Fatigue Performance of Recycled Hot Mix Asphalt: A Laboratory Study by Marco Pasetto, Nicola Baldo

“…The empirical stiffness reduction method, along with the energy ratio approach, based on the dissipated energy concept, was adopted to elaborate the experimental data. Unaged and aged specimens were checked, to analyse the ageing effects on the fatigue performance. …”
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Polyphonic discourses in the Hong Kong press: a diachronic analysis of media attitudes towards the One Country, Two Systems policy by Qingyu Gao, Dezheng Feng William

“…Ming Pao consistently adopted an impartial stance, representing OCTS as a topic for debate and covering the varying perspectives of different parties. …”
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Protection Mechanism in Reliability Evaluation Approach to Multistate System with Common Cause Failure by Jinlei Qin, Zheng Li, Youchan Zhu

“…A protection mechanism needs to be adopted because of the importance of certain components. …”
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A Single-Layer Dual-Band Reflectarray Cell for 5G Communication Systems by Sandra Costanzo, Francesca Venneri, Antonio Borgia, Giuseppe Di Massa

“…A reflectarray unit cell operating at 28/38 GHz is designed by adopting two pairs of miniaturized fractal patches, offering low losses (<0.7 dB) and almost full-phase ranges (≅320°) at both operating frequencies. …”
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A Practical and Economical Ultra-wideband Base Station Placement Approach for Indoor Autonomous Driving Systems by Shengchuan Jiang, Cong Zhao, Yifan Zhu, Chenwei Wang, Yuchuan Du

“…Ultra-wideband (UWB) is one of the most widely adopted techniques. However, the base station placement significantly influences the system’s positioning accuracy, especially for the irregular architecture of underground parking lots. …”
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Ground Motion Modeling and Adaptive Joint Control for Large-Scale UAVs by Bo Wang, Wensheng Wang, Xiaodan Cui, Xiaoxiong Liu

“…In order to solve the problem of environmental disturbance and small heading damping, the inner loop adopts the adaptive back-stepping control method. …”
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A Rising E-Channel Tide Lifts All Boats? The Impact of Manufacturer Multichannel Encroachment on Traditional Selling and Leasing by Wei Yan, Youwei Li, Ying Wu, Mark Palmer

“…Due to the emergence of electronic commerce on the Internet, e-channel distribution systems have been adopted by many manufacturers. However, academic and anecdotal evidence both point to the pressures arising from this new e-channel manufacturing environment. …”
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Research on Flexible Resource Dynamic Interactive Regulation Technology for Microgrids with High Permeable New Energy by Songsong Chen, Lutao Zhang, Ying Zhou, Ke Chen, Zhongdong Wang, Lihui Xie

“…The second layer adopts the HDQC allocation strategy, which solves the problem of low utilization of new energy in the proportional allocation method and improves the adaptability of the regulation strategy in the complex stochastic environment. …”
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Corporate governance and organizational Performance: A case of Institut Polytechnique De Byumba, Rwanda. by Bonaventure, Twagirumugabe

“…Organizations are encouraged to adopt good corporate governance practices to improve their performance and also to protect the interest of the shareholders.…”
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Study on Control of Wall Deflection in Earth Stepped-Twin Retaining Wall Using Anchor Method by means of Numerical Simulation by Kazuki Maehara, Akihiro Hamanaka, Takashi Sasaoka, Hideki Shimada, Seiya Sakuma

“…The results of this study show that the wall deflection of the inner wall could improve by adopting the anchor support. Besides, it was found that the inner wall can be efficiently suppressed by adopting the hybrid system with anchors and struts according to the soil properties, horizontal distance, and the depth of the outer wall.…”
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COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS: FROM GENERAL PERSPECTIVES TO SOME MAJOR TENETS by Dương Hữu Biên

“…Then the article expresses some main tenets which are adopted by cognitive linguists as guiding principles.…”
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Positive Solutions for a System of Semipositone Fractional Difference Boundary Value Problems by Cheng Chen, Jiafa Xu, Donal O’Regan, Zhengqing Fu

“…Using the fixed point index, we establish two existence theorems for positive solutions to a system of semipositone fractional difference boundary value problems. We adopt nonnegative concave functions and nonnegative matrices to characterize the coupling behavior of our nonlinear terms.…”
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Stability of equilibria of a predator-prey model of phenotype evolution by Sílvia Cuadrado

“…Local stability of the equilibria of this model is studied using thelinearized stability principle and taking advantage of the(assumed) asymptotic stability of the equilibria of the residentpopulation adopting an evolutionarily stable strategy.…”
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Factors Affecting Teachers in Implementing the Thematic Curriculum in Primary Schools in Uganda: A Case Study of Butogota Primary School Kanungu District. by Twinomujuni, Dorothy

“…It was guided by the following specific objectives: to investigate the reasons behind teachers’s resistance to adopting thematic curriculum, establish the challenges teachers face in implementing thematic curriculum, and assess the possible solutions to the challenges facing teachers in implementing thematic curriculum in Butogota Primary School. …”
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„Rozstępy” przyszłości: o trudnych powiązaniach technologii, kultury i natury by Marcin Jewdokimow, Barbara Markowska

“…A posthumanist approach to the analysis is adopted, allowing for the unveiling of the ruptures and splits related to such issues as subjectivity, culture-nature dichotomy, and technological development.…”
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Effects of Digital Storytelling Package on Students’ Motivation and Attitude to Christian Religious Studies (CRS) in Junior Secondary Schools by Adetunmbi L. Akinyemi, Jonathan Iyanuoluwa Makinde

“…The effect of gender was also measured. The study adopted a quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test, and control group design. …”
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Acetyl α-d-2,3,4-triacetyllyxopyranoside by Shawn Culver, Jonathan S. Rhoad

“…Two acetyl subsituents adopt equatorial orientations and two are axial. …”
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The Influence of Complex Subway Station Construction on High Retaining Walls and Appropriate Countermeasures by Kai Wang, Zhaoping Li, Xuezhao Xu, Leilei Shi, Fanbo Zhang

“…Anzhen Bridge Station of Beijing metro line 12, which adopts a separated-island platform constructed by the undermining method, passes along the retaining wall of the North Third Ring Road. …”
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Power Management Strategy by Enhancing the Mission Profile Configuration of Solar-Powered Aircraft by Parvathy Rajendran, Kah Wee Lim, Kuan Theng Ong

“…This study optimizes the overall power ratio by adopting the mission profile configuration of optimal solar energy exploitation. …”
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Implementation and evaluation of online and offline blended teaching model in laboratory course of Clinical Laboratory Hematology by Dan Li, Fang Wang, Xiaodong Zhou, Kejun Peng, Limei Zhang, Hong Yan, Xiaoying Li, Juan Zhang

“…The experimental group adopted an online and offline blended teaching model, while the control group adopted a traditional one. …”
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