Biaxial Shear Load Capacity of Anchor System for Quick-Hardening Track on Railway Bridges by Kyoung Chan Lee, Il-Wha Lee, Seong-Cheol Lee

“…On bridges, quick-hardening track is applied in a segmented structure to reduce the temperature constraint, and anchors at the centers of the segments securely couple the track to the bridge. In this study, an anchor system is proposed that facilitates fast construction, and two designs for the proposed anchor systems are provided along with experimental test results of the same. …”
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COVID-19 LOCKDOWN AND THE CHALLENGES OF FOOD INSECURITY AMONG HOUSEHOLDS IN SELECTED COMMUNITIES IN ZARIA AND SABON-GARI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA by Mu’azu Ahmed Mohammed

“… The restriction of people’s movement during Covid-19 lockdown has affected the abilities of many families in securing, either from their own production or through purchases, adequate food for meeting the dietary needs of their members in Zaria and Sabon-gari Local Government Areas of Kaduna State, Nigeria. …”
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Le foisonnement éolien : les limites d’un mix électrique à forte proportion d’énergies renouvelables intermittentes by Grand, Dominique, Fontecave, Marc

“…The 50–50 renewable and nuclear scenario is given for comparison, showing that the solution lies in providing adequate secured power plant capacity.…”
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Debt sustainability of state-owned enterprises in Indonesia by Esther Sri Astuti Soeyaningrum Agustin, Eko Listiyanto, Nur Komaria

“…The findings reveal considerable risks to SOE debt sustainability across industries, with no sector being consistently secure or unstable. However, SOEs in the mining sector demonstrate better debt sustainability performance than those in the construction sector. …”
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Suture Repair and Suspensory Button Fixation of Avulsion Fracture of the Fibular Styloid (Arcuate Fracture) by Surasak Srimongkolpitak, M.D., Pratchaya Manop, M.D., Bancha Chernchujit, M.D.

“…If the fixation system is not sufficient to secure the various stabilities of the knee, it will fail and cause significant knee instability. …”
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Nonexposure Accurate Location K-Anonymity Algorithm in LBS by Jinying Jia, Fengli Zhang

“…Experimental results show that our algorithms are more secure than the existent cloaking algorithms, need not have all the users reporting their locations all the time, and can generate smaller ASR.…”
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AFM-DViT: A framework for IoT-driven medical image analysis by Jiacheng Yang

“…The AFM-DViT model offers an effective solution for secure and efficient medical image analysis in IoT-enabled environments.…”
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Linear gate bounds against natural functions for position-verification by Vahid Asadi, Richard Cleve, Eric Culf, Alex May

“…The scheme is feasible for a prover with linear classical resources and $O(1)$ quantum resources, and secure against sub-linear quantum resources.…”
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Design of an Uninterrupted Power Supply with Li-Ion Battery Pack: A Proposal for a Cost-Efficient Design with High Protection Features by Thealfaqar A. Abdul-jabbar, Adel A. Obed, Ahmed J. Abid

“…Besides, li-ion batteries require a safe and secure ground to reach the best performance and decrease the explosion risk. …”
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Exploring the relationship between learning emotion and cognitive behaviors in a digital game by Li Chen, Zehui Zhan, Han Chen, Linlin Zheng

“…The study demonstrates that high‐level learners maintained a high level of insightful emotion throughout the game, excelled at constructing strategic formations to control more significant chessboard areas, and preferred to reserve powerful pieces until the end to secure a winning advantage. Conversely, low‐level learners exhibit a predominant level of neutral emotion, especially during unrelated behaviors, and struggle to maintain a strategic overview, focusing instead on smaller, immediate gains, which hamper the application of deeper strategies.…”
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Adaptive Coordinated Variable Speed Limit between Highway Mainline and On-Ramp with Deep Reinforcement Learning by Ming Cheng, Chenghao Zhang, Hui Jin, Ziming Wang, Xiaoguang Yang

