The Evolution of Venezuelan Evangelical Involvement in Politics: The Case of the 2024 Presidential Elections by Fernando Adolfo Mora-Ciangherotti

“…After his questionable re-election in 2018, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros (NMM) began a campaign to attract the attention of evangelical leaders, apostles, prophets, pastors, and church members to secure their votes for the 2024 campaign. The main reason for this move was the surprising growth of the evangelical population in the country, which reached almost 30% by the end of 2023. …”
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Sucker rod straightness measurement method based on probability statistics of edge point detection by Li Zhu, Yihua Kang

“…This paper continues to discuss the straightness optimization design method, based on the probability t distribution of the data, reasonably select the sampled edge points, and remove the scene noise. …”
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Improving Budget Transparency to Achieve Effective and Sustainable Governance by Tatjana Stanimirović

“…Since the Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences have confirmed the importance of citizens’ involvement also in the future, the purpose of the paper is to assess the level of interest in budgetary issues as well as the reasons for budget transparency stagnation as reported for Slovenia by the Open Budget Index (OBI). …”
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Research on Fluid Viscous Damper Parameters of Cable-Stayed Bridge in Northwest China by Xiongjun He, Yongchao Yang, Xiang Xiao, Yulin Deng

“…The results indicate that seismic response in key positions of the cable-stayed bridge can be reduced by installing longitudinal nonlinear FVD between the towers and girders if choosing reasonable damping parameters C and ξ. The optimal damping parameters can be calculated accurately by the proposed method of optimizing damping parameters of nonlinear FVD, and the constitutive relation test verifies the correctness of the optimization analysis method. …”
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Workspace Analysis of Hydraulic Follow-up Arm based on Monte Carlo Method by Pengyun Feng, Liangbin Zhan, Yanping Xiao, Tiancheng Huang

“…With the extension of the large arm after the hydraulic follow-up arm， the parking distance is basically stays unchanged， but the slope such as the working width becomes wider. On this basis， a reasonable interface height is proposed to alleviate the large difference between the two arms. …”
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Two-Stage Dynamic Pricing and Advertising Strategies for Online Video Services by Zhi Li, De-qing Tan

“…Among them, pay-per-view mode and advertising mode are two important resource modes, where the reasonable fee charge and suitable volume of ads need to be determined. …”
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Le Collage comme outil exploratoire collectif dans la conception d’espaces publics by Sonia Curnier, Véronique Mauron Layaz

“…Our study is based on the analysis of two park proposals developed in Switzerland in 2018 and 1998 that decided to use collage not for aesthetic or practical reasons, but because it engages an important conceptual decision.Through an in-depth analysis of the offices’ archives, enriched by interviews with the designers, our exploration seeks to understand the genesis of the collages, their role in the development of the project, and their meanings in the project itself and beyond.As an act of doing and thinking and an investigative tool, the collage brings out the unforeseeable and summons fiction to the heart of the project, emphasizing the unfinished and the yet-to-be-determined. …”
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Robert Duncan, Kabbalah, and “The Dominion of the Poetic Mind” by Norman Finkelstein

“…“By associations, by metaphor, by likeness of the part, by fitting as part of a larger figure, by interlinking of members, by share, by equation, by correspondence, by reason, by opposition, by pun or rhyme, by melodic coherence,” Duncan, as he writes in The H.D. …”
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Selection of key urban defense areas based on regional comprehensive risk assessment by WEI Hua, WANG Xiaoxia, YANG Fengbao, JIA Qi

“…Aiming at the problem of how to select high risk key defense area under the condition of limited urban defense force, to maximize the utility of limited force and minimize the urban risk, this paper proposes a method of selecting key defense area based on regional comprehensive risk assessment. Firstly, a reasonable risk assessment index system is constructed from the perspective of the intruder and the defender. …”
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The Quality of Inpatient Health Services at Mamajang Health Center, Makassar City by Lusyana Aripa

“…The quality of health services in the public or individual's need for health by standards with reasonable, efficient, effective use of resources within the limited capacity of the government and the community, and is carried out safely and satisfactorily by good norms and ethics. …”
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Content of consent to transaction by Iu.S. Povarov

“…Particular attention has been paid to the problems associated with the interpretation of the term “subject of the transaction”; two main interpretational approaches (broad and narrow) have been singled out and studied, and the logic of the narrow vision based on the consideration of the subject of the transaction as the most important but not the only essential condition has been argued for reasons of formal legal and substantive order. The classification of the conditions of consent turns out to be as follows: a) based on their substantive focus – main and additional (or accidental) conditions associated with the “organizational” moments of the transaction; b) by the criterion of the need for indication – mandatory (or objectively significant) and optional (or subjectively significant). …”
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Analysis of Deep Foundation Pit Pile-Anchor Supporting System Based on FLAC3D by Yongshuai Sun, Zhiming Li

“…By analyzing the variation law of stress and deformation, the timeliness of the data in the construction process is improved, and an effective and reasonable case reference is provided for the informatization construction of simulated relevant working conditions.…”
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Study on Flood Control Dispatching Rehearsal in Shenzhen River Basin by LENG Yubo, LIU Xunping, LIU Chuan

