Aspects of the Biology and Culture of the Butterfly Fish, <i>Pantodon buchholzi</i>; A Potential Aquarium Fish in Nigeria by A.T. Ibim, J.O. Ike

“…The adults are carnivorous, surface hunters, while the juveniles are passive insectivores that prefer live foods, but can be lured into eating fish feed over time. …”
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AXIAL CRUSHING ENERGY ABSORPTION CAPACITY OF ALUMINUM ALLOY THIN-WALLED MULTI-CORNER TUBES by SUN HongTu, WANG Jian, SHEN GuoZhe, HU Ping

“…The high axial crushing energy absorption capacity of the multi-corner tubes prefers increasing the corner number and corner size of adjacent sides at the same time.…”
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Exploring Route Choice Behaviours Accommodating Stochastic Choice Set Generations by Shin-Hyung Cho, Seung-Young Kho

“…The different behaviours concerning the chosen routes are analysed to interpret the route choice behaviour from revealed preference data by comparing the different coefficients’ magnitude. …”
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Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease in Diabetes Mellitus Patients by Amanj Kamal Mohammed

“…There are many lines in the treatment of coronary artery disease, starting from medical therapy, percutaneous coronary intervention, and coronary artery bypass graft surgery, preference of the choice of the type of the treatment depends on many factors. …”
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HOUSING ECONOMY: USE OF INTERLOCKING MASONRY FOR LOW-COST STUDENT HOUSING IN NIGERIA by Y.M.D AYODEJI

“…Analysis of results revealed the following: a high preference of professionals for the use of interlocking masonry over the conventional methods; faster construction time; labour and material cost savings with interlocking blocks. …”
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Offshoring Location Decision in Fuzzy Environment by Mehmet Şahin

“…A Fuzzy-AHP (analytical hierarchy process) integrated with the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS), additive ratio assessment (ARAS), elimination et choix traduisant la realité (ELECTRE), and weighted sum method (WSM) methodology is proposed for the appraisal and selection of the optimal offshoring location. …”
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Prognostic Value of Surgical Resection for Non-small-cell Lung Cancer Patients Comorbid With Minimal Pleural Effusion by Haibo Wang MD, Tao Lu MD, Xinlong Zheng MD, Kan Jiang MD, Longfeng Zhang MD, Xiaobin Zheng MD, Qian Miao MD, Shiwen Wu MD, Zihua Zou PhD, Shanshan Yang, Yujing Li, Sihui Chen, Yiquan Xu PhD, Gen Lin PhD

“…Conclusion Malignant PE is rare in operable NSCLC patients who report the presence of minimal PE but no distant metastasis or direct pleural invasion on preoperative imaging. Surgery may be the preferred treatment for these patients.…”
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Aspects of the Biology and Culture of the Butterfly Fish, <i>Pantodon buchholzi</i>; A Potential Aquarium Fish in Nigeria by A.T. Ibim, J.O. Ike

“…The adults are carnivorous, surface hunters, while the juveniles are passive insectivores that prefer live foods, but can be lured into eating fish feed over time. …”
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THE LEVEL OF USING PAYMENT INSTRUMENTS IN THE TRANSFER OF DIGITAL CURRENCY by Nicoleta PANAIT, Mădălina RĂDOI

“…Recently, especially after the pandemic, there has been a major change in the way people make payments, indicating a clear preference for electronic means, to the detriment of cash. …”
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Acute effects of bout duration in small-sided games on physiological and kinematic responses by Osman Yılmaz

“…Therefore, coaches may prefer short bout matches in SSGs to significantly increase the training load and successfully pass technical performance.…”
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Expert Opinion on Fixed Dose Combination of Dapagliflozin Plus Sitagliptin for Unmet Cardiovascular Benefits in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Soumitra Ray, J Ezhilan, Rajiv Karnik, Ashish Prasad, Rajashree Dhar

“…Based on CV risk, including HF, the combination of SGLT2i and DPP4i may be preferred over other conventional therapies (those with no CV benefit) in cases of established CV disease and/or HF risk. …”
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4-H Pizza Garden: An Agricultural Adventure by Janet Golden, Joy Jordan, Nan Jensen, Betty Lipe, Millie Ferrer-Chancy, Anne Fugate, Erin Karkheck, Linda Bobroff, Karla Shelnutt, Tracy Tesdall

