The world’s first “Smart Nation” vision: the case of Singapore by Esra Banu SIPAHI, Zabihullah SAAYI

“… “Smartization” is the policy that Singapore as a city-state with a small geographical territory, limited natural resources, increasing urban density and aging population but determined to become an exceptional city-state has adopted to overcome various national challenges, improve the quality, efficiency and performance of urban services, sustainable development and overall improvement of citizens’ lives. …”
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Fiscal Decentralization and Environmental Pollution: A Spatial Analysis by Xia Chen, Jianmin Liu

“…To improve environmental quality, appropriate environmental regulation target, implementing green GDP accounting, and adjusting economic structure should be adopted.…”
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The Illicit Production and Consumption of Ògógóró in Coastal Yorùbáland and the Niger Delta by Dọlápọ` Z. Olúpàyímọ´

“…It is the assumption of this work that as the capitalist mode of production and distribution intensifies, crimes, insecurity and other related issues deepen. The article adopts the use of sources which include oral interviews with resource persons, police information and intelligence reports, newspaper publications and archival documents from the colonial period deposited in the National Archives, Ibadan. …”
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The looking after children in Scotland materials by Jane Scott, Malcolm Hill

“…By 2004 30 of 32 Scottish local authority social work departments had adopted all or part of the system. Reports on a survey in 2002-3 assessing how the materials were used in practice. …”

Improved GOA-based fuzzy PI speed control of PMSM with predictive current regulation. by Taochang Li, Ang Li, Limin Hou

“…Additionally, to address the high torque and current ripple issues commonly associated with traditional PI controllers in the current loop, Model Predictive Control (MPC) is adopted to further improve control performance. Finally, experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme, demonstrating precise motor speed control, rapid and stable current tracking, as well as improved system robustness.…”
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End-to-end Projection Optimization Net for Short Scan CBCT Reconstruction by Xuan Zhou, Yuedong Liu, Cunfeng Wei

“…After that, then self-optimization of scanned data is adopted to eliminate the artifacts existed in re-projection data through the employment of a residual U-net architecture. …”
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Testing an Inflation Model with Nonminimal Derivative Coupling in the Light of Planck 2015 Data by Kourosh Nozari, Narges Rashidi

“…Also, by expanding the action up to the third order and considering the three-point correlation functions, the amplitude of the non-Gaussianity of the primordial perturbations is studied in both equilateral and orthogonal configurations. Finally, by adopting some sort of potentials, we compare the model in hand with the Planck 2015 released observational data and obtain some constraints on the model’s parameters space. …”
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Les récits de la bioéconomie comme grille de lecture des tensions sur les transformations écologiques du capitalisme by Nicolas Béfort, Pascal Grouiez, Romain Debref, Franck-Dominique Vivien

“…This article provides an understanding of the ecological transition as a new phase of capitalism. We adopt a meso-regulation approach and propose to think of the patterns of ecological transition as the outcome of a confrontation among heterogeneous groups of actors. …”
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Effects of Equipment-Structure-Soil Interaction on Seismic Response of Equipment and Structure via Real-Time Dynamic Substructuring Shaking Table Testing by Chongxiang Zhang, Nan Jiang

“…After rearrangement, this equation was applied to real-time dynamic substructuring shaking table (RTDSST) testing of the ESS system. This method adopts the equipment-structure (ES) subsystem as the experimental substructure and a modal reduced soil model as the numerical substructure: the former is tested via the shaking table, and the latter is numerically simulated, while real-time data communication occurs between the two substructures during testing. …”
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The Influence of Digital Transformation of Foreign Trade Enterprises on Their Business Performance by Zheng Ye, Yongjia Tong

“…In this paper, by collecting the data of 27 foreign trade enterprises listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen A shares from 2010 to 2020 and adopting the method of full text identification of enterprise comprehensive financial reports to quantify the intensity of enterprise digital transformation, the influence of digital transformation of foreign trade enterprises on the main business performance and the effect of two mediating variables of internal control and innovation ability of enterprises were studied. …”
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Research supporting service transformation: Family Drug and Alcohol Courts and understanding the factors that contribute to their success by Martin Doug

