THz Scattering and Tunable Plasmonic Resonances from Graphene-Coated Gold Nanowires by Faroq Razzaz, M. N. Akram, M. Z. Yaqoob

“…The Jacobi–Anger expansion method has been adopted for the transformation of electromagnetic fields in terms of series of cylindrical waves and has been modeled in terms of cylindrical vector wave functions (CVWFs). …”
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On Resilience Guarantees by Finite-Time Robust Control Barrier Functions With Application to Power Inverter Networks by Kamil Hassan, Daniel Selvaratnam, Henrik Sandberg

“…Moreover, to provide a concrete example of how the proposed framework could be adopted for safety-critical control applications, in this study we also investigate the voltage regulation problem for inverter-interfaced radial power distribution networks subject to adversarial injections. …”
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The Stress Calculation Methods of Antislide Structures with Continuous Ladders by Gong Chen, Qiang Xu

“…The ultimate results of the analytical methods and numerical simulation methods were adopted for the design of structural stress based on the principle of internal stress envelope diagrams.…”
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A Marine Object Detection Algorithm Based on SSD and Feature Enhancement by Kai Hu, Feiyu Lu, Meixia Lu, Zhiliang Deng, Yunping Liu

“…Then, in order to improve the shortcomings of SSD algorithm’s poor ability to detect small targets, resnet 50 is used as the basic framework of the network, and the idea of feature cross-level fusion is adopted to improve the feature expression ability and strengthen semantic information. …”
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Ahmed Glaucoma Valve Implantation for Refractory Glaucoma in a Tertiary Hospital in Brazil by Ricardo Yuji Abe, Carla Melo Tavares, Rui Barroso Schimiti, José Paulo Cabral Vasconcellos, Vital Paulino Costa

“…Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed cumulative probabilities of success of 80.3%, 68.2%, and 47.3% at 1, 3, and 5 years using 18 mmHg as endpoint. When adopting 15 mmHg as endpoint, cumulative success rates were 80.3%, 60.7%, and 27.3% at 1, 3, and 5 years, respectively. …”
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The Significance of Mobile Applications Based Learning in Creating Awareness of Occupational Health and Safety by Muhamad Faisal Aulia Nugraha, Roemintoyo Roemintoyo, Djono Djono

“…Methods: This research method uses a type of research and development that adopts the theory from Alessi & Trollip, with 3 main stages: planning, design, and development. …”
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Modelling the Impact of Media-Induced Social Distancing on the Containment of COVID-19 in Beijing by Yinjiao Gong, Aili Wang, Jin Guo, Stacey R. Smith?

“…We propose a discrete compartment model with the fully susceptible, the media-aware susceptible, and the quarantined susceptible as three separate classes. We adopt functions dependent on the media reports and the contacts of media-aware susceptibles to describe the progression rate of susceptibles to media-aware susceptibles. …”
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Food Insecurity and Coping Strategies in War-Affected Urban Settings of Tigray, Ethiopia by Hafte Gebreselassie Gebrihet, Yibrah Hagos Gebresilassie, Mekonen Aregai Gebreselassie

“…Stress-level strategies are the most widely adopted coping mechanisms. These findings underscore the urgent need for targeted policy interventions that address the specific vulnerabilities of female-headed households and ensure the development of sustainable coping strategies to mitigate the long-term effects of food insecurity in war-affected urban settings. …”
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“A disgrace to the country they belong to”: the sexualisation of female soldiers in First World War Britain by Lucy Noakes

“…Cette représentation des femmes en uniforme selon leur identité sexuelle prenait deux formes prédominantes : les femmes furent perçues tantôt comme des Amazones aux allures masculines, profitant des conditions nouvelles de la guerre pour adopter une identité masculine, tantôt, au contraire, comme des hétérosexuelles survoltées, excitées par les conditions de guerre et motivées par l’intégration au WAAC afin de s’approcher des combattants masculins. …”
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How lifelong learning shapes the professional development of staff in higher education institutions by Yaw Owusu-Agyeman

