Understanding Power Spectrum Density Transmissibility by Yu Zhang, Tong Zhu, Jing Zhou

“…Because PSDT is a concept that appears recently, researches on which, especially, in-depth discussions aim at the essence and properties of PSDT are very rare. …”
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Teaching Creative Thinking in the ELT Context: Beliefs and Practices by Yin Sun, Zehang Chen, Li Li

“…This paper offers insights for English teachers, teacher educators, educational policymakers, and researchers interested in integrating CT cultivation into English education.…”
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Utilization of Waste plastic in Geotechnical Engineering Applications in Iraq: A Review by Mushtaq Sadiq Radhi

“…This article summarizes the local researches that is done in this topic to determine the use of waste plastic as material for reinforcing soil in Iraq. …”
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A rhetorical analysis of Philippians 1:1-11 by A. H. Snyman

“… The aim of this article is to analyse Philippians 1:1-11 from a rhetorical perspective that differs from the typical approach of researchers, who tend to force ancient rhetorical categories on a letter. …”
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Vehicular Channel in Urban Environments at 23 GHz for Flexible Access Common Spectrum Application by Longhe Wang, Bo Ai, Jingya Yang, Hao Qiu, Wanqiao Wang, Ke Guan

“…The path loss, shadow factor, Ricean K-factor, root-mean-square (RMS) delay spread, and angular spreads are characterized from the calibrated ray-tracing simulation results, and it can help researchers have a better understanding of the propagation channel for designing vehicular radio technologies and a communication system in a similar environment.…”
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Review on Physicochemical Modification of Biodegradable Plastic: Focus on Agar and Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) by Mezigebu Belay

“…This restricts the use of these polymers for applications. Researchers have used physicochemical modification methods to improve the properties of biodegradable polymers with due attention of agar and PVA. …”
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Complex Brain Network Analysis and Its Applications to Brain Disorders: A Survey by Jin Liu, Min Li, Yi Pan, Wei Lan, Ruiqing Zheng, Fang-Xiang Wu, Jianxin Wang

“…With the development of noninvasive neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques, experimental data can be produced for constructing complex brain networks. In recent years, researchers have found that brain networks constructed by using neuroimaging data and electrophysiological data have many important topological properties, such as small-world property, modularity, and rich club. …”
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DBSCAN inspired task scheduling algorithm for cloud infrastructure by S.M.F D Syed Mustapha, Punit Gupta

“…To improve resource utilization and efficiency in cloud, task scheduling and resource allocation plays a critical role. Many researchers have proposed algorithms to maximize the throughput and resource utilization taking into consideration heterogeneous cloud environments. …”
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Numerical analysis of sodium diffusion in aluminum electrolysis cathode carbon blocks based on a microstructure multi-factor corrected model. by Chenglong Gong, Tianqi Xu, Huarong Qi, Yan Li

“…Current researches on sodium penetration in electrolytic aluminum cathode carbon blocks primarily measure cathode expansion curves, showing mostly macroscopic characteristics. …”
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Evaluating Volunteer Motivation for Sea Turtle Conservation in Florida by Bianca M. Bradford, Glenn D. Israel

“… Understanding volunteer motivation has been widely recognized by both researchers and managers as a valuable component of volunteer management (Cnaan & Goldberg-Glen, 1991; Harrison, 1995). …”
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Incident Occurrence Modeling during Hurricane Evacuation Events: The Case of Alabama's I-65 Corridor by Daniel J. Fonseca, Yingyan Lou, Gary P. Moynihan, Saravanan Gurupackiam

“…The timing for the deployment of equipment and personnel and the initiation and termination of actual contraflow affects the effectiveness, safety, and cost of the operation. Researchers from the University of Alabama were tasked with the design of a decision support system for contraflow evacuation planning. …”
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Group Decision Making Process for Supplier Selection with TOPSIS Method under Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Numbers by Mohammad Izadikhah

“…Therefore, in this paper an extended technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method for group decision making with Atanassov's interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers is proposed to solve the supplier selection problem under incomplete and uncertain information environment. In other researches in this area, the weights of each decision maker and in many of them the weights of criteria are predetermined, but these weights have been calculated in this paper by using the decision matrix of each decision maker. …”
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Application of Trend Analysis on Drought Indices in the West Black Sea Region by Turgay Partal, Ercan Yavuz

“…Drought is very important subject for climate researchers in recent years. In this study, it was investigated whether there is a trend in drought indices by using trend analysis methods. …”
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‘Care-less whispers’ in the academy during COVID-19: A collaborative autoethnography by Paula Natalie Stone, Adele Phillips, Kerry Jordan-Daus

“…The paper is the first collaborative writing project from a newly formed staff network of academics who come from working-class backgrounds, and we are intentional in our commitment to support each other as new researchers, giving agency in support of the other to find their voice.  …”
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Multi-Objective Optimization Techniques in Cloud Task Scheduling: A Systematic Literature Review by Olanrewaju L. Abraham, Md Asri Bin Ngadi, Johan Bin Mohamad Sharif, Mohd Kufaisal Mohd Sidik

“…The findings of this SLR aim to guide researchers and practitioners in selecting appropriate techniques, metrics, and datasets, supporting effective decision-making and advancing the design of cloud task scheduling systems.…”
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Hybrid PolyLingual Object Model: An Efficient and Seamless Integration of Java and Native Components on the Dalvik Virtual Machine by Yukun Huang, Rong Chen, Jingbo Wei, Xilong Pei, Jing Cao, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Rajiv Ranjan

“…JNI in the Android platform is often observed with low efficiency and high coding complexity. Although many researchers have investigated the JNI mechanism, few of them solve the efficiency and the complexity problems of JNI in the Android platform simultaneously. …”
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Heterogeneous Breast Phantom Development for Microwave Imaging Using Regression Models by Camerin Hahn, Sima Noghanian

“…As new algorithms for microwave imaging emerge, it is important to have standard accurate benchmarking tests. Currently, most researchers use homogeneous phantoms for testing new algorithms. …”
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Theoretical Modeling Techniques and Their Impact on Tumor Immunology by Anna Lena Woelke, Manuela S. Murgueitio, Robert Preissner

“…In this paper, we aim to explain the main mathematical and computational modeling techniques used in tumor immunology to experimental researchers and clinicians. In addition, we review relevant published work and provide an overview of its impact to the field.…”
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EFFECTIVENESS OF INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS IN MULTICULTURAL MANAGEMENT BASED ON A BIG PHARMA COMPANY CASE STUDY by Rajae LAHSSIOUI

“…For this reason, the study aimed to identify the opinions of employees and managers regarding the multicultural influence on outcomes in researched companies. The literature study, bibliometric analysis, a survey questionnaire, and structured interviews were used during the study. …”
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Where ? When ? And how often ? What can we learn about daily urban mobilities from Twitter data and Google POIs in Bangkok (Thailand) and which perspectives for dengue studies ?... by Alexandre Cebeillac, Eric Daudé, Thomas Huraux

“…The emergence of substantial amount of geolocated data, which is easily available on the Internet, has a great potential in mobility researches, especially when paired with land use, following the activity-space concept. …”
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