Numerical Simulation and Response of Stiffened Plates Subjected to Noncontact Underwater Explosion by Elsayed Fathallah, Hui Qi, Lili Tong, Mahmoud Helal

“…Special emphasis is focused on the evolution of mid-point displacements. Further investigations have been performed to study the effects of including material damping and the rate-dependant material properties at different shock loads. …”
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Impact of Loss Synchronization on Reliable High Speed Networks: A Model Based Simulation by Suman Kumar, Lin Xue, Seung-Jong Park

“…Contemporary nature of network evolution demands for simulation models which are flexible, scalable, and easily implementable. …”
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The potential for justice through tourism by Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

“…This article considers the potential for tourism to contribute to efforts to secure justice. It reviews the evolution of tourism from a respected tool for personal development and social transformation to its now industrialised form under neoliberalism where its value is estimated in terms of employment and income. …”
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The Permeable Character of CSG Dams and Their Seepage Fields by Xin Zhao, Yunlong He

“…The results indicate an effective dynamic change law for the material permeability coefficient and the real dynamic evolution characteristics of seepage fields. The permeability coefficient of CSG exhibits a “self-healing” phenomenon similar to concrete, with the seepage characteristics of a dam tending to become stable over time. …”
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Kontrowersje wokół powstania człowieka - wstępna analiza ankiet studentów by Jacek Tomczyk, Grzegorz Bugajak

“…Our respondents represented three disciplines: theology, philosophy and natural sciences, t t e paper presents selected results of the questionnaire which was addressed to a group of students, they were asked to fill in the form consisting of eleven questions, these questions concerned the following issues: the existence of the conflict between evolutionism and creationism, the definitions of creation and evolution, the existence of the spiritual element in man, and the ways of interpreting the Bible (esp. the first chapters of the Book of Genesis).…”
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Osteochondritis Dissecans of the Capitellum: A Case Report of Successful Arthroscopic Treatment by J. Ribeiras Cabral, R. Henriques, J. Arvela Matoso, S. Martins, M. Sarmento

“…The natural history of this disease involves the evolution for degenerative joint disease in approximately half of the patients, with early identification and treatment being critical to optimizing the outcome. …”
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The Influence of Loading Rate on Direct and Indirect Tensile Strengths: Laboratory and Numerical Methods by Jie Liu, Gangyuan Jiang, Taoying Liu, Qiao Liang

“…To verify the above results, crack propagation and stress evolution in direct and indirect tension tests were dynamically monitored using PFC 3D. …”
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Evaluating the Tourist Climate Comfortable Period of China in a Changing Climate by Dan-Dan Yu, Shan Li, Zhong-Yang Guo

“…This study uses the Holiday Climate Index (HCI) and daily data from 775 weather stations to examine interregional differences in the tourist climate comfortable period (TCCP) across China and summarizes the spatiotemporal evolution of TCCP from 1981 to 2010 in a changing climate. …”
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Growth-rate distributions of gut microbiota time series by E. Brigatti, S. Azaele

“…More significantly, it predicts its temporal dependence, by reproducing its kurtosis evolution when the time lag $$\tau$$ is increased. …”
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Mechanisms for introduction of pseudo ductility in fiber reinforced polymer composites- a review by Vinayak S. Uppin, P. S. Shivakumar Gouda, I. Sridhar Research Center, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SDM College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, India.

“…This review mainly focuses on summarizing the pseudo ductility evolution in fiber-reinforced composites by eminent researchers with a possible alternative like fiber positions in matrix materials for introducing reasonable ductility in composites.…”
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Desdemona’s changing voices: from the “Willow Song” to the “Canzona del Salice” by Chantal Schütz

“…This paper examines the evolution from a metonymical relationship between the theatrical character and its representation by the singer Maria Malibran to a metaphorical relationship that actually substituted Malibran to Desdemona. …”
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Predictability of Extreme Waves in the Lorenz-96 Model Near Intermittency and Quasi-Periodicity by A. E. Sterk, D. L. van Kekem

“…We introduce a method for quantifying the predictability of the event that the evolution of a deterministic dynamical system enters a specific subset of state space at a given lead time. …”
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Hip Resurfacing. An Experience in Livingstone Hospital, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. From January 2004 to January 2006. by Pedro Gonzalo González González, Edgar Antezana Bilbao, Tamara Elizabeth Morales Perez

“…</strong> To describe the evolution of the patients with osteoarthritis of the hip treated with the surgical technique of resurfacing in Livingstone Hospital. …”
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Recent Trends in Information and Cyber Security Maturity Assessment: A Systematic Literature Review by Alenka Brezavšček, Alenka Baggia

“…In the first part, various quantitative indicators were used to analyse the evolution of the information and cyber security maturity assessment domain over the last twelve years. …”
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Are the economic valuations of marine and coastal ecosystem services supporting policymakers? A systematic review and remaining gaps and challenges by Andrea Mattia Pacifico, Luca Mulazzani, Giulio Malorgio

“…Through an integrated approach encompassing bibliometric, network, and content analyses, this review is aimed at analyzing the evolution trend, the main research clusters, and the research gaps of the scientific literature in the field of economic valuation of marine and coastal ESs. …”
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A Chaotic Cryptosystem for Images Based on Henon and Arnold Cat Map by Ali Soleymani, Md Jan Nordin, Elankovan Sundararajan

“…The rapid evolution of imaging and communication technologies has transformed images into a widespread data type. …”
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Le Brésil et ses Indiens : une réconciliation impossible ? by François-Michel Le Tourneau

“…In conclusion, we try to trace what future evolution on this topic might be.…”
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Probabilistic genotype-phenotype maps reveal mutational robustness of RNA folding, spin glasses, and quantum circuits by Anna Sappington, Vaibhav Mohanty

“…Recent studies of genotype-phenotype maps have reported universally enhanced phenotypic robustness to genotype mutations, a feature essential to evolution. Virtually all of these studies make a simplifying assumption that each genotype—represented as a sequence—maps deterministically to a single phenotype, such as a discrete structure. …”
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Evolutionary Game Dynamics for Financial Risk Decision-Making in Global Supply Chain by Zhi Li, Guanghao Jin, Shen Duan

“…This paper focuses on the game evolution process and its influencing factors of financial risk cooperation behavior between suppliers and manufacturers in global supply chain system. …”
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VARIATIVE EDUCATION IN THE CHANGING WORLD: SOCIO-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT by A. G. Asmolov

“…The paper reflects the ideas of the author (one of the new educational standard developers) concerning the prospects of primary school evolution, published in the Educational Policy journal in 2011, being still relevant due to the introduction of the Federal Act on Education from September 1, 2013.In author's opinion, a successful accomplishment and implementation of the given act and standards can be achieved through careful explanation of their content and essence to the interested people, and justification of the related benefit for the society and teachers alike. …”
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