Falling Back in Love with Trans-Inclusive Feminism: Canadian Creative Artists Re-Story Death and Choose Transformation by Devon Harvey

“…Prevailing political and popular narratives often treat the issue of trans death as an inevitability and reduce complex stories of trans life to their endings. …”
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Deciphering Melasti Beach’s Tourism Development: A Tourism Area Life Cycle Study by Ahmad Irfan Ardiansyah, Aulia Amatullah, Ika Laily Lailatun Munasifah, Fatiya Rosyida, Alfi Sahrina

“…Melasti Beach Ungasan has rapidly developed as a popular nature-based tourist destination in South Bali since its inception in 2018. …”
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Attractive lives on attractive pages. Polish illustrated biographical books for young readers by Anita Wincencjusz-Patyna

“…This paper focuses on an exceptionally interesting kind of books dedicated to young readers, quite popular recently in Poland, namely picture biography books for children and teenagers. …”
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Incremental Graph Regulated Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Face Recognition by Zhe-Zhou Yu, Yu-Hao Liu, Bin Li, Shu-Chao Pang, Cheng-Cheng Jia

“…Experiments show that (1) the recognition rate of our IGNMF and B-IGNMF algorithms is close to GNMF algorithm while it runs faster than GNMF. (2) The running times of our IGNMF and B-IGNMF algorithms are close to INMF while the recognition rate outperforms INMF. (3) Comparing with other popular NMF-based face recognition incremental algorithms, our IGNMF and B-IGNMF also outperform then both the recognition rate and the running time.…”
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Optimization of Carrier-Based Dry Powder Inhaler Performance: A Review by Tanu Mehta, Saeed Najafian, Komalkumar Patel, Justin Lacombe, Bodhisattwa Chaudhuri

“…Dry powder inhalers (DPI’s) are becoming increasingly popular due to growing interest in pulmonary drug delivery and their performance is the net result of a series of processes carried out during the formulation development and manufacturing process such as excipient selection, blending, milling, filling, and spray drying. …”
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Tribology of Coated 316L SS by Various Nanoparticles by Dhiaa J. Aldabagh, Thair L. Alzubadi, Akram F. Alhuwaizi

“…The objective of the current research was to explore the tribological behavior, namely, friction of nanocoated thin layer by tantalum (Ta), niobium (Nb), and vanadium (V) manufactured using plasma sputtering at 1, 2, and 3 hours on substrates made of 316L stainless steel (SS), which is thought to be one of the most popular alloys for stainless steel orthodontic archwires. …”
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Genetic Algorithms in Antennas and Smart Antennas Design Overview: Two Novel Antenna Systems for Triband GNSS Applications and a Circular Switched Parasitic Array for WiMax Applic... by Stylianos C. Panagiotou, Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos, Christos N. Capsalis

“…Genetic algorithms belong to a stochastic class of evolutionary techniques, whose robustness and global search of the solutions space have made them extremely popular among researchers. They have been successfully applied to electromagnetic optimization, including antenna design as well as smart antennas design. …”
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Assessment of competencies of public servants and analysis of the current practice of methods for assessing the consistency of competencies and labor functions of civil servants of... by M. V. Mirzoyan, E. V. Vasileva

“…While carrying out the scientific research, the tasks were set to study the best foreign practices in the management of public servants’ competencies, to conduct a survey among public servants to look at the issues from their perspective, and to determine the most popular competencies in the civil service. Within the scope of the research international practice of personnel management in the public service as well as some related legal acts have been studied, and an internal survey has been conducted among the civil servants of the Republic of Armenia (40 people), including the civil servants from the State Social Security Service and the Ministry of Territorial Administration of Kotayk region.The study has revealed, that in Armenia personnel potential management in the public service sector is carried out at a rather low level, which requires fundamental changes. …”
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Microbial profile of some ready-to-cook frozen food items sold in Dhaka city, Bangladesh by Md. Shamimuzzaman, Rajib Kanti Roy, Toma Rani Majumder, Nirmal Chandra Barman, Nazia Nawshad Lina, Md. Tarek Hasan, Biplab Kumar Dash

