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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202101.0412.v2

Raspberry PI for Kill Mosquitoes by Laser

Ildar Rakhmatulin

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Insect Science Keywords: laser for mosquito control; deep learning for mosquito control; insect detection; mosquito neutralization; pest detection; insect recognition; Raspberry Pi3; Raspberry Pi4; OpenCV for small object detect

Online: 2 August 2021 (16:44:07 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0111.v1

Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Effects on Physical and Mental Health of Slovak School Children

Ludmila Sevcikova, Jana Babjakova, Jana Jurkovicova, Martin Samohyl, Zuzana Stefanikova, Erika Machacova, Diana Vondrova, Etela Janekova, Katarina Hirosova, Alexandra Filova, Michael Weitzman, Lubica Argalasova

Subject: Public Health And Healthcare, Public, Environmental And Occupational Health Keywords: Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS); Slovak school children; mental health; physical health; Columbia Impairment Scale; Behavioral Problem Index

Online: 7 May 2018 (09:23:27 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0258.v2

Revisiting the Derivation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: The Collapse of Uncertainty at the Planck Scale

Espen Haug

Subject: Physical Sciences, Thermodynamics Keywords: Heisenberg's uncertainty principle; certainty; wave function; Planck scale; Planck mass; Planck particle; Bell's Inequality; superposition; entropy; Compton clock

Online: 5 September 2018 (09:34:51 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0619.v1

Prevalence of Stress in Healthcare Professional During COVID-19 Pandemic in Northeast México: A Remote Fast Survey Evaluation, the Use of an Adapted COVID-19 Stress Scale

Juan Luis Delgado-Gallegos, Rene de Jesus Montemayor-Garza, Gerardo R. Padilla-Rivas, Hector Franco-Villareal, Jose Francisco Islas

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Psychiatry And Mental Health Keywords: COVID-19 Mexico; stress in healthcare professionals; COVID-19 stress scale

Online: 26 September 2020 (08:07:00 CEST)

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Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints201612.0083.v1

Depression Measurement Instruments: An Overview of the Top Depression Rating Scales

John H. Morgan

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: depression; measurement scale; ratings; literature review

Online: 16 December 2016 (07:57:02 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201607.0068.v1

SOCIO-ECONOMIC BENEFIT OF WETLAND ECOSYSTEM (IN CASE OF LAKE ZIWAY)

Gezahegne Gebremedhin, Satishkumer Belliethathan

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Fishermen; Lake Ziway; Small scale irrigation users; Socioeconomic benefit; Wetland ecosystem service

Online: 22 July 2016 (16:02:46 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0113.v2

Deforestation and Forest Degradation Due to Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon: A 34-Year Perspective

Jorge Caballero Espejo, Max Messinger, Francisco Roman Dañobeytia, Cesar Ascorra, Luis E. Fernandez, Miles Silman

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: Landsat; artisanal-scale gold mining; infrastructure; protected areas; commodity

Online: 30 November 2018 (10:02:42 CET)

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Preprint SHORT NOTE | doi:10.20944/preprints202005.0287.v1

The Impacts of COVID-19 to Small Scale Fisheries in Tun Mustapha Park, Sabah, Malaysia; What Do We Know So Far?

Joannie Jomitol, Adam J. Payne, Sarmalin Sakirun, Mohd. Omar Bural

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Aquatic Science Keywords: COVID-19; small scale fisheries; artisarnal fishers; coastal communities; marine protected area; Malaysia; fisheries; impacts

Online: 17 May 2020 (08:46:10 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201609.0096.v2

Quantum Cosmology vs. Observational Cosmology (A Simple, Curious and Advanced Approach)

U. V. S. Seshavatharam, S. Lakshminarayana

Subject: Physical Sciences, Astronomy And Astrophysics Keywords: big bang; planck scale Hubble parameter; quantum cosmology; Mach’s principle; holographic principle; observational cosmology; super luminal expansion speed; super luminal rotation speed; dark energy; cosmic rotational kinetic energy; cosmic microwave back

Online: 8 October 2016 (10:26:06 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201708.0078.v1

Rainforest to Reef: A Landscape-scale Approach to Coastal Ecotourism in Malaysia

Lincoln Garland, Mike Wells, Keith French, John Dawkins

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Geography Keywords: Malaysia; Endau Rompin; landscape-scale management; ecotourism; rainforest to reef; Tiger

Online: 23 August 2017 (09:14:40 CEST)

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Period Doubling Phenomenon as the Origin of Electron Properties

Ari Lehto

Subject: Physical Sciences, Atomic And Molecular Physics Keywords: period doubling; electron structure; elementary charge; electron magnetic moment; fine structure constant; Planck scale; Standard Model

Online: 20 August 2020 (04:08:27 CEST)

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Ten Golden Rules for Reforestation to Optimise Carbon Sequestration, Biodiversity Recovery and Livelihood Benefits

Alice Di Sacco, Kate Hardwick, David Blakesley, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Elinor Breman, Loic Cecilio Rebola, Susan Chomba, Kingsley Dixon, Stephen Elliott, Godfrey Ruyonga, Kirsty Shaw, Paul Smith, Rhian J. Smith, Alexandre Antonelli

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Forestry Keywords: Afforestation; Climate change mitigation; Ecological Restoration; Forest landscape restoration; Large-scale tree planting; Natural regeneration; Nature-based solutions; Stakeholders participation

Online: 5 September 2020 (08:01:43 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202006.0143.v1

Assessing Impacts of COVID-19 on Aquatic Food System and Small-Scale Fisheries in Bangladesh

Atiqur Rahman Sunny, Sharif Ahmed Sazzad, Gopal Chandra Datta, Ashoke Kumar Sarker, Md. Ashrafuzzaman, Shamsul H. Prodhan

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Aquatic Science Keywords: COVID-19; Corona virus; Aquatic food system; Food security; Small-scale fisheries; Bangladesh

Online: 12 June 2020 (08:25:09 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0168.v1

Examining the “Natural Resource Curse” and the Impact of Various Forms of Capital in Small Tourism and Natural Resource Dependent Economies

Petar Kurecic, Filip Kokotovic

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: natural capital; human capital; economic growth; small economies; Vector Auto regression; natural resource curse

Online: 18 August 2016 (05:13:21 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201702.0059.v1

Fusing Observational, Satellite Remote Sensing and Air Quality Model Simulated Data to Estimate Spatiotemporal Variations of PM2.5 Exposure in China

Tao Xue, Yixuan Zheng, Guannan Geng, Bo Zheng, Xujia Jiang, Qiang Zhang, Kebin He

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: fine particulate matter (PM2.5); aerosol optical depth; community multi-scale air quality (CMAQ) model; data fusion; exposure assessment

Online: 16 February 2017 (08:58:09 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201702.0062.v1

A Probabilistic Approach to Small Fatigue Crack Initiation and Sizing Using Acoustic Emission

Azadeh Keshtgar, Mohammad Modarres

Subject: Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Keywords: acoustic emission; crack initiation; small crack growth; structural integrity; bayesian estimation

Online: 16 February 2017 (09:43:59 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201704.0072.v1

