Influences of Ultrafine Slag Slurry Prepared by Wet Ball Milling on the Properties of Concrete by Yubo Li, Shaobin Dai, Xingyang He, Ying Su

“…Microstructure and pore structure were evaluated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP). …”
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From impact metrics and open science to communicating research: Journalists' awareness of academic controversies. by Alice Fleerackers, Laura L Moorhead, Juan Pablo Alperin, Michelle Riedlinger, Lauren A Maggio

“…It does so through a codebook thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 19 health and science journalists from the Global North. …”
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Optimization of Flow Characteristics and Diffusion Angles of Forward Inflow Forebay of Pumping Station by LI Yun, LI Chaochao, LI Mingyang, GU Jingchao

“…The influences of different diffusion angles and different number of operating pumping stations on the flow field structure in the forebay were expounded. The results show that: ① As the diffusion angle increases, the number of vortices in the forebay flow rises from one to two. …”
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Simulation Analysis and Experimental Research on Vibration Characteristic of Roller Brush Gearbox of Intelligent Sweeper by Jing Li, Hongbin Yang, Jihua Ren, Aijun Xu

“…In order to avoid the resonance zone， a scheme for optimizing the geometric parameters of the gear and improving the structure of the motor assembly is proposed without increasing the box space， and the optimization scheme is tested for noise. …”
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Web Pages Ranking Algorithms: A Survey by Ayad Abdulrahman

“…In this paper, various web page ranking algorithms such as Page Rank, Time Rank, EigenRumor, Distance Rank, SimRank, etc. are analyzed and compared based on some parameters, including the mining technique to which the algorithm belongs (for instance, Web Content Mining, Web Structure Mining, and Web Usage Mining), the methodology used for ranking web pages, time complexity (amount of time to run an algorithm), input parameters (parameters utilized in the ranking process such as InLink, OutLink, Tag name, Keyword, etc.), and the result relevancy to the user query. …”
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Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility on Financial Performance of Manufacturing Companies in Nigeria by Adetosoye Kayode Solomon Kayode Solomon

“…The study hereby concluded that; Government needs to put machinery in place to monitor firms' investment in CSR so as to serve as motivation for their involvement in social responsibility activities, particularly in their immediate environment; CSR projects should be well structured and implemented for maximum effect. This would enhance the well being of the beneficiaries; Companies should liaise with community head to identify areas or opportunities available to them to better the lives of the people through the provision of social amenities. …”
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GENEALOGI REVOLUSI PARADIGMA PEMIKIRAN KEISLAMAN NAHDLATUL ULAMA by Tejo Waskito

“…The dominance of this activity leading to revolutionary movement in the field of NU’s Islamic paradigm: Aswaja's theology which was originally understood as a doctrine became a thinking methodology (manhaj alfikr); expansion of the legal institution's methodology, from qauly to manhajy; and shifting political struggle, from structural political arena to cultural politics. This discourse became massive among Nu’s young generation caused by the support of Abdurrahman Wahid, the ideal figure known as a locomotive of the NU cultural movement.…”
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Optimal Design of Single-stage Double-arc Spiral Bevel Gear Nutation Reducer by Zheng Lin, Ligang Yao, Tongke Su, Zheng Sun

“…According to the nutation motion principle，a new single-stage double circular-arc spiral bevel gear nutation reducer with simple structure and large transmission ratio is designed， and its transmission ratio calculation formula is obtained. …”
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Embracing Change in the Modern Working Environment: Exploring the Role of Trust, Experimentation, and Adaptability in the Acceptance of New Technologies by Eva Gößwein, Magnus Liebherr

“…Using an online questionnaire approach, a sample of N  = 769 participants ( M  = 51.25, SD  = 13.88 years; 390 female) was recruited to test the theoretically derived model with structural equation modeling. Results suggest including trust in technologies in future technology acceptance models in the working environment. …”
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Evaluation of Natural Image Generation and Reconstruction Capabilities Based on the β-VAE Model by Zhang Honghao

“…Train the model on the CelebA dataset, using three metrics: Mean Squared Error (MSE), Structural Similarity Index (SSIM), and Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) for matrix evaluation, to analyze the generation quality and reconstruction capability of each model. …”
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Gouvernance touristique des grandes stations et durabilité. Une lecture en termes de proximité by Emmanuelle Marcelpoil, Vincent Boudières

