Nest Digging by Leaf-Cutting Ants: Effect of Group Size and Functional Structures by Roberto da Silva Camargo, Ricardo Toshio Fujihara, Luiz Carlos Forti

“…Our results verified a pattern of tunneling by the workers, but no chamber was constructed. The group effect is well known, since the 40-worker group dug significantly more than the groups of 5, 10, and 20. …”
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A Local–Transit Percolation and Clustering-Based Method for Highway Segment Importance Ranking by Huizhe Lyu, Yang Li, Chenxu Liu, Zhonghao Li, Lin Xu, Wei Wang, Jun Chen

“…Initially, the highway network is constructed by Graph theory, and the k-means clustering method is applied considering each segment’s transit and local traffic flows. …”
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Chinaʼs Economic Growth, Energy Efficiency, and Industrial Development: Nonlinear Effects on Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Donghai Zhou, Binxia Chen, Jiahui Li, Yuanying Jiang

“…The first nonlinear structural model constructed is the TVP regression model. According to the Bayesian model comparison criterion, TVP-SV-VAR was selected as the second constructed model from four types of VAR models containing nonlinear structures. …”
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Greek Physicians’ Perceptions on Generic Drugs in the Era of Austerity by Georgios Labiris, Michael Fanariotis, Catherine Kastanioti, Georgios Alexias, Adonis Protopapas, Theodoros Karampitsakos, Dimitris Niakas

“…The variable “perception on generics” was constructed after an exploratory study and the instrument was validated by conventional and Rasch analysis methods. 22 items formed 5 subscales that constructed the variable in question. …”
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A Geostatistical Investigation into the Effective Spatiotemporal Coverage of Road Weather Information Systems in Alberta, Canada by Xu Wang, Lian Gu, Tae J. Kwon, Tony Z. Qiu

“…The findings of this research offer insight for constructing a detailed spatiotemporal RWIS database to manage and deploy different types of RWISs, optimize winter road maintenance resources, and provide timely information on inclement road weather conditions for the traveling public.…”
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Oriented PLGA/ACECM Composite Scaffolds Enhance Structure-Specific Regeneration of Hyaline Cartilage in a Rabbit Model by Weimin Guo, Xifu Zheng, Weiguo Zhang, Mingxue Chen, Zhenyong Wang, Chunxiang Hao, Jingxiang Huang, Zhiguo Yuan, Yu Zhang, Mingjie Wang, Jiang Peng, Aiyuan Wang, Yu Wang, Xiang Sui, Wenjing Xu, Shuyun Liu, Shibi Lu, Quanyi Guo

“…In conclusion, the MSC/scaffold constructs enhanced the structure-specific regeneration of hyaline cartilage in a rabbit model and may be a promising treatment strategy for the repair of human cartilage defects.…”
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The Role of Gis in Monitoring the Impact of Climate Fluctuations on The Decline of Surface Water Stored in The Mohamed V Dam on the Moulouya River (Eastern Region) by Amghar Ahmed, Sbai Abdelkader, Mouadili Omar

“…A new project was also initiated in early 2020 to construct more dams, underscoring the critical role of water resources in our daily lives. …”
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Using microtremor data to obtain dynamic properties of soils in the Veracruz-Boca del Rio metropolitan areaMendeley Data by José E. Barradas-Hernández, Sergio Márquez-Domínguez, Franco Antonio Carpio-Santamaria, Alejandro Vargas-Colorado, Abigail Zamora-Hernández, Roberto Rivera-Baizabal

“…The microtremor records were used to construct the H/V spectral ratios using the method of Nakamura. …”
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OLD RUSSIAN SUBORDINATE CLAUSE WITH A PARTICIPLE AS THE ONLY PREDICATIVE: A DIACHRONIC ASPECT by Boris V. Kunavin

“…The study aims at providing comprehensive description of syntactic constructions with a nominal active participle as the only predicative and determination of the dynamics of their use throughout the history of the Russian language, starting with the written tradition up to the 18th century. …”
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Classification of Complete Proteomes of Different Organisms and Protein Sets Based on Their Protein Distributions in Terms of Some Key Attributes of Proteins by Hao-Bo Guo, Yue Ma, Gerald A. Tuskan, Xiaohan Yang, Hong Guo

