ACTIVITIES TO ANTICIPATE THE WEAKNESSES OF STUDENTS’ READING MATERIALS FROM INTERNET by Maria Eka Mulatsih

“…Students were free to choose their reading materials which consisted of two short stories and four novels for Prose class, three simplified novels and three original novels for Book Report class. Not surprisingly, most students showed their interest in reading some literary works taken from some internet sources. …”
Get full text

Nonlinear Matrix Ferroelectric Composites on Construction Quality and Safety Measures by Danping Hu, Gongxing Yan, Hongquan Sun

“…These materials are indeed popular in building construction, various materials complement each other in performance and produce a synergistic effect so that the comprehensive performance of composite materials is better than the original composition materials and meets various high-quality requirements. …”
Get full text

Toward Digital Transformation: Insights into Chinese Cross-Border E-Commerce SMEs During the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Post-Pandemic Era by Arthur William Fodouop Kouam

“…The pandemic and its restrictions have forced businesses to rethink their strategies and daily operations. The originality of this research lies in assessing the unique challenges cross-border e-commerce Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) faced during the pandemic and the strategies they developed to survive. …”
Get full text

Importance and Comparative Advantages of the EU and US Agri-food Sector in World Trade in 1995-2015 by Karolina Pawlak

“…The EU countries held comparative advantages in the global market as regards exports of products of animal origin whereas the exports of cereals, preparations of cereals, oilseeds and oleaginous fruits and meat products were the source of revealed comparative advantages for the US. …”
Get full text

Behavior Anomaly Detection Based on Multi-modal Feature Fusion and Its Application in English Teaching by Lei Kan, Man Wang

“…Finally, the decoder module converts the low-dimensional feature mapping back to the high-dimensional original input space through deconvolution and up-sampling operations to obtain the behavior detection image.…”
Get full text

Deep Domain Adaptation Approach Using an Improved Parallel Residual Network for Cross-Domain Bearing Fault Diagnosis by Jiezhou Huang

“…Firstly, a parallel residual block (PRB) is designed to extract critical features that can fully characterize the original signals without significantly increasing the model parameters and more attention is paid to them. …”
Get full text

Habitat suitability mapping and landscape connectivity analysis to predict African swine fever spread in wild boar populations: A focus on Northern Italy. by Giulia Faustini, Marie Soret, Alexandre Defossez, Jaime Bosch, Annamaria Conte, Annelise Tran

“…African swine fever (ASF) is a highly contagious disease affecting wild and domestic pigs, characterised by severe haemorrhagic symptoms and high mortality rates. Originally confined to Sub-Saharan Africa, ASF virus genotype II has spread to Europe since 2014, mainly affecting Eastern Europe, and progressing through wild boar migrations and human action. …”
Get full text

AESTHETIC TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN BESSARABIAN OPERA MUSIC OF 20th CENTURY by Luminiţa GUŢANU

“…The composers’ interest constantly lies in musical sources of folk origin. The musical discourse comes into being under the influence of folk melodies, which imprints a variational character on the sound developments, facilitated by the episodic repetitions of the form of rondo (D. …”
Get full text

Minimum Risk Facility Location-Allocation Problem with Type-2 Fuzzy Variables by Xuejie Bai, Ying Liu

“…On the basis of formula obtained, we can convert original fuzzy FLA model into its equivalent parametric mixed integer programming form, which can be solved by conventional numerical algorithms or general-purpose software. …”
Get full text

From the Small Screen to the Big Screen: The Super8's Distribution of Sandokan TV series by Nicole Braida

“…The paper considers the geographical circulation of Sandokan’s Super8 editions to investigate Sandokan’s figure beyond its literary origins. Super8’s history shows an unexplored relation between media broadcasting and past practices of home viewing beyond the theatrical realm. …”
Get full text

Bolsonaro et la covid-19 au Brésil : réflexions autour d’un double paradoxe by François Roubaud, Mireille Razafindrakoto

“…How a government violently opposed to any form of redistribution could have been at the origin of this Auxílio emergencial, an interventionist policy on a scale unmatched in Latin America or in the country’s history. …”
Get full text

A dive into the marketing trends of 2024: insights to unlocking potential by Vladimir Zhechev

“…This article provides context and agenda for entrepreneurs and marketing experts pertaining to their future marketing efforts. The originality of this paper resides with the fact that it examines the most contemporary trends in marketing as seen by world-renowned consults, strategists, CMOs and other decision-makers. …”
Get full text

Color Image Segmentation Using Fuzzy C-Regression Model by Min Chen, Simone A. Ludwig

“…Most fuzzy clustering algorithms have originated from fuzzy c-means (FCM) and have been successfully applied in image segmentation. …”
Get full text

Implementation of CT Image Segmentation Based on an Image Segmentation Algorithm by Lingli Shen

“…The algorithm has improved the segmentation accuracy and efficiency of the original algorithm, which is beneficial to the more accurate results of CT image segmentation. …”
Get full text

Integrated Regulation of Signal Coding and Plasticity by NMDA Receptors at a Central Synapse by Egidio D'Angelo, Paola Rossi

“…The role of NMDA and non-NMDA glutamate receptors in long-term potentiation has been intensely investigated, yet recent evidence on the dynamics of synaptic depolarization suggests that the original view should be extended. NMDA receptor-mediated currents, apart from their Ca2+ permeability, show a marked voltage dependence, consisting of current increase and slowdown during membrane depolarization. …”
Get full text

COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF FELINE VIRAL RHINOTRACHEITIS VIRUS FOR ITS REPLICATION PROPERTIES IN DIFFERENT CELL CULTURES by Ye. G. Kokorina, E. I. Elizbarashvili

“…The results of comparative studies of feline viral rhinotracheitis virus for its culture properties in primary and continuous cell cultures of feline origin (FK, FK (subculture), CrFK, FS, CC-81, FC/Tg) are presented. …”
Get full text

The institutionalisation of the social and solidarity economy in France as a meso-space by Sylvain Celle

“…The first (liberal) compromise (1790–1880) was characterised by the emergence of the original, fragmented SSE entities, in a regime dominated by economic liberalism. …”
Get full text

Speranza i Mickiewicz by Katarzyna Gmerek

“…Subsequently, they were published in anthologies, with the same misleading information on the original language, at one time attributed to Pushkin. …”
Get full text

Spatial Multiple Description Coding for Scalable Video Streams by Roya Choupani, Stephan Wong, Mehmet Tolun

“…In order to improve the fidelity of the reconstructed to the original frames in presence of packet loss, a multilayer polyphase spatial decomposition algorithm is proposed. …”
Get full text

The COVID-19 pandemic art of Anna Szpakowska-Kujawska: from pastels to spatial compositions by Karolina Tomczak

“…Tomczak shows that the reworking of difficult realities in the artistic medium finally takes place in spatial objects that are transgressively modern in that they reinterpret the model of avant-garde sculpture, selected postmodern artistic solutions and Szpakowska-Kujawska’s original art. At the same time, Tomczak sees Szpakowska-Kujawska’s works as expressive objects and personal psychograms encoding reality in the subjective iconography of a special period, which stylistically determines the coexistence of individualized biomorphism and simplified figuration, abstract universalization and symbolic representation. …”
Get full text