Geographic predictors of early 20th century northern Albanian tribal demography by Elic M Weitzel, Erina Baci, Daniel Plekhov

“…An unexplored factor such as tribal wealth (in terms of land, livestock, infrastructure, or marriage alliances) could be a more important driver of population size, but it is perhaps most likely that decades of conflict in the late 19th and early 20th centuries reshaped the demographic landscape of northern Albania and obscured any pre-existing geographic influences on tribal demography.…”
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RIVER AND SEA TRANSPORTS IN ROMANIA IN THE EUROPEAN UNION STRATEGY FOR THE DANUBE REGION PERSPECTIVE by RADU SĂGEATĂ

“…In this period of searches determined by the globalisation process, Romania possesses the necessary infrastructure to take over, store and transport the energy resources, it being a real partner in the alliances it belongs to. …”
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Reflective metasurface for 5G & beyond Wireless communications by Monisha Selvaraj, Ramya Vijay, Rajesh Anbazhagan

“…By implementing a single-layer structure, the metasurface enables straightforward integration with existing B5G infrastructure and demonstrates compatibility with emerging intelligent surface technologies, such as Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS). …”
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Performance evaluation of designated containerization and virtualization solutions using a synthetic benchmark by Sebastian Tarasiuk, Damian Traczuk, Kacper Szczepaniuk, Patryk Stoń, Jakub Smołka

“…The aim of this paper is the analysis of the performance of virtualization and containerization technologies in the context of IT infrastructure. The following virtualization technologies were selected for the study: VirtualBox, VMware and QEMU, as well as containerization technologies: Docker, Podman and LXD. …”
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Examining the Social Media Teacher-Student Interactions of Physical Education Teachers by Çağrı Hamdi Erdoğan, Ziya Bahadır, Ramazan Topuz

“…Also a significant difference was found concerning the social media teacher-student interaction levels of the physical education teachers for the variables school location, sport branch, physical education infrastructure in the school, the school team status, regular exercise, age, monthly income perception; however, statistically no significant difference was determined concerning the variables school type, marital status, and gender.…”
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Key Techniques and Risk Management for the Application of the Pile-Beam-Arch (PBA) Excavation Method: A Case Study of the Zhongjie Subway Station by Yong-ping Guan, Wen Zhao, Shen-gang Li, Guo-bin Zhang

“…The ground movements induced by tunneling effects pose potential risks to infrastructure such as surface buildings, pipelines, and roads. …”
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China’s policies: post-COVID-19 challenges for the older population by Xuezhi Wei, Guoqing Han, Quansheng Wang

“…The policy shift will increase pressure on already stretched health infrastructure and medical resources. This short article adds to the current debate arguing that the Chinese government should take commensurate preventive measures, including strengthening medical facilities and equipment and targeting ongoing vaccination in older people.…”
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How does the development of the digital economy in RCEP member countries affect China's cross-border e-commerce exports? by Dong Wang, Peiyuan Xu, Bowen An, Yingying Song

“…Regarding indirect impact, improving the quality of RCEP member countries' transportation infrastructure and institutional quality is a moderating factor promoting China's cross-border e-commerce export. …”
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Modeling the Impact of Geomagnetically Induced Currents on Electrified Railway Signaling Systems in the United Kingdom by C. J. Patterson, J. A. Wild, D. H. Boteler

“…Abstract Studies of space weather impacts on ground‐based infrastructure have been largely focused on power networks and pipelines, but railway signaling systems are also affected, with misoperations observed in several countries. …”
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Quel développement durable pour le delta du Danube? Enquête à Pardina by Simona Niculescu, Dominique Pécaud, Élisabeth Michel-Guillou, Paul Soare, Laurence David

“…Nonetheless, the current economic situation of the local population is a difficult one, as the delta inhabitants face numerous problems such as their isolation, current infrastructure modernization and transformation delays, unemployment rates on the rise and a generalized ageing trend. …”
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Integrating Sensor Networks for Energy Monitoring with Service-Oriented Architectures by C. Busemann, V. Gazis, R. Gold, P. Kikiras, A. Leonardi, J. Mirkovic, M. Walther, H. Ziekow

