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SUKONSCHIKOV, ALEXEY A., ANATOLY N. SHVETSOV, IGOR A. ANDRIANOV, and DMITRIY V. KOCHKIN. "PRINCIPLES OF BUILDING SELF-ORGANIZING INFORMATION AND TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS." Cherepovets State University Bulletin 1, no. 100 (2021): 56–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.23859/1994-0637-2021-1-100-4.

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The article discusses the basic foundations of the functioning and evolution of complex distributed information and telecommunication systems (ITS) in the neuro-fuzzy agent-based paradigm. The formalization principles for such systemsareproposed:goal structuring, agent orientation, hierarchical intellectual organization, modularity of intelligent agents, structural and functional flexibility of intelligent agents, single mathematical apparatus, self-development and system evolution.The concept of a distributed intelligent ITS as a geographically distributed multi-level hierarchical set of hardware and software controlled by agent-based systems is introduced.

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Pham, Thao Phuong, Mourad Rabah, and Pascal Estraillier. "A situation-based multi-agent architecture for handling misunderstandings in interactions." International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science 25, no. 3 (September 1, 2015): 439–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/amcs-2015-0033.

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AbstractDuring interactions, system actors may face up misunderstandings when their local states contain inconsistent data about the same fact. Misunderstandings in interactions are likely to reduce interactivity performances (deviation or deadlock) or even affect overall system behavior. In this paper, we characterize misunderstandings in interactions between system actors (that may be human users or system agents) in interactive adaptive systems. To deal with such misunderstandings and ensure state consistency, we present an agent-based architecture and a scenario structuring approach. The system includes several agents devoted to scenario unfolding, plot adaptation and consistency management. Scenario structuring is based on the notion of a situation that is an elementary building block dividing the interactions between systems’ actors into contextual scenes. This pattern supports not only scenario execution but consistency management as well. In order to organize and control interactions, the situation contextualizes interactions and activity of the system’s actors. It also includes prevention and tolerance agent-based mechanisms to deal with the misunderstandings and their causes. We validate our consistency management mechanisms using Uppaal simulation and provide some experimental results to show the effectiveness of our approach on an online distance learning case study

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de Moura, Diego Soares, Julia Cristina Oliveira Pazinato, Marcelo Barbalho Pereira, Omar Mertins, Emerson Rodrigo Silva, and Irene Teresinha Santos Garcia. "Poly(vinyl alcohol) as a structuring agent for peroxotungstic acid." Journal of Molecular Liquids 269 (November 2018): 92–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2018.08.015.

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Viriato, Rodolfo Lázaro Soares, Mayara de Souza Queirós, Marco Antonio Sundfeld da Gama, Ana Paula Badan Ribeiro, and Mirna Lúcia Gigante. "Milk fat as a structuring agent of plastic lipid bases." Food Research International 111 (September 2018): 120–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2018.05.015.

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López-Mellado, Ernesto, and Marina Flores-Badillo. "A Mobile Agent Based Approach for Business Processes Automation." International Journal of Robotics Applications and Technologies 1, no. 2 (July 2013): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijrat.2013070101.

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The paper addresses specification and development of large and complex management systems for business process based on a multi agent systems approach. A methodology for obtaining workflow specifications is presented; it is based on conceiving the management system as a mobile agent system in which mobile agents guide the workflow processes within the organization. The specification includes the work environment, the agent behavior, the process plans, the tasks, the resources, and the interaction protocols. The obtained descriptions are modular and hierarchal leading to clear and compact structuring of the distributed software. The design methodology includes a guideline for Java based coding. Finally, key issues for extending the agent based method to address inter-organizational workflow management are overviewed.

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VIROLI, MIRKO, ALESSANDRO RICCI, and ANDREA OMICINI. "Operating instructions for intelligent agent coordination." Knowledge Engineering Review 21, no. 1 (March 2006): 49–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269888906000774.

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In contrast to standard approaches based on agent communication languages (ACLs), environment-based coordination is emerging as an interesting alternative for structuring interactions in multiagent systems (MASs). In particular, the notion of coordination artifacts has been proposed as an engineering methodology to build runtime abstractions effectively providing collaborating agents with specifically designed coordination tasks.In this paper, we study the semantics for the interaction of agents with coordination artifacts playing the same role of ACL semantics, that is, supporting semantic interoperability between agents developed by different parties through the connection between rationality and interaction. Our approach is rooted on the notion of operating instructions of coordination artifacts, which—as with a manual for a human exploiting a device—describe the interaction protocols the agent can follow as well as the mentalistic semantics of each single interaction. By tackling some of the most relevant issues raised in the context of ACL semantics, our framework allows intelligent, BDI-like agents to carry on complex interactions through coordination artifacts in a rational way.

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Verhoog, Reinier, Amineh Ghorbani, Esther E. Hardi, Gerard P. J. Dijkema, and Margot P. C. Weijnen. "Structuring socio-technical complexity in infrastructure systems: an agent-based model." International Journal of Complexity in Applied Science and Technology 1, no. 1 (2016): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijcast.2016.081292.

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Weijnen, Margot P. C., Gerard P. J. Dijkema, Reinier Verhoog, Esther E. Hardi, and Amineh Ghorbani. "Structuring socio-technical complexity in infrastructure systems: an agent-based model." International Journal of Complexity in Applied Science and Technology 1, no. 1 (2016): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijcast.2016.10002355.

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Saarloos, Dick J. M., Theo A. Arentze, Aloys W. J. Borgers, and Harry J. P. Timmermans. "A multi-agent paradigm as structuring principle for planning support systems." Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 32, no. 1 (January 2008): 29–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2007.03.001.

