Selective Oxidation Using Flame Aerosol Synthesized Iron and Vanadium-Doped Nano-TiO2 by Zhong-Min Wang, Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie, Ashraf Aly Hassan

“…The increase in the concentration of V and Fe reduced the crystalline structure and the anatase-to-rutile ratios of the synthesized TiO2. …”
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CYTOTOXIC EFFECT OF FREEZE DRIED BOVINE CARTILAGE POWDER AND PLATELET RICH PLASMA (PRP) TO MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL (MSCs) by Dwikora Novembri Utomo, Anthoni Yusbida

“…Attempts to repair articular cartilage using scaffold usually found many problems, lacks the physical structure and mechanical properties necessary to ensure long-term efficacy to cartilage defect. …”
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A phenomenological perspective of science diplomacy of India and assessing STI policies by Pooja Raghav, Trishna Rai

“…Policy documents review and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 9 relevant actors it concludes with India’s stand on science diplomacy as an emerging economy and points to the significance of Track II diplomacy actors. …”
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The feeling of self-efficiency in adolescents: determinant factors / Sentimentul propriei eficiențe la adolescenți: factori determinanți by BALAN Ecaterina

“…The author Joiță claims that it influences through the awareness of the organization of the cognitive field, of the way of structuring the situation by shaping the subject's belief that he will be able to fulfill, solve the task and even control his own behavior, that is, he will become self-efficient. …”
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Personality Disorders in Persons with Gender Identity Disorder by Dragana Duišin, Borjanka Batinić, Jasmina Barišić, Miroslav L. Djordjevic, Svetlana Vujović, Marta Bizic

“…The assessment of PDs was conducted by application of the self-administered Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II PDs (SCID-II). …”
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Investigation of Flow Characteristics in Valveless Piezoelectric Pumps with Airfoil Baffles at Varying Angles of Attack by Jun Huang, Hiba Affane, Bo Zhang, Ming Kuang, Jian Xiong, Siyao Zhang

“…As the angle of attack increased, the complexity of the vortex core structures within the flow field escalated as well. …”
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The Role of Foreign Firm Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and the Institutional Framework for FDI Spillovers by Thomas Farole, Deborah Winkler

“…Moreover, we find that the impact of mediating factors depends on domestic firms’ productivity and the structure of foreign ownership.…”
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Knowledge hiding and social exchange theory: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Zijun Zhang, Yoshi Takahashi, Roksana Binte Rezwan

“…A meta-analysis was conducted based on the random-effects model and the meta-analytic structural equation modeling method, incorporating 66 primary studies with a total of 20,603 participants. …”
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Low-Resource Active Learning of Morphological Segmentation by Stig-Arne Grönroos, Katri Hiovain, Peter Smit, Ilona Rauhala, Kristiina Jokinen, Mikko Kurimo, Sami Virpioja

“… Many Uralic languages have a rich morphological structure, but lack morphological analysis tools needed for efficient language processing. …”
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Synthesis of Magnetic Composite Based on Vermiculite by G. Kurmangazhi, S.M. Tazhibayeva, Haoran Zhang, K.B. Musabekov, Z.A. Tattibayeva

“…Introducing magnetite particles into the vermiculite structure is substantiated by the appearance of its diffractogram of 2θ angle values characteristic of magnetite. …”
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Bridging silos through governance innovations: the role of the EU cities mission by Alexandra Buylova, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Jennifer Bergman, Lisa Sanderink, Björn Wickenberg, Cesar Casiano Flores, Kes McCormick, Kes McCormick

“…The literature argues that one of the main obstacles to accelerating decarbonization lies in organizational divisions and other forms of structural silos. One of the possible ways to address these challenges and accelerate transformation is through governance innovations. …”
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Adhesion of underwater repair concrete to vertical surfaces by Elżbieta Horszczaruk, Piotr Brzozowski

