Analyzing the Mechanical, Durability, and Microstructural Impact of Partial Cement Replacement with Pumice Powder and Bamboo Leaf Ash in Concrete by Haris Hassen Adem, Fikreyesus Demeke Cherkos

“…Moreover, on the 28th day, Mix-2 with (35.84 MPa) and Mix-3 with (33.55 MPa) met the desired mean compressive strength (33.5 MPa) required for C-25 concrete per the ACI standards. …”
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A semi-supervised deep neuro-fuzzy iterative learning system for automatic segmentation of hippocampus brain MRI by M Nisha, T Kannan, K Sivasankari

“…Thus, the proposed segmentation techniques outperform the existing techniques and produce the desired result so that an accurate diagnosis is made at the earliest stage to save human lives and to increase their life span.…”
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Dream of European Army: Is It a Feasible Objective or Not? by Sevil Şahin, Mustafa Ozan Şahin

“…Because of these kinds of reservations, desires to pursue more advanced capabilities on their own have been raised.There has been a lot of debate and analysis around the reasons for and against the formation of a European army. …”
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Electroporation of mouse embryonic stem cells with Neon device by I. P. Savchenkova, A. A. Savchenkova

“…Mouse embryonic stem cells are widely used as a promising material for producing of new cellular systems with desired properties in cellular and molecularbiology, pharmacology, virology, medicine, veterinary medicine and biotechnology. …”
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Study of the Windowing and Overlap-Add Operation for a Super-Gaussian Random Vibration Test by Yiming Peng, Yang Li

“…Random vibration environmental testing employs the specified statistical properties of the real world vibration to reproduce the desired excitations on the shaker table for fatigue test purposes. …”
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Game-based Methods for Competence “Teamwork and Leadership” Development: The Case of Engineering Students by E. V. Grib, E. V. Kolomoets, V. V. Latysheva

“…Game-based methods are both a diagnostic and corrective tool, they allow to identify already existing skills, activate the behaviour of students in the desired direction and consolidate the result. The article analyses the experience of using active training methods for the development of the competence “teamwork and leadership”. …”
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Staffing of the Ukrainian SSR militia in 1945 by V. A. Grechenko

“…Of the total number of those released in 1945: a) for illness, age and inadequacy – 4652 people; b) according to the materials of the special inspection – 1526 people; c) for moral and domestic decomposition, violation of labor discipline, personal desires and family circumstances – 9626 people. Among the militia, 3 % were those with higher and incomplete higher education, 13 % – secondary, 25 % – below secondary and 57 % – lower education. …”
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The Effect of Sharia Principles in Banking on Customer Satisfaction (Study Case: Shiraz Sepeh Bank) by Fereshte Nafar, Poya Abolhasani, Amirhossein Khataei Dayeni

“…In examining the research hypotheses regarding the impact of each of the desired variables, the results indicate that among these 5 variables, Sharia compliance in auditing with a beta path coefficient (0.315) has a greater impact on customer satisfaction. …”
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The art of non-verbal communication in perlocutionary giftedness by Adam Świątek

“…The research revealed that the aspects like verbal aptitude, anxiety, willingness to communicate, or personality type had considerable impact on perlocutionary skills and the desired perlocutionary effects. Świątek’s approach shed new light on the research on pragmatic aspects of glottodidactics and opened a new chapter in that field of science. …”
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Thermal Analysis of a Casson Boundary Layer Flow over a Penetrable Stretching Porous Wedge by Dur-e-Shehwar Sagheer, Mohammad Alqudah, Nawal A. Alshehri, M. Sabeel Khan, M. Asif Memon, R. Shehzad, Amsalu Fenta

“…The importance of this study is due to its applications in biomedical engineering where the analysis of behavior of non-Newtonian blood flow in arteries and veins is desired. Within the context of blood flow, it is also applicable to many other fields, for instance, radiative therapy, MHD generators, soil machines, melt-spinning, and insulation processes. …”
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Production and characterization of biodiesel from Argemone mexicana seed oil by Melese Damtew Asfaw, Adamu Tizazu Yadeta, Betelihem Gessese Yewalie, Yosef Wondossen Negash

