Water services and climate change: Winning innovations delivering greater resilience by Geneviève Leboucher, Sandrine Oberti

“…To stave off water stress and preserve this vital resource, there is an urgent need to adopt alternative strategies such as groundwater recharging, forward planning to anticipate vulnerabilities in drinking water production systems triggered by climate change, and rolling out frugal solutions that use less water. …”
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L’accompagnement des stages en formation initiale des enseignant·e·s du primaire en RDC by Joséphine Zihalirwa, Mariane Frenay, Denis Bédard

“…Instructional supervision practices adopted by teams providing internship support depend on how the support is perceived and the context in which the internship takes place. …”
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First-Train Timetable Synchronization in Metro Networks under Origin-Destination Demand Conditions by Hetian Chai, Xiaopeng Tian, Huimin Niu

“…Then, the Nondominated Sorted Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II) is adopted to solve the proposed model, and an improved technique is elaborated to reduce the alternative route choices. …”
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How far is World Champion from World Class? Institutional effects on a Brazilian non-profit sports organization by Ivan Rodrigo Rizzo Dias, George Bedinelli Rossi

“…The literature review unveils that ties and connections to the access and acquisitions of inimitable resources, learning races and being a leader or occupying an important position in a network are the main factors for the network formation to achieve internationalization. We adopted the single case study method, and data collection was done by in depth-interviews with ten key respondents. …”
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A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF COMMENTS AND DELIVERY STRATEGY ON TED TALKS by Ildi Kurniawan

“…The data of this research were 50 comments of the videos (2016-2020) which contained comments on speaker or talk style not relating to talk content.  This research adopted the comment theory analysis by Tsou, A. et.al (2014). …”
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Simplified-Boost Reinforced Model-Based Complex Wind Signal Forecasting by Qiushuang Lin, Chunxiang Li

“…Afterwards, reinforced forecasting is adopted to enhance the robustness of the preliminary forecasting. …”
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Fault detection in an engine by fusing information from multivibration sensors by Ruili Zeng, Lingling Zhang, Jianmin Mei, Hong Shen, Huimin Zhao

“…The multi-complementary sensor information can be adopted in the proposed method, which will increase the reliability of fault detection and reduce uncertainty in the recognition of a fault.…”
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Changement climatique. Sur les cartes et les narrations by Elena Bougleux

“…The orientation system adopted by Aboriginal communities over the land and by the sea has changed to include GIS technologies, developing a hybrid techno/visual language which allow both the space and the people to be represented by visual means, narrations and technical data.…”
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C’est la cité ! by Philippe Woloszyn, Paul Girard

“…This implementation of an activist stance is analysed from the perspective of the spatial language adopted by the camera within the landscape of the Clairière des Aubiers, a large Bordeaux housing project where the video clip was filmed. …”
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Wildland Weeds: Arrowhead Vine, Syngonium podophyllum by Eric C. Morgan, William A. Overholt, Kenneth A. Langeland

“…These plants are called invasive, and they can wreak havoc in the environments of their adopted home. Arrowhead vine (Syngonium podophyllum) is one of these destructive invaders. …”
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Variation in the Marking of Text Organization in French Research Articles: From Short and Specific to Extended and Vague by Veronika Laippala

“…Adopting a text linguistic, corpus-based approach, this article studies variation in the marking of text organization. …”
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Anti-Corruption Village: A Solution to Preventing Crime of Corruption and Good Governance in Village by Septa Candra, Zico Junius Fernando

“…Meanwhile, doctrinal legal research using primary, secondary, and tertiary legal materials was adopted with statute, conceptual, comparative, and futuristic methods. …”
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Knowledge of the earthquake in architecture and its impact on the organization of the geography of habitation by Ali Asgharzadeh, Seyed Gholamreza Islami, Iraj Etessam

“…Earthquake and fault lines can be considered as an organizing factor, which play an important but hidden role in the geography of habitation, e.g. settlement location, urban spatial network, urban development and spatial-structural network of buildings. This article adopts a holistic approach and quantitative-qualitative methodology to identify the role of self-awareness and mental imaging in the complex system of earthquake-qanat-city and its effects on urbanism and architecture in different scales, which has resulted in an earthquake compatible architecture in different periods in the history of Iran and in some contemporary examples too.…”
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The functions of punning utterances in English and Chinese: a cross-cultural perspective by Agnieszka Solska

“…The objective of this article is to identify the most striking differences in the functions served by typical English and Chinese puns and to investigate the cultural factors underlying these differences. Adopting Jakobson’s model of language functions as the organizing principle for the discussion, I examine a range of puns in the two languages, comparing and contrasting the motivations for their use.…”
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Constructing the Green Campus within the Internet of Things Architecture by Hsing-I Wang

“…Smart campus is a trendy application in the paradigm of the IoT. This research adopts the concept of the “Internet of Things” to construct a green campus environment which will realize the idea of energy saving. …”
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Vibration Analysis of Multilink Manipulators Based on Timoshenko Beam Theory by Carmelo di Castri, Arcangelo Messina

“…Timoshenko's theory is adopted in order to accurately describe the freely vibrating dynamics of a multilink flexible manipulator. …”
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Responsive Harmony in the <i>Zhuangzi</i> by Luyao Li

“…This paper adopts a post-comparative approach to explore the concept of harmony in the <i>Zhuangzi</i>, moving beyond traditional comparative frameworks. …”
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Nonlinear Dynamics and Multistability in a Cobweb Model by S. S. Askar

“…This paper studies the dynamic characteristics of an economic cobweb model whose producers adopt a gradient-based mechanism. The model’s producers are taken to be boundedly rational, and then the model is studied as a 1D and 2D discrete time dynamical system. …”
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A Handoff Algorithm of Dynamic Decisions with Extenics for Wireless Cellular Networks by Chen-Feng Wu

“…A traditional handoff algorithm always adopts stationary channel preservation schemes that cause the increase of call blocking probability (CBP) and the decrease of system utilization to reduce the call dropping probability (CDP) for handoff call. …”
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Utilizing AI Chatbots in Higher Education Teaching and Learning by Laurie O. Campbell, Thomas D Cox

“…The Diffusion of Innovation Theory seeks to explain how technologies like generative AI large language models are being adopted. Instructors are faced with addressing AI in instruction as the use of generative AI chatbots is accelerating. …”
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