Seismic Response and Evaluation of SDOF Self-Centering Friction Damping Braces Subjected to Several Earthquake Ground Motions by Jong Wan Hu, Myung-Hyun Noh

“…After observing analysis results, adequate design methodologies that optimally account for recentering capability and energy dissipation according to their comparative parameters are intended to be suggested in order to take advantage of energy capacity and to minimize residual deformation simultaneously.…”
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Zmiany modelu poznawczego uczniów w kontekście prac nad e-podręcznikiem by Jolanta Dyrda

“…In the context of an animated discussion about the project of an e-textbook, I intend to concentrate upon the situation of pupils who experience considerable diffi culties in the process of learning at school. …”
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Nourrir les morts ou « Celui qui fait vivre », les différents régimes de commensalité rituelle chez les Mixe (Oaxaca, Mexique) by Perig Pitrou

“…To demonstrate this, this article proposes a contrastive study between systems of meal-sharing associated with ceremonial deposits – poultry sacrifices – on the basis of whether these displays are intended for the dead or, instead, for an entity named « The One Who Makes Live ». …”
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Investigating the Reliability of Ground Motion Intensity Measures by Ali Jafari, Elham Rajabi, Gholamreza Ghodrati Amiri

“…A simple relation has been proposed and calibrated for the studied IMs that provide the required number of earthquake records to satisfy an intended level of reliability. As a case study, a significant number of recorded ground motions at Zagros and non-Zagros zones (two major seismic regions in Iran) with rock and soil conditions are selected, and the most reliable ground motion intensity measure is introduced at various seismic regions and soil types by exploiting the developed framework and the proposed relationship.…”
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DATA MINING APPROACH FOR PREDICTING STUDENT PERFORMANCE by Edin Osmanbegović, Mirza Suljić

“… Although data mining has been successfully implemented in the business world for some time now, its use in higher education is still relatively new, i.e. its use is intended for identification and extraction of new and potentially valuable knowledge from the data. …”
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Identifying the Prophetic Legal Ethos in the Death Penalty Provisions of the Indonesian Criminal Code by Basto Daeng Robo

“…Al Maidah (5:38–39), which emphasize that punishment is intended for self-improvement. Should the convict exhibit remorse prior to execution, it reflects the understanding that Allah is the Most Forgiving. …”
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Method of privacy protection based on multiple edge servers in personalized search by Qiang ZHANG, Guojun WANG, Shaobo ZHANG

“…In the plaintext environment,users' personalized search results can be obtained through users' interest model and query keywords.However,it may possibly result in the disclosure of sensitive data and privacy,which prevents using sensitive data in cloud search.Therefore,data is generally stored in the form of ciphertext in the cloud server.In the process of cloud search service,users intend to quickly obtain the desired search results from the vast amount of ciphertext.In order to solve the problem,it was proposed that a method of privacy protection based on multiple edge servers in personalized search shall be used.By introducing multiple edge servers and cutting the index as well as the query matrix,the computing relevance scores of partial query and partial file index are achieved on the edge server.The cloud server only needs to get the relevance score on the edge server and make a simple processing that can return to the most relevant Top K files by user query,so as to make it particularly suitable for a large number of users in the massive personalized ciphertext search.Security analysis and experimental results show that this method can effectively protect users’ privacy and data confidentiality.In addition,it can guarantee high efficiency in search to provide better personalized search experience.…”
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Experimental Study to Evaluate the Safety and Immunomodulatory Effect of Swarna Vacha Yog in Wistar Albino Rats by Rashmi Pareek, Nisha Kumari Ojha, Sanjeev Sharma

“…The proposed formulation was intended for oral administration. Hence, the safety study was performed using OECD proposed Oral Toxicity Guidelines and was evaluated by response in Wistar Albino Rats.Methods:Nine healthy adult albino Wistar Albino Rats from both sexes were randomly selected for toxicity study which were divided into three groups (three in each group) and 24 selected randomly and divided in four groups for immunomodulatory effect.Results and Conclusion:No any evidence of acute toxicity was observed after giving test sample at dose of 50, 300 and 2000 mg/kg at 30 min, 4 h, 24 h, 48 h, 1 week, and 2 weeks. …”
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Le paysage humanisé au Québec by Gérald Domon

