An Initial Investigation of the Effects of a Fully Automated Vehicle Fleet on Geometric Design by John Khoury, Kamar Amine, Rima Abi Saad

“…Currently, and for safety reasons, the human driver plays an inherent role in designing highway elements, which depend on the driver’s perception-reaction time, driver’s eye height, and other driver related parameters. …”
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Flexural Behavior of Fiber-Reinforced Self-Stressing Concrete T-Shaped Composite Beams by Boxin Wang, Ruichang Fang, Qing Wang

“…Through the simulation, reasonable ranges of precompressive stress and length of the SFRSSC laminated layer at intermediate support of continuous composite beam were obtained.…”
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FORMS OF WORK OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS ON INVOLVEMENT IN NATIONAL SCIENCE HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL by V. A. Tsibikov

“…The need for a point analysis of the reasons and conditions that contribute to the decision of a representative of the scientific and pedagogical community to move to another country has been substantiated.…”
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ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION DIVERSITY PRODUCED BY INDONESIAN COVER-SINGERS: A CASE STUDY ON THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL by Ismi Maulina Utami

“…Regardless of these two reasons, there are also several similarities in the phonological system between English and Bahasa Indonesia, but the Indonesian cover-singers still perform the pronunciation changes.…”
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Cooperation and subcontracting enterprises as a form of deepening the process of integration within the Eurasian Economic Union by A. A. Urunov, I. M. Morozova

“…The paper determines the reasons that hinder the integration processes in the EAEU. …”
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Research of the Variation of Meshing Force of the Plastic Helical Gear and Steel Worm by Yun Yonghu, Hu Hong, Ta Jingning

“…The calculation examples show that the results obtained by the method are in good agreement with the simulation results of the finite element method,which proves that the proposed method is reasonable and effective. The research shows that the maximum meshing force of plastic helical gears in the normal meshing process appears in the small tooth meshing area near the tooth root,so the plastic helical gears are prone to wear and fatigue damage.The fast calculation of meshing force between plastic helical gear and steel worm is realized by the proposed method,some references for gear design and gear loading capacity improved in engineering can be provided.…”
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Improved Genetic Algorithm for Distribution System Performance Analysis by Taking Advantage of Essential Spanning Trees by Yanzhu Ji, Zhuoqun Shi, Robert M. O’Connell

“…In larger systems, optimum values of N and Gen requiring reasonable CPU times can also be found, provided that certain carefully chosen branches are removed from the pool of possibilities when producing the initial population in the algorithm. …”
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Heterogeneous wireless sensor network routing protocol based on simulated annealing algorithm and modified grey wolf optimizer by Xiaoqiang ZHAO, Shaoya REN, Yongzhi ZHAI, Heng QUAN, Ting YANG

“…It’s one of the main goals of the heterogeneous wireless sensor network (HWSN) to extend the network lifecycle by reasonably utilizing the heterogeneity of node energy.Therefore, according to the heterogeneity of node energy, a routing protocol (SA-MGWO) for HWSN based on simulated annealing (SA) algorithm and modified grey wolf optimizer (GWO) was proposed.Firstly, the appropriate initial clusters were selected by dening different tness functions for heterogeneous energy nodes.Secondly, The tness values of nodes were calculated and treated as initial weights in the GWO.At the same time, the weights were updated dynamically according to the distance between the wolves and their prey and coefficient vectors to improve the GWO’s optimization ability.Finally, simulated annealing algorithm was used to ensure the selection of optimal cluster set in heterogeneous networks.Compared with stable election protocol (SEP), distribute energy efficient clustering (DEEC), modified stable election protocol (M-SEP), and fitness value based improved grey wolf optimizer (FIGWO) protocols, the experimental results indicate that the network lifecycle of the SA-MGWO protocol improves by 53.1%, 31.9%, 46.5% and 27.0% respectively.…”
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ON THE ISSUE OF THE OFFSHORE AREAS by E. B. Aliyev

“…Moreover, the author will carefully analyze what reasons push many companies and individuals to use this financial mechanism. …”
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A Review on the Application of PD-1 Blockade in EBV-Associated Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Immunotherapy by Jin Bian, Yan Niu, Yanli Ma, Fuhua Chen, Ning Ma

