Diamonds and Emotions in the Minerals Gallery: Civilizing Emodities in the Age of Liberal Empire by Danielle Kinsey

“…In general consumer culture, diamonds were understood as emotional commodities (emodities) that derived value from both marking and eliciting heightened emotions; knowing this, the minerals galleries trustees offered the public a place to engage with diamonds in a ‘sobering’ manner. Gallery designers encouraged visitors to trade their whimsically romantic feelings about diamonds with ‘interested,’ patriotic ones. …”
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MOŽNOST PROPOJENÍ DOPRAVNÍ A VODÁRENSKÉ INFRASTRUKTURY JAKO NÁSTROJ UDRŽITELNOSTI VEŘEJNÉHO SEKTORU by Štěpán Marval, Tomáš Hejduk, Petr Fučík, Ondřej Mašek, Štěpán Zrostlík

“…The second activity presented is the preparation of a comprehensive overview of the drinking water balance in different regions of the Czech Republic, which is designed to provide users with a deep insight into the current status and future challenges related to the distribution and availability of drinking water. …”

“Today the Pot is Boiling Over!”: Ebony Magazine, the Black Revolts, and the Search for a Social Resolution, 1966-1967 by Sid Ahmed Ziane

“…While Ebony was a glossy magazine designed for promoting Black fashion, advertising, and consumerism, it also proved to be a critical outlet aiming at bringing about a social reformation to Black America. …”
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Synthesis, Spectroscopic, Molecular Structure, and Antibacterial Studies of Dibutyltin(IV) Schiff Base Complexes Derived from Phenylalanine, Isoleucine, and Glycine by Har Lal Singh, Jangbhadur Singh

“…New series of organotin(IV) complexes and Schiff bases derived from amino acids have been designed and synthesized from condensation of 1H-indole-2,3-dione, 5-chloro-1H-indole-2,3-dione, and α-amino acids (phenylalanine, isoleucine, and glycine). …”
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Synergistic Optimization Method for URT Network Train Connection Scheme in Peak and Off-Peak Periods by Ruihua Xu, Xuyang Song, Feng Zhou, Fangsheng Wang

“…Subsequently, a corresponding solution method based on a genetic algorithm and simulation was designed. Finally, the Suzhou URT network was used as a case study, and the passenger flow of the transfer station was simulated and calculated using relevant automatic fare collection (AFC) data. …”
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Integrated 6-DOF Orbit-Attitude Dynamical Modeling and Control Using Geometric Mechanics by Ling Jiang, Yue Wang, Shijie Xu

“…For a demonstration purpose, a simple asymptotic tracking control law with almost global convergence is designed. Finally, the integrated modeling and control are applied to the body-fixed hovering over an asteroid and verified by a simulation, in which absolute motions of the spacecraft and asteroid are simulated separately.…”
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Vocabulary learning in EFL context: do primary school English Subject textbooks provide structured support? by John Misana Biseko

“…To support this critical component of language proficiency, textbooks play a central role in EFL instruction and must be deliberately designed to foster learners’ acquisition of useful vocabulary. …”
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La notion d'élémentarité et ses enjeux actuels by Alain Trouvé

“…D'une part, identifié à tout ce qui peut être reçu comme facile d'accès (à cause de l'évidence et de la simplicité qu'il désigne), l'élémentaire, souvent enfermé dans une acception triviale et péjorative, est rattaché de préférence à l'univers de l'école dite "primaire". …”
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Investigating Optical Properties of One-Dimensional Photonic Crystals Containing Semiconductor Quantum Wells by Mahshid Mokhtarnejad, Morteza Asgari, Arash Sabatyan

“…Thus, by employing the mechanism of stark effect MQWs band-gaps can be easily controlled which is useful in designing MWQ based optical switches and filters. By comparing the results, we observe that the reflectivity of MWQ containing 200 periods of InAlAs/InP quantum wells shows the maximum reflectivity of 96%.…”
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RESEARCH ON ROBUST VIBRATION CONTROL OF PLANE SINGLE ARM FLEXIBLE BEAM BASED ON μ SYNTHESIS by GONG ChiKun, WEI BingSheng, YUAN LiPeng

“…Based on μ synthesis control method , the robust controller of the system was designed. The simulation results show that the upper and lower bounds of the structural singular value of the controller are less than 1, indicating that the system has good robust stability and robust performance. …”
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Alternative Local Food Shopping Communities in Hungary by Izabella Bakos, Anikó Khademi-Vidra

“…In the survey conducted among members of the consumer community, we looked at the analytical areas designated as a target in the population questionnaire for the purpose of comparability and our aim was to explore the sociometrics and lifestyles of communities as well as their community experiences and possible developments. …”
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Evaluation of Water Resources Carrying Capacity in Jiangxi Based on System Dynamics Model by SONG Shiqiang, FENG Qian, WANG Pinggen, TANG Guohao, XIONG Xiahui, JI Yong

