“Talking heads” in Portuguese sign and spoken languages by Marisa Cruz, Sónia Frota

“…In spoken Portuguese, although the head amplitude also differs between sentence types, the shape of the movement over time is always the same (falling), thus pointing to a secondary/complementary role in spoken Portuguese.…”
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Sujeitos políticos da economia solidária e comunitária na Bolívia: tendências e modelos do setor camponês-indígena by Isabelle Hillenkamp

“…The OECAs are distinct in that they have a broader vision of the collective (not determined by the unions and communitarian structures) and of the public (not limited to the State), without always being able to avoid the risk of corporatism. …”
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Geometric Regularized Hopfield Neural Network for Medical Image Enhancement by Fayadh Alenezi, K. C. Santosh

“…One of the major shortcomings of Hopfield neural network (HNN) is that the network may not always converge to a fixed point. HNN, predominantly, is limited to local optimization during training to achieve network stability. …”
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Stiffness Adjustment Analysis of Continuous Origami Manipulators by Zhang Yuhui, Zhang Fan

“…Finally, a conclusion is drawn that with the increase of the cone angle, the resistance to external forces is not always increasing. That is, the change of the cone angle has an impact on the load performance of the manipulator.…”
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Research of fracturing in the body of ground water dams by Makhmudov Abdulatif, Shakirov Bakhtiyar, Ermatov Qobiljon, Shakirov Boburmirzo, Uljaev Farokhiddin

“…The main similarity relationships when modeling earth dams using a centrifuge: density, relative deformation and stress are the same, which makes it possible to predict the assessm ent of cracking in more detail. Great attention is always paid to the reliability and safety of hydraulic structures. …”
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Peter the Great’s “heirs”: power and administration in post-Petrine Russia by N. A. Omelchenko

“…According to the author, Anna Ioannovna managed to snatch victory, relying on the support of the middle and lower nobility, primary because in Russia the middle class was always afraid of the weakening of the central government, which, as a rule, led either to anarchy or to the power of the oligarchy.…”
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Miss-Taken Identities: The Comedy of Misrecognition in New Woman Short Stories by Margaret D. Stetz

“…This essay will illuminate a surprisingly common trope in British New Woman comic short stories from the late-1880s through the end of the nineteenth century—that is, the social misrecognition of women (almost always young women) by men. Often, this misidentification takes a class-based turn, with men of the upper classes assuming that the girls they encounter in socially ambiguous spaces belong to a class lower than their own and are, therefore, undeserving of the usual forms of respectful courtesy, or are even appropriate targets for sexual predation. …”
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Éléments institutionnalistes pour la mise en perspective historique du concept de monnaie endogène by Thibault Laurentjoye, Léo Malherbe

“…In other words, it is a question of whether, over the course of history, the quantity of money has always adjusted endogenously to changes in demand. …”
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Too Much Salt to My Taste: An Entity to Think about in Neonatal Hypernatremia: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Marwa El Masri, Lidiya Samotiy-Hanna, Ramy Ghabril, Yolla Nassif, Dany Al Hamod

“…Thus, hypernatremic dehydration secondary to elevated breast milk content should always be borne in mind and investigated whenever suspected.…”
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Role of Gender Equity and Disability Inclusion to Help Achieve the Larger Cause of Health for All and Attain SDG 2030 by India by Sonali Kar, Abu Bashar, Sridevi Gnanasekaran, A K Jayasree, Pillaveetil Sathyadas Indu, Kajal Srivastava

“…Gender equity now is the finer version, which is accepted and received well too, and this inclusiveness has urged us to add disability inclusion into our context of discussion. These issues are always challenges that crop up in the path of development and evolution. …”
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Assessment of hydromorphological conditions of the river using the MQI method (Case study area: JAJROOD River) by Maryam Ilanloo, Amir Karam