Techno-Economic Analysis of Hydrokinetic Turbines

Anurag Kumar, R. P. Saini

Subject: Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Keywords: ultra-low head turbines; cost correlations; Darrieus; Savonius; small hydro energy

Online: 13 April 2017 (06:06:08 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201701.0028.v9

Revealing the Phenomena of Heat and Photon Energy on Dealing Matter at Atomic Level

Mubarak Ali

Subject: Chemistry And Materials Science, Materials Science And Technology Keywords: heat energy; photon energy; fundamental forces; nanoscale phenomenon; atomic scale phenomenon; electron scale phenomenon

Online: 8 December 2017 (03:46:45 CET)

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Technology is in the way to reach in its climax but the basic understanding of science in many phenomena is still awaited even though the nature witnesses it. Scientific research reveals strong analogy between photon and electron. When an atom deals neutral state, it levitates electron of outer ring from the back surface while placing the bit-energy at front surface. Gravitation behavior of that electron starts at the centre of relaxation point by including the force of side pole where the pulling force of nearby unfilled state of that atom from the front surface results into depict forcing energy shape like Gaussian distribution symbol with both ends turned called unit photon. The inertia is being involved at each stage of changing direction of that electron by introducing the disappearances of forces of two poles against the appearances of forces of two opposite poles during rest to motion and motion to rest in the first half-cycle. The same is the case in the second half-cycle of that electron during rest to motion and motion to rest but it is under different introduction of the disappearances of forces against appearances of forces. However, at stage of levitating or gravitating period of electron, only one force is being involved at one time where the opposite force is disappeared. The uninterrupted confined inter-state electron-dynamics of atom under the availability of several bits of bit-energy results into generate forcing energy shape like a wave. Two bits of bit-energy where shape of bit for first half-cycle is like integral symbol and second half-cycle is like opposite integral symbol which are being placed along the configuring trajectory of inter-state electron-dynamics during forward-direction cycle and two bits of bit-energy shape in opposite order are being placed along the trajectory of inter-state electron-dynamics during back-direction cycle. Generating forcing energy of unit photon in each cycle is pushing to the rear side by remaining connected till the electron is not restoring the state of rest. Silicon atom is considered as a model system under neutral state. Uninterrupted confined inter-state electron-dynamics result into generate forcing energy that can travel immeasurable length and unavailability of necessitating bit-energy at any interrupted stage result into generate an overt photon. Inter-state electron-dynamics for at least two cycles generate an overt photon –a photon length twice to unit photon. Under certain interaction of unit photon, it divides equally into two bits of bit-energy instead of dividing into tits and bits of heat. The mechanism of generating photon characteristic current by the electron of neutral state atom validates that atoms are four-dimensional discs at centre of dealing no force. An isolated electron is being grounded under directed forcing energy to impinge a neutral state atom where the gained instantaneous velocity under merged energy resulting into distort atom at that point. Matter changes the role of energy and force under various sorts of interactions. Here, heat energy and photon energy explore matter at atomic and electron levels, thus, devise basis of science to describe.

Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202108.0218.v1

Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy: Current Progress and Challenges

Shreelaxmi Gavas, Sameer Quazi, Tomasz Karpiński

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biology And Biotechnology Keywords: cancer; nanoparticles; chemotherapy; cellular targeting; multidrug resistance; cryosurgery; scale-up

Online: 10 August 2021 (09:44:24 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202304.0124.v1

DC-YOLOv8: Small Size Object Detection Algorithm Based on Camera Sensor

Haitong Lou, Xuehu Duan, Junmei Guo, Haiying Liu, Jason Gu, Lingyun Bi, Haonan Chen

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: YOLOv8; small size targets; target detection; feature fusion

Online: 7 April 2023 (11:35:23 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201611.0052.v1

Feature Extraction of Ship Radiated Noise Based on Permutation Entropy of the Intrinsic Mode Function with the Highest Energy

Yu-Xing Li, Ya-An Li, Zhe Chen, Xiao Chen

Subject: Physical Sciences, Acoustics Keywords: empirical mode decomposition; intrinsic mode function; permutation entropy; multi-scale permutation entropy; feature extraction

Online: 9 November 2016 (10:24:35 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201701.0130.v1

Crucial Mechanism to the Eutectoid Transformation of Wüstite Scale on Low Carbon Steel

Szu-Ning Lin, Chao-Chi Huang, Min-Tao Wu, Wei-Lin Wang, Ker-Chang Hsieh

Subject: Chemistry And Materials Science, Metals, Alloys And Metallurgy Keywords: wüstite; magnetite; eutectoid transformation; oxide scale; hot strip mill

Online: 29 January 2017 (10:47:49 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202101.0167.v1

Impact of Covid-19 on tourism-based livelihood of people in Small Island Developing Nation: Case study of A & N Islands, India

Subhash Chand, Abhishek Bharati, Anurag Bharaty, Kingsly I T

Subject: Social Sciences, Tourism, Leisure, Sport And Hospitality Keywords: Island nations, Tourism, Small Island Nations, economic development, tropical islands

Online: 8 January 2021 (14:29:52 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201702.0002.v1

Tests and Problems of the Standard Model in Cosmology

Martin Lopez-Corredoira

Subject: Physical Sciences, Astronomy And Astrophysics Keywords: Cosmology; Observational cosmology; Origin, formation, and abundances of the elements; dark matter; dark energy; superclusters; large-scale structure of the Universe

Online: 1 February 2017 (16:06:52 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201703.0076.v1

Mercury Levels in Human Hair and Farmed Fish near Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Communities in the Madre de Dios River Basin, Peru

Aubrey L. Langeland, Rebecca D. Hardin, Richard L. Neitzel

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Toxicology Keywords: mercury; exposure assessment; human health; artisanal and small-scale gold mining

Online: 14 March 2017 (08:40:59 CET)

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Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has been an important source of income for communities in the Madre de Dios River Basin in Peru for hundreds of years. However, in recent decades, the scale of ASGM activities in the region has increased dramatically, and exposures to a variety of occupational and environmental hazards related to ASGM, including mercury, are becoming more widespread. The aims of our study were to: (1) examine patterns in the total hair mercury level of human participants in several communities in the region and compare these results to the 2.2 µg/g total hair mercury level equivalent to the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee of Food Additives (JECFA)’s Provisional Tolerable Weekly Intake (PTWI); and (2), to measure the mercury levels of paco (Piaractus brachypomus) fish raised in local aquaculture ponds, in order to compare these levels to the EPA Fish Tissue Residue Criterion of 0.3 µg Hg/g fish (wet weight). We collected hair samples from 80 participants in four communities (one control and three where ASGM activities occurred) in the region, and collected 111 samples from fish raised in 24 local aquaculture farms. We then analyzed the samples for total mercury. Total mercury levels in hair were statistically significantly higher in the mining communities than in the control community, and increased with increasing distance away from the Madre de Dios headwaters (as the crow flies), did not differ by sex, and frequently exceeded the reference level. Regression analyses indicated that higher hair mercury levels were associated with residence in ASGM communities. The analysis of paco fish samples found no samples that exceeded the EPA tissue residue criterion. Collectively, these results align with other recent studies showing that ASGM activities are associated with elevated human mercury exposure. The fish farmed through the relatively new process of aquaculture in ASGM areas appeared to have little potential to contribute to human mercury exposure. More research is needed on human health risks associated with ASGM to discern occupational, residential, and nutritional exposure, especially through tracking temporal changes in mercury levels as fish ponds age, and assessing levels in different farmed fish species. Additionally, research is needed to definitively determine that elevated mercury levels in humans and fish result from the elemental mercury from mining, rather than from a different source, such as the mercury released from soil erosion during deforestation events from mining or other activities.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201702.0067.v1

