Enhancing Teacher Beliefs through an Inquiry-Based Professional Development Program by Tammy R. McKeown, Lisa M. Abrams, Patricia W. Slattum, Suzanne V. Kirk

“…Teacher beliefs were assessed at three time points, pre- post- and six months following the summer academy. …”
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Upgrading of Resolution Elastic Neutron Scattering (RENS) by S. Magazù, F. Migliardo, M. T. Caccamo

“…In particular it is shown that the measured elastic scattering law as a function of the logarithm of the instrumental energy of resolution gives rise to an increasing sigmoid trend whose inflection point can be connected with the system relaxation time. The validity of the RENS approach is supported by a numerical simulation, taking into account a Gaussian resolution function and a Lorentzian scattering law, and experimentally by integrated EINS and QENS measurements performed as a function of temperature on three homologous disaccharide/water mixtures showing different relaxation times. …”
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Efficient Bistatic SAR Raw Signal Simulator of Extended Scenes by Liang Yang, Weidong Yu, Shichao Zheng, Lei Zhang

“…And it is more efficient than the time domain one by making use of Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). …”
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Constructing Functional Ionic Membrane Surface by Electrochemically Mediated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization by Fen Ran, Dan Li, Jiayu Wu

“…The polymerization could be controlled by reaction condition, such as monomer concentration, electric potential, polymerization time, and modifier concentration. The membrane surface was uniform when the monomer concentration was 0.9 mol/L, the electric potential was −0.12 V, the polymerization time was 8 h, and the modifier concentration was 2 wt.%. …”
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CHRISTOPANGANISM: A RELIGION IN SEARCH OF RELEVANCE OR A CONTEXTUALIZED CHRISTIANITY IN NIGERIA? by Amos Francis Dike

“…However, some contemporary Christians/pastors have an approach that can best be described as Christopaganism on order to bridge the gap created by western missionary exploit.Hence, while recognizing the existence of generational curses and magic, some Christian bodiesviews Christopaganismboth as a means of contextualizing Christianity and at the same time finding relevance. Thus, to retain the authentic Christianity in Africa that will at the same time have global relevance, African church should harmonize her beliefs and practices in line with the biblical Christianity. …”
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WDM Network and Multicasting Protocol Strategies by Pinar Kirci, Abdul Halim Zaim

“…The performance of the protocol is examined with Just Enough Time (JET) and Just In Time (JIT) reservation protocols. …”
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Comparative Effect of Crude and Commercial Enzyme on the Juice Recovery from Bael Fruit (Aegle marmelos Correa) Using Principal Component Analysis by Anurag Singh, H. K. Sharma, Sanjay Kumar, Ashutosh Upadhyay, K. P. Mishra

“…The effect of incubation time, incubation temperature, and crude enzyme concentration was observed on the yield, viscosity, and clarity of the juice obtained from bael fruit pulp. …”
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Surgical acute abdomen in elderly patients. by Itengré Ouédraogo, Julio Pablo Miñoso Andina, Angel Delfín Rodríguez Sarria, Lidia Torres Ajá

“…Postoperating complications in 47,06% of the patients appeared and was observed a mortality of 26,5% with statistically significant relation with the age, ASA classification, surgical risk, time of evolution and the surgical time. The peritonitis heads the direct causes of death.…”
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UFIR Filtering for GPS-Based Tracking over WSNs with Delayed and Missing Data by Karen Uribe-Murcia, Yuriy S. Shmaliy, Jose A. Andrade-Lucio

“…The UFIR filter is developed for vehicle tracking in discrete-time state-space over wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with time-stamped data discretely delayed on k-step-lags and missing data. …”
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Application of Low-Intensity Laser in the Treatment of Skeletal Muscle Injury in Runners by Youdong Chen, Qiang Li

“…In this article, a statistical method was used to obtain the gait cycle time (P & LT; 0.01) and support cycle time (slow P<0.01).…”
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O cotidiano como utopia: novas relações de espaço e tempo no mundo da arte contemporânea by Ana Carolina Freire Accorsi Miranda

“…This type of art places itself as the utopia of the everyday life, constructed for the present time in the urban space. Thus, the focus of this paper is to make a brief theoreti- cal study on contemporaneity which points to important changes in the way in which individuals relate to everyday experience, narrative and memory, in order to understand the recent transformations in the world of contemporary art.…”
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EFL learners’ perception of the project-based learning method in extensive reading course by Harini

“…The lack of English reading ability in Indonesian students is a common problem, and many times the teacher uses the Project-Based Learning (PBL) method to help students improve their English reading ability. …”
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Modelling with measures: Approximation of a mass-emitting object by a point source by Joep H.M. Evers, Sander C. Hille, Adrian Muntean

“…We consider a linear diffusion equation on $\Omega:=\mathbb{R}^2\setminus\overline{\Omega_\mathcal{o}}$, where $\Omega_\mathcal{o}$ is a bounded domain. The time-dependent flux on the boundary $\Gamma:=∂\Omega_\mathcal{o}$ is prescribed. …”
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Pedicled Cervical Lymphoadipose Tissue for Volume Reconstruction after Superficial Parotidectomy by Kyle P. Davis, Amy L. Fraser, Elizabeth O. Shay, Michael W. Sim

“…In addition, with maintained blood supply to this tissue, it would likely provide sustained bulk over time.…”
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Variable Volumetric Stiffness Fluid Mount Design by Nader Vahdati, Mehdi Ahmadian

“…In some cases, for a batch of fluid mounts manufactured at the same time, one is tuned and the rest is set to the same settings. …”
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Action Recognition by Joint Spatial-Temporal Motion Feature by Weihua Zhang, Yi Zhang, Chaobang Gao, Jiliu Zhou

“…Automatic spatial and temporal alignments are combined together in order to encourage the temporal consistence on each action by an enhanced dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm. At the same time, a fast method based on coarse-to-fine DTW constraint to improve computational performance without reducing accuracy is induced. …”
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Rheological and Nutritional Properties and Sensory Evaluation of Bread Fortified with Natural Sources of Calcium by Amnah M. A. Alsuhaibani

“…Compared to the control bread, breads fortified with egg and oyster shells had a higher water absorption (%), dough development time, dough stability, mixing time, heat of transition, and setback viscosity but a lower weakening index. …”
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A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to the Optimization of Data Center Task Scheduling by Haiying Che, Zixing Bai, Rong Zuo, Honglei Li

“…The experiment report showed that the proposed algorithm worked better than the compared classical algorithms in the key performance metrics: average delay time of tasks, task distribution in different delay time levels, and task congestion degree.…”
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Alternative Approach for Combination of Fingers in Underwater Acoustic Communication by Ji-Hong Son, Eun-Hye Jeon, Ki-Man Kim, Dong-Won Lee, Tae-Doo Park

“…An underwater acoustic communication channel is time varying and has multipath propagation with bottom and surface reflection. …”
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Optimizing Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks with Opportunistic Access by Ammar Zafar, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Yunfei Chen, Redha M. Radaydeh

“…It is then shown that the objective functions and the constraints are nonlinear and nonconvex functions of the parameters of interest, that is, source and relay powers, symbol time, and sensing time. Therefore, it is difficult to obtain closed-form solutions for the optimal resource allocation. …”
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