“…The JAJROOD and LATYAN-dam areas in the north east of Tehran due to the pleasant weather have always been and are in Eco tourists and nature interested people noteworthy. …”
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Pedestrian Detection and Tracking for Counting Applications in Metro Station by Chen Yan-yan, Chen Ning, Zhou Yu-yang, Wu Ke-han, Zhang Wei-wei

“…The most challenging problem is to count pedestrians accurately in the case of not changing the position of the surveillance camera, because the view that surveillance camera uses in a metro station is always short-shot and nondirect downward view. In this view, traditional methods find it difficult to count pedestrians accurately. …”
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Evolutionary Stability Analysis of the Coal Mine Safety Management System Governed by Delay and Impulsive Differential Equations by Li Bai, Xinhua Wang, Rongwu Lu, Hao Yu, Dan Li

“…Control of unsafe behaviors has always been a difficult point in Coal Mine Safety Management (CMSM). …”
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Anomalous colourations in surface water bodies: causes and examples reported by the Regional Agency for Environmental Protection and Energy of Emilia Romagna (ARPAE) by Michela Del Pasqua, Fabrizio Bandini, Elena Morandi, Rita Antonellini, Marcello Masi, Michele de Gioia

“…These anomalous colourations can be triggered by different factors, both natural and anthropogenic, and not always are signs of pollution. This note explores the phenomenon of water discolouration, focusing on natural causes and analysing how factors such as algal and bacterial blooms influence water colour. …”
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From Interfacial Water to Macroscopic Observables: A Review by Alberto Striolo

“…The scientific community has always been fascinated by the properties of water and, consequently, a number of investigations continue to address this ubiquitous fluid responsible for life on this planet. …”
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Rational-security and fair two-party comparison protocol by Bowen ZHAO, Yao ZHU, Yang XIAO, Qingqi PEI, Xiaoguo LI, Ximeng LIU

“…., Bob) of the comparison result.Obviously, if Alice refused or failed to send the comparison result to Bob, Bob learned nothing about the comparison result, which broke the fairness of the two-party comparison protocol.Based on this, a rational-security and fair two-party comparison protocol TEAM was proposed by seamlessly combining the threshold Paillier cryptosystem and game theory.Specifically, a novel secure two-party comparison protocol based on the threshold Paillier cryptosystem was designed and then searched for equilibrium points at which two parties could obtain comparison results.Strict theoretical analysis demonstrate that TEAM guarantees rational two-party to always obtain the comparison result without sacrificing any of their inputs.In other words, TEAM was correct, secure, and fair.In addition, the experimental results show that TEAM improves up to 50 times in terms of efficiency compared with previous methods under the same experimental settings.…”
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Torsional Modeling of Reinforced Concrete Beam–Column Joint Retrofitted by Aramid Fiber—Experimental and Numerical Analysis by Palaniappan Prasath, Ravindran Gobinath, Jayaprakash Sridhar

“…The performance of structural composites during loading has always been a concern for the designers and construction industry since the reinforced concrete structure was discovered. …”
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Design and Analysis of Thick Gripper Inspired by Origami by Wang Rugui, Huang Guibin, Mao Yi, Yu Yiyin

“…The origami mechanism obtained by combining the origami art with the modern mechanism is widely used in the field of spatial structure, and its unique scalability, convenience, lightweight and miniaturization have always been research focuses. In this study, a thick plate clamping claw inspired by origami is proposed, and its design is analyzed. …”
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Experiences, characteristics, and features of developing new towns between 1898 and 1970 by Mazdak Irani

“… The decision on developing a new town is always informed by the needs and requirements of regional and national planning on the basis of political viewpoints, natural recourses, industrial facilities, and population surplus viewpoints. …”
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KAB Newsletter Issue 5 (Apr - Jun 2023) by Sempungu, Godfrey J., Ocan, Johnson, Saturday, Alex

“…We are pleased to share with you the fifth edition of the KAB Newsletter. It is always a pleasure to have the opportunity to discuss life on and off campus. …”
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