An Investigation of Time-Dependent Deformation Characteristics of Soft Dredger Fill by Wanying Wang, Qingzi Luo, Bingxiang Yuan, Xiaoping Chen

“…The creep characteristics of soft clays have been studied for decades. However, the lateral deformation of soils is not allowed during the commonly used one-dimensional consolidation tests, which cannot describe the real deformation features of soils in practice. …”
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Renal Transplantation from Elderly Living Donors by Jacob A. Akoh, Umasankar Mathuram Thiyagarajan

“…This is a review of publications in the English language between 2000 and 2013 about renal transplantation from elderly living donors to determine trends and effects of donation, and the outcomes of such transplantation. The last decade witnessed a 50% increase in living kidney donor transplants, with a disproportionate increase in donors >60 years. …”
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Modernity and interreligious dialogue. Difficulties posed by the ideological translation of religious categories by María A. Corpas-Aguirre

“…The processes of construction of these states would feed the liberation movements, spreading for decades the deep wound of political violence and its export to the world. …”
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Little strokes fell big oaks: The use of weak magnetic fields and reactive oxygen species to fight cancer by Margit Egg, Thomas Kietzmann

“…While WEMF have been used therapeutically for musculoskeletal disorders for decades, their role in oncology is still emerging. …”
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Sustained and Efficient Delivery of Antivascular Endothelial Growth Factor by the Adeno-associated Virus for the Treatment of Corneal Neovascularization: An Outlook for Its Clinica... by Mengzhen Xie, Lixiang Wang, Yingping Deng, Ke Ma, Hongbo Yin, Xiaolan Zhang, Xingye Xiang, Jing Tang

“…Corneal neovascularization can arise from all conditions of chronic irritation or hypoxia, which disrupts the immune-privileged state of the healthy cornea, increases the risk of rejection after keratoplasty, and leads to opacity. In the past decades, significant progress has been made for neovascular diseases of the retina and choroid, with plenty of drugs getting commercialized. …”
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Tidal Current with Sediment Transport Analysis and Wind Turbine Foundation Pile Scour Trend Studies on the Central Bohai Sea by Xingtang Hu, Zhifeng Wang, Xin Ma

“…This study integrates numerical simulations with experimental validation to conduct an in-depth analysis of the tidal current background, sediment transport, sediment sources, and scour characteristics over the past two decades. The analysis of ocean currents and sediment dynamics revealed that the monthly average tidal current speed in the majority of the study region is below 0.6 m·s⁻¹, with annual seabed erosion and accretion changes within 0.02 m, exhibiting minimal variation. …”
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Understanding rangeland desertification through pastoralist perspectives using a grounded theory approach by Mohsen Sharaftmandrad, Mohammadreza Shahraki

“…Abstract Rangeland desertification risk has significantly increased due to the fragility of these ecosystems and the severity of degradation caused by climate instability and human activities over the last decade. This research focuses on identifying indicators of rangeland desertification risk using a qualitative grounded theory approach based on the perspectives of pastoralists in Kolijah and Qolaq-Borte, Golestan Province, Iran. …”
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Articuler construction des savoirs, pratiques écrites et orales au lycée : le rôle du débat interprétatif délibératif en classe de français by Marie-France Rossignol, Brigitte Marin

“…Despite recommendations outlined in educational curricula over the last decade, the spoken debate form has struggled to establish itself as a standard practice in education. …”
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The principles of tactical formation identification in association football (soccer) — a survey by Hadi Sotudeh

“…This paper reviews the principles employed to identify team tactical formations in association football, covering over two decades of research based on event and tracking data. …”
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Deep Learning-Assisted Short-Term Power Load Forecasting Using Deep Convolutional LSTM and Stacked GRU by Fath U Min Ullah, Amin Ullah, Noman Khan, Mi Young Lee, Seungmin Rho, Sung Wook Baik

