An Experimental Study of Fracture Parameters of Concrete Produced With Basalt Aggregate by Peak-Load Method by Senem Yilmaz Cetin, Tahir Azad Celik

“…The depletion of these natural aggregates used in ready-mixed concrete has led the concrete industry to investigate aggregate resources and search for alternative aggregates. …”
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Public Perception and Adaptation to Climate Change in Moro Local Government, Kwara State, Nigeria by O. O. Salami, F. O. Rafiu, M. A. Akanbi-Gada, S. Walliyyulahi

“…Recommendations include increasing public awareness through local government-led education programs, promoting sustainable practices, and enhancing collaboration between local authorities, NGOs and communities. …”
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Place-based Guaranteed Minimum Income in Barcelona: (un)intended inclusionary policy for migrants by Laura Colini

“…At the peak of the migration wave in Europe between 2015 and 2016, the European programme Urban Initiative Actions funded a pilot project on Basic Income led by the city of Barcelona. The scheme, called B-MINCOME, is meant to test the efficacy and effectiveness of combining a passive economic support of cash-transfer and active labour market policies geared toward their inclusion and re-insertion in the labour market. …”
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A CENTURY OF CONSTITUTIONALISM by Cornelia Beatrice Gabriela ENE-DINU

“…After the war, until January 1922, there were no less than six governments, three of which were led by generals (Arthur Văitoianu, Alexandru Averescu, Constatin Coandă), who did not elaborate such a vast and complicated work. …”
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State of competition: conceptual shoehorning behind priority on calcitonin precursor biosynthesis by Enrique Wulff

“…However, it was José Fernández Nonídez from the Spanish School of Histology, died in Augusta (Georgia, USA) in 1947, whose expertise in the parafollicular cells of the mammalian thyroid had led him to an advanced understanding of this separate endocrine organ, which secretes calcitonin. …”
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Tourism and Cultural Landscapes in Southern China’s Highlands by Zhe Wang, Nelson Graburn

“…Tourism may slow down the loss of terraced fields by providing alternative opportunities and attracting people to return from the cities, while the commodification in tourism businesses also led to dramatic changes to the village landscapes. …”
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Land Use Change Trend Assessment Using RS and Data GIS (Case Study: Urban Area of Ardabil) by Morteza Akbaryan, Diana Dortaj, Laila Abedi Fard

“…In recent years, population growth has led to the development of residential areas. The development of residential areas also causes changes in the type of land and size of the views. …”
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Review of The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche by Maryam Arab

“…The plurality of the works and the differences in the representation of Nietzsche’s image has led to doubt and confusion in the determination of Nietzsche’s position and understanding of his thought. …”
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Effect of Aggregate Roughness on Strength and Permeation Characteristics of Lightweight Aggregate Concrete by Ameer A. Hilal

“…In addition, using rough lightweight aggregate led to reduce the water absorption and cumulative volume of water absorbed by about 9% and 12%, respectively, compared to values of mix with original (smooth) LWA.…”
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Decifrar os significados atribuídos à recuperação de alimentos. Um estudo de caso em Montpellier, França. by Andréia Tecchio, Geneviève Cortes, Elodie Valette

“…These policies to fight food insecurity and food waste have led to the emergence of new forms of solidarity, emphasising the notions of emancipation of those involved in the cause. …”
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SOST and DKK: Antagonists of LRP Family Signaling as Targets for Treating Bone Disease by James J. Mason, Bart O. Williams

“…The study of rare human genetic disorders has often led to some of the most significant advances in biomedical research. …”
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How Can Overlooking Social Interactions, Space Familiarity or Other “Invisible Landscapes” Shaping Animal Movement Bias Habitat Selection Estimations and Species Distribution Predi... by Romain Dejeante, Rémi Lemaire‐Patin, Simon Chamaillé‐Jammes

“…Overlooking the attraction towards some ‘invisible’ variable consistently led to overestimating the strength of habitat selection. …”
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Gaullism and Atlanticism are Main Foreign Policy Paradigms of the Fifth Republic by D. Y. Mikhailov

“…For this reason, Atlanticism does not recognize any other world powers within the Western universe but the United States.A retrospective view of the Gaullist and Atlanticist interaction reveals a steady trend towards a gradual shift of the Fifth Republic from Charles de Gaulle’s diplomacy principles. This trend led to the beginning in 2007 of a new era of the absolute dominance of Atlanticism in French foreign policy compared with the post-war period of the Fourth Republic.The advent of this era was marked by a significant improvement in France’s relations with the United States and NATO and increasing French activism on the track of Euro-federalist integra-tion, but, in general, by the perceptible banalization of France’s voice in international affairs.The results of this study help build future relations between Russia and France.…”
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Hypospadias by N. Djakovic, J. Nyarangi-Dix, A. Özturk, M. Hohenfellner

“…The great possibility of variations in the clinical presentation of hypospadia, makes its therapy challenging. This has led to the development of a number of techniques for hypospadia repair. …”
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Amplitude and phase errors calibration method in satellite-borne dynamic power allocation network by Qi TANG, Jun-min JIANG, Meng XIA

“…For the mobile communication satellite each beam communication traffic distribution was not balanced,leading to differences in transmission power of downlink beam.The implementation architectures of dynamic power allocation network was given,which could allocate the transmitting beam power automatically according to the traffic demand,at the same time ensured the high efficiency of power amplifier.Because the performance of dynamic power allocation network was severely impaired by the mutual coupling among signals when amplitude/phase mismatch was existed,which led to a sharp drop in beam performance.A calibration method for the amplitude and phase errors was proposed.The decoupling of calibration signal was realized by using the cross-correlation orthogonal characteristic of the orthogonal zero-correlation zone (ZCZ) sequences in the zero correlation interval,and communication was free from calibration by reducing the transmit power for the excellent self-correlation characteristic of the ZCZ sequences.Performance simulation and far field test show that under the condition that the calibration signal power is less than the normal signal 10 dB,the amplitude error is less than 0.1 dB,the phase error is less than 0.3°,and the gain loss within the main lobe is less than 0.2 dB after calibration.…”
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Les contestations sociales du développement touristique dans les Hautes-Pyrénées : le rendez-vous manqué de l’innovation territoriale ? by Sylvie Clarimont, Vincent Vlès

“…Unlike the protest movements of the 1970s, these citizens’ associations remain pragmatic, non-hierarchical and local, led by ‘mountain folk’. Some local campaigns are ambiguous in nature and bring together a highly diverse array of stakeholders with interests in the local economy. …”
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The role of the Internet in the modern life of children and teenagers: analysis of a sociological survey by S. E. Titor

“…Achievements in the field of technology, which serve as the foundation of the emerging modern information society, have led to the rapid development of the Internet – a global computer network. …”
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Hāloa: The long breath of Hawaiian sovereignty, water rights, and Indigenous law by Puanani Apoliona-Brown

“… This research explores how Native Hawaiian–led efforts to protect sacred lands and waters reveal forms of Indigenous survivance and resistance to the logics of settler colonialism. …”
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A Look at the Reproduction Strategies of Costa Rican Households, 1990 – 2015 by Natalia Carballo Murillo

“…The main findings reveal that reducing the number of children led to smaller household sizes and less strain on available resources. …”
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Are Alum-Based Drinking Water Treatment Residuals Safe for Land Application? by Jonathan D. Judy, Maria L. Silveira, Sampson Agyin-Birikorang, George A. O'Connor

“…However, environmental concerns that the aluminum and arsenic contents of Al-WTRs could negatively affect agricultural production and human health have led to the development of guidelines for land application of WTRs in Florida. …”
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