Effectiveness of a family-centered psychological intervention program based on spiritual therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy on the lifestyle of patients with type 2 diabetes by Delara Sadat Madahzad, Reza Pourhosein, Masoud Gholamali Lavasani, Gholamali Afrooz

“…Methods: The method of the present study was a combination based on a guided exploratory approach with a classification model, whose qualitative phase was based on the grounded theory method and its quantitative phase was based on a quasi-experimental design based on a pre-test-post-test-follow-up design with a control group. …”
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Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) on the Square and Triangular Tall Buildings to Measure Drag Force by Abdollah B. Daemei, Amiraslan Darvish, Roya Aeinehvand, Amirali Razzaghipour

“…The wind load issues play a significant role in designing tall buildings, which has sometimes been considered an even more essential factor than earthquake loads. …”
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Development of a mathematical model of magnetically controlled ferrovariometer control circuit by V. V. Zaitsev, K. S. Fadeev, K. V. Avdeeva

“…The described method and program make it possible to obtain an approximate picture of the distribution of the control field in the design of a magnetically controlled ferrovariometer and in the surrounding space, if the design can be represented by a plane-parallel model. …”
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Experimental investigation of the parameters of additively manufactured coaxial swirl injectors by Samir Vekilov, Volodymyr Lipovskyi, Roman Marchan, Artem Lohvynenko

“…Thuswise, it is of high priority to use additional manufacturing for further design adaptation along with synthesis of the design solutions with unique properties [4–6]. …”
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Predicting the Viscosity of Petroleum Emulsions Using Gene Expression Programming (GEP) and Response Surface Methodology (RSM) by Abubakar A. Umar, Ismail M. Saaid, Aliyu A. Sulaimon, Rashidah M. Pilus

“…To achieve that, a response surface methodology (RSM) based on Box-Behnken design (BBD) was used to design the experiment. Synthetic emulsions were prepared from an Offshore Malaysian Crude oil based on the DoE design and were aged for 7 days. …”
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PENGEMBANGAN E-MODUL BERBASIS HOTS BERBANTUAN FLIPBOOK MARKER SEBAGAI BAHAN AJAR ALTERNATIF SISWA SMA by Rina Puspitasari, Dedy Hamdani, Eko Risdianto

“…Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan desain 4-D yang memiliki empat tahap yaitu tahap Define (Pendefinisian), Design (Perancangan), Develop (Pengembangan, dan Desseminate (Penyebaran), namun pada penelitian ini hanya dilaksanakan sampai tahap Develop. …”
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Performance Analysis of Prefabricated Steel-Spring Floating-Slab Track and Its Application to Urban Express Rail Transit by Xudong Huang, Ping Li, Xinwei Luo, Liang Ling, Abdulmumin Ahmed Shuaibu, Zhiping Zeng

“…The aim of the research is the design of prefabricated steel-spring floating-slab track to be applied in urban express rail transit systems. …”
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Thesis Overview: Oscillating wave surge converters – Large eddy simulation modelling of wave farms hydrodynamics and its related energy potential by Guilherme Fuhrmeister Vargas, Alexandre Beluco

“…This technology, which is on a pre-commercial development scale, presents one of the greatest potentials for electricity generation, due to its operating principle and the great improvement in design experienced over the last few years. Today, Computational numerical modelling is one of the main tools for the study and design of this and several other power generation systems from sea waves. …”
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Community Participation and the sustainability of Development projects: A case Study of Essential Nutrition and Health package Project in Kabuga, Gasabo District, Rwanda. by Bernard, Bayasese

“…The study sought to examine the extent to which community participation contributed to the improvement of design and implementation of development projects and their sustainability. …”
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The Influence of English Language Developmental Trends on Teaching Morphology in Selected Secondary Schools in Kabale Municipality Kabale District . by Kenyangi, Justine

“…The study found out that change in teaching content and test design, respondents stated that there is change in teaching content and test design, changing the view of an English teacher, and English teaching and the ICT has also influence in teaching English language in schools. …”
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Editors’ Introduction by Olaf Kuhlke, Andrew Taylor

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Experience Mode of Digital Media Art under Virtual Reality Technology by Xingming Wu, Yehan Li

“…With a full score of 5, the scores in the three dimensions are very high, indicating that this digital media art interactive experience design has brought students a good sensory experience, interactive experience, and cognitive experience.…”
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Faith’s Frontiers: An Exploration of Religious Syncretism and Cultural Adaptation in the “Guanyin/Madonna and Child” Painting by Zetong Liu, Hui Zeng, Junming Chen

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Multiscale regional calibration network for crowd counting by Jiamao Yu, Hexuan Hu

“…To address the former challenge, we design a multiscale aware module that utilizes multi-branch dilated convolutional parallelism to obtain multiscale receptive fields and cope with drastic changes in head size. …”
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The Effect of Problem-based Learning on 7th-grade Students’ Environmental Knowledge, Attitudes, and Reflective Thinking Skills in Environmental Education by Evrim Ural, Guzide Dadli

“…Reflective Thinking Skills Scale, Environmental Knowledge Test, and Environmental Attitude Scale were used as data collection tools. The research design of the study was quasi experimental pre-test post-test control group design. …”
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Analysis of Strengthening Mechanism of the Steep Slope Embankment through Centrifugal Model Test by Jie Liu, Bin Wang, Yunlong Sun, Bin Wang

“…Thus, the stability of the slope was improved, and the horizontal lateral displacement of the slope and the settlement at the slope crest were reduced. In the design of a geogrid, reinforcements should be sparsely arranged in the upper section of the embankment and densely arranged in the lower section. …”
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Energy Potential of the Bratislava Neogene by Slavkov Juraj, Tomajková Dana, Brček Martin, Miča Lumír

“…The capacity of a material to conduct heat underscores its significance primarily within civil engineering, particularly in energy-related applications. Notably, in the design of energy geostructures, the thermal conductivity of the soil assumes paramount importance. …”
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Usages et effets de la microsimulation dans l’élaboration d’une réforme. Un nouvel éclairage sur la création du RSA by Franck Bessis, Paul Cotton

“…An exploratory use produces knowledge effects: simulating leads to the formulation of new questions and the design of innovative answers responses to the initial project. …”
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La langue, matière à machines by Pierre Thévenin, Emmanuel Ducourneau, Anthony Stavrianakis

“…A figure in the domain of art brut invents alphabets to grasp the being of words. A designer seeks to apply his “onto-cartographic” method beyond an original application to industrial design objects. …”
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Adaptive Asymptotic Tracking Control for a Class of Uncertain Switched Systems via Dynamic Surface Technique by Xuemiao Chen, Qianjin Zhao, Chunsheng Zhang, Jian Wu

“…The common Lyapunov function method is introduced to handle the switched system in the design process of the desired adaptive controller. …”
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