Kinetic Hydration Heat Modeling for High-Performance Concrete Containing Limestone Powder by Xiao-Yong Wang

“…The analysis results generally agree with experimental results of high-performance concrete with various mixing proportions.…”
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Flight Stability of Canard-Guided Dual-Spin Projectiles with Angular Rate Loops by Qiushi Zheng, Zhiming Zhou

“…Generally, as a precision-guided weapon, the missile has many disadvantage such as high price, difficult maintenance, and low yield. …”
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The role of memory in affirming-the-consequent fallacy by Yoko Higuchi, Ethan Oblak, Hiroko Nakamura, Makiko Yamada, Kazuhisa Shibata

“…This affirming-the-consequent fallacy is thought to be uniquely related to human intelligence. It is generally thought that this fallacy is a byproduct of explicit reasoning at the moment of recognition of the reversed order. …”
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Feeding Ensiled Citrus Pulp to Finishing Pigs by J. D. Crosswhite, N. B. Myers, Adegbola T. Adesogan, Joel H. Brendemuhl, Dwain D. Johnson, Chad C. Carr

“…But the Florida pork producers generally get prices above market value for their pigs because of strong demand for locally raised foods. …”
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E-LEARNING CHALLENGES IN POLAND DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC by Agieszka Parlińska

“…This new approach, and the purpose and added value of this study, is to enrich the knowledge of the use of new teaching and research methods gained during the Covid-19 pandemic and applicability to pandemics generally, as well as continued use of these methods afterwards.. …”
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Sizing a Hybrid Renewable Energy System by a Coevolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Algorithm by Wenhua Li, Guo Zhang, Xu Yang, Zhang Tao, Hu Xu

“…Such an optimization problem is generally a constrained mixed-integer programming problem, which is usually solved by linear programming method. …”
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R. Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen through the philosophical prism of Positive Psychotherapy by Maria Sergeeva

“…Due to the complexity of the work, the research focuses on two main leitmotivs of The Ring: cyclicity of life and love vs. power. Generally, the results indicate that the prism of positive psychotherapy allows one to find the deeper meaning hidden in work, revealing psychological motives of ‘why.’ …”
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Smoothing gradient descent algorithm for the composite sparse optimization by Wei Yang, Lili Pan, Jinhui Wan

“…Composite sparsity generalizes the standard sparsity that considers the sparsity on a linear transformation of the variables. …”
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Leveraging Advanced NLP Techniques and Data Augmentation to Enhance Online Misogyny Detection by Alaa Mohasseb, Eslam Amer, Fatima Chiroma, Alessia Tranchese

“…This augmentation significantly enhanced model robustness, improved generalization, and strengthened the detection of misogynistic content.…”
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Knowledge management: another management fad? by Leonard J. Ponzi, Michael Koenig

“…Based on annual counts of article retrieved from <i>Science Citation Index</i>, <i>Social Science Citation Index</i>, and <i>ABI Inform</i> referring to three previous recognized management fad, this paper introduces empirical evidence that proposes that a typical management movement generally reveals itself as a fad in approximately five years. …”
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A Privacy-Preserving Biometric Recognition System with Visual Cryptography by Lijing Ren, Denghui Zhang

“…To abate the influence of noise in visual cryptography, we leverage the generalization ability of transfer learning to train a visual cryptography-based recognition network. …”
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Implications des consultants qualité dans l’institutionnalisation du nouveau mode de pilotage du système éducatif chilien by Manuel González Carpanetti, Gilles Monceau

“…Chili, since 2003, was one of the first countries to generalize certification procedures for its schools and thus create a new area of professional activity, that of quality consultation. …”
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Implant Treatment with 12-Year Follow-Up in a Patient with Severe Chronic Periodontitis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Keisuke Seki, Yoshiyuki Hagiwara

“…Here, we report that implant treatment in a patient with generalized severe chronic periodontitis helped maintain the periodontal and peri-implant tissue for a long term. …”
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Complicated Community-Acquired Staphylococcus Endocarditis and Multiple Lung Abscesses: Case Report and Review of Literature by Musa A. Garbati, Imad M. Tleyjeh, Abdullah A. Abba

“…We present a case of a 49 year old gentleman who presented with generalized body aches, fever, and jaundice and was initial diagnosed as hepatitis. …”
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Bilateral Double Ureters with Bladder Neck Diverticulum in a Nigerian Woman Masquerading as an Obstetric Fistula by Imran O. Morhason-Bello, Sikiru A. Adebayo, Rukiyat A. Abdusalam, Oluwasomidoyin O. Bello, Kehinde H. Odubamowo, Olatunji O. Lawal, E. Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa, Oladosu A. Ojengbede

“…This is to showcase some diagnostic dilemma that could arise with obstetric fistula, which is generally diagnosed by clinical assessment.…”
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The influence of an accompanying substance on the adsorption of herbicides on activated carbon in a multi-component system by Magdalena Blachnio, Malgorzata Zienkiewicz-Strzalka, Anna Derylo-Marczewska

“…Adsorption processes from aqueous solutions were investigated using the static method. The Generalized Langmuir equation (GL) was applied to analyze the adsorption isotherms. …”
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On the Frequency Distribution of Neutral Particles from Low-Energy Strong Interactions by Federico Colecchia, Akram Khan

“…In fact, while the probability distribution can generally be estimated given a model of low-energy strong interactions, the corresponding frequency distribution inside a single event typically deviates from the average and cannot be predicted a priori. …”
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Fixed Point Results for α-ψ-Contractive Mappings Including Almost Contractions and Applications by Gonca Durmaz, Gülhan Mınak, Ishak Altun

“…In this paper, we not only extend some of the recent results about this direction but also generalize them. Then, we give some examples to show our results are proper extensions. …”
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MÜŞTERİ İLİŞKİLERİ YÖNETİMİ SÜRECİNDE SÖZSÜZ İLETİŞİMİN ROLÜ: TÜRKİYE'DEKİ 5 YILDIZLI OTELLER ÜZERİNE BİR ÇALIŞMA - THE ROLE OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MAN... by Bahar Urhan Torun, Abdullah Koçak

“…But the importance of face to face communication is generally underestimated or neglected. This study aims to get Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications to make a return from high-tech to interpersonal communication, which is a timeless sales technique.In order to present the role of nonverbal communication (NVC) in CRM process, 643 participants, who stayed in 5-star hotels in Turkey in the previous year were asked about their hotel choice, evaluations about hotel employees considering the last accommodation. …”
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Pencil-on-Paper Capacitors for Hand-Drawn RC Circuits and Capacitive Sensing by Jonathan E. Thompson

“…Capacitance of the devices was generally < 1000 pF and scaled with surface area of the plate electrodes. …”
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