Ni-catalysed acceptorless dehydrogenative aromatisation of cyclohexanones enabled by concerted catalysis specific to supported nanoparticles by Takehiro Matsuyama, Takafumi Yatabe, Tomohiro Yabe, Kazuya Yamaguchi

“…Abstract The dehydrogenative aromatisation of cyclohexanone derivatives has had a transformative influence on the synthesis of aromatic compounds because functional groups can be easily introduced at desired positions via classic organic reactions without being limited by ortho-, meta- or para-orientations. …”
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Pedagogical Strategies to Diminish Concepts of Language Privileging Among Pre-service Teachers by Anna Burnley

“…Following a bibliographic survey, the paper examines current desired language teaching techniques and strategies that support the pre-service teacher in developing cultural and linguistic empathy and appreciation for the support of the home language during classroom acquisition of English as an additional or second or foreign language. …”
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Folin-Ciocalteu Reaction Alternatives for Higher Polyphenol Quantitation in Colombian Passion Fruits by Juan C. Carmona-Hernandez, Gonzalo Taborda-Ocampo, Clara H. González-Correa

“…Among optimum reacting conditions, reduced reaction time and diluted alkali conditions yielded desirable positive results highlighting lower working time and minimum reagent waste production. …”
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Introduction: emerging approaches in the anthropology/primatology borderland by Vincent Leblan

“…The fourth and last part introduces the articles of this issue, each of them enabling us to consider how and to what extent it may be desirable to transcend these various disciplinary, political and epistemological boundaries.…”
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Gene Therapy: A step toward advanced orthodontics – A narrative review by Monika Shukla, Shalu Jain, C. Munish Reddy, Pradeep Raghav, Kumar Amit, Rinchin Yangzom, Shivika Garg, Aastha Kamrani

“…Background: Gene therapy deals with the insertion of exogenous genes into a cell to produce the desired therapeutic effect. After the introduction of gene therapy in dentistry, this field is also flourishing rapidly in the branch of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics as it can prevent many prenatal and postnatal dentofacial anomalies which have the genetical etiology. …”
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Second order sliding mode control with proportional integral observer for wing rock by Ahmad Mahmood, Jamshed Iqbal

“…The simulation results show that the proposed SOSMC over-performs in terms of achieving the desired response in both cases. Additionally, a numerical analysis is also performed for both scenarios to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed controller in terms of the power consumption of the control law and burden on the aileron control surface. …”
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Competing stakeholder discourses in constructing cultural heritage: The legal case of the house at No. 98 Hai’er Lane, China by Zhonghua Wu, Jian Li

“…Considering that heritage protection law in China places a greater emphasis on taking cultural heritage as things than orientating cultural heritage to humans, it is desirable to address intricate tensions between the conservation, development, and utilization of cultural heritage by promulgating more systematic and explicit laws and regulations that better reflect the heteroglossia of stakeholders.…”
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Overcoming the “Coloniality of Doing” in International Law: Soft Law as a Decolonial Tool by Tatiana Cardoso Squeff

“…The case of international law is even harder due to the limits of its positivist normative structure, formulated not only by countries that hold military/economic power in the international arena, but also in a modern/colonial historical moment that has guaranteed their legitimacy for more than five centuries, which makes it extremely difficult to have rules that contemplate the desires of the Third World. Thus, what seems to exist is that, in addition to the colonialities of power, knowledge and being, there is also the “coloniality of doing”, limiting the development of international rules. …”
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Multimodel Modeling and Predictive Control for Direct-Drive Wind Turbine with Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator by Lei Wang, Tao Shen, Chen Chen

“…The nonlinear wind turbine system is presented by multiple linear models. The desired trajectory of the nonlinear system is decomposed to be suitable for the reference trajectory of multiple models that are presented by the linear models of the nonlinear system, which simplifies the nonlinear optimization problems and decreases the calculation difficulty. …”
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Assessment of the environmental capability of Tabriz city in the formation of a creative city by Shahrzad Amirsarvari, Mohammad Ebrahim Ramazani

