Retraction notice: Volume removed – Publisher’s Disclaimer

“…This proceeding volume has been retracted from the publication because we found some solid reasons to believe that it has infringed our integrity criteria and now presents a risk for our journal and scholarly science in general. …”
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Retraction notice: Volume removed – Publisher’s Disclaimer

“…This proceeding volume has been retracted from the publication because we found some solid reasons to believe that it has infringed our integrity criteria and now presents a risk for our journal and scholarly science in general. …”
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Returning Merchandise: Registering a Consumer Complaint by Mary N. Harrison

“… Consumers return purchases for a variety of reasons. Sometimes they change their minds and do not want an item. …”
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Antonin Scalia’s Constitutional Textualism: The Problem of Justice to Posterity by Bruce E. Auerbach, Michelle Reinhart

“…We argue there is little reason to believe that Scalia’s understanding is correct. …”
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La construction du paysage viticole by Solène Delebecque

“…The simple assessment of landscape’s organization is not sufficient to explain its building, so we tried to understand the logic of landscapes production through the reasons that guide the viticulturalists’ choices. …”
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Exclusion Spirometry: A Bad Idea by Andrew Mcivor

“…In this issue of the Canadian Respiratory Journal, Almirall and Bégin (pages 195 to 196) provide a very reasoned argument suggesting that obtaining isolated normal values of spirometric indexes can exclude certain conditions.…”
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Parasites detected in discus fishes (symphsodon discus) by Nermin Işık, Feyzullah Güçlü, Onur Ceylan

“…This study was carried out to detect the reason of mortalities of 7 Discus fishes (Symphsodon discus) sent to our laboratory. …”
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WORKING HOURS AND MANDATORY BREAKS FOR MOBILE WORKERS AND DRIVERS IN ROAD TRANSPORT ACCORDING TO THE AMENDMENTS TO REGULATION (EC) 561/2006 by Matija Gočin, Sandra Debeljak, Miljenko Gočin

“…In this paper, the authors deal with the amendments to Regulation (EC) 561/2006, which refer to working hours and mandatory breaks for mobile workers and drivers. The reasons for the amendment of the Regulation are presented and the positions of the EU member states on this matter are explained. …”
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Current Work and Way Forward of Spectrum Requirement Estimation for the Future IMT System by Tan Wang, Biao Huang, Jing Pang

“…In order to satisfy the spectrum requirements of the next generation international mobile telecommunication （IMT）system，to realize scientific allocation and usage of spectrum resources and to avoid spectrum waste brought by allocation in advance，there is a need to make a reasonable estimation for the spectrum demands of future IMT systems.The estimation results can also provide guidelines for the subsequent spectrum planning and assignment work.The progress of study related IMT spectrum estimation was given.From the analysis of current work and practical situation，the key factors in the estimation methodology were summarized to provide a reference for the following work.…”
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Dynamics Analysis and Simulation on the Working Device of Face-shovel Hydraulic Excavator by Liu Bao, Feng Zhiyou, Mo Shuai

“…The error is within the reasonable range,and proves the correctness of the proposed modeling method.…”
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La reivindicación del mensaje revolucionario en la poesía carcelaria argentina (1976-1983) by Amandine Guillard

“…This article offers an overview of the poetry written within the prisons of the last Argentinian dictatorship (1976-1983) by authors who were convicted for political reasons. Although not all prisoners were actually involved in politics before being detained, many of them were and felt the need to continue their activism in prison, in spite of the physical as well as psychological pressures they endured. …”
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Philo's De Decalogo: educating to respect the socially disadvantaged by P. B. Decock

“…The Ten Commandments are intended as a means of education, healing and transformation of people and their communities; they guide people to live in harmony with nature, reason and one another; in practice, this means to learn how to turn away from foolish pride and to live in gentleness, fellowship, simplicity, and equality. …”
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Les pongos et les jockos sont-ils des animaux ou des hommes ? L’épreuve de l’incertitude, de Rousseau aux singes parlants by Chris Herzfeld

“…The chosen criteria of demarcation (language, reason, bipedalism, tool use, emotions, etc.) are greatly relativized as the study of great apes progresses. …”
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RESEARCH OF HOURGLASS MODE’S CONTROL IN THE SIMULATION OF THE SQUEEZING OF OCEAN CABLE by LI Jing, WANG GuiLu, WEI Yong

“…Different hourglass control modes were adopted to find out the reasons for the formation of the hourglass. and emphasis on distinguishing the parts which have serious hourglass mode and the control method were introduced. …”
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Analytic Solution for Nonlinear Multimode Beam Vibration Using a Modified Harmonic Balance Approach and Vieta’s Substitution by Y. Y. Lee

“…The result obtained from the proposed method shows reasonable agreement with that from a previous numerical integration method. …”
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Influence of Lubrication Water Contamination by Solid Particles of Mineral Origin on Marine Strut Propeller Shafts Bearings of Ships by Litwin Wojciech, Barszczewska Agnieszka, Piątkowska Ewa, Szwoch Izabela, Matuszewski Leszek, Kahsin Maciej

“…The water lubricated bearings for ship propeller shafts are an environmentally friendly solution. That is the reason why water lubrication is an interesting option to consider. …”
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RAISING QUALIFICATION OF ENGINEERING PERSONNEL: ORGANIZATIONAL NOVATIONS AND EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES by Vasyliy G. Ivanov, Svetlana V. Barabanova, Olga Yu. Khatsrinova

“…The authors reveal the problems of implementing the additional educational programs for engineering personnel such as alienation from the real practice, interdisciplinary approach ignoring, neglect of students’ personal professional and social experience and others. So, this is the reason for development of innovative strategies for additional vocational training in conditions of public-private partnership and forconstructing a system of listeners’ scientific and methodological support. …”
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ELEMENTS OF ACCOUNTING POLICY SELECTION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON FINANCIAL STATEMENTS INDICATORS by O. Ageeva, D. Formusatii

“…In this article, the authors consider reasons for development of variety of accounting policies and examine influencing of selected accounting policy elements on valuation of financial statements indicators. …”
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A Classification Method of Music Style Based on Text Mining and Neural Network by Jianfeng Zhang, Jin Wang

“…In terms of the confusion of music style ambiguous relationships caused by artificial classification and the problem that some songs cannot be classified into the proper style，the emotion of songs based on their lyrics to classify their belongings was analyzed.BP neural network was used to establish a music style forecast model and then a reasonable proof of the theory and derivation was made.This experiment use MATLAB as a modeling tool and determine the training parameters according to its characteristics，and then extract 10% from dataset to test.This approach shows that theoretical results and data simulation results agree well with the accuracy rate reached about 80%.…”
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY OF ANGOLA AS A FACTOR OF ENSURING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE COUNTRY’S ECONOMY by B. Sebashtiao

“…The author identifies the reasons for lack of competitiveness of the Angolan economy on global competitiveness rankings, gives recommendations for the development of manufacturing industry in Angola as a mechanism to improve the competitiveness of the country’s economy. …”
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