Poverty and Iinequality Sstudies in Iran A Book Rreview of “The Necessity of Fighting the Poverty and Inequality in Iran” by Mohamad Farhadi

“…Accordingly, the book does not introduce the category of inequality and its causes and reasons in Iran. The lack of a deliberate look and a definite stance on poverty and inequality in this book is one of the main points that this article emphasizes.…”
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Influences of Flow Attack Angles and Flow Directions on Heat Transfer Rate, Pressure Loss, and Thermal Performance in Heat Exchanger Tube with V-Wavy Surface by Amnart Boonloi, Withada Jedsadaratanachai

“…The vortex flow disturbs the thermal boundary layer on the heat transfer surface that is the reason for heat transfer and thermal performance enhancements. …”
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Rol de la protección radiológica en procedimientos de cardiología intervencionista by Teodoro Rivera Montalvo, Eduardo Santiago Uruchurtu Chavarín

“…El principio que gobierna la protección radiológica en todas las exposiciones se conoce con el nombre de ALARA (as low as reasonable achievable) que se traduce como: “Tan bajo como sea razonablemente posible” para nuestro caso lo manejaremos como Tan bajo como sea razonablemente práctico. …”
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Global Distribution, Public Health and Clinical Impact of the Protozoan Pathogen Cryptosporidium by Lorenza Putignani, Donato Menichella

“…In children, cryptosporidiosis encumber is even less recorded and often misidentified due to physiological reasons such as early-age unpaired immunological response. …”
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Study on the Mitigative Effect of Controlled Permeable Formwork (CPF) Liner on Early-Age Shrinkage of Box-Girder Concrete by Jianxiong Ye, Linwen Yu, Yong Chen

“…Under the temperature of 20°C and the relative humidity of 60%, two-surface-covering and three-surface-covering CPF liner on concrete decreased the shrinkage by 44% and 48%, respectively, at 7 d compared with concrete without CPF liner covered on it. The main reason is that CPF liner enhanced the internal relative moisture content and resulted in better performance of the surface concrete.…”
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Dimensional Evolution of Intelligent Cars Human-Machine Interface considering Take-Over Performance and Drivers’ Perception on Urban Roads by Hao Yang, Yueran Wang, Ruoyu Jia

“…The study analyzed the drivers’ take-over behaviors in intelligent cars when driving on urban roads and tried to find reasonable dimensions of the human-machine interface. …”
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Capabilities of Rice Processors: Issues for Competitiveness of Rice in Enugu State, Nigeria by Cynthia Ebere Nwobodo, Celestina Dupe Innih, Mabel Ukamaka Dimelu, Jane Mbolle Chah

“…Revealing the  need or training and capacity building on value addition processing such as de-stoning, size sorting, polishing, and buffering which will place domestic rice at par with foreign rice. The reasons for the high disparity between knowledge and practice is a gap for extension workers to explore and address.   …”
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ENVIRONMENT AND CONFLICTS IN NIGERIA: CAUSES AND TRENDS OF FARMERS – HERDERS CONFLICTS by UMAR ZUBAIRU, TERNA PAISE AGBA AGBA

“…Notwithstanding the scarcity of environmental resources as the basic reason for the conflict, the paper also demonstrated that the proliferation of light arms by non-state actors and communication devices, inefficient state policies, climate change and lack of courage to take difficult but decisive decision by government precipitated these conflicts.  …”
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Study on the Spatial and Temporal Differences of Water Poverty in the Yellow River Basin and Its Influencing Factors by WANG Shuhe

“…In order to scientifically and reasonably evaluate the current situation of water poverty in the Yellow River Basin,and strengthen the planning and management of the sustainability of water resources in the Yellow River Basin,this paper builds a water poverty index model based on the theory of water poverty,measures the level of water poverty of 9 provinces in the Yellow River Basin from 2011 to 2017 by the model,and analyzes its temporal and spatial differences and influencing factors.The results show that:①The water poverty of the 9 provinces in the Yellow River Basin was serious overall,the water poverty gap was widening year by year,and the WPI rankings of the provinces were changed.②There were significant spatial differences in the level of water poverty,including severe water poverty,moderate water poverty,and mild water poverty.③From the overall perspective of the Yellow River Basin,the industrial structure had a negative impact,while the environmental regulation,technical level,farmland water conservancy facilities construction and soil erosion control area had positive impacts;from a provincial perspective,the key factors affecting the level of water poverty in each province were different,based on which suggestions on promoting the efficient use of water resources and alleviating the water poverty are put forward.…”
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Comparison Between Nano- and Micro-Sized Copper Particles as Fillers in NAO Friction Materials by Sanjeev Sharma, Jayashree Bijwe, Mukesh Kumar