“…This research provides insights into the management of highway capacity so as to secure traffic efficiency and reliability for the merging zone.…”
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Sustainability models in Zone 3 manufacturing SMEs by Karla Morales, Pamela de Los Ángeles Sánchez Rosero, Christian Alberto López Valencia, Freddy Marco Armijos Arcos

“…For the development of the study, 107 medium and small companies that met the requirements of complete information obtained from the Superintendence of Companies, Securities, and Insurance were taken into account. Observation sheets were used to classify the information in the financial statements and allow understanding of their financial situation by applying the solvency prediction models, Z-Altman, Springate, Fulmer, and CA-Score. …”
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Synthesis of antifungal imines as inhibitors of ergosterol biosynthesis by Joydeep Karan, Aditi Kundu, Robin Gogoi, Kanchikeri Math Manjaiah, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Koyel Mondal, Rajesh Kumar, Parshant Kaushik, Priya Saini, Virendra Singh Rana, Najam Akhtar Shakil

“…Ensuring a safe and secure supply of nutritious food for the ever growing global population necessitates the development of new eco-friendly fungicides to increase global food output by minimizing plant disease losses. …”
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"CYCLIST ON THE MARSH": LESSONS AND PROSPECTS OF THE LAST EU ENLARGEMENT by A. I. Tevdoy-Bourmouli

“…Specific historic experience of the applicants pre-determined a considerable specialty of west-European fashioned democratic regimes in those countries, weakness of consensus and tolerance culture which has already rooted itself in the West-European society, and which has to a considerable degree secured stable development of Western Europe over the last decades. …”
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Trust and Distrust in a Democratic State of Law by Marta Krasoń, Robert Krasoń

“…The key task of public administration, aimed at inspiring and intensifying trust, is to obtain and secure the common good in the state on the basis of, and within the limits of, the applicable legal regulations, which at the same time set out the methods and scope of social protection in the individual spheres of operation of the legislative, executive, and judicial authorities.…”
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Development and Validation of the Interpreting Learning Engagement Scale (ILES) by Wenting Yu, Chenggang Wu

“…Additionally, the scale’s scores showed a significant correlation with grit, securing the external validity of the ILES. This study not only contributes a validated instrument for assessing student engagement in interpreting learning but also provides implications for promoting engagement through potential interventions, with the ultimate aim of achieving high levels of interpreting competence.…”
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Britain’s Safety Arguments: French Nuclear Testing in Algeria duringNigerian Decolonisation (1959-60) by Chloë Mayoux

“…In 1959, as African anti-nuclear sentiment grew, Britain suddenly faced the unique situation of having to preserve its relationship with France whilst securing post-independence ties with Nigeria, who was soon to become independent. …”
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Estimation of Minimum Torsional Reinforcement of Reinforced Concrete and Steel Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Members by Hyunjin Ju, Sun-Jin Han, Dichuan Zhang, Jong Kim, Wei Wu, Kang Su Kim

“…However, since there are many researches, in which even the concrete members with the minimum torsional reinforcement fail to secure sufficient reserved strength after torsional cracking, continuous research needs to be carried out. …”
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Tradeoffs in automated financial regulation of decentralized finance due to limits on mutable turing machines by Ben Charoenwong, Robert M. Kirby, Jonathan Reiter

“…We show via deduction that a decentralized and permissionless Turing-complete system cannot provably comply with regulations concerning anti-money laundering, know-your-client obligations, some securities restrictions and forms of exchange control. …”
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Economic valuation of the thermal inertization of asbestos waste—an Italian case study by Silvia Ferrini, Filippo Pampaloni, Francesco Delogu, Giulia Goffetti, Cecilia Viti, Giancarlo Capitani

“…However, their success is contingent on securing public funding, a thorough examination of hidden environmental costs and risks, and the establishment of supportive regulations fostering a circular economy. …”
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