Teaching Science Communication to Master’s Students in STEM by Julian Fick, Friederike Hendriks, Noemi Kumpmann, Barbara Thies

“…Results: The evaluation revealed an increase in participants’ knowledge, their positive attitude toward science communication, and self-efficacy beliefs. Coding videos from short presentations additionally revealed an increase in involvement strategy usage but not in comprehensibility or credibility strategy use. …”
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Inhabiting “no places”: Subjectivity and family abilities for confronting a socio-natural disaster in Chile by Luisa Rojas-Páez, José Sebastián Sandoval-Día

“…The data is produced by episodic interviews that use coding as an analytical strategy based on the grounded theory. …”
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Structural Improvements for Tall Buildings under Wind Loads: Comparative Study by Nicola Longarini, Luigi Cabras, Marco Zucca, Suvash Chapain, Aly Mousaad Aly

“…The results from both approaches are compared with those obtained from Eurocode 1 and the Italian design codes, emphasizing the need to further deepen the understanding of problems related to wind actions on such type of structure with high geometrical slenderness. …”
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An Analysis of the Legal Standard in the Fight Against Torture and Treatment of Prisoners under International Law: What Prospect for Application under Cameroonian Law? by N. V. Minang, N. C. Nguindip

“…Cameroon in its compliance with the international standard set, has contributed enormously by enacting credible laws which varies from its constitution, criminal codes, and other relevant provision all in the aim of safeguarding and ensuring that this right should be treated with lots of human protection and security. …”
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Optimization and Numerical Modeling of TCO/SnO2/CdS/CdTe Solar Cells by Parinaz Khaledi, Mahdi Behboudnia, Mohammad Karimi

“…Then, in theory, we simulated cadmium telluride-based layered solar cells for the first time without using ready-made software and with coding in MATLAB and Maple software. We designed and optimized the thickness of the layers in solar cells in detail. …”
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Protecting H.264/AVC Data-Partitioned Video Streams over Broadband WiMAX by Laith Al-Jobouri, Martin Fleury, Mohammed Ghanbari

“…Given that data partitioning already reduces errors through packet size reduction and differentiation of coding data, EEP with data partitioning is a practical means of protecting user-based video streaming. …”
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Health information post-encountering behaviours on social media platforms by Khalid U Fallatah, Morgan A Harvey, Sophie Rutter

“…Inductive content analysis (open coding) was used for the analysis. Results. The findings show that participants’ post-encountering behaviours consist of saving, sharing, directly using, discussing, exploring, ignoring, returning to browsing, and making mental notes of encountered health information. …”
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Optimal Three-Dimensional Sensor Placement for Cable-Stayed Bridge Based on Dynamic Adjustment of Attenuation Factor Gravitational Search Algorithm by Bo Gao, Zhihui Bai, Yubo Song

“…In view of the insufficient developmental ability of the gravitational search algorithm, the attenuation factor α adjusted dynamically aids the global search in the early iteration and the local fine search in the late iteration. The double coding method is used to apply the DGSA algorithm to OSP; taking cable-stayed bridges as an example, the feasibility of the algorithm is verified. …”
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Preparing Advanced Clinicians and Practitioners: A Model for Mentorship in Occupational Therapy Practice by Sarah A. Schoen, Bryan M. Gee, Mim Ochsenbein

“…Qualitative methods were adapted for use in this study. Sixteen codes, with operational definitions, were developed to analyze the surveys. …”
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How do monomorphic bacteria evolve? The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and the awkward population genetics of extreme clonality by Stritt, Christoph, Gagneux, Sebastien

“…Population genetic methods allowing to infer mutation, recombination, genetic drift, and natural selection make strong assumptions that are difficult to reconcile with clonal reproduction and fully linked genomes consisting mainly of coding regions. In this review, we highlight the challenges of extreme clonality by discussing population genetic inference with the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, a group of closely related obligate bacterial pathogens of mammals. …”
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An Alarm Method for a Loose Parts Monitoring System by Yanlong Cao, Yuanfeng He, Huawen Zheng, Jiangxin Yang

