Measuring Spatial Expansion of Tehran Metropolis and its Impact on Environmental Changes by Asghar Teymouri, Jamileh Tavakolinia, Abolfazl Meshkini

“…It is concluded that Tehran's metropolitan area has expanded beyond the demographic and ecological thresholds and has led to a significant structural disruption to the environment by moving toward the natural environment. Accordingly, the need to pay attention to new approaches to urban development as well as to provide decentralization scenarios can be a major step towards resolving environmental problems caused by over-spatial expansion.…”
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Evaluation of Performance of Different Methods in Detecting Abrupt Climate Changes by Chunyu Zhao, Yan Cui, Xiaoyu Zhou, Ying Wang

“…Our results show that the moving t-test (MTT), Yamamoto (YAMA), and LePage (LP) methods can correctly and effectively detect abrupt changes in means, trends, and dynamic structure; however, they cannot detect changes in variability. …”
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Euro-Atlantic Security in U.S.-EURussia Triangle and Trump Factor by M. M. Panyuzheva

“…Since the NATO based security arrangements are not stabile, security interaction among the USA, the EU and Russia is growing in importance. 2) European leaders seem to be moving towards building a new security architecture and a more balanced dialogue with Russia. …”
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Sexual and gender identities and alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic. by Susan D Stewart, Wendy D Manning, Kristen E Gustafson, Claire Kamp Dush

“…COVID-19 stress and minority stress were associated with greater alcohol consumption, but they did not account for these differentials. Moving forward, researchers will need to continuously assess these associations, as sources of discrimination and stress will persist beyond the pandemic. …”
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Modeling and Simulation of Traffic Congestion for Mixed Traffic Flow with Connected Automated Vehicles: A Cell Transmission Model Approach by Yunxia Wu, Yalan Lin, Rong Hu, Zilan Wang, Bin Zhao, Zhihong Yao

“…Moreover, taking the moving bottleneck on the expressway as an example, the congestion characteristics of mixed traffic flow are analyzed using multiple indexes, such as average travel speed, congestion delay, and congestion scale. …”
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The spatial buildup of nonlinear compression in the cochlea by Kostas Kondylidis, Kostas Kondylidis, Anna Vavakou, Anna Vavakou, Marcel van der Heijden

“…We found that the amount of compression grew gradually in an intensity-dependent fashion along our measurement stretch, as we moved apically toward the place of maximum vibration. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Simulation Study on the Shock and Vibration Effect of OD1422-X80 Mainline Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion by Huayuan Ma, Mingshou Zhong, Xinghua Li, Quanmin Xie, You Zhou, Qin Yin

“…The maximum speed of the pipe wall moving outward reached 50 m/s, which formed a huge impact compression effect on the surrounding soil. …”
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Dropout rates and reasons for dropout among patients receiving clozapine by Sandeep Grover, Eepsita Mishra, Subho Chakrabarti

“…Common reasons for dropout were long distance from the hospital (n = 27), long waiting time for consultation (n = 8), no benefit with treatment (n = 17), side effects with medication (n = 10), moving away to another place (n = 6), refusal by the patient to follow-up (n = 7), patient improved and so did not feel the need to continue treatment (n = 7), and other reasons (n = 37). …”
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Measuring Migration Status Based on the Place of Marriage Overestimates the Share of Male Migrants in Historical Populations. Evidence From Dutch Marriage Certificates by Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, Paul Puschmann

“…It is therefore particularly likely that grooms are erroneously considered as migrants even though they had never moved before marriage. In this paper we explore whether this poses a problem to studies using the place of marriage as an equivalent to the place of residence. …”
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Defining Major Oil and Gas Companies’ Development Strategies in the Era of Energy Transition by V. I. Salygin, D. S. Lobov

“…Companies operating in countries with strict environmental regulations, primarily in the European Economic Area, have been more likely to adapt their businesses to energy transition while building up oil and gas production; they also have had more diversified innovation portfolios. As more countries moved towards later generations of environmental regulations, the increase in renewable energy investments was found in more oil and gas majors.…”
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Prendersi ‘gentilmente’ sul serio. Un’intima curvatura riflessiva sull’etnografia nella lotta e la co-costruzione di intenzionalità sul campo by Sabina Tosi Cambini