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Tom, Jessica C., Christian Appel, and Annette Andrieu-Brunsen. "Fabrication and in situ functionalisation of mesoporous silica films by the physical entrapment of functional and responsive block copolymer structuring agents." Soft Matter 15, no. 40 (2019): 8077–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9sm00872a.

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Stimuli-responsive mesoporous silica films were prepared by evaporation-induced self-assembly through the physical entrapment of a functional block copolymer structuring agent, which simultaneously serves to functionalise the mesopore.

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Stothert, A., and I. M. Macleod. "Using intelligent agent templates for dynamic structuring of distributed computer control systems." Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 10, no. 4 (August 1997): 335–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0952-1976(97)00019-5.

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Vitiello, Giuseppe, Alessandro Pezzella, Anna Zanfardino, Mario Varcamonti, Brigida Silvestri, Aniello Costantini, Francesco Branda, and Giuseppina Luciani. "Titania as a driving agent for DHICA polymerization: a novel strategy for the design of bioinspired antimicrobial nanomaterials." Journal of Materials Chemistry B 3, no. 14 (2015): 2808–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5tb00039d.

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Pohan, Budiman, and Muhamad Fadhil Nurdin. "Praktik Pernikahan dalam Masyarakat Lokal: Agensi versus Agama." JSW (Jurnal Sosiologi Walisongo) 4, no. 1 (April 30, 2020): 35–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.21580/jsw.2020.4.1.5456.

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This study aims to describe the dialectical process between local agents and religious structures in the practice of marriage in Padang Sidempuan. The research method is qualitative descriptive with a case study design that focuses on narrating the objective conditions of agent and structure duality. Informants were chosen purposively, supported by observational data, interviews, and documentation. Data analyzed through the process of collection, reduction, exposition, verification, and conclusion. The results showed that: 1) Conceptually, the practice of marriage experienced practical distortions that were configured through consensus of sharia and local elites; 2) the practice of marriage is a phenomenon of the duality of agents and structuring each other; 3) agent habitus is dominated by Mandailing culture through power relations and surplus capital of the local elite compared to the sharia procedure of religious structure. However, the competence of agents is able to compress marital rules into semi-complex; 4) the importance of promoting religious habituation strategies through internalization and dissemination of alternative sharia marriage practices.

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Cao, Jiannong, Jingyang Zhou, Weiwei Zhu, and Xuhui Li. "Mobile agent-enabled framework for structuring and building distributed systems on the internet." Science in China Series F: Information Sciences 49, no. 6 (December 2006): 885–905. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11432-006-2032-4.

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OLSON, JESSE T., and JONATHAN CAGAN. "Interagent ties in team-based computational configuration design." Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing 18, no. 2 (May 2004): 135–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0890060404040107.

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Organizational research has shown that effectively structuring the resources (human, informational, computational) available to an organization can significantly improve its collective computational capacity. Central to this improved capacity is the manner in which the organization's member agents are related. This study is an initial investigation into the role and potential of interagent ties in computational teaming. A computational team-based model, designed to more fully integrate agent ties, is created and presented. It is applied to a bulk manufacturing process-planning problem and its performance compared against a previously tested agent-based algorithm without these agent relationships. The performance of the new agent method showed significant improvement over the previous method: improving solution quality 280% and increasing solution identification per unit time an entire order of magnitude. A statistical examination of the new algorithm confirms that agent interdependencies are the strongest and most consistent performance effects leading to the observed improvements. This study illustrates that the interagent ties associated with team collaboration can be a highly effective method of improving computational design performance, and the results are promising indications that the application of organization constructs within a computational context may significantly improve computational problem solving.

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Vasconcelos, Pedro. "THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AS A STRUCTURING AGENT FOR THE CITY OF SALVADOR IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD." Revista Geografares 1, no. 31 (December 8, 2020): 30–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.7147/geo.v1i31.31791.

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Salvador was the capital of the Portuguese America from 1549 until 1763. It was also the second city of the Portuguese Empire up to the 19th century. The Catholic Church together with the State was the main agents that structured the city of Salvador during the whole colonial period. The Secular Church related to the State through the Padroado was responsible for the implementation and maintenance of the Cathedral, churches and parishes; the religious orders with their convents were important structural elements of the urban space while the laic orders owned churches and many urban properties and corresponded to the structuring of a slave society.

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Watson, Richard A., Rob Mills, and C. L. Buckley. "Global Adaptation in Networks of Selfish Components: Emergent Associative Memory at the System Scale." Artificial Life 17, no. 3 (July 2011): 147–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00029.

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In some circumstances complex adaptive systems composed of numerous self-interested agents can self-organize into structures that enhance global adaptation, efficiency, or function. However, the general conditions for such an outcome are poorly understood and present a fundamental open question for domains as varied as ecology, sociology, economics, organismic biology, and technological infrastructure design. In contrast, sufficient conditions for artificial neural networks to form structures that perform collective computational processes such as associative memory/recall, classification, generalization, and optimization are well understood. Such global functions within a single agent or organism are not wholly surprising, since the mechanisms (e.g., Hebbian learning) that create these neural organizations may be selected for this purpose; but agents in a multi-agent system have no obvious reason to adhere to such a structuring protocol or produce such global behaviors when acting from individual self-interest. However, Hebbian learning is actually a very simple and fully distributed habituation or positive feedback principle. Here we show that when self-interested agents can modify how they are affected by other agents (e.g., when they can influence which other agents they interact with), then, in adapting these inter-agent relationships to maximize their own utility, they will necessarily alter them in a manner homologous with Hebbian learning. Multi-agent systems with adaptable relationships will thereby exhibit the same system-level behaviors as neural networks under Hebbian learning. For example, improved global efficiency in multi-agent systems can be explained by the inherent ability of associative memory to generalize by idealizing stored patterns and/or creating new combinations of subpatterns. Thus distributed multi-agent systems can spontaneously exhibit adaptive global behaviors in the same sense, and by the same mechanism, as with the organizational principles familiar in connectionist models of organismic learning.

