Where be dragons? by Miguel Andrade

“…The main goal will be to define which landscapes saga dragons are mainly found in, and reflect on how dragons interact with their surroundings, altering their landscapes, most often through destructive means and making spaces into non-shared zones. As descriptions of dragon surroundings are often scarce in detail, this study intends to take a broad-scope approach to the available corpus of sagas with dragons in them, combing 55 dragon occurrences across 38 sagas and þættir (“tales, episodes”) for landscape-oriented vocabulary. …”
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Land Cover and Land Surface Temperature in the West Bank, Palestine by Ayah Helal, Zahraa Zawawi

“…The results of the analysis conducted through this methodological framework showed that there is an inverse relationship between the increase in built-up areas and LST; however, LST is less inside the built-up areas than in the surrounding areas (open spaces) due to different land cover (unbuilt area with grass and shrubs) and different soil type.…”
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Miss-Taken Identities: The Comedy of Misrecognition in New Woman Short Stories by Margaret D. Stetz

“…Often, this misidentification takes a class-based turn, with men of the upper classes assuming that the girls they encounter in socially ambiguous spaces belong to a class lower than their own and are, therefore, undeserving of the usual forms of respectful courtesy, or are even appropriate targets for sexual predation. …”
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School Leadership and the Civic Nationalist Turn: towards a typology of leadership styles employed by Head Teachers in their enactment of the Prevent Duty and the promotion of fund... by Hazel Bryan, Lynn Revell

“…Schools, nested within diverse communities across the country, negotiate societal issues and tensions in the quotidian spaces of the school day and head teachers, charged with ensuring the Prevent Duty is enacted and British values promoted, determine the ethos and approach of their respective schools.  …”
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Binaural speech intelligibility for combinations of noise, reverberation, and hearing-aid signal processing. by James M Kates, Mathieu Lavandier, Ramesh Kumar Muralimanohar, Emily M H Lundberg, Kathryn H Arehart

“…There was no significant improvement in intelligibility for the NH group for the noise suppression algorithm used here, and no significant improvement in intelligibility for the HI group for more advanced HA processing algorithms as opposed to linear amplification in either of the two acoustic spaces or at any of the three SNRs.…”
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Le sanctuaire romain du Vigneau à Pussigny (Indre-et-Loire) : un lieu de mémoire, de vie et d’accueil by Arnaud Coutelas, Sébastien Lepetz

“…Most of them began with a rectangular shape, before various spaces were added or partitioned into several rooms. …”
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PROSTHETIC REHABILITATION WITH CERAMIC RESTORATIONS IN THE ANTERIOR REGION FOLLOWING ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT by Alexandra-Ioana Danila, Dana Cristina Bratu, Dan Lolos, Roxana Oancea, Mihai Rominu, Sorin Gheorghe Mihali

“…This study explores the survival rates and complications associated with zirconia restorations veneered with feldspathic ceramic in patients who had been diagnosed by an orthodontist with spacing issues. All patients had previously undergone orthodontic treatment to improve aesthetics after their teeth had been properly aligned. …”
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Influence of Thermal Parameters, Microstructure, and Morphology of Si on Machinability of an Al–7.0 wt.% Si Alloy Directionally Solidified by Cássio A. P. Silva, Layo R. M. Leal, Emanuelle C. Guimarães, Paulo M. Júnior, Antonio L. Moreira, Otávio L. Rocha, Adrina P. Silva

“…This study aims to correlate the influence of thermal and microstructural parameters such as growth rate and cooling rate (VL and TR) and secondary dendrite spacing (λ2), respectively, in the machining cutting temperature and tool wear on the necking process of the Al–7 wt.% Si alloy solidified in a horizontal directional device using a high-speed steel with a tungsten tool. …”
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Research on the hazards of gas leakage and explosion in a full-scale residential building by Chengjun Yue, Li Chen, Zhan Li, Bin Feng, Ruizhi Xu

“…By fitting the dimensionless buoyancy as a function of dimensionless height and dimensionless time, a distribution model of gas in large-scale spaces is established, and the mechanism of inhomogeneous distribution of methane is also be revealed. …”
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Transgender people and travestis experiencing homelessness in Salvador: a descriptive study on sociodemographic profile and access to social assistance and health services, Brazil,... by Wiler de Paula Dias, Thayane Silva Nunes, Igor Myron Ribeiro Nascimento, Erik Asley Ferreira Abade, Lua Sá Dultra, Milena Lemos Marinho, Guilherme de Sousa Ribeiro, Joilda Silva Nery

