SHARING ECONOMY AND INCLUSIVE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY ON THE WATERBERG DISTRICT IN SOUTH AFRICA by Refiloe Julia LEKGAU, Tracy DANIELS, Tembi Maloney TICHAAWA

“…The purpose of the study was to analyse inclusive tourism development in the Global South, using a case study of Airbnb’s interventions in the Waterberg District of South Africa. Adopting a qualitative approach, the research was conducted in three phases. …”
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Vortex-field enhancement through high-threshold geometric metasurface by Qingsong Wang, Yao Fang, Yu Meng, Han Hao, Xiong Li, Mingbo Pu, Xiaoliang Ma, Xiangang Luo

“…This scheme takes advantage of the high conversion efficiency of phase-only modulation in the metasurface design by adopting the concept of a sliced phase pattern in the azimuthal direction. …”
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Exploring the Feasibility of Ventilation without Shafts for an Ultralong Subsea Tunnel in the Bohai Strait Channel by Yimin Wu, Peng Xu, Weiming Liang, Shuai Shao, Kaixun Hu, Jiawei Zhang, Haoran Wu, Guangzheng Zhuang

“…The results show that the longitudinal ventilation design without shafts is feasible under normal traffic conditions when adopting values designed by PIARC under both the Chinese method and the European method. …”
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Immigration modulates audiovisual emotional processing in adults: is this really an influence of the host culture? by Anna K. Nakamura, Anna K. Nakamura, Hisako W. Yamamoto, Hisako W. Yamamoto, Sachiko Takagi, Tetsuya Matsuda, Hiroyuki Okada, Chiaki Ishiguro, Chiaki Ishiguro, Akihiro Tanaka

“…This study aimed to investigate whether immigrants adopt the tendency of the host culture or whether common features of migration produce a similar modification regardless of the destination.MethodsWe examined how immigrants from Western countries to Japan perceive emotional expressions from faces and voices using MRI scanning.ResultsImmigrants behaviorally exhibited a decrease in the influence of emotions in voices with a longer stay in Japan. …”
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Joint Optimization of Regular Charging Electric Bus Transit Network Schedule and Stationary Charger Deployment considering Partial Charging Policy and Time-of-Use Electricity Price... by Xinghua Li, Tianzuo Wang, Lingjie Li, Feiyu Feng, Wei Wang, Cheng Cheng

“…A solving procedure based on the improved adaptive genetic algorithm (AGA) is further designed and a transit network at inner Anting Town, Shanghai, with 8 individual bus routes and 867 daily service trips is adopted for the model validation. The validation results illustrated that the methodology considering the partial charging policy can arrange the charging schedule adaptive to the time-of-use electricity prices. …”
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Mixed Ligand Complexes of N-Methyl-N-phenyl Dithiocarbamate: Synthesis, Characterisation, Antifungal Activity, and Solvent Extraction Studies of the Ligand by Anthony C. Ekennia, Damian C. Onwudiwe, Cyril Ume, Eno E. Ebenso

“…The electronic spectra, elemental analysis, and magnetic moment results proved that the complexes adopted octahedral geometry. The conductance measurement showed that the complexes are nonelectrolytes proving their nonionic nature. …”
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Normal Human Gingival Epithelial Cells Sense C. parapsilosis by Toll-Like Receptors and Module Its Pathogenesis through Antimicrobial Peptides and Proinflammatory Cytokines by Raouf Bahri, Sèverine Curt, Dalila Saidane-Mosbahi, Mahmoud Rouabhia

“…C. parapsilosis was able to adhere to gingival epithelial cells and to adopt the hyphal form in the presence of serum. Interestingly, when cultured onto the engineered human oral mucosa (EHOM), C. parapsilosis formed small biofilm and invaded the connective tissue. …”
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Mathematical Modeling of Marine Oil Spills in the Luanjiakou District, near the Port of Yantai by Daming Li, Xingchen Tang, Yanqing Li, Xiao Wang, Hongqiang Zhang

“…The Euler-Lagrange method is adopted to track the spill location and particles positions on the edge of oil slicks. …”
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Dynamic Characteristics of Metro Tunnel Closely Parallel to a Ground Fissure by Nina Liu, Quanzhong Lu, Xiaoyang Feng, Wen Fan, Jianbing Peng, Weiliang Liu, Xin Kang

“…Synthetic wave, El Centro wave, and Kobe wave were adopted as the input earthquake waves. Results measured from shaking table model and numerical model were compared and analyzed. …”
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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Optimal Gel Electrolyte Using the Taguchi Design Method by Jenn-Kai Tsai, Wen Dung Hsu, Tian-Chiuan Wu, Jia-Song Zhou, Ji-Lin Li, Jian-Hao Liao, Teen-Hang Meen

