Optimization and Thermoeconomics Research of a Large Reclaimed Water Source Heat Pump System by Zi-ping Zhang, Fang-hui Du

“…According to the characteristics of the reclaimed water and taking into account the initial investment, the project is divided into two stages: the first stage adopts distributed heat pump heating system and the second adopts the combination of centralized and decentralized systems. …”
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Vibration Reduction of the Nonlinearly Tufted Carpet Yarn by a Modified Sliding Mode Control Method by Shuang Huang, Xin Wu, Peixing Li

“…The fuzzy sliding mode control algorithm based on quasisliding mode is adopted to achieve better control effect with a smaller force. …”
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Method for Determining Longitudinal Stiffness of Combined Double Thin-Walled Pier Based on Train-Track-Bridge Interaction by Hui Fang, Zhaowei Chen

“…Combined double thin-walled pier is a new kind of pier adopted in the urban transit system in China, whose longitudinal stiffness cannot be determined by adopting traditional methods. …”
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WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT AND THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF CONSUMER GOODS MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN NIGERIA by CECILIA ADURAYEMI ADU, OLUTAYO OWOLABI SOYOYE

“…Purposive sampling technique was adopted by the study to select ten listed consumer goods firms that have adequate information. …”
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Register-Based Subject Omission in English and its Implication for the Syntax of Adjuncts by Liliane Haegeman

“…For the development of this analysis the paper introduces an articulated subject field with a specialised subject position, thus adopting the view that the predicational relation is the core property of sentence structure. …”
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Electricity Usage Scheduling in Smart Building Environments Using Smart Devices by Eunji Lee, Hyokyung Bahn

“…Thus, the utility company adopts different price of electricity at each time slot considering the peak time. …”
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Optimal Design of Cordon Sanitaire for Regular Epidemic Control by Hongzhi Lin

“…A heuristic algorithm is designed to solve the proposed bilevel model where the method of successive averages (MSA) is adopted for the lower-level model, and the genetic algorithm (GA) is adopted for the upper-level model. …”
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Islam and Scholarship Tradition: Historical Trajectories and Future Challenges of Modernity by Mohammad Fadel

“…In this regard, this paper aims to address the question of what the modern challenges are, how Islam and Muslims deal with them, and what aspects of Islamic tradition that can be adopted to navigate multiple challenges of modernity. …”
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Improving Access in Gastroenterology: The Single Point of Entry Model for Referrals by Kerri L Novak, Sander Veldhuyzen Van Zanten, Sachin R Pendharkar

“…In 2005, a group of academic gastroenterologists in Calgary (Alberta) adopted a centralized referral intake system known as central triage. …”
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Autoriser pour interdire. La fabrique des savoirs sur les molécules et leurs risques dans le règlement européen REACH by Henri Boullier

“…Since the Toxic Substances Control Act was adopted in the United States in 1976, information asymmetries and the multiplication of specific applications for chemicals had apparently made their control almost impossible. …”
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EMPIRICAL STUDY OF INFLUENCE OF FINANCIAL INNOVATION ON ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF SELECTED NIGERIAN INSURANCE COMPANIES by Oloruntoba Oyedele

“…A survey research approach was adopted to sample the opinion of respondents. A purposive sample technique was adopted to select 150 senior managers of the selected 69 insurance companies in Southwest, Nigeria. …”
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Application of Polymer Nanocolloid Preparation in Stability Analysis of Motion Mechanics by Jun Jia, Fengyuan Sun

“…In order to avoid the agglomeration between particles, this paper adopts an appropriate method to disperse the particles. …”
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Weak Solutions for a Second Order Dirichlet Boundary Value Problem on Time Scale by Wandong Lou

“…We adopt the Leray-Schauder degree theory and critical point theory to consider a second order Dirichlet boundary value problem on time scales and obtain some existence theorems of weak solutions for the previous problem.…”
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An Observer-Based Event Triggered Mechanism for the Detection and Mitigation of FDI Attacks in Deep Brain Stimulation Systems by Ping Yu, Ding Yang, Khalid A. Alattas, Ardashir Mohammadzadeh, Afef Fekih

“…In the DBS, an accelerometer sensor is often adopted to measure the value of the tremor and then wirelessly transmit the measured signals to the programming device using a communication network. …”
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Food Insecurity Resilience Capacity of Rural Households in the Face of Induced-Weather Extremities in Bauchi State of Nigeria by Mohammed Sadiq, Muhammad Ahmad, Mahmood Bala, Invinder Singh

“…Nevertheless, income and consumption smoothening were the commonest short-term food coping strategies adopted in the study area. To achieve the sustainable development goals of zero hunger by 2030, it becomes imperative on policymakers to sensitize rural households on the need to adopt safe and eco-friendly improved indigenous food technologies so as to address the poor states of food utilization and stability affecting food security of the study area.…”
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Tsardom of Muscovy Traditional Culture and Peter's Westernization Project by T. V. Chernikova

“…These were prerequisites for the beginning of the modernization of Russia.In other matters, Peter's westernization differed from the previous periods only in the number of cultural and institutional adoptions. Peter’s political system was the apogee of the patrimonial culture in Russia.…”
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A Reliable Transport Protocol with Prediction Mechanism for Urgent Information in Wireless Sensor Networks by Zhenchun Wei, Lin Feng, Jianghong Han, Xiangwei Xu, Hao Peng

“…In order to evaluate the degree of congestion, state machine is adopted. Working states of WSNs are classified into eight states in accordance with different degrees of congestion. …”
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Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction of Total Flavonoids from Corn Silk and Their Antioxidant Activity by Ling-Li Zheng, Guan Wen, Min-Yong Yuan, Feng Gao

“…Response surface methodology was adopted to optimize the extraction conditions and antioxidant activities of the extracted total flavonoids were detected through ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) assay. …”
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Improving TCR Gene Therapy for Treatment of Haematological Malignancies by Emma Nicholson, Sara Ghorashian, Hans Stauss

“…Adoptive immunotherapy using TCR gene modified T cells may allow separation of beneficial Graft versus tumour responses from harmful GvHD. …”
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Effects of Teenage Pregnancy on Girl Child Education in Buhunga Sub-County Uganda. by Twikirize, Edwig

“…Research ethical procedures were adhered to during the research process. Data analysis was adopted as quantitative analysis with the use of frequencies and percentages while qualitative analysis was adopted as thematic analysis. …”
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