“…According to a recent Gallup poll, kids between the ages of 3 and 11 prefer pizza to all other foods for lunch and dinner. …”
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Generation Algorithm of a Novel Platform Attached Support Structure for FDM-Fused Deposition Modeling by Ning Lv, Yunxu Li, Yujing Qiao

“…The Brim is a special skirt and is usually the preferred starting layer for the printing process. …”
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Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Regimens and Duration for Intracranial Stenting Procedures: Literature Review by Milda Paliulytė, Gytis Šustickas

“…A comprehensive literature search of PubMed, BioMed Central, BMJ Journals, EBSCO Publishing, SAGE Journals Online, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink was conducted by two independent readers (MP, GŠ) for studies published from January 2017 to April 2023. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines were followed. 23 studies: 6 retrospective cohort, 11 retrospective case-control, 1 prospective cohort, 1 prospective randomized-control, 1 systemic literature review, 3 metanalysis observational studies were identified. …”
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Protecting H.264/AVC Data-Partitioned Video Streams over Broadband WiMAX by Laith Al-Jobouri, Martin Fleury, Mohammed Ghanbari

“…The paper determines whether equal error protection (EEP) through FEC of all partition types or unequal error protection (UEP) of the more important partition type is preferable. The paper finds that, though UEP offers a small reduction in bitrate, if EEP is employed, there are significant gains (several dBs) in video quality. …”
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More than Mounts the Eye: Coleridge, Byron, De Quincey by Marc Porée

“…Thomas De Quincey fait le cheminement inverse dans Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets (1838-1840), lorsqu’il affirme que ces "humbles montagnes", peuplées de montagnards humbles mais d’une grande force morale, bien qu’ayant la préférence de Wordsworth, méritent toute l’attention critique possible.Les deux parties devraient converger autour de la question suivante: pourquoi les romantiques de la première génération ont-ils dû de façon répétée repousser les accusations de modération et d’esprit de clocher, quand il n’était que trop évident de voir que le rang éminent de leurs productions dépassait de loin la prétendue "humilité" de leur cadre indigène ?…”
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Charging pile recommendation method for idle electric taxis based on recurrent neural network by Jian JIA, Linfeng LIU, Jiagao WU

“…A charging pile recommendation method for idle electric taxis (CPRM-IET) based on recursive neural network was proposed to recommend the optimal charging piles for idle electric taxis.Usually,the movement of each idle electric taxi depends on the subconscious movement tendency and driving habits of the driver.Therefore,it is necessary to predict the future movement based on its historical movement trajectories,so as to find the charging piles with the least extra movements.In CPRM-IET,a dual-stage attention-based recurrent neural network (DA-RNN) model was provided to predict the future trajectories of electric taxis.DA-RNN model includes two types of attention mechanisms which are input attention mechanism and temporal attention mechanism.The input attention mechanism assigns different weights to the input driving sequence at each time slot,and the temporal attention mechanism assigns weights to the hidden state of the encoder.Based on the predicted future trajectories,several charging piles with the least extra movements were selected and recommended for the idle electric taxis.The simulation results show that CPRM-IET can achieve preferable results in terms of charging extra movement and root mean square error,which reflects that CPRM-IET can accurately predict the future trajectories of idle electric taxis and recommend optimal charging piles for these electric taxis.…”
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Preorder of Factors Affecting Oil Prices: Fuzzy PROMETHEE Approach by Lazim Abdullah, Nurhatika Harun, Shalela Mohd Mahali, Naeem Jan, Ewa Rak

“…Thus, this paper attempts to explore the factors that might have contributed to oil prices and analyze them using the fuzzy preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluation (PROMETHEE) method. …”
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How Architecture Builds Intelligence: Lessons from AI by Nikos A. Salingaros

“…Dominant architectural culture prefers minimalist environments that contradict the information setting needed for the infant brain to develop. …”
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A grounded theory based kano model to develop age-friendly housing retrofit strategies for older people in China by Erxin Tu, Ying Zhou

“…China’s aging population is rapidly growing, with home-based care becoming the preferred choice for many older adults. Age-friendly housing (AFH) is a key measure to improve their quality of life, yet a systematic decision-making framework remains lacking. …”
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