Influences of Multiscale Land Cover Characteristics and Specific Conductivity on Fish Assemblages in the Nolichucky River Watershed, Tennessee

Hayley S. Gotwald, J. Brian Alford

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: spatial scale; CCA; indicator species analysis; land use; SWAT; bioassessment

Online: 17 February 2017 (07:33:16 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201703.0152.v1

Face Verification with Multi-Task and Multi-Scale Features Fusion

Xiaojun Lu, Yue Yang, Weilin Zhang, Qi Wang, Yang Wang

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Information Systems Keywords: deep convolutional neural networks; identification; semi-verification; multi-scale features; face verification

Online: 20 March 2017 (09:06:18 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201906.0036.v1

A Global Seamless DEM Based on Multi-Source Data Fusion (GSDEM-30): Product Generation and Evaluation

Linwei Yue, Huanfeng Shen, Lu Liu, Qiangqiang Yuan, Liangpei Zhang

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Remote Sensing Keywords: digital elevation models; multi-source fusion; multi-scale fusion; global evaluation; accuracy validation.

Online: 5 June 2019 (10:26:30 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201702.0085.v1

Identification of Drought-Responsive microRNAs from Roots and Leaves of Alfalfa by High-Throughput Sequencing

Yue Li, Liqiang Wan, Shuyi Bi, Xiufu Wan, Zhenyi Li, Jing Cao, Zongyong Tong, Hongyu Xu, Feng He, Xianglin Li

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biochemistry And Molecular Biology Keywords: alfalfa; drought; microRNA; small RNA; differential expression

Online: 23 February 2017 (09:50:07 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202005.0058.v1

Towards Engineering Biosystems with Emergent Collective Functions

Thomas E. Gorochowski, Sabine Hauert, Jan-Ulrich Kreft, Lucia Marucci, Namid R. Stillman, T-Y. Dora Tang, Lucia Bandiera, Vittorio Bartoli, Daniel O. R. Dixon, Alex J. H. Fedorec, Harold Fellermann, Alexander G. Fletcher, Tim Foster, Luca Giuggioli, Antoni Matyjaszkiewicz, Scott McCormick, Sandra Montes Olivas, Jonathan Naylor, Ana Rubio Denniss, Daniel Ward

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biology And Biotechnology Keywords: synthetic biology; multi-agent modelling; individual-based modelling; agent-based modelling; systems biology; emergence; multi-scale; bioengineering; consortia; collectives

Online: 5 May 2020 (03:45:16 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0242.v1

Lambertianic Acid Sensitizes Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers to TRAIL-Induced Apoptosis Via Inhibition of XIAP/NF-kB and Activation of Caspases and Death Receptor 4

Deoksoo Ahn, HyoJung Lee, Jisung Hwang, Hyukgyu Han, BumSang Shim, Sunghoon Kim

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biochemistry And Molecular Biology Keywords: Non-small cell lung cancer; Lambertianic acid; Apoptosis; TRAIL; XIAP; NF-B

Online: 18 April 2018 (15:25:10 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0449.v1

Groundwater Sustainability Assessment in Small Islands: The Case Study of San Andres in the Caribbean Sea

Camilo Lesmes Fabian, Jose Wilson Ibañez, Ferney Smith Prieto, Carlos Caro Camargo

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: groundwater; sustainability assessment; small islands; Caribbean islands; sustainability assessment indicators; water management

Online: 24 July 2018 (08:12:19 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201905.0357.v1

Collision Space-Time. Unified Quantum Gravity. Gravity is Lorentz Symmetry Break Down at the Planck Scale

Espen Haug

Subject: Physical Sciences, Quantum Science And Technology Keywords: Quantum gravity, granular matter, Lorentz symmetry break down at the Planck scale, Heisen- berg uncertainty break down at the Planck scale, indivisible particles, gravity and Lorentz symmetry break down.

Online: 29 May 2019 (16:31:56 CEST)

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Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints201711.0063.v1

Multi-Scale Deep Neural Network for Mitosis Detection in Breast Cancer Histological Images

Boqian Wu, Binwen Fan, Qiao Xiao, Tasleem Kausar, Wenfeng Wang

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Computer Vision And Graphics Keywords: breast cancer; mitosis detection; CNN; Stain-normalization; CRF; multi-scale feature

Online: 9 November 2017 (10:05:53 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201705.0046.v1

Small Scale Hydroelectric Power Plants in Norway. Some Microeconomic and Environmental Considerations

Johannes Idsø

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: small scale hydroelectric power; neumann-mortenstern utility theory; environmental effects of hydro power; hydropower and risk

Online: 5 May 2017 (05:32:02 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201711.0015.v1

Application of Virus-Derived Small Interfering RNAs (vsiRNAs) in Rice Viruses with Insect Vectors, Especially Rice Grassy Stunt Virus

Muhammad Arif, Saif Ul Islam, Muhammad Adnan, Muhammad Anwar, Zujian Wu

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Plant Sciences Keywords: RGSV; movement proteins; gene silencing; transgenic mechanism; virus-induced small interfering RNA; RNA silencing pathway; antiviral plant defenses

Online: 2 November 2017 (03:05:04 CET)

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Rice grassy stunt virus (RGSV) a member of Tenuivirus family, is very potent and destructive which effects rice crop in many countries, particularly China. Non coding RNAs have important functions in development and epigenetic regulation of gene expression in numerous organsisms. There is three type of small non coding RNAs have been found in eukaryotes, which are small interferring RNAs (siRNAs), microRNAs (miRNAs) and piwi interacting RNAs (piRNAs). Small RNAs (sRNAs) origination is from the infecting virus which is known as virus-derived small interfering RNAs (vsiRNAs), has responsibility for RNA silencing in plants. Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is mainly dependent on RNA silencing (RNAi). Interestingly, RNA silencing happens in plants during viral infections. RNAi technique showed significant results in Nephotettix cincticeps. RNAi technique demonstrated the gene silencing of planthopper Nilaparvata lugens. The proteins P5, pcf4, Dnj, psn5, and pn6 act as potential movement proteins and serve as silencing suppressors for RGSV. VsiRNAs originate from dsRNA molecules which require Dicer-like (DCL) proteins, RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP) proteins, and Argonaute (AGO) proteins. RdRP uses ssRNA for perfect RNA amplification process and can also be used for DCL dependent secondary vsiRNA formation. VSRs interfere with the movement of signals during silencing mechanism. Moreover, intercellular movement of viruses is facilitated by virus-encoded movement protein. RNAi is found in many eukaryotes which are related to transcriptional or post-transcriptional regulation by gene suppression. Transcription is bidirectional in ssDNA viruses which are originated from dsRNA molecules. In this review, we highlighted the biology of Rice grassy stunt virus and its insect vector and its silencing suppressors. This work will be helpful for plant virologists to understand the whole biogenesis mechanism for rice viruses especially RGSV.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202201.0006.v1

