Exploring Relationships among Social Norms, Aesthetics, and HOA Regulations and Water Conservation by Amanda D. Ali, Laura A. Sanagorski Warner

“…Other factors such as perceived social norms and homeowners' association (HOA) regulations also impact water conservation behaviors. Binary logistic regression estimated the impact of aesthetics, perceived social norms, and HOA regulations on water conservation intentions. …”
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Issues of identity verification of typical applications over mobile terminal platform by Xiaolin ZHANG, Dawu GU, Chi ZHANG

“…Recent studies have shown that attacks against USIM card are increasing,and an attacker can use the cloned USIM card to bypass the identity verification process in some applications and thereby get the unauthorized access.Considering the USIM card being cloned easily even under 5G network,the identity verification process of the popular mobile applications over mobile platform was analyzed.The application behaviors were profiled while users were logging in,resetting password,and performing sensitive operations,thereby the tree model of application authentication was summarized.On this basis,58 popular applications in 7 categories were tested including social communication,healthcare,etc.It found that 29 of them only need SMS verification codes to get authenticated and obtain permissions.To address this issue,two-step authentication was suggested and USIM anti-counterfeiting was applied to assist the authentication process.…”
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Higher-order topology for collective motions by Zijie Sun, Tianjiang Hu

“…Physical or mathematical models have been developed to formalize and/or regularize these collective behaviors. However, these models usually follow pairwise topology and seldom maintain better responsiveness and persistence simultaneously, particularly in the face of sudden predator-like invasion. …”
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Stochastic Generator of a New Family of Lifetime Distributions with Illustration by Amjad Al-Nasser, Ahmad Hanandeh

“…Simulation method was used to investigate the behaviors of the parameters of the proposed distribution; the results showed that the mean square error and standard error for the chosen parameter values decrease as the sample size increases. …”
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Differences in Rental and Nonrental Car Crashes by Richard Tay, Jaisung Choi

“…We found a significantly higher contribution of several risky driving behaviors but no differences in roadway, vehicle, and environmental factors. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Evaluation of the Ablation Process of Carbon/Carbon Composites Using High Velocity Oxygen Fuel System by Xueling Fan, Peng Jiang, Biao Li, Xiaochao Jin, Yong Zhao

“…Temperature fields in the composites were analyzed using finite element method, and the mechanisms that govern the formation of different ablation behaviors were elucidated. For paralleled fiber bundles, the highest temperature situates in the middle parts underlying the ablation pits, where the drum-like shape is formed. …”
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Dynamics of a stochastic delayed Harrison-type predation model: Effects of delay and stochastic components by Feng Rao, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Yun Kang

“…We provide the rigorous results of our model including the dynamical behaviors of a positive solution and Hopf bifurcation. …”
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The effects of environmental value and ecological worldview on eco-recreative attitude: An application in Turkey by Üzeyir KEMENT, Sinan ÇAVUSOGLU, Ismail ÇALIK, Yakup DURMAZ

“…The study found that biospheric value has a positive effect on ecological worldview while ecological worldview has a positive effect on affective, cognitive and behavioral attitude. …”
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Evolutionary Game Analysis of Debt Restructuring Involved by Asset Management Companies by Danyu Zhao, Li Song, Liangliang Han

“…Based on the evolutionary game theory, this article constructs a quartet evolutionary game model for debt restructuring with the participation of asset management companies; studies the interactive mechanism of complex behaviors among the government, banks, asset management companies, and enterprises; and analyzes the stability of the strategies of each game subject. …”
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A Critical Overview on Organizational Entrepreneurship with Focus on Identifying Components and Obstacles by Farzad Ziviar, Abolfazli Farahani, Loghman Keshavarz

“…Thirty components in 3 dimensions of structural, behavioral, and contextual were considered in this paper, including 66 obstacles in order to criticize in Ministry of Sport and Youth.It is suggested that managers and researchers in Ministry of Sport andYouth evaluate and implement the aforementioned  components and obstacles.…”
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Do perceived value and satisfaction affect customers’ behavioural intentions? A case study of Polish squash clubs by Monika Piątkowska