“…Over the decades, a rapid upsurge in electricity demand has been observed due to overpopulation and technological growth. …”
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DeepFusion: Fusing User-Generated Content and Item Raw Content towards Personalized Product Recommendation by Mingxin Gan, Hang Zhang

“…Personalized recommender systems, as effective approaches for alleviating information overload, have received substantial attention in the last decade. Learning effective latent factors plays the most important role in recommendation methods. …”
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Application of N-Quinoline-2-carboxamido-8-aminoquinoline in Fabrication of a Ho(III)-PVC Membrane Sensor by Hassan Ali Zamani, Samaneh Langroodi, Soraia Meghdadi

“…The proposed electrode exhibits a linear dynamic range between 1.0×10-6 and 1.0×10-2 M, with a near Nernstian slope of 20.4±0.3 mV per decade and a detection limit of 4.2×10-7 M. The best performance was obtained with a membrane composition of 30% poly(vinyl chloride), 56% nitrobenzene, 2% sodium tetraphenyl borate, 10% oleic acid and 2% QCA. …”
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Finite element simulations of auxetic structure combined with honeycomb using unidirectional continuous carbon fiber composite properties by Nathália Mello Mascarenhas Paixão, Antônio Ferreira Ávila

“… Metamaterials have been studied over the last few decades, as they may exhibit peculiar mechanical behavior. …”
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Phenotypic detection of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in clinical isolates at a tertiary care hospital by Astha Sinha, Mamta Gour, Riti Jain Seth

“…Background: In the past decade, there has been a global emergence of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacilli, especially Enterobacterales. …”
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Intellectual Structure of Global Value Chain Research: Visualization and Bibliometric Analysis Based on VOSviewer by Jianhua Dai, Shuanglei Xu

“…Over the past few decades, numerous scholars have conducted research on global value chains, and the amount of literature in this field has grown rapidly to become “big data.” …”
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Étude ethnotaxonomique des espèces fruitières spontanées comestibles chez l’ethnie Diola d’Oussouye (Sénégal) by Yves Djihounouck, Doudou Diop, César Bassène, Mame Samba Mbaye, Richard Demba Diop, Babacar Faye, Kandioura Noba

“…Natural products of plant meet a renewed interest for a decade. However, climate change and human action have led to a degradation of the natural ecosystems and extinction for certain plant. …”
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“Theatre’s Other: Event and Testimony in British Verbatim Plays” by Clare Finburgh

“…This essay examines four permutations on the verbatim mode: Dennis Kelly’s Taking Care of Baby (2007); and three pieces from a co-authored series of short plays on the 11 September 2001 attacks on the USA (9/11), Decade (2011) – Samuel Adamson’s Recollections of Scott Forbes , Simon Schama’s Epic, and Alexandra Wood’s My Name is Tania Head. …”
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Enhancing willingness to communicate in English among Chinese students in the UK: the impact of MALL with Duolingo and HelloTalk by Zhao Dan, Jablonkai Reka R., Sandoval-Hernandez Andres

“…Over the past decade, mobile-assisted language learning technologies, such as smartphone applications, have become increasingly prominent in language learning; however, empirical research on how the use of mobile apps can influence students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) is scarce. …”
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WORKING PRINCIPLE AND PERFORMANCE EVOLUTION OF CAMERA-BASED INTELLIGENT SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS: SAMSUN CITY, TÜRKIYE EXAMPLE by Metin Mutlu AYDIN, Dimitris POTOGLOU, Liana CIPCIGAN

“…For this aim, intelligent intersections were developed and started to be used in many cities all over the world in the last decade. These new intelligent intersection systems suggest dynamic signal times for all intersection legs by using real-time measured traffic data. …”
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Perceptions and influences of literature on psychological processes and dispositions in contemporary society by Petrović Nebojša

“…Literature plays a crucial role in shaping, maintaining or challenging collective identities, especially in the societies undergoing crises and rapid changes, such as ours in recent decades. Attention is paid to illustrating these processes in contemporary Serbian literature. …”
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