The differences between the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale and the Brief Resilience Scale When Assessing Resilience: Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Predictive Effects

Yun-Ci Ye, Chia-Huei Wu, Cheng-Ta Yang

Subject: Social Sciences, Psychology Keywords: resilience; Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale; Brief Resilience Scale; depression; life satisfaction; confirmatory factor analysis

Online: 4 January 2022 (12:34:37 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0236.v1

Hybrid 3D Models: When Geomatics Innovations Meet Extensive Built Heritage Complexes

Filiberto Chiabrando, Giulia Sammartano, Antonia Spanò, Alessandra Spreafico

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Remote Sensing Keywords: 3D models; multi-sensor; multi-scale; SLAM; MMS; LiDAR; UAV; data integration; data fusion; cultural heritage

Online: 23 January 2019 (10:08:42 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201705.0043.v1

Bayesian Hierarchical Scale Mixtures of Log-Normal Models for Inference in Reliability with Stochastic Constraint

Hea-Jung Kim

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Information Systems Keywords: Bayesian reliability analysis; Bayesian hierarchical model; MCMC method; scale mixtures of log-normal failure time model; stochastic constraint; two-stage MaxEnt prior.

Online: 4 May 2017 (16:26:10 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0046.v1

Full-Scale/Model Test Comparisons to Validate the Traditional ABL Wind Tunnel Simulation Technique: A Literature Review

X.X. Cheng, J. Dong, Y. Peng, L. Zhao, Y.J. Ge

Subject: Engineering, Civil Engineering Keywords: comparative study; full-scale measurement; wind tunnel model test; multiple-fan actively controlled wind tunnel; research scheme

Online: 9 October 2017 (06:38:40 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202006.0303.v1

Understanding Livelihood Characteristics and Vulnerabilities of Small-scale Fishers in Coastal Bangladesh

Atiqur Rahman Sunny

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Aquatic Science Keywords: Livelihoods; Sustainability; Vulnerability; Small-scale Fishers; Bangladesh

Online: 24 June 2020 (14:34:34 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201704.0065.v1

Modelling Airport Pollutants Dispersion at High Resolution

Claire Sarrat, Sébastien Aubry, Thomas Chaboud, Christine Lac

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science And Meteorology Keywords: Airport; Local Air Quality; Local Scale

Online: 11 April 2017 (17:32:40 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202109.0332.v2

LETR: An End-to-End Detector of Reconstruction Area in Blade’s Adaptive Machining with Transformer

Zikai Yin, Yonghou Liang, Junxue Ren, Jungang An, Famei He

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: Near-net-shaped Blade; Adaptive Machining; Small Object Detection; Neural Network; Transformer; Real-Time Detection

Online: 4 January 2022 (11:12:43 CET)

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Structural Entropy Constrains Dynamics in Directed Networks

Blai Vidiella, Salva Duran-Nebreda, Sergi Valverde

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biochemistry And Molecular Biology Keywords: structural entropy; dimensionality; flow dynamics; spin; directed network; scale-free

Online: 27 January 2021 (15:35:38 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201912.0358.v1

Activation of Transposable Elements in Immune Cells of Fibromyalgia Patients

Tamara Ovejero, Océane Sadones, Teresa Sánchez-Fito, Eloy Almenar-Pérez, José Andrés Espejo, Eva Martín-Martínez, Lubov Nathanson, Elisa Oltra

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biochemistry And Molecular Biology Keywords: fibromyalgia; Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS); HERV (Human Endogenous Retrovirus); transposable elements; epigenetics; DNA methylation; tsRNAs (transfer RNA small fragments); interferon; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Online: 27 December 2019 (03:30:53 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0256.v1

Evaluation of the Technical Wind Energy Potential of Kisii Region Based on the Weibull and Rayleigh Distribution Models

Laban N. Ongaki, Christopher M. Maghanga, Joash Kerongo

Subject: Physical Sciences, Nuclear And High Energy Physics Keywords: wind speed; wind power; scale factor and shape factor

Online: 12 October 2018 (05:13:33 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201803.0160.v1

A Bibliographical Survey on Software Architectures for Smart Grid System

A. Ramesh, Prabhakar Karthikeyan, Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, Saravanan Balasubramanian, Josep M. Guerrero

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI); Distributed Energy Resources (DER); Distribution Management System (DMS); Graph Reduction In Parallel (GRIP); Intelligent Electronic Device (IED); Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI); Service Oriented Architecture (SOA); Ultra Large Scale System (ULSS)

Online: 19 March 2018 (11:42:42 CET)

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Preprint COMMENTARY | doi:10.3390/sci2030070

Advancing Therapies for Cancer—From Mustard Gas to CAR T

Dillon Jarrell, Seth Drake, Mark Brown

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Oncology And Oncogenics Keywords: small molecule inhibitor; personalized medicine; precision medicine; oncology; targeted therapy; drug delivery; drug screening; chemotherapy

Online: 8 September 2020 (00:00:00 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0171.v1

Fracture Reconstruction and Analysis of Low Permeability Carbonates using x-ray Tomography for Comparison with Outcrop Data

Stephanie G. Zihms, Helen Lewis, Tiago Siqueira de Miranda, Stephen A. Hall, James M. Somerville

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Geography Keywords: geomechanics; fractures; multi-scale; x-ray tomography; carbonates

Online: 10 May 2018 (16:24:06 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202203.0310.v1

Avoiding the Great Filter: Predicting the Timeline for Humanity to Reach Kardashev Type I Civilization

Jonathan H. Jiang, Fuyang Feng, Philip E. Rosen, Kristen A. Fahy, Antong Zhang, Piotr Obacz, Prithwis Das, Zong-Hong Zhu

Subject: Physical Sciences, Applied Physics Keywords: Kardashev scale; civilization; energy consumption and supply

Online: 23 March 2022 (05:19:37 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201708.0095.v1

Relative Lagrangian Formulation of Finite Thermoelasticity

I-Shih Liu, Marcello G. Teixeira

Subject: Physical Sciences, Mathematical Physics Keywords: relative Lagrangian formulation; thermoelastic solid; small on large; successive linear approximation; boundary value problem

Online: 27 August 2017 (11:36:35 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201709.0098.v2

A Conversion Method to Determine Regional Vegetation Cover Factor from Standard Plots based on Large Sample Theory and TM Images: A Case Study in the Eastern Farming-pasture Ecotone of Northern China

Degen Lin, Yuan Gao, Yaoyao Wu, Peijun Shi, Huiming Yang, Jing’ai Wang

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Remote Sensing Keywords: farming-pasture ecotone; TM image; remote sensing; vegetation cover factor; scale conversion; land use; high resolution image

Online: 21 September 2017 (16:33:49 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202004.0236.v1

Alternative Multidisciplinary Management Options for Locally Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic

Sameera Kumar, Steven Chmura, Clifford Robinson, Steven H. Lin, Shirish M. Gadgeel, Jessica Donington, Josephine Feliciano, Thomas E. Stinchcombe, Maria Werner-Wasik, Martin J. Edelman, Drew Moghanaki

