Adapting Military Doctrines to Shifting Power Dynamics in the International System: Looking Beyond Unipolarity through the Analyses of Charles Kupchan by Erhan Büyükakıncı

“…Kupchan’s “No One’s World” argument leads us to the problem of the opportunities and contradictions that states face in determining their strategic priorities within the framework of the complex structure of the multipolar order, which is this article’s main starting point.…”
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Study on disaster-causing probability evaluation of gas pipeline in karst area. by Qiaochu Li, Peng Zhang

“…Combined with the advantages of information transmission and updating of the Bayesian network model, the hazard probability of disaster events is gradually calculated from a multi-level perspective. Based on the structural reliability theory, the vulnerability evaluation function of gas pipelines in karst areas is established by considering the interaction between disaster hazard intensity and disaster resistance ability. …”
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Bee Killers, Mallophora bomboides (Wiedemann), Mallophora orcina (Wiedemann), and Malophora nigra Williston (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) by Gary J. Steck

“…Two other species have been recorded from Florida: M. rex Bromley and M. chrysomela Bromley. Structurally, there is nothing to distinguish them from M. bomboides (Wiedemann), and they are considered to be color variants of the latter. …”
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On F-Algebras Mp  (1<p<∞) of Holomorphic Functions by Romeo Meštrović

“…By using these two facts, we prove that the spaces Mp and Np coincide and have the same topological structure. Consequently, we describe a general form of continuous linear functionals on Mp (with respect to the metric ρp). …”
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Genealogia omiliei la Paşti a Sfântului Ioan Gură de Aur în literatura română veche. Istorie, paternitate, autenticitate by Ana G. Bobu

“…For the Preach in PG LIX, contemporary with the first liturgical manuscripts, 1) we gathered and presented codicological and bibliological coordinates of the manuscript and printed books, 2) to determine the genealogy, we used “the Onu method for common innovations” and we classified the preach versions based on criteria: through the chronological criteria we established their distribution per centuries, by drafting formal criteria we established the typology of the preaches, and the structural linguistics showed the philological relationship of the centuries, consisting of: organic loopholes, shortcuts, substitutions, missing words or letters, spelling, interpolation, extrapolation, contamination of texts, additions, resuming and interpreting passages, specific facts to document copying manuscripts. …”
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Tourism Initiatives as a Lever for Reintegration of Former FARC Combatants in Colombia by Anne Marie Van Broeck, Monica Guasca, Dominique Vanneste

“…This was complemented with semi-structured interviews with people involved in the tourism projects or who visited the ETCR. …”
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Restoring Planetary Health Through Partnerism by Teddie Potter

“…Planetary Health calls for global cultural transformation, a “Great Transition” that will require rapid structural changes across all human institutions. The scale and urgency of change that is necessary will call for a paradigm and set of values to guide thought and action. …”
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A non-linear model of information seeking behaviour by Allen E. Foster

“…Sampling combined purposive and snowball methods, and led to a final sample of 45 inter-disciplinary researchers from the University of Sheffield. In-depth semi-structured interviews were used to elicit detailed examples of information seeking. …”
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Matching and Optimization for the Parameter of Electric City Vehicle Powertrain by Li Wenwen, Sun Houhuan, Xu Xiaowen

“…Under the double pressures of energy crisis and environmental problems,the governments and the automobile enterprises have paid much attention to the pure electric vehicle which has advantages of zero emission,low noise and wide range of energy sources.Electric car is not very different from conventional cars,whether in the main structure or in the appearance.The main change is made in terms of drivetrain.Taking the pure electric city car as our research target,the power transmission system parameter is analyzed and designed,according to the vehicle parameters,power and economy requirements,the vehicle power system parameter is matched.The matched parameters of power system preliminarily is optimized from improving the transmission efficiency,taking the shortest time of acceleration and working conditions driving range maximum as optimization goal.The fitness function of transmission speed ratio is constituted of objective function and constraints condition by using a penalty function.The optimization is carried out by genetic algorithm,the optimal parameters of power system are obtained.…”
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Computational Study of the Effect of the Size-Dependent Dielectric Functions of Gold Nanomaterials on Optical Properties by Bawoke Mekuye, Rainer Höfer, Gedefaw Mebratie

“…The size-dependent dielectric function of nanomaterials is highly influenced by their optical properties and electrical structure.…”
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Social media and culture clash: Examining cultural influence on Facebook crisis communication in Botswana by Chedza Simon

“…However, there is a lack of research guiding public relations (PR) practitioners in multicultural crisis communication in Botswana, and this study addresses this gap. Semi-structured interviews with 20 Botswana PR practitioners revealed that they use Facebook to manage crises, but do not engage in online dialogue with the public. …”
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Tailoring the Morphological Properties of PVA Nanofibrous Mats by Manipulating Working Planes by Hayriye Hale Aygün

“…Besides, the highest packing density and highly deposited structure with the longest fibers with a high aspect ratio are constructed in this setup orientation. …”
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Direct Synthesis of (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3 Powders by Mechanochemical Method by Nguyen Duc Van

