Feasibility Study on Crack Detection of Pipelines Using Piezoceramic Transducers by Guofeng Du, Qingzhao Kong, Timothy Lai, Gangbing Song

“…Currently, lead zirconate titanates (PZTs) are the most popular piezoceramic materials and show great potential in the applications of structural health monitoring. In this paper, the authors present a feasibility study on the crack detection and severity monitoring of pipelines using PZT transducers. …”
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TRAINING TECHNOLOGY TO OVERCOME ADAPTATION BARRIERS by Elena K. Klimova, Olga A. Pomazina

“…The authors dwell on training technology aimed at overcoming adaptation barriers by first-year students. …”
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RETRACTED: The Use of Digital Portfolio to Assess the Student Teachers’ Professional Skills by N. V. Tikhonova

“…The purpose of the research is to analyze the opportunities and potential benefits as well as the disadvantages of using digital portfolio in teacher preparation course and to propose recommendations for the full realization of this method’s potential. The author analyzes the experience of Swiss teachers in using a digital portfolio to assess the results of student teaching practice. …”
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Financial uncertainty of a startup by G. R. Yusupova, E. I. Nesmeyanova

“…The issues of  the difference between grant financing of a   startup and the process of   searching and attracting an   investor are raised, since the requirements from the grantee fundamentally change the requirements for specialists who should be  involved in   the work and the requirements for maintaining the financial stability of  an organisation. The authors also consider the professional platforms for investors that have developed in   Russia and the forms of   investment relations: in   exchange for receiving a   share of   profits; in   exchange for a   share of   the proceeds.…”
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Comment interpréter une revue ? Quelques pistes de lecture by Francis Mus

“…First, the discourse of the periodical deals with two different logics: one of the periodical itself and one of the individual authors. These logics constitute two different frameworks in which a text can be read. …”
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THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIO-POLITICAL ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL PROTEST ACTIVITY by M. A. Tanina, I. A. Yurasov, V. A. Yudina, O. A. Zyablikova

“…The study solved the problems of analyzing the values of provincial Russian societies, institutional matrices, network political management and specific forms of virtual communication in the network space. The authors reveal the theoretical and methodological foundations of the development of digital protest activity in the world: features of social temporality, public values, specifics of trust, types of social connections in urban space; digitalization, virtualization and mediativization, information inequality, digital elitism; institutional matrices and institutional traps of electronic communication, trends in digital management. …”
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The Influence of Military Defensive Factor on the Process of Establishing Russia’s Southern Frontier in the XVI-XIX Centuries by Elena V. Linkova, Dmitry E. Evsyukov

“…The authors examine the evolution of the main ideas and concepts explaining the territorial expansion of the Russian state and analyzes their applicability to substantiating the advancement of the borders of the Russian state southward in historical retrospect of the XVI-XIX centuries. …”
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HIV Prevention Messages Targeting Young Latino Immigrant MSM by Rosa Solorio, Pamela Norton-Shelpuk, Mark Forehand, Marcos Martinez, Joel Aguirre

“…Building from a community-based participatory research approach, the researchers developed a campaign that was executed by Activate Brands, based in Denver, Colorado. The authors (a) describe the development of HIV prevention messages through the integration of previously collected formative data; (b) describe the process of translating these messages into PSAs, including the application of a marketing strategy; (c) describe testing the PSAs within the Latino MSM community; and (c) determine a set of important factors to consider when developing HIV prevention messages for young Latino MSM who do not identify as gay.…”
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Developing quality indicators for learning with care by Graham Connelly

“…Scotland and Save the Children (Ritchie, 2003).The project team was also asked to undertake the development of quality indicators in response to Recommendation 7 in the Learning With Care report:'As part of their quality assurance procedures local authorities should undertake an audit of their residential units to assess how far they are educationally rich environments and, where shortcomings are found, make plans to take appropriate action' (ibid., p.7).…”

Heat Transfer Analysis on the Hiemenz Flow of a Non-Newtonian Fluid: A Homotopy Method Solution by Yasir Khan, Zdeněk Šmarda

