Negotiating Identity: A Pilot Study on Cultural Identity, Belonging, and College Student Retention by Terron Phillips

“…Using the CRI, the researcher explored relationships between students’ self-reported cultural identities, structurally/culturally inflexible collegiate environments, and belonging. …”
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Evaluating MapReduce for seismic data processing using a practical application by Chang-hai ZHAO, Hai-hua YAN, Xiao-peng LIU, Deng XIONG, Xiao-hua SHI

“…Huge amounts of seismic data undergo complex iterative processing in the oil industry to get knowledge of the earth’s subsurface structure to detect where oil can be found and recovered.To evaluate the suitability of MapReduce for seismic processing algorithms,the algorithm design and implementation of Fresnel tomography on Hadoop MapReduce was described.Experiments demonstrate that MapReduce is approximately 3 times slower than MPI,and tuning the performance of MapReduce is really hard.To expand its applicability to high performance computing for oil industry,MapReduce should be improved in the flexibility and provide the opportunity to exploit fine-grained thread-level parallelism.Finally,research ideas to achieve these objectives were presented.…”
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Use of Sawing Waste from Zeolitic Tuffs in the Manufacture of Ceramics by M. Pansini, R. de Gennaro, L. Parlato, M. de'Gennaro, A. Langella, A. Marocco, P. Cappelletti, M. Mercurio

“…The following positive indications concerning this thermal transformation were found: (1) the structural evolution which brings products similar to traditional ceramics, (2) the good ability to give rise to dense and compact final products, and (3) the good mechanical properties and the lovely appearance of the final products. …”
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S. Cowling. Kantian Humility and Ontological Categories / trans. from Engl. A. V. Nekhaev by A. V. Nekhaev

“…Ignorance of the categorical structure of the world creates two problems for defenders of Kantian Humility. …”
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MAGNETITE-ILMENITE-SPINEL INTERGROWTHS IN AMPHIBOLE GABBRO OF THE SEREBRYANSKY KAMEN INTRUSION, CENTRAL URALS by A.V. Kozlov, V.V. Mikhaylov, S.Yu. Stepanov, V.V. Shilovskikh, N.S. Vlasenko

“…It is found that regularly oriented ilmenite lamellas in magnetite, which are typically interpreted as exsolution structures, often intersect the boundaries of variously oriented magnetite grains, which is inconsistent with traditional interpretation of their origin. …”
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Pedagogical Experiment and Modeling of the Learning Process for Assessing Knowledge about the Criteria Assessment System by Sagyngali Kalkashev, Gaisin Ilgizar, Bakhadurkhan Abdimanapov, Nurbol Ussenov, Aliya Ayapbekova, Kuralai Khamitova

“…The methodology reveals the structure of formative and summative evaluations, offering practical examples and scientific evidence to guide the implementation of criterion-based assessments in schools. …”
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Topological Design and Kinematic Performance Analysis of a New Parallel Mechanism with Two Translations and Two Rotations by Ji Encheng, Shen Huiping, Li Ju

“…Firstly, based on the topological structure design method of the parallel mechanism, a two-translation and two-rotation (2T2R) parallel mechanism is designed. …”
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The "Fame Effect" or How the syntactic choices of writers can be explained by their assumptions about their addressees' state of knowledge: the case of relevance-oriented, non-rest... by Rudy Loock

“…In this paper we would like to explore, within Vallduví’s (1992, 1993) information packaging theory, how writers’ assumptions about their addressees’ state of knowledge can account for the choice writers make between competing syntactic structures, which we call “allostructures”, to convey the same informational content. …”
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Pathogenic role of intestinal microflora changes in patients with irritable bowel syndrome and treatment options by Ye. A. Poluektova, S. Yu. Kuchumova, O. S. Shifrin, A. A. Sheptulin, V. T. Ivashkin

“…The analysis of the information concerning disorder of qualitative and quantitative structure of intestinal microflora at IBS, mechanisms of action of pre-, pro- and synbiotics, allows to expand essentially treatment options of this disease.…”
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Accounting in conditions of COVID-19 by M. G. Kudinova, V. V. Kozlov, N. A. Shevchuk, E. V. Uvarova