“…The quality of a tribo‐layer transferred to the disc as studied in SEM was confirmed to be one of the reasons for the improved performance of the nano‐composite.…”
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Ultimate Bearing Capacity of Strip Foundations in Unsaturated Soils considering the Intermediate Principal Stress Effect by Qing Yan, Junhai Zhao, Changguang Zhang, Jintai Wang

“…The reasonable determination of ultimate bearing capacity is crucial to an optimal design of shallow foundations. …”
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How can Green Public Procurement contribute to Social Sustainability? by Raquel Carvalho

“…It should be noted that European jurisprudence, followed by the Public Procurement Directives, has always limited the use of public procurement as a vehicle for the promotion of environmental, social and sustainable development policies, which has recently become increasingly emphasised with the transition from linear to circular economy. For reasons linked to the cross-cutting nature of environmental policies and the national economic connection of social policies, the former are more suited for harmonising member states’ legal systems. …”
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Rational redistribution of waste of resources. Manufacturing of equipment for cutting machine by Yu. E. Soloviev, I. A. Kovaleva

“…Almost all metal at OJSC «Byelorussian Steel Works» – management company of holding «Belarusian Metallurgical Company» includes today a mandatory physical-mechanical tests which allow to estimate the parameters of the raw materials, to know the reasons for loss of strength and determine operational characteristics. …”
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Distribution Features of the Minimum Rock Cover Thickness of the Surrounding Rock Self-Stability of the Metro Tunnel in the Soil-Rock Dualistic Stratum by Ziguang Zhang, Tao Xu, Guangyong Cao, Xiaofeng Liu

“…Furthermore, the application of the MRCT-SRS in determining the reasonable buried depth of a metro line has been explored. …”
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Analytical study of entrepreneurship state in Russia by A. A. Buimov

“…An extremely high variability in the level of entrepreneurial activity across Russian regions has been shown. For this reason, more than two dozen regional social and economic indicators have been selected and correlation analysis carried out. …”
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The life and riot of Coptic Patriarch Shenouda III (1923-2012) by O.V. Nizamutdinova

“…The paper discloses the reasons for why the Patriarch changed his opinion, which resulted in the revision of the Church policy toward the state. …”
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Outage Analysis of Train-to-Train Communication Model over Nakagami-m Channel in High-Speed Railway by Pengyu Liu, Xiaojuan Zhou, Zhangdui Zhong

“…Numerical analysis indicates that the derived analytic results are reasonable and the outage performance is better over Nakagami-m channel in high-speed railway scenarios.…”
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Futbol Seyircisinin Sosyo-Ekonomik Kültürel Yapısının Şiddet Eylemine Etkisi (Manisaspor Örneği) by Erdal Demır, Kadir Koyuncuoglu, Zekeriya Goktas

“…This study aims to search socio-economic-cultural reasons which are thought to be effective in the violence and aggression of audience of Manisaspor football team. …”
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MOSCOW KINDOM AND THE EUROPEAN INNOVATION OF THE TIME OF TROUBLES by T. V. Chernikova

“…The author tries to find out in which areas and what kind of foreign experts were used in Russia; what were the reasons for the use of the Western European experts; what were the results of this phenomenon. …”
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English Vocabulary Apps for Classroom Use? Results of an Empirical Survey by Danijela Ikonic, Thomas Hawes

“…In the test, curiously, the youngest pupils failed to improve their results with Quizlet, but almost every other student category did benefit considerably and there is reason to believe that it would be worth exploiting such apps for vocabulary learning, testing and perhaps for other school subjects in the future. …”
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