How user-generated content advertising influences consumer attitudes, trust and purchase intention of products and services by Diana Demba, Norman Chiliya, Tinashe Chuchu, Tinashe Ndoro

“…Convenience non-probability sampling was adopted in selecting 330 participants. In addition, structural equation modelling was used in testing proposed hypotheses. …”
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Lymphocytes in Placental Tissues: Immune Regulation and Translational Possibilities for Immunotherapy by Tom Erkers, Arwen Stikvoort, Michael Uhlin

“…Also explored is the possibility that unique cell populations at the fetomaternal interface may be targets for adoptive cell therapy. Increasing the understanding of immune modulation during pregnancy can give valuable insight into other established fields such as allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and solid organ transplantation. …”
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Sorcellerie capitaliste et touristes pishtaco : les tensions occultes autour du tourisme d’ayahuasca chez les Shipibo de San Francisco (Amazonie péruvienne) by Doriane Slaghenauffi

“…These occult practices and interpretations can be seen, on the one hand, as forms of resilience adopted by Shipibo shamans in order to cope with and benefit from the current context of transition to capitalism, which is increasingly present within the communities, and, on the other hand, as manifestations of frustration and anxiety about the recuperation of local shamanism by global culture, symptomatic of the traditionally ambiguous links between gringos and Native Amazonians.…”
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On Iterative Learning Control for Remote Control Systems with Packet Losses by Chunping Liu, Rong Xiong, Jianxin Xu, Jun Wu

“…In order to eliminate the effect of packet dropouts on the convergence property of output error, the hold-input scheme is adopted to compensate the packet dropout at the actuator. …”
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Uniaxial Compression Mechanical Analysis of Cylindrical Rock Specimens Based on Space Axisymmetric Problem by Jianguang Li, Yanchun Wang, Chuanqi Su

“…In this paper, based on spatial axisymmetric elastic mechanics theory, three-dimensional stress function is constructed for the cylindrical rock specimen under uniform axial compression by adopting the semi-inverse method. According to the stress function, the stress components and the principal stress are deduced when considering the end effect. …”
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Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Pounding Response for Adjacent Inelastic MDOF Structures Based on Dimensional Analysis by Qiaoyun Wu, Ziliang Liu, Tao Wang, Xuyong Chen

“…The forces and deformations of the collision processes are simulated by adopting the improved Kelvin pounding model. The inelastic characteristics of MDOF structures are described by the bilinear interstory resistance model, and the representations of dimensionless impact force and the dimensionless motion equation in the pounding process are derived. …”
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Adaptive fuzzy command filtered control for uncertain fractional order nonlinear systems with full state constraints by Ruixia Liu, Yang Han, Lei Xing, Liyang Sun

“…An adaptive fuzzy control strategy based on a command filter is proposed, where the asymmetric Barrier Lyapunov Function is adopted to ensure that the states do not violate their constraints, and a fuzzy logic system is used to approximate the unknown nonlinear terms. …”
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Life cycle cost-effectiveness estimation and optimization method for satellite by ZHAO Jianyu, WANG Jingyan, CHENG Zhuo, JIAO Jian, CHENG Yao

“…A remote sensing satellite is adopted to demonstrate the proposed method, the result suggests that this method could optimize the performance, reliability and weight indicators of satellite system, which might be applied for project design demonstration, task management, and life cycle cost control of satellites.…”
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Pengembangan Buku Ajar Mata Kuliah Renang Bagi Mahasiswa Pendidikan Jasmani Kesehatan dan Rekreasi by Fadli Surahman, Hilda Oktri Yeni

“…Design model that was used by the researchers to produce this product adopted Borg and Gall model.  This development research produced a coursebook for Swimming course for student of Health, Physical education and Recreation Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty. …”
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Delay-Dependent H∞ Control for Descriptor Markovian Jump Systems with Time-Varying Delay by Jinghao Li, Qingling Zhang, Ding Zhai, Yi Zhang

