Measurements of Soil Surface Roughness During the Fourth Microwave Water and Energy Balance Experiment: April 18 through June 13, 2005 by Mi-joung Jang, Kai-Jen Calvin Tien, Joaquin Casanova, Jasmeet Judge

“… Passive microwave signatures have been used to retrieve geophysical parameters, such as soil temperature [Njoku and Li, 1999], moisture [Jackson et al., 1995], and surface roughness [Wegmüller and Mätzler, 1999]. …”
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Editorial - Advancing African Women in Academia: Charting Modern Solutions by Grace Temiloluwa Agbede, Nereshnee Govender, Daisy Pillay

“…Structural barriers such as limited access to education, gender bias, and cultural norms that prioritise domestic responsibilities over career pursuits hinder their advancement (Founou et al., 2023). Additionally, the scarcity of female role models and mentors exacerbates feelings of isolation and imposter syndrome, further deterring women from pursuing academic careers. …”
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Digital watermarking algorithm in SWT domain based on robust local feature by Panpan NIU, Siyu YANG, Li WANG, Hongying YANG, Li LI, Xiangyang WANG

“…Aiming at the challenging work to design a robust digital audio watermarking algorithm against desynchronization attacks,a new second generation digital audio watermarking in stationary wavelet transform (SWT) domain based on robust local audio feature was proposed.First,the first-order smooth gradient response of the low-pass sub-band coefficient was calculated using Gaussian filter.Then,the short-term energy was utilized to adaptively determine local feature audio segments for embedding.Finally,the watermark information was embedded into local feature audio segments with spread transform dither modulation.The experimental results show that the proposed approach has not only good transparency,but also has strong robustness against common audio processing such as MP3 compression and good robustness against the desynchronization attacks such as pitch-scale modification et al.A SWT domain audio feature point extraction method based on smooth gradient is proposed,which effectively solves the drawbacks of poor stability and uneven distribution of audio feature points,and improves the resistance of digital audio watermarks to amplitude-scale modification,pitch-scale modification,random cropping,and jittering attacks.…”
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Newspaper cartoons as a reflection of political change during the first democratic elections in South Africa by Cornelius van Heerden

“…The following view of Schoonraad et al (1989:15: "A collection of cartoons covering a particular period, will present an unequalled graphic history of political and current events" They also add that the state of any nation is reflected by its newspaper cartoons Geipel 1972 argues that to the historian, cartoons represent priceless primary source of information about fleeting modes and morals of the passing generations. …”
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Measurements of the Flow in Backshroud/Casing Clearance of Precessing Centrifugal Impeller by Yoshiki Yoshida, Yoshinobu Tsujimoto, Hideo Ohashi, Akira Saito, Shin Ishizaki

“…It was shown that the fluid force moment can become rotordynamically destabilizing for small forward precessing motion as originally found by Ohashi et al. The effects of leakage flow in the backshroud/casing clearance and a gap between impeller side plate and casing at the impeller outlet are clearly shown, and the discussions are also made based on the unsteady velocity and pressure measurements.…”
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Pre-Service Teachers’ Cognitive and Metacognitive Processes in Integrated STEM Modeling Activity by Mehmet Ali Kandemir, Ilyas Karadeniz

“…The problem-solving behavior from the study conducted by Kim et al. (2013) was used as the theoretical framework. …”
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Safety Planning: A Vital Preliminary Step for Professionals Working With Intimate Partner Violence Victims by Melis Sedef Kahraman, Kathryn Bell

“…Safety planning is referred to as a structured procedure for enhancing the safety of women in DV situations that includes the gathering of information, evaluation of the existing situation, decision-making for the type of advocacy and resources needed and the identification of future strategies on how to respond effectively to violence (Campbell, 2001; Davies et al, 1998; Parker & Gielen, 2014). Although it is seen as the first step of helping battered women and trauma informed care in the United States, the safety planning technique is being limitedly used in Turkey only by women shelters. …”
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Letter to Editor: a giant peritoneal loose body in the pelvic cavity by Ke Wu, Qiu-Ling Wang, Wei Ren, Wu-Bin Guo

“…Abstract A response to the case report by Zhang et al. and supplement another case of giant peritoneal loose body discovered due to abdominal pain. …”
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The Turkish Adaptation of Athletic Coping Skills Inventory-28 (ACSI-28): The validity and reliability study by Volkan Ozcan, Mehmet Gunay

“…It is the aim of this study is to test the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of Athletic Coping Skills Inventory-28 (ACSI-28) developed by Smith et al. (28). Back-translation technique was employed during the process of Turkish translation of ACSI-28. …”
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« Ce n’est pas très beau ce que vous avez dit ! » The activation of resonance in French parliamentary debates by Elisabeth Zima, Geert Brône, Kurt Feyaerts, Paul Sambre