“…Finally, satisfaction showed a very strong positive and significant influence on behavioral intentions of squash customers. The present study makes both a theoretical and a practical contribution to the field of sports management, highlighting the importance of perceived quality and service convenience to deliver expected value to the customer. …”
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Compressive Mechanical Properties and Micromechanical Characteristics of Warm and Ice-Rich Frozen Silt by Yugui Yang, Feng Gao, Yuanming Lai

“…The microstructure characteristics in the process of loading were studied, and the macromechanical behaviors were obtained at the same time. The test results showed that the stress-strain curve of warm and ice-rich frozen silt is sensitive to temperature; the peak stress was greatly enhanced with the decrease of temperature, and the section area increases with the increase of axial strain; the water content mainly decreases with the increase of axial strain at −1°C; the change of water content is not obvious at −2°C in the loading process. …”
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Towards tree Yang-Mills and Yang-Mills-scalar amplitudes with higher-derivative interactions by Kang Zhou, Chang Hu

“…Abstract In our recent works, a new approach for constructing tree amplitudes, based on exploiting soft behaviors, was proposed. In this paper, we extend this approach to effective theories for gluons which incorporate higher-derivative interactions. …”
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WORKING PARAMETERS EFFECTS OF AIR CAPACITY REGULATION SYSTEM FOR RECIPROCATING COMPRESSOR UNDER DIFFERENT LOAD CONDITIONS by WANG Meng, WANG Yao, ZHANG JinJie

“…In this paper, according to the demand of the air capacity regulation for reciprocating compressor, an improved operating cycle model of air compressor under the capacity regulation was established. The behaviors of the netted valves and the changes of the pressure in cylinder were analyzed. …”
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The pedagogical model for developing research/investigation competence in primary school students (Natural Sciences) by Marieta NEAGU

“…The originality of the model lies in its integrated approach through STEAM project-based activities in the Natural Sciences subject for primary school students, addressing all structural components of RIC: cognitive, conative, behavioral, objective/reflexive components. The article highlights the relevance of RIC for the development of young students as a general school competence within the Romanian educational system. …”
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Settlement Analysis of Saturated Tailings Dam Treated by CFG Pile Composite Foundation by Jinxing Lai, Houquan Liu, Junling Qiu, Jianxun Chen

“…The present paper aims at investigating the settlement behaviors of saturated tailings dam soft ground under CFG pile composite foundation treatment, in which FEM and laboratory model test were utilized. …”
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Dynamics and Control of Tethered Satellite System in Elliptical Orbits under Resonances by Zhaojun Pang, Zhonghua Du, Chun Cheng, Qingtao Wang

“…Besides, a resonance parametric domain is given to provide a reference for the parameter design of the system. The bifurcation behaviors of the system under resonances are studied numerically. …”
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Homopteran Attendance by Wasps and Ants: The Stochastic Nature of Interactions by Deborah K. Letourneau, Jae C. Choe

“…This account is unique in the literature on Hymenoptera-Homoptera associations because it (1) addresses observable interference between hymenopteran attendants, (2) reports behavioral preference by homopterans for certain hymenopreran attendants, and (3) describes an interaction between a polistine wasp and an aetalionid planthopper. …”
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Preparation of Platinum Nanoparticles-Graphene Modified Electrode and Selective Determination of Rutin by Shu-Hong Yu, Guang-Chao Zhao

“…The electrochemical behaviors of rutin at the electrode were investigated, and the results indicated that the electrode reaction is controlled by adsorption process. …”
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The Impact of Big Class Size on The Performance of English at U.C.E in Selected Secondary Schools of Shuuku Sub-County Sheema District. by Akankunda, Bronnet

“…More so, different students from different backgrounds and behaviors were recruited. However private schools which have a minimum number of students per class have continued to perform well. …”
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