“…Methods This was a cross-sectional study involving 24 (4.5%) participants who identified as trans people or travestis out of a total of 529 people, aged 18 or older, living in public spaces or institutional shelters included in the survey. …”
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Modeling of a Multi-Storey Building Made of Reinforced Concrete, Taking into Account Damage on a Deformable Foundation by Alexander A. Treshchev, Viktor G. Telichko, Anton M. Andronov

“…The relations for nonlinear isotropic materials proposed in the frame-work of the theory of normalized stress spaces are taken as constitutive relations. A modification of a multilayer triangular hybrid finite element with five degrees of freedom in the node is formulated to describe the features of the mechanical behavior of building structures. …”
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Carbon Nanofoam by Pulsed Electric Arc Discharges by David Saucedo-Jimenez, Isaac Medina-Sanchez, Carlos Couder Castañeda

“…The pulsed electric arc discharge was established between two graphite electrodes with 22.8 kVA of power and 150 A DC current; the cathode was relatively motionless and was made of a pure carbon rod of 6 mm diameter, and the spinner anode was a pure carbon disc spinning at 600 rpm; over the disc was an annular cavity where the new catalytic mixture of 93.84/2.56/1.43/0.69/1.48 of C/Ni/Fe/Co/S molar fraction was deposited in a geometrically fixed way by 8 catalytic mixture blocks and 8 empty spaces, and the discharge frequency was 80 Hz. After the synthesis was made, the resulting products were deposited on the electrodes, proving that our method can synthesize different carbon nanostructures easily and at low cost.…”
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Fabrication of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with a 3D Nanostructured Electrode by Guo-Yang Chen, Ming-Way Lee, Gou-Jen Wang

“…Titanium dioxide nanoparticles were electrophoretically deposited on the 3D ITO film after which the proposed DSSC was formed by filling vacant spaces in the 3D nanostructured ITO electrode with dye. …”
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TLP: Towards three‐level loop parallelisation by Shabnam Mahjoub, Mehdi Golsorkhtabaramiri, Seyed Sadegh Salehi Amiri

“…The present paper focuses on the uniformisation of three‐level perfect nested loops as an important step in parallelisation and proposes a method called Towards Three‐Level Loop Parallelisation (TLP) that uses a combination of a Frog Leaping Algorithm and Fuzzy to achieve optimal results because in recent years, many algorithms have worked on volumetric data, that is, three‐dimensional spaces. Results of the implementation of the TLP algorithm in comparison with existing methods lead to a wide variety of optimal results at desired times, with minimum cone size resulting from the vectors. …”
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The Role of Molecule Clustering by Hydrogen Bond in Hydrous Ethanol on Laminar Burning Velocity by I Made Suarta, I. N. G. Wardana, Nurkholis Hamidi, Widya Wijayanti

“…So, it supplies extra oxygen and provides intermolecular empty spaces that are easily infiltrated by the air. In the azeotropic composition, the molecular bond chain is the shortest, so hypothetically the burning velocity is anticipated to increase. …”
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Vortex generators in heat sinks: Design, optimisation, applications and future trends by Mohammad Ismail, Abdullah Masoud Ali, Sol-Carolina Costa Pereira

“…This study focuses on the configurations that define geometric parameters, including the angle of attack, height and spacing in relation to the improvement in thermal or hydraulic performance. …”
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A plithogenic statistical approach to digital security measures and emotional health in childhood and adolescence by Carlos Hurtado, Marco Villa, Lady Raquel Caicedo Sandoval, Isea Josia

“…Such programs can empower minors to navigate digital spaces securely and confidently, fostering overall psychological well-being in a digital age. …”
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A case study of newly tunnels over-crossing the existing subway tunnels by Ben Wu, Wei Liu, Peixin Shi, Xiangyang Xu, Yingjing Liu

“…In this study, a case history of closely spaced twin tunnels excavated above the existing tunnels in soft soil stratum was presented. …”
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Thermal Performance Analyses of Multiborehole Ground Heat Exchangers by Wanjing Luo, Changfu Tang, Yin Feng, Pu Miao

“…However, as indicated by further investigations, this malfunction can be avoided by increasing borehole spacing.…”
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In-Band Asymmetry Compensation for Accurate Time/Phase Transport over Optical Transport Network by Sammy Siu, Wen-Hung Tseng, Hsiu-fang Hu, Shinn-Yan Lin, Chia-Shu Liao, Yi-Liang Lai

“…., phase offset) within 0.3397 ns/km in C-band or 0.3943 ns/km in L-band depending on the wavelength spacing. With the proposed scheme in this paper, the fiber link delay asymmetry can be compensated relying on the estimated mean fiber link delay by the Telecom-Boundary clock, while the OTN control plane is responsible for processing the fiber link delay asymmetry to determine the asymmetry compensation in the timing chain.…”
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