“…To study the current situation of water resources carrying capacity and alleviate the water supply pressure in Jiangxi Province,this paper constructed an evaluation index system of water resources carrying capacity,taking into account the characteristics of water resources in Jiangxi Province.Further,a system dynamics model of water resources carrying capacity was built with historical data,and four development scenarios were designed,under which the variations of various index parameters were obtained through model simulation.The weight of each index was determined by the analytic hierarchy process,and the change of water resources carrying capacity was calculated under each scenario.The following findings are obtained.① Under the current development scenario,the water resources carrying capacity of Jiangxi Province is in a state of slightly overloading.② Under the rapid development scenario,the overload of the water resources carrying capacity in Jiangxi Province becomes more serious.③ Under the water saving & pollution control and comprehensive development scenarios,the water resources carrying capacity tend to be both improved,and the improvement degree is higher under the latter scenario.The comprehensive development scenario is found to be the optimal development scenario which accords with the sustainable development of Jiangxi Province.This study can provide reference and an evaluation basis for water resources management planning in Jiangxi Province.…”
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Targeted poverty alleviation promotes sustainable socio-economic and ecological development in China’s poor areas by Xunhuan Li, Yang Zhou

“…Drawing on a perspective of systems, this study compiles a panel dataset of 832 nationally designated poverty-stricken counties in China from 2013 to 2020 and employ the coupling coordination degree model to examine the coupling and coordination relationships among economic, social, and environmental systems in the PAC. …”
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Numerical and Experimental Study on Crushing Properties of Hard Coal Using Impacting-Cutting Technique by Qiang Zhang, Cong Wang, Ying Tian

“…Meanwhile, a simplified test device for the impacting-cutting technique was designed. And the actual coal crushing performance was tested. …”
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Beyond Standard Model Searches in the MiniBooNE Experiment by Teppei Katori, Janet M. Conrad

“…The experiment was originally designed to test the Δm2~1 eV2 region of the sterile neutrino hypothesis by observing νe(ν-e) charged current quasielastic signals from a νμ(ν-μ) beam. …”
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Deep reinforcement learning based task allocation mechanism for intelligent inspection in energy Internet by Siya XU, Yifei XING, Shaoyong GUO, Chao YANG, Xuesong QIU, Luoming MENG

“…In order to reduce the cost and improve efficiency of power line inspection, UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), which use mobile edge computing technology to access and process service data, are used to inspect power lines in the energy internet.However, due to the dynamic changes of UAV data transmission demand and geographical location, the edge server load will be unbalanced, which causes higher service processing delay and network energy consumption.Thus, an intelligent inspection task allocation mechanism for energy internet based on deep reinforcement learning was proposed.First, a two-layer edge network task offloading model was established to archive joint optimization of multi-objectives, such as delay and energy consumption.It was designed by comprehensively considering the route of UAV and edge nodes, different demands of services and limited service capabilities of edge nodes.Furthermore, based on Lyapunov optimization theory and dual-time-scaled mechanism, proximal policy optimization algorithm based deep reinforcement learning was used to solve the connection relationship and offloading strategy of edge servers between fixed edge sink layer and mobile edge access layer.The simulation results show that, the proposed mechanism can reduce the service request delay and system energy consumption while ensuring the stability of system.…”
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Improved COVID-19 Diagnosis Using a Hybrid Transfer Learning Model with Fuzzy Edge Detection on CT Scan Images by Hassan Salarabadi, Mohammad Saber Iraji, Mehdi Salimi, Mehdi Zoberi

“…Critical frames, essential for decision-making, were separated and used for disease diagnosis by the designed models under specialist supervision. The findings demonstrate that the proposed hybrid transfer learning model utilizing the fuzzy technique achieves significant performance improvement, with 97% accuracy on the training set and 88% accuracy on the test set.…”
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L’approche territoriale de l’intégration des SER dans les zones montagneuses. L’aménagement participatif à l’aide des représentations 3D : exemples d’application en Méditerranée or... by Dimitrios Goussios, Ioannis Faraslis, Prodromos Mardakis

“…This process ultimately renews interactive participatory planning in a field where centrally—designed RES policy meets the bottom-up dynamics of territorialisation.…”
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Surface plasmon resonance detection of anti-cancer drug flutamide by graphitic carbon nitride/chitosan nanocomposite by Hassan Nasiri, Karim Abbasian

“…Abstract The g-C3N4/CS biosensor was designed, fabricated, and tested using compounds such as glucose, urine, lactose, and flutamide at a molarity of 10 µM, which could demonstrate a high sensitivity of 200 μm-1 for flutamide. …”
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Fuzzy Coordinated PI Controller: Application to the Real-Time Pressure Control Process by N. Kanagaraj, P. Sivashanmugam, S. Paramasivam

“…The fuzzy system has been designed to track the variation parameters in a feedback loop and tune the classical controller to achieve a better control action for load disturbances and set point changes. …”
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