“…The article presents an overview of legal changes in the field of accounting in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic; structural changes in accounting services in organizations in remote work conditions are considered.…”
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Un grand domaine aristocratique de la cité des Viromanduens : la villa de La Mare aux Canards (Noyon, Oise) by Marjolaine de Muylder, Guillaume Aubazac, Frédéric Broes, Stéphane Dubois, Bastien Dubuis, Caroline Font, Alexia Morel

“…The main question is about the status of this villa, which stands out by its size and its general structure. The pars rustica excavation yielded a very rich architecture and furniture that gives an aristocratic feature to the building. …”
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PERFECTION OF THE STATE POLICY IN THE SPHERE OF TOURISM IN THE REPUBLIC OF CRIMEA BY CREATING A SINGLE INFORMATION SPACE by I. Kokhanovskaya, N. Levitskaya

“…In conclusion of the published article it is noted that the modern model of information support of the state policy of tourism development should be developed on the basis of the integrated structure of the information management model, where information and public services are organized taking into account the interests of entrepreneurs in the tourism industry and consumer consumers.…”
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Synthesis of Metal/Silica/Titania Composites for the Photocatalytic Removal of Methylene Blue Dye by Sana Ahmad, Arfa Saeed

“…The present work deals with the synthesis of the metal-doped titanium dioxide/silica composite by using the sol-gel method. The structure, morphology, and composition of the prepared samples were characterized by using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). …”
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Method for quality assessment of image mosaic by Guo-ting WAN, Jun-ping WANG, Jin LI, Hong-hua CAO, Song WANG, Le WANG, IYA-ning L, Rong WEI

“…On the basis of the theory of existing methods for image quality assessment,a novel method for quality assessment of mosaicked image based on the information of image edge was presented.The method was in accordance with the features of mosaicked image.Firstly,the edges of image were detected.Then according to the information of image edges,the information of pixel error and structure was considered.The mean value and variance of the difference of edge map were related with the misplacement and the brightness mutation,which influenced the quality of mosaicked image.Lastly,the evaluate procedure was done based on the relationship.The new method was more consistent with the subjective feeling to the mosaicked image quality.This method accurately reflects the real quality of mosaicked image and the performance of the algorithm of image mosaic.…”
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Gamma Splines and Wavelets by Hannu Olkkonen, Juuso T. Olkkonen

“…We prove that the gamma splines obey the two-scale equation based on the polyphase decomposition. to introduce the shift invariant gamma spline wavelet transform for tree structured subscale analysis of asymmetric signal waveforms and for systems with asymmetric impulse response. …”
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Syntheses of Marine Natural Products via Matteson Homologations and Related Processes by Uli Kazmaier

“…Matteson homologation, a successive extension of chiral boronic esters, is perfectly suited for the synthesis of complex molecular structures containing several stereogenic centers. The “classical version” allows the introduction of various functional groups in a 1,2-<i>anti</i>-configuration. …”
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Protected Culture for Vegetable and Small Fruit Crops: Southern Highbush Blueberry Cultivars under High Tunnels by Bielinski M. Santos, Teresa P. Salame-Donoso

“…But there is no information about the effect of this type of structure on southern highbush blueberry fruit earliness under subtropical Florida conditions. …”
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On the Electronic Effect of V, Fe, and Ni on MgO(100) and BaO(100) Surface: An Explanation from a Periodic Density Functional by Rafael Añez, Aníbal Sierraalta

“…Sizes of the doping atom, bulk forces, and electronic effects play an important role in the structural changes observed in doped surfaces studied herein. …”
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Decolonising biblical hermeneutics in the (South) African context by H. Ramantswana

“…It also has to unmask the structures of coloniality that continue to destabilise the African imagination. …”
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Placental Implications of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors in Gestation and Parturition by Valerie Borel, Denis Gallot, Geoffroy Marceau, Vincent Sapin, Loïc Blanchon

“…The placenta is a transitory structure indispensable for the proper development of the embryo and fetus during mammalian gestation. …”
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