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Oncology And Oncogenics Keywords: non-small cell lung cancer; locally advanced; COVID; SARS-CoV-2

Online: 15 April 2020 (09:50:21 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202108.0025.v1

Supporting Cross-Border E-commerce of Micro Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries: Export Marketing Strategy

Kihyon Kim, Gyoo Gun Lim

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Marketing Keywords: Cross border electroniceletronic commerce(CBEC); Export Marketing Strategy(EMS); Marketing Mix; Micro, Small and Medium sized enterprise(MSMEs); Aid for Trade; Micro Entrepreneur

Online: 2 August 2021 (12:07:48 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202201.0367.v1

Image Classification Using Deep and Classical Machine Learning on Small Datasets: A Complete Comparative

Gonzalo Miranda, Clemente Rubio-Manzano

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Deep Learning; Image Classification; Machine Learning; Predictive Models; Small Datasets; Supervised Learning

Online: 25 January 2022 (08:24:17 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201709.0059.v1

The Effect of Heat Transfer and Polymer Concentration on Non-Newtonian Fluid from Pore-Scale Simulation of Rock X-Ray micro-CT

Moussa Tembely, Ali M. AlSumaiti, Mohamed S. Jouini, Khurshed Rahimov

Subject: Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Keywords: pore-scale model; non-Newtonian fluid; Finite Volume Method; Digital Rock Physics

Online: 15 September 2017 (10:09:40 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0157.v1

Docosahexaenoic Acid Induces Cell Death through Downregulation of Hedgehog Signaling via Surt6 Activation in Human EGFR Mutant Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Soyeon Jeong, Kaipeng Jing, Soyeon Shin, Soyeon Kim, Seung-Hyeon Han, Yoon-Seon Yoo, Young-Joo Jeon, Jun-Young Heo, Gi-Ryang Kweon, Seung-Kiel Park, Jong-Il Park, Kyu Lim

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Oncology And Oncogenics Keywords: docosahexaenoic acid; apoptosis; SIRT6; Hedgehog signaling; non-small cell lung cancer cells

Online: 24 October 2017 (05:43:16 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201709.0110.v1

Dynamics of Dual Scale-Free Polymer Networks

Mircea Galiceanu, Luan Tota de Carvalho, Oliver Mülken, Maxim Dolgushev

Subject: Physical Sciences, Mathematical Physics Keywords: polymer networks; scale-free networks; mechanical relaxation; eigenvalue problem

Online: 22 September 2017 (16:21:16 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201709.0048.v1

The Spatiotemporal Distribution of Two Bacterial Indexes in a Small Tibetan Plateau Watershed

Tongtong Zhao, Bangguo Song, Yuansheng Chen, Weiwei Yao, Bixiong Ye

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: microbial contamination; bacteria; contamination sources; small watershed; Tibetan Plateau

Online: 12 September 2017 (16:01:26 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202010.0146.v1

Application and Comparison of MLR, ANN and CART Models for Predicting PM10 Concentration Level of Guwahati City (India)

Abhishek Dutta, Wanida Jinsart

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science And Meteorology Keywords: particulate matter; prediction; model comparison; artificial neural network; multi-variate linear regression; small city

Online: 7 October 2020 (08:31:21 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201906.0132.v1

Economical and Environmental Friendly Methods for Separation of Oil from Mill Scale

Muhammad Shoukat Hussain, Asra Shoukat, Hafiz Syed Umer Nasir, Ammara Shoukat

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Waste Management And Disposal Keywords: scale; by-product; economical method; environment friendly; zero waste

Online: 14 June 2019 (10:09:59 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0232.v1

The Non-Coding Regulatory RNA Revolution in Archaea

Diego R. Gelsinger, Jocelyne DiRuggiero

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Immunology And Microbiology Keywords: small non-coding RNAs; gene regulation; archaea; stress response; regulatory networks

Online: 25 January 2018 (03:57:55 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0281.v1

Belonging, Strangerhood and Mobility: South Sudanese in a Rural Town, Victoria

Naduni Wickramaarachchi, Edgar Burns

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Humanities Keywords: migrants; sense of belonging; small town; stranger; South Sudanese

Online: 30 January 2018 (10:35:53 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201711.0049.v1

Influence of Perceptual Range on Perceived Restoration

Moohan Kim, Jae-Hyuck Lee, Woo-Yeong Joo

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Architecture Keywords: spatial perception; Perceived Restorativeness Scale; urban greening; cognitive mapping; environmental restorative effect; perceptual range

Online: 8 November 2017 (03:11:06 CET)

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Working Paper ARTICLE

Open Source Vacuum Oven for Low-Temperature Drying

Benjamin R. Hubbard, Lindsay I. Putman, Stephen Techtmann, Joshua M. Pearce

Subject: Chemistry And Materials Science, Polymers And Plastics Keywords: drying; materials processing; vacuum oven; small-scale; lab equipment; air-powered; open hard-ware; open source; digital manufacturing; dehydration

Online: 22 April 2021 (09:16:02 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201803.0165.v1

Modelling Filler Dispersion in Elastomers: Relating Filler Morphology to Interface Free Energies via SAXS and TEM Simulation Studies

Norman Gundlach, Reinhard Hentschke

Subject: Chemistry And Materials Science, Nanotechnology Keywords: elastomers; lattice model; Monte Carlo simulation; surface tensions; small angle scattering; transmission electron microscopy

Online: 19 March 2018 (16:04:52 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201709.0092.v1

Principal Mismatch Patterns across a Simplified Highly Renewable European Electricity Network

Mads Raunbak, Timo Zeyer, Kun Zhu, Martin Greiner

Subject: Engineering, Energy And Fuel Technology Keywords: renewable energy networks; principal component analysis; large-scale integration of renewables; wind power; solar power; super grid; energy system design

Online: 20 September 2017 (04:44:36 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201803.0227.v1

Recent Advances in Next Generation Snakebite Antivenoms

Cecilie Knudsen, Andreas Hougaard Laustsen

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biology And Biotechnology Keywords: Antivenom; snakebite; small molecule toxin inhibitors; oligonucleotides; antibodies; phage display; next generation antivenom; recombinant antivenom

Online: 27 March 2018 (13:41:46 CEST)

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Preprint TECHNICAL NOTE | doi:10.20944/preprints201711.0122.v1

On Spatial Relations for Non-small Cells Lungs Cancer Interpretation

Nadeem Salamat, V. B. Surya Prasath, Malik M. Saad Missen

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Oncology And Oncogenics Keywords: computer aided diagnosis; topological relations; TNM system; non-small Cells; lung cancer

Online: 20 November 2017 (07:57:32 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202107.0641.v1

Optimizing Spray-Dried Porous Particles for High Dose Delivery with a Portable Dry Powder Inhaler

Yoen-Ju Son, Danforth P. Miller, Jeffry G. Weers

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biology And Biotechnology Keywords: packing density; product density; small porous particles; corrugated particles

Online: 29 July 2021 (10:18:51 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202101.0061.v1

Climate Change Adaptation on Small Island States: An Assessment of Limits and Constraints

