Making room for alternative African epistemologies in Ethiopian higher education by Meskerem Lechissa Debele

“…While this is necessary to a certain extent, the need to make sure that graduates have a well-balanced regional and international outlook that goes beyond too immediate priorities of market forces should be well kept in mind by higher education program developers and curriculum designers. One issue often raised by Ethiopian scholars and others in relation to the narrow outlook of most Ethiopian higher education graduates is the fact that they are mostly unaware of (or alien to) the lives, aspirations, struggles, dreams, and achievements of people in adjacent African countries and the African diaspora. …”
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Effect of Hydrophilicity/Hydrophobicity of the Injector Wall on Atomization Performance by Xiaoyu Zhang, Xiaolei Zhang, Runze Duan, Lujia Liu

“…In this paper, three groups of the open-end swirl injector with different tangential channels were designed to study the effect of hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity on atomization performance. …”
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Managing Landscape Irrigation to Avoid Soil and Nutrient Losses by George Hochmuth, Laurie Trenholm, Don Rainey, Esen Momol, Claire Lewis, Brian Niemann

“…This publication is designed to help UF/IFAS Extension county agents prepare materials to directly address nutrient losses from lawns and landscapes caused by inadequate irrigation management practices. …”
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COMPARISON OF LEGAL CONSUMER PROTECTION SYSTEMS IN E-COMMERCE TRANSACTIONS TO SUPPORT DIGITAL ECONOMIC GROWTH IN INDONESIA by Fajar Sugianto, Ellora Sukardi, Tomy Michael

“…Legal regulations for e-commerce transactions are designed to create the level of certainty needed in business transactions and to protect consumers in e-commerce transactions in order to support the growth of the digital economy in Indonesia. …”
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Learning Dynamic Spatial-Temporal Dependence in Traffic Forecasting by Chaoyu Ren, Yuezhu Li

“…In this paper, we propose a Multi Scale Spatial-Temporal Recurrent Graph Network (MSSTRG), focusing on local temporal, multi-scale temporal and dynamic spatial correlation. Specifically, we designed a dynamic graph convolution module to model local and global spatial connections in terms of both road distance and adaptive correlation. …”
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Exponential Trajectory Tracking Control of Nonholonomic Wheeled Mobile Robots by Plamen Petrov, Ivan Kralov

“…In this paper, we address the problem for the trajectory tracking of nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots, and an exponential trajectory tracking controller is designed. The stability analysis is concerned with studying the local exponential stability property of a cascade system, provided that two isolated subsystems are exponentially stable and under certain bound conditions for the interconnection term. …”
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Structural restoration of a historic palace in Italy by Paolo Foraboschi

“…One of the key novelties of this study is the introduction of a method for designing and structurally analyzing a rehabilitation work aimed at enhancing the load-bearing capacity of masonry columns and piers under gravitational loads. …”
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Efficient resource allocation with context-awareness for parked car road side unit-based Internet of vehicles by Peng QIN, Haoting HE, Xiongwen ZHAO, Yang FU, Yu ZHANG, Miao WANG, Shuo WANG, Xue WU

“…In order to reduce the number of road side unit (RSU) and meet the needs of mobile vehicle users for processing latency-sensitive and computation-intensive tasks, a context-aware resource allocation algorithm was proposed based on parked cars.Road side parked vehicles were selected to serve the vehicle users instead of RSU using parking time as a factor for determining whether a parked vehicle could become a parked car roadside unit (PCRSU).In order to further reduce the system response time, a mechanism was designed considering content caching and distribution.In respect to user content caching, PCRSU made personalized content recommendation for vehicle users with awareness by using two elements of user historical search data and point of interest (PoI) area type.In respect to content distribution, PCRSU allocated bandwidth efficiently by sensing the data transmission needs of vehicle users.Extensive experiments show that compared with the existing benchmark methods, the proposed algorithm can select PCRSU more reasonably, effectively reduce the demand response delay, improve the stability of the network while ensuring network coverage, and provide more accurate service content for vehicle users.…”
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Operation and Control of an Active Power Collector for Roadside Feeding Electric Road System by Saleh A. Ali, Volker Pickert, Mohammed A. Alharbi, Handong Li, Haris Patsios

