Enhancing Real-Time Embedded System Education With Self-Driving Car Models by Dheya Mustafa, Safaa Mahmoud Khabour, Intisar Ghazi Mustafeh

“…The self-driving car has been developing rapidly over the past decade, with increased attention from both academia and industry worldwide. …”
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Do nano-boom à paralisação: a trajetória da política brasileira de nanotecnologia by Noela Invernizzi, Guillermo Foladori, Josemari Perschke de Quevedo

“…Brazil formulated a policy to spur the emergent field of nanotechnology at the beginning of 2000 decade, in synchrony with industrialized countries. …”
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Health for All: Medical Tourism as a Resource by Joseph Amalorpavanathan, Gopalakrishnan Ananthakrishnan

“…India has been formulating policies for more than three decades to grow medical tourism as a significant globalised service through a well-trained set of clinicians and hospitals. …”
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Urban redevelopment, governance and vulnerability: thirty years of ‘regeneration’ in Dublin by Niamh Moore-Cherry

“… Over the last three decades, state intervention through urban regeneration has focused on ‘fixing’ perceived social and spatial vulnerabilities within particular neighbourhoods, communities or city spaces but has often generated new urban crises. …”
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The Phonetic Description of Eshtehrdi Dialect by محمّد پارسانسب

“…Eshtehardi Tatty dialect, the dialect of the south-west Iran, with all that antiquity, is still alive and regarding its geographic region, had been remained intact until a few decades ago. But now for various reasons is eliminated against the power of national language. …”
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AN INQUIRY INTO CHINA’S ALIGNMENT WITH RUSSIA by W. Li

“…Yet, they also split into the arch rivals for nearly two decades until the early 1980s. Realist scholars believe that China and the former USSR and now Russia are doomed to compete with each other in light of their geographical vicinity and the lack of mutual trust resulted from the pursuit of greatness and historical memories. …”
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Building irregularity issues and architectural design in seismic areas by Valerio Alecci, Mario De Stefano

“…A frequent plan-wise irregularity arises when earthquake resistant structures, such as cores and shear walls, are concentrated on one side of the building plan, while vertical irregularity often arises from the presence of soft stories especially located at the ground level or, less frequently, at an intermediate level. In the last decades, some trends in architectural design, such as Deconstructivism and other contemporary theories, worked in pursuing architectural solutions based on the concept of “deconstruction” in place of “construction”, favoring non-rigid schemes, non-regular shapes and, more generally, avoiding geometric rules and classical canons of symmetry and regularity. …”
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Regards sur le séisme de Mexico de septembre 2017 : permanences et décalages par rapport à la catastrophe de 1985 by Jean-François Valette

“…Finally, we will show how the urban dynamics of the last decades raise issues of vulnerabilities and exacerbated inequalities, highlighted by the recent earthquake.…”
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Using Animal Retribution Fiction for the Promotion of Environmental Awareness: the Case for a Reinterpretation of Daphne Du Maurier's "The Birds" by Xavier LACHAZETTE

“…In the search for effective means of representing and conveying the urgency of the environmental crisis facing humanity in the coming decade, not all images hit the mark with the same forcefulness. …”
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New challenges for banking, financial services and insurance by Radić Nikola

“…Digital transformation, the macro trend that has defined the past decade, has accelerated at an incredible rate during 2020. …”
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Particulate Matter-Induced Acute Coronary Syndrome: MicroRNAs as Microregulators for Inflammatory Factors by Nur Izah Ab Razak, Nor Eliani Ezani, Norzian Ismail

“…However, little is known about miRNA responses to fine PM (PM2.5, PM10, ultrafine particles, black carbon, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon) from air pollution and their potential contribution to cardiovascular consequences, including systemic inflammation regulation. For the past decades, microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as novel, prospective diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in various illnesses, including ACS. …”
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L’impact de la mobilisation écorégionale sur les politiques en matière de montagne dans les Alpes suisses et la Sierra Nevada en Californie by Jörg Balsiger

“…During the last four decades, both polities have devised targeted strategies, policies, and programs for mountain regions. …”
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Migration, Ethnocentrism and Linguistic Diversity Effect in the Development of the Takestan city by Esmaeil Nasiri, Ali Ahmadi, Reza Rahmani

“…Migration is among important issues that less developed and developing countries have confirmed during the recent five decades. This issues in Iran has attraced a lot of researcher and planner views. …”
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Nonprotein Structures from Mycobacteria: Emerging Actors for Tuberculosis Control by Luz M. Lopez-Marin

“…Immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causal agent of tuberculosis, is critical for protection. For many decades, consistent to classical biochemistry, most studies regarding immunity to the tubercle bacilli focused mainly on protein structures. …”
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Stratégies contre le déclin des zones périphériques by Martin Boesch, Erich Renner, Dominik Siegrist

“…It remains to be seen what is likely to happen in regions that have been substantially and structurally weakened by decades of depopulation; regions where investors prefer not to venture to develop resources that are still available. …”
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Comment une ville traditionnelle turque a-t-elle réussi à attirer les citadins en opérant une transformation historique et naturelle pour répondre aux attentes urbaines ? by Janna Leann Rose

“…The processes through which urban centers and rural peripheries influence each other reach beyond landscapes and town borders into something deeper and more culturally substantial. Over the past decade, a rural village in Turkey has been re-constructing itself to represent a nostalgic historical era that is part of the local natural landscape that draws in urban tourists from the national capital. …”
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Modelling and Simulation of Tramway Transportation Systems by A. Capasso, M. Ceraolo, R. Lamedica, G. Lutzemberger, A. Ruvio

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THE IMPACT OF INFLATION EXPECTATIONS ON HOUSEHOLD WELL-BEING: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS by Katarína Ilenčíková, Patrícia Krupová

“…For decades, understanding financial and subjective well-being has been central to research, given its relevance to individual quality of life and policy decisions (Helliwell et al., 2019; Brüggen et al., 2017). …”

Energy policy of the Republic of Turkey: expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean by B. D. Nuriev, S. V. Pospelov

“…Another important reason is the desire of official Ankara and the Turkish big business that has taken shape over the past two decades to strengthen its influence in neighboring countries and territories. …”
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Effects of Strategy-based Instruction on Chinese EFL Learners’ Writing Enjoyment: A Mixed-methods Study by Nan Hu, Ci Zhang

“…While research into strategy-based instruction and language learning emotions has been thriving over decades as respective domains, research on how strategy-based interventions may influence learners’ writing enjoyment has largely remained unexplored. …”
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