“…A frame installed on the container’s bottom enabled the concrete substrate to be placed, simulating the vertical wall of the structure. The concrete substrate’s surface, on which the repair concrete was placed, has been initially treated by hammering and sand-blasting. …”
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Validation of preoperative predictor score for difficult laparascopic cholecystectomy and a modified intraoperative grading score of the difficulty of laparascopic cholecystectomy:... by Nurhussen Mossa Ahmed, Surafel Mulatu Djote, Getachew Desta Alemayehu, Wondwossen Amtataw, Sitotaw Mossa Ahmed

“…There are total of 10 scores for preoperative predictor score and 16 scores for the modified intraoperative grading of LC. Structured checklist questionnaire was used. Result prevalence of difficult LC was 40%. age greater than or equal to 50years, history of admission for acute cholecystitis, BMI > 30, palpable GB, impacted stone on imaging, adhesion burying GB, time to identify cystic artery/duct, bile/stone spillage and type of ligature were statistically significantly factors for difficult laparascopic cholecystectomy. …”
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Parameterless-Growing-SOM and Its Application to a Voice Instruction Learning System by Takashi Kuremoto, Takahito Komoto, Kunikazu Kobayashi, Masanao Obayashi

“…To overcome problems existed in traditional SOM (Kohonen, 1982), kinds of structure-growing-SOMs or parameter-adjusting-SOMs have been invented and usually separately. …”
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Bilingual Education Programs in Primary Education: What Do Parents Think? by Martina Soledad Ramírez-Orduña, Daniel Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Francisco Javier Batista-Espinosa, Laura Barboyon Combey

“…Therefore, the objective of this research is to determine parental opinions on bilingual (English-Spanish) programs used in schools in the monolingual Autonomous Community of Extremadura (Spain). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 136 parents of students in the final stage of Elementary Education to gather their perceptions of bilingual education programs. …”
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Exploring why and how commercial organizations contribute to OpenStreetMap by Héctor Ochoa-Ortiz, Barbara Re

“…This study examines the motivations and methods of commercial organizations to contribute to OSM, based on semi-structured interviews with employees of 25 commercial organizations and the Overture Maps Foundation. …”
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Behavior of Listeria innocua Strains Under Pressure Treatment – Inactivation and Sublethal Injury by Justyna Nasiłowska, Barbara Sokołowska, Monika Fonberg-Broczek

“…The maximum level of sublethal injury was observed when the cells were suspended in a buffer pH 7.0. Structural damage in cell membranes after HHP processing was observed using a transmission electron microscope (TEM).…”
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Verifiable measurement-based quantum random sampling with trapped ions by Martin Ringbauer, Marcel Hinsche, Thomas Feldker, Paul K. Faehrmann, Juani Bermejo-Vega, Claire L. Edmunds, Lukas Postler, Roman Stricker, Christian D. Marciniak, Michael Meth, Ivan Pogorelov, Rainer Blatt, Philipp Schindler, Jens Eisert, Thomas Monz, Dominik Hangleiter

“…We create and sample from random cluster states, which are at the heart of measurement-based computing, up to a size of 4 × 4 qubits. By exploiting the structure of these states, we are able to recycle qubits during the computation to sample from entangled cluster states that are larger than the qubit register. …”
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Polarization bistability of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers under Larmor precession of electron spins by Nobuhide Yokota, Kazuhiro Ikeda, Satoshi Iba, Takeo Katayama, Hiroshi Yasaka

“…However, polarization bistability is considered inherent to the material properties and cavity structure of VCSELs, which makes it difficult to optimize the complex dynamics to achieve the best computational performance. …”
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Experimental Assessment of Energy-Ecological Parameters of Biogas-Powered Tractor Within Circular Economy by Andrzej Kuranc, Sebastian Bawej, Tomasz Słowik, Branislav Šarkan, Agnieszka Dudziak, Grzegorz Zając, Francesco Paciolla, Simone Pascuzzi, Katarzyna Łyp-Wrońska

“…This study aimed to evaluate the energy-ecological parameters of the MP tractor (T6.180 Methane Power) powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in comparison to its structurally identical counterpart fueled by Diesel (T6.180 Electro Command). …”
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