The Understanding of the Meaning of Intercultural Communication by Non-philological and Philological Students of Business English Courses at the University of Presov by Lucia Dančišinová

“…In classrooms today, intercultural communication is presented and explained even with greater variety than it is approached in theory and research. The aim of the paper is to analyse and compare the process of definition of intercultural communication in university textbooks with the definitions by philological and non-philological students of Business English courses at the University of Presov, to illustrate the possible problems with understanding the meaning as a result of different purposes and contexts of educational reality. …”
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Topographic Effects on the Seismic Response of Trapezoidal Canyons Subjected to Obliquely Incident SV Waves by Hui Shen, Yaqun Liu, Haibo Li, Bo Liu

“…The topography and the incident angle of seismic waves both have considerable effects on the seismic ground motions of canyons in a half-space. In this paper, the theory of wavefield decomposition and the artificial boundary is used to develop a method for inputting obliquely incident SV waves. …”
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Mapping method from human to robot arms with different kinematics by Ke-qiang Bai, Guo-li Jiang, Sibo Cai

“…According to the human double-arm kinematics theory, the calculation of arm motion rotation center and the analysis of force and torque are carried out. …”
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Vibration Characteristics of Subway Tunnel Structure in Viscous Soil Medium by Dawei Ren, Shengjun Shao, Xiaoshan Cao, Yifeng Hu

“…Based on research on subway tunnels in a viscous soil medium, this paper establishes the vibration equation of a tunnel structure by using the theory of moderately thick cylindrical shells and the method of wave propagation. …”
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“I am a freak of nature”: Tourette’s and the Grotesque in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn by Pascale Antolin

“…This article analyzes Jonathan Lethem’s neuronovel, Motherless Brooklyn (1999) in the light of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the grotesque and laughter. The specificity of the novel lies the first-person narrator and leading character suffering from Tourette’s syndrome and appropriating the nickname “freak of nature” he was given as a child. …”
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On Sequences of J. P. King-Type Operators by Tuncer Acar, Mirella Cappelletti Montano, Pedro Garrancho, Vita Leonessa

“…In this paper we try to take stock of the situation and highlight the state of the art, hoping that this will be a useful tool for all people who intend to extend King’s approach to some new contents within Approximation Theory. In particular, we recall the main results concerning certain King-type modifications of two well known sequences of positive linear operators, the Bernstein operators and the Szász-Mirakyan operators.…”
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Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano by Mete Han Arıtürk, Mehmet Büyüktuncay

“…The devalued human subject and dehumanized society depicted in Vonnegut's anti-utopian narrative are discussed with reference to Marcuse’s notion of 'one-dimensional society' and Habermas’s theory of 'communicative action' to provide the critical framework for the analysis of the impoverishing and colonizing effects of technological rationality on the lifeworld.…”
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Neural Network-Based Nonlinear Fixed-Time Adaptive Practical Tracking Control for Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Jianhua Zhang, Yang Li, Wenbo Fei

“…Based on Lyapunov analyses and fixed-time stability theory, it is proved that the fixed-time adaptive neural network control is finite-time stable and convergence time is dependent with control parameters without initial conditions. …”
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Critical Literacy Sustainability: What Pedagogical Practices? Whose Role? by Thamae Lipolelo, Matee Lihotetso Gloria

“…The study employed a mixed-methods approach, drawing on two theoretical frameworks: Legitimation Code Theory and Constructivism. Data collection involved tests, questionnaires, document analysis, focus groups, and observations, with analysis conducted using thematic (Atlas.ti), Excel and ANCOVA via Stata17 in SPSS. …”
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SVM Intrusion Detection Model Based on Compressed Sampling by Shanxiong Chen, Maoling Peng, Hailing Xiong, Xianping Yu

“…We use compressed sampling method in the compressed sensing theory to implement feature compression for network data flow so that we can gain refined sparse representation. …”
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On maximum residual block Kaczmarz method for solving large consistent linear systems by Wen-Ning Sun, Mei Qin

“…Numerical experiments validate our theory and show that our proposed methods are superior to some other block Kaczmarz methods.…”
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Lane-Changing Model of Intelligent Connected Vehicle Considering the Factor of Turn Signal by Yi Shao, Xuefeng Deng, Jiaxin Song, Hui Wu

“…Therefore, based on the cellular automata theory, this paper improves the lane-changing rules in the STNS model and proposes a vehicle safe lane-changing model. …”
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Group Consensus with a Dynamic Leader for Multiagent Systems via Sampled-Data Control by Hong Xia, Ting-Zhu Huang, Jin-Liang Shao, Jun-Yan Yu

“…On basis of M-matrix theory, we derive a sufficient condition on the sampling period and the control parameter for ultimate boundedness of the tracking errors. …”
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Coordinated Development of Regional Complex System: A Niche-Based Study by Jianling Li, Xiang Fan, Yufei Bai, Jingjing Zhang

“…From a new perspective, it explores the application of niche theory in regional synergy. Based on the analysis of the ecological niche, the coordination degree model of the composite system is further used to calculate the status quo of the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region from 2013 to 2019. …”
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Optimal Control for Networked Control Systems with Markovian Packet Losses by Xiao Han, Zhijian Ji, Qingyuan Qi

“…The obtained results can be seen as an important implementation of the control theory for NCSs with unreliable communication channels.…”
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The Measurement of Chinese Sentence Semantic Complexity by Shuqin Zhu, Jihua Song, Weiming Peng, Dongdong Guo, Jingbo Sun

“…In this paper, from the perspective of Leech's theory of sentence semantic structure, the predication structure is taken as the semantic unit to explore the sentence semantic complexity. …”
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A New Generalization of the Lomax Distribution with Increasing, Decreasing, and Constant Failure Rate by Pelumi E. Oguntunde, Mundher A. Khaleel, Mohammed T. Ahmed, Adebowale O. Adejumo, Oluwole A. Odetunmibi

“…Developing new compound distributions which are more flexible than the existing distributions have become the new trend in distribution theory. In this present study, the Lomax distribution was extended using the Gompertz family of distribution, its resulting densities and statistical properties were carefully derived, and the method of maximum likelihood estimation was proposed in estimating the model parameters. …”
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New renormalization group study of the 3-state Potts model and related statistical models by José Gaite

“…In particular, the phase transition of the 3-state Potts model in three dimensions is believed to be of the first order, without a definitive proof of absence of scale invariance in three-dimensional field theory with S3 symmetry. This scale invariance should appear as a non-trivial fixed point of the renormalization group, which has not been found. …”
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Brief Study On A New Family of Analytic Functions by Jamiu Hamzat, Gangadharan Murugusundaramoorthy, Matthew Oluwayemi

“…The authors introduced a new class of analytic functions in this study by means of convolution principle and obtain its relations with some well-known subclasses of analytic univalent functions in geometric functions theory in the open unit disk $\mathbb{D}$. Furthermore, as a special case, we show that convex functions of order 1/2 are also members of the family $\mathcal{B}(\mu, \beta, \lambda, \theta)$, for $0\leq \mu\leq 1$, $0\leq \beta < 1$, $\lambda\geq 0$ and $|\theta| < \frac{\pi}{2} $. …”
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La modulation sociale de la voix ne compromet pas le mécanisme de phenotype matching chez le mandrill by Florence Levréro, Greta Carrete-Vega, Anais Herbert, Ismaël Lawabi † 2015, Alexandre Courtiol, Eric Willaume, Peter M. Kappeler, Marie J.E. Charpentier

“…Kin selection theory provides a strong theoretical framework to explain the evolution of altruism and cooperative behaviour among genetically related individuals. …”
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