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Knudsen, Holger. "Building a Foreign Law Collection: Methods and strategies." Legal Information Management 1, no. 3 (2001): 14–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1472669600000530.
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My Institute is part of, and funded by, the Max Planck Society, which roughly corresponds to an Academy of Science in other countries. The Society runs 80 research institutes today, out of which 12 conduct research in the humanities, including six institutes that deal with legal questions on a superior level, including mine. The different institutes are located in different parts of the country, and this very much corresponds to the federalist foundations of the German state.
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Musgrove, Kristine Anita. "Practical approaches to including popular music in the secondary ensemble." Journal of Popular Music Education 3, no. 3 (December 1, 2019): 487–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00008_1.
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This article offers guidelines to secondary music ensemble directors who are interested in incorporating informal approaches common to popular music making within their ensemble. The approaches provided utilize listening, improvisation, arranging, composition and collaboration in order to incorporate popular music learning. The examples discussed are specific strategies and methods which can be used by secondary music ensemble directors as entry points into popular music making activities. Strategies and methods presented place focus on approaching popular music making from the students’ musical interest and experiences promoting student-led learning.
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DHILLON, B. S. "MEDICAL EQUIPMENT RELIABILITY: A REVIEW, ANALYSIS METHODS AND IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES." International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering 18, no. 04 (August 2011): 391–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218539311004317.
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This paper presents facts and figures, directly or indirectly, related to medical equipment reliability and reviews various important aspects, directly or indirectly, concerned with medical equipment reliability including classifications of medical devices/equipment, human error in medical equipment, useful guidelines for reliability and other professionals to improve medical equipment reliability, and medical equipment maintenance. A number of methods considered useful for performing medical equipment reliability analysis are also presented. Useful sources and organizations for obtaining medical equipment failure-related data are listed.
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Karbalaie Niya, Mohammad Hadi, Naeimeh Roshan-zamir, and Elham Mortazavi. "DNA Methylation Tools and Strategies: Methods in a Review." Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Biology 4, no. 3 (September 8, 2019): 51–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.31557/apjcb.2019.4.3.51-57.
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DNA methylation is known as an important epigenetic change in plants and vertebrates genome. In this process, the methyl group transferred by DNA methyl transferase enzymes to cytosine at carbon residue 5 often in the CpG dinucleotide context. DNA methylation plays an important role in the natural development of the organism, genome stability maintenance and processes such as genomic imprinting and chromosome X inactivation in mammals. In addition, changes in DNA methylation pattern have seen in many diseases, including cancer. Analysis of DNA methylation has been useful for rapid disease diagnosis and progression. In recent decades, a revolution has taken place in the methods of DNA methylation analysis, and it is possible to study the pattern of gene methylation at a widespread, short and high resolution level. These methods can be divided into three general categories: (1) cut-based methods by methylation-sensitive enzymes; (2) sodium bisulfide based methods; (3) antibody based methods. Since the existence of different methods makes it difficult to select the appropriate approach, in this review, a number of common methods for examining the methylation pattern with the advantages and disadvantages will be discussed.
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Liu, Jing Zheng, Ling Ling Li, Zhi Gang Li, and Ming Hui Wang. "Study on Knowledge Expression Methods and Reasoning Strategies in Intelligent CAD System." Key Engineering Materials 419-420 (October 2009): 321–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.419-420.321.
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As the core of intelligent computer aided design (ICAD), the expert system with the purpose of product design automation and intelligence has been developed rapidly. Knowledge expression, management, utilization, and access method has always been the core of artificial intelligence and expert system technology , Substantial literature both at home and abroad involved in the content and achieved certain results in the area of design. In the aspect of knowledge expression and management, including: the knowledge expression based on gene model[3], the knowledge expression based on design pattern[4], the knowledge expression based on Petri net, mixed knowledge expression, and so on. In the aspect of system reasoning, including: fuzzy reasoning[5,6], ccase-based reasoning[7], integration reasoning, and so on. This paper mainly introduces some technologies and methods about electrical products at ICAD system with the above-mentioned two aspects. As a sub-system of ICAD system, the expert system for electrical apparatus designing was studied in the artificial intelligent technologies, including the way to build a large knowledge database managed by multi level frames and expressed by various knowledge expression methods, and the reasoning strategy suitable for the structure of knowledge database and integrated rule-based reasoning (RBR) with case-based reasoning (CBR) together. Based on these technologies, two-level expert system controlled by meta reasoning machine was built so that the reasoning efficiency was boosted very strongly.
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Carrier, Sarah J. "Implementing and Integrating Effective Teaching Strategies Including Features of Lesson Study in an Elementary Science Methods Course." Teacher Educator 46, no. 2 (April 4, 2011): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08878730.2011.552666.
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Day, George, and Liam Fahey. "Valuing Market Strategies." Journal of Marketing 52, no. 3 (July 1988): 45–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002224298805200305.
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The search for shareholder value is changing the way marketing decisions are made. No longer will traditional payback or short-run ROI criteria be sufficient to evaluate investment proposals. Value-based planning methods incorporate the factors used by shareholders, including the cash flow and risk consequences of decisions. This broader perspective also shifts the focus from selecting discrete projects to funding strategies. If marketers are to influence the strategy dialogue persuasively within these new groundrules, they first must understand how and why this new yardstick is being used. They must also be sensitive to the susceptibility of these methods to distorted inputs and the dangers in applying them to new ventures. The risk of misleading signals is high. There is still no substitute for insightful thinking about the fundamentals of competitive advantage, which is where economic value is created.
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Thomas, M., and B. J. Hunt. "Pharmacological methods of thromboprophylaxis." Phlebology: The Journal of Venous Disease 21, no. 1_suppl (June 2006): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/026835506778243059.
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The burden of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in hospitalized patients is significant and often underestimated. In this article the rationale for thromboprophylaxis is reviewed and rates of VTE in different patient populations considered. The options for pharmacological methods of prophylaxis are outlined and the evidence for their use in specific patient groups is reviewed. Thromboprophylaxis is effective but currently underused. Strategies are being developed to remedy this situation including the development of national guidelines and intervention by the Department of Health.
