Impact of Gasoline and Diesel Subsidy Reforms on Global Biofuel Mandates by Robin Argueyrolles, Tobias Heimann, Ruth Delzeit

“…Using a global Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model, we study how phasing out gasoline and diesel subsidies would impact global biofuel mandates. …”
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Pengaruh literasi keuangan masyarakat terhadap minat berinvestasi dan upaya pembinaannya by Istiqlaliyah Muflikhati, Irni Rahmayani Johan, Lilik Noor Yuliati, Pudji Muljono

“…This research is a quantitative descriptive study involving 205 respondents who met the criteria, namely adults and not yet invested. Sampling was carried out using voluntary sampling techniques from people who were willing to become respondents. …”
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The determinants of consumption poverty in Fitche Town of Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia by Getachew M. Kumssa

“…To this effect, two kebeles were randomly selected out of the seven kebeles of the town. Likewise, 372 sampled households were selected out of the 5300 total households of the selected kebeles through a stratified simple random sampling technique. …”
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Towards Supercomputing Categorizing the Maliciousness upon Cybersecurity Blacklists with Concept Drift by M. V. Carriegos, N. DeCastro-García, D. Escudero

“…In this article, we have carried out a case study to optimize the classification of the maliciousness of cybersecurity events by IP addresses using machine learning techniques. …”
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Mechanical Performance and Design Method of Improved Lead Shear Damper with Long Stroke by Baoshun Wang, Weiming Yan, Haoxiang He

“…Finite element analysis is also carried out to investigate the proposed damper. Based on the ideal rigid-plastic constitutive law of lead, a mechanical model of the ILSD-LS is established. …”
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Wear Performance of Bionic Dimpled-Shape Pistons of Mud Pump by Xuejing Cheng, Tianyu Gao, Shaofeng Ru, Qian Cong

“…The piston is one of the parts that most easily become worn out and experience failure in mud pumps for well drilling. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Changing the Content of Social Media Advertising by Andrea Seberíni, Miroslava Tokovska

“…The main purpose of this study is to find out how social media, especially advertising, changed its content during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Meta-analytic review of servant leadership and team member exchange (TMX) theory by Nur Aisyah, Retno Purwani Setyaningrum, Endah Budiarti, Ida Bagus Cempena, Suhardi Suhardi

“…Research on the relationship between Servant Leadership (SL) and Team Member Exchange (TMX) has been carried out. At the same time, the basis for this relationship and the mechanism and conditions are still minimal and poorly understood by many people. …”
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The prevalence of nutritional status and obesity in adolescents in Babylon Province, Iraq by Nihad Abdallah Selman, Ashraf M. A. Hussain, Nassar Abdalaema Abdalhadi Mera

“…Conclusion: The prevalence of overweight and obesity was around than one third (20.4% + 10% = 30.4% collectively, whereas 14.2% were underweight out of all participants in this study).…”
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Novel Fluorescent Dyes for Single DNA Molecule Techniques by Alexander Zarkov, Aleksey Vasilev, Todor Deligeorgiev, Stoyno Stoynov, Marina Nedelcheva-Veleva

“…A comparison of their fluorescence intensity and photostability with the most applicable dyes in single-molecule techniques, fluorescent dyes YOYO-1 and POPO-3, was carried out. They all exhibited a strong signal, comparable to that of YOYO-1. …”
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Study on the Equivalence of Penetration Overloading for Projectile-Borne Components in Nonproportional Penetrators by Amin Yan, Aiguo Pi, He Yang, Fenglei Huang, Xiaofeng Wang

“…This study, considering the mass of the deceleration measurement device, lays out the design criteria of the scaling model and carries out rigid-body deceleration similarity verification tests of the prototype and the scaling model. …”
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Environmental injustice and human rights violations in Jalisco, Mexico by Beatriz Adriana Venegas-Sahagún, Juan Alberto Gran-Castro

“…The results show the slow process of recognition at the institutional level to point out the transgression of the right to a healthy environment in Jalisco.…”
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Design of Optimal QFT Controller and Prefilter for Buck Converter Using Metaheuristic Algorithms by Nitish Katal, Shiv Narayan

“…In this paper, the synthesis of a QFT-based robust controller and prefilter has been carried out for an uncertain buck converter with varying input voltage and varying load. …”
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The various rising tones in Newcastle English: a phonological distinction? by Sophie Herment, Laetitia Leonarduzzi, Caroline Bouzon

“…We tested this hypothesis by carrying out a pilot study based on a perception experiment. …”
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Photocatalytic Degradation of Toluene in Air Using a Fluidized Bed Photoreactor by O. Prieto, J. Fermoso, R. Irusta

“…The photocatalytic degradation of toluene in air was carried out on particles of TiO2 in a photocatalytic reactor that had been developed to study the treatment of organic pollutants in a gaseous phase. …”
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Poetics of Friction by Nadja Ben Khelifa, Étienne Allaix, Jörg Sternagel

“…Called by these questions, our panel attempts to collaboratively work on corresponding responses within a poetics of friction that is rehearsed, acted out, and tried out in a setting where forces come into play that resist relative motions of solid approaches and beliefs sliding against each other: Whereas the three panelists – a multimedia artist, a cultural theorist, and a philosopher – call with their spoken words, screened images and handout materials, the members of the audience respond to these calls: Like the wheel that needs the concrete surface against its rubber to spin in movement, or the piece of wood that needs the wooden stick rotating against its bark to spark a flame, members of Performance Philosophy need frictions with which both Performance artists and Philosophy scholars slide against each other to spin, to move, to carry on, to reflect, to struggle, to doubt, to aim, to spark flames of inspiration. …”
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Wind Tunnel Test of the Icing Characteristics of Airfoil Rotating around a Vertical Axis by Yan Li, Lei Shi, Wenfeng Guo, Ce Sun, Yu Jiang

“…To determine the process of icing on the rotating machinery, an icing experiment on a rotating airfoil blade was carried out in this paper. First, an icing wind tunnel was fabricated, and its conditional parameters were calibrated. …”
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On SU(3) Effective Models and Chiral Phase Transition by Abdel Nasser Tawfik, Niseem Magdy

“…This is also larger than the freeze-out temperatures calculated in lattice QCD and deduced from experiments and thermal models. …”
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A multi-disciplinary approach to the study of an assemblage of copper-based finds assigned to the prehistory and proto-history of Fucino, Abruzzo, Italy by Mascelloni M.L., Cerichelli G., Ridolfi S.

“…The Fucino bronzes include artefacts that emerged during the drainage of Lake Fucino at the end of the XIX century, as well as bronzes acquired locally or dug out later by several collectors on behalf of the various Italian museums where finds are currently distributed. …”
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The new classification of periodontal and perimplant conditions and diseases from an evolutionary perspective by Carla María García San Juan, Rubén Darío García Núñez, Maria Aurelia San Juan Bosch

“…For this, an updated review of the bibliography was carried out. The articles were identified through the automated search in the SCOPUS and GOOGLE reference systems databases. 16 original articles were selected. …”
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