“…In line with recent observations within the cognitive-functional context of dialogic syntax (Du Bois, 2001; Sakita, 2006; Zima et al, submitted) and psycholinguistic research on interactive alignment (Pickering & Garrod, 2004, 2006), we demonstrate that resonance can be activated both through explicit repetition of linguistic form and implicit echoing of semantic-pragmatic meaning. …”
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A Superposition Based Diffraction Technique to Study Site Effects in Earthquake Engineering by Juan Gomez, Juan Jaramillo, Mario Saenz, Juan Vergara

“…The method is based on the superposition of diffracted sources described in Jaramillo et al. (2013). Since the technique proceeds in the frequency domain in terms of the superposition of incident, reflected, and diffracted waves, it has been termed like a superposition based diffraction approach. …”
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Uma avaliação do capital social dos alunos da Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina (UNOESC) by Alyne Sehnem, Janaina Macke, Adriana Locatelli Bertolini

“…The survey relies on previous works by Macke (2006), Macke et al. (2010) and the evaluation model proposed by Onyx and Bullen (2000). …”
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Improved chosen-plaintext power analysis attack against SM4 at the round-output by Zhi-bo DU, Zhen WU, Min WANG, Jin-tao RAO

“…The power analysis attack on SM4 using the chosen-plaintext method was proposed by Wang et al in 2013 CIS.The fixed data was introduced in the method when attacking the round key.However,the attack process was complex.There were many problems in the process,such as more power traces,more numbers of the chosen-plaintext and acquisition power traces.The correlation between the fixed data and the round key were presented,which could be used to decode the round key.Based on the correlation,the improved chosen-plaintext power analysis attack against SM4 at the round-output was proposed.The proposed method attacked the fixed data by analyzing the power traces of the special plaintext.And the round key was derived based on the correlation.The results show that the proposed attack algorithm is effective.The proposed method not only improves the efficiency of the attack by reducing number of power traces,number of the chosen-plaintext and number of acquisition power traces,but also can be applied to a chosen-plaintext power analysis attack against SM4 at the shift operation.…”
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A Critique on the Book Islamic Banking by Mohammad Vaez Barzani

“…The book Islamic Banking written by Nazarpour, M.N. et al. is among the first books published and used as a textbook, and reviewing this work can help to upgrade future quality for others. …”
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Complexity: a new paradigm for fracture mechanics by A. Carpinteri, S. Puzzi

“…Further examples will deal with criticality in the acoustic emissions of damaged structures and with scaling in the time-to-failure (Carpinteri et al. [9]). Eventually, results on the transition towards chaos in the dynamics of cracked beams will be reported (Carpinteri and Pugno [10,11]).…”
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Some Bounds of Weighted Entropies with Augmented Zagreb Index Edge Weights by Yujie Huang, Hafiz Mutee-ur-Rehman, Saima Nazeer, Deeba Afzal, Xiaoli Qiang

“…The objective of this study is to solve the open problem suggested by Kwun et al. in 2018. In this paper, we study the weighted graph entropy by taking augmented Zagreb edge weight and give bounds of it for regular, connected, bipartite, chemical, unicyclic, etc., graphs. …”
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Complete Ectopia Cordis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Simon Pius, Halima Abubakar Ibrahim, Mustapha Bello, Mohammed Bashir Tahir

“…This condition was first described by Haller et al. in 1706; since then many advances have been made. …”
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Dynamics and control of a mathematical model for metronomic chemotherapy by Urszula Ledzewicz, Behrooz Amini, Heinz Schättler

“…A mathematical model for angiogenicsignaling formulated by Hahnfeldt et al. is combined with theclassical equations for tumor immune system interactions byStepanova to form a minimally parameterized model to capture theseeffects of low dose chemotherapy. …”
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Smartirrigation Apps: Urban Turf by Haimanote Bayabil, Kati W Migliaccio, Jose J.H. Debastiani Andreis, Clyde W. Fraisse, Kelly T. Morgan, George Vellidis

“… As freshwater resources become increasingly scarce, efficient irrigation scheduling methods that allow efficient irrigation water uses are required. Migliaccio et al. (2016) have developed an app called Smartirrigation Turf, an easy-to-use mobile tool that delivers information to improve irrigation scheduling for urban turf. …”
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Flower thrips, Frankliniella tritici (Fitch) (Insecta: Thysanoptera: Thripidae) by Danielle Sprague, Joseph E. Funderburk, Andrea Lucky

“…Frankliniella tritici may, however, be confused with other similar Frankliniella species in Florida such as Frankliniella bispinosa and Frankliniella occidentalis which are capable vectors of Tomato spotted wilt virus (Riley et al. 2011). This document is also available on the Featured Creatures website at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/. …”
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