Load Characteristics of Tunnel Lining in Flooded Loess Strata considering Loess Structure by Yuyang Liu, Hongpeng Lai

“…Finite element calculation of the structural Duncan-Chang constitutive model is realized via the secondary development of finite element software, by which the loads on the secondary lining are calculated and verified in comparison with measured results. …”
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Following Brodsky. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Apocrypha by Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak

“…The core theory which constitutes the methodological foundation of the study is Astrid Erll’s concept of cultural memory expounded as intertextuality, i.e. the continuous building up of layers of texts, which are mediated, as well as her idea of transcultural memory, defined in the first instance as a process of fluctuation between the individual and collective level of remembering. …”
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Walking in the Brontë Dining-room as Literary Influence by Kate Lawson

“…Employing the materialist theories of Thomas Rickert, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, and Karen Barad, the essay explores how the complex web of the sisters’ everyday lived experiences could constitute literary influence. While indoor walking provides only one of many possible routes for such a materialist analysis of influence, the Brontës’ daily evening walks of approximately two hours in length are well documented and can act as a focal point for an investigation of how such experiences intersect with the novels’ composition. …”
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L’essor musical de la basilique de San Petronio au XVe siècle : I-Bsp, Fragments A, B, C, D, E, une relecture by Johan Guiton

“…Discovered by Sergio Paganelli in 1967 and catalogued by Charles Hamm the following year, they constitute the only surviving example of canto figurato dating back to the earliest decades of the institution’s history, from the formation of the schola clericorum by Eugene IV in 1436 until the period when Giovanni Spataro began his tenure as maestro di canto (1512). …”
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Od binarności do nowej fali – między modernizmem a postmodernizmem w nowej socjologii dzieciństwa by Małgorzata Kowalik-Olubińska

“…The subject of the author’s interest is one of the currents, known as the new wave, which the author considers in the context of modernism, out of which the current of the new wave has emerged, and postmodernism, which constitutes the significant intellectual background for it. …”
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Sex, ‘soaps’ and HIV by Natalie Ridgard

“…Given that the epidemic is stabilising though not yet declining, reducing the frequency of MCPs should constitute part of South Africa’s prevention strategy. …”
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Newman the Preacher by Paul Chavasse

“…But emphasis is placed above all on the underlying aim of all his preaching, summed up in the formula of Fr Henry Tristram, one time superior of the Birmingham Oratory which Newman founded: for Newman, preaching must constitute an incentive not only to ‘living better’ but also to ‘praying better’. …”
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Le processus incapacitant au cours du vieillissement : rôle de l’exercice/activité physique by Philipe de Souto Barreto, Anne-Marie Ferrandez

“…The definitions of frailty, as well as the ways to measure physical exercise/activity, constitute the main inconsistencies among studies. However, most of the researches show that a regular practice of physical exercise/activity decreases the age-related declines in both physiological status and functional fitness. …”
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Environments (out) of Control by Lorinc Vass, Roy Cloutier, Nicole Sylvia, Contingent Collective

“…Cybernetics is today simultaneously exalted as a liberatory mechanism for designing emergence, complexity and open-endedness, and constitutive of an indiscernible mode of decentralised, environmentally modulated control. …”
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Parliamentary rules of procedure and parliamentary speech by Milić Dejan A.

“…For the sake of efficient parliamentary work and decision-making, the debate should be regulated legally, which is done by the parliamentary rules of procedure, the "parliamentary constitution" adopted by the parliament and which prescribes the internal organization and procedures of the parliament. …”
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The transnational earth: Evolution meets the World Heritage in model development scenarios for a globally inclusive knowledge economy by Hana Ayala

“…The article explores the global promise of the natural reserves of the knowledge capital that permeate the earth's evolutionary and ecological connectivity and may constitute the greatest reserve of the sustainability and common good of the global knowledge economy. …”
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Persistent and extended COVID, post-COVID-19. New reflections in 2024 by Alfredo Darío Espinosa Brito

