space by Елена Григорьева

“…Dedication to a chair ‘Space’ is one of the most popular and, at the same time, the most ambiguous words in the theory and practice of architecture. …”
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Guide to Fertilization for Pine Straw Production on Coastal Plain Sites by Anna Osiecka, Patrick J. Minogue, E. David Dickens

“… Pine straw has gained popularity as a mulch for residential and commercial landscaping in urban and suburban areas. …”
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VI NHÂN GIỐNG CÂY ĐẲNG SÂM (CODONOPSIS JAVANICA) by Nguyễn Văn Kết

“…Root of Codonopsis javanica Blume is one of the most popular herbal medicines which support immunity and stress resistant. …”
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Informe sobre la democracia en México, 2009 by Gustavo Ernesto Emmerich

“…La metodología comprende cuatro amplias dimensiones: a) ciudadanía, leyes y derechos, b) representación y responsabilidad gubernamental, c) sociedad civil y participación popular, y d) la democracia más allá de las fronteras del Estado; de estas dimensiones derivan catorce áreas temáticas a ser evaluadas. …”
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A novel group-based framework for nature-inspired optimization algorithms with adaptive movement behavior by Adam Robson, Kamlesh Mistry, Wai-Lok Woo

“…The proposed frameworks have shown promising results when implemented into the Bat algorithm (BA), Firefly algorithm (FA), and Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (PSO), all of which are popular when applied to the field of feature selection, and have been shown to perform well in a variety of domains, gaining notoriety due to their powerful search capabilities.…”
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On the estimation of inverse-probability-of-censoring weights for the evaluation of survival prediction error. by Thomas Prince, Andrea Bommert, Jörg Rahnenführer, Matthias Schmid

“…Inverse probability weighting (IPW) is a popular method for making inferences regarding unobserved or unobservable data of a target population based on observed data. …”
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‘Laugh a defiance, Laugh in hope’: Suffrage Comedy and Humour as Political Protest by Eleanor Stewart

“…It sets out to show how, having been a target for ridicule in the popular press, suffrage dramatists turn the tables on their opponents. …”
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Nonlinear Matrix Ferroelectric Composites on Construction Quality and Safety Measures by Danping Hu, Gongxing Yan, Hongquan Sun

“…These materials are indeed popular in building construction, various materials complement each other in performance and produce a synergistic effect so that the comprehensive performance of composite materials is better than the original composition materials and meets various high-quality requirements. …”
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Development and validation of an automated machine for self-injury assessment via young Koreans' natural writings. by Seoyoung Kim, Dong-Gwi Lee

“…The K-SITR also had incremental validity over two popular self-injury questionnaires. This study provides a new measure that may reduce the tendency of young self-injurers to self-conceal compared to traditional direct-item questionnaires.…”
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Two-Step Root-MUSIC for Direction of Arrival Estimation without EVD/SVD Computation by Feng-Gang Yan, Shuai Liu, Jun Wang, Ming Jin

“…Most popular techniques for super-resolution direction of arrival (DOA) estimation rely on an eigen-decomposition (EVD) or a singular value decomposition (SVD) computation to determine the signal/noise subspace, which is computationally expensive for real-time applications. …”
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Apuntes en torno a la cultura constitucional en Bolivia by H. C. F. Mansilla

“…La validez prerracional y obvia de los códigos informales otorga a éstos su fuerza normativa y su aceptación popular en dilatados sectores bolivianos. En este país, los códigos escritos poseen sólo una función programática, dirigida a un futuro incierto. …”
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The Situation of Social Cooperatives in Small Villages in Hungary by Katalin Lipták

“…Social cooperatives, which are an important pillar of the solidarity economy, have become increasingly popular and common in Hungary over the past 10 years, especially in disadvantaged settlements, where the administrative burden of public employment is outsourced to social cooperatives. …”
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Fossils and Theories of Evolution in Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet by Anthony Zielonka

“…They draw their information from published scientific reports, books, and articles, but also from popular accounts published in magazines and newspapers. …”
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Date Attachable Offline Electronic Cash Scheme by Chun-I Fan, Wei-Zhe Sun, Hoi-Tung Hau

“…Electronic cash (e-cash) is definitely one of the most popular research topics in the e-commerce field. It is very important that e-cash be able to hold the anonymity and accuracy in order to preserve the privacy and rights of customers. …”
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Facial Expression Recognition Using a Novel Modeling of Combined Gray Local Binary Pattern by An H. Ton-That, Nhan T. Cao

“…The work included the main steps such as the technique of cropping an input face image from a camera or dataset, the approach of dividing face images into nonoverlap regions for extracting LBP features, applying the fresh modeling of Combined Gray Local Binary Pattern (CGLBP) for extracting features, using uniform feature to reduce the lengths of descriptors, and finally using Support Vector Machine (SVM) for emotion classification. Four popular facial emotion datasets are used in experiments and their results demonstrate that the recognition rate of the proposed method is better in comparison with two types of existent features: Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and Combined Local Binary Pattern (CLBP). …”
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School of Political Science by A. D. Voskresensky

“…The uniqueness of the school of political science at MGIMO-University allows its institutional incarnation -the Department of Political Science - to offer prospective studentsa training in a wide range of popular specialties and specializations, while ensuring a deep theoretical and practical basis of the training. …”
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Design of PV, Battery, and Supercapacitor-Based Bidirectional DC-DC Converter Using Fuzzy Logic Controller for HESS in DC Microgrid by Senthil Kumar Ramu, Indragandhi Vairavasundaram, Belqasem Aljafari, Tareq Kareri

“…Renewable energy sources (RES) are becoming more popular globally as a reaction to critical energy concerns. …”
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Problems in publication of results of scientific research, their visibility and possible frauds by Živković Živan

“…In this paper a comparative analysis of the most famous citation databases is presented which include Google Scholar Metrics (GSM), Clarivate Journal Citation Reports (JCR), SCimago Journal Ranking (SJR), Web of Science and Elsevier's SCOPUS database, in which the ranking of the quality of scientific publications is based on the so-called impact factor (IF). Furthermore, a very popular h-index is also described as an indicator of the results achieved by a particular researcher.…”
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The Role of Corporate Governance in Sustainability of Malaysian NGOs Operated Elderly Care Centres by Shafi Mohamad, N. Fadzlyn, Abdullah Abdulaziz Bawazir, Nik Hasfizul Hassan

“… Over recent years, the issue of sustainability has become a popular term in the research arena and policies. It appears that one of the best strategies to ensure sustainability of NGOs is through effective corporate governance. …”
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Cadmium, Chromium, and Lead Uptake Associated Health Risk Assessment of Alternanthera sessilis: A Commonly Consumed Green Leafy Vegetable by W. M. Dimuthu Nilmini Wijeyaratne, E. A. Charuni Sewwandi Kumari

“…Green leafy vegetables are becoming increasingly popular in the developing countries due to their high nutritious value, common availability, and low cost. …”
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