Seismic Fragility Assessment of an Isolated Multipylon Cable-Stayed Bridge Using Shaking Table Tests by Yutao Pang

“…The provisions implemented in the seismic codes allow obtaining adequate seismic performance for the cable-stayed bridge components; nevertheless, they do not provide definite yet reliable rules to protect the bridge. …”
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An intrinsic temporal dimension of DNA: the new concept of time-island by Giovanni Villani

“…The amount of such time-islands in human chromosomes and their coding parts has been calculated, and their uneven distribution has been highlighted. …”
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Managers look to the social network to seek information by Mckenzie M.L.

“…The elements of interest were the themes within the data. Open coding was used to interrogate the data to ensure a systematic approach so that future researchers can replicate the process. …”
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Finding the Correct Partner: The Meiotic Courtship by Tomás Naranjo

“…In the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, each chromosome carries a pairing center consisting of a chromosome-specific DNA-protein complex, and in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the sme2 locus encodes a meiosis-specific non-coding RNA that mediates on homologous recognition. …”
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Musical Sequence Learning and EEG Correlates of Audiomotor Processing by Matt D. Schalles, Jaime A. Pineda

“…Our motor and auditory systems are functionally connected during musical performance, and functional imaging suggests that the association is strong enough that passive music listening can engage the motor system. As predictive coding constrains movement sequence selections, could the motor system contribute to sequential processing of musical passages? …”
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Efficient Pairing-Free Privacy-Preserving Auditing Scheme for Cloud Storage in Distributed Sensor Networks by Xinpeng Zhang, Chunxiang Xu, Xiaojun Zhang

“…We exploit homomorphic message authentication codes (MACs) to reduce the space used to store the verification information. …”
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Representation of youth in local assemblies in Serbia by Stojanović Boban Ž.

“…We then present the methodological approach and the methods used for data collection, coding in SPSS, and the creation of dependent and independent variables. …”
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Trends in data literacy, 2018-2023: a review of the literature by Leanne Bowler, Charlie Shaw

“…A detailed search strategy was applied to three data bases: SCOPUS, the ACM Digital Library, and the IEEE Xplore, followed by a qualitative analysis using a coding matrix of eight categories. Results. Trends and gaps in the research were identified. …”
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Spatial analysis of the agricultural sustainability gap based on the TOPSIS-GIS approach by Morad Ebrahimi, Hasan Afrakhteh, Hamid Jalalian

“…For this purpose, 20 villages were selected by stratified random sampling method based on the location of the villages (plain, mountainous, and foothills), indicators of agricultural sustainability were developed and After completing the questionnaires by agricultural users, coding and data entry were performed in Excel and SPSS. …”
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Building a Knowledge Base of Bridge Maintenance Using Knowledge Graph by Yang Zhang, Jia Liu, Kepeng Hou

“…Firstly, a bridge maintenance domain ontology (BMDO) is coded with Protégé and represented in Web Ontology Language. …”
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Fostering Sustainable Mangrove Ecotourism: A Collaborative Governance Approach on Bintan Island, Indonesia by Alfiandri Alfiandri, Eko Prasojo, Jalaluddin Abdul Malik

“…The results highlight the ability of stakeholders to utilize Mangrove conservation regulations on Bintan Island to influence the development of Collaborative Governance models that incorporate both grassroots and top-level approaches. NVivo coding in this study identifies indicators and variables that may be considered weak, specifically within the context of the priority Penta Helix model. …”
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Effects of Educational Intervention on Dental Plaque Index in 9-Year-Old Children by Mahdieh Zarabadipour, Mehrnaz Makhlooghi Sari, Alireza Moghadam, Benyamin Kazemi, Monirsadat Mirzadeh

“…After index recording and coding, data analysis was done using SPSS version 21. …”
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A Compact Representation for 3D Animation Using Octrees and Affine Transformations by Youyou Wang, Guilherme N. DeSouza

“…Finally, an adaptive thresholding, a singular value decomposition for dealing with singularities, and a quantization and arithmetic coding further enhance our proposed method by increasing the compression while maintaining very good signal-noise ratio. …”
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Examining the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) tools on Saudi Arabian ESL students’ writing skills by Samah Abduljawad

“…The focus group participants discussed the following codes: AI’s impact on content organization, grammar, and vocabulary, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the AI tools. …”
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Communication noise of product innovation promotion process by I. Yu. Aleksandrova

“…Their essence lies in errors/failures of coding-decoding of marketing information in the process of a company’s interaction with potential consumers of its product innovation. …”
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The conundrum of motherhood: house helps and the mediated motherhood discourses in Kenya by Gladys Muasya

“…These stories were analysed using inductive coding and constant comparison to identify categories. …”
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“Don’t Even Smoke But I’ll Buy That” Twitch as a New Venue for E-Cigarette Promotion by Hüseyin Küçükali, Hüseyin Küçükali

“…ObjectivesThis study examines the covert promotion of e-cigarettes, specifically Juul, on the video live-streaming platform Twitch, focusing on the content and platform-specific dynamics that may influence its effectiveness.MethodsThis qualitative case study of a non-gaming Twitch stream included data from influencer conversations, viewer comments and visual elements. Thematic analysis, coding, and categorisation were conducted using ATLAS.ti.ResultsThe livestream, which attracted over ten thousand viewers, featured three friends vaping and discussing their personal experiences with Juul. …”
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Biomedical research and vulnerability: a study on responsibility of health professionals in research involving human beings by Angelita Maria Maders

“…The conclusion extracted from the present research is that health professionals must have their actions guided and limited by the Ethics Codes related to their professional areas but also that there must be a legal regulation that takes into account the diversity and vulnerability of Latin Americans in order to make possible holding referred professionals liable and thus protecting the individuals involved.…”
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Is Single-View Fluoroscopy Sufficient in Guiding Cardiac Ablation Procedures? by Pascal Fallavollita

“…The CARTO XP ablation system provides real-time data on 3D, color-coded maps of the electrical activity of the heart; however, it is expensive and can only use a dedicated costly magnetic catheter per patient intervention. …”
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2D+t Wavelet Domain Video Watermarking by Deepayan Bhowmik, Charith Abhayaratne

“…A novel watermarking framework for scalable coded video that improves the robustness against quality scalable compression is presented in this paper. …”
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