“…The winter sports resorts are confronted today with many uncertainties as well structural as of the economic situation. Methods of their management constitute an important axis of reflexion in the majority of the ski resorts, especially the most important, our goal in this paper. …”
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The Merits and Pitfalls of Participatory Action Research: Navigating Tokenism and Inclusion with Lived Experience Members by Tracy Smith-Carrier, Rana Van Tuyl

“…., whose perspectives are advanced), and structural barriers (e.g., time, technological connectivity, etc.) are discussed using concrete examples. …”
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Consensus-Based Resilience Assurance for System of Systems by Huanjun Zhang, Yutaka Matsubara

“…Resilience assurance in SoS faces two major challenges: lack of structured argumentation work related to resilience and conflicts among multiple independent stakeholders. …”
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Appositive in Persian and Arabic by احسان اسمعیلی طاهری

“…By comparing nominal-appositive group  in Persian  and noun-appositive clauses in Arabic concerning definition, structure, usage, divisions ,arrange of parts, grammatical function ,being definite and indefinite, we see parallelisms and parallelisms. …”
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"The City as Muse": A Context-Oriented Meta-Historical Reading of Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt by Ibrahim A. Odugbemi

“…Against the common expectation of a detailed concentration on facts about the subject (the self or the other) which has made nonfiction to be seen in some quarters as a concern of history, such critical arguments have shown that this genre has its peculiar, predominant pattern and structure, which make it arguably a concern of the literary enterprise. …”
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Impact of Toxic Leadership on Employee Performance by Christian Wiradendi Wolor, Ardiansyah Ardiansyah, Rofi Rofaida, Ahmad Nurkhin, Mahmoud Ali Rababah

“…Such a study on toxic leadership is required since, to date, no research in Indonesia have sought to quantify the consequences of toxic leadership on organizational leaders. Using surveys and structural equation modeling, a quantitative strategy was adopted (SEM). …”
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Energía no convencional en los Andes argentinos: ¿territorios en dependencia o en transición? by Sofia Villalba, Alejandra Ise, Luciana Clementi

“…The methodological approach is based both on primary data -obtained from semi-structured interviews and field observations-, and secondary data, recovered from research articles, reports and press releases. …”
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Kinematics and Workspace Analysis of 3-UU/UPU+2P Hybrid Mechanism by Xunbao Liao, Guangchun Lin, Rongkuan Zhao, Binghui Xu, Haike Yan

“…A new 3-UU/UPU+2P double-layer hybrid mechanism is proposed in view of the characteristics of the hybrid mechanism having both the advantages of the serial and parallel mechanisms. Firstly，the structural characteristics of the mechanism are described in detail，and a dynamic and static coordinate system is constructed. …”
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Influence of Riverbed Pre-excavation on Local Scour of Pile Foundation Upstream of Cofferdam by LIU Congcong, LIN Hongxing, ZHAO Dongliang, CHAI Yuanfang

“…The scour of pile foundation is closely related to the coupling action of water flow and sediment,and the local scour depth directly affects the safety and stability of the structure.Taking the deep-water foundation of a bridge as the research object,this paper constructs and verifies a three-dimensional numerical sediment transport model to quantitatively analyze the flow and sediment movement rules of cofferdam and upstream pile foundation under the conditions of riverbed with and without pre-excavation.The results show that:the flow velocity at the upstream face of cofferdam is small,and that at the right angle of the cofferdam reaches the maximum.The back-row pile foundation is obviously affected by the wake of the front-row pile foundation and the reverse flow formed by the backwater of the downstream cofferdam.Under the condition of riverbed pre-excavation,the flow velocity around the cofferdam decreases,and the grooving is conducive to the backflow formation of the downward flow,and the weakening of sediment carrying capacity.Under the pre-excavation condition,the local flow velocity and scour depth of the upstream pile foundation decrease to different degrees,especially for the back-row pile foundation,with maximum local scour depth reduction of 82.86%~85.07%.…”
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Reading the Sensual in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room by Ronnel Keith Berry, Michael Thomas

“…In his essays and novels, Baldwin works at the intersection of his readers’ “sense of reality,” or lived experience of the world, and “system of reality,” the sociological structure in which they are positioned. In this article, we read Giovanni’s Room (1956) as a site for identifying Baldwin’s techniques for evoking the sensual and experimenting with its effects on individuals and the postwar system(s) of reality. …”
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