A Pilot Study on Structural Responses of Normal Concrete-UHPC Composite Bridge Decks w/wo Rebars through an Experimental-Numerical Approach by Siqi Yuan, Zhao Liu, Teng Tong, Chung C. Fu

“…Besides, digital image correlation (DIC) technique was adopted to adequately capture their damage evolutions. …”
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Introduction: Intergenerational Transmissions of Infant Mortality using the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) by Luciana Quaranta, Hilde Leikny Sommerseth

“…In addition, the works have shown that there are large advantages of adopting the IDS for historical demographic research. …”
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Problems of Subject Raising Constructions among Yoruba ESL Learners by Razaq Akolawole Raheem

“…Chomsky’s copy-theory of movement is adopted as the theoretical framework. Data for both languages are drawn from syntax literature. …”
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Climate change response measures in South African road transport sector: lessons from BRICS countries by Maijane M. Mashamaite

“…This article used desk research to gather information on mitigation and adaptation actions adopted by BRICS countries from various sources like government documents, the internet, books, articles and scientific reviews. …”
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Impacts caused by the closure of schools in the countryside in the municipality of Arraias in the conception of the protagonists by Luiz Felipe de Castro Varanda, Helena Quirino Porto Aires

“…This study is an excerpt from the Undergraduate Thesis in Pedagogy at the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT) and aims to analyze the school closure policy and the process of school nucleation in the municipality of Arraias (TO), as well as the impacts resulting from these measures. The research adopts a qualitative approach, based on bibliographic and field investigation. …”
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IMPACT OF SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS ON DEMAND FOR INSURANCE POLICY AND PRODUCT IN NIGERIA by Rukayat Bukola ADEJARE, Ismaila Daudu ALIU

“…As a result, the present study examines the impact of socio-cultural factors on the taking up of insurance policy in Nigeria. The study adopts survey research design and the sample size is 384 respondents and the data obtained was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. …”
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Cooperative Intercept Guidance of Multiple Aircraft with a Lure Role Included by Shuai Zhang, Yang Guo, Shicheng Wang

“…Under the assumption that the pursuing aircraft adopts the augmented proportional guidance law and first-order dynamics, a cooperative intercept mathematical model with an intercept angle constraint is established, allowing for the cooperative maneuvering of the evader. …”
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The Map of Competencies of a Foreign Language University Teacher in the Context of Digitalization of Education by S. V. Titova

“…Over the past twenty years, a large number of legislative documents, educational standards have been adopted, effective pedagogical models, methods and approaches to teaching foreign languages have been developed at various levels of education in our country and abroad. …”
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Developing an Optimization Model to Manage Unpaved Roads by Promothes Saha, Khaled Ksaibati

“…The methodology can be easily adopted by other states interested in the management of gravel roads.…”
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Parent Training Occupational Therapy Program for Parents of Children with Autism in Korea by Sun-Joung L. An

“…Attitudes and beliefs about parent participation in occupational therapy are shifting toward family-centered practice worldwide. However, adopting a family-centered approach in a society such as Korea, where a Confucian culture of hierarchical roles is reflected in a strong medical model, can prove to be very difficult. …”
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Competing stakeholder discourses in constructing cultural heritage: The legal case of the house at No. 98 Hai’er Lane, China by Zhonghua Wu, Jian Li

“…While the contested nature of discourses lies in the power asymmetry, there is some space to pose a challenge against the dominant discourse, e.g., adopting a multi-stakeholder approach to mediate various interests of stakeholders. …”
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Dynamic Investigation in Green Supply Chain considering Channel Service by Qiuxiang Li, Mengmeng Li, Yimin Huang

“…Using dynamic theory, the complex behaviors of the dynamic system are discussed; besides, the parameter adaptation method is adopted to restrain the chaos phenomenon. The conclusions are as follows: the stable scope of the green supply chain system enlarges with decision makers’ risk-aversion level increasing and decreases with service value increasing; excessive adjustment of price parameters will make the green supply chain system fall into chaos with a large entropy value; the attraction domain of initial prices shrinks with price adjustment speed increasing and enlarges with the channel service values raising. …”
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Sexualités au Maghreb by Valérie Beaumont, Corinne Cauvin Verner, François Pouillon

“…This collection assembles ten fieldwork surveys conducted in different countries of the Maghreb (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania), which seek to shed light on the conditions under which social economies of sexuality may develop, these being more diverse than might be supposed based on the “Arab-Muslim personality”. While refusing to adopt the “Orientalist” perspective (Arab-Islamic sexuality explained by the sacred texts) the “culturalist” perspective (a specifically North African way of configuring sexuality), the “moralist” perspective (societies being menaced by political islam or the “corrupted West”) and the “activist” perspective (as a defence of individual freedom, notably sexual, feminism, or political Islam), these contemporary ethnographies recreate the tensions between individualism and community ethos, between national and local dictates, between western ethics and religious proscription, all of these attracting considerable media coverage. …”
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A Real-Valued Negative Selection Algorithm Based on Grid for Anomaly Detection by Ruirui Zhang, Tao Li, Xin Xiao

“…And before adding the candidate detector into mature detector set, certain methods are adopted to reduce duplication coverage between detectors, which achieves fewer detectors covering the nonself space as much as possible. …”
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Monitoring Murder Crime in Namibia Using Bayesian Space-Time Models by Isak Neema, Dankmar Böhning

“…The sensitivity analysis indicates that both intrinsic and Laplace CAR prior can be adopted as prior distribution for the space-time heterogeneity. …”
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Building Capacity of Interpreting Services in Australian Healthcare Settings: The Use of Video Remote Interpreting during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Karine Bachelier, Marc Orlando

“…Confronted with a crisis of unprecedented scale in the second quarter of 2020, Australian States and Territories had to adopt crisis management strategies to ensure equitable access to services are guaranteed for all communities. …”
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Dynamic Phase Signal Control Method for Unstable Asymmetric Traffic Flow at Intersections by Xiancai Jiang, Yu Jin, Yanli Ma

“…First, an asymmetric state of traffic flow at signalized intersections is defined, rules governing the generation of the dynamic phase of each cycle based on asymmetric state are proposed, and the delay variations of intersections adopting dynamic phase schemes are modeled. Next, a signal control parameter adjustment algorithm for the dynamic phase is constructed to maximize the positive benefits of delay variation. …”
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How rural school teachers can support the learning adjustment of left‐behind children under the ‘double‐reduction’ policy by Xuedi Pi, Jianping Huang, Jiong Niu

“…Under the ‘Double Reduction’ policy, teachers adopted tiered instruction and offered after‐school services to meet the needs of LBC. …”
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Scheme Analysis for Enhancing Autonomous Driving Based on Computer Vision by Chen Xinyi, Luo Binbin, Xu Ziyue

“…This article explores the application and challenges of computer vision technology in autonomous driving, a critical component for the advancement of this field. Thesis adopted both literature review and technical analysis, focusing on recent developments in key technologies such as image processing, hybrid convolutional neural network (CNN)-transformer models, object detection, and multi-sensor fusion. …”
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Recommendation System with Biclustering by Jianjun Sun, Yu Zhang

“…Specifically, the proposed novel biclustering method is first adopted to obtain local similarity and local prediction. …”
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