“…Since the reciprocally convex combination approach is adopted to estimate the upper bound of the integral terms, the BRL obtained in this paper is less conservative than some existing ones. …”
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Research on Pump Volute Design Method Using CFD by Sunsheng Yang, Fanyu Kong, Bin Chen

“…In this paper, numerical method was adopted to investigate volute main geometric parameters, including volute throat area, volute cross-section shape, design rule of spiral development area, and radial gap between impeller and volute tongue to pump performance. …”
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Analysis of Drilling of Coir Fiber-Reinforced Polyester Composites Using Multifaceted Drill Bit by T. V. Rajamurugan, C. Rajaganapathy, S. P. Jani, Claris Snigdha Gurram, Haiter Lenin Allasi, Samson Zerihun Damtew

“…During drilling of these Natural Fiber Reinforced Plastic composites (NFRP), delamination and surface roughness are the problems encountered, which are to be minimized to get better output by adopting different cutting conditions and tools. This work aims at the drilling of naturally available coir fiber-reinforced composite materials by using a multifaceted drill bit. …”
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Influence of entrepreneurial orientation and absorptive capacities in export performance by Alexandra Silva França, Orlando Lima Rua

“…Therefore, this research adopted a quantitative methodological approach, conducting a descriptive, exploratory and transversal empirical study, having applied a questionnaire to a sample of Portuguese companies exporting footwear. …”
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Bionic Design of Wind Turbine Blade Based on Long-Eared Owl’s Airfoil by Weijun Tian, Zhen Yang, Qi Zhang, Jiyue Wang, Ming Li, Yi Ma, Qian Cong

“…The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a bionic design for the airfoil of wind turbines inspired by the morphology of Long-eared Owl’s wings. Glauert Model was adopted to design the standard blade and the bionic blade, respectively. …”
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No Chattering and Adaptive Sliding Mode Control of a Fractional-Order Phase Converter with Disturbances and Parameter Uncertainties by Karthikeyan Rajagopal, Riessom Weldegiorgis, Anitha Karthikeyan, Prakash Duraisamy, Goitom Tadesse

“…A forward and backward continuation scheme is adopted to display various coexisting attractors; the property of multistability is also discussed. …”
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Vehicle Type Recognition Algorithm Based on Improved Network in Network by Erxi Zhu, Min Xu, De Chang Pi

“…On that basis, the residual error is adopted to build a novel NIN model by altering the size and layout of the original convolution kernel of NIN. …”
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Mixed Platoon Flow Dispersion Model Based on Speed-Truncated Gaussian Mixture Distribution by Weitiao Wu, Wenzhou Jin, Luou Shen

“…More close to field observation, truncated Gaussian mixture distribution was adopted as the speed density distribution for mixed platoon. …”
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Citrus BMP Implementation in Florida's Gulf Citrus Production Area: Water, Sediment, and Aquatic Weeds by Sanjay Shukla, Robert E. Rouse, S. S. Shukla, Edward A. Hanlon, Kenneth Portier, Thomas A. Obreza

“…Obreza, describes a survey conducted by the authors in cooperation with the Gulf Citrus Growers Association (GCGA) and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDCAS) to quantify the current level of Best Management Practice (BMP) implementation and to identify BMPs that might be adopted if a cost-share program was available. It discusses the findings regarding water, sediment, and aquatic weed BMPs. …”
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Verb-particle constructions in Cognitive Linguistics perspective: Compositionality behind selected English phrasal verbs by Izabela Jarosz

“…In order to achieve a desired aim, the principle of partial compositionality is adopted here. Hence, apart from focusing on both the verb and the particle, the senses that go beyond those comprising the composite parts receive considerable attention in this study. …”
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Seismic Damage Rapid Assessment of Road Networks considering Individual Road Damage State and Reliability of Road Networks in Emergency Conditions by Jinlong Liu, Hanxi Jia, Junqi Lin, Heng Hu

“…Then, the improved estimation for the reliability of road networks is adopted to assess the damage of road networks. Last, the method is demonstrated using the road networks in Karamay, China.…”
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