Motion Smoothness Analysis of the Gait Cycle, Segmented by Stride and Associated with the Inertial Sensors’ Locations by Leonardo Eliu Anaya-Campos, Luis Pastor Sánchez-Fernández, Ivett Quiñones-Urióstegui

“…First, it identifies gait events: foot-strike (FS) and foot-off (FO). Second, it segments the signals of linear acceleration and angular velocities obtained from the IMUs at four locations into steps and strides. …”
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The temporal structure of multiple visuomotor processes in baseball batting: insights from a virtual reality system by Naoki Saijo, Takehiro Fukuda, Makio Kashino

“…Baseball batting is an inherently complex visuomotor task that requires the rapid processing of multiple cognitive-motor computations within a split second. The key components of these computations include the sense of timing, swing decision-making, and swing adjustment. …”
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USSR in World War II by M. Yu. Myagkov

“…The signing of the Pact was preceded by the failure in August 1939 of the negotiations between the military mis­sions of Britain, France and the USSR, although Moscow took the Anglo-French-Soviet nego­tiations with all seriousness.The huge losses of the USSR in the summer of 1941 are explained by the following circum­stances: before the war, a large-scale modernization of the Red Army was launched, a gradu­ate of a military school did not have sufficient experience in managing an entrusted unit by June 22, 1941; the Red Army was going to bleed the enemy in border battles, stop it with short counterattacks by covering units, carry out defensive operations, and then strike a de­cisive blow into the depths of the enemy's territory, so the importance of a multi-echeloned long-term defense in 1941 was underestimated by the command of the Red Army and it was not ready for it; significant groupings of the Western Special Military District were drawn into potential salients, which was used by the Germans at the initial stage of the war; Stalin's fear of provoking Hitler to start a war led to slowness in making the most urgent and necessary decisions to bring troops to combat readiness.The Allies delayed the opening of the second front for an unreasonably long time. …”
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New Insights on the Seismic Activity of Ostuni (Apulia Region, Southern Italy) Offshore by Pierpaolo Pierri, Marilena Filippucci, Vincenzo Del Gaudio, Andrea Tallarico, Nicola Venisti, Vincenzo Festa

“…A seismogenic source was identified in the rupture of a small portion of a 40 km length structure with strike NW-SE, dipping at a high angle toward the south. …”
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Evaluation of combat effectiveness of unmanned aerial vehicle group in uncertain situations by SUN Pengyao, HUANG Yanyan, WANG Kaisheng, WU Kui

“…Firstly, analyze the operational process of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) reconnaissance and strike missions from the perspective of closed-loop combat environment. …”
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Capital structure, profitability, and short-term solvency of nascent SMEs in Ghana: An empirical study by Karikari Amoa-Gyarteng, Shepherd Dhliwayo

“…Thus, it is crucial for small business owners in Ghana to strike a balance between short-term solvency and return on assets by engaging in prudent financial management practices. …”
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Problems of legal guarantees of workers’ rights in the field of working time, rest time and wages in the conditions of martial law by I. V. Nazarenko, K. Yu. Melnyk

“…This is, firstly, the application of disciplinary and material responsibility to persons who have violated the rights of employees, secondly, the announcement and conduct of a strike by employees to protect their rights in the resolution of a collective labor dispute, thirdly, the protection of the rights of employees by specific defenders – trade unions. …”
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Migration in the Swiss Alps and Swiss Jura from the Middle Ages to the mid-20th century: a brief review by Anne-Lise Head-König

“…In addition to these factors one can observe the role played by political institutions throughout the period under study: seigneurial power in the Middle Ages, the communal and cantonal instances until the second half of the nineteenth century, and afterwards the federal authorities.…”
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The malaria parasite PP1 phosphatase controls the initiation of the egress pathway of asexual blood-stages by regulating the rounding-up of the vacuole. by Marie Seveno, Manon N Loubens, Laurence Berry, Arnault Graindorge, Maryse Lebrun, Catherine Lavazec, Mauld H Lamarque