“…Although most therapeutic approaches in patients with persistent COVID are symptomatic and supportive, based on the clinical expertise of the professionals who care for the patients, recent advances in the description of clinical phenotypes, further research into molecular research and the search to identify specific biomarkers could provide new evidence on their pathogenic mechanisms and more personalized approaches to the clinical care of these patients, who constitute a real health and occupational problem in the world today. …”
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Bibliometric Review on Corporate Social Responsibility of the Food Industry by Mingli He, Weiping Yu, Xiaoyun Han

“…The analysis of the three fields that constitute the knowledge structure. (2) Research in this field has become a hot spot, but the research is rather scattered, and the scholars and experts do not have a special research core. (3) The keywords’ cluster results in 9 clustering tags, which are further grouped into 7 groups. …”
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Food allergies and Living with Risk: Navigating everyday life at university when at risk of anaphylaxis by Megan Haslam

“…Life-threatening food allergies which put an individual at risk of anaphylaxis change the way that everyday life, and the spaces that constitute it, are experienced. Some research within geography has explored children’s experiences of living with this risk, but few until now have explored the complexities of navigating life with a food allergy for young people at university. …”
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Fostering Specialised Higher Nursing Education in India: Identifying Challenges and Crafting Solutions by Suresh K Sharma, Lily Podder

“…As healthcare systems worldwide evolve to meet the increasing complexities of patient care, specialised higher nursing education has emerged as a pivotal component in enhancing the quality of healthcare delivery. In India, nurses constitute approximately 30.5% of the healthcare workforce; however, the nation faces significant challenges in developing a competent specialised nursing cadre. …”
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Rwanda after the Genocide: Formal and Informal Institutions in Overcoming Development Traps by E. S. Glazova

“…Permanent self-reproduction of crises or getting into so called development traps in underdeveloped countries constitutes one of the most significant world problems. …”
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Reversible data hiding in encrypted images based on fine-grained embedding room reservation by Jinwei LI, Xiaoya ZHANG, Yuanzhi YAO, Nenghai YU

“…Reversible data hiding in encrypted images has attracted considerable attention due to the privacy-preserving requirement for cloud data management.The good performance in this area can be achieved by using the existing framework of reserving room before encryption, where the image is partitioned to two independent slices consisting of blocks and then traditional reversible data hiding techniques are utilized to vacate room.In order to better exploit the spatial correlation of images, a fine-grained scalable embedding room reservation strategy in which blocks were rearranged to constitute the textured slice and the smooth slice was proposed.The block-size can be adjusted adaptively according to the texture of the images and the size of room to be vacated.The original locations of these blocks were efficiently represented as the to-be-embedded auxiliary information for image restoration.Because pixels in the smooth slice are easier to be predicted, the smooth slice can contain more pixel bits from the textured slice to reserve more room and fewer embedding distortions are induced with traditional reversible data hiding techniques.Extensive experiments demonstrate the merits of the proposed method in terms of embedding capacity and image quality.…”
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Les Dépravés de Dieu by Romain Simenel

“…Discredited and even rejected by Islam, celibacy, especially if it is prolonged, would seem to provide the most relevant perspective for exploring the limits of what constitutes a youth. This article begins with an analysis of a celibacy-treatment ritual practiced in many regions in southwest Morocco (a ritual that allows the “youth” category to be defined from the angle of both gender relations and religious relations) and then develops a more general study of representations linked to male youth—particularly as they relate to “licit” life and divine judgement. …”
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Le méthaniseur et le paysage by Fabrice Raffin, Camille Dormoy

“…It then intervenes in the constitution of audiences (Céfaï, 2015) and of problematic situations relating to land use planning, which are implicitly part of a struggle to maintain a landscape in its existing state.…”
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Mechanisms of Social Consolidation in the Network Society by L. A. Bobova

“…These social movements do not have any tangible hierarchy and leaders; information within the movement activity is spread virally and mainly using new electronic communication tools - namely, mass self-communication constituting spaces of communication autonomy beyond the control of governments. …”
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