Optimal Acceleration-Velocity-Bounded Trajectory Planning in Dynamic Crowd Simulation by Fu Yue-wen, Li Meng, Liang Jia-hong, Hu Xiao-qian

“…Various simulation results demonstrate that these three steps give realistic crowd phenomenon just like the real world.…”
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Nigerian blogosphere and identity change of women by Angela Nkiru Nwammuo, Abiodun Salawu

“… Nigerian women face patriarchal subjugation and intimidation both politically, economically and socially, just like most women in all parts of Africa. But this scenario seems to be different in the social media landscape, where young Nigerian women are not only making waves but are calling the shots as well. …”
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Damping Based Traffic Allocation in Wireless Machine-to-Machine Communications Networks by Ruiguo Yu, Zhenxia Yuan, Mankun Zhao, Mei Yu, Xu Lu

“…When we tried to analyze the load on different paths using the simplest multipath routing algorithms, we found that the load changes just like simple harmonic motion, which inspires us to use physic and mathematic methods and tools to analyze the loading balance problems. …”
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Sankce vůči českým královským městům roku 1547 v kontextu habsburské politiky první poloviny 16. století („Gentský ortel“ v politické propagandě stavovského odboje)... by Petr Vorel

“…The author compares the sanctions by King Ferdinand of Habsburg against the Bohemian royal towns (which, in 1547, had accepted the monarch‘s promises in good faith, just like Ghent) with the long-term anti-municipal policy of the Habsburgs, as well as with Emperor Charles V‘s actions in 1546 against Imperial towns that were members of the Schmalkaldic League. …”
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A Study on Uniqueness of Lip Print Patterns: Sexual Dimorphism, Twins, and Across Three Generations by Qudusia Sultana, Vanessa Fernandes, Ashwini Shetty

“…Background and Aim: Lip prints just like fingerprints follow unique patterns in every individual and are said to vary significantly even within the same family. …”
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LA ROUMANIE AU BOUT DE LA TRANSITION DÉMOGRAPHIQUE: DISPARITÉS ET CONVERGENCES RÉGIONALES by IONEL MUNTELE

“…These analyses prove the fact that Romaniahas got out of the paradigm of the imbalances that opposed the areas with labour force deficit to the areas with man power excess (triggering ample internal migratory flows), entering the paradigm of exhausting its own labour resources, just like most Western countries.…”
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Voiles et caravansérails : l’Orient dans Lolita by Monica Manolescu

“…Their trips across the United States are presented as an endless postponing of the fatal ending, as fragmented narratives interrupted by pauses and breaks – just like the Arabian Nights. Moreover, the fundamental association between narrative and sensuality brings together Lolita and the Arabian Nights. …”
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Combustion Rate of Solid Carbon in the Axisymmetric Stagnation Flowfield Established over a Sphere and/or a Flat Plate by Atsushi Makino, Masahiro Hojo, Masahito Shintomi

“…Explicit combustion-rate expressions by use of the transfer number in terms of the natural logarithmic term, just like that for droplet combustion, have further been obtained for the combustion response in the limiting situations. …”
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« Leprous literature » : le modèle de la transmission contesté par les théories esthétiques d’Oscar Wilde by Carole Delhorme

“…It conveyed the idea that just like a contagious disease, the immorality of a book could be transmitted to the reader and could corrupt them. …”
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India’s Policies in Support of the New Space by I. V. Danilin, E. P. Shavlay

“…Just like in the Cold War, space has re-emerged as an arena of international rivalry. …”
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Le traducteur et les italiques. Omniscience et redressement dans Madame Bovary by Sophie Sarrazin

“…As an emphatic device, the italics contribute to the sentence structure, just like grandiloquence does, from a rhetorical or a syntactical point of view.The large number of passages in italics in Flaubert’s novel has been discussed for a long time. …”
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A Precessing-Coin-like Rotary Actuator for Distal Endoscope Scanners: Proof-of-Concept Study by Nirvana Gharib, Mohammad Reza Yousefi Darestani, Kenichi Takahata