“…The creative city will make all your try and relying to the idea of people to solve their problems and build a city of people who are looking for their desired cities. The creative city is not only a space in which creativity grows, but organizing and managing it is creatively planned. …”
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An Investigation into the Effects of Individual and Spatial Factors on the Urban Trips (Case Study: Babol City by Mostafa Ghadami, Masomeh Nabinezhad Kenari

“…For this reason the different modes taken by citizens can be assessed by urban planner carefully from different aspects. more sustainable trip mode, however, are encouraged by them to achieve more desirable urban environment which, in turn, would lead to sustainable cities. …”
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A distributed estimation method over network based on compressed sensing by Lin Li, Donghui Li

“…It is useful in some distributed networks where the robustness and low consumption are desired features. The compressed sensing theory is introduced in the distributed estimation to further reduce the communication load as the unknown parameter of interest is sparse in many situations. …”
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Luxure, calme et volupté dans les villes d’eaux françaises à l’âge d’or du thermalisme (Belle Époque et Années Folles) by Marie-Eve Férérol

“…Dans cet article, nous nous sommes demandé comment les stations étaient devenues des "lieux de désir" et quel était leur degré d’érotisation. L’érotisation des villes d’eaux tient en fait aussi bien du décor que des usages qui y ont court.…”
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Evolution Game Model of Travel Mode Choice in Metropolitan by Chaoqun Wu, Yulong Pei, Jingpeng Gao

“…The paper describes an evolution game model of travel mode choice to determine whether transportation policies would have the desired effect. The model is first expressed as a two-stage sequential game in the extensive form based on the similarity between evolution game theory and the travel mode choice process. …”
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Property Optimisation of EPDM Rubber Composites Using Mathematical and Statistical Strategies by Sivaldo Leite Correia, Denilso Palaoro, Ana Maria Segadães

“…This demonstrates that, in this way, the desired product with specified characteristics can be comfortably manufactured at minimum cost.…”
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Mobile Web-Based Information System As Information For Searching For Boarding Houses For Students by Marlia Sari, Lusia Septia ER, Muhammad Junaidi

“…This system is also supported by Google Maps which makes it easier for searchers to find the location of the desired boarding house. The final result of designing and building a mobile web-based boarding house information system can make it easier for students and students to find boarding houses.…”
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Bias Errors due to Leakage Effects When Estimating Frequency Response Functions by Andreas Josefsson, Kjell Ahlin, Göran Broman

“…For a wide range of engineering applications, it is desirable to determine frequency response functions for a system under stochastic excitation. …”
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A Systematic Literature Review on Robust Swarm Intelligence Algorithms in Search-Based Software Engineering by Alam Zeb, Fakhrud Din, Muhammad Fayaz, Gulzar Mehmood, Kamal Z. Zamli

“…These algorithms get the desired convergence during the search by balancing the exploration and exploitation processes. …”
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Attitudes Toward Dialectal Variations in Saudi Arabic: A Case Study of King Abdulaziz University Students by Saeed Ali Al Alaslaa

“…The findings revealed generally positive attitudes towards both variations, with the majority associating the speaker with desirable traits such as humility, kindness, friendliness, and respectfulness. …”
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Strategies to improve the quality of wheat flour in baking: a review by Mariana de Paula Kraüss Ferreira, Vitor Anselmo da Guia Ribeiro, Jefferson Henrique Tiago Barros, Caroline Joy Steel

“…These improving agents act on the gluten network and other flour components, adapting them to produce various products with the desired technological and sensory properties. Many studies relate increases in the parameters obtained in flour quality analyses, such as farinographic, extensographic, alveographic, and others, with the flour-strengthening effect of various ingredients, additives, and processing aids used; however, this is not a direct relationship. …”
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