“…Second, we demonstrate that PP1 also regulates the rounding-up of the parasitophorous vacuole, as this step is almost completely abolished in PfPP1-null schizonts. …”
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Les migrations dans les mondes alpin et jurassien suisses du Moyen Age au milieu du XXe siècle : un bref survol by Anne-Lise Head-König

“…In addition to these factors one can observe the role played by political institutions throughout the period under study: seigneurial power in the Middle Ages, the communal and cantonal instances until the second half of the nineteenth century, and afterwards the federal authorities.…”
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A Principle Component Analysis of Galaxy Properties from a Large, Gas-Selected Sample by Yu-Yen Chang, Rikon Chao, Wei-Hao Wang, Pisin Chen

“…Disney et al. (2008) have found a striking correlation among global parameters of Hi-selected galaxies and concluded that this is in conflict with the CDM model. …”
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Sacralization of Peace by the Choice of Dates for Conclusion of International Treaties within Westphalian System by L. I. Ivonina

“…The first is signing a peace treaty on Saturday, Sunday, or a Christian holiday. The most striking example of this option is the signing of the Peace of Westphalia itself (treaties in Münster and Osnabrück on October 24, 1648), on Saturday the day before the second Sunday after Trinity. …”
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Call for Papers: Constitutions and Intergenerational Justice by IF and FRFG

“…From 2016, there will be two editions of the IGJR annually. The topic of the second 2016 edition will be:   “Constitutions and Intergenerational Justice”   We welcome submissions for this issue of the Intergenerational Justice Review that address the tension between constitutions and intergenerational justice, and how that tension can be resolved. …”
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Méthode et raison dans De la conduite de l’entendement de Locke by Alain Firode

“…Another striking feature comes in the formative role played in this process of access to rationality by the progressive acquisition of habits and mental automatisms which involve cerebral mechanisms of a corporeal nature. …”
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Research on entity recognition and alignment of APT attack based on Bert and BiLSTM-CRF by Xiuzhang YANG, Guojun PENG, Zichuan LI, Yangqi LYU, Side LIU, Chenguang LI

“…Then, lowercase conversion, data cleaning, and data annotation are performed on the corpus through the preprocessing layer, and the preprocessed APT text sequence is represented as a vector. Secondly, the Bert model is built to pre-train the annotated corpus, encode each word, and generate the corresponding word vector. …”
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Chinese Economic Diplomacy before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic by E. I. Safronova

“…The first section outlines the main features of the PRC’s economic diplomacy. The second section focuses on the key areas and specific mechanisms of the so-called incentive economic diplomacy. …”
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The Pro-Boer Representation of War and the Origins of New Liberalism by Françoise Orazi

“…When the (second) Boer war began in 1899, it was greeted in Britain by the usual bellicose enthusiasm—itself fuelled by the widespread feeling of British superiority. …”
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Clinical Application of Standardized Cognitive Assessment Using fMRI. II. Verbal Fluency by Mark D. Allen, Alina K. Fong

“…These analyses reveal striking correspondences between the deficits present in this patient on cognitive performance tests and the equally selective patterns of deviation present in his fMRI data.…”
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Politics, Incarceration, and Innocence in Harold Pinter’s One for the Road and Melih Cevdet Anday’s İçerdekiler by Murathan Gündoğdu

“…Influenced by different turning points in Turkish political history, both plays exhibit striking resemblances in depicting political oppression which includes physical and psychological torture, and the reality of incarceration that is experienced by innocent individuals who merely use their freedom of opinion and speech. …”
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Trends in Mortality from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Alberta: Back to the Future? by Tee L Guidotti

“…Trends in mortality from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Alberta over 60 years, from 1927 to 1987, for ages 15 and above or both sexes, were examined. There was a striking decline in mortality among older adults in the 1930s and 1940s. a nadir that lasted almost 10 years in the 1950s, and a striking increase thereafter. …”
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