Using the Hopfield– Fuzzy C Means Algorithm for Clustering of People based on Food Insecurity and Obesity in the Northwest of Iran by Helda Tutunchi, Alireza Ostadrahimi, Soltanali Mahboob, Reza Mahdavi, SIROUS J Tabrizi

“…Finally, it tests the validity of the suggested model with comparing by other models (Hopfield–K-Means, K-Means, and fuzzy C Means). …”
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Reflexões sobre as incidências tributárias no Brasil e suas relações com o desenvolvimento socioeconômico nacional by Luciano Henrique Fialho Botelho, Luíz Antônio Abrantes

“…The analysis of the current legislation with comparative effect in several published works on the subject was promoted. …”
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Historical aspects and modern surgical approach of patients with anal sphincter incompetence by C. A. Frolov, A. Yu. Titov, N. N. Poletov, I. S. Anosov

“…The variety of surgical methods used in global practice reflects absence of clear concept of preferable and most effective surgical intervention.Results. …”
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Diaspora and Syncretism: Marriage Rites in Yorùbá Homeland and Abroad by Olanike Lawore

“…This essay therefore engages in a comparative exercise, identifying marital rites in the diaspora that have maintained close ties with homeland and those that have diverged from them. …”
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Modern Possibilities of Using Acotiamide in the Treatment of Functional Dyspepsia by A. A. Sheptulin, Yu. S. Rabotyagova

“…The conducted studies have confirmed the higher efficacy of acotiamide compared to placebo in reducing the severity of such symptoms of functional dyspepsia as a feeling of epigastric postprandial fullness and bloating, early satiation. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL MANUFACTURE OF THE FOAM GLASS GRAVEL FROM GLASS WASTE AND SILICON CARBIDE ON A 10 kW-MICROWAVE OVEN by LUCIAN PAUNESCU, SORIN MIRCEA AXINTE, FELICIA COSMULESCU

“…The paper originality is the significant increase (about 8 times) of the amount of glass-based raw material foamed by the unconventional heating compared to the previous experiments. The main features of the FGG experimental samples were: bulk density between 0.26-0.31 g·cm-3, compressive strength between 8.5-9.7 MPa and thermal conductivity between 0.068-0.077 W/mK, suitable for their use as thermal insulation material in several applications in construction. …”
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Filtration of Submicron Soot Particles, Oil Droplets, and their Mixtures on Single- and Multi-layer Fibrous Filters by Mateusz Kamiński, Jakub M. Gac, Piotr Sobiech, Paweł Kozikowski, Szymon Jakubiak, Tomasz Jankowski

“…Abstract The dynamics of filtration efficiency and pressure drop during the simultaneous filtration of soot and oil aerosols on single- and multi-layer filters were investigated, and the determined filtration efficiency was compared with the theoretical efficiency obtained via the classical filtration theory. …”
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LOW-CEMENT DOSAGE REFRACTORY CONCRETE WITH LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY by LUCIAN PAUNESCU, ENIKO VOLCEANOV, BOGDAN-VALENTIN PAUNESCU, IOANA MONICA SURUGIU

“…The aim of the research was achieving a super-aluminous concrete with low-cement dosage, which would have acceptable thermal insulation properties, so that the heat loss through this refractory lining layer would be significantly reduced compared to the reference situation. …”
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BUCKLING OF BEAMS WITH A BOUNDARY ELEMENT TECHNIQUE by ABDERRAZEK MESSAOUDI, LASZLO PETER KISS

“…Within this article, the critical load findings of these beams are compared to those obtained using commercial finite element software, and the results are in excellent correlation. …”
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Effects of disposable pull-through brush types for reprocessing of flexible endoscopes in clinical environment by Remus O. Anders, Adriana M. Airo, Eve Capistran, Anita Chin, Garry Bassi, Tony Mazzulli