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SUN, Minwei, Heather K. HUNT, Christopher M. LEW, Rui CAI, Yan LIU, and Yushan YAN. "A Dynamic Organic Structuring-Directing Agent for Pure-Silica-Zeolite AST and LTA Syntheses." Chinese Journal of Catalysis 33, no. 1 (January 2012): 85–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1872-2067(10)60291-4.

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SYCARA, KATIA, and DAJUN ZENG. "COORDINATION OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE AGENTS." International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems 05, no. 02n03 (June 1996): 181–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218843096000087.

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We are investigating techniques for developing distributed and adaptive collections of information agents that coordinate to retrieve, filter and fuse information relevant to the user, task and situation, as well as anticipate user's information needs. In our system of agents, information gathering is seamlessly integrated with decision support. The task for which particular information is requested of the agents does not remain in the user's head but it is explicitly represented and supported through agent collaboration. In this paper we present the distributed system architecture, agent collaboration interactions, and a reusable set of software components for structuring agents. The system architecture has three types of agents: Interface agents interact with the user receiving user specifications and delivering results. They acquire, model, and utilize user preferences to guide system coordination in support of the user's tasks. Task agents help users perform tasks by formulating problem solving plans and carrying out these plans through querying and exchanging information with other software agents. Information agents provide intelligent access to a heterogeneous collection of information sources. We have implemented this system framework and are developing collaborating agents in diverse complex real world tasks, such as organizational decision making, investment counseling, health care and electronic commerce.

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HolmesParker, Chris, Adrian K. Agogino, and Kagan Tumer. "Combining reward shaping and hierarchies for scaling to large multiagent systems." Knowledge Engineering Review 31, no. 1 (January 2016): 3–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269888915000156.

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AbstractCoordinating the actions of agents in multiagent systems presents a challenging problem, especially as the size of the system is increased and predicting the agent interactions becomes difficult. Many approaches to improving coordination within multiagent systems have been developed including organizational structures, shaped rewards, coordination graphs, heuristic methods, and learning automata. However, each of these approaches still have inherent limitations with respect to coordination and scalability. We explore the potential of synergistically combining existing coordination mechanisms such that they offset each others’ limitations. More specifically, we are interested in combining existing coordination mechanisms in order to achieve improved performance, increased scalability, and reduced coordination complexity in large multiagent systems.In this work, we discuss and demonstrate the individual limitations of two well-known coordination mechanisms. We then provide a methodology for combining the two coordination mechanisms to offset their limitations and improve performance over either method individually. In particular, we combine shaped difference rewards and hierarchical organization in the Defect Combination Problem with up to 10 000 sensing agents. We show that combining hierarchical organization with difference rewards can improve both coordination and scalability by decreasing information overhead, structuring agent-to-agent connectivity and control flow, and improving the individual decision-making capabilities of agents. We show that by combining hierarchies and difference rewards, the information overheads and computational requirements of individual agents can be reduced by as much as 99% while simultaneously increasing the overall system performance. Additionally, we demonstrate the robustness of this approach to handling up to 25% agent failures under various conditions.

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Huynh, An, Briana Maktabi, Christopher M. Reddy, Gregory W. O’Neil, Mark Chandler, and Gabriella Baki. "Evaluation of alkenones, a renewably sourced, plant‐derived wax as a structuring agent for lipsticks." International Journal of Cosmetic Science 42, no. 2 (April 2020): 146–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ics.12597.

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Ambadiang, Théophile. "Semantic structuring and nominalization processes: the case of agent and instrument nouns in Bantu languages." STUF - Language Typology and Universals 64, no. 4 (December 2011): 339–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1524/stuf.2011.0024.

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Gur, Sylwia Onacik, Anna Zbikowska, Marzena Przybysz, and Malgorzata Kowalska. "ASSESSMENT OF PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF STRUCTURED OILS AND PALM FAT." Materiale Plastice 54, no. 4 (December 30, 2017): 800–805. http://dx.doi.org/10.37358/mp.17.4.4949.

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Oleogels are structured liquid oils with applications in food, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical industries. Structured oils may become alternatives to the commonly used solid fats, such as palm fat or hydrogenated fats. Properties of oleogels are primarily dependent on the structuring agent applied. This paper was intended as an examination of structuring properties and oleogel oil binding capacities of various monomer ingredients (plant and beeswaxes, monoacylglycerol) and comparison of the oleogels produced with palm fat. An oleogel produced with candelilla wax (CLX) exhibited a structure most similar to that of palm fat. These products showed statistically significant differences of colour from palm fat. In addition, textures of the oleogels differed from one another and from palm fat. Oleogel containing rice bran wax (RBX) had the most similar viscosity properties. Oleogels including candelilla wax and yellow bees wax displayed best oil binding structures (assayed by centrifugal and LumiSizer methods). When filtered (at 40�C), on the other hand, minimum oil loss after 24h was demonstrated by the oleogels containing CLX and RBX, possible evidence that these structure-forming substances roduce oleogels that could be used in products exposed to more elevated temperatures. Oleogels may become alternatives to the commonly used solid fats. Thanks to the use of oil structuring agent at the level of 3% liquid oil becomes solid. Using these innovative fat products can stabilize oil in the product, and also it can improve the nutritional value of food products by replacing a popular palm fat rich in saturated fatty acids, which exert an adverse influence on humans� cardiovascular system, by oils rich in unsaturated fatty acids.

