ANALYSIS OF MARKET MARGINS AND MARKETING EFFICIENCY IN THE SOYBEAN SUPPLY CHAIN: EVIDENCE FROM BARUTEEN LGA, KWARA STATE by Hussaina Ummikhanni Mahmud, Nofiu Babatunde Nofiu, Aisha Mohammed Lafia

“…Data for study were obtained from primary sources with the aid of a well-structured questionnaire. The study used cost-benefit analysis to estimate market margin and marketing efficiency of soybeans. …”
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Les noms de tranchées et de boyaux de la Grande Guerre en Champagne by Alain Devos, Pierre Taborelli, Robin Perarnau

“…The study of trench maps reveals the western front is made of a dense and complex defense network structured according to the geomorphological conditions. …”
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The Effect of Calcium Doping on the Surface and Catalytic Properties of Cobaltic Oxide Catalysts by Nasr-Allah M. Deraz

“…The effects of calcium oxide doping (0.75, 1.5 and 3 mol% CaO) and calcination temperature (400, 500, 600 and 700°C) on different surface properties of Co 3 O 4 were investigated. The structural properties of pure and doped oxide samples were determined by XRD methods, the textural properties were investigated via the adsorption of nitrogen at −196°C while the hydrogen peroxide decomposition activity of the investigated solids was determined by oxygen gasometric measurement of the reaction kinetics at 20–40°C. …”
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Conversations with Miss Jane by Geneviève Fabre

“…Considering the wide range of conversations in the autobiography, this essay will attempt to appraise the importance of these verbal exchanges in relation to the overall narrative structure of the book and to the prevalent oral tradition in Louisiana culture, as both an individual and communal expression. …”
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Afghan EFL lecturers’ beliefs about autonomous language learning by Hashmatullah Tareen

“…To achieve these objectives, data were gathered through semi-structured interviews conducted with nine participants. …”
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Highly ordered polyaniline as an efficient dye remover by Pinki Chakraborty, Aman Kothari, Rajamani Nagarajan

“…The correlation between the ordered structure of polyaniline and its higher adsorption property derived in the current study has the potential to fabricate devices consisting polyaniline to detect dye molecules.…”
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Concrete Crack Skeleton Analysis: A Machine Vision Approach to Feature Extraction by Rui Wang, Xinxin Guo, Jiaxuan Liu, Yu Wan

“…After obtaining the crack skeleton image with real inflection points, the structural features of the skeleton can be calculated, including the distance ratio before and after the inflection points and the angle formed between the inflection points. …”
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A Cause, but no Rebels? by Anne Waldrop, Stein Sundstøl Eriksen

“…However, their political activities are quite limited and constrained by the structural context within which they act. Their primary goal is to be included on equal terms in the existing system, not to change that system. …”
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How perception of environmental and social justice drive citizen's satisfaction and intention to engage with urban forests management? by Rahim Maleknia

“…A survey of 453 citizens was conducted to collect the data. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. …”
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How can service quality, patient value, and patient satisfaction increase hospital patient loyalty? by Guspianto Guspianto, Muthia Mutmainnah, Wahyu Indah Dewi Aurora

“…A four-point likert scale was used to measure construct variables and analyzed using Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Model. The results showed that the influence between factors in the coefficient path has a significant effect, except for the indirect effect between service quality and patient loyalty through value. …”
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L’histoire aux prises avec les mémoires. L’exemple du musée avorté de Montpellier sur l’histoire de la France et de l’Algérie by Jean-Robert Henry

“…The paper, written by the former chairman of the museum’s scientific committee, recalls the genesis and development of the project and questions the reasons both structural and short-term, local and national, which have weighed on its abandonment. …”
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Mechanical Damage Test and Model Study of Layered Composite Rock Based on Acoustic Emission and DIC Characteristics by Xianyin Qi, Zhen Yang, Shengwei Wang, Peng Fu

“…Based on the internal damage evolution characteristics of AE and the surface damage evolution characteristics of DIC, a damage constitutive model of layered composite rocks based on the dual damage factor characterization was established, which reasonably revealed the damage evolution mechanism of internal structure development and external crack germination, extension and penetration of layered composite rocks under uniaxial compression.…”
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Graph signal processing based pilot pattern design and channel estimation for OFDM system by Bin HE, Guobing LI, Yuan CHEN, Guomei ZHANG