“…In order to reduce the false alarm rate and missed detection rate of a Loose Parts Monitoring System (LPMS) for Nuclear Power Plants, a new hybrid method combining Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) together to discriminate the loose part signal is proposed. …”
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Facial expression recognition using singular values and wavelet‐based LGC‐HD operator by Durga G. Rao Kola, Srinivas K. Samayamantula

“…This research work proposes a robust method for feature extraction using local gradient coding based on horizontal and diagonal (LGC‐HD) operator, wavelet transform and singular values. …”
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Inferring single-cell and spatial microRNA activity from transcriptomics data by Efrat Herbst, Yael Mandel-Gutfreund, Zohar Yakhini, Hadas Biran

“…Typically, miRNA regulation drives changes in the composition and levels of protein-coding RNA and of lncRNA, with targets being down-regulated when miRNAs are active. …”
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The Effects of a Professional Development Program on the Classroom Practices of Physics Teachers by Ozlem Oktay, Ali Eryilmaz

“…A teacher survey, an observation form, a student group-interview protocol, treatment-fidelity and treatment-verification opinion forms were developed as measuring instruments. Thematic coding was used in every dimension. The data were evaluated using a frequency analysis and displayed in tables. …”
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Predicting Shear Capacity of FRP-Reinforced Concrete Beams without Stirrups by Artificial Neural Networks, Gene Expression Programming, and Regression Analysis by Ghazi Bahroz Jumaa, Ali Ramadhan Yousif

“…The performance of the proposed models is compared with a large number of available codes and previously proposed equations. The comparative statistical analysis confirmed that the ANNs, GEP, and NLR models, in sequence, showed excellent performance, great efficiency, and high level of accuracy over all other existing models. …”
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Force Measurement Technology of Vision‐Based Tactile Sensor by Bin Fang, Jie Zhao, Nailong Liu, Yuhao Sun, Shixin Zhang, Fuchun Sun, Jianhua Shan, Yiyong Yang

“…First, the working principle of marker‐type VTSs is introduced, including single‐layer markers, double‐layer markers, color coding, and optical flow. Then, the relationship between the marker type and the category of force measurement is discussed in detail. …”
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A New Method of Image Steganography Using 7th Bit of a Pixel as Indicator by Introducing the Successive Temporary Pixel in the Gray Scale Image by Kamaldeep Joshi, Swati Gill, Rajkumar Yadav

“…In this paper, a method of image coding is proposed that hides the information along a selected pixel and on the next value of the selected pixel, that is, pixel + 1. …”
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A Novel Discrete Global-Best Harmony Search Algorithm for Solving 0-1 Knapsack Problems by Wan-li Xiang, Mei-qing An, Yin-zhen Li, Rui-chun He, Jing-fang Zhang

“…In order to better solve discrete 0-1 knapsack problems, a novel global-best harmony search algorithm with binary coding, called DGHS, is proposed. First, an initialization based on a greedy mechanism is employed to improve the initial solution quality in DGHS. …”
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Patentometric Analysis of AI Based Structural Health Monitoring by Desai Pradnya, Sandbhor Sayali, Kaushik Amit Kant, Patil Ajit, Dabir Vaishnavi

“…The chosen data is evaluated for patents by nation and year, and the IPC and CPC codes for patents in artificial intelligence for structural health monitoring are also covered. …”
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Peculiar Evolutionary History of miR390-Guided TAS3-Like Genes in Land Plants by Maria S. Krasnikova, Denis V. Goryunov, Alexey V. Troitsky, Andrey G. Solovyev, Lydmila V. Ozerova, Sergey Y. Morozov

“…These data confirm that miR390-guided genes coding for ARF- and AP2-specific ta-siRNAs have been gradually changed during land plant evolution.…”
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