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Hubenko, Hanna. "Structuring Bioethics Education: Building Bioethical Potential, Experience, Practice." Filosofiya osvity. Philosophy of Education 26, no. 2 (June 25, 2021): 109–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.31874/2309-1606-2020-26-2-8.

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The article is divided into the following main blocks: initiatives of bioethics` capacity building; practices and experiences in the bioethicist`s work. The article aims to investigate the structuring possibilities of bioethical education, and the model of integrative bioethics is seen in this context as a promising device/tool. The figure-scheme, created by the author, shows 2 bioethics' growth lines - educational, as a formal (institutional) line and societal, as informal (cultural) one. In describing the lines, the author has identified the main aspects of influence: the cultural aspect (a); the political aspect (c); the humanistic aspect / human capital (c). In the educational (formal) sphere the following areas of activity were described - school, education, interdisciplinary programs in bioethics. In societal (informal) - experience of participation of community organizations in the creation of projects and grant activities of bioethicists. Hereof the following blocks were discussed - Bioethicist as an activist; Role of bioethicist as a translator, agent of change. Education through bioethics and public discussion of bioethical issues is what can be called a «circle of integrity». Bioethics education prepares community members to deal with ethically challenging issues by providing them with the skills to address ethical challenges in the everyday routine of one community. Bioethics capacity building was reviewed through the creation of a professional network of bioethics experts and their educational programmes - the Integrative Platform of Bioethics (InPlatBio). A network of bioethicists and stakeholders provides a learning-friendly environment. Both - networks and the development of links with different informal organisations and associations are important for essential communicative skills. The use of online courses, webinars is a modern source of information on the development of bioethics in Ukraine as well as in European countries.

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Paillaud, J. L., P. Caullet, L. Schreyeck, and B. Marler. "Mu-13: a new AlPO4 prepared with 4,13-diaza-18-crown-6 as a structuring agent." Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 42, no. 2-3 (February 2001): 177–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1387-1811(00)00316-4.

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Cortés-Ortiz, William Giovanni, Alexander Baena-Novoa, and Carlos Alberto Guerrero-Fajardo. "Structuring-agent role in physical and chemical properties of Mo/SiO2 catalysts by sol-gel method." Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology 89, no. 2 (December 3, 2018): 416–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10971-018-4892-7.

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Battley, P. F., D. S. Melville, R. Schuckard, and P. F. Ballance. "Zostera muelleri as a structuring agent of benthic communities in a large intertidal sandflat in New Zealand." Journal of Sea Research 65, no. 1 (January 2011): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2010.06.005.

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Espinosa-Ramírez, Johanan, Raquel Garzon, Sergio O. Serna-Saldivar, and Cristina M. Rosell. "Exploring the potential of arabinoxylan as structuring agent in model systems for gluten-free yeast-leavened breads." Journal of Cereal Science 95 (September 2020): 103080. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcs.2020.103080.

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Salimi, E., J. Javadpour, and M. Anbia. "Template-Based Synthesis of Nanoporous Hydroxyapatite." ISRN Ceramics 2012 (October 17, 2012): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/960915.

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Hydroxyapatite (HAp) particles, a potential starting material for bone substitutes, with nanopores were synthesized in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and P123 as cationic and nonionic surfactants as the structuring units. Effect of nonionic surfactant concentration on surface areas is also investigated. Based on N2 adsorption-desorption isotherms investigation, surface area increased up to 50 m2/g by using P123 and 147 m2/g by using CTAB as porosity agent. Pore structure remained even after the removal of surfactant and calcinations at 400°C.

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Kim, Kiho, Jinseong Lee, Seokgyu Ryu, and Jooheon Kim. "Laser direct structuring and electroless plating applicable super-engineering plastic PPS based thermal conductive composite with particle surface modification." RSC Advances 8, no. 18 (2018): 9933–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8ra00967h.

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Boron nitride (BN) and laser activate particles (LAPs) which used for electroless plating were surface-modifiedviabase treatment and by using a silane coupling agent in order to confer functionality and enhance the interfacial affinity of these particles for a polymer matrix.

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D’Addona, Doriana M., and Alessandro A. Bruzzone. "Formal Tools for Management of Manufacturing Systems: A Multi Agents System Approach." International Journal of Automation Technology 13, no. 5 (September 5, 2019): 691–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/ijat.2019.p0691.

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To overcome the consequences of the 2008 crisis on the real sector, especially manufacturing, Industry 4.0 gives guidelines to drive production by emphasizing technological innovations, such as industrial internet, cloud manufacturing, etc. The proposed paper focuses on cognitive manufacturing within the framework of the emergent synthesis paradigm. Specifically, the structuring process by which the manufacturing assets are organized to provide the finished goods is analyzed. The study is carried out by considering the analogies between manufacturing and other inventive processes supported by formal tools such as formal languages, semantic webs, and multi agent system.

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Abrukov, Viktor S., Konstantin V. Efimov, Nikolai A. Tarasov, and Nikolay I. Kol'tsov. "STUDY OF INFLUENCE OF STABILIZERS ON BURNING OF SILICONE RUBBER WITH HELP ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS." IZVESTIYA VYSSHIKH UCHEBNYKH ZAVEDENIY KHIMIYA KHIMICHESKAYA TEKHNOLOGIYA 61, no. 1 (December 21, 2017): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.6060/tcct.20186101.5559.

