Reimagining South African political campaigns through indigenous language posters in the 4IR: A political communication perspective by Fulufhelo Oscar Makananise

“…The study was underpinned by a theory of communication in political campaigns to ascertain the importance of communication or linguistic features in political campaign posters. …”
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Affects of Resistance: Candomblé Rituals in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction by Parvathi M. S.

“…The paper examines how Afro-Brazilian religious rituals facilitate political mobilization and agential potentialities using insights from affect theory. …”
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Kinematic Analysis and Optimization of Jerk Considering Elasticity of Weightlifting Bar and Damping Effect of Body in Clean and Jerk by Min Hyok Jon, Un‐Ryong Rim

“…Besides, spring constant is calculated by theory of bending of beam, as well. Finally, an optimal control problem based on the proposed kinematic model is formulated to optimize the jerk. …”
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The Impact Behavior between Coal Gangue Particles and the Tail Beam Based on Rock Failure by Zhengyuan Xin, Qingliang Zeng, Yang Yang

“…First, this paper incorporates the theory of rock failure and energy consumption to assess the impact process of coal gangue particles on the tail beam. …”
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WBS-Based Method in Teaching Management Information Project by Yuling Su

“…A work breakdown structure (WBS) based project management theory and work structure decomposition method are proposed. …”
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Local English teachers’ voices from a marginalized lens: Inequality practices and identity construction in the workplace by Sahril Nur, Ismail Anas, Reski Pilu, Nurfajriah Basri

“…Grounded in the social theory of power, privilege, and positional identities, three synchronous online interviews were conducted to explore the LETs voices about what it means to experience the equality of rights and obligations in the workplace. …”
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Music’s ability to foster prosocial behavior: a teleofunctionalist perspective by Jin Hyun Kim

“…Drawing on recent interdisciplinary music research—biologically or developmental psychologically oriented—which conceptualizes music as a communicative toolkit primarily serving affiliative communicative interaction, this paper investigates the question of whether and to what extent music is capable of fostering prosocial behavior within the framework of teleofunctionalism—a philosophical theory of mind. A teleofunctionalist perspective allows us to specify this question as follows: To what extent might a function of establishing affiliative socio-interactional relationships be considered a proper function of music, a concept suggested by philosopher Ruth Millikan? …”
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THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ADVOCACY ON DRUG ABUSE AMONG THE YOUTHS IN OWO LOCAL GOVERNMENT by Adeyefa Christianah Ronke, Awofadeju Peter Olayinka

“…This paper employed Agenda setting theory. Moreover, this study adopted survey design method and Owo local government areawas selected as area of the study. …”
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Improvement in the Gain of UWB Antenna for GPR Applications by Using Frequency-Selective Surface by Iftikhar Ud Din, Sadiq Ullah, Syeda Iffat Naqvi, Raza Ullah, Shakir Ullah, Esraa Mousa Ali, Mohammad Alibakhshikenari

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From Determinism and Probability to Chaos: Chaotic Evolution towards Philosophy and Methodology of Chaotic Optimization by Yan Pei

“…We present and discuss philosophy and methodology of chaotic evolution that is theoretically supported by chaos theory. We introduce four chaotic systems, that is, logistic map, tent map, Gaussian map, and Hénon map, in a well-designed chaotic evolution algorithm framework to implement several chaotic evolution (CE) algorithms. …”
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TECHNICAL EDUCATION AS A PANACEA FOR CURBING BANDITRY AND SECURITY CHALLENGES IN NORTHWEST NIGERIA by CALEB BEM APINEAN, BENJAMIN K.K ANGO

“…Relying on secondary sources, the paper drew extensively from the state fragility theory and posited that the lackadaisical attitudes of Nigerian government to introduce technical and vocational education has caused a lot of challenges to the ever-growing population that relies on farming and pastoralism for survival. …”
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A Higher-Order Thermomechanical Vibration Analysis of Temperature-Dependent FGM Beams with Porosities by Farzad Ebrahimi, Ali Jafari

“…The governing differential equations of motion are derived based on higher order shear deformation beam theory. Hamilton’s principle is applied to obtain the governing differential equations of motion which are solved by employing an analytical technique called the Navier type solution method. …”
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Identifying the semantic components that influence the creation and promotion of sense of place in high schools (Case Study: Boys\' High School in District 1, Tehran) by jamaleddin honarvar

“…This study uses the confirmatory factor analysis technique to determine whether the number of factors and loads of variables measured on these factors are consistent with what is specified in the theory. According to the results of confirmatory factor analysis, the standardized coefficients are acceptable and relatively large. …”
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An Analytical, Numerical, and Experimental Investigation on Transverse Vibrations of a Finite Locally Resonant Beam by Peng Guo, Qizheng Zhou

“…The conclusions may be supported to the application of locally resonant theory to control low-frequency vibration and radiation noise.…”
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Test information and it using by Beatričė Andziulienė, Arūnas Andziulis, Sonata Bakanauskaitė

“… The questions of quality of test and test information by using Items Response Theory (IRT) are discussed in this work. Using the IRT gives many chances to make an effective test: to measure not only difficult of everyone test's item, but what number of information it brings in test; to get an even distribution of items by its difficulty which is harmonize with abilities of testing person; if it's known how many item gets information in test, it's possible to make a test which will evaluate the abilities of testing person group best. …”
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Analysis of Vibration and Wave Propagation in Cylindrical Grid-Like Structures by Sang Min Jeong, Massimo Ruzzene

“…The combined application of this Finite Element formulation and the theory of two-dimensional periodic structures is used to generate the phase constant surfaces, which define, for the considered cell lay-out, the directions of wave propagation at assigned frequencies. …”
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Optimized Design of Polyethylene Fiber-Engineered Cementitious Composite Mix Ratio Based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process by Fengxia Han, Qing Liu, Xin Guo, Yanfeng Niu

“…The results demonstrate the applicability and rationality of the AHP theory. The findings from this study can be used as a guideline for the optimized design of PE-ECC mix proportions.…”
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Digital Panopticon Dilemmas: A Study on Contact Tracing Apps Carried Out by the Ministry of Health by Elifnur Terzioğlu

“…Panopticon, often referred to alongside Michel Foucault and Jeremy Bentham, is a theory that explains the relationship between power and knowledge. …”
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Research on Customer Requirement-Driven Individualized Product Module Division and Configuration Based on Community Structure by Qin Yang, Xuzheng Li, Qunqun Yin, Fan Liu, Weijie Chang

“…Secondly, the community structure in complex network theory is introduced to visualize and quantitatively describe the relationship between product parts. …”
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Security of differential phase shift QKD from relativistic principles by Martin Sandfuchs, Marcus Haberland, V. Vilasini, Ramona Wolf

“…The proof combines techniques from quantum information theory, quantum optics, and relativity. We first give a security proof of a QKD protocol whose security stems from relativistic constraints. …”
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