Effects of Internal Pressure on Urban Water Supply Pipeline Leakage-Induced Soil Subsidence Mechanisms by Jingyu Cui, Fengyin Liu, Ruidi Chen, Shuangshuang Wang, Cheng Pu, Xu Zhao

“…The research results further illustrate the water diffusion and moisture content increase processes after water seepage from pipes with different pressures, revealing the influence of pipe pressure on the degree and form of soil settlement damage and clarifying the relationship between water diffusion and settlement in the soil.…”
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A maturity model for assessing sustainable project management knowledge areas: A case study within a logistics firm by Elifcan Göçmen

“…Practicality of these approaches is illustrated through a real data in a logistics organization. …”
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Virtue and Liberty: Italian Opera and Roman Self-Imaging in Britain, 1720-1742 by Thomas McGeary

“…Ayres n’englobe pas l’opéra italien parmi les arts qui ont illustré et défendu un état d’esprit fondé sur les deux piliers de la liberté et la vertu classiques, grâce auxquels les Britanniques se sont construits une image dérivée de la Rome républicaine et se sont façonnés en « oligarchie de vertu ». …”
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The media framing dataset: Analyzing news narratives in Mexico and ColombiaZenodo by Juan Cuadrado, Elizabeth Martinez, Juan Carlos Martinez-Santos, Edwin Puertas

“…The data collection involved a meticulous keyword-based search strategy designed to identify articles that illustrate various news-framing dimensions, such as Economics, Policy, Morality, and more.To construct this dataset, we employed a combination of manual and automated annotation techniques. …”
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Interpersonal networks and the archaeology of social structures; using social positioning events to understand social strategies and individual behaviour by Joaquim Carvalho, Rosário Campos

“…Specific case studies will be shown to illustrate the explanatory power of this approach, with a focus on socially determined patterns of moral behavior in the parish of Soure, and the impact of an early manufacturing installation on the traditional community of Lousã. …”
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Hypercalcemia and Bone Metastasis in a Case of Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma With Unknown Primary by Ekrem Yetiskul, Jordyn Salak, Fatema Arafa, Alaukika Agarwal, Amanda Matra, Muhammad Niazi, Marcel Odaimi

“…NETs frequently demonstrate a propensity to metastasize, spreading to diverse anatomical regions such as the liver, lungs, lymph nodes, and bones, illustrating their aggressive nature and the complexity of their management. …”
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System dynamics modeling of collaborative governance in smart cities: a case study of Dongguan, China by Shuai Liu, Yuchao Wu, Guoxin Jiang, Jiawen Dong

“…Policy adjustment variables were carefully selected to simulate six policy combination scenarios, illustrating the developmental trajectory of Dongguan City’s smart city collaborative governance system from 2015 to 2030, within the context of various policy paradigms. …”
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Acute cerebral edema: a lethal neurological complication in a patient with COVID-19 infection. Case report and literature review by M. Puodžiūnaitė, R. Sadeckaitė, A. Čikotienė

“…Acute cerebral edema, as illustrated by our case, may result from a combination of diffuse en dothelial dysfunction, cytokine release syndrome, and hypoxic damage from pulmonary dysfunction. …”
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Emergence of a Second Law of Thermodynamics in Isolated Quantum Systems by Florian Meier, Tom Rivlin, Tiago Debarba, Jake Xuereb, Marcus Huber, Maximilian P.E. Lock

“…These results also support recent findings that question the necessity of nonintegrability for equilibration in quantum systems. We further illustrate our bounds using numerical results from the paradigmatic example of a quantum Ising model on a chain of spins. …”
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Developing haptic attribute models as creative instruments for a hybrid food design community by Annika Göran Rodell

“…Our aim was to investigate how haptic perception can be explored, defined and illustrated by interweaving our professional experiences and methods that reflect creative strategies from our aesthetic disciplines: industrial design, culinary arts and hospitality. …”
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Material Removal Mechanism of Green Machining on Powder Metallurgy Parts during Orthogonal Cutting by Dayong Yang, Longsheng Lu, Zhenping Wan

“…Moreover, a geometric model illustrating the PM green-machining process was established to reveal the mechanism of material removal and machined surface formation. …”
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A new biocompatible COF-MCM nanoporous hybrid DDS for pH-controlled delivery of curcumin by R. Foulady-Dehaghi, Sh. Sohrabnezhad, M. Hadavi

“…C-loaded hybrid nanostructure prepared via the solvent-free drug loading process displayed a high entrapment efficiency (35.96%) and improved release in the acidic environment specific to cancer cells (pH = 4.5: 36.8%, pH = 7.4: 15.27%). In conclusion, we illustrated the utility of C@DDS as an in vitro drug delivery system in MDA-MB-231 cells. …”
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Exploring parents' perceptions of computational thinking and its role in children's television by Breniel Lemley, Fashina Aladé

“…When asked to define it, many parents highlighted aspects of CT in their definitions; however, their examples illustrated limited understanding of how CT might be taught to young children. …”
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DELLA MUTATIONS IN PLANTS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON WHEAT by G. A. Chebotar, S. V. Chebotar, Yu. M. Sivolap

“…We have performed nucleotide and amino acid sequence search and alignment of the Rht-D1 wheat dwarfing gene and DELLA-encoding genes of other plant species with BLAST and MUSCLE software. A dendrogram illustrating phylogenetic relations among DELLA sequences of 35 plant species has been constructed using MEGA v5. …”
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Analyzing semantic shifts in English and German by exploring historical influences and societal dynamics by Wahyu Kurniati Asri, Winda Ayu Utami Rhamadanty, Muftihaturrahmah Burhamzah, Alamsyah Alamsyah

“…These external influences catalyze language use and meaning shifts, illustrating the interaction between language and human experience.…”
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Direct Numerical Simulations of the Impact of High Turbulence Intensities and Volume Viscosity on Premixed Methane Flames by Gordon Fru, Gábor Janiga, Dominique Thévenin

“…Stepping up u′ from 3 to 12 m/s leads to an increase in the scaled integrated heat release rate from 2 to 16. This illustrates the interest of combustion in a highly turbulent medium in order to obtain high volumetric heat release rates in compact burners. …”
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Closing the Gap: Territorial Cohesion through Polycentric Development by Evert Meijers, Bas Waterhout, Wil Zonneveld

“…A discussion of the polycentric development policies of France, Poland and Germany illustrates our findings. The article concludes that for the period 2007-2013 – the new EU budget period – a clear synergy is needed between EU and national policies and that without such synergy policies cannot be effective. …”
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N-Losses and Energy Use in a Scenario for Conversion to Organic Farming by Tommy Dalgaard, Chris Kjeldsen, Nicholas J. Hutchings, Jorgen F. Hansen

“…The scenario tool has been developed within the multidisciplinary research project Land Use and Landscape Development Illustrated with Scenarios (ARLAS). A pilot scenario was carried out, where predicted changes in N-losses and E-uses following conversion to organic farming in areas with special interests in clean groundwater were compared. …”
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Multi-Objective Optimization of Building Ventilation Systems Using Model Predictive Control: Integrating Air Quality, Energy Cost, and Environmental Impact by Andreas Hyrup Andersen, Muhyiddine Jradi

“…In this way, the strategy comparison illustrates the potential of MPC for the efficient operation and flexible objective prioritization according to stakeholder interests.…”
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Nonlinear Autoregressive Model for Stability and Prediction by Salim M. Ahmad, Anas S. Youns, Manal S. Hamdi

“…The findings indicated that such numerical case studies meeting stability conditions exist when the nonlinear function is decreasing, as illustrated in both Ozaki’s model and the proposed model. …”
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