Walter Leal Filho, Murukesan Krishnapillai, Henry Sidsaph, Gustavo J. Nagy, Johannes M. Luetz, Jack Dyer, Michael Otoara Ha’apio, Peni Hausia Havea, Kushaal Raj, Priyatma Singh, Tom Rogers, Chunlan Li, Ksenia Chmutina, Monica K. Boodhan, Franziska Wolf, Desalegn Yayeh Ayal, Hossein Azadi

Subject: Physical Sciences, Acoustics Keywords: limits; adaptation; small island developing states; impacts; sustainable development; policy-making

Online: 4 January 2021 (16:26:11 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0207.v1

The Prevalence and Sociodemographic Correlates of Social phobia in Oman: Online National Survey

Aamal Ambusaidi, Salim Al Huseini, Hiba Alshaqsi, Manal AlGhafri, Moon-Fai Chan, Nasser Al-Sibani, Samir Al-Adawi

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Psychiatry And Mental Health Keywords: Social Anxiety Disorder; Social Phobia, Online Survey; Adult, Oman; Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale

Online: 8 August 2020 (09:39:49 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0284.v1

Spatial Distribution of Stony Desertification and Key Influencing Factors in Different Sampling Scales in Small Karst Watersheds

Zhenming Zhang, Yunchao Zhou, Shijie Wang, Xianfei Huang

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: different sampling scales; spatial distribution; stony desertification characteristics; Karst; small watershed

Online: 30 January 2018 (13:19:46 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0006.v1

Adoption of Small-Scale Irrigation Farming as a Climate-Smart Agriculture Practice and Its Influence on Household Income in the Chinyanja Triangle, Southern Africa

Nelson Mango, Clifton Makate, Lulseged Tamene, Powell Mponela, Gift Ndengu

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: climate-smart agriculture; adoption; small-scale irrigation farming; household income; Chinyanja Triangle; Southern Africa

Online: 1 February 2018 (09:33:20 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0426.v2

Cities, from Information to Interaction

Vinicius M. Netto, Edgardo Brigatti, João Meirelles, Fabiano L. Ribeiro, Bruno Pace, Caio Cacholas, Patricia Sanches

Subject: Social Sciences, Urban Studies And Planning Keywords: information; cities; interaction; environmental information; entropy; scale; enaction

Online: 10 October 2018 (05:32:09 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0548.v1

Metabolic Modelling Approaches for Describing and Engineering Microbial Communities

Beatriz García-Jiménez, Jesús Torres, Juan Nogales

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biology And Biotechnology Keywords: genome-scale metabolic model; microbial community; optimization; design; engineering; computational methods; synthetic microbial consortia

Online: 23 September 2020 (09:52:17 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202101.0227.v1

m5U54 tRNA Hypomodification by lack of TRMT2A Drives the Generation of tRNA-Derived Small RNAs

Marisa Pereira, Diana R. Ribeiro, Miguel M. Pinheiro, Margarida Ferreira, Stefanie Kellner, Ana R. Soares

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biochemistry And Molecular Biology Keywords: tRNAs; tRNA-modifying enzyme; TRMT2A; methyltransferase; tRNA hypomethylation; tRNA-derived small RNAs; tRNA-derived stress-induced RNAs; angiogenin.

Online: 12 January 2021 (15:17:29 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201908.0059.v1

The Effect of Recreation in a Snow-Covered Forest Environment on the Psychological Relaxation of Young Females

Ernest Bielinis, Adrian Łukowski, Aneta Omelan, Sergii Boiko, Norimasa Takayama

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Forestry Keywords: deciduous forest; female; forest bathing; forest therapy; Positive and Negative Affect Schedule; Profile of Mood States; Restorative Outcome Scale; restoration; Shinrin-Yoku; snow covered forest; Subjective Vitality Scale; winter

Online: 5 August 2019 (08:56:32 CEST)

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Forest recreation can be successfully conducted for the purpose of psychological relaxation, as has been proven in previous scientific studies. During the winter in many countries, when snow cover occurs frequently, forest recreation (walking, relaxation, photography, etc.) is common. Nevertheless, whether forest therapy conducted in a forest environment with a snow cover will also have a positive effect on psychological indicators remains unknown. Furthermore, male subjects frequently participate in forest therapy experiments, whereas females are rarely involved. Thus, in this study, the effectuality of forest recreation during winter and with snow cover was tested on 32 young females. For these reasons, the experiment involved 15-minute periods of relaxation in a forest environment or in an urban environment, in addition to a pre-test under indoor conditions. Four psychological questionnaires (POMS, PANAS, ROS, SVS) were administered to participants before and after interventions. Results showed that participants’ levels of negative mood, as measured by different aspects of the POMS questionnaire (tension-anxiety, anger-hostility, depression-dejection, confusion, fatigue), decreased after exposure to the forest environment. In contrast, both tension-anxiety and anger-hostility increased in the urban environment. The indicator of negative affect from the PANAS questionnaire also increased after exposure to the urban environment, whereas the indicator of positive affect based on PANAS was higher in the forest environment than in the urban environment. Restorativeness and subjective vitality exhibited higher values after exposure to the forest environment in comparison to those from the control and pre-test. The changes in these indicators demonstrates that forest recreation in the snow during winter can significantly increase psychological relaxation in young females, as well as showing that recreation can be successfully conducted under these winter conditions.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0165.v1

The Importance and Effectiveness of Carotid Endarterectomy in Ischaemic Stroke or TIA with Significant Carotid Stenosis

Muhammad Shohel Almamun, Mobashshereen Khan

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Neuroscience And Neurology Keywords: Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leuco encephalopathy (CADASIL); Carotid Endarterectomy (CEA); Modified Rankin Scale (MRS); Computed Tomography(CT); Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA); Diffusion weighted Imaging (DWI); Recognition of Stroke in the Emergency Room (ROSIER) scale; Magnetic resonance Imaging (MRI); Internal Carotid Artery (ICA)

Online: 26 February 2018 (11:46:47 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201902.0167.v1

Spatially Resolved Soil Solution Chemistry in a Central European Atmospherically Polluted High-Elevation Catchment

Daniel Petrash, Frantisek Buzek, Martin Novak, Bohuslava Cejkova, Pavel Kram, Tomas Chuman, Jan Curik, Frantisek Veselovsky, Marketa Stepanova, Oldrich Myska, Pavla Holeckova, Leona Bohdalkova

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: Anions of strong acids; Base cations; Entic podzol; Lysimeter • Small catchment; Soil solutions

Online: 18 February 2019 (17:01:18 CET)