“…At present,it is difficult to carry out large-scale flood control project construction in Shenzhen River Basin.Therefore,to ensure the flood control safety of Shenzhen Reservoir and downstream Shenzhen River,this paper follows the requirements of the forecast,early warning,rehearsal,and preplan proposed by the Ministry of Water Resources for flood and drought disaster prevention and analyzes constraints to be considered when constructing the rehearsal scene.In addition,the joint flood control dispatching rehearsal is carried out in Shenzhen Reservoir and Shenzhen River.By simulating the influence of reservoir flood discharge on river channel level under typical conditions,the paper explores the potential of the reservoir in flood regulation and detention and discusses the feasibility of flood discharge by staggering the tide.The results show that Shenzhen River Basin faces the heaviest rainfall in a decade,and the local heaviest rainfall in Shenzhen Reservoir is no more than once in 100 years.At the same time,under the unfavorable conditions of astronomical tides,Shenzhen Reservoir can effectively regulate flood peaks and ensure the safety of flood control.The results reveal the optimal effect of reservoir dispatching on flood control safety of Shenzhen Reservoir and Shenzhen River,and the joint dispatching rehearsal of Shenzhen River and Shenzhen Reservoir can be realized scientifically and reasonably through the flood model.…”
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Spectrum demand prediction ofLTE-Rsystem based on delay difference constraint by Peng LIU, Wei LI, Bin LIU, Tan WANG, Suiyan GENG

“…In order to plan and allocate the spectrum resources ofLTE-Rscientifically,it is necessary to make reasonable forecast of total spectrum demand for LTE-R.After deep analysis of ITU-R M.1768 method,a spectrum demand forecasting method based on different delay constraints forLTE-Rsystem was provided.This method defined nine kinds of service categories,nine kinds of service environments,and derived the expression ofLTE-Rsystem traffic.Under different delay constraints condition of different services,the M/G/1 queuing model was used to analyze the spectrum requirements ofLTE-Rsystem preliminarily.The results show that the uplink and downlink spectrum demand of China’sLTE-Rsystem is asymmetric and the possible range is 14~15MHz uplink and 5~6MHz downlink,respectively.If new video traffic in the future is not considered,the current spectrum resources distributed to GSM-R system spectrum can meet the bandwidth requirements ofLTE-Rsystem.In addition,the influence of engineering frequency efficiency ofLTE-Rnetwork and high-bandwidth video traffic onLTE-Rspectrum total bandwidth demand was analyzed.This study provides technical support for the frequency planning of China’s next generation railway mobile communication system.…”
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Fog-aided identity privacy protection scheme for sensing users in mobile crowd sensing by Hui LIU, Renwan BI, Jinbo XIONG, Mingfeng ZHAO, Biao JIN, Jie LIN

“…In mobile crowd sensing(MCS),attackers can reconstruct the social circle among sensing users,who use the social association information among sensing users and the correlation between the sensing user’s identity and sensing data to further attack a social alliance.In order to tackle this issue,a fog-aided identity privacy protection scheme is proposed.Firstly,two fog nodes are introduced which located at the edge of the sensing terminal.The one is task allocation center (TC) for handling the reasonable allocation of sensing tasks,and the other is data center (DC) for calculating sensing data.Furthermore,differential privacy is employed for preventing attackers from acquiring the specific social association weight of sensing users.Finally,in order to prevent attackers from obtaining the sensing users' identity information and sensing data at the same time,sensing users use different blind identities to communicate with TC and DC.Security analysis indicates that the proposed scheme can ensure the security of identity privacy information of sensing users in the process of completing sensing tasks.Experimental results show that the proposed scheme can protect the social association information between sensing users,and has a low delay.…”
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Effect of Surfactants on Gas Holdup in Shear-Thinning Fluids by Shaobai Li, Siyuan Huang, Jungeng Fan

“…These proposed correlations reasonably fitted the experimental data obtained for gas holdup in this system.…”
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Un avenir post-nucléaire ? Les atermoiements des acteurs du territoire de Trino (Italie) en contexte de démantèlement by Maude Gallimard, Cesare Mattina

“…This contribution tries to explain why the post-nuclear phase is not so obvious and the reasons that are largely holding it back. From a diachronic perspective, this article shows how the various actors and social groups of this territory went through the phase of decline in nuclear production (referendum of 1987 decreeing a moratorium on the construction of new plants), the uncertain phase of the shutdown of nuclear power plants production (1990), and then passive safety (1990-2003) and dismantling (since 2003) to settle in the lasting uncertainty of dismantling and waste management, waiting for a national repository that, in Italy, has still not been realized. …”
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Empiricism and Theorizing in Epidemiology and Social Network Analysis by Richard Rothenberg, Elizabeth Costenbader

“…This circumstance may arise both from data deficiencies and from the ease with which data can be created by simulation. But for whatever reason, theory and empirical data often occupy different orbits. …”
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Tant qu’il y aura des « profanes »… dans la gestion des risques littoraux by Nicolas Rocle, Bruno Bouet, Silvère Chasseriaud, Sandrine Lyser

“…Indeed, this policy domain persistently depends upon settled assumptions that local citizens either lack knowledge about risk or are likely to reason on the basis of their emotions and in the short-term. …”
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Numerical Modelling Approaches for Assessing Improvements to the Flow Circulation in a Small Lake by Cheng He, Quintin Rochfort

“…Full circulation only appears to be possible if the causeway is fully removed and a strong wind blows in a favourable direction. The possible reasons for existing water quality variations at the intake of a local WTP (water treatment plant) are also explored in the paper.…”
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