“…The Taguchi method was adopted to determine the optimal gel electrolyte used in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). …”
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Enabling Digital Capabilities with Technologies: A Multiple Case Study of Manufacturing Supply Chains in Disruptive Times by Marco Ardolino, Anna Bino, Maria Pia Ciano, Andrea Bacchetti

“…In the rapidly changing digital economy, manufacturing companies are under growing pressure to adopt new approaches to business management by developing digital capabilities. …”
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Optimal transmission for scalable video coded streaming in cellular wireless networks with the cooperation of local peer-to-peer network by Guangsheng Feng, Junyu Lin, Qian Zhao, Huiqiang Wang, Hongwu Lv, Bingyang Li, DongDong Su

“…To take the advantage of channel diversity gains, the method of random linear coding is adopted to generate linear combinations of the video chunks for transmission in both the cellular and peer-to-peer networks. …”
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Using the Analytical Network Process to Select the Best Strategy for Reducing Risks in a Supply Chain by L. Hosseini, R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, B. Vahdani, S. M. Mousavi, R. Kia

“…The aim of this study is to adopt a strategy for eliminating or reducing risks in a supply chain network. …”
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Highway Performance Evaluation Index in Semiarid Climate Region Based on Fuzzy Mathematics by Sanqiang Yang, Meng Guo, Xinlei Liu, Pidong Wang, Qian Li, Haiqing Liu

“…The method can be effectively combined with the multi-index comprehensive detection index used in the specification. ② Based on the multi-index comprehensive test and evaluation adopted in the specification, the performance grade of the old road surface was quantitatively evaluated by the iterative calculation of fuzzy mathematics that broke through the evaluation mode which was based on the traditional detection methods. …”
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TMBocelot: an omnibus statistical control model optimizing the TMB thresholds with systematic measurement errors by Xin Lai, Shaoliang Wang, Xuanping Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhu, Yuqian Liu, Zhili Chang, Zhili Chang, Xiaonan Wang, Xiaonan Wang, Yang Shao, Yang Shao, Jiayin Wang, Yixuan Wang

“…Given the unavoidable errors with current technologies, it is essential to adopt modeling methods to determine the optimal TMB-positive threshold. …”
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Assessment on factors affecting human wild animal coexistence and associated mitigation measures in the buffer zone community of Shivapuri Nagarjun national park, Nepal by Dipesh Raj Pant, Kuaanan Techato, Siriporn Pradit, Saroj Gyawali, Binod Baniya

“…Considering this, the present research attempts to explore the factor affecting Human-Wildlife Co-existence (HWC) and the related mitigation measures adopted by the buffer zone community of Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park, Nepal (SNNP). …”
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Improving Cytomegalovirus-Specific T Cell Reconstitution after Haploidentical Stem Cell Transplantation by Xiao-Hua Luo, Ying-Jun Chang, Xiao-Jun Huang

“…Here, we discuss the factors that influence IR based on currently available evidence. Adoptive transfer of donor T cells to improve CMV-specific IR is discussed. …”
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Performance Modeling of Proposed GUISET Middleware for Mobile Healthcare Services in E-Marketplaces by Alaba Olu Akingbesote, Mathew Olusegun Adigun, Sibisuso Xulu, Edgar Jembere

“…This work extends existing and widely adopted theories to non-preemptive model by using the queuing theory and the simulation model in the context of mobile healthcare services. …”
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Lockdown to Contain the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Opportunity to Create a Less Polluted Environment in India by Preet Lal, Amit Kumar, Supriya Bharti, Purabi Saikia, Dibyendu Adhikari, M. L. Khan

“…The findings may be useful in guiding future strategies to maintain environmental quality by adopting a well-planned lockdown strategy.…”
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Damped Iterative Explicit Guidance for Multistage Rockets with Thrust Drop Faults by Zongzhan Ma, Chuankui Wang, Zhi Xu, Shuo Tang, Ying Ma

“…Based on the iterative guidance mode (IGM) and powered explicit guidance (PEG), this method is enhanced in three aspects: (1) an accurate transversality condition is derived and applied in the dimension-reduction framework instead of using a simplified assumption; (2) the Gauss–Legendre quadrature formula (GLQF) is adopted to increase the accuracy of the method by addressing the issue of excessive errors in calculating thrust integration using linearization methods based on a small quantity assumption under fault conditions; and (3) a damping factor for solving the time-to-go is introduced to avoid the chattering phenomenon and enhance convergence. …”
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