Determining factors affecting flood risk perception among local communities in Iran by Moslem Savari, Ahmad Jafari, Abbas Sheheytavi

“…The research population comprised all rural households in the Shushtar County (Southwest Iran) who had experienced at least one flood event. …”
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Selection of the Key Segment Position for Trapezoidal Tapered Rings and Calculation of the Range of Jack Stroke Differences with a Predetermined Key Segment Position by Wencui Zhang, Jian Zhang, Jingru Yan, Yaohong Zhu

“…In this work, we propose a method for calculating the key segment position based on the shield tail gap, jack stroke difference, and lining trend. To calculate all possible key segment positions other than that corresponding to the straight joint configuration, the shield tail gap that remains after segment assembly and the jack stroke difference corresponding to the advancement of the segmental lining and lining trend were computed; then, values and importance coefficients were assigned to these factors according to current operating conditions. …”
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Practical epistemology: the role of peer review in organizing scientific research by A. V. Shestopal, V. I. Konnov

“…Although these principles are seen as a way to guarantee efficient peer review one has to consider the peculiarities of a particular research area, first of all the differences between social and natural sciences. …”
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The Use of Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in the Treatment of Claw Lesions in Cows by Nataly Kostyuk, Andrei Prytychenka

“…The experimental and comparison groups included 5 cows with ulcers and 5 with tylomas each. All the animals underwent claw trimming with primary surgical treatment including the tyloma excision. …”
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Dynamic Characteristics of an Offshore Wind Turbine with Tripod Suction Buckets via Full-Scale Testing by Yun-Ho Seo, Moo Sung Ryu, Ki-Yong Oh

“…The integrated framework accounts for not only the strain dependency of the soil but also for all dynamics in the seabed, including those of the soil, suction bucket skirt, and cap. …”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his ideas in the spectrum of the pressing challenges of our time: to the postulates of modern psychological and pedagogical interaction by Irina Manokha

“…If we treat the idea of the “nature-loving” educator as subtly and carefully acting in relation to any of the manifestations of the pupil, thereby unleashing the potential of the tutor, is not this the way to pre-empt all types of “burn up” (both professional, and emotional) for the modern educator in the broad sense of the word – “sculptor of human souls”? …”
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Numerical Investigation of Water Film Evaporation with the Countercurrent Air in the Asymmetric Heating Rectangular Channel for Passive Containment Cooling System by Kashuai Du, Po Hu, Zhen Hu

“…In addition, the influences on these parameters, such as heat flux, evaporative mass flow rate, and water film thickness, are evaluated under the different tilted angles of the rectangular channel and horizontal plane, water/air inlet flow rates, water/air inlet temperatures, heating surface temperatures, and air inlet relative humidities. All these results can provide a good guidance for the design of PCCS in the future.…”
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Does the Perceived Authentic Leadership Have a Mediating Role in the Relationship Between Employees’ Emotional Intelligence and Self-Compassion?* by Osman Yalap

“…Design/methodology/approach: All data in the research were obtained from 175 employees in 12 different tea factories. …”
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Sulfur Dioxide and Emergency Department Visits for Stroke and Seizure by Mieczysław Szyszkowicz, Eugeniusz Porada, Neil Tremblay, Eric Grafstein

“…Positive and statistically significant associations were obtained for SO2 and ischemic stroke for all patients (OR=1.12; CI 1.02, 1.23; lag 3) and for female patients (OR=1.17; CI 1.01, 1.33; lag 0). …”
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Is Repeat PTA of a Failing Hemodialysis Fistula Durable? by Ioannis Bountouris, Thorarinn Kristmundsson, Nuno Dias, Zbigniew Zdanowski, Martin Malina

“…Are multiple redilations worthwhile? Patients and Methods. All 159 stenoses of AV fistulas that were treated with PTA, with or without stenting, during 2008 and 2009, were included. …”
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Strength Characteristics of Cement Treated and Expanded Polystyrene Mixed Lightweight of Waste Soil from the Construction Site of a Yangtze River Bridge in China by Weihua Lu, Jianyun Wang, Yongxing Zhang