“…The distinct immunological environment of EBV-associated NPC presents a reasonable therapeutic target for PD-1/PD-L 1 inhibition. …”
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Occurrence of common mental disorders among former elite athletes by Marija Ivanović, Draženka Mačak

“…Participating in elite sports can be beneficial for many reasons – but the question arises: what is the payoff to be an elite athlete or what are the consequences of being an elite athlete in sports? …”
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Land Price Distortion, Financial Development, and Regional Innovation by Pengcheng Zhou, Ruiqi Qin, Baitang Luo, Hao Wen

“…This study provides empirical evidence for promoting regional innovation ability by land price distortion, which is conducive to a better understanding of the importance of reasonable land resource allocation and financial market development in the process of high-quality economic development, providing a useful insight into China’s future reform of land market and financial market.…”
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An Efficient Blind Image Deblurring Using a Smoothing Function by Kittiya Khongkraphan, Aniruth Phonon, Sainuddeen Nuiphom

“…Moreover, our method gives more reasonable and more natural deblurred images than those of other methods.…”
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Impact of Rapid Urbanization on Shenzhen Water Environment by JIANG Yu, ZHANG Qiuying, LI Fadong, HU Jiangling, LI Caole, WANG Fan

“…The water environment of Shenzhen Bay,one of the key waters in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area,is mainly influenced by the urbanization of the surrounding areas.Water resource protection and water environment governance are particularly important for Shenzhen,a water-deficient city.This paper explores the specific influence relationship between each factor and the water environment in the process of urbanization.The comprehensive water pollution index and Pearson correlation analysis are utilized to analyze the relationship of the changes in population size and industrial structure with the water environment of Shenzhen Bay in urbanization.The research shows that the main pollutants in the water environment of Shenzhen Bay are chemical oxygen demand (COD) and ammonia nitrogen (NH₃-N),and some pollutants come from urban non-point source pollution.The water quality in Nanshan District is good,while that in Futian District is poor,but the overall water quality shows a trend of improvement.The water environment is less affected by population change and more affected by industrial structure change.Therefore,formulating reasonable policies to guide the transformation of the industrial structure is an effective way to improve the water environment of Shenzhen Bay.…”
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Review of Negaresh and Virayesh by Yadollah Nasrollahi

“…Editing section errors (mentioning linguistic errors) include: not giving sufficient reasons for enumerating linguistic errors (editing language), insisting on the contradiction of word spellings, separation in spelling contradicting spelling words with the Farsi script. …”
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THE OPTIMIZATION OF GRINDING DOSAGE ON GRINDING HARDENING by ZHANG NingJu, ZHAO MeiLin

“…The results showed that the optimized data is relatively reasonable and grinding hardening experiment under its guidance can reduce blindness and improve the effect of reinforcement.…”
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Supporting Image Search with Tag Clouds: A Preliminary Approach by Francesco Guerra, Giovanni Simonini, Maurizio Vincini

“…When the collections of data include images, the task becomes harder, mainly for two reasons. From one side the user expresses his needs through one medium (text) and he will obtain results via another medium (some images). …”
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Pre-service EFL teachers’ competencies for teaching young learners by Hilal Alten, Müge Karakaş

“…The results at the end of this explanatory research pointed out that some pre-service teachers may get challenged more while teaching young learners for certain reasons.…”
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Experimental Study on the Influence of Type of Stirrup of Prestressed Concrete Beams with Corroded Rebars by Fang-Yuan Li, Liu-Yang Li, Wen-Hao Li, Peifeng Wu

“…Corrosion of longitudinal reinforcement and stirrup in reinforced and prestressed concrete beams is very common for structures and infrastructures, which is one of the main reasons for the decrease in stiffness and durability of structure. …”
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Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise in Iran by Reza Najafzadeh

“…The translation of TTP by Ali Ferdowsi in Iran is a good endeavor in itself, but there are also criticisms. For several reasons, Ferdowsi’s translation cannot be considered the end of the road: abstruse and unfamiliar language, unequal equivalents, misplacement of some sentences and words, and especially exclusive reliance on Silverthorne-Israel translation and lack of direct reference to Latin and other versions of this treatise can be enumerated as the pitfalls.…”
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