Geopolitics of Connectivity: The EU in Central Asia by Sergey V. Mazanik, Tatiana A. Romanova

“…Thereafter, drawing upon the long-standing academic tradition of considering the EU as a geopolitical actor, the paper clarifies how, under the sway of the ongoing debate on strategic sovereignty (autonomy), the EU deploys the logic of inclusion and exclusion in its relations with third countries. …”
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Nursing care of an elderly bedridden patient after swallowing foreign body (1例高龄卧床患者吞食异物后的护理) by HAO Lin (郝林), LIU Wenjing (刘文静)

“…This paper summarized the nursing management for a long-term bedridden elderly patient with nasal feeding diet complicated with various diseases. …”
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Thorough Characterization of Brazilian New Generation of Eucalypt Clones and Grass for Pulp Production by Fernando José Borges Gomes, Jorge Luiz Colodette, Auphélia Burnet, Larisse Aparecida Ribas Batalha, Fernando Almeida Santos, Iara Fontes Demuner

“…However, due to the high wood cost in comparison to other raw material sources, nonwoody materials are also being investigated aiming at pulp production. In this way, this paper aimed at the evaluation of eighteen eucalypt clones obtained from the Brazilian Genolyptus project, regarding their potential characteristics for pulp production. …”
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Blood-letting puncturing combined with cupping therapy and nursing for the treatment of pain in a patient with stagnation of Liver-Qi and phlegm of hyperplasia of mammary glands (刺... by SUN Pengcheng (孙鹏程), LIU Cui (刘翠), TANG Ling (唐玲), CHEN Hong (陈宏)

“…This paper summarized the effect of blood-letting puncturing combined with cupping therapy and nursing for the treatment of pain in a patient with stagnation of Liver-Qi and phlegm of hyperplasia of mammary glands. …”
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Long-Gauge Fiber Optic Sensors: Strain Measurement Comparison for Reinforced Concrete Columns by Haoran Lin, Zhaowen Xu, Wan Hong, Zhihong Yang, Yixin Wang, Bing Li

“…This suggests a promising avenue for further research and development. This paper presents a thorough comparison of long-gauge fiber optic sensors and traditional measurement tools when used to monitor RC columns under small eccentric compressive loading. …”
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Damping Effects Induced by a Mass Moving along a Pendulum by E. Gandino, S. Marchesiello, A. Bellino, A. Fasana, L. Garibaldi

“…This is a very simple method recently adopted for estimating the instantaneous frequencies of a system. In this paper, the ST-SSI method is demonstrated to be capable of accurately estimating damping ratios, even in the challenging cases when damping may turn to negative due to the Coriolis-type effects, thus causing amplifications of the system response.…”
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UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONAL RESPONSES TO TEXT: A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC INVESTIGATION OF VISUAL INFLUENCES by Yana A. Volkova, Irina V. Vashunina

“…The paper explores the influence of visual elements on the emotional perception of textual content. …”
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Beam Tilt Aberration Detection of the Seven-Unit Phased Fiber Laser Array by Xin Yu, Xingyue Wang, Jing Liang, Cai Liu, Xiaolong Ni, Suping Bai, Jiasu Li, Zeping Liu, Lijie Hou

“…In this paper, we present a method based on the conjugate image principle and micro-nano optics to detect tilt aberrations of a phased fiber laser array system. …”
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Probing Cosmic Isotropy with the FAST All Sky H i Survey by Yi-Wen Wu, Jun-Qing Xia

“…This paper leverages the first released catalog from the FAST All Sky H i Survey (FASHI) to examine the hypothesis of cosmic isotropy in the local Universe. …”
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Road properties of cement-phosphogypsum-red clay under dry and wet cycles. by Yunke Liu, Kaisheng Chen, Hao Jian, Zeyu Liu

“…In this paper, the road performance and mechanism of cement-phosphogypsum-red clay (CPRC) under dry and wet cycling were systematically investigated using 5% cement as curing agent, the mass ratio of phosphogypsum: red clay = 1:1, and 5% SCA-2 as water stabilizer. …”
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Improved recommender system using Neural Network Collaborative Filtering (NNCF) for E-commerce cosmetic product by Subhan Subhan, Deny Lukman Syarif, Endah Widhihastuti, Senda Kartika Rakainsa, Muhammad Sam'an, Yahya Nur Ifriza