“…The synthesis and structural properties of lead-free piezoelectric (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3 powders prepared by mechanochemical method using Nb2O5, K2CO3, and Na2CO3 as starting materials were reported. …”
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Prawne aspekty uczestnictwa Polski w polityce energetycznej Unii Europejskiej by Maciej Rudnicki

“…Three main purposes of power politics are: assurance of power safety, assurance of competitiveness on the market of manufacturers and distributors of energy, taking into account all the priorities of environmental protection, especially counteracting changes of climat. The structure of internal power market is carried out by harmonisation of national power markets. …”
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Research on the anti-synchronization chaos system group ＆large scale distributed system security communication by Guang-ming SUN, Jin-jie HUANG, Qiao LIU

“…Chaotic system model about point group symmetry in the phase space was constructed,and the anti-synchronization problem of the chaotic system group was studied.Besides,a kind of chaotic system group anti-synchronization controller was proposed,and the anti-synchronization of the chaos system group was realized.Through experimental observation,the position of chaos system about the subsystem and the source system after the point symmetry transform changed in phase space.The phase space power trajectory,space topology and other original system presented symmetrical structure.By using the above research conclusions,a kind of carrier communication method of anti-synchronization chaos system group was put forward.It solved the increasingly urgent communication security issues of modern complex distributed and large scale communication system with many access signals and parallel transmission.In addition,with permanent magnet synchronous motor chaos model,simulation and validation were conducted.The experimental results show that the method has good application prospect,and is suitable for modern communication system.…”
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Dynamic privacy measurement model and evaluation system for mobile edge crowdsensing by Mingfeng ZHAO, Chen LEI, Yang ZHONG, Jinbo XIONG

“…To tackle the problems of users not having intuitive cognition of the dynamic privacy changes contained in their sensing data in mobile edge crowdsensing (MECS) and lack of personalized privacy risk warning values in the data uploading stage, a dynamic privacy measurement (DPM) model was proposed.A structured representation of data obtained by a user participating in a sensing task was introduced and was transformed it into a numerical matrix.Then privacy attribute preference and timeliness were presented to quantify the dynamic privacy changes of data.With this, personalized privacy thresholds of users based on the numerical matrix were reasonably calculated.Finally, differential privacy processing was performed on the numerical matrix, and a model evaluation system was designed for the proposed model.The simulation results show that the DPM model was effective and practical.According to the given example, a data utility of approximately 0.7 can be achieved, and the degree of privacy protection can be significantly improved as the noise level increases, adapting to the MECS of IoT.…”
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Trajectoires d’adaptation face au changement climatique : analyse et transformation du système de gouvernance du massif ardennais by Jon Marco Church

“…This identified three main vulnerabilities: the absence of an observatory of the socio-ecological system as a whole, the lack of a structured intersectoral dialogue, and the limited capacity to act of local authorities and civil society. …”
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“I Know How that Sounds and I Do Not Mean that as an, but I Mean Christ”: The Disturbance in the Symbolic Order in Dennis Kelly’s Theatre by Julien ALLIOT

“…According to Jacques Lacan, the “speakingbeing,” determined by the signifying chain, can only deal with words, names, never with the thing, and finds itself structured around an irreparable loss. In the wake of Beckett’s theatre, Dennis Kelly stages an original disturbance of the name, reduced to “debris,” in a fantasmatic and transgressive exploration of the condition of being an abandoned child (Orphans). …”
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Health Assessment of the Lower Reaches of Longhe River under Watershed Systematic Treatment by YU Binjing, FU Yicheng

“…River health assessment is the basis for watershed planning,systematic treatment,and ecological restoration.The lower reaches of the Longhe River in Langfang suffer fragile ecology and lack water fluidity,showing a poor water environment.To accurately assess the ecological health of rivers severely disturbed by human activities and identify the fragility factors in the ecosystem,we construct a health assessment index system for the Longhe River based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP).The river health assessment index system consists of five aspects:hydrological integrity,physical structural integrity,chemical integrity,biological integrity,and social function integrity.The Langfang section of Longhe River is generally in a healthy state with a health assessment score of 75.18.According to the assessment results,the Longhe River watershed has problems such as large development and utilization of water resources,low wetland retention rate,serious artificial disturbance in the riparian zone,and poor quality of the upstream water.The proposed assessment method could provide a reference for the health assessment of rivers under severe artificial control.…”
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L’élaboration collective de cartes mentales, une démarche didactique structurante pour l’apprentissage du vivre-ensemble à l’école by Christophe Marsollier

“…Based on socio-constructivist conceptions, according to which the practice of democratic debates contributes to the construction of moral judgement in children and teenagers (Piaget, 1932, Xypas, 2003), we show how, in the light of analysis of practices carried out in a class of CM2 pupils, the elaboration of mind maps by the teacher and /or the pupils, during discussions of an educational nature, both structure and promote this approach to learning. Depending on the type of mind map used, the teacher can in particular: probe possible answers to a problem associated with school life, strengthen the pupils’ effort to conceptualise the values and the implicit norms which come into play in different types of behaviour, facilitate the discernment of their experience and the development of their reasoning skills; and help them to question the meaning of their non verbal behaviour.…”
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