Computational Method for Global Sensitivity Analysis of Reactor Neutronic Parameters by Bolade A. Adetula, Pavel M. Bokov

“…Numerical techniques specifically suited to the evaluation of multidimensional integrals, namely, Monte Carlo and sparse grids methods, are used, and their efficiency is compared. The method is illustrated and tested on a two-group cross-section dependent problem. …”
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Les aires marines protégées du Sud-Ouest malgache by Francis Veriza, Laurent Couderchet

“…The Vezo space is mobile (Retaillé, 2005) and external interferences have tended to divide it into zones of which a marine reserve is one of the latest illustrations. After the presentation of the Vezo way of life followed by the presentation of the development-conservation approach imposed from the outside, we conduct a detailed analysis of the creation of the nature reserves in Andavadoake by an English NGO and bring to light the contradiction between the sensory world of the fishermen and the intangible world of scientists in biodiversity. …”
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The effects of skewness and kurtosis on production and hedging decisions: a Gram-Charlier expansion approach by Xuejun Jiang, Lingju Cheng, Xinjie Dai

“…Finally, we analyze of a cotton storage and forward contracting dataset to illustrate the application of our methodology and support our theoretical results.…”
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The irruption of the political after the pandemic: The case of Panama by Sergio García-Rendón, Jon Subinas

“…This text characterizes the conditions of public policies in the Panamanian political system; describes the social and economic effects of COVID-19; and describes the process of political irruption and emergence of new agendas during the mobilization. The conclusions illustrate how the aforementioned protests constituted an interruption of the previous equilibrium of the country, where the notion of the public had been distorted and needed to be reformulated.…”
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Typification of three Linnaean names in the genus Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae) by P. Pablo Ferrer-Gallego

“…Finally, the name E. segetalis is lectotypified using a Morison illustration. …”
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Preparation of strontium hexaferrite magnets from celestite and blue dust by mechanochemical route by Tiwary R.K., Narayan S.P., Pandey O.P.

“…The moderate value of coercivity, remanence and energy product were observed in this sintered magnet. The work illustrates the feasibility to prepare strontium hexaferrite magnetic powders directly from natural ores which can reduce the total cost of production as compared to conventional method.…”
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Effect of Variable Thermal Conductivity on the Generalized Thermoelasticity Problems in a Fiber-Reinforced Anisotropic Half-Space by Chun-Bao Xiong, Li-Na Yu, Yan-Bo Niu

“…The nondimensional displacement, stress, and temperature of the material are obtained and illustrated graphically. The numerical results reveal that the variable conductivity significantly influences the distribution of the field quantities under the fiber-reinforced effect. …”
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Without Pictorial Detour: Benjamin, Mies and the Architectural Image by Lutz Robbers

“…Especially the architectural image, whether in the form of a printed drawing, photographic illustration, or an actual built object, appears to have been crucial for placing the history of media technologies (architecture being one of these media) in a constellation with the ‘archaic symbol-worlds of mythologies.’ …”
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A 50-spin surface acoustic wave Ising machine by Artem Litvinenko, Roman Khymyn, Roman Ovcharov, Johan Åkerman

“…Moreover, it demonstrates 4–5 orders of magnitude better thermal stability than optical Coherent Ising Machines while having similar scalability potential. Our results illustrate the general merits of wave-based time-multiplexed Ising machines operating in the microwave domain as compact, energy-efficient, and high-performance platforms for commercially feasible combinatorial optimization solvers.…”
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Les transactions économico-sexuelles : actrices et acteurs, institutions et territoires by Salomé Donzallaz, Olivier Crevoisier

“…This paper adopts the hypothesis put forward by Tabet (2004; 2001), according to which sexual transactions are always embedded within an economic framework, and seeks to illustrate how this embeddedness is presented today with a digital case study. …”
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<i>Foederis Arca</i>—The Ark of the Covenant, a Biblical Symbol of the Virgin Mary by José María Salvador-González

“…These coincident interpretations of the Fathers, theologians, and hymnographers of the Eastern and Western Churches will allow us to justify our iconographic interpretations of 10 European pictorial annunciations of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in whose scenes a container appears, almost always with books inside: such circumstance allows us to conjecture that the intellectual authors of these paintings of the Annunciation included in them this container to illustrate, as a <i>visual metaphor</i>, the <i>textual metaphor</i> with which the Fathers, theologians, and hymnographers symbolized the Virgin Mary as the Ark of the Covenant containing the Legislator of the new covenant.…”
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Diagenetic Self-Organization and Stochastic Resonance in a Model of Limestone-Marl Sequences by Ivan L’Heureux

“…The model exhibits interesting features typical of nonlinear dynamical systems: (i) the existence of self-organized oscillating patterns between a calcite-rich mode (“limestone”) and a calcite-poor one (“marl”) for fixed environmental conditions and (ii) bistability between these two modes. We then illustrate the phenomena of stochastic resonance, whereby the multistable system is driven by a small external periodic signal (the 100,000 years’ Milankovitch cycle comes to mind) that is too weak to generate oscillations between the states on its own. …”
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The big law enforcement information exchange challenge by Nikolett Ujfalussy

“…Methodology: In addition to the relevant legislation, recommendations and best practices, the paper – based on personal experience as a police professional, supplemented by insights of the members of the EU law enforcement community – describes and illustrates the various challenges of today’s international police cooperation landscape. …”
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Rebalancing the Economy, Refurbishing the State: The Political Economic Logic of Sino-Capitalism in Contemporary China by Christopher A. McNally

“…In particular, this conception highlights how compensatory institutional complementarities are central to understanding CC. To illustrate Sino-capitalism’s dynamic of reproduction, the article looks at recent policy initiatives that aim to rebalance China’s development model. …”
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Solving linear Fredholm-Stieltjes integral equations of the second kind by using the generalized Simpson’s rule by A. Asanov, S. Yanık

“…A numerical example is presented to illustrate the method by using Maple. In some cases depending on the number of subintervals “n” , the results are calculated and compared. …”
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Statistical Inferences to the Parameter and Reliability Characteristics of Gamma-mixed Rayleigh Distribution under Progressively Censored Data with Application by Kousik Maiti, Suchandan Kayal

“…Finally, a real dataset is considered and analyzed for the purpose of illustration. …”
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Spectrofluorometric method for sensing cobalt (II) ion in environmental sample using Ru(dcpy)2(SCN)2 receptor by Hawra Abdulmajeed, Esam Bakir

“…The experiments and electronic surface mapping(ESP) were illustrated the chemical reactivity of receptor and Co(II). …”
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The connecting brain in context: How adolescent plasticity supports learning and development by Amanda E. Baker, Adriana Galván, Andrew J. Fuligni

“…This review examines the complex interplay between adolescent neuroplasticity, environmental influences, and learning processes, synthesizing findings from recent studies that illustrate how factors such as social interactions, school environments, and neighborhood contexts influence both the transient activation and enduring organization of the developing brain. …”
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Fuzzy Case-Based Reasoning in Product Style Acquisition Incorporating Valence-Arousal-Based Emotional Cellular Model by Fuqian Shi, Jiang Xu, Shouqian Sun

“…A case study of style acquisition of mobile phones illustrated the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.…”
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Asphalt Concrete Overlay Optimization Based on Pavement Performance Models by Jan Mikolaj, Lubos Remek, Marian Macula

“…This article includes a case study for the sake of illustration of practical results and verification of applicability of used methodology.…”
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