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Here we evaluate the chemistry of mineral soil solutions collected by suction lysimeters in a small mountain catchment that was affected by acidification-related spruce die-back. The aim was to obtain new insights into spatial patterns of nutrient partitioning during acidification recovery. This was achieved by comparing nutrient concentrations in soil solutions, collected along a V-shaped valley, with those in runoff. Five nests of suction lysimeters were installed in the 33-ha UDL catchment at different topographic positions (hilltops, slopes and valley). Following a 1-year equilibration, monthly samples of soil solutions were collected over a 2-year period. In the vicinity of each lysimeter nest, soil pits were excavated for a study of soil chemistry. Soil solutions were analyzed for SO42-, NO3-, DOC, NH4+, Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, and total dissolved Al concentrations, DOC and pH. For a P release estimation, ammonium oxalate extraction of soil samples was performed. Comparison of soil water data from this study with other European studies indicated that major environmentally relevant chemical species at UDL had concentrations similar to median concentrations across numerous previously acidified sites. CEC (≤ 58 meq kg-1) and BS (≤ 13 %), however, were significantly lower at UDL than at other European sites, documenting incomplete recovery from acidification. Spatial trends and seasonality in soil water chemistry support belowground inputs from mineral-stabilized legacy pollutants and soil nutrients. Seasonal variability of soil water sulfate and nitrate was significant. High nitrate in soil solutions during summer originated during the preceding dormant season, and high sulfate concentrations observed during the winter originating from recycled organic S during the summer. Higher concentrations of SO42-, NO3-, and base cations in runoff than in soil solutions may be explained by lateral surficial runoff leaching pollutants and nutrients from very shallow soil horizons. Nearly 30 years after peak acidification, solutions in mineral subsoil at UDL exhibited similar concentrations of SO42-, Ca2+ and Mg2+ as median values at the Pan-European International Co-operative Program (ICP) Forest sites, yet NO3- concentrations were an order of magnitude higher than the ICP sites. Calcium applied on soil surface by liming 32 to 11 years ago affected runoff more than soil solutions, suggesting contribution of both shallow soil water and groundwater to runoff.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0008.v1

Construct Validity of Korean Leisure Sports Instructor Job Crafting Questionnaire Scale (KSIJCQ: Korean Sports Instructor JCQ)

Wook Kyung Kim, Won Chung Chung, Hyu Kyoung Park

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: JCQ; job crafting; construct validity; leisure sports instructor; valid scale

Online: 1 May 2018 (11:36:48 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202102.0208.v1

A Solution of the Cosmological Constant, Using Multiverse Version of Penrose CCC Cosmology, and Enhanced Quantization Compared

Andrew Beckwith

Subject: Physical Sciences, Acoustics Keywords: Minimum scale factor; cosmological constant; space-time bubble; bouncing cosmologies

Online: 8 February 2021 (13:00:28 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201902.0209.v1

Ebolavirus Entry: From Molecular Characterization to Drug Discovery

Cristiano Salata, Arianna Calistri, Gualtiero Alvisi, Michele Celestino, Cristina Parolin, Giorgio Palu'

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Virology Keywords: Ebolavirus; Filoviridae; VSV; retroviral vectors; virus like particles; pseudovirus; antivirals; small molecules; viral entry.

Online: 21 February 2019 (13:13:34 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202104.0244.v1

Curating and Comparing 114 Strain-Specific Genome-Scale Metabolic Models of Staphylococcus aureus

Alina Renz, Andreas Dräger

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biochemistry And Molecular Biology Keywords: Staphylococcus aureus; MRSA; genome-scale metabolic models; model-driven discovery; strain-specific models

Online: 8 April 2021 (14:25:31 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201904.0304.v1

Fatigue Assessment of Prestressed Concrete Slab-between-Girder Bridges

Eva O.L. Lantsoght, Rutger Koekkoek, Cor van der Veen, Henk Sliedrecht

Subject: Engineering, Civil Engineering Keywords: assessment; bridge evaluation; compressive membrane action; concrete bridges; fatigue; fatigue assessment; live loads; prestressed concrete; punching shear; scale model

Online: 28 April 2019 (08:38:27 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202106.0516.v1

Morphological Transformation of SDS Aggregates in a Deep Eutectic Solvent Above the Fracto-eutectogel to Fluid Transition Temperature

Lauren Matthews, Sarah E.S. Michel, Sarah E. Rogers, Paul Bartlett, Andrew J. Johnson, Robert Sochon, Wuge H. Briscoe

Subject: Chemistry And Materials Science, Analytical Chemistry Keywords: Deep eutectic solvents (DES); glyceline; surfactant mesophases; nonaqueous H-bonding solvents; small-angle neutron scattering (SANS); self-assembly; cylindrical micelles; spherical micelles; dendrites; fractals

Online: 21 June 2021 (14:15:42 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0110.v1

In Situ SAXS Measurement and Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Magnetic Alignment of Hexagonal LLC Nanostructures

Weiwei Cong, Weimin Gao, Christopher Garvey, Ludo Dumee, Juan Zhang, Ben Kent, Guang Wang, Fenghua She, Lingxue Kong

Subject: Chemistry And Materials Science, Materials Science And Technology Keywords: Alignment, Magnetic field, Hexagonal, Lyotropic liquid crystals, Nanofiltration, in situ small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS)

Online: 5 October 2018 (16:33:35 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0469.v1

CSR and the Supply Chain: Effects on the Results of the SME

Luis Enrique Valdez-Juárez, Dolores Gallardo-Vázquez, Elba Ramos-Escobar

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Business And Management Keywords: corporate social responsibility; CSR; supply chain; SC; image; reputation; stakeholders; innovation; small and medium enterprises; SMEs

Online: 31 May 2018 (11:07:55 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0248.v1

Ahmed Glaucoma Valve Implantation: Graft-Free Short Tunnel Small Flap versus Scleral Patch Graft After 1 Year Follow-Up: A Randomised Clinical Trial

Mohammad Pakravan, Mohammadmehdi Hatami, Hamed Esfandiari, Shahin Yazdani, Azadeh Doozandeh, Bahareh Kheiri, Ian Conner

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Ophthalmology Keywords: short tunnel small flap; glaucoma drainage device implantation; tube exposure; STSF; Ahmed glaucoma valve; AGV

Online: 15 June 2018 (09:40:16 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0073.v1

ChREBP Rather than SHP Regulates Hepatic VLDL Secretion

Hiroyuki Niwa, Katsumi Iizuka, Takehiro Kato, Wudeluhu Wu, Hiromi Tsuchida, Ken Takao, Yukio Horikawa, Jun Takeda

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Endocrinology And Metabolism Keywords: carbohydrate response element binding protein; small heterodimer partner; microsomal triglyceride transfer protein; very-low-density lipoprotein

Online: 8 February 2018 (16:27:41 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202101.0303.v1

Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) Score is a Prognostic Indicator for Patients with Hemorrhagic Stroke: Results from a 3-month Follow-up Study

Bei-lei Zhu, Yan-zhi Wu, Zhong-ming Cai, Cheng-wei Liao, Le-qiu Sun, Zhi-peng Liu, Hao-man Chen, Xue-rong Huang, Ren-qian Feng, Sheng-lie Ye, Qun-li Lin, Xu-dong Zhou, Man-man Zhang, Bo Yang

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Immunology And Allergy Keywords: Controlling Nutritional Status Score; Hemorrhagic stroke; Nutrition screening; Prognosis; Modified Rankin Scale

Online: 15 January 2021 (16:08:15 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202401.0789.v1

Microbiome Modeling: A Beginner’s Guide

Emanuel Lange, Lena Kranert, Jacob Krüger, Dirk Benndorf, Robert Heyer

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biology And Biotechnology Keywords: systems microbiology; microbial ecology; omics data integration; metaproteomics; genome-scale modeling; constraint-based modeling; boolean modeling, bioinformatics

