The critical role of anthropology in attaining happiness: An Islamic perspective by Agha-Mohammadi Morteza

“…Happiness is widely regarded as the ultimate aim of human existence. This article adopts a descriptive-analytical approach, drawing upon the author's interpretation of Qur'anic verses, to explore the significant influence of anthropology on the understanding and pursuit of happiness. …”
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A Digital Archaeology of Early Hispanic Film Culture: Film Magazines and the Male Fan Reader by Anna Torres-Cacoullos, Elizaveta Senatorova

“…We advocate for the affordances of a mixed macro-micro approach that combines distant reading with traditional textual studies of close reading. By adopting such a hybrid framework, digital methods provide new opportunities towards reconstructing profiles of magazine readerships and to unearth evidence of male movie fans in Spain.…”
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Sensitivity-enhancing feedback control–based damage detection in delaminated smart composite plates by Yan Guo, Yanan Jiang, Zhenghua Qian, Bin Huang

“…We first introduce the adopted improved layerwise theory–based mathematical model for delamination modeling with finite element implementation. …”
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Flood Diversion Algorithm for Anticollision in RFID System by Hua Huo, Jun Qiang Liu, Yong Jie Wang

“…Thirdly, in the identification processing, for reducing data transmission, the reader needs only to send a three-dimensional-vector command to tags, tags respond to the command with part of collision-bit parameters, and stack and queue are adopted to store precious request command and tags' ID to avoid repeatedly transmitting them between the reader and the tags. …”
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Nevada’s Non-Anglo European Immigrants And Their Interpreters In Contemporary American Fiction by David Rio

“…En effet, la plupart des œuvres de fiction récentes situées dans le Nevada décrivent avec succès les formes hybrides interculturelles et multilingues qu’adopte le nouvel Ouest américain, tel qu’il apparaît spécifiquement dans les romans et les nouvelles écrits par des auteurs d’origine ethnique. …”
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Le conte paysager pour fabriquer collectivement des savoirs socio-écologiques situés by Grégory Epaud

“…The aim of this article is to examine the production of socio-ecological knowledge relating to the landscape within the framework of thought-action adopting the ‘inhabitant’s point of view’ (Ingold, 2016). …”
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Broken Naira: A Study of the Impact of Exchange Rates Movement in Nigeria by Andrew Pinnock, Asim Majeed, Paul Bocij, Said Baadel

“…A quantitative research approach and a descriptive ex-post facto research strategy were adopted for this study. During a span of ten years, a sample of exporting and non-exporting sector companies listed in the Nigerian stock exchange are analyzed. …”
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Design and Implementation of Radar Cross-Section Models on a Virtex-6 FPGA by B. U. V. Prashanth

“…The simulation of radar cross-section (RCS) models in FPGA is illustrated. The models adopted are the Swerling ones. Radar cross-section (RCS) which is also termed as echo area gives the amount of scattered power from a target towards the radar. …”
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SDFMUCR: Software-defined and fuzzy-based multi-hop unequal cluster routing by Lu Sixu, Wu Muqing, Zhao Min

“…In this article, we propose a software-defined and fuzzy-based multi-hop unequal cluster routing protocol. It adopts three methods to make the routing protocol outstanding. …”
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Volcanic Ash Region Path Planning Based on Improved A-Star Algorithm by Lan Ma, Haotong Zhang, Shijun Meng, Jiayue Liu

“…In this paper, we propose an improved A-star algorithm by adopting the concept of potential collision set and using the velocity vector idea of optimal reciprocal collision avoidance (ORCA). …”
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EFFECTS OF GLOBALISATION ON NIGERIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE, 2012-2022 by EMMANUEL I. UKHAMI, DOUMBIA LASSANA, BASHIR KABIR

“…The source of data collection was employed through secondary sources such as the use of textbooks, journals, government publications, conference and seminar lecture materials, and the Internet. The paper adopted the Cultural Hybridity Theory and the Cultural Imperialism Theory as the main theoretical framework for analysis. …”
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Ranking Influential Nodes in Complex Networks with Information Entropy Method by Nan Zhao, Jingjing Bao, Nan Chen

“…The local information of the node is adopted to obtain the neighbor property. Finally, the position attribute and neighbor attribute are weighted by the method of information entropy weighting. …”
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Experimental Study on the Influence of Type of Stirrup of Prestressed Concrete Beams with Corroded Rebars by Fang-Yuan Li, Liu-Yang Li, Wen-Hao Li, Peifeng Wu

“…In order to evaluate the influence of corrosion of different types of stirrups on the bearing capacity of the prestressed concrete beam, the method of using electricity to accelerate corrosion was adopted. Load experiment on 4 corroded prestressed concrete beams with different corrosion rates and different stirrup types was carried out. …”
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Quarantined Justice, Compromised Diversity: Barriers to Disability Inclusion in China’s Public Sector Employment by Qian Xue, Bo Chen

“…Due to the intrinsic political embeddedness within Chinese judicial systems, courts tended to adopt a strategy known as “quarantined enforcement” when confronted with discriminatory recruitment clauses issued by government‐tied entities. …”
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Exploring the interplay between guidance services and career success: Unveiling the key determinants? by Paul Mensah Agyei, Joyce Kwakyewaa Dankyi, Vincent Mensah Minadzi, Lydia Aframea Dankyi, Moses Segbenya

“…An explanatory research design was adopted for the study. A sample of 413 guidance service coordinators at the regional, district, and school levels were selected. …”
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Constitutionalization of the strategic course of Ukraine within the doctrine of legal liability of the state by O. S. Bakumov

“…The author has substantiated that the issues of constitutional and law-making innovations in determining the strategic course of Ukraine for acquiring the membership in the EU and NATO will require increased attention from the Ukrainian parliament. In case of adopting the idea of establishing such a course, appropriate amendments to the Section I of the Constitution of Ukraine, should be approved at the All-Ukrainian referendum, which should add to the constitutionalization of the above-mentioned course of the highest level of legitimacy.…”
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Rock Dynamic Fracture Characteristics by Mini-Linear Shaped Charge Jet Penetration: A Case Study by Zhenyang Xu, Xin Liu, Hongyi Mo, Lianjun Guo, Jun Yang

“…An insignificant number of studies have focused on employing penetration using mini-linear shaped charge jets for directionally controlled splitting of massive rocks. In this study, we adopt a numerical calculation method to simulate the penetration and formation of the main splitting surface of a concrete specimen, considering a wedge angle of 45° in both processes. …”
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Quentin Tarantino : du cinéma d’exploitation au cinéma by Philippe Ortoli

“…This first observation should not be limited to the sociological perspective that has often been adopted since Reservoir Dogs (1992). Indeed, the films of Tarantino do not so much promote a pantheon of films that differs from that erected by the archeologists of cinema, but are driven by a desire to revisit the categories of film history, and thus of art history, ultimately leading to a redefinition of the very object of this quest: cinema, of course, and more generally, the image itself. …”
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Course Recommendations in Online Education Based on Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Algorithm by Jing Li, Zhou Ye

“…The server-side development adopts a mature B/S architecture and the popular development model, while the mobile terminal uses HTML5 and framework to implement the function of recommending personalized courses for users using collaborative filtering and recommendation algorithms. …”
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NEW CHALLENGES FACING RETAIL AND MARKETING – SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND INNOVATIONS OF TRADE ENTERPRISES by Magdalena Stefańska, Grażyna Śmigielska

“…What is more, they are also leaders in innovation – these are the retail companies that adopted a number of innovations during the economic transformation period. …”
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