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He, Jun. "Suitable Methods of Waste Separation." Advanced Materials Research 726-731 (August 2013): 2975–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.726-731.2975.
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In recent year suitable management (including collection, separate ways etc.) and innovative treatment methods of waste and alternative strategies for power plant to produce electricity and heat are focused either by experts or common peoples. It refers not only to ecologic but also to economic interests. Because many suitable treatment methods of waste are decided by the types of them, so that the waste management including separation is very relevant. For realizing of more suitable separate and treatment ways which support a waste disposal with reduced pollution of environment, to set some easy deliver rules of garbage for common people is as important as to choose a proper way to treat them by the knowledge of experts.
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Bouazzaoui, Abdellatif, Ahmed A. H. Abdellatif, Faisal A. Al-Allaf, Neda M. Bogari, Saied Al-Dehlawi, and Sameer H. Qari. "Strategies for Vaccination: Conventional Vaccine Approaches Versus New-Generation Strategies in Combination with Adjuvants." Pharmaceutics 13, no. 2 (January 22, 2021): 140. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics13020140.
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The current COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has raised significant economic, social, and psychological concerns. The rapid spread of the virus, coupled with the absence of vaccines and antiviral treatments for SARS-CoV-2, has galvanized a major global endeavor to develop effective vaccines. Within a matter of just a few months of the initial outbreak, research teams worldwide, adopting a range of different strategies, embarked on a quest to develop effective vaccine that could be effectively used to suppress this virulent pathogen. In this review, we describe conventional approaches to vaccine development, including strategies employing proteins, peptides, and attenuated or inactivated pathogens in combination with adjuvants (including genetic adjuvants). We also present details of the novel strategies that were adopted by different research groups to successfully transfer recombinantly expressed antigens while using viral vectors (adenoviral and retroviral) and non-viral delivery systems, and how recently developed methods have been applied in order to produce vaccines that are based on mRNA, self-amplifying RNA (saRNA), and trans-amplifying RNA (taRNA). Moreover, we discuss the methods that are being used to enhance mRNA stability and protein production, the advantages and disadvantages of different methods, and the challenges that are encountered during the development of effective vaccines.
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Mendibil, Unai, Raquel Ruiz-Hernandez, Sugoi Retegi-Carrion, Nerea Garcia-Urquia, Beatriz Olalde-Graells, and Ander Abarrategi. "Tissue-Specific Decellularization Methods: Rationale and Strategies to Achieve Regenerative Compounds." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21, no. 15 (July 30, 2020): 5447. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21155447.
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The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a complex network with multiple functions, including specific functions during tissue regeneration. Precisely, the properties of the ECM have been thoroughly used in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine research, aiming to restore the function of damaged or dysfunctional tissues. Tissue decellularization is gaining momentum as a technique to obtain potentially implantable decellularized extracellular matrix (dECM) with well-preserved key components. Interestingly, the tissue-specific dECM is becoming a feasible option to carry out regenerative medicine research, with multiple advantages compared to other approaches. This review provides an overview of the most common methods used to obtain the dECM and summarizes the strategies adopted to decellularize specific tissues, aiming to provide a helpful guide for future research development.
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Mooz, Hal, and Kevin Forsberg. "4.4.3 A Visual Explanation of Development Methods and Strategies including the Waterfall, Spiral, Vee, Vee+, and Vee++ Models." INCOSE International Symposium 11, no. 1 (July 2001): 610–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2334-5837.2001.tb02348.x.
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Downs, Melanie L., and Philip Johnson. "Target Selection Strategies for LC-MS/MS Food Allergen Methods." Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL 101, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 146–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5740/jaoacint.17-0404.
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Abstract The detection and quantitation of allergens as contaminants in foods using MS is challenging largely due to the requirement to detect proteins in complex, mixed, and often processed matrixes. Such methods necessarily rely on the use of proteotypic peptides as indicators of the presence and amount of allergenic foods. These peptides should represent the allergenic food in question in such a way that their use is both sensitive (no false-negatives) and specific (no false-positives). Choosing such peptides to represent food allergens is beset with issues, including, but not limited to, separated ingredients (e.g., casein and whey), extraction difficulties (particularly from thermally processed foods), and incomplete sequence information, as well as the more common issues associated with protein quantitation in biological samples. Here, we review the workflows that have been used to select peptide targets for food allergen detection. We describe the use and limitations of both in silico-based analyses and experimental methods relying on high-resolution MS. The variation in the way in which target selection is performed highlights a lack of standardization, even around the principles describing what the detection method should achieve. A lack of focus on the food matrixes to which the method will be applied is also apparent during the peptide target selection process. It is hoped that highlighting some of these issues will assist in the generation of MS-based allergen detection methods that will encourage uptake and use by the analytical community at large.
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Vasilakes, Jake, Rubina Rizvi, Genevieve B. Melton, Serguei Pakhomov, and Rui Zhang. "Evaluating active learning methods for annotating semantic predications." JAMIA Open 1, no. 2 (June 27, 2018): 275–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamiaopen/ooy021.
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Abstract Objectives This study evaluated and compared a variety of active learning strategies, including a novel strategy we proposed, as applied to the task of filtering incorrect semantic predications in SemMedDB. Materials and methods We evaluated 8 active learning strategies covering 3 types—uncertainty, representative, and combined—on 2 datasets of 6,000 total semantic predications from SemMedDB covering the domains of substance interactions and clinical medicine, respectively. We also designed a novel combined strategy called dynamic β that does not use hand-tuned hyperparameters. Each strategy was assessed by the Area under the Learning Curve (ALC) and the number of training examples required to achieve a target Area Under the ROC curve. We also visualized and compared the query patterns of the query strategies. Results All types of active learning (AL) methods beat the baseline on both datasets. Combined strategies outperformed all other methods in terms of ALC, outperforming the baseline by over 0.05 ALC for both datasets and reducing 58% annotation efforts in the best case. While representative strategies performed well, their performance was matched or outperformed by the combined methods. Our proposed AL method dynamic β shows promising ability to achieve near-optimal performance across 2 datasets. Discussion Our visual analysis of query patterns indicates that strategies which efficiently obtain a representative subsample perform better on this task. Conclusion Active learning is shown to be effective at reducing annotation costs for filtering incorrect semantic predications from SemMedDB. Our proposed AL method demonstrated promising performance.