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Silicone rubbers are used for manufacturing fireproof insulating sheaths for cables and high voltage insulators. Highly oil-resistant silicone rubber of brand IRP 1338 of JSC “Kazan plant of synthetic caoutchouc” production should be singled out among silicone rubbers. This rubber is made from synthetic caoutchouc SKTV and contains Aerosil A-300, titanium oxide, fumed silica U-333 curing agent Perkadox BC-FF and anti-structuring agent ND-8 - α,ω-polydimethyl-siloxanediol. Previously we investigated the kinetics of combustion process of this rubber containing anti-structuring agent ND-8 as well as Ca/Zn-stabilizer Kompanoks (2,6-bis((3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)methyl)cyclohexane-1-one) and their combination which are used to enhance the thermal stability of the rubbers on the basis of carbon-chain caoutchoucs. In given paper using artificial neural networks (ANN) the computational multifactor model of combustion of rubber IRP 1338 has been obtained. The influence of selected stabilizers on the combustion rate of silicone rubber IRP 1338 has been studied. The combustion process was investigated by measuring at different points in time the relative height of the unburned portion of the rubber samples in the form of standard rectangular bars with a size of 10x2x2 mm. Combustion occurred under the action of the infrared beam (wavelength 10.6 μm) of laser LG-25 at three temperatures radiation (800, 900, 1000°C). As the main factors influencing the combustion of rubber, the laser radiation temperature was chosen, under which the forced combustion of rubber occurred. The nature of the stabilizers introduced into the rubber and the combustion temperature of the rubber was measured by a thermocouple placed on the surface of combustion rubber. The objective function of ANN-model was the relative height of the unburned portion of the rubber samples. Moreover, it was believed, the greater the relative height of the unburned portion of the rubber samples, the lower the burning rate and the higher the efficiency of the stabilizer. The received ANN-model has allowed to reveal three stages of combustion of rubber and to investigate features of influence of stabilizers on process of combustion. It was established that from the three stabilizers studied, the Ca/Zn stabilizer most effectively slows down the combustion of rubber due to the interaction of calcium oleates and zinc of this stabilizer with caoutchouc molecules. Thus, the possibility of increasing the fire resistance of rubber based on the silicone rubber SKTV by replacing the anti-structuring agent ND-8 on the Ca/Zn stabilizer has been established.Forcitation:Abrukov V.S., Efimov K.V., Tarasov N.A., Koltsov N.I. Study of influence of stabilizers on burning of silicone rubber with help artificial neural networks. Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved. Khim. Khim. Tekhnol. 2018. V. 61. N 1. P. 84-88

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Spirleanu, Cristian, Luige Vladareanu, and Eugen Diaconescu. "An Experimental Framework for Multi-Agents Using RTOS Based Robotic Controllers." Applied Mechanics and Materials 555 (June 2014): 259–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.555.259.

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Thist paper presents a framework for distributed application development containing autonomous manipulator robots, multi-agents based software and real time operating systems. The framework is structured on layers; this approach dissociates hardware from local control loops and high level global control strategy. In our implemented version, the working framework contains an original combinations of two robotic arms, MQX controllers using RTOS and a multi-agent JADE based platform running on PC. This structuring gives to the developer the ability to focus on specific individual modules development which then are integrated in a comprising system. The proposed modular distributed architecture favors reusing, fast refactoring and maintenance of the distributed system. The paper describes the overall structure of the framework, but also the features and functionality of its components. It also highlights the advantages of distributed control based on multi-agents and the flexibility of MQX RTOS controllers running robotic tasks. The interactions between software, controllers and mechanical systems in the time domain are also evaluated. Finally, the implemented strategies will be evaluated in order to be applied for the industrial field.

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Wallace, E. C., K. N. D’Arcangelo, and L. M. Quesada-Ocampo. "Population Analyses Reveal Two Host-Adapted Clades of Pseudoperonospora cubensis, the Causal Agent of Cucurbit Downy Mildew, on Commercial and Wild Cucurbits." Phytopathology® 110, no. 9 (September 2020): 1578–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/phyto-01-20-0009-r.

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Pseudoperonospora cubensis, the causal agent of cucurbit downy mildew, is an airborne, obligate oomycete pathogen that re-emerged in 2004 and causes foliar disease and yield losses in all major cucurbit crops in the United States. Approximately 60 species in the family Cucurbitaceae have been reported as hosts of P. cubensis. Commercial hosts including cucumber, cantaloupe, pumpkin, squash, and watermelon are grown in North Carolina and many host species occur in the wild as weeds. Little is known about the contribution of wild cucurbits to the yearly epidemic; thus, this study aimed to determine the role of commercial and wild cucurbits in the structuring of P. cubensis populations in North Carolina, a region with high pathogen diversity. Ten microsatellite markers were used to analyze 385 isolates from six commercial and four wild cucurbits from three locations representing different growing regions across North Carolina. Population analyses revealed that wild and commercial cucurbits are hosts of P. cubensis in the United States, that host is the main factor structuring P. cubensis populations, and that P. cubensis has two distinct, host-adapted clades at the cucurbit species level, with clade 1 showing random mating and evidence of recombination and clade 2 showing nonrandom mating and no evidence of recombination. Our findings have implications for disease management because clade-specific factors such as host susceptibility and inoculum availability of each clade by region may influence P. cubensis outbreaks in different commercial cucurbits, timing of fungicide applications, and phenotyping for breeding efforts.

