A panoptic view of the South African wealth tax by Asheer Jaywant Ram

“…Method: An interpretive approach is adopted. The traits of the wealth tax and the themes of the panopticon are identified and used as the row and column headings in a correspondence table, which serves as the research instrument distributed to tax experts. …”
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Study on the Characteristics of Traction Forces Difference Asymmetric Steering Bogies by Yan Shi, Junxiong Hu, Weihua Ma

“…Angle sensors are mounted to facilitate the change of electric currents of the front and rear traction motors to control the guiding mechanism so that wheelsets can adopt the radial position. With SIMPACK, the multibody dynamics analysis software, three whole vehicle models of TFDA-bogies, radial bogies, and conventional bogies are set up and comparative analyses are made on the lead wheel angle of attack, lead wheel lateral force, lead wheel friction power, and total vehicle friction power under idle running condition and traction condition, respectively. …”
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Leave or stay? A narrative inquiry of tensions in novice English teachers’ professional identity construction at China’s private universities by Xiangchen Zhang, Xiangchen Zhang

“…Participants reconciled three selves and adopted two approaches (assimilation and dissimilation) to navigate PI tensions. …”
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Fixed Point Method to Analyze Differences between Hipparcos and ICRF2 by María José Martínez Usó, Francisco J. Marco Castillo, José Antonio López Ortí

“…From 1998, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) adopted a new Celestial Reference System: the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS). …”
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A Modified Technique for Laparoscopic Spleen Preserving Distal Pancreatectomy by Andreas Papatriantafyllou, Theodoros Mavromatis, Theano Demestiha, Dimitrios Filippou, Panagiotis Skandalakis

“…The two main surgical techniques that have been proposed and widely adopted for spleen preserving laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy are the Warshaw and Kimura techniques. …”
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Short-term photovoltaic power prediction combination model considering seasonal characteristic and data window by ZHANG Jing, XIONG Guojiang

“…Firstly, the Pearson correlation coefficient method is adopted to determine suitable meteorological factors with high contribution to photovoltaic power and reduce the input feature dimensions of the prediction model. …”
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Normalizar: discurso, legislación y educación sexual by Germán Torres

“…Tales instancias, simultánea y necesariamente, produjeron efectos de exclusión, delimitando un espacio abyecto para aquellas identidades y cuerpos contrarios a la heteronorma.Here we present some lines of analysis on the making of the Law of Integral Sexual Education in Buenos Aires adopted in 2006. Formed after lively debate, this law implied the activation of a series of discursive procedures of power and normalization that enabled the birth of the official curriculum for sex education. …”
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Optimization of an On-Grid Inverter for PV Applications Using Genetic Algorithms by Anis Ammous, Abdulrahman Alahdal, Kaiçar Ammous

“…The nonlinear average model is adopted to model the conversion stage in order to accurately evaluate and quickly estimate the power losses of the power devices. …”
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Adaptability Analysis of Four-Leg Hydraulic Support with Large Mining Height under Impact Dynamic Load by Dalong Wang, Xiaoteng Zeng, Guofa Wang, Ran Li

“…In order to comprehensively analyze the adaptability of four-leg hydraulic support with large mining height under impact dynamic load, this paper adopts HyperMesh software to conduct a flexible pretreatment for the top beam, shield beam, and front and rear rods. …”
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Unveiling the seismic sensitivity of the Himalayan tunnels: a comprehensive assessment through analytical and numerical exploration of P-wave dynamics by Abdullah Ansari, Pranjal Mandhaniya, Bilal Ahmad Malik

“…A key objective is to develop a more reliable seismic assessment method by adopting a P-wave-based approach, which is particularly suitable for mountainous tunnels prone to landslides. …”
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Directional Blasting Technology of Slit Charge for Geological Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste by Ke Man, Xiaoli Liu, Ju Wang, Xiyong Wang

“…Theoretically, the rock failure criterion has been proposed, which adopted the dynamic mechanical parameters, such as the dynamic compress strength, dynamic tensile strength, dynamic modulus, dynamic passion ratio, dynamic fracture toughness, and dynamic stress intensity factor. …”
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Latest Approved Therapies for Metastatic Melanoma: What Comes Next? by Farid Menaa

“…., sequence and timing of agent administration; drug selectivity; compatibility of combined therapies i.e., adoptive T cell or agents, i.e., MEK inhibitor trametinib, PD-1 and PDL-1 blockers). …”
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An Intelligent Web Digital Image Metadata Service Platform for Social Curation Commerce Environment by Seong-Yong Hong, Sung-Joon Lee

“…This paper proposes an intelligent web digital image information retrieval platform, which adopts XML technology for social curation commerce environment. …”
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Efficiency of Sodium Polyacrylate to Improve Durability of Concrete under Adverse Curing Condition by Tanvir Manzur, Shohana Iffat, Munaz Ahmed Noor

“…Internal curing can be adopted under such scenario since this method is simple and less quality intensive. …”
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Investigation of Coal Preparation for Life Cycle by Using Building Information Modeling (BIM): A Case Study by Jian Chen, Da-Lin Guo, Xiao-Long Dong, Xiao-Bo Hou, Zhi-Feng Wang

“…By using deep learning method and multimodal data fusion method, the multimodal data association fusion is realized, and Bentley software is adopted for verification and integration. Taking a coal preparation plant as an engineering case study, the proposed framework is applied to build a big data subplatform of three-dimensional visual management. …”
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Perspectives on Intelligence in Soft Robotics by Vera Gesina Kortman, Barbara Mazzolai, Aimeé Sakes, Jovana Jovanova

“…The goal of this article is, therefore, to unravel the strategies to implement different types of intelligence currently adopted in soft robots. A classification is made by making a distinction between agents that adapt to their environment by 1) their adaptive shape, 2) their adaptive functionality, and 3) their adaptive mechanics. …”
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‘A queer combination of a child’s mind with a grown-up joke’: Dickens’s Child Narrators in Holiday Romance (1868) by Isabelle Hervouet

“…It aims to show that Dickens throughout adopts an empathetic representation of a child’s point of view and addresses his child readers with the utmost respect.…”
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EEG personal recognition based on ‘qualified majority’ over signal patches by Andrea Panzino, Giulia Orrù, Gian Luca Marcialis, Fabio Roli

“…It is shown by experiments that this approach (1) can be adopted for practical purposes and (2) clarifies the sub‐bands’ role in contexts still implemented in vitro but very similar to that conceivable in the wild.…”
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Inhibitory control in teleost fish: a methodological and conceptual review by Tyrone Lucon-Xiccato

“…I describe the main paradigms adopted to study IC in fish, identifying well-established tasks that fit various research applications and highlighting their advantages and limitations. …”
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Optimized Operator-Splitting Methods in Numerical Integration of Maxwell's Equations by Z. X. Huang, X. L. Wu, W. E. I. Sha, B. Wu

“…Furthermore, new high-order Padé approximations are adopted to improve the efficiency of the proposed methods. …”
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