Evaluating a task-based lesson plan: A case study of Turkish EFL learners by Vildan İnci Kavak

“…Learner impressions were investigated through oral and written data elicited through a questionnaire, semi-structured interviews, and audio recordings of the interaction in the task. …”
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The New Silence Trend for Businesses: Quiet Hiring by Güzin Kıyık Kıcır

“…At the end of the conceptual review, it was seen that quiet hiring has the potential to be successful if all human resources processes in enterprises are redesigned according to the organizational structure and human resource potential. When the literature is examined, it is determined that there is a gap in terms of both qualitative and quantitative research. …”
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Strength and Deformation of Carbonaceous Shale Fillers Subjected to Water Content Fluctuation by Yafei Huang, Junyong Liu, Qian Wu, Lihua Yin, Xuesong Mao, Weipeng Ge

“…The test results indicated that the higher weathering degree of carbonaceous shale usually goes with the looser structure and the higher content of hydrophilic clay. …”
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Earthquake induced liquefaction hazard analysis for Chittagong City using machine learning by Md. Mehedi Hasan, Md. Zillur Rahman, Abul Kashem Faruki Fahim

“…Liquefaction hazard analysis is crucial in earthquake-prone regions as it magnifies structural damage. In this study, standard penetration test (SPT) and shear wave velocity ([Formula: see text]) data of Chittagong City have been used to assess the liquefaction resistance of soils using artificial neural network (ANN). …”
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大跨度敞开式金属屋面板抗风揭模拟试验研究 by 王静峰, 王海涛, 陆健伟, 王波

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A Wi-Fi sensing method for complex continuous human activities based on CNN-BiGRU by Yang LIU, Anming DONG, Jiguo YU, Kai ZHAO, You ZHOU

“…Human activity sensing based on Wi-Fi channel state information (CSI) has an important application prospect in future intelligent interaction scenarios such as virtual reality, intelligent games, and the metaverse.Accurate sensing of complex and continuous human activities is an important challenge for Wi-Fi sensing.Convolutional neural network (CNN) has the ability of spatial feature extraction but is poor at modeling the temporal features of the data.While long short-term memory (LSTM) network or gated recurrent unit (GRU) network, which are suitable for modeling time-series data, neglect learning spatial features of data.In order to solve this problem, an improved CNN that integrates bidirectional gated recurrent unit (BiGRU) network was proposed.The bi-directional feature extraction ability of BiGRU was used to capture the correlation and dependence of the front and back information in the time series data.The extraction of the spatiotemporal features of the time series CSI data was realized, and then the mapping relationship between the action and the CSI data was present.Thus the recognition accuracy of the complex continuous action was improved.The proposed network structure was tested with basketball actions.The results show that the recognition accuracy of this method is above 95% under various conditions.Compared with the traditional multi-layer perceptron (MLP), CNN, LSTM, GRU, and attention based bidirectional long short-term memory (ABLSTM) baseline methods, the recognition accuracy has been improved by 1%～20%.…”
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冷弯薄壁C形钢组合墙体耐火性能研究 by 马杰, 杨竞杰, 马全涛, 石宇, 王卫永

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Intestinal microbiota dysbiosis contributes to the liver damage in subchronic arsenic-exposed mice by Dong Ling, Luo Peng, Zhang Aihua

“…There is an extensive amount of evidence that links changes in the intestinal microbiota structure to the progression and pathophysiology of many liver diseases. …”
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Going beyond co-production: a public contributor led, local evaluation of the National Institute of Health and Social Care (NIHR) Research Champion role by Julie Hedayioglu, Frances Mossie, Carol Coleman

“…Method A qualitative, formative evaluation using semi-structured interviews. Results Rich and detailed data was obtained from 11 RCs and 4 staff members with thematic analysis identifying four main themes: RC Activities, Recruitment and Background of RCs, their Support and Engagement, and the Impact of the RC role. …”
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The Design of Academic Programs Using Rough Set Association Rule Mining by Mofreh A. Hogo

“…It influences program structure design, performance monitoring, assessment, and continuous improvement. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Tide and Tidal Current in Mangrove Creek by LI Yichun, LIU Shitong