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Krishnamoorti, Ramanan. "Strategies for Dispersing Nanoparticles in Polymers." MRS Bulletin 32, no. 4 (April 2007): 341–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/mrs2007.233.
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AbstractControlling the dispersion of nanoparticles in polymeric matrices is the most significant impediment in the development of high-perform ance polymer nanocomposite ma te rials and results primarily from the strong interpar ticle interactions between the nanopar ticles. This review examines the theoretical and experimental strategies employed in developing appropriate chemical and physical methods to achieve controlled dispersion of nanopar ticles. Methods to characterize the state of dispersion, including force and electron micros copy, and scattering, electrical, and mechanical spectroscopy, are considered with special emphasis on achieving quantitative meas ures of the dispersion. Some of the outstanding issues, such as long-term aging and the implication for the dispersion of nanopar ticles, development of high-throughput methods for rapid screening, and methods for in-line monitoring, are also discussed.
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Farnfield, Steve. "Fix my child: The importance of including siblings in clinical assessments." Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 22, no. 3 (July 2017): 421–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359104517707995.
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Aims: This study examined concordance in the attachment strategies of school-aged siblings with reference to environmental risk in terms of poverty and maltreatment. It also investigated the effect of child maltreatment and maternal mental illness on children’s psychosocial functioning in terms of the Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation (DMM) including unresolved trauma and the DMM Depressed modifier. Methods: The attachment strategies of 30 sibling pairs, aged 5–14 years, were assessed using the School-age Assessment of Attachment (SAA). Unlike most previous studies, this study included siblings from large families of two to six children. Results: The main finding was that as environmental risk increases, the diversity of sibling attachment strategies decreases with greater recourse to the DMM Type A3-6 and A/C strategies. Unlike previous studies, the highest level of concordance was found in sibling pairs with the opposite gender. Boys whose mothers had a history of mental illness were significantly more likely than girls to be assessed with the DMM-depression modifier. Conclusion: As danger increases, children in the same family experience more of the same childhood. Further research should focus on single case, intra-familial studies to build a systemic model of the shared environment. Research should also evaluate the effects of environmental risk compared with size of the sibling group on children’s attachment strategies. The clinical implications point to the importance of assessing all children in the family using a model built around functional formulation rather than diagnosing the symptoms of a particular child.
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Poling, E. Barclay. "Spring Cold Injury to Winegrapes and Protection Strategies and Methods." HortScience 43, no. 6 (October 2008): 1652–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.43.6.1652.
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Active frost protection methods may be expensive, but a correctly selected and operated system can provide more consistent crops and improved cash flow in years of potentially damaging cold events at postbudbreak stages of grape development. The selection of an active frost protection system depends on a number of factors, including the prevailing climatic conditions that occur during the spring season at the vineyard location, the costs associated with different frost control systems as well as considerations related to the reliability and relative simplicity of operating the equipment associated with each method. In winegrape production areas in North Carolina, hoar (white) frosts are the predominant cold threat in the postbudbreak period. A wind machine can be a very cost-effective investment on sites that are prone to a damaging frost event in 1 of 5 years or with a higher frequency of occurrence. However, wind machines have less overall usefulness in growing areas where there is also potential for black frosts (a more damaging radiational event than a hoar frost) and frosts/freezes (events with subfreezing temperatures and winds in the range of 2.2 to 4.5 m·s−1). For black frost events, a well-designed overvine sprinkling system can provide nearly 6 °C protection; sprinkling is also an appropriate management option for frost/freeze events. Windborne freezes are far less common at the postbudbreak stages but represent the most damaging type of cold event that can occur in eastern and midwestern winegrape regions in the United States. Methods that reliably delay budbreak (e.g., dormant oils, evaporative cooling with targeted sprinklers) may represent the best near-term opportunity for growers to decrease or avoid vine injury from freeze events such as the early April Easter freeze of 2007 that devastated grape vineyards through much of the midwest and southeastern United States.
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Van Dyke, Benjamin. "Equal Angle Distribution of Polling Directions in Direct-Search Methods." Journal of Optimization 2014 (2014): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/619249.
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The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to introduce deterministic strategies for directional direct-search methods, including new instances of the mesh adaptive direct-search (MADS) and the generating set search (GSS) class of algorithms, which utilize a nice distribution of PoLLdirections when compared to other strategies, and second, to introduce variants of each algorithm which utilize a minimal positive basis at each step. The strategies base their PoLLdirections on the use of the QR decomposition to obtain an orthogonal set of directions or on using the equal angular directions from a regular simplex centered at the origin with vertices on the unit sphere. Test results are presented on a set of smooth, nonsmooth, unconstrained, and constrained problems that give comparisons between the various implementations of these directional direct-search methods.
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Smith, Paige Hall, Christine E. Murray, and Ann L. Coker. "The Coping Window: A Contextual Understanding of the Methods Women Use to Cope With Battering." Violence and Victims 25, no. 1 (February 2010): 18–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.25.1.18.
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This study aimed to develop a conceptual framework for understanding the coping strategies used by women who are battered, drawing from the existing literature and qualitative interviews with 10 women seeking services in shelters for women who have been battered. This conceptual framework is needed to reflect the unique complexity of the nature of the chronic and acute stressors associated with battering. The results of the data analyses were integrated with the existing literature to form a model, The Coping Window. This model includes an external frame of contextual influences, as well as a Focus Axis (including emotion-focused and problem-focused coping strategies) and a Resource Axis (including intrapersonal and interpersonal coping strategies). The Coping Window model could be used in individual or group counseling and educational programs, and additional research is needed to refine this model.
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Kuznetsova, T. Yu, M. A. Druzhilov, G. A. Chumakova, and N. D. Veselovskaya. "Strategies and methods for the correction of obesity and associated cardiovascular risk." Russian Journal of Cardiology, no. 4 (May 8, 2019): 61–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.15829/1560-4071-2019-4-61-67.
