New Challenges Require New Solutions. Book review of ‘The Soft Power of the United Kingdom’ by E.M. Kharitonova by N. V. Yudin

“…The book examines, summarizes and structures a significant amount of data from various sources (the Parliament documentation, the UK political parties’ manifestos, media reports, surveys of public opinion and soft power indexes). …”
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Functional Characteristics of the Assessment Tool System in the Context of Modular Educational Programs Implementation by E. I. Sakharchuk, E. A. Baykina

“…The purpose of our research is to study the functional characteristics of the assessment tools system in the structure of a competency-based educational program of modular architecture. …”
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Billing rules / global period affect postoperative follow-up practices following total hip arthroplasty. by Philip P Ratnasamy, Oghenewoma P Oghenesume, Peter Y Joo, Jonathan N Grauer

“…These results provide interesting insight into the potential impact of the billing structure on how practice is pursued.…”
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The Example of Mersin in the Sustainability of Coastal Cities under the Impact of Climate Change by Nihal Zengin, Ruşen Yamaçlı

“…It is seen that cities, which have hosted different cultures and civilizations in the historical process and have a lively and dynamic structure, have been shaped with different characteristics under the influence of many factors. …”
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Interior design assistant algorithm based on indoor scene analysis by Lu Zhang

“…To achieve superior interior design outcomes, it is essential to accurately identify and locate indoor objects and structures. However, the common algorithms currently rely too much on color images and manual annotation. …”
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Epidemiology and Performances of Typhidot Immunoassay and Widal Slide Agglutination in the Diagnosis of Typhoid Fever in Febrile Patients in Bafoussam City, Cameroon: A Cross-Secti... by Aurelie Dahlia Yemeli Piankeu, Siméon Pierre Chegaing Fodouop, Michel Noubom, Emmanuel Boris Gomseu Djoumsie, Georges Ful Kuh, Donatien Gatsing

“…Widal test, Typhidot assay, and stool culture were used to screen for salmonellosis with the help of a structured questionnaire. Results. The prevalence of S. …”
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The Online Research of B2O3 on Crystal Behavior of High Ti-Bearing Blast Furnace Slag by Yin-he Lin, Bin Zheng, Lin-gen Luo, Yu-long Jia, Li-qiang Zhang

“…The existence and phase structures of high Ti-bearing blast furnace slag at a high temperature are the key issue to flow performance and reaction temperature. …”
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Characterization and Optimization of Calcination Process Parameters for Extraction of Aluminum from Ethiopian Kaolinite by Adamu Esubalew Kassa, Nurelegne Tefera Shibeshi, Belachew Zegale Tizazu

“…The extracted aluminum was in the form of aluminum chloride hexahydrate and trigonal crystalline structure. The optimum values of the degree of conversion of kaolinite dehydroxylation reaction and extracted aluminum of 0.992 and 71.28% w/w were obtained at the optimum kaolinite calcination temperature of 700°C, time of 180 min, and particles size of 106 μm, respectively.…”
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REFINED ESTIMATES OF DIRECT PYROGENIC CARBON EMISSIONS IN RUSSIAN FORESTS BASED ON REMOTE MONITORING DATA FROM 2011 TO 2023 by D. V. Ershov, E. N. Sochilova, K. A. Kovganko

“…In addition, we use new products of forest species and age structure, the level of fire damage to forest vegetation for mapping the type and fire severity, and the coefficients of fuel consumption in wood debris. …”
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Economic Contribution to Local Livelihoods and Households Dependency on Dry Land Forest Products in Hammer District, Southeastern Ethiopia by Dagm Fikir, Wubalem Tadesse, Abdella Gure

“…A total of 164 households, selected based on a random sampling procedure, were interviewed using structured questionnaire. The study found that income from forest products contributes 21.4% of the total annual household income. …”
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THE METHOD OF DESIGNING HYDRAULIC DRIVES ON THE EXAMPLE OF A HYDRAULIC DRIVE OF A LIFTING-MAST DEVICE by S. A. Smirnov, N. A. Gorshkova

“…Parts represent a mixed structure of blocks that describe processes in mechanical and hydraulic systems. …”
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Path selection algorithms for connecting wireless base stations to power centers in a mine by Denis A. Migov, Anastaiya N. Yurgenson

“…The paper deals with one of the tasks of designing a power supply network in a mine within the framework of a hierarchical approach to organizing the network structure. Within this approach, power controllers are connected to mine lighting breaker. …”
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Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions with Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing Methods: The Case Study of Cumbre Vieja Volcano (Spain) by Özer Akyürek

“…In this study, it was aimed to examine the effects of lava from Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma island on people, structures and land cover, using Pleiades-1A, CosmoSky Med, GeoEye-1 and Landsat 8 data between 19 September and 15 November 2021. …”
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Enhancing 21st Century Skills in Students with Special Needs Through STEM Learning by Maya Rahma Sarita, Asih Widi Wisudawati

“…Data collection techniques consisted of field observations, semi-structured interviews with 18-27 questions, and document analysis. …”
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Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Domain Adaptation Using Transferable Features under Different Working Conditions by Zhe Tong, Wei Li, Bo Zhang, Meng Zhang

“…Bearing failure is the most common failure mode in rotating machinery and can result in large financial losses or even casualties. However, complex structures around bearing and actual variable working conditions can lead to large distribution difference of vibration signal between a training set and a test set, which causes the accuracy-dropping problem of fault diagnosis. …”
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Belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) create facial displays during social interactions by changing the shape of their melons by Justin T. Richard, Isabelle Pellegrini, Rachael Levine

“…This ability could yield adaptive benefits to belugas, given their complex social structure and hypothesized mating system that emphasizes pre-copulatory female mate choice.…”
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Awareness of postpartum depression among midwives and pregnant women in Arkhangelsk, Arctic Russia by Elena Nechaeva, Olga Kharkova, Vitaly Postoev, Andrej M. Grjibovski, Elisabeth Darj, Jon Øyvind Odland

“…Methods A qualitative study was conducted using in-depth semi-structured interviews. Midwives and pregnant women were recruited from the women’s clinic of the Arkhangelsk municipal polyclinic. …”
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Intelligent Psychology Teaching System Based on Adaptive Neural Network by Xiaojia Pang

“…In order to study the intelligent psychology system, this paper proposes the role of adaptive neural network based on it and uses the ICAP learning method to compare with it. Firstly, the basic structure of the neural network in the teaching system is introduced, the psychological teaching algorithm based on the adaptive neural network is introduced, the ideas are formulated, and the four learning methods and the design elements of the adaptive neural network are described. …”
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Study on Drainage of Pavement Layers and Improvement Strategies: Case Study by Hosein Zanjirani Farahani, Atiye Farahani

“…Moisture intrusion is one of the main pavement damages that can decline the pavement surface conditions and reduce structural strength and load-carrying capacity. The design of the pavement layers needs to collect data about soil properties, regional precipitation, pavement geometries, surface and subsurface drainage properties, and vehicular traffic. …”
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Secondary amputation: a qualitative study of quality of life in patients after primary limb salvage surgery and after later ablative sarcoma treatment by Veronika Vetchy, Carmen Trost, Reinhard Windhager, Gerhard Hobusch

“…Subjects/patients: Patients who underwent primary limb salvage surgery followed by later ablative sarcoma treatment. Methods: Semi-structured interviews and the standardized “Prosthetic Limb Users Survey of Mobility” questionnaire were conducted. …”
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