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Kumar, Amit, Alberto Cincotti, and Santiago Aparicio. "A Theoretical Study on Trehalose + Water Mixtures for Dry Preservation Purposes." Molecules 25, no. 6 (March 21, 2020): 1435. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25061435.

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The properties of trehalose + water mixtures are studied as a function of mixture composition and temperature using molecular dynamics simulations. As trehalose disaccharide has been proposed for dry preservation purposes, the objective of this work is to analyse the nanoscopic properties of the considered mixtures, in terms of aggregation, clustering, interactions energies, and local dynamics, and their relationships with hydrogen bonding. The reported results allow a detailed characterization of hydrogen bonding and its evolution with mixture composition and thus inferring the effects of trehalose on water structuring providing results to justify the mechanisms of trehalose acting as preservation agent.

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Tănase, Maria Antonia, Maria Marinescu, Petruta Oancea, Adina Răducan, Catalin Ionut Mihaescu, Elvira Alexandrescu, Cristina Lavinia Nistor, et al. "Antibacterial and Photocatalytic Properties of ZnO Nanoparticles Obtained from Chemical versus Saponaria officinalis Extract-Mediated Synthesis." Molecules 26, no. 7 (April 4, 2021): 2072. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules26072072.

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In the present work, the properties of ZnO nanoparticles obtained using an eco-friendly synthesis (biomediated methods in microwave irradiation) were studied. Saponaria officinalis extracts were used as both reducing and capping agents in the green nanochemistry synthesis of ZnO. Inorganic zinc oxide nanopowders were successfully prepared by a modified hydrothermal method and plant extract-mediated method. The influence of microwave irradiation was studied in both cases. The size, composition, crystallinity and morphology of inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) were investigated using dynamic light scattering (DLS), powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), SEM-EDX microscopy. Tunings of the nanochemistry reaction conditions (Zn precursor, structuring agent), ZnO NPs with various shapes were obtained, from quasi-spherical to flower-like. The optical properties and photocatalytic activity (degradation of methylene blue as model compound) were also investigated. ZnO nanopowders’ antibacterial activity was tested against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial strains to evidence the influence of the vegetal extract-mediated synthesis on the biological activity.

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Sbayou, Mariem, Gregory Zacharewicz, Youssef Bouanan, and Bruno Vallespir. "BPMN Coordination and Devs Network Architecture for Healthcare Organizations." International Journal of Privacy and Health Information Management 7, no. 1 (January 2019): 103–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijphim.2019010106.

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The adoption of business processes (BP) can help healthcare providers in structuring the way information systems and people have to interact. Business process management (BPM) is a methodology that structures a way of representing system processes. At the same time, the human resources are organized in identified or implicit structures that allows individuals to exchange information either related to their work function or not. Nevertheless, the human organizations structure and communication channels are not, up to now, fully captured by the information systems. It may lead to losing part of the useful information exchanged by participants. Accordingly, this article focuses on multi-agent solutions representing social networks in the healthcare domain associated with BPM of patient pathways. The purpose is to study the feasibility of combining BP with agent-based models in order to better improve performance, manage resources, and ensure coordination between them.

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Javornicky, M. "In the eye of the potentially non-confirm-structuring beholder: agent-centred reading of four-dimensional model of power." Journal of Political Power 13, no. 1 (June 23, 2019): 60–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2158379x.2019.1632005.

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Feltus, Christophe. "Reinforcement Learning's Contribution to the Cyber Security of Distributed Systems." International Journal of Distributed Artificial Intelligence 12, no. 2 (July 2020): 35–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijdai.2020070103.

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Reinforcement learning (RL) is a machine learning paradigm, like supervised or unsupervised learning, which learns the best actions an agent needs to perform to maximize its rewards in a particular environment. Research into RL has been proven to have made a real contribution to the protection of cyberphysical distributed systems. In this paper, the authors propose an analytic framework constituted of five security fields and eight industrial areas. This framework allows structuring a systematic review of the research in artificial intelligence that contributes to cybersecurity. In this contribution, the framework is used to analyse the trends and future fields of interest for the RL-based research in information system security.

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Pauletti, Alberto, Guillaume Moskowitz, Thomas Millan, Cristina Fernández-Martín, Cédric Boissière, Christel Gervais, and Florence Babonneau. "Aerosol-generated mesoporous silicon oxycarbide particles." Pure and Applied Chemistry 81, no. 8 (July 24, 2009): 1449–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac-con-08-11-06.

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Aerosol-generated mesoporous organosilica submicronic spheres have been converted into porous silicon oxycarbide (SiCO) glasses by pyrolysis at 1000 °C in an inert atmosphere. Spherical mesoporous particles obtained from acidic solutions of 1,2-bis(triethoxysilyl)ethane and Pluronic® F127 structuring agent were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), N2 adsorption/desorption, and multinuclear solid-state magic-angle spinning (MAS) NMR. These particles were then pyrolyzed at 1000 °C and transformed into a SiCO phase as evidenced by 29Si MAS NMR, while TEM shows preserved mesoporosity, unfortunately difficult to access owing to the presence of an outer layer of dense silica.

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Simeoni, Daniel. "The Pivotal Status of the Translator’s Habitus." Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 10, no. 1 (January 1, 1998): 1–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/target.10.1.02sim.

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Abstract The paper explores the possibility of nudging theory away from the properties of systemic constructs towards the main focus of translation norms, i.e., the translator. The current model of DTS could be reframed, or 'translated' in a topological sense, by giving it a slightly different slant on the assumption of a translating habitus understood as: (culturally) pre-structured and structuring agent mediating cultural artefacts in the course of transfer. A discussion of the translator's endorsement of subservience is included, followed by a brief genealogy of the concept of habitus. A prospectus for future research in product analysis and the acquisition of translatorial competence is also sketched out.