“…In e-commerce, personalized product recommendations are crucial to improving user engagement and driving sales. This paper presents an innovative approach to enhance recommendation systems by leveraging neural network collaborative filtering techniques for the cosmetic product domain. …”
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A Novel Complex Event Processing Engine for Intelligent Data Analysis in Integrated Information Systems by Dong Wang, Mingquan Zhou, Sajid Ali, Pengbo Zhou, Yusong Liu, Xuesong Wang

“…Although Complex Event Processing (CEP) has enhanced the capacity of data analysis in information systems, it is still a big challenging task since events are rapidly increasing in diverse applications. In this paper, a lightweight intelligent data analysis system with a novel CEP engine named LIDA-E is introduced, which employs the knowledge base with rules and an event processing algorithm for analysis. …”
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An Effective Approach for Modular Community Detection in Bipartite Network Based on Integrating Rider with Harris Hawks Optimization Algorithms by Bader Fahad Alkhamees, Mogeeb A. A. Mosleh, Hussain AlSalman, Muhammad Azeem Akbar

“…Even though the discovery of communities in one-mode network is briefly studied, community detection in bipartite networks is not studied. In this paper, we propose a novel Rider-Harris Hawks Optimization (RHHO) algorithm for community detection in a bipartite network through node similarity. …”
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LoRa Resource Allocation Algorithm for Higher Data Rates by Hossein Keshmiri, Gazi M. E. Rahman, Khan A. Wahid

“…However, its inherent low data rate poses a challenge for applications that require higher throughput, such as video surveillance and disaster monitoring, where large image files must be transmitted over long distances in areas with limited communication infrastructure. In this paper, we introduce the LoRa Resource Allocation (LRA) algorithm, designed to address these limitations by enabling parallel transmissions, thereby reducing the total transmission time (<i>T_tx</i>) and increasing the bit rate (BR). …”
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Jilin Province of China, 1949–1979: History of Regional and Demographic Development by Svetlana B. Makeeva

“…The history of regional and demographic development of Jilin Province in Northeast China from 1949 to 1979 comprises a number of socioeconomic and urban/spatial changes in the demographic potential of the strategically important border territory. Goals. The paper shall consider some peculiar features of economic processes in the evolution of Jilin Province from 1949 to 1979; identify key trends in ethnic, urban/spatial, and migration processes; determine the causes and consequences of high fertility, low mortality, and a younger age population structure in Jilin Province during the period under review. …”
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ENHANCING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE DIALOGUE: A STUDY OF MALAYSIAN AND AUSTRALIAN PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS by Vegneskumar Maniam, Tay Gerard, Ingrid Harrington, Hayley Trenchard, Susan Bennett

“…Effective practices to support the transition to professional life is therefore crucial for teacher retention. This paper presents findings from a prospective study of an ongoing project model developed collaboratively by academics from an Australian public university and a Malaysian public teacher education provider. …”
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How accounting for investment subsidies influences financial performance: an empirical analysis of IAS 20 and Czech accounting legislation by Radek Zdeněk, Jana Lososová, Jaroslav Svoboda

“…Our paper focuses on investment subsidies and the impact of accounting methods on financial ratios. …”
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Microgrid Islanding Detection Using D-PMU and Phase Angle Analysis of Negative Sequence Impedance by Asim Chaulagain, Ramakrishna Gokaraju, Nurul Chowdhury, Krish Narendra

“…When islanding occurs, distributed energy resources (DERs) need to be disconnected quickly, under 2 seconds, which makes fast islanding detection crucial. This paper describes a novel method for microgrid islanding detection utilizing distribution phasor measurement unit (D-PMU). …”
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Confidence intervals for the COVID-19 neutralizing antibody retention rate in the Korean population by Catherine Apio, Md. Kamruzzaman, Taesung Park

“…While several countries started reporting population based antibody rate, its simple point estimate may be misinterpreted without proper estimation of standard error and confidence intervals. In this paper, we review the importance of antibody studies and present the 95% confidence intervals COVID-19 antibody rate for the Korean population using two recently performed antibody tests in Korea. …”
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Research on Multi-Channel Spectral Prediction Model for Printed Matter Based on HMSSA-BP Neural Network by Dandan Fan, Hongwu Zhan, Fang Xu, Yifei Zou, Yankang Zhang

“…Moreover, there is no single quality index that significantly outperforms others or provides the best performance in all situations. To overcome it, this paper proposes a multi-channel spectral prediction model for printed matter and the adaptive evaluation method based on multi-index fusion. …”
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