A plantwide control proposal for ethylbenzene production by Victor Dias Veloso, Anamaria de Oliveira Cardoso

“…The control structure adopted with the PID controller is just one of the fundamental steps within the plantwide control methodology and shows the controller’s ability to meet the proposed structural objectives. …”
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Separation Anxiety among Kindergarten Children and its Association with Parental Socialization by Samar Jreisat

“…The present study aimed at investigating the association between separation anxiety and parental socialization styles among a sample of kindergarten children in Amman city, Jordan. The study adopted the descriptive cross-sectional design. A sample of 300 kindergarten children were enrolled in this study. …”
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Evaluate the Application of the Occupational Health and Safety Management System Based on International Standard (ISO 45001: 2018) :A Case Study in the Iraqi Ministry of Education by Sura Abdu Lateef Fadhil Alshaheen

“…Researching educational institutions in the Ministry of Education office, and the check list was adopted as a main tool for data collection by using statistical methods to obtain the results of the research represented (by the arithmetic mean and percentage to determine the extent of conformity and the actual size of the gap). …”
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Sustainable Supply Chain Design: A Configurational Approach by S. Maryam Masoumik, Salwa Hanim Abdul-Rashid, Ezutah Udoncy Olugu, Raja Ariffin Raja Ghazilla

“…A natural-resource-based view (NRBV) is adopted to determine the central theme to align the design components around. …”
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EFD and CFD Design and Analysis of a Propeller in Decelerating Duct by Stefano Gaggero, Cesare M. Rizzo, Giorgio Tani, Michele Viviani

“…In the present paper, a hybrid design approach, adopting a coupled lifting line/panel method solver and a successive refinement with panel solver and optimization techniques, is presented. …”
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Child Labor and Environmental Health: Government Obligations and Human Rights by Joseph J. Amon, Jane Buchanan, Jane Cohen, Juliane Kippenberg

“…The Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour was adopted by the International Labour Organization in 1999. 174 countries around the world have signed or ratified the convention, which requires countries to adopt laws and implement programs to prohibit and eliminate child labor that poses harms to health or safety. …”
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Indicators of Safety Compromise in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy by Mark R Borgaonkar, Lawrence Hookey, Roger Hollingworth, Ernst J Kuipers, Alan Forster, David Armstrong, Alan Barkun, Ronald Bridges, Rose Carter, Chris de Gara, Catherine Dube, Robert Enns, Donald MacIntosh, Sylviane Forget, Grigorios Leontiadis, Jonathan Meddings, Peter Cotton, Roland Valori, on behalf of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Safety and Quality Indicators in Endoscopy Consensus Group

“…This article focuses specifically on patient safety indicators that were developed at a consensus conference aimed at generating a broad range of recommendations for selected endoscopic procedures, which if adopted, could lead to significant changes in how endoscopy services are provided.…”
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Unlocking the potential of engineered immune cell therapy for solid tumors by Víctor Albarrán-Fernández, Laura Angelats, Julio Delgado, Alena Gros, Álvaro Urbano-Ispizua, Sònia Guedan, Aleix Prat

“…Adoptive cell therapy has emerged as a promising approach for treating advanced solid malignancies. …”
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Developing ‘Happiness Engineering’ Subject for the Schools in India: Designing the Pedagogical Framework for a Sustainable Happiness Curriculum by Ashraf Alam, Atasi Mohanty

“…The aim of this research was to develop the ‘Happiness Engineering’ subject by designing a ‘sustainable happiness curriculum’ and ‘pedagogical framework’ for the schools of India by adopting the whole school approach. Happiness Engineering subject is modelled like any other traditional school subject, e.g., History, Chemistry, or Computer Science. …”
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An Improved Test Selection Optimization Model Based on Fault Ambiguity Group Isolation and Chaotic Discrete PSO by Xiaofeng Lv, Deyun Zhou, Yongchuan Tang, Ling Ma

“…In the new model, the fault test dependency matrix is adopted to model the correlation between the system fault and the test group. …”
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Defining Price Stability: Public Accountability of the European Central Bank’s Goal Independence by Mattias Vermeiren

“…Second, the presence of a stronger “deflationary bloc” in the region constrained the ECB in adopting an average inflation target and its associated make-up strategy without tarnishing its socio-political reputation.…”
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Combined effects of basalt fiber geometrical characteristics on pavement performance of asphalt mixtures. by Heng Zhou, Mengxin Li, Guyue Jin, Mengyu Guo, Yingjun Jiang

“…Fibers have been widely adopted in asphalt mixture to improve its pavement performance. …”
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Stability Optimization of a Disc Brake System with Hybrid Uncertainties for Squeal Reduction by Hui Lü, Dejie Yu

“…In the optimization, the surrogate model of the real part of domain unstable eigenvalue of the brake system is established, and the upper bound of its expectation is adopted as the optimization objective. The lower bounds of the functions related to system stability, the mass, and the stiffness of design component are adopted as the optimization constraints. …”
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Experimental Study on the Reliability of an Active Unloading System for Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Columns by Yongquan Wang, Tianfu Li, Kaifa Dong, Zhengxing Guo, Jing Fu

“…In addition, the commonly adopted passive unloading methods are unable to actively control the unloading force. …”
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A DOE (Response Surface Methodology) Approach to Predict the Strength Properties of Concrete Incorporated with Jute and Bamboo Fibres and Silica Fumes by Jayaprakash Sridhar, Dhanapal Jegatheeswaran, Ravindran Gobinath

“…Design of Experiment approach is adopted for deriving progression variables comprising jute fibres, bamboo fibres, and silica fumes. …”
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Investigation of the Influence of Local Low Strength Concrete on the Bearing Capacity of Bending Reinforced Concrete Beams by A. G. Tamrazyan

“…This study presents the response of flexural hinge-supported reinforced concrete beams with different local areas of low concrete strength along the span. Modified models are adopted to describe the concrete properties and an ideal elastic-plastic model is adopted for the steel properties. …”
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Analysis of the Coal Fluidization Mining Process with the Continuous-Discontinuous Coupled Particle-Block Method by Jing Li, Chun Feng, Xinguang Zhu, Yiming Zhang

“…Accordingly, in this work, a continuous–discontinuous element method is adopted, which is a coupled particle–block finite-discrete element method with an explicit integration formulation, which is adopted for simulating the coal in situ fluidization mining–filling processes. …”
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Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Liquid Storage Tanks Isolated by Sliding-Based Systems by Alexandros Tsipianitis, Yiannis Tsompanakis

“…The cost-effective seismic design of base-isolated liquid storage tanks can be achieved by adopting performance-based design (PBD) principles. …”
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Avoidance High-Frequency Chattering Second-Order Sliding Mode Controller Design: Buck Converter in Wind Power System by Yigeng Huangfu, Ruiqing Ma, Abdellatif Miraoui

“…Meanwhile, the Buck converter taken as a step-down converter is usually adopted in wind power system, because of its simple structure and good linearity. …”
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Clinical Effect of Photobiomodulation on Wound Healing of Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Does Skin Color Needs to Be Considered? by Thabo Dhlamini, Nicolette Nadene Houreld

“…Only 13 clinical trials and 2 clinical case studies were adopted and used in this review. All the clinical trials adopted for this review show evidence that PBM together with conventional treatment results in an increased healing rate of DFUs; however, only one study adjusted their protocol according to skin color. …”
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