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Today, there is a need to study obesity from the perspective of associated with it cardiovascular risk correcting. Future researches will have to study the pathophysiology of adipose tissue in greater detail, including tissue, cellular and molecular levels, in order to develop the most effective strategies for therapeutic and preventive measures. At the same time, taking into account the basic ideas about the role of cardiorespiratory fitness in the etiopathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases, the ratio of fat free and fat mass, white and brown adipose tissue, subcutaneous fat and visceral adipose tissue, main directions of these measures becomes obvious. This article discusses strategies for correcting obesity and associated cardiovascular risk as part of primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases and suggests an algorithm for developing an individual program of preventive measures for an obese patient.
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Thomas, Volker, and Phil Striegel. "Stress and Grief of a Perinatal Loss: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 30, no. 4 (January 1, 1995): 299–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/x0e4-536u-6ywp-cpyl.
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Based on family stress theory, this study examined the question of how parents grieve the loss of a baby through miscarriage or stillbirth. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods, we interviewed twenty-six couples two weeks after a perinatal loss. The couples filled out questionnaires measuring individual variables including bereavement, depression and stress, and couple variables including cohesion, adaptability, communication, satisfaction, and partner support. Then they participated in a three-hour semi-structured interview. Ethnographic content analysis revealed twelve themes closely related to the resources, the meaning of the stressful event, and the coping strategies of Hill's ABC-X stress model. The quantitative analysis of the individual and couple variables supported the qualitative findings in that most couples had excellent coping strategies derived from within the couple relationship.
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Rzepka, Zuzanna, Marta Knapik, and Dorota Wrześniok. "Strategies of current cancer immunotherapy." Postępy Higieny i Medycyny Doświadczalnej 73 (December 31, 2019): 898–908. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.7539.
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Cancers are a significant health problem in the world. The most common therapeutic methods applied in oncology are chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgical methods. Finding new therapies in this branch of medicine, as well as developing solutions with the highest possible effectiveness, taking into account the multifactorial nature of cancer, is important from both the scientific and medical point of view and, for obvious reasons, it is in the interest of many people. Immunotherapy, despite many years of initial failures, has become one of the most important clinically approved new treatments in oncology and is now successfully used in the treatment of certain types of cancer. Current immunotherapeutic strategies are based on monoclonal antibodies (including inhibitors of immune control points), cytokines, anti-cancer vaccines, oncolytic viruses, as well as adoptive cell transfer. For many cancer immunotherapies, an increase in their effectiveness is observed when they are used with other types of immunotherapy as well as in combination with molecular targeted therapy, chemotherapy or radiotherapy. The dynamic development of cancer immunotherapy since the beginning of the 21st century results from the advances in genetic engineering, as well as from the increase in knowledge about the anticancer immune response and the nature of cancer cells including abnormalities in their metabolism, the ability to create a tumor microenvironment and the induction of immunosuppression. The aim of the study is to present current knowledge in the field of cancer immunotherapy strategies.
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Chen, Hongwei, Linlu Zhao, Fabiao Yu, and Qiaoling Du. "Detection of phosphorus species in water: technology and strategies." Analyst 144, no. 24 (2019): 7130–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9an01161g.
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Yamanaka, Shuichiro, and Takashi Yokoo. "Current Bioengineering Methods for Whole Kidney Regeneration." Stem Cells International 2015 (2015): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/724047.
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Kidney regeneration is likely to provide an inexhaustible source of tissues and organs for immunosuppression-free transplantation. It is currently garnering considerable attention and might replace kidney dialysis as the ultimate therapeutic strategy for renal failure. However, anatomical complications make kidney regeneration difficult. Here, we review recent advances in the field of kidney regeneration, including (i) the directed differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells/embryonic stem cells into kidney cells; (ii) blastocyst decomplementation; (iii) use of a decellularized cadaveric scaffold; (iv) embryonic organ transplantation; and (v) use of a nephrogenic niche for growing xenoembryos forde novokidney regeneration from stem cells. All these approaches represent potentially promising therapeutic strategies for the treatment of patients with chronic kidney disease. Although many obstacles to kidney regeneration remain, we hope that innovative strategies and reliable research will ultimately allow the restoration of renal function in patients with end-stage kidney disease.
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Wanichthanarak, Kwanjeera, Johannes F. Fahrmann, and Dmitry Grapov. "Genomic, Proteomic, and Metabolomic Data Integration Strategies." Biomarker Insights 10s4 (January 2015): BMI.S29511. http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/bmi.s29511.
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Robust interpretation of experimental results measuring discreet biological domains remains a significant challenge in the face of complex biochemical regulation processes such as organismal versus tissue versus cellular metabolism, epigenetics, and protein post-translational modification. Integration of analyses carried out across multiple measurement or omic platforms is an emerging approach to help address these challenges. This review focuses on select methods and tools for the integration of metabolomic with genomic and proteomic data using a variety of approaches including biochemical pathway-, ontology-, network-, and empirical-correlation-based methods.
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Flores, Luciano V., Maria Helena De Lima, Marcelo S. Pimenta, Victor Lazzarini, and Damián Keller. "Methods in Creativity-Centered Design for Ubiquitous Musical Activities." ScientiaTec 2, no. 2 (September 1, 2015): 25–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.35819/scientiatec.v2i2.1468.
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In this paper we describe a set of creativity-centered design methods, including strategies for interaction, signal processing, planning, prototyping and assessment. These were applied in the development of a prototype for mixing in mobile devices, which was assessed in an exploratory field study. We briefly discuss the implications of this experience for future experiments targeting aspects of creative performance in everyday settings.
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Liu, Juan, Dominik Saul, Kai Oliver Böker, Jennifer Ernst, Wolfgang Lehman, and Arndt F. Schilling. "Current Methods for Skeletal Muscle Tissue Repair and Regeneration." BioMed Research International 2018 (2018): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1984879.
