Experimental Evaluation of Bond Strength between Setting Retarder Added Concrete and Normal Concrete by Jin-Su Son, Chiwon Song, Won-Jong Chin, Young-Jin Kim, Jin-Young Lee

“…The large size concrete structures are continuously placed with time delay due to practical reasons. The bond strength between old concrete and new concrete is related with a performance of concrete structures. …”
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The Dark Side of Multinational Corporations in Africa by Tryson Yangailo

“…The study results show that the absence of strong legal frameworks and international accountability in African countries is the main reason why these dark practices have been mushrooming. …”
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An Evaluation on Library Cooperation in Türkey by Mehmet E. Küçük, Umut Al, Gülterı Alır, İrem Soydal, Yurdagül Ünal

“…No library in the world has the sufficient budget, space, and professionals t o ac- cjuire ali existing Information sources, and to organise and serve the acçuired materials. For this reason, libraries cooperate in collection development, cata- loguing, providing access to the others’ collections and document delivery. …”
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Developing Seismic Risk Prediction Functions for Structures by Naveed Ahmad, Qaisar Ali, Muhammad Adil, Akhtar Naeem Khan

“…The methodology is tested for seismic risk assessment of the considered typology in recent 2005 Kashmir earthquake, which is reasonably predicted. Future development of the methodology is required with additional experimental tests on rubble stone masonry material in order to increase confidence in future applications.…”
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Noradrenergic Modulation of Cognition in Health and Disease by Olga Borodovitsyna, Matthew Flamini, Daniel Chandler

“…Due to its role in mediating normal cognitive function, it is reasonable to expect that noradrenergic transmission becomes dysfunctional in a number of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases characterized by cognitive deficits. …”
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Monasterium, cella, abbatia… Enquête sur les différents termes désignant les communautés religieuses au haut Moyen Âge (ve-milieu ixe siècle) et leur signification by Michèle Gaillard

“…Finally, the term abbatia holds a special place : it is never used according to specific rules but in many texts it generally designates the office of an abbot ; concerning this term, we have observed an evolution, since the ninth century, to the actual and more concrete meaning of abbey. For this reason, it is necessary to examine the historical and textual contexts of these terms carefully, before we translate or use them to characterize a religious community or its building.…”
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Brivaracetam to Treat Partial Onset Seizures in Adults by Dustin Latimer, David Le, Evan Falgoust, Patrick Ingraffia, Alaa Abd-Elsayed, Elyse M. Cornett, Rupin Singh, JooHee Choi, Giustino Varrassi, Adam M. Kaye, Alan D. Kaye, Latha Ganti

“…# Purpose of Review Seizures are a hyperexcitable, and hypersynchronous imbalance between excitatory and inhibitory factors (E/I imbalance) in neurotransmission, and epilepsy is the recurrent manifestation of seizures within a reasonable time frame and without being attributable to a reversible cause. …”
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Prediction of Long-Term Prestress Loss and Crack Resistance Analysis of Corroded Prestressed Concrete Box-Girder Bridges by Yiming Yang, Huang Tang, Yu Mao, Xinzhong Wang

“…Reasonable assessment of long-term prestress loss and crack resistance is essential to ensure the service performance of prestressed concrete (PC) bridges. …”
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Features of the constituent process in the activity of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine by D. V. Slynko

“…It has been determined that the reasons for the origin of this type of legal process in the activity of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are the relevant legal facts or legal status. …”
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) toward Cervical Cancer Screening among Adama Science and Technology University Female Students, Ethiopia by Almaz Tadesse, Mesfin Tafa Segni, Hailu Fekadu Demissie

“…Lack of information about cervical cancer was the most reported reason for not attending to cervical cancer screening. …”
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The Multiple Extended Tidal Tails of NGC 288 by Carl J. Grillmair

“…The trajectory of the trailing tail is not well matched by a model stream evolved in a static Galactic potential, but is reasonably well matched by a stream modeled in a potential that incorporates a massive, infalling Large Magellanic Cloud. …”
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Sexual Functions in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Patients: A Case Report by Nergis LAPSEKÝLÝ, Elif TEMÝZSU, Mehmet AK

“…If a patient has avoidance about sexuality, the reason of this avoidance may or may not be the usual and expected thought content like avoidance of contamination. …”
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Optimisation Design and Damping Effect Analysis of Large Mass Ratio Tuned Mass Dampers by Ying-jie Kang, Ling-yun Peng

“…Under harmonic load and random stationary white noise load, the existing fitting formulas are not suitable for calculating the optimal parameters of large mass ratio tuned mass dampers (TMDs). For this reason, the optimal parameters of large mass ratio TMDs are determined by numerical optimisation methods, and a revised fitting formula is proposed herein based on a curve fitting technique. …”
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Intentionally-underestimated value function at terminal state for temporal-difference learning with mis-designed reward by Taisuke Kobayashi

“…Robot control using reinforcement learning has become popular, but its learning process often terminates midway through an episode for safety and time-saving reasons. This study addresses the problem of the most popular exception handling that temporal-difference (TD) learning performs at such termination. …”
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RETRACTED: Geometric Construction of Video Stereo Grid Space by Huangchuang Zhang, Ruoping Shi, Ge Li

“…Video data are one of the important aspects of digital twin cities, and their digital modeling is one of the important foundations of its construction. For this reason, the construction and digital analysis of video data space has become an urgent problem to be solved. …”
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Sports – politics relationship in Turkey in the early years of the republic by Ayhan Dever, Burkay Cevahırcıoglu, Bahadır Demır

“…In fact, the information accumulated via the oral narrative tradition till this day has lost its validity for some reasons along the way; consequently, alternative versions of the History of Sports in Turkey have evolved thus emerged. …”
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Self-compassion and emotional recovery in the relationship between neuroticism and subjective well-being by Alex Bertrams, Max Blaise

“…The paper includes a discussion of whether a methodological reason underlies the present minor role of emotional recovery in the correlational sequence. …”
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Numerical Modeling the Flood and Pollutant Transport Processes in Residential Areas with Different Land Use Types by Shulin Fang, Yongpeng Ji, Mingliang Zhang

“…Furthermore, the motion of pollutants considering anisotropic diffusion is more reasonable than that due to isotropic dispersion in simulating pollutant transport associated with the flood in urban or farmland environments.…”
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Effect Of Open-Pit Blasting Vibrations on a Hanging-Wall Slope: A Case Study of the Beizhan Iron Mine in China by Yong-gang Xiao, Jie Cao, Xiao-min Liu, Chang-hong Li

“…The estimated open-pit blasting charge weight was reasonable and blasting vibrations would have little effect on the hanging-wall slope. …”
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Capacity Estimation of the Very Short-Range Electromagnetic Underwater Channel Based on Measurements by Jesús López-Fernández, Unai Fernández-Plazaola, Jose F. Paris

“…The significant attenuation experienced by electromagnetic waves in sea water is the main reason why acoustic waves are generally preferred in underwater communication. …”
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