatorganoids with induced vascularization for orthotopic implantation by Jianing Yan, Zhichao Ye, Yiwei Lu, Yuyang Yuan, Xiaofeng Wang, Tingting Yan, Jun Yin, Yifan Wang

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CCD Standard Curve Fitting for Microarray Detection Base on Multi-Layer Perceptron by Zhenhua Gan, Dongyu He, Peishu Wu, Baoping Xiong, Nianyin Zeng, Fumin Zou, Feng Guo, Qin Bao, Fengyan Zhao

“…In our experiments we compared the MLP neural network with relative error minimization as the constraint with the LSA and the MLP neural network with sum of square errors (SSE) minimization as the constraint. …”
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Tapinarof cream 1% once daily was well tolerated in adults and children with atopic dermatitis in two phase 3 randomized trials by Linda Stein Gold, James Del Rosso, Benjamin D. Ehst, Matthew J. Zirwas, Lawrence J. Green, Philip M. Brown, David S. Rubenstein, Stephen C. Piscitelli, Anna M. Tallman

“…Mean pretreatment baseline overall LTS scores were similar across groups and trials: 1.0–1.9 (patient-assessed) indicating slight burning/stinging and itching; and 0.3–0.6 (investigator-assessed) indicating no-to-minimal irritation. Tapinarof was well tolerated with improvement from pretreatment baseline and no-to-minimal burning/stinging and itching from first application through Week 8 (patient-reported): mean Week 8 LTS scores were 0.2–0.4 (burning/stinging) and 0.6–0.8 (itching). …”
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Beneficial Effects of <i>In Vitro</i> Reconstructed Human Gut Microbiota by Ginseng Extract Fermentation on Intestinal Cell Lines by Margherita Finazzi, Federica Bovio, Matilde Forcella, Marina Lasagni, Paola Fusi, Patrizia Di Gennaro

“…<i>lactis</i> among the probiotics, while <i>B. cellulosilyticus</i> prevails over the other strains in the minimal core condition. In the presence of both probiotics and minimal core strains, <i>L. plantarum</i>, <i>B. animalis</i> subsp. …”
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Percutaneous cryoablation of kidney tumors after partial nephrectomy by Wojciech Krajewski, Maciej Guziński, Wojciech Tomczak, Łukasz Nowak, Jan Łaszkiewicz, Joanna Chorbińska, Adam Chełmoński, Katarzyna Grunwald, Bartosz Małkiewicz, Tomasz Szydełko

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Optimization of distributed control discrete systems under the quadratic quality criterion by Nijolė Janušauskaitė

“… The quadratic functional minimization problem was analysed. The motion trajectory was assumed to be discrete, the optimal control feedback was obtained. …”
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Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy with In-Bag Morcellation in Very Large Uterus by Harald Krentel, Rudy Leon De Wilde

“…Laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy (LASH) is a safe and fast minimally invasive approach in hysterectomy. In order to extract the uterine body from the abdominal cavity, one condition for LASH is the morcellation of the tissue. …”
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Contour Detection and Completion for Inpainting and Segmentation Based on Topological Gradient and Fast Marching Algorithms by Didier Auroux, Laurent D. Cohen, Mohamed Masmoudi

“…We combine in this paper the topological gradient, which is a powerful method for edge detection in image processing, and a variant of the minimal path method in order to find connected contours. …”
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Large-scale resource state monitoring strategy in network function virtualization environment by Meisheng HAI, Peng YI, Yiming JIANG, Jichao XIE

“…In order to improve the utilization of the infrastructure resource and efficiently deploy the service function chain dynamically in network function virtualization,the orchestration management domain needs to monitor the network resources and virtual network function status in real time,but real-time monitoring will bring large communication overhead.An intelligent distributed monitoring strategy with minimal network communication overhead was proposed.The improved label propagation algorithm intelligently subnets and selects agent monitoring nodes to achieve efficient monitoring of resource and virtual function status and minimize monitoring information communication overhead.The simulation results show that the monitoring strategy proposed reduces the monitoring information communication overhead in the network by about 13%.…”
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In Vitro Activities of Sparfloxacin, Ceftriaxone, Penicillin, Tetracycline and Doxycycline against Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonhorrhoeae by Hazel Talbot, Barbara Romanowski

“…In vitro sparfloxacin was highly active against 223 penicillin-susceptible isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae with a 90% minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC90) of 0.004 μg/mL. …”
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CSP-based resource allocation model and algorithms for energy-efficient cloud computing by Wei-wei LIN, Bo LIU, Liang-chang ZHU, De-yu QI

“…The resource allocation for energy-efficient cloud computing in a heterogeneous environment was modeled as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP).By solving the constraint satisfaction problem,the optimized allocation scheme minimizing energy consumption in virtualized cloud data centers was obtained.Based on the optimized allocation scheme,an energy-efficient resource allocation algorithm,dynamicpower (DY),which takes into account the heterogene-ity of resources,was proposed.The performance of algorithm was evaluated using Choco.Experimental results show that,compared with first-fit decreasing (FFD),best-fit decreasing (BFD) and minimizing the number of physical machines (MinPM),the proposed algorithm (DY) has less energy consumption.…”
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Management of Impacted and Inverted Mesiodens - A Report of Two Cases by Vabitha Shetty, Rajmohan Y. Shetty, Deepshikha Mehrotra, Amina Usman, Nagashree Prabhu

“…This article describes two cases involving the surgical extraction of inverted and impacted mesiodens by using a minimally invasive surgical approach in children. Early extraction of supernumeraries can offer the advantage of minimizing loss of eruptive potential, space loss, and midline displacement. …”
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Percutaneous Trapeziometacarpal Arthrodesis in Thumb Carpometacarpal Joint Arthritis: A New Surgical Approach by D. Mifsut-Miedes, J. R. Rodríguez-Collell, A. Valverde-Navarro, E. M. González-Soler

“…This article provides a description of this minimally invasive technique performed on a seventy-year-old woman with rhizarthrosis and an anatomical description of the approach in a human cadaver.…”
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Solving Constrained Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem through Multistage Fuzzy Binding Approach with Fuzzy Due Dates by Hamiden Abd El-Wahed Khalifa, Sultan S. Alodhaibi, Pavan Kumar

“…The suggested method leads a noncrossing optimal sequence to the considered problem and minimizes the total elapsed time under fuzziness. The proposed approach helps the decision maker to search for applicable solution related to real-world problems and minimizes the total fuzzy elapsed time. …”
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