Homotopy Perturbation Method for Thin Film Flow and Heat Transfer over an Unsteady Stretching Sheet with Internal Heating and Variable Heat Flux by I-Chung Liu, Ahmed M. Megahed

“…The obtained differential equations are solved approximately by the homotopy perturbation method (HPM). The effects of various parameters governing the flow and heat transfer in this study are discussed and presented graphically. …”
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A Survey of Educational Program Needs for the Florida Association of Counties County Commissioner Training Program by Rodney L. Clouser

“…The survey collects information regarding attendance at FAC-FCF sponsored events, willingness to pay for educational programs, worth of events and programs attended by commissioners and administrators, desired locations for educational activities and, most importantly, the type and amount of training needed by commissioners on various topics that would assist them as an elected policy maker. …”
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Some properties of finite generalized-groups by Nosratollah Shajareh Poursalavati

“…Many scientists have investigated various applications of generalized-groups. Notably, this algebraic structure has connections to the unified gauge theory. …”
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Agriculture urbaine : un outil multidimensionnel pour le développement des quartiers by Éric Duchemin, Fabien Wegmuller, Anne-Marie Legault

“…The UA initiatives in Montreal have resulted in the development of a centre with a significant vegetable production and a socialization and education environment that fosters individual and collective social development in districts with a significant economically disadvantaged population. The various approaches attain the established objectives and these are multi-dimensional tools used for the social development of disadvantaged populations.…”
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Issues of privacy policy conflict in mobile social network by Pingshui Wang, Qinjuan Ma

“…Privacy protection in mobile social networks is a hot issue in current research. Various privacy protection policies have been proposed. …”
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An Atypical Case of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Mandibular Alveolus by Seba Abraham, Bhagyalekshmi Mallika, Arunima Reshma, ReejaMol Mohammed Kassim

“…The oral squamous cell carcinoma shares clinical similarity with various forms of inflammatory gingival lesions and is often misdiagnosed in our routine dental practice. …”
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Summarization of the Research Status of Quadruped Robot Bionic Joint by Zhu Yaqiao, Chen Guosong, Wang Jiaojiao, Fan Guanghong

“…Specific from four aspects of flexible pneumatic bionic joints,hydraulic damping bionic joints,series-wound elastic drive bionic joints and flexible variable stiffness bionic joints,the research status of quadruped robot bionic joints is summarized,and the various types of bionic joint defects are accurately analyzed. …”
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Introduction. Pratiques de modélisation du patrimoine : constats et perspectives by Sylvain Laubé, Muriel Guedj

“…The goal was to encourage the structuring of a broad scientific community: by focusing on interdisciplinary collaborative work, involving both the humanities and social sciences and computer science, links are emerging within the French-speaking communities of various countries and continents. The analysis of the responses to the questions suggested to the authors has led us to divide this issue into three sections: knowledge modelling, 3D visualisation and the digitisation of tangible and intangible heritage. …”
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“Home” away from home? by Myriame Ali-Oualla

“…In France, they experienced various forms of accommodation until they were housed in social residences. …”
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FORMATION OF METHODICAL BASE IN THE COST-NAVIGATION SYSTEM by L. Zelentsova, Y. Vorontsova

“…For descriptive reasons authors offer use of the hybrid analytical cards comprising various technologies and providing a possibility of symbiosis of traditional systems of the business analysis and the new approaches providing a possibility of high-performance work with continuously growing volumes of data, keeping them in random access memory.…”
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High Efficiency Computation of the Variances of Structural Evolutionary Random Responses by J.H. Lin, D.K. Sun, W.X. Zhong, W.S. Zhang

“…For structures subjected to stationary or evolutionary white/colored random noise, their various response variances satisfy algebraic or differential Lyapunov equations. …”
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A nonlinear elasto-plastic analysis of Reissner-Mindlin plates by finite element method by Meftah Kamel, Sedira Lakhdar

“…To verify the present element, simple tests are demonstrated and various elasto-plastic problems in which the development of the plastic zone are solved…”
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ESSENCE AND INTERRELATION OF THE CONCEPTS OF INVESTMENT ATTRACTIVENESS AND INVESTMENT CLIMATE OF REGIONS by V. A. Dzhioev

“…This article analyses various interpretations of the concepts of investment attractiveness and the investment climate, describes the main approaches to their relationship, the author also proposed his definitions of these concepts and their relationship.…”
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DIVERSE ASPECTS OF LOCAL FISCAL CAPACITY – CASE STUDY OF POLAND by Elżbieta Malinowska-Misiąg

“…The remainder of the paper presents the amounts of fiscal capacity of various types of Polish LGUs in 2010-2017. An attempt was also made to identify external factors affecting the amount of this capacity.…”
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Fuzzy Reliability Analysis of the COVID-19 Mortality Rate Using a New Modified Kies Kumaraswamy Model by Fathy H. Riad, Bader Alruwaili, Ehab M. Almetwally, Eslam Hussam

“…We used both conventional and Bayesian approaches to make various sorts of estimations. A simulation research was carried out to investigate the performance of the classical and Bayesian estimators. …”
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Using Social Media to Engage Communities with Research: Accessibility by Kathryn A. Stofer, Kirsten Hecht, Lisa Lundgren

“…This new 6-page document, part of a series on using social media to engage communities with research, focuses on making your social media inclusive by integrating accessibility up front for individuals with disabilities of various types. Any Extension personnel, researchers, and other public engagement and communications personnel can benefit from these strategies. …”
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Chronic Lack of Investment — a German Disease by Felix Rösel, Julia Wolffson

“…This German investment gap of more than one percentage point persists when controlling for various economic, fiscal, demographic and institutional factors in regression analyses. …”
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Set-valued mappings and best proximity points: A study in $ \mathcal{F} $-metric spaces by Amer Hassan Albargi

“…The newly proposed idea of set-valued almost $ \Upsilon $-contractions includes various contractive conditions like set-valued almost contractions, set-valued $ \Upsilon $-contractions, and traditional $ \Upsilon $-contractions. …”
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Des multiples communautés d’origine aux communautés d’affinité, ou l’influence des réseaux transnationaux dans la (re)composition des communautés juives brésiliennes by Aurélie Le Lièvre

“…Their contours are continually evolving under the influence of various political, religious, and cultural models, each one acting at a local, a national, and/or a transnational level. …”
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Gesture recognition based on flexible solar cells and ultrathin hydrogel film by Rucheng WU, Wenbo DING, Xiaomin XU, Linqi SONG, Weitao XU

“…Daily life involves various gestures, and combining these with smart wearable devices is crucial for improving quality of life.One effective solution to the challenges of gesture recognition and device energy consumption isutilizing the photoelectric conversion characteristics of solar energy-related devices.The data of five commonly used gestures were collected in the research of the combination of flexible solar cells and gesture recognition.Z-Score, low-pass filter, sliding window techniques for signal processing were applied, and successfully achieved 100% predicted accuracy using random forest, support vector machine and neural network algorithms even with small samples which showed that this method had significant advantages in the application of gesture recognition.…”
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