In the arid zone of northwest China, Heihe River Basin (HRB), as a typical inland river basin, has fragile regional ecological environment, obvious degradation characteristics, and extremely serious problems in utilization agricultural land resources. Meanwhile, shortage water resources, low reduction quality, excessive activities have greatly increased local pressure. this paper, firstly, usin...

Numerous rheological and microvascular alterations characterize the vascular pathology in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This study investigated effects of vildagliptin in comparison to glimepiride on retinal microvascular blood flow and erythrocyte deformability in T2DM.Fourty-four patients with T2DM on metformin monotherapy were included in this randomized, exploratory study o...

Detailed knowledge about stellar winds and evolution at different metallicities is crucial for understanding populations feedback in the Local Group of galaxies beyond. Despite efforts literature, we still lack a comprehensive, empirical view dependence wind properties on metallicity ($Z$). Here, investigate O B stars Milky Way (MW) Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We gathered sample 96 analyzed b...

Factors that affect water loss rates (WLRs) are poorly known for organisms in natural habitats. Seed-harvester ant queens provide an ideal system for examining such factors because WLRs for mated queens excavated from their incipient nests are twofold to threefold higher than those of alate queens. Indirect data suggest that this increase results from soil particles abrading the cuticle during ...

Trypanosoma congolense forest-type was identified by PCR in France, in a dog returning from Senegal. This paper describes the morphological features of the parasite on Giemsa-stained smears. Slender forms and "latent bodies" represent 30.4% and 20.4%, respectively. Some rosettes have been observed (0.8%). The predominant form (48.4%) is stumpy, close to "montgomeryi-form", but it is unusually b...

English. The paper illustrates the features of the WLR (Web Linguistic Resources) portal, which collects specialized online dictionaries and asses their suitability for different functions using a specifically designed rating system. The contribution aims to demonstrate how the existing tool has improved the usefulness of lexicographical portals and how its effectiveness can be further increase...

This paper presents the experience and insights gained from developing and applying methodologies for quick quality checks (QQC) of third party language resources based on the existing methodologies for full validation, which were documented in validation manuals under contract for ELRA during 2003-2004. The types of resources are Spoken Language Resources (SLR) and Written Language Resources (...

Practical applications of machine learning often involve successive training iterations with changes to features and training examples. Ideally, changes in the output of any new model should only be improvements (wins) over the previous iteration, but in practice the predictions may change neutrally for many examples, resulting in extra net-zero wins and losses, referred to as unnecessary churn...