“…Findings – Findings suggest that when the university integrates lifelong learning approaches into its professional development programmes, it allows staff to develop their knowledge and skills through diverse learning approaches. When institutions adopt these diverse learning approaches, it enable staff to situate their learning needs along the different lifelong learning modes, negotiate suitable learning modes and flexible schedules with their heads of department, and learn the accepted norms and values of the university. …”
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Numerical and experimental study of the behavior of a protective structure under impact by D. A. Tarasov

“…The proposed numerical algorithm for searching the minimum permissible cross-sectional area of steel ropes, based on the requirement of a given strength, confirmed its reliability, and the adopted design solutions of the developed protective structure proved their validity. …”
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Analyse du modèle marocain des règles du fair-play financier et son impact sur les clubs. Cas des WAC et RCA by Abderrahim RHARIB, Belaid ACHEBANI

“…Six ans plus tard, la Fédération Royale Marocaine de Football (FRMF) a adopté la réglementation dans les deux divisions marocaines. …”
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Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) for Arm Rehabilitation Device by salam waley shneen, Rajaa khalaf Gaber, Rasha Saad Salih, Suaad Makki Jiaad

“…It is possible to conduct tests aimed at improving performance by working on developing the model by adopting the appropriate design for the characteristics that match the required operational behavior of the system with all conditions that suit different situations. …”
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The Role of the Commercial Space Industry within the US National Security under the Trump Administration by E. A. Kuznetsov

“…This paper aims to partially fill this gap by assessing approaches to these issues adopted by the administration of D. Trump. In the first section the author notes that both conceptual and legal frameworks of private space activities lack clarity and proposes an operational definition of the phenomenon. …”
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The resultative construction with “verbs of cooking” and “verbs of colouring” in English and Spanish: a contrastive lexical-constructional study by Isabel Jiménez Sáez

“…The present study is contrastive in two senses: on the one hand, it provides a descriptive analysis of the formal and functional differences and similarities of this construction in both languages, and on the other hand, it adopts a lexical-constructional approach combining the theoretical and methodological principles of Goldberg’s (1995) and Boas’s (2003) Construction Grammars. …”
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Exploring industry 4.0 technologies for sustainable development goals: a systematic literature review by Pramod Kumar, Jaiprakash Bhamu, Jagdish Bhadu, Praveen Saraswat

“…The study highlights challenges small industries face in adopting I4.0 due to resource constraints and emphasizes the need for government and expert support. …”
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Evaluation of two methods for counting residual leukocytes in leukoreduced packed red cells: Flow cytometry and fully automated cell counter by Mamta Shah, Nidhi Bhatnagar, Sangita Shah, Falguni Pandav, Hetali Shah, Anupa Dixit, Trupti Shetty, Pushkar Admane, Ankur Lath, Prakash Suvasia

“…CONCLUSION: The new generation fully automated hematology analyzers could be simple, reliable, economical, and practically best method for assessing the efficacy of leukoreduction in LR-PRCs. They can be adopted by resource-constrained blood centers as an alternative to flow cytometry for this purpose. …”
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Brain state forecasting for precise brain stimulation: Current approaches and future perspectives by Matteo De Matola, Carlo Miniussi

“…Recently, this approach has been adopted successfully in a number of studies, opening interesting opportunities for personalised brain stimulation treatments. …”
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First Year Nursing Students' Coping Strategies in Stressful Clinical Practice Situations by Iwona Bodys-Cupak, Anna Majda, Justyna Skowron, Joanna Zalewska-Puchała, Aneta Trzcińska

“…Differences between variables were verified using the chi-square (χ2) independence test and Mann - Whitney test. The adopted significance level was α=0.05. During the first practical training, the nursing students struggled with multiple difficult situation (and perceived moderate and high stress and their attempts to cope with stress were diversified. …”
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Understanding the Rural–Rural Migration of Health Workers in Two Selected Districts of Tanzania by Nathanael Sirili, Daudi Simba

“…An exploratory comparative cross-sectional study adopting both quantitative and qualitative approaches was carried out in two districts of Kilwa in Lindi region, southern Tanzania, and Rombo in Kilimanjaro region, northern Tanzania. …”
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