“…The PCU is equipped with various features designed to maintain the contact force (CF) with the conduction rails, effectively handle instances of wheel bouncing and vibrations, and ensure a consistently smooth dynamic power transfer. …”
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ANALYSIS AND TEST OF COMBINED FATIGUE LOADING SYSTEM OF CERTAIN ENGINE FAN BLADE by TANG Ling, SHANG BoLin, GAO XingWei, CHENG PengFei, YIN ZhiPeng

“…Besides,the holder was designed and combined the blade into a system. Through the demonstration of simulation analysis and fracture analysis,high-low cycle combined loading was successfully applied to the assessment location of the blade. …”
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The Influence of Wheelchair Users on Movement in a Bottleneck and a Corridor by Paul Geoerg, Jette Schumann, Stefan Holl, Anja Hofmann

“…Emergency exits as bottlenecks in escape routes are important for designing traffic facilities. Particularly, the capacity estimation is a crucial performance criterion for assessment of pedestrians’ safety in built environments. …”
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APPLICATION OF NORMS ON THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF PUBLIC CIVIL SERVANTS AS A BASIS FOR PUBLIC EXPENSES by Victoria V. Volkova

“…The problem of encouragement of public civil servants will always be relevant for the reason that it is designed to ensure the most effective use of personnel. …”
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Collusion-resistant cross-chain transaction scheme based on game theory and verifiable consensus by JIA Xuedan, WANG Liangmin, HUANG Longxia

“…Secondly, a collusion-resistant cross-chain transaction protocol based on game-theoretic incentives was designed, stimulating distrust among colluders to deter cross-chain collusion and uphold transaction security. …”
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Writing case reports and series: Tricks, traps, and triumphs! by Abraham Edgar Gracia-Ramos

“…They constitute uncontrolled study designs with different varieties that describe important scientific observations that are missed or undetectable in other research methods. …”
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Gait Analysis and Trajectory Planning of a Hybrid Dual-platform Staggered Hexapod Robot by Wang Chunzhen, Li Ruiqin, Chai Chao, Wang Zhihao, Fan Wenlong

“…A novel hybrid dual-platform staggered hexapod robot based on R&(2-UPU/2-RPR) hybrid mechanism is proposed, and the structure of the robot is designed. The hexapod robot relies on the mutual dislocation of the upper and lower platforms of a 2-UPU/2-RPR parallel mechanism to generate the walking action. …”
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Les capitales des cités gauloises, simulacra Romae ? by Michel Reddé

“…Of course, the regional differences can be very pronounced and the ex nihilo foundation of a provincial capital, designed as such from the beginning (Cologne) cannot be compared to the foundation of a civitas peregrina such as Le Mans. …”
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Investigations on tool wear behavior in turning AISI 304 stainless steel: An empirical and neural network modeling approach by Satish Chinchanikar, Mahendra Gadge

“…The experiments were designed to cover a broad range of operating conditions to ensure the model's accuracy and applicability in practical machining scenarios. …”
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Adaptive Output Feedback Control for the Trajectory Tracking of High-Speed Trains with Disturbance Uncertainties on the Basis of Neural Network Observers by Yang Liu, Weidong Li

“…In this method, a neural network adaptive observer is designed to estimate the velocity of an HST. Another neural network model is used to approximate the model uncertainties. …”
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Metalloproteinase Inhibitors: Status and Scope from Marine Organisms by Noel Vinay Thomas, Se-Kwon Kim

“…Three decades of endeavor for designing potent matrix metalloproteinase inhibitory substances (MMPIs) with many not making upto final clinical trials seek new resources for devising MMPIs. …”
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Aux seuils du paratexte médiéval : les auteurs français et leur nom dans les inventaires aristocratiques de la fin du Moyen Âge by Julien Stout

“…The article will gather, sort and analyse the 244 cases out of 4686 where the names of 56 French authors are used by inventories as a means to designate given works. It will then offer a reflection on the nascent, minority status of the notion of authorship within a medieval literary landscape that was clearly aware of this concept, yet seemingly applied it to French literature only sporadically and with the utmost hesitancy.…”
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