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Skeletal muscle has the capacity of regeneration after injury. However, for large volumes of muscle loss, this regeneration needs interventional support. Consequently, muscle injury provides an ongoing reconstructive and regenerative challenge in clinical work. To promote muscle repair and regeneration, different strategies have been developed within the last century and especially during the last few decades, including surgical techniques, physical therapy, biomaterials, and muscular tissue engineering as well as cell therapy. Still, there is a great need to develop new methods and materials, which promote skeletal muscle repair and functional regeneration. In this review, we give a comprehensive overview over the epidemiology of muscle tissue loss, highlight current strategies in clinical treatment, and discuss novel methods for muscle regeneration and challenges for their future clinical translation.
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GALAYDA, A. M. "CAPITALIZATION OF FINANCIAL STRATEGIES IN TRADE." EKONOMIKA I UPRAVLENIE: PROBLEMY, RESHENIYA 3, no. 3 (2020): 56–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.36871/ek.up.p.r.2020.03.03.010.
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The article considers the final financial result of a commercial organization , including one employed in the trade industry, which is optimally modeled. It is shown that this strategy can be implemented using various techniques and methods both within the legal field and outside it. A well-formed accounting policy allows a trading company to manage its current and non-current assets without violating the established rules and regulations in conditions of singularity in the economy.
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Nevi, Lorenzo, Samira Safarikia, Sabina Di Matteo, Francesca Biancaniello, Michele Francesco Chiappetta, and Vincenzo Cardinale. "Hyaluronan-Based Grafting Strategies for Liver Stem Cell Therapy and Tracking Methods." Stem Cells International 2019 (July 1, 2019): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3620546.
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Cell adhesion is essential for survival, it plays important roles in physiological cell functions, and it is an innovative target in regenerative medicine. Among the molecular interactions and the pathways triggered during cell adhesion, the binding of cluster of differentiation 44 (CD44), a cell-surface glycoprotein involved in cell-cell interactions, to hyaluronic acid (HA), a major component of the extracellular matrix, is a crucial step. Cell therapy has emerged as a promising treatment for advanced liver diseases; however, so far, it has led to low cell engraftment and limited cell repopulation of the target tissue. Currently, different strategies are under investigation to improve cell grafting in the liver, including the use of organic and inorganic biomatrices that mimic the microenvironment of the extracellular matrix. Hyaluronans, major components of stem cell niches, are attractive candidates for coating stem cells since they improve viability, proliferation, and engraftment in damaged livers. In this review, we will discuss the new strategies that have been adopted to improve cell grafting and track cells after transplantation.
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Liu, Na, Libo Chang, Jiang Wu, Jianhua Fang, and Xu Xiao. "Emerging Topochemical Strategies for Designing Two-Dimensional Energy Materials." Micromachines 12, no. 8 (July 23, 2021): 867. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi12080867.
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The unique properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials make them increasingly attractive in various fields, especially for energy harvesting, conversion, or storage. Simultaneously, numerous synthetic methods have been rapidly developed. Recently, topochemical strategies were demonstrated, and they show tremendous promising potential for synthesizing 2D materials due to their simplicity, scalability, and high efficiency. Considering the suitability of material structures and their synthesis methods, as well as the relationship between material properties and applications, it is necessary for researchers to comprehensively review and determine the prospects of 2D materials based on topological chemical synthesis methods and their related applications. Therefore, in this review, we systematically summarize and analyze the representative topochemical strategies for synthesizing 2D materials, including salt-templating methods for non-layered 2D materials, molten Lewis acid etching strategy for novel MXenes, and the chalcogen vapors etching and substituting strategy for phase-controlled 2D materials and so on, with the application of these 2D materials in energy-related fields including batteries, supercapacitors, and electrocatalysis. At the end of the paper, the corresponding perspective was also illustrated, and we expect that this could provide a reference for the future research in the field.
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Höller, Johannes, Patricia Bickert, Patrick Schwartz, Martin von Kurnatowski, Joachim Kerber, Niklaus Künzle, Hilke-Marie Lorenz, Norbert Asprion, Sergej Blagov, and Michael Bortz. "Parameter Estimation Strategies in Thermodynamics." ChemEngineering 3, no. 2 (June 1, 2019): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/chemengineering3020056.
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Many thermodynamic models used in practice are at least partially empirical and thus require the determination of certain parameters using experimental data. However, due to the complexity of the models involved as well as the inhomogeneity of available data, a straightforward application of basic methods often does not yield a satisfactory result. This work compares three different strategies for the numerical solution of parameter estimation problems, including errors both in the input and in the output variables. Additionally, the new idea to apply multi-criteria optimization techniques to parameter estimation problems is presented. Finally, strategies for the estimation and propagation of the model errors are discussed.
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An, Dong, Jia Xiu Song, and Bruce Anderson. "Integrated Treatment Methods for Safe Drinking Water Purification in Shanghai." Advanced Materials Research 113-116 (June 2010): 100–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.113-116.100.
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This paper focuses on new strategies of safe water purification based on Shanghai water supply quality. Solutions, including improving water quality in water source area, selecting proper new intake location, strengthening conventional treatment & advanced treatment of water supply and establishing monitoring network for safe distribution, could be considered to realize a multi-layered approach to ensuring safe drinking water supply.
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Ahn, Jongseong, Sunghoon Heo, Jihyun Lee, and Duhee Bang. "Introduction to Single-Cell DNA Methylation Profiling Methods." Biomolecules 11, no. 7 (July 10, 2021): 1013. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom11071013.
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DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism that is related to mammalian cellular differentiation, gene expression regulation, and disease. In several studies, DNA methylation has been identified as an effective marker to identify differences between cells. In this review, we introduce single-cell DNA-methylation profiling methods, including experimental strategies and approaches to computational data analysis. Furthermore, the blind spots of the basic analysis and recent alternatives are briefly described. In addition, we introduce well-known applications and discuss future development.
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Shaik, Jahangheer S., Deborah E. Dobson, David L. Sacks, and Stephen M. Beverley. "Leishmania Sexual Reproductive Strategies as Resolved through Computational Methods Designed for Aneuploid Genomes." Genes 12, no. 2 (January 26, 2021): 167. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes12020167.
