Dimensions of Rational Decision-Making during the Demographic Transition; Aranjuez (Spain) Revisited by David Reher, Glenn Sandström

“…Here results show that both sexes were desired by parents but that lack of surviving males had greater influence on fertility behavior. …”
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Assessing urban resilience and sustainability in the face of natural hazards with emphasis on reducing vulnerability in cities (Case study: Semnan city) by mozaffar mohamadkhani, zeynab karke abadi, abbas arghan

“…The structure of urban resilience consists of four dimensions: social, economic, institutional and physical. In the desired situation, a resilient city has a strong local society with a dynamic and sustainable economy that is governed institutionally and institutionally in a participatory manner. …”
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Composite Sand–Clay Infrastructural Soil Fills: Characteristic Consolidation and Hydraulic Properties by Burcu Dışkaya, Tanay Karademir

“…This will ultimately impact the desired stability conditions of sand-clay soil layers built for constructed infrastructural fill, resulting in a deviation from anticipated performance conditions. …”
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Performance Analysis of a Photovoltaic-Thermal Integrated System by Ewa Radziemska

“…Stabilizing temperature of photovoltaic modules at low level is higly desirable to obtain efficiency increase. The total efficiency of 60–80% can be achieved with the whole PV/T system provided that the T system is operated near ambient temperature. …”
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Exergy, Energy, Economic, and Environmental Assessment of Gas Condensate Stabilization Units for the Selection of Optimum Configuration by Van Vang Le, Elizabeth C. Matsui

“…Finally, it is determined that the STB-E is the only structure that can maintain the quality of RVP (8 psia) for the produced condensate while simultaneously controlling all the technical, economic and, environmental parameters at desirable levels.…”
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Optimal sizing model of battery energy storage in a droop-controlled islanded multi-carrier microgrid based on an advanced frequency droop model by Abouzar Samimi, Mehdi Nikzad, Adel Zakipour

“…Compared to the conventional frequency droop characteristic, the utilized AFDM can reduce the total EPC while a broader range of power/frequency control capabilities of the BESS is achieved to regulate the frequency in a desired band. Furthermore, the paper examines the impact of the AFDM on the selection of battery technology.…”
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Localisation of Abundant and Organ-Specific Genes Expressed in Rosa hybrida Leaves and Flower Buds by Direct In Situ RT-PCR by Agata Jedrzejuk, Heiko Mibus, Margrethe Serek

“…In situ PCR and IS-RT-PCR are elegant techniques that can increase both sensitivity and throughput, but they are, at best, only semiquantitative; therefore, it is desirable first to ascertain the expression pattern by conventional means to establish the suitable conditions for each probe. …”
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Digital Twin Hospital Buildings: An Exemplary Case Study through Continuous Lifecycle Integration by Yang Peng, Ming Zhang, Fangqiang Yu, Jinglin Xu, Shang Gao

“…The case has been steadily running for more than a year in the hospital and achieved desired performance by reducing energy consumption, avoiding facility faults, reducing the number of requested repairs, and enhancing the quality of daily maintenance work.…”
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Security-enhanced three-factor remote user authentication scheme based on Chebyshev chaotic maps by Yan Zhao, Shiming Li, Liehui Jiang, Tieming Liu

“…Thus, the proposed scheme is more desirable for securing communication in mobile networks.…”
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Mimetic Gravity: A Review of Recent Developments and Applications to Cosmology and Astrophysics by Lorenzo Sebastiani, Sunny Vagnozzi, Ratbay Myrzakulov

“…We devote particular focus to the reconstruction technique, which allows the realization of any desired expansionary history of the universe by an accurate choice of potential or other functions defined within the theory (as in the case of mimetic f(R) gravity). …”
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A new -means singular value decomposition method based on self-adaptive matching pursuit and its application in fault diagnosis of rolling bearing weak fault by Hongchao Wang, Wenliao Du