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LÂASRI, BRIGITTE, HASSAN LÂASRI, SUSAN LANDER, and VICTOR LESSER. "A GENERIC MODEL FOR INTELLIGENT NEGOTIATING AGENTS." International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems 01, no. 02 (June 1992): 291–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218215792000210.

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Research in Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving (CDPS) considers how problem-solving tasks should be allocated among a group of agents and how the agents should coordinate their actions to achieve effective problem solving. For some CDPS systems, negotiation plays an important role in how agents cooperate. We define negotiation as the process of information exchange by which the agents act to resolve inconsistent views and to reach agreement on how they should work together in order to cooperate effectively. We describe a generic model, the Recursive Negotiation Model (RNM), that can serve as a basis for classifying and specifying where conflict resolution among multiple experts, viewpoints, or types of reasoning is needed in building a sophisticated CDPS system. This model defines where and how negotiation can be applied during problem solving based on structuring problem solving into four stages: problem formulation, focus-of-attention, allocation of goals or tasks to agents, and achievement of goals or tasks. We further discuss how the degree of agent participation in control decisions, including decisions about assigning responsibility to agents, influences the nature of negotiation within a particular system. Through this model, we emphasize that negotiation may be a recursive, complex, and pervasive process that is used to resolve conflicts in both domain-level and control-level problem solving. Finally, we survey existing negotiation frameworks and how they relate to our generic model.

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FERNÁNDEZ-RODRÍGUEZ, IRENE, ANDRÉS ARIAS, NURIA ANADÓN, and JOSÉ LUIS ACUÑA. "Holothurian (Echinodermata) diversity and distribution in the central Cantabrian Sea and the Avilés Canyon System (Bay of Biscay)." Zootaxa 4567, no. 2 (March 15, 2019): 293. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4567.2.5.

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Here we report on the holothurian fauna at the Avilés Canyon System (Natura 2000 Site of Community Importance), central Cantabrian Sea, northern Spain. The samples were collected during several cruises covering the shelf, the continental slope and the abyssal depth. We identified 174 specimens, belonging to 35 species of the seven orders of class Holothuroidea. Depth was the main structuring agent. Multivariate analysis allowed the differentiation of four main assemblages which corresponded to abyssal plain, lower continental slope, upper continental slope, and continental shelf. Depth had a significant effect on holothurian species richness (it increased with depth at an approximate rate of 1.7 species 1000 m-1), which is consistent with previously described global patterns.

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Aprile, Carmela, Laura Teruel, Mercedes Alvaro, and Hermenegildo García. "Dye-sensitized solar cells made of titania nanoparticles structured into a mesoporous material." Canadian Journal of Chemistry 89, no. 2 (February 2011): 158–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/v10-122.

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Using cetyltrimethylammonium bromide as the structure-directing agent, titania nanoparticles (3–5 nm) were organized into a mesoporous material (8.6 nm average pore size and 99 m2/g). The textural and spatial structuring of the mesoporous material were studied by isothermal gas adsorption, X-ray diffraction, and transmission electron microscopy. Dye-sensitized solar cells using mesoporous material exhibit a one order of magnitude increase in the overall efficiency with respect to analogous cells prepared using the same nanoparticles without periodic mesoporous material. This photovoltaic enhancement is due to increased adsorption of the dye (ruthenium polypyridyl N719) to the mesoporous material arising from the larger area of this mesoporous solid with respect to the same unstructured nanoparticles.

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Dodig-Crnkovic, Gordana. "Morphological, Natural, Analog, and Other Unconventional Forms of Computing for Cognition and Intelligence." Proceedings 47, no. 1 (May 7, 2020): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2020047030.

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According to the currently dominant view, cognitive science is a study of mind and intelligence focused on computational models of knowledge in humans. It is described in terms of symbol manipulation over formal language. This approach is connected with a variety of unsolvable problems, as pointed out by Thagard. In this paper, I argue that the main reason for the inadequacy of the traditional view of cognition is that it detaches the body of a human as the cognizing agent from the higher-level abstract knowledge generation. It neglects the dynamical aspects of cognitive processes, emotions, consciousness, and social aspects of cognition. It is also uninterested in other cognizing agents such as other living beings or intelligent machines. Contrary to the traditional computationalism in cognitive science, the morphological computation approach offers a framework that connects low-level with high-level approaches to cognition, capable of meeting challenges listed by Thagard. To establish this connection, morphological computation generalizes the idea of computation from symbol manipulation to natural/physical computation and the idea of cognition from the exclusively human capacity to the capacity of all goal-directed adaptive self-reflective systems, living organisms as well as robots. Cognition is modeled as a layered process, where at the lowest level, systems acquire data from the environment, which in combination with the already stored data in the morphology of an agent, presents the basis for further structuring and self-organization of data into information and knowledge.

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Dodig-Crnkovic, Gordana. "Morphological, Natural, Analog, and Other Unconventional Forms of Computing for Cognition and Intelligence." Proceedings 47, no. 1 (May 7, 2020): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/proceedings47010030.