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A cryptic sexual reproductive cycle in Leishmania has been inferred through population genetic studies revealing the presence of hybrid genotypes in natural isolates, with attempts made to decipher sexual strategies by studying complex chromosomal inheritance patterns. A more informative approach is to study the products of controlled, laboratory-based experiments where known strains or species are crossed in the sand fly vector to generate hybrid progeny. These hybrids can be subsequently studied through high resolution sequencing technologies and software suites such as PAINT that disclose inheritance patterns including ploidies, parental chromosome contributions and recombinations, all of which can inform the sexual strategy. In this work, we discuss the computational methods in PAINT that can be used to interpret the sexual strategies adopted specifically by aneuploid organisms and summarize how PAINT has been applied to the analysis of experimental hybrids to reveal meiosis-like sexual recombination in Leishmania.
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Karge, Belinda Dunnick, Kathleen M. Phillips, Tammy Jessee, and Marjorie McCabe. "Effective Strategies For Engaging Adult Learners." Journal of College Teaching & Learning (TLC) 8, no. 12 (November 22, 2011): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/tlc.v8i12.6621.
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Innovative methods in teaching should be used in every college classroom to enhance student engagement, support any teaching environment and encourage inquiry among learners. Adults learn best by participation in relevant experiences and utilization of practical information. When adult students are active in their learning they are able to develop critical thinking skills, receive social support systems for the learning, and gain knowledge in an efficient way. The authors highlight several exemplary strategies for adult learners including, Think-Pair-Share, Tell -Help-Check, Give One, Get One, and the Immediate Feedback Assessment Test.
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Zhou, Yi, Yuchun Zhou, Lijing Yang, and Shouhua Yu. "Evaluating Mixed Methods Research Integration Quality in Three Top Journals of Higher Education." International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches 12, no. 3 (December 31, 2020): 304–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.29034/ijmra.v12n3a2.
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Mixed methods research (MMR) has been adopted in a variety of disciplines, including health science, social studies, psychology, early childhood, and business. More recently, higher education researchers adopted this methodology, but with limited evaluation on the quality of published mixed methods research. To enhance researchers’ understanding of using MMR, we developed a 4-dimension codebook and reviewed 14 recently published mixed methods research articles that were published in 3 top journals in higher education. We found that researchers used 3 effective strategies to approach integration: (a) using a mixed methods research question to guide the mixed methods (MM) design, (b) using effective mixed methods sampling strategies to collect different types of data for the purpose of integration, and (c) using mixing techniques to interpret results for optimal maximum integration. Apart from the 3 effective integration strategies, a few insufficiencies have been singled out: (a) infrequent use of MM terminologies in the article title, (b) limited familiarity with MM data mixing strategies, and (c) non-optimal reporting of MM results. At the end, we synthesized the useful integration strategies and developed a checklist for higher education researchers to design high-quality mixed methods research studies.
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CHUANG, LI-YEH, CHENG-HONG YANG, and LI-CHENG JIN. "CLASSIFICATION OF MULTIPLE CANCER TYPES USING FUZZY SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES AND OUTLIER DETECTION METHODS." Biomedical Engineering: Applications, Basis and Communications 17, no. 06 (December 25, 2005): 300–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.4015/s1016237205000457.
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The support vector machine (SVM) is a new learning method and has shown comparable or better results than the neural networks on some applications. In this paper, we applied SVM to classify multiple cancer types by gene expression profiles and exploit some strategies of the SVM method, including fuzzy logic and statistical theories. Using the proposed strategies and outlier detection methods, the FSVM (fuzzy support vector machine) can achieve a comparable or better performance than other methods, and provide a more flexible architecture to discriminate against SRBCT and non-SRBCT samples.
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LIPTON, ALEXANDER. "OLD PROBLEMS, CLASSICAL METHODS, NEW SOLUTIONS." International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance 23, no. 04 (June 2020): 2050024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219024920500247.
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We use a powerful extension of the classical method of heat potentials, recently developed by the present author and his collaborators, to solve several significant problems of financial mathematics. We consider the following problems in detail: (a) calibrating the default boundary in the structural default framework to a constant default intensity; (b) calculating default probability for a representative bank in the mean-field framework; and (c) finding the hitting time probability density of an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process. Several other problems, including pricing American put options and finding optimal mean-reverting trading strategies, are mentioned in passing. Besides, two nonfinancial applications — the supercooled Stefan problem and the integrate-and-fire neuroscience problem — are briefly discussed as well.
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Xu, Jun-Li, Carlos Esquerre, and Da-Wen Sun. "Methods for performing dimensionality reduction in hyperspectral image classification." Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy 26, no. 1 (February 2018): 61–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967033518756175.
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This paper provides several useful strategies for performing the dimensionality reduction in hyperspectral imaging data, with detailed command line scripts in the Matlab computing language as the supplementary data. Due to the vast number of data dimensionality reduction methods available, this paper will mainly focus on some commonly used approaches adopted in hyperspectral imaging. In this work, transformation-based methods include principal component analysis and linear discriminant analysis, while band selection methods are comprised of partial least squares regression combined with the variable importance in the projection scores, selectivity ratio, and significance multivariate correlation; Monte Carlo sampling-based methods including enhanced Monte Carlo variable selection and competitive adaptive reweighted sampling; model population analysis-based methods from libPLS including uninformative variable elimination, random frog, and PHADIA; Matlab built-in functions for feature selection including Relieff, stepwise regression, and sequential feature selection; and the selection method guided by genetic algorithm. The example data included in supplementary material, also available for download, will be used to simplify decision tree models for differentiation of white stripe and red muscle pixels on salmon fillets, since classification is one of the main application domains of hyperspectral imaging. In this work, there are many original codes and functions developed, such as fast multiple scattering correction preprocessing, outlier detection, optimal cutoff value determination, spikes, and dead spectra identification and correction for hyperspectral image. More importantly, a further selection function based on variance inflation factor is proposed to diagnose and alleviate collinearity problem because collinearity and multicollinearity are always expected to be severe in the spectral data. In this work, step-by-step procedure is provided for easy adaptation of these strategies to individual case.