“…The effects of the pertinent parameters on the velocity and temperature field are discussed through graphs. To the best of authors’ knowledge, HPM solution with general form of linear operator for two-dimensional/axisymmetric non-Newtonian fluid flows and heat transfer analysis in the region of stagnation point is presented for the first time in the literature.…”
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Keeping the memory of Napoleonic wars: forms of international cooperation between Russia and the German Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century by A. S. Lizogub

“…The focus is on considering the features and problems of building narratives about the joint military past of the two empires within the framework of the international exhibition in Breslau and the opening of monuments in Leipzig. The author concluded that the implementation of commemorative projects dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the victory in the Napoleonic wars is influenced by the existing system of international relations. …”
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Dietary Preference of Gammarus pulex and Asellus aquaticus during a Laboratory Breeding Programme for Ecotoxicological Studies by M. C. Bloor

“…However, both species ate varying amounts of all the leaf treatments (Z 136.399, 𝑃<0.001). Subsequently, the author outlined a feeding methodology for natural alder leaf conditioning that could be used during a laboratory breeding programme.…”
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Frames and political choice in Scottish election campaigns by Éva Jakusné Harnos, Mátyás Gergi-Horgos

“…In relation to metaphors of movement, images describing the future of an independent Scotland are also detected. The authors attempt to analyse and interpret findings both from the perspective of cognitive linguistics and ethno-symbolism. …”
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« Coume li chivalié d’antan avèn voua nosto vido au triounfle d’uno Idèio. » Folco de Baroncelli, du Félibrige à la Nacioun Gardiano, d’après les archives d’auteur du Palais du Rou... by Marjolaine Raguin

“…His literary and documentary archives kept at the Palais du Roure (Avignon), after having been placed under the good care of Jeanne de Flandreysy, inform the critic about the author at his table and his thought, developed over time. …”
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The glass transition in molecules, colloids and grains: universality and specificity by Dauchot, Olivier, Ladieu, François, Royall, C. Patrick

“…This short review considers these three classes of experimental systems and focusses largely on the work of the authors and their coworkers and thus is far from exhaustive. …”
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Exploring the Impact of Differentiated Per-Lane Speed Limits on Traffic Safety of Freeways with Considering the Compliance Rate by Meiyu Liu, Jing Shi

“…This is a subsequent study of a two-lane cellular automata (CA) traffic simulation model proposed by the authors. The current study focused on understanding the impacts of the configuration of the differentiated per-lane speed limit (DPLSL) and its compliance rate on traffic safety indexes, including lane-changing frequency, the coefficient of variation of speed, and incident rate of dangerous situations. …”
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The IMMIGRANTS ARE ANIMALS metaphor as a deliberate metaphor in British and Bosnian-Herzegovinian media by Mujagić Mersina, Berberović Sanja

“…The paper aims to determine to what extent and in which situations the authors of the texts tend to divert the addressee’s attention to viewing immigrants in terms of animals. …”
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The language Defamiliarization in the stories of Ale Ahmad (based on Modir Madreseh and Panj Dastan) by سمیّه صادقیان

“…By summarizing in many ways, he becomes author of “telegraphic prose” and extends the semantic area of words.…”
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Educational needs and opportunities for adaptation of students with disabilities and persons with health limitations in the tertiary education system by M. V. Iontseva, S. A. Grishaeva, M. A. Ayvazyan

“…The article highlights the adaptation possibilities of disabled people in the tertiary education system, as well as the specifics of the organization and goals of an educational institution for teaching people with HL. The authors identify the barriers of social relations faced by students with HL, disabled students and their teachers at universities; analyze the degree of involvement of a student with HL in the educational process. …”
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Public administration of higher education as a key to scientific and technological development by E. I. Shumskaya, V. D. Eremina

“…The research rests on academic works of Russian and foreign authors, official websites of the legal-reference systems, as well as on statistic data published by the National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation and the World Economic Forum.…”
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