On Modelling and Investigating User Acceptance of Highly Automated Passenger Vehicles by Ilias E. Panagiotopoulos, George J. Dimitrakopoulos, Gabriele Keraite

“…Highly automated passenger vehicles hold great potential to alleviate traffic congestion, enhance road safety, and revolutionize the travel journey. …”
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Estimation of Aperture and Stiffness of Fractures under High Water Pressure Using Hydrological Data and Slurry Consolidating Body by Jianbo Li, Yanchun Xu

“…The fractured limestone aquifers under coal seams bring great threat to coal production, and grouting engineering before mining is usually used to seal the fractures and prevent water inrushes. …”
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Growth factors and the importance of the shadow economy in African countries by T. F. Alhassan, T. K. Blokhina

“…Thus, there is need of great attention of policy makers and the business community in tackling the problems, designated in this article, because it contributes to the economic and innovative development of the region.…”
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QoS Strategies for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks in the Context of IoT at the MAC Layer, Application Layer, and Cross-Layer Algorithms by Muwonge Ssajjabbi Bernard, Tingrui Pei, Kimbugwe Nasser

“…Considering the MAC layer, since it is responsible for regulating the admittance to the shared medium and transmission reliability and efficiency through error correction in wireless transmissions, and for performance of framing, addressing, and flow control, the MAC protocol design greatly affects energy efficiency. We thus review a number of protocols here including contention-free and contention-based protocols as well as the hybrid of these. …”
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The Liver X Receptor Promotes Immune Homeostasis via Controlled Activation of the Innate Immune System in the Liver by Hiroyuki Nakashima, Bradley M. Kearney, Manabu Kinoshita

“…LXR activation, therefore, has great potential for clinical applications in the treatment of metabolic, infectious, and autoimmune diseases. …”
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The Impact of Parasitic Infestation on Nutritional Status and Micronutrients among Children by Usama M. Alkholy, Sherief M. El Gebaly, Walaa E. M. A. Morsi, Waleed E. Elawamy, Samia E. Etewa, Asmaa M. Yousef

“…Micronutrient deficiency is a great problem that is augmented by infection and poor nutrition. …”
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The Shear Damage Model of the Two-Component Forming Polymer Grouting Material-Bentonite Contact Surface by Hao Zhang, Mingrui Du, Yan Zhao, Liangqiong Chen

“…The newly developed two-component polymer (TFPU) cut-off walls have great application potential in civil engineering for water-seepage prevention. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE LEVEL INDICES SYSTEM OF UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONALIZATION by Artem R. Denisov, Maria M. Stepanova

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Preparation of alkali-activated oil shale residue-slag geopolymer-based binder using calcium carbide slag and sodium carbonate as alkali activator. by Chenchen Luo, Bo Zheng, Yi Li, Qiao Yang

“…The geopolymer-based binder system prepared in this paper is a low-carbon, environmentally friendly, and high-performance material system, its research and development are of great significance to the human society.…”
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Study on Health Care Service Standard of Chronic Disease Management Based on Process Reengineering and the Delphi Method by Jing Zhao

“…Finally, after discussion by all parties, more than 40 specific indicators including the size of the new standard have been determined, which provides a great theoretical basis for the establishment of a new type of hospital chronic disease management and nursing service standard in my country. …”
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Relative Efficacy of Liquid Nitrogen Fertilizers in Dryland Spring Wheat by Olga S. Walsh, Robin J. Christiaens

“…Taking into account agronomic and economic factors, LU can be recommended as the most suitable liquid N fertilizer source for spring wheat cropping systems of the Northern Great Plains.…”
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Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection Based on Intrinsic Image Decomposition and Background Subtraction by Jiao Jiao, Longlong Xiao, Chonglei Wang

“…In the anomaly detection of hyperspectral images, the salient feature map and spatial-spectral features are not effectively used, which greatly limits the detection performance. To solve the above problems, this paper proposes a hyperspectral anomaly detection method based on intrinsic image decomposition and background subtraction. …”
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Reflections on Korea in 2010: Trials and prospects for recovery of common sense in 2011 by Paik Nak-chung

“…The main reason behind this 'snatching' action apparently was to push on with the Four Great Rivers Project and to pass the related pernicious legislation known as the "Water-Friendly Region Law." …”
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Relating Corroded Seven-Strand, Posttensioned Cable Cross-Sectional Properties to Load Capacity by Richard Haskins, Barry White, Robert Ebeling, James Evans

“…Methods for evaluating the corroded cable strength do not exist to accurately estimate the time until tendon cables would have to be replaced (at great expense). The following five research tasks are used to address this deficiency: laboratory accelerated corrosion; pull-tests on pristine and laboratory corroded cables; optical scanning; data collection correlated with cross-sectional properties of cables; and development of a method to relate this data to the field. …”
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Multigenerational workforce and organizational performance: A convergent analysis by Chilufya C. Chiwisa, Mubanga Mpundu

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Inhibitory Effect of L-Methionine-Modified Microcrystalline Cellulose on Gram-Positive Bacteria by WU Simiao, YANG Haifan, LIANG Guannan, SUN Xinyang

“…This study shows that M-MCC has great application potential as an antibacterial agent.…”
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Copyright Norms, Copyright Infringements and Remedies in Ukraine and Jordan: What Interesting Complexities Tell of Two Jurisdictions? by B. Malkawi, S. Y. Ablamskyi

“…Issue of copyright protection has been a great initiative gaining laudable ground in the world of intellectual property law, as it seeks to protect and safeguard the ideas of the author for it not to be violated and infringed upon by another without the author's consent or authorization. …”
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Le conflit renaissant de la figure et de l’abstraction dans Labyrinthe, journal mensuel des Lettres et des Arts (octobre 1944-décembre 1946) by Blandine Delhaye

“…Literature and the fine arts were the subjects of the great majority of the articles published in the review. …”
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An Unusual Presentation of a Myocardial Crypt in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy by Danny A. J. P. van de Sande, Jan Hoogsteen, Luc J. H. J. Theunissen

“…Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) is used to characterize left ventricular morphology with great precision in patients with HCM and it identifies unique structural abnormalities in patients with HCM. …”
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The impact of the reform of rural collective property rights system on villagers' public participation: An empirical study based on CRRS 2020 data. by Rui Li, Duanyang Gao

“…The reform of rural collective property rights system is of great significance for protecting the collective asset rights and interests of villagers, activating rural resource elements, and achieving rural revitalization. …”
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