The Mechanism of Transpassive Dissolution of AISI 321 Stainless Steel in Sulphuric Acid Solution by A. Fattah-Alhosseini, N. Attarzadeh

“…The transpassive film is modeled as a highly doped n-type semiconductor—insulator-p-type semiconductor structure. Injection of negative defects at the transpassive film/solution interface results in their accumulation as a negative surface charge. …”
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Interpretations of the Tower of Babel narrative in the African context by M. Rathbone

“… Biblical scholarship from the African context provides possible new and creative perspectives for the interpretation of the Tower of Babel narrative because of uniquely African questions that structure the interpretative process. These unique questions relate to the cultures of African people, the injustice of colonialism, apartheid and so forth. …”
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Multistep Modelling and Monitoring of Bioprocesses by Velislava Lyubenova, Maya Ignatova, Denitsa Kristeva, Olympia Roeva

“…Each physiological state is described by a sub-model with a different structure and parameter values. The transition of the process from one physiological state to another is carried out by switching the sub-models based on a predefined key parameter. …”
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Knowing the Fans Behaviour in Relation To Love of Football Clubs Brands by Matheus Frohlich Marquetto, Nelson Guilherme Machado Pinto, Márcia Zampieri Grohmann, Luciana Flores Battistella

“…The results were analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling. It was identified that the soccer team is a moderating factor in the relations proposals. …”
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An insight into the stochastic solitonic features of the Maccari model using the solver technique. by Hesham G Abdelwahed, Reem Alotaibi, Emad K El-Shewy, Mahmoud A E Abdelrahman

“…We provide new results with complicated structures to this model, including hyperbolic, trigonometric and rational function solutions. …”
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Ici, c’est Noël tous les jours : nostalgie de l’âge d’or et recherche du travail vivant dans le pays de Bitche by Arnaud Kaba

“…The Centre International d'Arts Verriers (International Center for Glassmaking Arts), a public structure for the preservation of glassmaking know-how and experimentation, has achieved success beyond its means by marketing Christmas baubles presented as metonyms of the vanished working-class culture. …”
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Musawah Movement’s Activism for Women’s Rights as Strengthening the Trend of Islamic Feminism by Żaklina Dworska

“…The critical approach of Islamic feminism is to resist the abuse of religious interpretation to maintain patriarchal structures while rejecting Western and secularized understandings of human rights. …”
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A Comparative Study of Marketing Channel Multiagent Stackelberg Model Based on Perfect Rationality and Fairness Preference by Kaihong Wang, Xu Yang, Yiwan Sun, Chuan Ding

“…As a basis for comparison, the first, multiagent Stackelberg model has been structured based on perfect rationality. Further, fairness preference theory will be embedded in marketing channel multiagent Stackelberg model, and the results show that if the retailers have a jealous fairness preference, the manufacturer will reduce the wholesale price, retailers will increase the effort level, product sales will be increased, and the total channel utility and manufacturers’ utility will be pareto improvement, but the pareto improvement of retailers’ utility is associated with the interval of jealousy fairness preference coefficient. …”
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How can Customer Analytics Capabilities Influence Organizational Performance? A moderated mediation analysis by Alamir Costa Louro, Marcelo Moll Brandão, Jurij Jakli\u010D, Arthur Sarcinelli

“…Its contribution lies in the test of this mediation in different types of industries in Brazil, by using SmartPLS software for structural equation modeling (SEM) and IBM SPSS with PROCESS macro for more in-depth insights. …”
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Environmental Management of Larg Supply Chain: A Diagnostic Instrument Proposed for Assessing Suppliers by Josiano Cesar de Sousa, Murilo Barros Barros Alves, Leonardo Leocádio, Jaqueline Rossato

“…The proposed model was structured to measure, through a graph, the level of involvement of the suppliers of an SC with the environmental management requirements based on ISO 14001: 2015. …”
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Miniaturized Bandpass Filter Using a Meandered Stepped-Impedance Resonator with a Meandered-Line Stub-Load on a GaAs Substrate by Z. Chuluunbaatar, C. Wang, N. Y. Kim

“…This paper reports a compact bandpass filter with improved skirt selectivity using integrated passive device fabrication technology on a GaAs substrate. The structure of the filter consists of electromagnetically coupled meandered-line symmetric stepped-impedance resonators. …”
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Retour de l’absent by Claire Demesmay, Sabine Russ-Sattar, Katrin Sold

“…Its empirical core however, is comprised of semi-structured interviews and background talks with members of the Tunisian expatriate communities in France, Italy and Germany in spring and summer 2014, i.e. in the key period between the adoption of the new Constitution and the Tunisian parliamentary elections of October.…”
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3D Instantaneous Reconstruction of Turbulent Industrial Flames Using Computed Tomography of Chemiluminescence (CTC) by A. Unterberger, M. Röder, A. Giese, A. Al-Halbouni, A. Kempf, K. Mohri

“…The 3D results were examined by plotting both vertical and horizontal slices, revealing highly wrinkled structures with good clarity. The results presented are one of a series of experimental demonstrations of CTC applications to turbulent gaseous flames. …”
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Measuring Antioxidant Activity in Bioorganic Samples by the Differential Oxygen Uptake Apparatus: Recent Advances by Riccardo Amorati, Andrea Baschieri, Luca Valgimigli

“…The measure of O2 consumption during the inhibited autoxidation of an easily oxidizable substrate is one of the most reliable and predictive methods to assess antioxidant activity, especially for structure-activity relationship studies, for food and industrial applications. …”
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All-Optical 1-to-8 Wavelength Multicasting at 20 Gbit/s Exploiting Self-Phase Modulation in Dispersion Flattened Highly Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Fiber by Zhan-Qiang Hui

“…Moreover, the scheme has simple structure as well as high tolerance to signal power fluctuation.…”
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Nonlinear Dynamics Analysis and Global Stabilization of Underactuated Horizontal Spring-Coupled Two-Link Manipulator by Ancai Zhang, Jinhua She, Zhenxing Li, Guochen Pang, Zhi Liu, Jianlong Qiu

“…Second, a Lyapunov function is constructed based on the structural characteristics of the cascade system. A control law is designed to ensure the closed-loop control system to be Lyapunov stable. …”
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Locally advanced nasopharyngeal follicular dendritic cell sarcoma misdiagnosed as meningioma by Yoldez Houcine, Abir Rais, Salma Kamoun, Sawssen Dhambri, Souhaeil Jebali, Maha Driss

“…The tumor was locally advanced, involving surrounding structures, which complicated the initial clinical and radiologic assessment.…”
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Towards an agency-oriented model of congregational vitality: by C.A.M. Hermans

“…He connects this agency-related perspective with a structural-functionalist perspective on local churches after the agentic turn. …”
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Bilateral Renal Hilar Nutcracker Phenomenon in a Male Cadaver by Dibakar Borthakur, Rajesh Kumar, Vidhu Dhawan, Rima Dada

“…The disposition of the rest of the perihilar structures was normal. ‘Renal hilar nutcracker phenomenon’ can have similar clinical presentation like that of the nutcracker phenomenon. …”
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A Foreign Body Granuloma of the Buccal Mucosa Induced by Honeybee Sting by Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Yohei Nakayama, Yumiko Matsusue, Miyako Kurihara, Takahiro Yagyuu, Tadaaki Kirita

“…Histologically, the lesion consisted of granulomatous tissue with a few narrow, curved, eosinophilic structures compatible with decomposed fragments of a honeybee sting and was diagnosed as a foreign body granuloma, although the patient did not recall being stung.…”
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