Copernicus and Copernicans: Galileo, Kepler, Bruno by Ünsal Çimen

“…But what about Giordano Bruno? He adopted Hermetic philosophy and opposed Copernicus’s mathematical (geometric) method; he also claimed, unlike Copernicus, that the universe was infinite and that there were intelligent life forms on other planets. …”
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Déguerpissements et déplacements forcé à Addis-Abeba by Bezunesh Tamru

“…But today, the forced displacement and the destruction of their neighborhoods are not only a source of social decay, but also a challenge to their urban citizenship they had taken for granted, leading them to adopt urban survival strategies, particularly for the younger generations.…”
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The Potential Impacts of The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) On Human Rights in Uganda. by Mugabi. K. Ivan.

“…This analysis shall therefore adopt a comparative as well as a reflective research design in asserting that in as much as the project is economically viable, lesson must be picked from other developing regions where similar projects have culminated into detrimental consequences upon the communities…”
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Mobile Enabled Vehicle Tracking System a Case of Long Distance Bus Companies in E. Africa by Conrad M., Mubaraka, Ivan, Niyonzima

“…A design science research methodology was adopted with six major bus companies and a prototype (Me V track system) developed to assist in this Nobel cause. …”
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HSRoadNet: Hard-Swish Activation Function and Improved Squeeze–Excitation Module Network for Road Extraction Using Satellite Remote Sensing Imagery by Xunqiang Gong, Yingjie Ma, Ailong Ma, Zhaoyang Hou, Meng Zhang, Yanfei Zhong

“…Second, a normalization layer is adopted to prevent gradient levels from vanishing and exploring and avoid fracture of the extracted road. …”
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An Automatic Detection Method of Nanocomposite Film Element Based on GLCM and Adaboost M1 by Hai Guo, Jinghua Yin, Jingying Zhao, Yuanyuan Liu, Lei Yao, Xu Xia

“…An automatic detection model adopting pattern recognition technology is proposed in this paper; it can realize the measurement to the element of nanocomposite film. …”
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Discrete Second-Order Sliding Mode Adaptive Controller Based on Characteristic Model for Servo Systems by Zhihong Wang, Yifei Wu, Wei Chen, Xiang Wang, Jian Guo, Qingwei Chen

“…Secondly, the recursive least square algorithm is adopted to identify time-varying parameters in characteristic model, and the observer is applied to predict the command value of next sample time. …”
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Analyser l’expérience du stage en enseignement au travers du prisme des difficultés et des échecs de stagiaires québécois : réflexion basée sur les écrits spécialisés by Jean-François Desbiens , Adel Habak , Stéphane Martineau

“…Despite that, they are often perceived negatively through a failure avoidance fixed mindset while, on the opposite, those who adopt a growth mindset tend to consider them as learning occasions. …”
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Wideband and UWB Antennas for Wireless Applications: A Comprehensive Review by Renato Cicchetti, Emanuela Miozzi, Orlandino Testa

“…A comprehensive review concerning the geometry, the manufacturing technologies, the materials, and the numerical techniques, adopted for the analysis and design of wideband and ultrawideband (UWB) antennas for wireless applications, is presented. …”
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Classification of Autism Disorder Severity Using Fuzzy Methods Based on Soft Computing by Nahid Saberipour, Mahdi Mazinani, Rahil Hosseini

“…To this end, fuzzy systems based methods have been adopted in this study. The presented methods are based on 112 data driven from children and adolescents between the ages of 3 to 14 years. …”
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Will South Africa meet the Sustainable Development Goals target for maternal mortality by 2030? by Y Pillay, J M Moodley

“… In September 2015, South Africa (SA) and 192 countries adopted Agenda 2030, which included the Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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RESULTS OF THE STUDY OF THE ETHNIC IDENTITY OF SOUTH OSSETIANS by A. B. Gagloeva

“…It has been shown that the respondents’ ethnic identity is relevant and significant, which is accompanied by a positive value image of their ethnos and a positive attitude to its culture and history, which they try to preserve, traditions and norms of behavior adopted in it, as well as high satisfaction with membership in their ethno-cultural community with a pronounced need for identification with it and consolidation. …”
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Design of Multilevel Sequential Rotation Feeding Networks Used for Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antenna Arrays by Aixin Chen, Chuo Yang, Zhizhang Chen, Yanjun Zhang, Yingyi He

“…By using corner-truncated square patch as the array element and adopting appropriate level of sequential rotation series-parallel feeding structures as feeding networks, microstrip arrays can generate excellent circular polarization (CP) over a relatively wide frequency band. …”
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Pratiques d'une métropole émergente par les usagers des transports en commun, le cas du Cap, Afrique du Sud by Solène Baffi

“…The study of the maids' mobilities enables to enlighten these socio-spatial changes, especially through the observation of their practice of the transport network, the strategies they adopt to move and through their experience of the transport space.…”
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CATHINONES AND VIAGRA IN CHEMSEX: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHY OF TOUCH, MASCULINITIES AND AESTHETICS by Jorge Humberto Lucero Díaz

“…A central tension emerges between haptic experimentation, which fosters a non-genital-centric sexuality, and the homonormative masculine aesthetics that shape these experiences. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the research is based on critically analyzed personal participation in chemsex, which was documented through field notes. …”
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A Semi-Supervised Framework for MMMs-Induced Fuzzy Co-Clustering with Virtual Samples by Daiji Tanaka, Katsuhiro Honda, Seiki Ubukata, Akira Notsu

“…In this research, the virtual sample approach is adopted in semi-supervised fuzzy co-clustering, where the goal is to reveal object-item pairwise cluster structures from cooccurrence information among them. …”
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Preparation and Microwave-Absorbing Property of Solid-Waste-Derived Ceramic Foam by Zheng Wang, Minghao Mu, Xinqiang Liu, Congcong Jiang

“…Recently, electromagnetic wave (EMW)-absorbing materials have obtained increasing attention for both military and civil applications. This study adopted the powder sintering method and the concept of recycled wastes in fabricating functional ceramic foam (CF). …”
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Analysis of the resistance to crack propagation in SENT test specimens printed in ABS using parallel or crossed filaments between layers by Oumaima Aourik, Abdelkerim Chouaf, Mourad Othmani

“…The objective of this paper is to analyze and understand the effect of the adopted raster angle on the crack propagation in SENT specimens obtained by FDM in ABS (Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene). …”
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Design of a launch and control unit for anti-unmanned system on a boat by LI Erlei, ZHANG Fazhi

“…With the help of detection equipment, it can effectively deter and strike small and medium-sized UAVs, unmanned helicopters, suicide USVs, etc. in the airspace below 5 000 meters. The control unit adopts ARM+FPGA master-slave control structure, which fully plays the advantages of two different chips, and innovatively designs the hardware execution sequence of the launch process in the hardware circuit. …”
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Hybrid Method for Predictive Transient Nonlinear Analysis of a Radiative-Convective Moving Porous Fin with Temperature-variant Internal Heat Generation by Gbeminiyi Musibau Sobamowo, Ridwan Oladotun Olagbadamosi, Arinola Bola Ajayi, Antonio Marcos de Oliveira Siqueira

“… In this work, Laplace transform-Legendre-wavelet collocation method is adopted for a semi-numerical analysis of predicting transient nonlinear behaviour of a radiative-convective fin with temperature-variant internal heat generation. …”
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