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Background: An organism's ability to adapt to its particular environmental niche is of fundamental importance to its survival and proliferation. In the largest study of its k...
Michel Dumontier, Katerina Michalickova, Christoph...
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—Knowledge representation is one of important factors that determine human performance on cognitive tasks. Due to different levels of experience, different groups of people may d...
The severe competition in the market has driven enterprises to produce a wider variety of products to meet consumers' needs. However, frequent variation of product specificat...