Online: 10 January 2024 (09:57:55 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0606.v1

RNAi-Mediated Down-Regulation of Dicer-Like 2 and 4 Changes the Response of “Moneymaker” Tomato to Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid Infection from Tolerance to Lethal Systemic Necrosis, Accompanied by Up-Regulation of miR398a-3p and Reactive Oxygen Species

Takairo Suzuki, Sho Ikeda, Atsushi Kasai, Akito Taneda, Kohei Sugawara, Misato Fujibayashi, Maki Okuta, Hayato Maeda, Teruo Sano

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Anatomy And Physiology Keywords: viroid; pathogenicity; RNA silencing; Dicer-like proteins; small interfering RNA; microRNA398; microRNA398a-3p; superoxide dismutase 1; reactive oxygen species; systemic necrosis

Online: 28 November 2018 (06:50:07 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0136.v1

Analysis of Spatiotemporal Variation of Land Subsidence in Beijing Plain, China

Lin Guo, Huili Gong, Feng Zhu, Lin Zhu, Chaofan Zhou, Yike Sun

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Remote Sensing Keywords: Land subsidence; InSAR; Small baseline interferometry; Mann-Kendall mutation test; Fishnet

Online: 11 December 2018 (16:49:47 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0175.v1

Antineutrino Star Model of the Big Bang and Dark Energy

Tom F. Neiser

Subject: Physical Sciences, Particle And Field Physics Keywords: cosmology: theory; gravitation; early universe; dark energy; large-scale structure of universe; cosmic background radiation; neutrinos

Online: 12 June 2018 (08:43:45 CEST)

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Preprint COMMUNICATION | doi:10.20944/preprints202103.0698.v1

A call for Linguistic Awareness in the Age of Pandemic: a Brief study of a Misleading Term in a Trending Covid19- Related Article in Nature Human Behavior

soheil daneshzadeh

Subject: Social Sciences, Anthropology Keywords: Small gatherings cancellation; Cognitive linguistics; Corpus analysis; Semantic frame; Covid-19.

Online: 29 March 2021 (14:41:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0386.v1

Effects of Residual Stress Distribution on Interfacial Adhesion of Magnetron Sputtered AlN and AlN/Al Nanostructured Coatings on (100) Silicon Substrate

Rashid Ali, Marco Renzelli, Muhammad Imran Khan, Marco Sebastiani, Edoardo Bemporad

Subject: Chemistry And Materials Science, Surfaces, Coatings And Films Keywords: physical vapor deposition; magnetron-sputtering; AlN/Al coating; silicon substrate; residual stresses; wafer curvature method; Nano-scale residual stress profiling; indentation failure modes; nanoindentation adhesion

Online: 17 October 2018 (12:36:39 CEST)

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Compressive residual stresses in thin films can inhibit crack propagation under normal or sliding contact loading, with associated enhancement of the coating apparent toughness, load bearing capacity and wear resistance. This study investigates the influence of residual stress distributions on the thin film/substrate adhesion using a nanoindenter coupled with scanning electron microscope (SEM) investigations of indentation induced failure modes. Reactive and un-reactive magnetron sputtering with ion plating was used to coat a (100) silicon substrate with aluminum nitride (AlN) with and without an aluminum (Al) adhesion layer. The presence of an Al bond layer gives additional interfacial tensile stress because of the difference in thermal expansion coefficient. Additionally, a different magnitude of residual stresses in the AlN coating was achieved by changing the applied bias voltage onto the substrate. Wafer curvature method and incremental focused ion beam (FIB) milling, combined with high-resolution in situ scanning electron microscopy (SEM) imaging and full field strain analysis by digital image correlation (DIC), were used to measure the average and in-depth stress residual stress distribution in the produced coatings. The adhesion energy was then quantified by using a nanoindentation based model. Results demonstrate that the additional tensile residual stress in the aluminum adhesion layer decrease significantly the coating adhesion, even in presence of a higher compressive stress state in the AlN top-layer. Therefore, the coatings without Al-layer showed better adhesion because of a more homogeneous compressive residual stress in comparison with the coating having Al layer, even though both groups of coatings are produced under same bias voltage. Results are discussed, and some general suggestions are made on the correlation between coating/substrate property combination and the adhesion energy of multilayer stacks. The results suggested that Al bond-layer and inhomogeneous residual stresses affected the adhesion of AlN negatively to a substrate like silicon.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201904.0246.v2

Mathematical Models for Possible Roles of Oxytocin and Oxytocin Receptors in Autism

Mark Gottlieb

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Neuroscience And Neurology Keywords: Oxytocin, Oxytocin Receptor, Autism, Nepsys Scale, MAST Immune System Disease, Dendritic Spines, Magnocellular Neurons, Desensitization, Labor, Down Regulation

Online: 23 April 2019 (11:12:19 CEST)

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Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory

Piotr Homola, Dmitriy Beznosko, Gopal Bhatta, Łukasz Bibrzycki, Łukasz Bratek, Michalina Borczyńska, Nikolay M. Budnev, Dariusz Burakowski, David Edwin Alvarez-Castillo, Kevin Almeida Cheminant, Aleksander Ćwikła, Punsiri Dam-o, Niraj Dhital, Alan Duffy, Piotr Głownia, Krzysztof Gorzkiewicz, Dariusz Góra, Alok C. Gupta, Zuzana Hlávková, Martin Homola, Joanna Jałocha, Robert Kamiński, Michał Karbowiak, Marcin Kasztelan, Renata Kierepko, Marek Knap, Péter Kovács, Szymon Kuliński, Bartosz Łozowski, Marek Magryś, Mikhail V. Medvedev, Justyna Mędrala, Jerzy W. Mietelski, Justyna Miszczyk, Alona Mozgova, Antonio Napolitano, Vahab Nazari, Y. Jack Ng, Michał Niedźwiecki, Cristina Oancea, Bogusław Ogan, Gabriela Opiła, Krzysztof Oziomek, Maciej Pawlik, Marcin Piekarczyk, Bożena Poncyljusz, Jerzy Pryga, Matías Rosas, Krzysztof Rzecki, Jilberto Zamora-Saa, Katarzyna Smelcerz, Karel Smolek, Weronika Stanek, Jarosław Stasielak, Slawomir Stuglik, Jolanta Sulma, Oleksandr Sushchov, Manana Svanidze, Kyle Tam, Arman Tursunov, José-M. Vaquero, Tadeusz Wibig, Krzysztof W. Woźniak

Subject: Physical Sciences, Nuclear And High Energy Physics Keywords: cosmic rays; cosmic ray ensembles; extensive air showers; large scale cosmic ray correlations; CREDO Collaboration

Online: 15 October 2020 (16:13:43 CEST)

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Drivers and Barriers for Successful Special Economic Zones (SEZs): Case of SEZs under China Pakistan Economic Corridor

Saira Naeem, Abdul Waheed, Muhammad Naeem Khan

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Special Economic Zones; Small Medium Enterprises; Joint Ventures; Export Lead Industrialization; Developing Economies; Industrial Clusters

Online: 13 February 2020 (10:10:33 CET)

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