“…This study aimed to assess the microbiological quality of 159 animal- and plant-based ready-to-cook (RTC) frozen food items currently popular in Dhaka. Microbiological analyses were carried out to enumerate total aerobic counts of mesophilic bacteria, yeast and mold and to detect some common foodborne pathogens according to standard microbiological criteria. …”
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Drug delivery strategies to improve the treatment of corneal disorders by Mahsa Fallah Tafti, Zeinab Fayyaz, Hossein Aghamollaei, Khosrow Jadidi, Shahab Faghihi

“…Classical dosage forms based-topical ophthalmic drugs are popular treatments for managing corneal diseases. …”
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Research in public communication of science and knowledge social appropriation: a decade-long bibliometric study by Marianela Dávila Lorenzo, Angélica Mendieta Ramírez, Josías Hernández Pérez

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Intelligent Psychology Teaching System Based on Adaptive Neural Network by Xiaojia Pang

“…The corresponding relationship between the four learning methods and the adaptive neural network is explained. The most popular and advanced adaptive neural network module usage statistics are made. …”
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Determination of the Phenolic Composition and Antioxidant Activity of Pear Extracts by Mindaugas Liaudanskas, Kristina Zymonė, Jonas Viškelis, Almantas Klevinskas, Valdimaras Janulis

“…The specific HPLC analytical procedure was developed and validated for the determination of phenolic compounds in pear samples of different popular cultivars “Conference,” “Concordia,” “Grabova,” and “Patten.” …”
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Regulation of histone H4 acetylation in the CNS and defensive behavior command neurons of the mollusk Helix mediated by serotonin and neuropeptide FMRFamide by L. N. Grinkevich, T. G. Zachepilo

“…Owing to their relatively simple CNSs, mollusks are among the most popular models. Our experiments were con-ducted with the mollusk Helix lucorum because its CNS had been investigated in detail and most of its neurons had been proven to participate in the formation of different behavior patterns, including the prolonged response to various stimuli. …”
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A qualitative study of motivations for non-suicidal self-injury in a sample of psychiatric outpatients in Singapore by Shazana Shahwan, Yunjue Zhang, Rajeswari Sambasivam, Say How Ong, Siow Ann Chong, Mythily Subramaniam

“…Introduction: The popular notion that the need for attention drives non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) serves to stigmatise rather than understand this warning sign of underlying psychological/psychiatric disorder. …”
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Effects of garlic and aspirin on some blood parameters of new zeland rabbits fed cholesterol rich ration by Zafer Durgun, Ercan Keskin, Nurcan Dönmez, Feyyaz Önder

“…But to support the prevalanl popular belief in the efficacy of garlic in the management of cardiovascular disease risks, further studies including the b,ood volume, body fluid and urine amount determinations are needed on this subject.…”
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The Effect of the Russian Subnational Debt on the Socio-economic Development of the Region by O. I. Larina, N. V. Moryzhenkova

“…It is concluded that a bank loan is the most popular form of market borrowing, as it has in relation to issuance of bonds less amount of disadvantages. …”
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Learning hijaiyah letters through sign language using marbel application for students with hearing impairment by Mega Iswari, Nurhastuti Nurhastuti, Retno Triswandari, Zulmiyetri Zulmiyetri, Johandri Taufan, Ringgi Rahmat Fitra, Gaby Arnez, Setia Budi

“…The technology that is becoming popular among students is Android-based media. Students at school are diverse and so are students at special education schools(SLB). …”
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Decentralized Asynchronous Formation Planning of Multirotor Aerial Vehicles in Dynamic Environments Using Flexible Formation Graphs and Tight Trajectory Hulls by Fahad Tanveer, Muhammad Bilal Kadri

“…The planner demonstrates goal/waypoints achievement and formation adherence capabilities that are assessed and compared using a popular quantifiable formation similarity metric. …”
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Perception des végétaux chez les Ribeirinhos d’Amazonie brésilienne by Claire Couly

“…The two taxonomies (scientific and popular) overlap partially: half of the morphotypes match the scientific taxonomy (with unique and exclusive correspondence) and the same morphotypes may refer to several species (sometimes different genera or families).…”
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