“…The fatty acid composition indicates that the biodiesel produced from Argemone mexicana has desirable characteristics for high-quality biodiesel production. …”
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Assessing the Quality of services provision in the system of Bus Rapid Transit from the viewpoint of citizens Case study: Rasht city by Seyedreza Azadeh, fatemeh Alavi Zadeh Shalkouhi

“…The results of the survey showed that out of the 389 respondents, 178 people (45.8%) evaluated the overall quality and efficiency of the BRT system in Rasht city at a moderate level and also 99 respondents (25.4%) evaluated the quality and efficiency of the BRT system in Rasht city at a desirable level. The average quality and overall efficiency score of the BRT system in Rasht city has been 2.87 out of the citizen's idea. …”
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Spatial Analysis Quality of Life in Urban Areas Using Geographic Information System (GIS) (Case Study: District 2 of Mashhad) by ahmad asadi, Ebrahim akbari

“…The results indicate a good quality of life in the central neighborhoods, and there are no marginal areas of desirable quality. It also increases the level of quality of life in the vicinity of the recreational centers and follows the spatial patterns. …”
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Modelling and Production of Injection Moulded Polyvinylchloride--Sawdust Composite by C.O. Aliyegbenoma, J.A. Apkobi, D.D. Olodu

“…The optimization results for PVC-Sawdust composite shows that the tensile strength, proof stress, flexural strength and flexural modulus were maximized with values of 43.70MPa, 48.38MPa, 61.41MPa and 3.42GPa respectively obtained at barrel temperature of 224.65oC and polymer level of 61.46% respectively while percentage elongation and average deflection were minimized with values of 65.43% and 4.23 cm respectively. A desirability of 0.952 was obtained which shows the adequacy of the model terms. …”
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FUNCTIONS OF HIGHER PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION by M. A. Bogatyreova

“…The analysis of existing linguistic concepts (up to the ХХ-th century) as well as the current state of FL educational system, testifies to the fact that a number of urgent and indispensable changes are needed. The desirable transformations are aimed to amplify the contents of the functional burden of professional FL education. …”
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Nikola Mavroyani’nin Eflâk Voyvodalığı (1786-1790) by Sinan YÜKSEL

“…In a period when Russia made its influence increasingly felt in Wallachia and Moldavia following its annexation of Crimea, Nikola Mavroyani desired to be the voivode of Wallachia. In line with this purpose, he both exploited the power of Algerian Gazi Hasan Pasha to the full extent and exercised his diligence to be the Voivode of Wallachia with the support of British and Russian delegates. …”
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FastEEC: Fast evaluation of N-point energy correlators by Ankita Budhraja, Wouter J. Waalewijn

“…E.g. for N=7 we find a speed up of up to four orders of magnitude, depending on the desired accuracy. We also consider the possibility of raising the energy to a power higher than one in the energy correlator, which has been proposed to reduce soft sensitivity. …”
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Quality education for all in an ideas-informed society: exploring idea-engagement amongst friendship networks and how education can prevent idea “echo-chambers” by Chris Brown, Jana Gross Ophoff, Graham Handscomb

“…The concept of the ideas-informed society (IIS) represents a desired situation in which citizens actively and critically engage with new ideas, developments and claims to truth. …”
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Exploration of Muscle Fatigue Effects in Bioinspired Robot Learning from sEMG Signals by Ning Wang, Yang Xu, Hongbin Ma, Xiaofeng Liu

“…TbD experiments on Baxter robot with 30 human demonstration trials show that the robot can successfully accomplish the taught task with a generated trajectory much closer to that of the desirable condition where little fatigue exists.…”
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A model for developing dependable systems using a component‐based software development approach (MDDS‐CBSD) by Hasan Kahtan, Mansoor Abdulhak, Ahmad Salah Al‐Ahmad, Yehia Ibrahim Alzoubi

“…When a system provides the desired outcomes while causing no harm to the environment, it is said to be dependable. …”
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