Dynamic Behaviors of a Two-Degree-of-Freedom Impact Oscillator with Two-Sided Constraints by Songtao Li, Qunhong Li, Zhongchuan Meng

“…Finally, various types of periodic-impact motions near the codimension-two grazing bifurcation point are illustrated through the unfolding diagram and phase diagrams.…”
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Critical Edition and Philological Analysis of the Last Chapters of Deutero-Isaiah (Isa 54–55) Based on the Coptic Manuscript sa 52 (M 568) and Other Coptic Manuscripts in the Sahid... by Tomasz Bartłomiej Bąk

“…The differences identified between the Sahidic text and the Greek Septuagint, on which the Coptic translation is based, are illustrated in a tabular form. It includes, for example, additions and omissions in the Coptic translation, lexical changes and semantic differences. …”
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Ultrawideband LNA 1960–2019: Review by Shahab Shahrabadi

“…Its historical aspect illustrates when the idea of wideband LNA was born and how it changed to ultrawideband LNA, and its tutorial aspect discusses circuits and achievements to present optimum LNAs in Complementary MOS (CMOS), BiCMOS and High‐Electron‐Mobility Transistor (HEMT) technologies. …”
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Die Bybel is steeds in diskussie: 'n dekade later by F. B. Doubell

“…He used three South African publications on Scripture to illustrate the ongoing discussion. The present article refers to Deist’s article on the discussion of the Bible in 1990 and then examines this discussion ten years later. …”
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Quality of Life: A Longitudinal Analysis of Correlates of Morale in Old Age by Said Shahtahmasebi

“…These applications are illustrated using morale in old age from the North Wales Longitudinal Study Old Age. …”
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Nested Copula Model for Overall Seismic Vulnerability Analysis of Multispan Bridges by Ming Ma, Xiaoguang Wang, Naidong Liu, Shuai Song, Shuai Wang

“…A four-span continuous rigid frame bridge was used to illustrate the application of the proposed method. The results show that the nested copula model accurately simulated the correlations between multiple components, which would eliminate the overestimation or underestimation by the first-order boundary method.…”
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Interval Shannon Wavelet Collocation Method for Fractional Fokker-Planck Equation by Shu-Li Mei, De-Hai Zhu

“…A simple Fokker-Planck equation is taken as an example to illustrate the effectiveness by comparing with the Grunwald-Letnikov central difference approximation (GL-CDA).…”
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I. PRAYERS OF FEMALE PROTAGONISTS IN GIUSEPPE VERDI’S OPERAS FENENA’S PRAYER: OH, DISCHIUSO È IL FIRMAMENTO by Adél FEKETE

“…Other such segments will be arias which bear bel canto influences (preghiere from Giovanna d'Arco and Stiffelio), but also ones illustrating the language transformation of the female prayer in more mature operatic works, such as Aida and Otello. …”
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Effect of Water on Mechanical Properties of Coal Measures Mudstone Using Nanoindentation by Wenshuai Li, Bangyou Jiang, Shitan Gu

“…The results showed that the indentation modulus varied significantly, from as low as 0.2 GPa to a quite high value of 125 GPa, indicating a strongly heterogeneous distribution of mudstone. The water illustrated a significant effect on the microscale mechanical properties of water-sensitivity minerals like clay minerals. …”
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Making Space for Painting by Paul Duro

“…Presenting artwork drawn from cave painting to modernist abstraction, my examples seek to illustrate the various ways in which the framing of space may be said to be the foundational element of picture making – without which the limits of art could not be ascertained.…”
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The case for weak null in English by Andrew Tollet

“…Rather than a corpus-based statistical approach, this paper draws upon a smaller selection of contemporary, non-fictional texts from a variety of semantic fields to illustrate the points being made. …”
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W kierunku dwujęzyczności w edukacji wczesnoszkolnej – problemy nauczania czytania w języku obcym na przykładzie języka angielskiego by Monika Kusiak-Pisowacka

“…The results of several cross-linguistic studies are presented to illustrate the importance of inter-lingual differences in reading in a foreign language. …”
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INCORPORATING PUBLIC INPUT WITH GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) FOR BICYCLE STRATEGIC PLANNING by Jiangli Li, June Chae-Un

“…This paper presents a case study of bicycle strategic planning in the City of Grand Prairie, Texas. It illustrates how local governments can engage the public in bicycle planning through a public input process and use of GIS. …”
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Optimizing Product Configuration Problems with Multisourcing Supplier Selections under Both Carbon Cap and Carbon Tax Regulations by Jia Li, Dong Yang

“…A case study of a configurable ranger-drilling machine is illustrated to demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented approach. …”
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Geometric Lattice Structure of Covering and Its Application to Attribute Reduction through Matroids by Aiping Huang, William Zhu

“…Furthermore, a special type of information system is taken as an example to illustrate the application. In a word, this work points out an interesting view, namely, geometric lattice, to study the attribute reduction issues of information systems.…”
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Almost Periodic Solutions of a Discrete Mutualism Model with Variable Delays by Yongzhi Liao, Tianwei Zhang

“…Finally, some examples and numerical simulations are given to illustrate the effectiveness of our main results.…”
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Block-Wise Two-Dimensional Maximum Margin Criterion for Face Recognition by Xiao-Zhang Liu, Guan Yang

“…Theoretical analysis and experiments on benchmark face databases illustrate that the proposed method is effective and efficient.…”
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New Similarity of Triangular Fuzzy Number and Its Application by Xixiang Zhang, Weimin Ma, Liping Chen

“…A collaborative filtering case is used to illustrate users’ similarity based on cloud model and triangular fuzzy number; the result indicates that users’ similarity based on triangular fuzzy number can obtain better discrimination. …”
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An Asynchronous Low Power and High Performance VLSI Architecture for Viterbi Decoder Implemented with Quasi Delay Insensitive Templates by T. Kalavathi Devi, Sakthivel Palaniappan

“…The simulation result illustrates that the asynchronous design techniques have 25.21% of power reduction compared to synchronous design and work at a speed of 475 MHz.…”
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Risk Measurement for Portfolio Credit Risk Based on a Mixed Poisson Model by Rongda Chen, Huanhuan Yu

“…Relationship between default probability and loss level reflected through the MC simulation has practical features. This study illustrates the practical value and effectiveness of mixed Poisson model in risk measurement for credit portfolio.…”
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