“…Mangrove coast is one of the typical coasts in low latitude area.Mangrove is widely distributed in southern coastal cites of China,which is of great significance for tide resistance,shoal reinforcement,environmental protection and ecological security.However,mangrove hydrodynamics develops slowly in estuarine and coastal research.This paper establishes a two-dimensional hydrodynamic numerical model based on high-resolution scheme and ‘slot method’ to simulate and study the hydrodynamic characteristics of small-scale mangrove creek,and builds a simplified theoretical model based on water conservation to explore the relationship between maximum velocity and tide level.The results show that:The tidal current asymmetry in the creek is mainly affected by the incident tidal wave,and the topography in the creek cannot cause the alternation of asymmetric nature of tidal current;The mangrove is favorable for the flow structure in the creek to maintain the tidal flat and gather the materials;Mangrove has significant impact on the decrease of the longitudinal velocity on the tidal flat,but little effect on the transverse velocity;The density of natural mangrove has little effect on the velocity,and the increase of width of the deep channel promotes the flood-dominated tidal velocity;The tide level at maximum velocity is related to the depth-width ratio of the deep channel,the slope of the tidal flat and the scale of the deep channel,and affected by the flood-ebb time-asymmetry;The influence by tidal flat slope mainly comes from the change of tidal prism in the creek.The flood tide process is mainly controlled by the incident tidal wave at the entrance,while the ebb tide process is mainly affected by the volume of tidal prism in the creek.…”
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Social effect of implementing active longevity strategies by V. I. Aleshnikova, T. A. Burtseva, Z. A. Nuriddinov

“…The authors investigate the issues of an assessment of the social effect of implementing strategies and programs for active longevity, in domestic science and practice and conclude, that at present, universal methodology is not developed, and the existing standard approaches are adapted from the management of corporate structures. The purpose of the article is to test the system of measuring the social effect of implementing the concept of active longevity in the region. …”
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The Impact of the Pandemic on Sports Companies: Comparative Rate Analysis of Champions League and Turkish Football Companies by Ayşe Nur Şahin

“…It is another result that the solvency and resource structures of Turkish football clubs and UEFA ranking leaders are far from each other. …”
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Modeling Loss-of-Flow Accidents and Their Impact on Radiation Heat Transfer by Jivan Khatry, Fatih Aydogan

“…This paper investigates the radiation heat transfer between the fuel elements and the structures around it. In addition, the impact on the core fuel element temperature and average core pressure was also investigated. …”
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Analysis of Determinants of Economic Efficiency in Honey Production in Horo Guduru Zone, Ethiopia: Stochastic Dual Cost Frontier Model Approach by Tolesa Tesema, Megersa Adugna

“…To achieve the above-mentioned objective, the study employed a survey methodology using a structured questionnaire tool, and the data were collected from 396 households. …”
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Assessment of Formalin-Fixed Bovine Larynx Asymmetry Using Geometric Morphometry by Arcesio Salamanca-Carreño, Pere M. Parés-Casanova, Mauricio Vélez-Terranova, Néstor Ismael Monroy-Ochoa

“…Results demonstrate differences between right and left larynx sides as directional asymmetry, at least in fixed structures. Our findings provide a foundation for quantifying the possible contribution of larynx asymmetry among cattle. …”
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South African private universities: The unique challenges of private university first-generation students – The unique opportunity for private higher education institutions by Linda Meyer, Birgit Schreiber

“…Moreover, the authors argue that an overall systemic and structural transformation is needed to enable institutional changes that would ease the challenges of all students.…”
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Learning together: facing the challenges of sustainability transitions by engaging uncertainty tolerance and post-normal science by Michelle D. Lazarus, Silvio Funtowicz

“…Abstract Current efforts towards sustainability tend to focus on maintaining existing systems and structures, by relying on reductionist approaches to problem solving. …”
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Growth and Physiological Performance in Growth Phenotypes of the Carpet Shell Clam (Ruditapes decussatus) Fed Diets of Variable Lipid/Carbohydrate Ratios by Kristina Arranz, Iñaki Urrutxurtu, Dorotea Martínez-Patiño, Enrique Navarro

“…These dietary effects are mainly driven by differences in the absorption efficiency (AE) found between clams fed different food compositions, although the present results do not allow to ascertain whether the reduced AE recorded with the carbohydrate-rich diets results from reduced digestibility of yeasts cells due to structural restrictions or either reflects the digestive imbalance of lipids associated to higher production of metabolic fecal losses. …”
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Utilizing UAV and orthophoto data with bathymetric LiDAR in google earth engine for coastal cliff degradation assessment by Paweł Tysiąc, Rafał Ossowski, Łukasz Janowski, Damian Moskalewicz

“…Degradation refers to both natural abrasive processes and damage to coastal reinforcement structures caused by natural events. We utilized orthophotos and LiDAR data in green and near-infrared wavelengths to identify zones impacted by storms and extreme weather events that initiated mass movement processes. …”
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