“…However, K -means singular value decomposition has relative low reconstruction accuracy and poor stability to enhance the desired features. To overcome the above-mentioned shortcomings of K -means singular value decomposition, a new K -means singular value decomposition sparse representation method based on traditional K -means singular value decomposition method was proposed in this article, which uses the sparse adaptive matching pursuit algorithm and an iterative method based on the minimum similarity of atomic structure. …”
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Methylene Blue Adsorption BY UV-Treated Graphene Oxide Nanoparticles (UV/n-GO): Modeling and Optimization Using Response Surface Methodology and Artificial Neural Networks by M. Venkata Ratnam, Manikkampatti Palanisamy Murugesan, Srikanth Komarabathina, S. Samraj, Mohammedsani Abdulkadir, Muktar Abdu Kalifa

“…This was accomplished with a desirability score of 0.853. A three-layer backpropagation network with an ideal structure of 4-4-1 was used to create an ANN model. …”
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Semiotic knowledge about mass communication Umberto Eco and problems of comprehension of digital reality by T. Smirnova, I. Unzhakova

“…The conclusion about the possibilities of using the scientific method of Umberto Eco in digital sociology for social diagnostics of the content and specificity of communications on the Internet, which allows to represent different aspects of your real or desired “I”, to create identities through many virtual characters, has been substantiated.…”
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Ground validation of manipulator adaptive variable admittance control method for detumbling a space noncooperative satellite by Xinlin Bai, Xiwen Li, Zhen Zhao, Zhigang Xu

“…The experimental results show that during the relative detumbling process, the spin angular velocity of the simulated space noncooperative satellite gradually decreases to the desired value of − 0.089°/s, significantly outperforming the fixed admittance control method. …”
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Prospective scenarios for the personal responsibility promotion with health in Cuba until 2030 by Isabel Pilar Luis Gonzalvez, Yusdanys Torres Jimenez, Adolfo Gerardo Álvarez Pérez

“…<p><strong>Foundation:</strong> scenario construction methods are of great importance for the achievement of any goal since they allow social actors to participate in the construction of the desired future by conjecturing the realities that have not yet happened but that could happen if the action is anticipated.…”
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Time-variant left ventricle models for intracardiac impedance analysis by Voss Daniel, Wemmer Clara, Leonhardt Steffen, Walter Marian

“…Although continuous hemodynamic monitoring of patients is desirable, due to technical limitations, current measurement technologies either require manual intervention of the physician or only provide inaccurate results. …”
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Public Transport in Rural Roads: Measures to Increase Its Modal Share in Iran by Alireza Afkham, Shahriar Afandizadeh, Ali Naderan

“…Given the vast area of Iran and the distance between the population centers in the country, the obtained solutions to increase the share of public rural road transport included reducing the desirability of travel with private cars in short rural distances through interaction with industrial towns around metropolises, along with providing such areas with special services to attract passengers to rural transport with occupational goals.…”
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FACS‐Sortable Triple Emulsion Picoreactors for Screening Reactions in Biphasic Environments by Samuel Thompson, Yanrong Zhang, Zijian Yang, Lisa Nichols, Polly M. Fordyce

“…However, encapsulating biphasic reactions within double emulsions to form FACS‐sortable droplet picoreactors requires optimized solvent phases and surfactants to produce triple emulsion droplets that are stable over multi‐hour assays and compatible with desired reaction conditions. This work demonstrates such FACS‐sortable triple emulsion picoreactors with a fluorocarbon shell and biphasic octanol‐in‐water core. …”
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Evaluating the Development Level of Agriculture Rating Rural Settlements for Wilderness Tourism Development Using ELECTERE III Techniques: A Case Study in Khurbiabanak by Mohammad Salmani, Seiedali Badri, Mohammadgavad Ghassabi, Ghadir Ashournejad

“…In this regard, it appears to be essential to present a hierarchical classification of tourism areas and establish an effective framework for distributing tourists, delivering appropriate services, and desired function. Rural settlements of Khurbiabanak city with its unique features for the development of tourism can play an effective role in the further development of this region. …”
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Strategies for Overcoming University Researchers’ Writer’s Block by V. M. Evdash, N. N. Zhuravleva

“…These strategies aim to develop researchers’ positive attitude to writing, to enable them to boost their awareness of the writing process in receiving the desired results, and build confidence as second language writers.…”
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