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States in Eurasia such as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan are using a new tool from China: The Special Economic Zone. In doing so, they are changing it.

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Abstract: A new fault-location algorithm for extra-high-voltage mixed lines based on phase characteristics of the hyperbolic tangent function is proposed. This paper takes overhead-cable-overhead ...

A rotator cuff tear can worsen over time. If treatment is delayed, a partial tear can progress to a full-thickness tear, and ...

Abstract: In this paper, a novel rational function approximation method, namely, model-based vector fitting (MVF), is proposed for accurate extraction of the characteristic functions of a ...