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According to the currently dominant view, cognitive science is a study of mind and intelligence focused on computational models of knowledge in humans. It is described in terms of symbol manipulation over formal language. This approach is connected with a variety of unsolvable problems, as pointed out by Thagard. In this paper, I argue that the main reason for the inadequacy of the traditional view of cognition is that it detaches the body of a human as the cognizing agent from the higher-level abstract knowledge generation. It neglects the dynamical aspects of cognitive processes, emotions, consciousness, and social aspects of cognition. It is also uninterested in other cognizing agents such as other living beings or intelligent machines. Contrary to the traditional computationalism in cognitive science, the morphological computation approach offers a framework that connects low-level with high-level approaches to cognition, capable of meeting challenges listed by Thagard. To establish this connection, morphological computation generalizes the idea of computation from symbol manipulation to natural/physical computation and the idea of cognition from the exclusively human capacity to the capacity of all goal-directed adaptive self-reflective systems, living organisms as well as robots. Cognition is modeled as a layered process, where at the lowest level, systems acquire data from the environment, which in combination with the already stored data in the morphology of an agent, presents the basis for further structuring and self-organization of data into information and knowledge.

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Aníbal, J., C. Rocha, and M. Sprung. "Mudflat surface morphology as a structuring agent of algae and associated macroepifauna communities: A case study in the Ria Formosa." Journal of Sea Research 57, no. 1 (January 2007): 36–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2006.07.002.

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Karp, Sabina, Jarosław Wyrwisz, Marcin Andrzej Kurek, and Agnieszka Wierzbicka. "The use of high-in-β-glucan oat fibre powder as a structuring agent in gluten-free yeast-leavened cake." Food Science and Technology International 25, no. 7 (June 19, 2019): 618–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1082013219856784.

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The biggest challenge in the production of gluten-free baked products is creating a structure without gluten while maintaining physicochemical and sensory properties. The aim of this study was to evaluate the possibility of applying oat β-glucan as the thickening and structure-making agent instead of xanthan (control sample), due to its pro-health technological properties, in yeast-leavened gluten-free cake. Thus, high-in-β-glucan oat fibre powder was incorporated into cake formulations as 5, 10, 15 and 20% replacement of rice or corn flour. The complex analysis of physicochemical and sensory properties was conducted, where texture and rheological aspects were the most important. An analysis of the correlation between rheological and physical properties was also conducted. Corn and rice cakes differed, but the results showed the increase of β-glucan, total dietary fibre, springiness, cohesiveness, storage (G′) and loss (G″) modulus and the decrease of firmness and lightness. Improvement of porosity and volume was also noticed. Significant correlation was observed among G′, G″, specific volume and texture components. Accelerated texture changes were noticed after 24 h of storage. To sum up, it is justified to incorporate oat fibre into gluten-free baked products, both to increase nutritional value and improve cake structure.

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Skarzhinskaya, E. M., and V. I. Tzurikov. "THEORY OF COLLECTIVE ACTION: RULES TRANSFORMATION." Economics of Contemporary Russia 86, no. 3 (October 2, 2019): 29–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.33293/1609-1442-2019-3(86)-29-51.

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The authors examine the mathematical modeling of methods for the coordination of collective action in the self-organization and self-governance mode. It is assumed that members of the collective create aggregate income whose value grows, as each member invests more effort. The goal pursued by each member of the collective is to maximize personal gains. As we established in the first part of the study, the lack of universal interpersonal trust prevents members of a uniform (unstructured) collective from overcoming a non-effective, Nash equilibrium outcome. Alternative options for structuring the collective were considered, such as creating small groups (coalitions) of agents sharing mutual trust within each group. The strategy of such coalition, aimed at maximizing coalitional gains rather than personal, leads to greater investment of effort by each coalition member, which in turn produces greater aggregate gains for the entire collective. We have shown that in order to secure stability of a coalition structure, first, stimuli for each coalition member are needed such that imply redistribution of quasi-rent to their benefit, and second, control must be exercised on the efforts of the agents. As models demonstrate, members of the collective left outside coalitions or forming small coalitions with a low share taken together (in aggregate) gains, have weaker stimuli for investment. The potential of increasing such stimuli and thereby increasing aggregate gains may be furnished by another, stronger hierarchic-shaped structure – provided transactional costs are sufficiently low. In order to realize this potential, entitlements to residual income must be concentrated in the hands of a single largest coalition or a number of largest coalitions, while banning all other members of the collective from receiving such income. The income of each agent is defined by the terms of the stimulating contract. We have proposed a general design of such a stimulating contract, creating all prerequisites for achieving equilibrium outcome, with Pareto-dominates equilibrium outcomes for other collective structuring options.

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Kaplin, Vladislav S., Nikolay N. Glagolev, Valentina T. Shashkova, Irina A. Matveeva, Ilya V. Shershnev, Tatyana S. Zarkhina, Nikita V. Minaev, et al. "Photocurable Methacrylate Derivatives of Polylactide: A Two-Stage Synthesis in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide and 3D Laser Structuring." Polymers 12, no. 11 (October 29, 2020): 2525. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym12112525.

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A two-stage polylactide modification was performed in the supercritical carbon dioxide medium using the urethane formation reaction. The modification resulted in the synthesis of polymerizable methacrylate derivatives of polylactide for application in the spatial 3D structuring by laser stereolithography. The use of the supercritical carbon dioxide medium allowed us to obtain for the first time polymerizable oligomer-polymer systems in the form of dry powders convenient for further application in the preparation of polymer compositions for photocuring. The photocuring of the modified polymers was performed by laser stereolithography and two-photon crosslinking. Using nanoindentation, we found that Young’s modulus of the cured compositions corresponded to the standard characteristics of implants applied in regenerative medicine. As shown by thermogravimetric analysis, the degree of crosslinking and, hence, the local stiffness of scaffolds were determined by the amount of the crosslinking agent and the photocuring regime. No cytotoxicity was observed for the structures.

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