“…As a test case, phylogenetic trees have been constructed based on the protein distribution densities in the fingerprints of proteomes of organisms without performing any protein sequence comparison and alignments. …”
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Integrated Evaluation of the Ecological Security Pattern in Central Beijing Using InVEST, MSPA, and Multifactor Indices by Xiaodan Li, Haoyu Tao, Jing Wang, Bo Zhang, Zhen Liu, Zhiping Liu, Jing Li

“…Scientific identification of ecological sources and corridors is crucial in constructing an ecological security pattern (ESP). To develop an ESP tailored to the scale of central urban areas in megacities, this study takes Central Beijing as the research object. …”
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Large-scale multiobjective competitive swarm optimizer algorithm based on regional multidirectional search by Xuenan Zhang, Debao Chen, Fangzhen Ge, Feng Zou, Lin Cui

“…However, relying solely on uniform or cluster partitioning of the objective space for sampling, along with two search directions constructed with upper and lower boundaries of global variables, sometimes lacks consideration of regional information. …”
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Measuring enablers and indicators of employee engagement: Internal validity of the Flow@Work engagement survey by Melinde Coetzee, Dieter Veldsman, Ingrid L. Potgieter, Nadia Ferreira

“…The study redresses this shortcoming by examining the internal construct validity and reliability of the Flow@Work Engagement Survey (FWES) as applied to a global aggregated cross-sectional data set of (N = 39 310) clients. …”
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Extending Technology Acceptance Model with Scientific Epistemological and Science Teaching Efficacy Beliefs: A Study with Preservice Teachers by Tezcan Kartal, Ibrahim Serdar Kiziltepe, Busra Kartal

“…Science teaching efficacy beliefs had small effects on technology acceptance constructs. Recommendations were made based on the findings…”
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Seismic Improvement and Rehabilitation of Steel Concentric Braced Frames: A Framework-Based Review by Atefeh Soleymani, Hamed Saffari

“…However, when these constructions are exposed to moderate to severe seismic events, their compression members start to buckle. …”
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Research on the Value at Risk of Basis for Stock Index Futures Hedging in China Based on Two-State Markov Process and Semiparametric RS-GARCH Model by Liang Wang, Tingjia Xu, Longhao Qin, Chenge Liu

“…Since the RS-GARCH model can effectively describe the state transition of variance in VaR and the two-state Markov process can significantly reduce the dimension, this paper constructs the parameter and semiparametric RS-GARCH models based on two-state Markov process. …”
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Optimum Scheduling the Electric Distribution Substations with a Case Study: An Integer Gaining-Sharing Knowledge-Based Metaheuristic Algorithm by Said Ali Hassan, Khalid Alnowibet, Prachi Agrawal, Ali Wagdy Mohamed

“…The current planning method is based only on intuition by constructing the same number of required stations in each year without searching for better solutions. …”
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Optimal capacity configuration of joint system considering uncertainty of wind and photovoltaic power and demand response by Yuanxiang Luo, Haixin Hao, Lidong Fan

“…A fuzzy set considering uncertainty probability distribution is constructed, and a two‐stage distributed robust planning model is established. …”
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Fracture evolution in steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) of tunnel under static and dynamic loading based on DEM-FDM coupling model by Yu Chen, Dongfeng Yu, Yixian Wang, Yanlin Zhao, Hang Lin, Jingjing Meng, Haoliang Wu

“…Furthermore, a coupled finite difference method-discrete element method approach is used to construct the model of the split Hopkinson pressure bar. …”
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Kinetics and mechanism of synthetic CoS oxidation process by Štrbac N., Mihajlović I., Živković D., Boyanov B., Živković Ž., Cocić M.

“…Based on experimental data obtained using DTA and XRD analysis and constructed PSD diagrams for Co-S-O system, mechanism of synthetic a-CoS oxidation process is suggested. …”
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