A Comparative Study of First-Order Reliability Method-Based Steepest Descent Search Directions for Reliability Analysis of Steel Structures by Hamed Makhduomi, Behrooz Keshtegar, Mehdi Shahraki

“…The designed steel components by the Iranian National Building code showed good confidence levels with the reliability index in the range from 2.5 to 3.0.…”
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Diffusion models for super-resolution microscopy: a tutorial by Harshith Bachimanchi, Giovanni Volpe

“…The code provided in this tutorial is also available as a Python notebook in the supplementary information.…”
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L’aménagement du territoire national et les contraintes de la nouvelle gouvernance dans la Tunisie postrévolutionnaire by Mourad Ben Jelloul

“…And in order to reduce territorial inequity public authorities committed themselves on the one hand to major projects in the field of infrastructure and large-scale public facilities, on the other hand to deep-reaching institutional and legislative reforms namely by issuing and adopting the new Local Authorities Code and Urban Planning Code. Indeed, the analysis of the reconfiguration of territorial policies in Tunisia after 2011 is likely to allow us to highlight the difficulty of shifting from a highly centralized model to one that takes into consideration local authority players and citizen participation. …”
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Nuclear Data Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation for Safety Analysis of Lead-Cooled Fast Reactors by Ishita Trivedi, Jason Hou, Giacomo Grasso, Kostadin Ivanov, Fausto Franceschini

“…The impact of nuclear data uncertainties based on ENDF/B-VII.0 covariances is quantified on lattice level using the generalized perturbation theory implemented with the Monte Carlo code Serpent and the deterministic code PERSENT of the Argonne Reactor Computational (ARC) suite. …”
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Firearms control as an element of criminological security in the concept of transitional justice for Ukraine by Yu. V. Orlov, A. M. Yashchenko

“…Law enforcement agencies, by complying with the requirements on the general principles of sentencing (Article 65, paragraph 11, part 1, Article 67 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), have sufficiently effective tools to assess and take into account the degree of social danger of various manifestations of illegal handling of weapons. …”
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An Actor-Oriented and Architecture-Driven Approach for Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Modeling by Eric Fotsing, Severin Vianey Tuekam Kakeu, Eric Desire Kameni, Marcellin Julius Antonio Nkenlifack

“…Finally, the XML file representing the model produced is used as input in the transformation process leading to code. This approach is illustrated on a hunting and population dynamic model to generate a running code for GAMA, an agent-based and spatially explicit simulation platform.…”
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Regarding the issue of the representation of denunciators in criminal proceedings by Habuda A., Repetskyi S.

“…Also, it was determined that the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine does not regulate the mandatory presence of representatives of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention at court sessions. …”
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Iron Deficiency Anemia among In-School Adolescent Girls in Rural Area of Bahir Dar City Administration, North West Ethiopia by Getachew Mengistu, Muluken Azage, Hordofa Gutema

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Certain aspects of the definition of the concept of “evidence” and its properties in criminal proceedings under martial law by I. O. Teslenko, O. О. Kochura

“…The provisions of Art. 86 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine establishes that evidence is considered admissible if it is obtained in accordance with the procedure established by law. …”
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Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analyses of a Pebble Bed HTGR Loss of Cooling Event by Gerhard Strydom

“…This paper summarizes the results of an uncertainty and sensitivity quantification investigation performed with the SUSA code, utilizing the International Atomic Energy Agency CRP 5 Pebble Bed Modular Reactor benchmark and the INL code suite PEBBED-THERMIX. …”
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Effect of High Percentages of Coated Recycled Aggregates on the Flexural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Beams by Catalina Martínez, Viviana Letelier, Bruno Wenzel

“…In addition, the load capacity of the beams with RA was higher than the theoretical values provided by the codes. Finally, the experimental critical deflection was higher than that calculated by the code equations. …”
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From heparan glycobiology to stem cell therapy: a historical perspective by Victor Nurcombe

“…Furthermore, structure-function relationships are presented, which resulted in the recognition that specific sugar-moieties and sulfation states provide a “glycocode” that is analogous to the “genetic code” and the epigenetic “histone code”. Translational avenues include the selection and biochemical tuning of heparan sugars as nanoscale scaffolds that support cell signaling for specific applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. …”
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The autonomy of will and the patient's right to self-determination: Legal guarantees and (bio)ethical dilemmas by Simonović Ivana

“…Thus, the Commission for drafting the Civil Code reserved the right to make a subsequent final statement on this matter, by relying on the arguments of experts from various fields and professional activities. …”
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Safety Identifying of Integral Abutment Bridges under Seismic and Thermal Loads by Narges Easazadeh Far, Majid Barghian

“…In this paper, the safety of IABs—designed by AASHTO LRFD bridge design code—under combination of thermal and seismic loads is studied. …”
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Green Start-Ups’ Attitudes towards Nature When Complying with the Corporate Law by Rafael Robina-Ramírez, Antonio Fernández-Portillo, Juan Carlos Díaz-Casero

“…Despite the prevalence of theories based on green entrepreneurs, very little research has been conducted on how green attributes influence nature in the framework of the new Spanish Criminal Code in what concerns corporate compliance. One hundred and fifty-two start-ups were interviewed in 2018. …”
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An honest woman not just tomorrow, but forever: An analysis of Brazilian legislative process dealing with sexual crimes from the standpoint of the labelling approach by Jéssica Moraes Cesarino, Sergio Nojiri

“…Using the questions proposed by the criminological theory of the labelling theory, we propose to investigate the legislative processes that modified the criminal types of Title VI of the Brazilian Penal Code on crimes against sexual dignity, as well as the behavior of the agents behind the creation of the laws (deputies and senators), the investigation (police officers) and the trial (magistrates). …”
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Complaint Strategies Found on Instagram Account @Indihome From Indonesia and @Tmobile From USA: Cross-Cultural Pragmatics by Kharis Marpurdianto

“…While the differences are that American netizen never uses code-switching to express complaint because this country was included in the monolingual country. …”
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Controversies in the Surgical Management of Spinal Cord Injuries by Ahmed M. Raslan, Andrew N. Nemecek

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Seismic Behavior of Turbine-Generator Foundation under Strong Earthquake Action in Different Directions by Dong An, Tie-jun Qu

“…The maximum elastic-plastic story drift is 1/191 under the limit value 1/50 provided in the Code for Seismic Design of Buildings. The deformation capacity of the structure meets the requirements of the current seismic design code of China.…”
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