“…Samples made of different soil as raw materials have different strengths, but all of these specimens show a strain-hardening and stable behavior. …”
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Thyroid Cancer: Behavior in Cienfuegos by José Alberto Puerto Lorenzo, Lidia Torres Aja, Eslinda Cabanes Rojas

“…<strong>Foundation:</strong> thyroid cancer represents 1 % of the total of all types of cancer. Its incidence seems to increase 4 % each year and it is currently the eighth most frequent cancers in women. …”
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Extracting Implicit User Preferences in Conversational Recommender Systems Using Large Language Models by Woo-Seok Kim, Seongho Lim, Gun-Woo Kim, Sang-Min Choi

“…Results show that our approach considerably outperforms traditional CRS methods, achieving a 23.3% improvement in Recall@20 on the ReDial dataset and a 7.2% average improvement in recommendation accuracy across all datasets with GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4. These findings highlight the potential of using LLMs to extract and utilize implicit conversational information, effectively enhancing the quality of recommendations in CRSs.…”
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Siak Tourism Based on Environmental Policy: Analysis of Tourism Development Opportunities and Challenges by Pakhapan Saiman, Heriyanto Meyzi, Ismandianto Ismandianto, Marta Auradian, Wirman Welly, Mashur Dadang, Fadli Mashur

“…Siak tourism has the tagline “The Homeland of Malay”. All tourism activities must consider the existence of existing ecosystems in order to preserve existing life and maintain environmental quality. …”
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Comparative Study of Popular Objective Functions for Damping Power System Oscillations in Multimachine System by Naz Niamul Islam, M. A. Hannan, Hussain Shareef, Azah Mohamed, M. A. Salam

“…Linearized model simulations are performed to compare the dominant mode’s performance and then the nonlinear model is continued to evaluate the damping performance over power system oscillations. All the simulations are conducted in two-area four-machine power system to bring a detailed analysis. …”
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The shear bond measurement of two self-adhesive composite resins to both enamel and dentin (An in vitro study) by Abdulkareem Ramadhan Ibrahim

“…Also the thirty dentin groups were divided into three groups, group D1, D2 and D3 with the same corresponding composites as in enamel groups. For all the specimens composite cylinders (4mm height and 4 mm in diameter) were built of the flat surface of the sample then subjected to shear bond testing in a universal testing machine. …”
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Chronic-Care-Management Programs for Multimorbid Patients with Diabetes in Europe: A Scoping Review with the Aim to Identify the Best Practice by Julia Heike Brettel, Ulf Manuwald, Henriette Hornstein, Joachim Kugler, Ulrike Rothe

“…Included were CCM-based programs from Belgium, Cyprus, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. All 19 articles were presented descriptively whereof 11 articles were finally evaluated in a checklist by Rothe et al. (2020). …”
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Low‐power 10‐bit 100 MS/s pipelined ADC in digital CMOS technology by Anil Singh, Veena Rawat, Alpana Agarwal

“…The internal gain of value 2 of the intermediate stages is achieved by using a charge‐pump‐based concept that avoids the use of power‐area inefficient operational amplifier. All the capacitors are realised by capacitors implemented by metal–oxide–semiconductor field‐effect transistors (MOSCAPs) that allows easy integration with any inexpensive standard digital CMOS technology, and altogether giving low area‐power‐cost solution. …”
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Factors associated with sedentary behavior among ELSA-Brasil participants: ecological model by Francisco José Gondim Pitanga, Sheila Maria Alvim Matos, Maria da Conceição Almeida, Rosane Härter Griep, Maria Carmem Viana, Enirtes Caetano Prates Melo, Estela Aquino

“…A hierarchical ecological model was built with all possible factors associated with SB: sociodemographic environment (age and level of education; economic status); behavioral environment (leisure time physical activity, commuting physical activity, beer consumption, current smoking); and biological environment (overweight, obesity and abdominal obesity). …”
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The Relationship between Academic Expectations Stress and Academic flow and Academic Hope in female students of the second year of high school by Parivash Khavarzamini, Ramin Habibikaleybar

“…The statistical population included all secondary school girls of the 2nd district of Tabriz in the year 1400-1401, and 406 of them were selected as a sample by multi-stage cluster sampling method. …”
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