“…Summary: Evaluating the effectiveness of different brush types used during the cleaning and reprocessing of flexible endoscopes is challenging. This study compared the yield of microbial growth from endoscopes that had been used clinically before and after cleaning with different brush types (bristle, squeegee, and hybrid). …”
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Student Adaptation to Digital Assessment in Online Learning by Daniel Domínguez, Inés Gil-Jaurena

“…The survey asked about students' experiences and opinions about online exams and their requirements. By comparing data from the two groups of students, we found significant changes in perceptions as students gained more experience with online exams. …”
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RETRACTED: Modelling demand response in smart microgrid with techno and economic objective functions and improvement of network efficiency by Wang Xuan, Zhang Xiaofeng, Zhou Feng, Xu Xiang, Allathadka H.P.

“…Every submitted manuscript to STET is compared to published papers in order to detect similarities. …”
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Ultra high energy cosmic rays versus models of high energy hadronic interactions by Blaž Bortolato, Jernej F. Kamenik, Michele Tammaro

“…Abstract We evaluate the consistency of hadronic interaction models in the CORSIKA simulation package with publicly available fluorescence telescope data from the Pierre Auger Observatory. By comparing the first few central moments of the extensive air shower depth maximum distributions, as extracted from measured events, to those predicted by the best-fit inferred compositions, we derive a statistical measure of the consistency of a given hadronic model with data. …”
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THE USAGE OF DERIVATIVES IN FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT BY COMPANIES IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Emira Kozarević, Izudin Kešetović, Meldina Kokorović Jukan, Beriz Čivić

“…The aim is to provide a comparative analysis with companies from Slovenia and Croatia in order to determine if companies in BiH use the hedging instruments appropriately, and to suggest possible improvements of their practices for managing financial risks. …”
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Leek Cultivation Guide for Florida by Mary Dixon, Guodong Liu

“…Although there is great potential for leek to be grown commercially in Florida due to demand and appropriate climatic conditions, the United States does not currently produce a significant quantity of leek compared to countries such as Indonesia, Turkey, and China. …”
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Wave turbulence: a solvable problem applied to the Navier–Stokes equations by Galtier, Sébastien

“…Basically, the wave amplitude is introduced in a multiple time scale method as a small parameter to derive the so-called kinetic equations from which exact results can be obtained (power-law spectra, direction of the cascade, Kolmogorov’s constant) and compared with the data. Two hydrodynamic applications are considered with capillary waves and inertial waves, the first leading to isotropic turbulence and the second to anisotropic turbulence.…”
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Public sector corruption in South Asia: focusing on institutional factors with a two-step fsQCA by Jinwon Han, Chanwahn Kim

“…Using a two-step fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), this paper identifies several causal combinations of political and economic institutions that contribute to higher levels of public sector corruption in South Asia. …”
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Employee Turnover and Organizational Performance: a Study of the Brazilian Retail Sector by Luciana Carvalho de Mesquita Ferreira, Ciro Barbosa de Aquino Almeida

“…To achieve this aim, we used data from a single company with several comparable branches and tested whether stores with lower employee turnover have better financial and organizational results (sales and workplace accidents, respectively). …”
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Os males do Brasil são: a doença como elemento distintivo da condição de ser brasileiro by Ermelinda Maria Araújo Ferreira

“…This essay was born of the intention to compare the data collections on the empirical-traditional medicine in Portugal and Brazil, on the initiative of Michel Giacometti, naturalized Portuguese, whose work, recently discovered , was collected in the volume Artes de Cura e Espanta-Males (2009), and the Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, author of Namoros com a Medicina (1937). …”
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Incisor crowding evaluation in children aged 7-11 years attending orthodontic clinics of the college of dentistry at Hawler Medical University. by Shaho Ziyad Jamil Al-Talabani

“…Conclusion: It can be concluded that incisor crowding varies significantly (p <0.05) between the maxillary and mandibular arches in girls, and it also varies significantly (p <0.05) when comparing the data of boys and girls. …”
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