“…Pilots launched across the country adopted a family-based strategy with the aim to improve outcomes for children that live with parents who misuse substances or alcohol. …”
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Decoupling design and kinematic analysis of rope driven flexible wheelchair manipulators by WANG Lu, ZHAO Dongjie, ZHANG Weitao, WANG Yini, ZHANG Kun

“…ObjectiveAiming at the problems of large size, heavy weight and safety of human-machine interaction of traditional rigid wheelchair manipulators, a 6-degree-of-freedom rope driven flexible wheelchair manipulator was designed.MethodsThe manipulator adopted a flexible translation structure, which can keep the end posture unchanged while changing the end position, realized the decoupling of position and posture, and effectively improved the rigidity of the flexible manipulator. …”
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Developing and Validating a User-Friendly Quality Benchmark: Enhancing the Integrity of Online Health Information for Patients and Clinicians by Lubna Daraz PhD, Cicek Dogu MA

“…A systematic approach with five phases was adopted: (1) synthesizing the current state of the reliability of online health information, (2) conducting content analysis of existing quality assessment tools, (3) drafting a comprehensive list of quality criteria, (4) developing and validating a quality benchmark, and (5) disseminating the results. …”
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PROBLEMS OF STATE AND LEGAL ADMINISTRATION IN THE SPHERE OF FOREST SEED PRODUCTION by Yu. N. Gagarin

“…The draft federal law «On Amendments to the Forest Code of the Russian Federation» (in terms of forest seed production), adopted by the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the first reading on July 25, 2024, is considered. …”
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UNVEILING THE ROOTS OF ENDURING COMMUNAL CONFLICTS IN NIGERIA: INDIGENE-SETTLER RIVALRY AND THE PATH FORWARD by MICHEAL GODWIN OKOLIKO

“…By comprehensively analyzing these factors, a deeper understanding of the intricate dynamics at play is gained, allowing for the identification of potential avenues for meaningful intervention. This study adopts qualitative research design to arrive at its conclusion, finding and recommendation. …”
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Neutrino Emission from Magnetized Microquasar Jets by Theodoros Smponias, Odysseas Kosmas

“…We focus on neutrino emission from such jets produced by fast proton (nonthermal) collisions on thermal ones within the hadronic jet. We adopt a semianalytical approximation for the description of the secondary particles produced from p-p collisions and develop appropriate algorithms using the aforementioned injected protons as input. …”
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Acquired Dyslexia in Spanish: A Review and Some Observations on a New Case of Deep Dyslexia by Robert Davies, Fernando Cuetos

“…We propose that MJ, and the other cases we review, demonstrate that lexical reading is adopted by skilled readers even in a transparent language.…”
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Reflexões acerca da “herança” axiológica dos direitos humanos by Vivianny Galvão

“…In order to analyze the influence of the French Declaration on the Declaration adopted by the United Nations, there was the debate between Jellinek and Boutmy on the foundations of the French Declaration. …”
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Conflitos ambientais em Minas Gerais: exploração da água na microrregião de São Lourenço by Eder Jurandir Carneiro, Mauro Francisco da Costa Assis

“…The article analyze specifically at the case of environmental conflict related to the fight against the exploitation of groundwater in the city of São Lourenço. The study adopts the theoretical framework based upon the concept of environmental conflicts, pointing out the conflictive nature of environmental issues, from the recognition that society and the environment are inseparable, because the material world is cut by subjects that build different projects of use and meaning of space and natural conditions.…”
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The Effects of Salt-Lake Salt Solution on the Strength of Expansive Soil by Shaowei Zhang, Dongdong Li

“…Hanzhong expansive soil and Yulin salt-lake solution were adopted to investigate the effect of salt-lake salt solution on the strength of expansive soil. …”
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