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COENEN, FRANS, and PAUL LENG. "Partitioning strategies for distributed association rule mining." Knowledge Engineering Review 21, no. 1 (March 2006): 25–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269888906000786.
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In this paper a number of alternative strategies for distributed/parallel association rule mining are investigated. The methods examined make use of a data structure, the T-tree, introduced previously by the authors as a structure for organizing sets of attributes for which support is being counted. We consider six different approaches, representing different ways of parallelizing the basic Apriori-T algorithm that we use. The methods focus on different mechanisms for partitioning the data between processes, and for reducing the message-passing overhead. Both ‘horizontal’ (data distribution) and ‘vertical’ (candidate distribution) partitioning strategies are considered, including a vertical partitioning algorithm (DATA-VP) which we have developed to exploit the structure of the T-tree. We present experimental results examining the performance of the methods in implementations using JavaSpaces. We conclude that in a JavaSpaces environment, candidate distribution strategies offer better performance than those that distribute the original dataset, because of the lower messaging overhead, and the DATA-VP algorithm produced results that are especially encouraging.
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Ning-wei, Zhao. "Recent progress in the methods of genome sequencing." Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology 53, no. 2 (April 2010): 319–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1516-89132010000200010.
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Genome sequencing is a very important tool for the development of genetic diagnosis, drugs of gene engineering, pharmacogenetics, etc. As the HGP comes into people's ears, there is an emerging need for the genome sequencing. During the recent years, there are two different traditional strategies available for this target: shotgun sequencing and hierarchical sequencing. Besides these, many efforts are pursuing new ideas to facilitate fast and cost-effective genome sequencing, including 454 GS system, polony sequencing, single molecular array, nanopore sequencing, with each having different unique characteristics, but remains to be fully developed.
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Tanaka, Mark M., Romane Cristescu, and Desmond W. Cooper. "Effective population size of koala populations under different population management regimes including contraception." Wildlife Research 36, no. 7 (2009): 601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr08160.
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Context. The management of wildlife populations aiming to control population size should also consider the preservation of genetic diversity. Some overabundant koala populations, for example, have low genetic variation. Different management strategies will affect population genetic variation differently. Aims. Here, we compare four strategies with respect to their effects on the effective population size, Ne , and therefore on genetic variation. Methods. The four strategies of interest are: (1) sterilisation or culling (which have the same effect on genetic variation); (2) random contraception of females with replacement; (3) random contraception of females without replacement; and (4) regular contraception, giving every female equal opportunity to reproduce. We develop mathematical models of these alternative schemes to evaluate their impact on Ne . We also consider the effect of changing population sizes by investigating a model with geometric population growth in which females are removed by sterilisation or culling. Key results. We find that sterilisation/culling at sexual maturity has the most detrimental effect on Ne , whereas regular contraception has no impact on Ne . Random contraception lies between these two extremes, leading to a moderate reduction in Ne . Removal of females from a growing population results in a higher Ne than the removal of females from a static population. Conclusions. Different strategies for controlling a population lead to different effective population sizes. Implications. To preserve genetic diversity in a wildlife population under control, the effective population size should be kept as large as possible. We suggest that a suitable approach in managing koala populations may be to prevent reproduction by all females older than a particular age.
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Bai, Huifeng, Julie McColl, and Christopher Moore. "Luxury retailers’ entry and expansion strategies in China." International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 45, no. 11 (November 13, 2017): 1181–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijrdm-11-2016-0232.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine internationalising luxury fashion retailers’ entry and post-entry expansion strategies in mainland China. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a pragmatic mixed-methods research approach, including a quantitative mail survey and qualitative face-to-face in-depth executive interviews. Findings Different from initial single entry methods, multiple methods are increasingly popular for luxury fashion retailers’ post-entry expansion in mainland China. Although directly controlled expansion strategies have become significant, local partnerships are still important and omnichannel distribution strategies are rapidly growing. Research limitations/implications The findings were generated in mainland China only. Originality/value This work provides an understanding of luxury fashion retailers’ activities in the Chinese market from both macro and micro perspectives. It examines luxury fashion retailers’ initial entry strategies, as well as their post-entry expansion strategies in mainland China. Few studies in the area of international luxury fashion retailing have employed a mixed-methods approach with this number of participants.
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Mathews, Catherine, Nicol Coetzee, Merrick Zwarenstein, Carl Lombard, Sally Guttmacher, Andrew Oxman, and George Schmid. "A systematic review of strategies for partner notification for sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS." International Journal of STD & AIDS 13, no. 5 (May 1, 2002): 285–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/0956462021925081.
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This review compares the effects of various sexually transmitted disease (STD) partner-notification strategies. Using review methods endorsed by the Cochrane Collaboration, it updates previous reviews, and addresses some of their methodological limitations. It includes 11 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing two or more strategies, including 8014 participants. Only two trials were conducted in developing countries, and only two trials were conducted among HIV-positive patients. The review found moderately strong evidence that: (1) provider referral alone, or the choice between patient and provider referral, when compared with patient referral among patients with HIV or any STD, increases the rate of partners presenting for medical evaluation; (2) contract referral, when compared with patient referral among patients with gonorrhoea, results in more partners presenting for medical evaluation; (3) verbal, nurse-given health education together with patient-centred counselling by lay workers, when compared with standard care among patients with any STD, results in small increases in the rate of partners treated. The review concludes that there is a need for evaluations of interventions combining provider training and patient education, for evaluations conducted in developing countries, and for the measurement of potential harmful effects.
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Poltavets, Anastasiya S., Polina A. Vishnyakova, Andrey V. Elchaninov, Gennady T. Sukhikh, and Timur Kh Fatkhudinov. "Macrophage Modification Strategies for Efficient Cell Therapy." Cells 9, no. 6 (June 24, 2020): 1535. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells9061535.
