Flexural Behavior of Fiber-Reinforced Self-Stressing Concrete T-Shaped Composite Beams by Boxin Wang, Ruichang Fang, Qing Wang

“…The experiment conducted in this study comprised a single-span composite beam test (including 3 test beams) and a two-span continuous composite beam test (including 2 test beams). All the test beams were T-shaped. The cracking load, yielding load, and ultimate load of all the test beams were recorded and comparatively analyzed. …”
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The concept of security in German foreign policy by Artem P. Sokolov

“…Germany’s national security strategy securitized all major spheres of life in German society, making security a universal and comprehensive concept. …”
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Prediction of mass and radii of anisotropic polytropic compact objects with Buchdahl-I metric by S. A. Mardan, A. Zahra, Muhammad Bilal Riaz, Rubab Manzoor, Adnan Malik

“…We observe that our model fulfills all of the requirements for being a physically realistic model.…”
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Diaphragm Disease: The Limitation of Laparoscopy and Assessment of the Small Bowel for Strictures Using a Ball Bearing by C.E. Moffat, M.N. Khyan, C.G. Davies, A.S.K. Ghauri, C.J. Ranaboldo

“…We present a case study of a patient with diaphragm disease where the diagnosis was not apparent at laparoscopy, and passage of a steel ball through the small intestine was required to identify all strictures present. A high index of suspicion, recognition of the limitations of conventional diagnostic aids, and the need to assess the full length of the small bowel are all important in the surgical management of this condition.…”
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Optimizing Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks with Opportunistic Access by Ammar Zafar, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Yunfei Chen, Redha M. Radaydeh

“…Resource allocation is based on minimizing the symbol error rate at the receiver. Both the cases of all-participate relaying and selective relaying are considered. …”
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The relation between organizational commitment and managerial effectiveness of instructors at schools of physical education and sports by Erkan Faruk Sırın, Eyup Dalkıran

“…It was identified that there is a positive correlation between emotional commitment extent of organizational commitment scale and all sub-extents of managerial effectiveness; low positive correlation between the continuation dimensions of the organization; and there is a medium level of the positive correlation between the normative extent of organizational commitment and all sub-extents of managerial effectiveness.…”
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WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT — TOWARDS PERFORMANCE BASED APPROACH by Slobodan P. Simonovic

“…Recent trends in dealing with complex water resources systems include consideration of the entire region being affected, explicit consideration of all costs and benefits, elaboration of a large number of alternative solutions, and the greater participation of all stakeholders in the decision-making. …”

Two Different Clinical Approaches with Mortality Assessment of Four Cases: Complete and Incomplete Type of Abdominal Cocoon Syndrome by Ahmet Akbas, Nadir Adnan Hacım, Hasan Dagmura, Serhat Meric, Yüksel Altınel, Ali Solmaz

“…Abdominal cocoon syndrome (ACS), also called sclerosing encapsulated peritonitis, is a condition characterized by encapsulation of all or some of small bowel loops by a thick fibrous membrane. …”
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Mathematical modelling of flow and adsorption in a gas chromatograph by A. Cabrera-Codony, A. Valverde, K. Born, O.A.I. Noreldin, T.G. Myers

“…From this the concentration profile for all components may be determined (since they are scaled versions of each other). …”
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A Technique: Exposure Therapy by Serkan AKKOYUNLU, M. Hakan TÜRKÇAPAR

“…Introduction: Exposure with response prevention is an effective treatment for all anxiety disorders. According to the behavioral learning theories, fears which are conditioned via classical conditioning are reinforced by respondent conditioning. …”
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John Ruskin, William Morris and Walter Pater: From Nature to Musical Harmony in the Decorative Arts by Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

“…John Ruskin’s claim that what is essential in all art is to fashion by hand what the eye sees clearly, blurred the divide between the fine arts and the decorative arts. …”
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Integrative Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and New Species of the Weevil Genus Onyxacalles Stüben (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae) by Peter E. Stüben, Jonas J. Astrin

“…Three new species are described and distinguished from their related species: Onyxacalles nuraghi Stüben sp.n. from Italy (Sardinia), Onyxacalles torre Stüben and Astrin sp. n. from France (Corsica) and Onyxacalles vilae Stüben sp. n. from Croatia (Velebit Mts.). A catalogue of all 20 species of Onyxacalles is given, and a key is finally presented combined with image stacking of the habitus and aedeagus for all species.…”
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An efficient numerical method for 2D elliptic singularly perturbed systems with different magnitude parameters in the diffusion and the convection terms, part Ⅱ by Ram Shiromani, Carmelo Clavero

“…This work is the continuation of [11], where a two-dimensional elliptic singularly perturbed weakly system, for which small parameters affected both the diffusion and the convection terms, was solved; moreover, all perturbation parameters could have different orders of magnitude, which is the most interesting and difficult case for this type of problem. …”
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Proportional Fair Power Allocation for Secondary Transmitters in the TV White Space by Konstantinos Koufos, Riku Jäntti

“…Existing power allocation algorithms for multiple secondary transmitters in the TV white space either fail to protect the TV service in all cases or they allocate extremely low power levels to some of the transmitters. …”
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Species discovery in Southern African bee flies (Diptera, Bombyliidae): A new species in the revised genus Enica Macquart, 1834 by Lisa Rollinson, Allan Cabrero

“…Each species of Enica occurs in at least one of three biodiversity hotspots in South Africa, i.e., Succulent Karoo, Cape Floristic Region, and Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany, with E. longirostris occurring in all three.…”
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Zygonic Theory: Introduction, Scope, and Prospects by Adam Ockelford

“…This extended article introduces Adam Ockelford’s ‘zygonic’ theory of music-structural understanding, which holds that imitation, which can occur in all domains of perceived sound and at all levels, is the ultimate organising force in music. …”
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Doctor Alfredo Méndez Aguirre. Renowned doctor of Cienfuegos medical history in the twentieth century by Reinaldo José Pino Blanco, Rigoberto Flores Roó, Alfredo Darío Espinosa Brito

“…It is described his brilliant performance as director of the Hospital Civil and the Sanatorio Purísima Concepción de la Colonia Española, enhancing all the transformations, improvements, amplifications and openings of new services carried out in both centers under his guidance and supervision. all the recognitions received for different institutions and people in general were mentioned too, for his fruitful work and, particularly, for their performance during the epidemic of Influenza of 1918, that deserved him the title of exemplary citizen.…”
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Efficient Algorithms for Optimal 4-Bit Reversible Logic System Synthesis by Zhiqiang Li, Hanwu Chen, Guowu Yang, Wenjie Liu

“…This paper presents the first work to create all 3120218828 optimal 4-bit reversible circuits with up to 8 gates for the CNT (Controlled-NOT gate, NOT gate, and Toffoli gate) library, and it can quickly achieve 16 steps through specific cascading created circuits.…”
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Design and Fabrication of W-Band Waveguide Slotted Array Antenna Based on Milling Process by Hongfu Meng, Yang Chen, Wenbin Dou

“…The peak gain is 25.9 dBi, and the corresponding antenna efficiency is about 65%. All cross-polarization of the antenna array is less than −35 dB. …”
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The effectiveness of kindness training on academic resilience and interpersonal forgiveness of Female Students of the Third Grade of the High School by Faramarz Sabeghi

“…The population of this study included all female students of the third grade of high school in Zahedan city in the academic year 2022-2023. …”
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