“…Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is one of the key technologies in the physical layer of the internet of things (IoT).Pilot design and channel estimation are key issues in OFDM systems.In view of the problem of performance loss by fixed pilot pattern due to the complexity and variety of IoT communication scenarios, a pilot design and channel estimation scheme based on graph signal processing (GSP) was proposed.Firstly, the time-frequency resource block was modeled as a graph signal, and the channel estimation problem was reformulated into a sampling and reconstruction problem of the graph signal.Then, considering the influence of time-frequency fading, a weighted graph adjacency matrix was designed to construct a graph topology structure based on the time-frequency position.On this basis, the pilot position is selected based on the graph signal sampling theory, a greedy pilot pattern design algorithm based on weighted graph topology was proposed.At the same time, signal reconstruction was performed based on the graph signal reconstruction method, and a channel estimation method based on the graph smoothness constraint was proposed.Compared with the conventional scheme, simulation results show that the proposed method achieves higher channel estimation accuracy in high-speed scenarios of double selective channels, and effectively reduces pilot overhead in low-speed scenarios.…”
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Wealth: A Family Matter by Céline Bessière, Maude Pugliese

“…Inheritance, its accumulation, preservation and transmission are, in fact, concerns within families of all social backgrounds.Conclusion: Family dynamics - in interaction with the multiple actors in the family field - play a part in structuring economic inequalities within the family (especially gender inequalities) and between families (especially class- and race-based inequalities). …”
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Les multiples formes actuelles de la conversion d’élevages laitiers de montagne vers la production de viande by Hélène Rapey

“…Dairy farms’ conversion from milk to meat has been gathering pace since the 2008 dairy market crisis, yet there has been little attempt to study the concomitant changes in post-conversion farm structure and land-use practices. Here we address this gap through surveys of newly converted farms in the Massif Central. …”
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S³D Approach: Incremental Professional Development for Fostering Small-Group Discourse by Sarah Quebec Fuentes

“…Such high-level discourse takes time to develop and is impacted by how teachers structure lessons and interact with students (e.g., talk moves). …”
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Ecological Reconstruction of Rain-source Rivers after Sewage Interception in Highly Intensive Development Areas — A Case Study of Longgang River in Shenzhen by CHEN Yu, YANG Xiuchun, WANG Cong, XU Shengjun, WANG Jinglin

“…The Longgang River in Shenzhen is a representative of the rain-source rivers in highly intensive open areas.In recent years,Shenzhen has carried out sewage interception reconstruction along the Longgang River Basin.Although the water quality of the basin was improved,the reconstruction of the river's ecosystem has been neglected,resulting in spatially discontinuous transverse and longitudinal sections,damaged biological habitats,and a degraded biological community structure.A technology system for combined ecological river reconstruction is developed to provide technical support for the reconstruction of rain-source rivers featuring natural channel imitation,restoration of aquatic habitats,and ecological construction of riverside landscape corridors.The overall idea and technical framework of ecological reconstruction proposed in this paper can fully support the construction of a comprehensive demonstration zone for the reconstruction of aquatic ecological and healthy habitats in Shenzhen.Specifically,substantial increases are achieved in the species and diversity of aquatic organisms in the Longgang River Basin (an increase of 82.7% in species abundance and one of 46.5% in the diversity index),with intolerant species of benthic animals observed and the number of indigenous fish increased.The research results provide engineering samples for the ecological reconstruction of rain-source rivers in highly intensive development areas.…”
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Machine-tool industry retrospective analysis in member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States by M. M. Shailieva, K. N. Sergeeva

“…In the course of the work a data was obtained, the tabular and graphical presentation of which made it possible to identify certain periods of time in the machine tool industry of the USSR and the Commonwealth of Independent States (including the Baltic states), characterized by different dynamics and production structure in individual states. The initial stage of development fell on the territory of modern Russia, but during the years of the existence of the USSR, a number of machine-tool industries were opened in the Union Republics. …”
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Rede urbana e redes de serviços bancários, postais e educacionais do Rio Grande do Norte: coexistências de hierarquias by Edseisy Silva Barbalho Tavares

“…The urban network of Rio Grande do Norte in the current period displays a configuration resulting from the characteristics of the technical-scientific-informational period in which emerges a superposition of networks that cohabit in that territory. This urban network structure manifests itself as a result of the changes promoted in the territory, of which the expansion and spatialization of the new geographical fixed and financial, postal and educational spots are highlighted. …”
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Religious and Pedagogical Education in Theology Faculties in Türkiye in Their 100th Year: A Comparative Analysis with Similar Programs in the World by Ahmet Koç

“…In this regard, the first issue to be discussed is the review and updating of the curriculum. Another issue is structuring the course content to meet today’s needs and solve social problems. …”
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