“…This scanner uses a magnetic rotor designed to have a mirror surface on its backside, being electromagnetically driven to roll around the cone-shaped hollow base to create a motion just like a precessing coin. An optical probing beam directed from the probe’s optic fiber is passed through the hollow cone to be incident and bent on the back mirror of the rotating inclined rotor, circulating the probing beam around the scanner for full 360° sideway imaging. …”
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Lessons Learnt from the Monetary System of Guernsey by Gábor Sárdi, József Varga

“…Bailiwick of Guernsey, situated in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy, just like Jersey and the Isle of Man, is an UK Crown dependency and an autonomous jurisdiction. …”
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Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, or, Using Human Skins in Books Binding: A historical study by د. حامد معروف الزیات

“…Despite theallegations surrounding binding of books with human skins generally, and someof them correctly proved, but others have not yet proved, just like a copy of the“Holy Quran” with the skin of an Arab sheikh named Bashir bin Salem al-Harthythat had been found in the Cleveland Public Library, U.S.A. …”
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HIV/AIDS prevalence among adolescents in Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area, Enugu State, and the need for faith-based interventions by Favour Chukwuemeka Uroko, Goodness Chimeremma Ike

“…This study showed that there is lack of discipline in faith-based interventions. Conclusions Just like the biblical aphorism in Lamentation 1:12, where Jeremiah cried "Is it nothing to you", this research explored that the increasing HIV/AIDS rate among Igbo-Eze South adolescents means nothing to faith-based organizations. …”
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ADAM-multi: software to simulate complex breeding programs for animals and plants with different ploidy levels and generalized genotypic effect models to account for multiple allel... by Thinh Tuan Chu, Thinh Tuan Chu, Just Jensen

“…Stochastic simulation software, ADAM, has been developed for the purpose of breeding optimization in animals and plants, and for validation of statistical models used in genetic evaluations. Just like other common simulation programs, ADAM assumed the bi-allelic state of quantitative trait locus (QTL). …”
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The Associations of COVID-19 Induced Anxiety, Related Knowledge and Protective Behavior by Abanoub Riad, Yi Huang, Liping Zheng, Steriani Elavsky

“…A 5-point Likert scale with 14 items, where "1" refers to "Not at all like me" and "5" refers to "Just like me," was developed to evaluate people's protective behaviors against coronavirus infection from 3 dimensions: Routine Protective Behaviors (RPB), Post-exposure Protective Behaviors (PPB), and Post-exposure Risky Behaviors (PRB). …”
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The effect of Klotho protein complexed with nanomaterials on bone mesenchymal stem cell performance in the treatment of diabetic ischaemic ulcer by Rui Tang, Gang Zhao, Yuqiao Wang, Ruixue Zhang

“…The structure of the compound material, just like a sandwich, is that two pieces of PLGA nanofiber films clamped gelatin film which contained chitosan microspheres. …”
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Scientific justification of Mycobacterium avium survival in natural environment of Republic of Dagestan by M. O. Baratov, A. R. Mustafayev

“…In the plain area, in the same time period in the slightly saline soil with high humus content and at air temperature from –11.9 to +27.3 °C, soil temperature from –13 to +45 °C, air humidity from 37 to 100% and average precipitation 20.4 mm, Mycobacterium avium survived just like in the sub-mountainous area, i.e. for 213 and 243 days, respectively. …”
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Pregnancy-Specific Concerns and Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Antenatal Women by Sanjay Singh, Vinod G Nair, Virendra Vikram Singh, Shyamji Tiwari, Devendra Arora, Madhusudan Dey, Ravindu Tiwari, Sreeni V Nair

“…The spread of Corona Virus infection itself and the subsequent nation-wide lockdown in India, just like many other countries, has caused a serious impact on antenatal patients. …”
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