The impact of virtual exchange on East–West social relations: lessons from a China-Portugal foreign language exchange by Rienties Bart, Rets Irina

“…Student collaboration has always been integral to the learner journey. The current limited opportunities for face-to-face discussions and student mobility due to the pandemic have heightened the need for such online intercultural collaboration initiatives like Virtual Exchange (VE). …”
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A Hybrid Deep Learning Framework for Network Flow Forecasting of Power Grid Enterprise by Xin Huang, Ting Hu, Pei Pei, Qin Li, Xin Zhang

“…The network flow series in power grid enterprise always contain complex patterns and outliers, and VMD is applied to adaptively process complex net flow time series into several subseries with simpler patterns. …”
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Load Parameter Identification for Parallel Robot Manipulator Based on Extended Kalman Filter by Shijie Song, Xiaolin Dai, Zhangchao Huang, Dawei Gong

“…However, in practice, the load is always uncertain and its dynamic parameters are arduous to know a priori. …”
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An SEIR epidemic model with constant latency time and infectious period by Edoardo Beretta, Dimitri Breda

“…Finally we prove that the two delays are harmless in thesense that, by the analysis of the characteristic equations, which result tobe polynomial trascendental equations with polynomial coefficients dependentupon both delays, we confirm all the standard properties of an epidemicmodel: $\mathbf{E}_{0}$ is locally asymptotically stable for $\mathcal{R}%_{0}1$, while if $\mathcal{R}_{0}>1$then $\mathbf{E}_{+}$ is always asymptotically stable.…”
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Understanding Differences between Equal Public Governance Models by Mirko Pečarič

“…This article emphasises that certain values should be directly included in the governance models in accordance with their cultural backgrounds. The latter are always present in decisions’ predispositions (from which decisions obtain their frames and weights), and a successful administrator should not disregard them.    …”
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Nonlinear Hydroelastic Waves beneath a Floating Ice Sheet in a Fluid of Finite Depth by Ping Wang, Zunshui Cheng

“…We find that, in different water depths, the hydroelastic waves traveling beneath the thickest ice sheet always contain the largest wave energy. While with an increasing thickness of the sheet, the wave elevation tends to be smoothened at the crest and be sharpened at the trough. …”
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The role of the Triple islands (Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa) in Iran’s Maritime supremacy in the Persian Gulf by ali amiri, hojat naderi

“…For many coastal countries, maritime supremacy has always been a major concern of their grand strategies. …”
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Effects of gastrointestinal parasites on fecal glucocorticoids and behaviour in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus). by Pooja Upadhayay, Colin A Chapman, Gabriela F Mastromonaco, Valerie A M Schoof

“…There was no change in feeding across study phases; however, moving, grooming, and resting changed between the post-deworming and late reinfection phases, but not always in the predicted direction. Comparing behaviour across the same months in the following year as in the 2014 experimental study period, we found no differences in moving, feeding, grooming, and resting events. …”
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Analytical Estimation of Induced Voltage in Rotating Electrical Machines by Marius Meiswinkel, Amir Ebrahimi, Anjali Biju

“…Whether for the estimation of circulating current in the parallel circuits of the stator winding, damper current in the rotor of a synchronous machine, or voltage oscillation in the stator winding, an exact calculation of induced voltage is always inevitable. However, even when using FEM software, this voltage estimation is a post-process calculation based on pre-calculated flux densities or vector potentials. …”
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Delving into Secondary School EFL Teachers’ Practices Facilitated by Task-Based Language Instruction by Syla Rrita

“…Its aim is to support students in using English outside the classroom, even if the language they produce is not always grammatically accurate. It is possible to prepare learners for examinations through form-focused activities which are accompanied by tasks and later on reflected in the examination. …”
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Analysis and Optimization of Hydraulic Calibration for Maximum Performance of Wastewater Treatment Plants by Qabbou Nour-eddine, Khomsi Driss, Hassani Naoual Semlali Aouragh

“…For these reasons, the hydraulic calibration of treatment units must always be verified and analyzed for most of the common hydraulic constraints encountered in practice. …”
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Leprosy with Atypical Skin Lesions Masquerading as Relapsing Polychondritis by Punit Pruthi, Hariharan Munganda, Amit Bangia, Uma Rani, Rajesh Budhiraja, Swapnil Brajpuriya

“…Tissue diagnosis should always be attempted whenever possible in patients presenting with autoimmune features, so that inappropriate therapy with immunosuppressants is avoided.…”
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DQN-based energy-efficient routing algorithm in software-defined data centers by Zan Yao, Ying Wang, Xuesong Qiu

“…In particular, data center networks do not always run at full load, which leads to significant energy consumption. …”
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Behavior and Splice Length of Deformed Bars Lapping in Spirally Confined Grout-Filled Corrugated Duct by Yongfeng Zheng, Zhangfeng Zhu, Zhengxing Guo, Peng Liu

“…The experimental results show that bond failure splices are always failed by the pullout of the preembedded bar other than the grouted bar. …”
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A Continuous Approximation Approach Based on Regular Hexagon Partition for the Facility Location Problem under Disruptions Risk by Jiguang Wang, Yucai Wu

“…However, in general, most of the studies on facility location problems assume that the facilities, once built, will always run availably and reliably. In fact, although the probability is very low, supply chain disruptions often incur disastrous consequences. …”
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Hospitalité publique et altérité tsigane : du modèle d’intégration au paradigme assimilationniste by Caroline Trouillet

“…Indeed, the roma migrant is a « stranger from inside » (Missaoui 1999) who has always drawn hatred and troubles while playing a civilizing role. …”
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Rubric Design: A Designer’s Perspective by William Furman

“…As many instructors would attest, these questions are not always easy. Creating rubrics can be difficult, very time-consuming, and can feel like a paradox. …”
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THE EFFECT OF OSH PROGRAM AND WORK DISCIPLINE ON THE PERFORMANCE OF FIREFIGHTERS AT THE FIRE SERVICES OF BOGOR DISTRICT IN 2020 by Putri Permatasari, Wilda Dwi Apriliyani

“…Therefore, firefighters must always improve their performance to achieve agency goals.…”
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Loading on a Rigid Target from Close Proximity Underwater Explosions by Mark Riley, Malcolm Smith, J.E. van Aanhold, Niklas Alin

“…The time of arrival of the bubble collapse and water jetting were found to be very mesh dependent and refining the mesh did not always produce better results. The two-dimensional approach provides a good initial understanding of the problem for a reasonable computational effort. …”
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Electronic Structure and Room Temperature of 2D Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors in Bilayer MoS2-Doped Mn by Sintayehu Mekonnen Hailemariam

“…The magnetic interaction between the two manganese (Mn) atoms in BL MoS2 is always ferromagnetic (FM) irrespective of the spatial distance between them, but the strength of ferromagnetic interaction decays with atomic distance. …”
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