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Macrophages, important cells of innate immunity, are known for their phagocytic activity, capability for antigen presentation, and flexible phenotypes. Macrophages are found in all tissues and therefore represent an attractive therapeutic target for the treatment of diseases of various etiology. Genetic programming of macrophages is an important issue of modern molecular and cellular medicine. The controllable activation of macrophages towards desirable phenotypes in vivo and in vitro will provide effective treatments for a number of inflammatory and proliferative diseases. This review is focused on the methods for specific alteration of gene expression in macrophages, including the controllable promotion of the desired M1 (pro-inflammatory) or M2 (anti-inflammatory) phenotypes in certain pathologies or model systems. Here we review the strategies of target selection, the methods of vector delivery, and the gene editing approaches used for modification of macrophages.
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Koné, Yacouba Adama, Jacqueline Konaté, Oumar Y. Maïga, and Hamidou Tembiné. "Efficient Strategies Algorithms for Resource Allocation Problems." Algorithms 13, no. 11 (October 23, 2020): 270. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/a13110270.
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Strategic modelling with a panoramic view plays an important role in decision-making problems. It offers the possibility of generating different solutions before making a decision. This is particularly relevant in critical situations. This article addresses the problem of allocating resources, whether financial, material or human, so that it is optimal under a given set of constraints and inter-dependencies with other systems. To do this, existing strategies such as those of Colonel Blotto are studied in order to evaluate them according to some criteria, including the heterogeneity or homogeneity of resources and/or battlefields. Based on the results of these configurations, we propose distributed strategic learning methods to find better resource allocation strategies. The proposed algorithms are implemented under various scenarios, including incomplete information. Case studies are carried out to test the effectiveness of these new strategies compared to previous ones. A complexity analysis of the different algorithms is also presented.
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Lv, Peng Liang, and Guo Shun Chen. "Multi-Agent Fault Diagnosis Methods Based on Information Fusion." Applied Mechanics and Materials 568-570 (June 2014): 141–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.568-570.141.
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In order to meet the current needs of complex technical equipment maintenance and support, the paper member with the structural characteristics of Multi-Agent System, which was introduced to the fault diagnosis method based on information fusion, the main research was distributed intelligent monitoring and diagnosis system framework based on information fusion, and analysis of information fusion method for the diagnosis of strategies for the a typical system feature, including the contents of the implementation of the method and research status, and points out its future research directions.
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Roberts, Megan York, Tara Hensle, and Michael K. Brooks. "More Than “Try This at Home”—Including Parents in Early Intervention." Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 1, no. 1 (March 31, 2016): 130–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/persp1.sig1.130.
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Current state and federal recommendations encourage the delivery of early intervention services in a child's natural environment with typical communication partners (Individuals With Disabilities Education Act [IDEA], 2004). As such, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) often provide intervention services in homes and work closely with parents. However, only 30% of SLPs have early intervention expertise (ASHA, 2014) and 68% of SLPs report low-levels of competence in working with infants and toddlers (Campbell, Chiarello, Wilcox, & Milbourne, 2009). This may be due to the fact that the majority of graduate programs (60%) provide little or no training in early intervention (Bruder & Dunst, 2005). Working in early intervention is a challenging albeit rewarding task for even the most seasoned therapist. Given that the largest percentage of children served under part C of IDEA are children with language delays (Hebbeler et al., 2007), it is essential that SLPs working in early intervention implement effective strategies for both parents and children. The purpose of this paper is to: (a) explain why including parents in intervention is important; (b) discuss ways of including parents in early intervention; (c) examine strategies used to teach parents; (d) describe a method for teaching parents; (e) compare methods of measuring parent progress; and (f) propose future directions for research.
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Chen, Minjun, Guido Bolognesi, and Goran T. Vladisavljević. "Crosslinking Strategies for the Microfluidic Production of Microgels." Molecules 26, no. 12 (June 20, 2021): 3752. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules26123752.
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This article provides a systematic review of the crosslinking strategies used to produce microgel particles in microfluidic chips. Various ionic crosslinking methods for the gelation of charged polymers are discussed, including external gelation via crosslinkers dissolved or dispersed in the oil phase; internal gelation methods using crosslinkers added to the dispersed phase in their non-active forms, such as chelating agents, photo-acid generators, sparingly soluble or slowly hydrolyzing compounds, and methods involving competitive ligand exchange; rapid mixing of polymer and crosslinking streams; and merging polymer and crosslinker droplets. Covalent crosslinking methods using enzymatic oxidation of modified biopolymers, photo-polymerization of crosslinkable monomers or polymers, and thiol-ene “click” reactions are also discussed, as well as methods based on the sol−gel transitions of stimuli responsive polymers triggered by pH or temperature change. In addition to homogeneous microgel particles, the production of structurally heterogeneous particles such as composite hydrogel particles entrapping droplet interface bilayers, core−shell particles, organoids, and Janus particles are also discussed. Microfluidics offers the ability to precisely tune the chemical composition, size, shape, surface morphology, and internal structure of microgels by bringing multiple fluid streams in contact in a highly controlled fashion using versatile channel geometries and flow configurations, and allowing for controlled crosslinking.
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ASTAPOV, Kirill L., and Anna S. KHVOROSTYANAYA. "The role of brand in corporate strategies for mergers and acquisitions." Finance and Credit 27, no. 6 (June 30, 2021): 1241–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.24891/fc.27.6.1241.
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Subject. The article discusses how brand influences corporate and financial strategies. Objectives. We determine the role of brand in setting up transformation strategies, including M&A, financial indicators of companies. Methods. We relied upon methods of economic analysis and synthesis, comparison, matching. Strategic analysis is based on renowned concepts for strategic marketing and branding, including those proposed by M. Porter, Ph. Kotler, R. Kaplan and D. Northon, V. Kvint's methodology for strategy-setting. Results. Illustrating some cases, we justify the hypothesis stating that branding plays the most significant role in setting up transformation deal strategies for consumption sectors, light industry and fashion, while transformation processes in high-tech, banking are not always accompanied with rebranding. Furthermore, we suggest how it should be assessed whether it is reasonable to save a brand in case of M&A. Conclusions and Relevance. Businesses can refer to this study and respective cases to comprehensively evaluate business transformations, including new views of the role a brand plays for the financial feasibility of M&A deals across industries. The capitalization of a newly transformed company can be increased provided rebranding is more thoroughly considered as part of M&A.