“…As part of the law on the conservation of the natural heritage and of category V as defined by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), this status is intended for the protection and enhancement of certain areas “[...] constituted to protect the biodiversity of an inhabited territory, [...] the landscape and natural components which have been shaped by human activity in harmony with nature [...]”. …”
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A New Nonlinear Chaotic Complex Model and Its Complex Antilag Synchronization by Emad E. Mahmoud, Fatimah S. Abood

“…There are irregular properties for CALS and they do not exist in the literature; for example, (i) the CALS contains or fused two sorts of synchronizations (antilag synchronization ALS and lag synchronization LS); (ii) in CALS the attractors of the main and slave systems are moving opposite or similar to each other with time lag; (iii) the state variable of the main system synchronizes with a different state variable of the slave system. A scheme is intended to accomplish CALS of chaotic complex systems in light of Lyapunov function. …”
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An Appraisal of the Chronology Problem in the “Rise of the West” Question by Gürsu Galip Gürsakal, Sezgin Kaya

“…In the former part of our essay we try to acquaint the reader with the aforementioned literature. We do not intend to present a detailed account but just the important milestones delineating only the broadest contours of the discussion. …”
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Mise en scène du paysage montagnard et valorisation sélective des patrimoines dans une vallée pyrénéenne en reconversion économique by Pierre Dérioz, Philippe Bachimon, Maud Loireau

“…This heritage part of the strategy is intended for the residents, the owners of secondary residences, and for tourists in the strict sense of the term: proof of this is in how the promotion of the industrial heritage has been accompanied the disappearance of its physical evidence in the landscape (destruction of the factory), the shift to the reconstruction of a memory being considered as a means of more effectively breaking with this industrial past.…”
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Technologies of interactive English teaching at technical universities by Svetlana I. Linnichenko

“…As a result of the study, there have been proposed pedagogical conditions for implementing interactive language teaching; besides, there have been studied the educational resources of the interactive forms; the created and tested author's educational and methodological materials based on the platforms Quizlet and Worldwall.net were intended for the effective organization of students independent work in an interactive mode. …”
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INVESTIGATING REASONS FOR RESISTANCE AMONG PROJECT AND GENERAL MANAGERS IN ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING IMPLEMENTATIONS by Amer Celjo, Azra Hanić, Marietta Kazalac

“… Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) primary goal is to connect all organizational units together under the single data base. It is intended to speed up all the processes and track all the actions easily. …”
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La méthode des analogues : reproduire le caractère saisonnier de la distribution d’eau potable dans les stations touristiques de montagne by Martin Calianno

“…The analogues method was developed with as a case study the tourist resort of Megève (Haute-Savoie, France), presenting a strong seasonal variability in the demand for drinking water. The method is intended for decision-makers and urban planners, because it makes it possible to predict the seasonality of drinking water distribution in Alpine regions where data on water use is rarely available. …”
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Intentional Manipulations? A Further Analysis of Selected English-Yoruba Humorous Translations by Ibukunolu Isaac Olodude

“…However, there are cases when the translation of a text is either intentionally or unintentionally manipulated to achieve certain intended or unintended purposes. This essay examines cases of manipulated translations of texts within a language and from one language to the other. …”
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Managing Co-Authorship as a Competence of Academic Writing: Organizational and Legal Points by M. A. Safonova, A. A. Safonov

“…Embracing a broad area of linguistic and cultural knowledge, academic writing can also intend to develop people’s awareness of such problems as models of co-authorship, horizontal and vertical types of academic co-operation, functions assigned to members of collaborative groups at different stages of writing and publishing a text, whole ownership and that of individual contributions. …”
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Metrics used in quality improvement publications addressing environmental sustainability in healthcare: A scoping review protocol. by Colin Sue-Chue-Lam, Sezgi Yanikomeroglu, Doulia Hamad, Brian Wong, Karen Born

“…We will search multiple electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and Scopus) from 2000 onwards, to identify published quality improvement initiatives in the human healthcare setting intended to address ecological impact with at least one quantitative measure of ecological impact, such as kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas. …”
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The Homosexual Exception? The Case of the Labouchère Amendment by William Fize

“…As a consequence, it marked the beginning of a ‘homosexual exception’ surrounding its adoption as it was part of a wider bill—the Criminal Law Amendment Bill—, intended to protect younger girls from vice and prostitution. …”
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The effects of 8-week aerobic training on body weight among sedentary females by Gamze Ozdil, Ozlem Bagıs, Faruk Guven, Samet Aktas

“…In this study, it was intended to see how a-8 week aerobic traininig applications affected weight loss and body composition among the sedentary females. …”
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