Reliability Modeling for Multistate System with Preventive Maintenance under Customer Demand by Jinlei Qin, Zheng Li

“…To improve the reliability of MSSs, a maintenance strategy has been adopted to satisfy customer demand, and reliability modeling of MSS with preventive maintenance and customer demand is proposed. …”
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Modeling and Optimization for Automobile Mixed Assembly Line in Industry 4.0 by Lixiong Gong, Bingqian Zou, Zhiqun Kan

“…On this basis, FlexSim software is adopted to establish the auto-mixed assembly model that finds out the bottleneck of auto-mixed assembly problem. …”
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Teologiczne znaczenie osoby i natury w świetle chrystologii Soboru Chalcedońskiego by Giacomo Calore

“…Simultaneously, person is a relational reality because it puts a man in a relation with God in which the nature can be improved, the nature whose essence – since it was adopted by Logos – is to be capax Dei, or ability to grow in following Christ. …”
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3D limit analysis of masonry pavilion domes on octagonal drum subjected to vertical loads by Carlalberto Anselmi, Filomena Galizia, Eduardo Saetta

“…Within the framework of limit design applied to masonry structures, this paper aims at analyzing the different behavior of a pavilion dome according to the adopted construction and reinforcement technologies. …”
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Intimità sacra e nuove appartenenze nella devozione dei Mauriziani induisti a Santa Rosalia (Palermo) by Eugenio Giorgianni

“…The Santuzza and her sacred mountain (Monte Pellegrino) are adopted as divine mediators of the problems and desires arising from their mobility. …”
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Evolution-Operator-Based Single-Step Method for Image Processing

“…A forward-backward diffusion process is adopted to the LSEK for image deblurring or sharpening. …”
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The Dynamics of Structural and Energy Intensity Change by Lizhan Cao

“…In this study, an extended structural change model is adopted to explore the mechanisms of how structural adjustments influence the changes of energy intensity. …”
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Stackelberg Game Perspective on Pricing Decision of a Dual-Channel Supply Chain with Live Broadcast Sales by Rong Zhang, Xiaoying Zhang, Bin Liu

“…The results show that when one of the dual-channel retailers adopts live broadcast sales, the live broadcast service overflow will have an adverse impact on it, but the degree of the impact depends on the market potential of supply chain members, and different power structures can be used to offset the adverse impact of live broadcast service overflow. …”
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NIGERIA TECHNICAL AID CORPS (TAC) AND NATIONAL INTEREST, 1999-2023: AN ASSESSMENT by AGABA HALIDU, EMMANUEL IDEMOR UKHAMI, SOLOMON BABATUNDE KUMAPAYI, AKINOLA JACOB ASHIMOLOWO

“…This paper examines the program’s effectiveness in advancing Nigeria's diplomatic, economic, and socio-political objectives. The study adopted qualitative data from books, journals, official data, and the Internet, and the soft power theory was considered in advancing the essence of establishing TAC. …”
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Assessing the Instantaneous Stiffness of Cracked Reinforced Concrete Beams Based on a Gradual Change in Strain Distributions by Chunyu Fu, Dawei Tong, Yuyang Wang

“…Internal force equilibria are adopted to find a solution to top strains and neutral axes in the models, and then the inertias of the key sections are calculated to assess the beam stiffness. …”
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PROVOST’S ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS AND TEACHER’S JOB SATISFACTION IN SHEHU SHAGARI COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, SOKOTO STATE, NIGERIA by FODIO GARBA, FALMATA ABDULKARIM GALTIMARI

“… This study examined role performance of college Provost’s Administrative Skills on Teachers’ Job Satisfaction in Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto State, Nigeria.  The study adopts survey research design. The study population consists of 1500 academic and non-academic staff of the college, Kriejie and Morgan (1970) table for determining sample was used to arrive at a sample size of 306 respondents, which were selected using stratified and simple random sampling techniques. …”
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Cloud-Based Service for Fingerprint Image Matching by Ethar Abdul Wahhab Hachim

“…The experimental results proved that this service has achieved high accuracy in matching fingerprint images, in addition to greatly facilitating the matching process for the user, and it can be used anytime and anywhere thanks to the cloud environment facilities adopted by this service. …”
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Les jardins alpino-japonais, histoire d’une possible utopie paysagère by Romain Billon

“…To support this work, we adopted a theoretical approach based on an in-depth study of horticultural magazines and books of the period, combined with a practical approach developed from our professional experience as gardeners. …”
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Numerical Investigation into Flutter and Flutter-Buffet Phenomena for a Swept Wing and a Curved Planform Wing by Mario Rosario Chiarelli, Salvatore Bonomo

“…Analysing the performances of the two wings demonstrated that in transonic flight conditions, a noticeable drag reduction can be obtained by adopting a curved planform wing. In addition, for such a wing, the aeroelastic instability condition, consisting in a classical flutter, is postponed compared to a conventional swept wing, for which a flutter-buffet instability occurs. …”
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Crafting the messages for environmental NGOs: how narrative medium and mode shape different engagement levels by Wenye Mao, Yuko Nishide

“…A scenario-based experiment method was adopted. The results show that personalized narratives significantly affect short-term behavioral intention (information-related behavior and one-time donation). …”
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Teaching Creative Thinking in the ELT Context: Beliefs and Practices by Yin Sun, Zehang Chen, Li Li

“…A mixed methods approach is adopted, drawing data from 63 middle school English teachers in China through questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and classroom observation. …”
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The Use of Comics to Promote a Community-based Peer-support Intervention among Young Refugees in a Camp in Greece by Chrysovalantis Papathanasiou, Aikaterini Kougioumtzi, Kanella Georgiou, Filippos Barbaresos

“…We aimed to culturally adopt the comic and ascertain whether the participants’ perception of the comic was in line with the illustrator’s goal. …”
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I Cavalieri erranti: il resoconto del viaggio della canzone anarchica, dalla storia all’inconscio collettivo by Alessio Lega 

“…Entre 1875 et 1940, le mouvement libertaire italien fabrique la plupart des hymnes qui seront adoptés, avec des variantes, par les travailleurs de toutes tendances et de tous milieux — communistes, socialistes, ouvriers, paysans — et qui vont marquer profondément les slogans et les rêves des plusieurs générations. …”
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¿Ciudadanías y sexualidades en América Latina? by Andrea Aguirre

“…The commentary is based on a critique of the notion of sexual diversity as a liberal notion, the focus that seems to have been adopted by the set of articles presented. From this point of view, studies on sexual diversity do not achieve incorporation of an analytic and political discussion of the inequality in the notion of difference, an inequality that problematizes practices and senses of citizenship.…”
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Quantum tug of war between randomness and symmetries on homogeneous spaces by Rahul Arvind, Kishor Bharti, Jun Yong Khoo, Dax Enshan Koh, Jian Feng Kong

“…We explore the interplay between symmetry and randomness in quantum information. Adopting a geometric approach, we consider states as H equivalent if related by a symmetry transformation characterized by the group H. …”
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