“…More accurate predictions of energy consumption are a strong motivator for utility providers to deploy a smart grid infrastructure. However, measurements which only reflect the consumption of a household lose the details associated with the behaviour of individual devices. …”
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Rurban Communities of Quito: Between the Entrepreneurialism and the Right to the City by Manuel Bayón Jiménez

“…This paper analyzes how both trends are related in the context of the largest infrastructure project in Quito in the last decade: the New Quito International Airport (NAIQ by its Spanish acronym). …”
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THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ON THE INVESTMENT ATTRACTIVENESS OF THE REGION by E. V. Nagovitsyna, D. S. Tusin

“…The study proposes to apply this methodological approach in the regional economy as an effective tool for modern socially oriented management of natural resources exploitation, development of science and education, creation of regional infrastructure to support export-oriented and import-substituting businesses.…”
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The multifaceted Montessori movement, and its pioneers by Christine Quarfood

“…In the first part, I argue that the Montessori movement of the interwar era should be conceptualized as a social movement organization (SMO) with AMI as its social movement infrastructure (SMI) and with its own specific cognitive praxis. …”
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Research and evaluation of sparse array for massive MIMO by Mengting LOU, Jing JIN, Hanning WANG, Qixing WANG, Jiangzhou WANG

“…Massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) enables higher spectrum efficiency by deploying a large number of antenna elements.However, mMIMO will bring a substantial increase in the number of radio frequency (RF) channel, which will result in a sharp increase in cost.Therefore, it is necessary to design mMIMO with comprehensive consideration of the trade-off between the performance and the cost.Sparse array technology can approach the performance of the uniform array with less number of antenna elements by optimizing the position distribution and excitation amplitudes of the antenna elements, thereby reducing the number of RF channels and controlling the cost, and achieving a better cost-effective balance.Both link-level and system-level evaluations and analysis of sparse array based mMIMO that targets for 6G were performed under realistic simulation settings.The results show that with little performance loss, the sparse array based mMIMO can significantly reduce the number of antenna elements and the cost of base station infrastructure.…”
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TOWARDS A CONCEPTUALISATION OF RESILIENCE IN SECURITY STUDIES by Zoran Kekovic, Vladimir Ninkovic

“…In security studies there are broadly two strands of thought – one that observes resilience as a desired state of the system, be it a nation, a community or infrastructure, and another one that proposes resilience as a risk management strategy that can be used when dealing with events characterized with a high degree of uncertainty.…”
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Private-Sector Partner Selection for Public-Private Partnership Projects Based on Improved CRITIC-EMW Weight and GRA -VIKOR Method by Xiangjian Weng, Shan Yang

“…When the government decides to use the public-private partnership (PPP) in projects, such as infrastructure construction, selecting a private-sector partner that meets the project's needs is one of the key factors for successful implementation, but this is ignored in existing research. …”
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Territoires émergents d'Amazonie : analyse comparée des dynamiques territoriales dans le Baixo Amazonas et le Nordeste Paraense by Etienne Polge, René Poccard-Chapuis, Marc Piraux

“…Three key factors determine it: infrastructure and market development, entrepreneurship dynamics, and regulatory framework implemented by the public authorities. …”
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The Design Blueprint for a Large-Scale Telehealth Platform by Rattakorn Poonsuph

“…This design blueprint covers the digital healthcare ecosystem, new patient journey design for digital health services, telehealth functionality design, and an outline of the platform infrastructure and security design. Ultimately, telehealth platforms establish a completed digital healthcare service and new ecosystem that provides better care for every patient worldwide.…”
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Examples from US Policies to Reduce Oversupply and Overutilization: Lessons for the Japanese Health Care System by Jared Lane K. Maeda PhD, MPH

“…Additionally, the Japanese health care system does not have the infrastructure in place to restrain utilization, which may be a key driver of increases in health care spending. …”
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