“…This contribution applies a reflexive approach to my diversified fieldworks carried out in some contexts that policies, social sciences and civil society call ‘marginal’ – albeit moved by very different perspectives and intentions –, bringing out the demand of people towards the anthropologist to be able to develop a ‘gentle’ relationship, capable of ‘culturally’ taking into account their biographies and their social ‘position’ without trapping them either in the first or in the second; and, therefore, investigating the meso and macro structural aspects of this positioning as well as their search for a 'good life'. …”
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Corona-Covid-19 virus and its impact on the use of electronic information sources : a field study to identify the extent to which students in the various educational stages use ele... by تريزا وليم عزمى

“…Where thestudy included many sections, the first of which included the theoretical section,which included the methodology of the study and consisted of the introduction -the importance of the study and the reasons for choosing the subject - studyquestions - study limits - study methodology / study and data collection tools -previous studies as well as the definition of the virus corona in general and Covid- 19 in particular and what sources of electronic information, and the stage of itsdevelopment over time and the most important physical forms within libraries andinformation centers that have become the most important information facilities inmodern times, Then the study moved to the practical aspect, which consisted inthe preparation of electronic questionnaire in Both Arabic and English so thatnon-Arabic speakers can answer it, in order to measure the impact of thecoronavirus on the use of electronic sources, where the questionnaire includedthe number of eleven different questions to cover all aspects of the study, andspecific so that the study community can answer it in order to achieve theprinciple of ease and speed where the number of sample study and whichresponded 554 students to be the basis of the statistical work and To reach theresults of the study .…”
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Toward A Smart City Pontianak: A Study of Digital Governance Effectiveness As A Moderator of The Relationship Between Work Culture, HR Management, and Public Satisfaction by Sulaiman Sulaiman, Andjani Trimawarni, Endang Wahyuni, Yunika Depri Listiana

“…This research contributes to the development of social humanities sciences, particularly in understanding the role of digital governance as a reinforcement in the relationship between human resource management and public satisfaction in urban contexts moving towards smart cities.…”
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Profesoři Hermenegild a Karel Škorpilové působící v Bulharsku by Ludvík Skružný

“…Since his arrival in Bulgaria he has been working on a textbook on the geography of Bulgaria, researching Plovdiv waters, working on the geological map of southern Bulgaria, paying attention to speleology, natural mysteries (petrified forest near Varna, moving sands called Golden Sands) and others. He published the results of his research and observations alone or with his brother Karel. …”
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Lawatan Misi Kesenian Mangkunegaran ke Mancanegara 1989: Kontribusi bagi Pembangunan Nasional by Meilinia Fathonah, Dhanang Respati Puguh

“…Through historical methods, this study reveals the reasons and process of the implementation of Mangkunegaran Arts Mission Visit and explores the meaning of the visit for Indonesia's national development during the New Order Period. Because it moves from the momentum of an arts mission tour, this study can be used as a basis for policy making in the future.…”
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Hardy, Galileo and the Art of Transgression by Nathalie Bantz-Gaszczak

“…It seems that for Hardy, eager to be more ‘sincere’ than what decorum and ‘the censorship of prudery’ permitted, short stories and poems were literary forms that allowed more elbow room than novels: ‘If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone’.…”
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Towards Complexity and Dynamics: A Bibliometric-Qualitative Review of Network Research in Construction by Dongping Cao, Shiting Shao

“…The results provide evidence that the research foci in this domain are generally moving towards addressing the complexity and dynamics of project-related relations at more diversified levels, in terms of not only research topics but also research instruments. …”
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Helping land trusts prepare for a new climate: experiences of challenges and facilitators for translating knowledge about climate change adaptation in Ontario, Canada by Michael Drescher, Daria Koscinski, Jenna Quinn, Morgan Roblin

“…To increase climate change adaptability in the Ontario land trust sector, we recommend greater collaboration between land trusts, modest modifications to existing conservation actions, shifting from passive to active conservation, and moving from species-level to community and ecosystem function conservation goals.…”
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Time-selective data fusion for in-network processing in ad hoc wireless sensor networks by Jaanus Kaugerand, Johannes Ehala, Leo Mõtus, Jürgo-Sören Preden

“…A real-world experiment (moving vehicles in urban environment) for validation of the strategy demonstrates significant improvement of the accuracy of fusion results.…”
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Vehicle location measurement method for radio-shadow area through iBeacon message by ChoonSung Nam, Dong-Ryeol Shin

“…We used iBeacon at the roadside unit and revised its Universally Unique Identifier so that it generates absolute Global Positioning System location data; that is, moving vehicles can receive absolute Global Positioning System data from the roadside unit-based iBeacon. …”
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