Effets économiques de l’aide publique au développement en suisse by Gilles Carbonnier, Alain Schoenenberger, Milad Zarin, Moez Ouni, Lorenzo La Spada

“…Ceci s’explique notamment par deux évolutions notables quant à la structure de l’APD: Le volume des remises de dette tend à varier fortement d’une année à l’autre, à la hausse comme à la baisse. …”
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FIRST RESULTS ON THE DIRECTION STATISTICS OF PAIRS OF EPICENTERS OF NEIGHBOR EARTHQUAKES ON KAMCHATKA by A. A. Gusev, A. A. Palueva

“…A study of this kind is of interest from a number of viewpoints, such as: discovering new properties of statistical structure of observed fields of epicenters; establishing interactions between earthquake sources of small earthquakes, revealing geometrical properties of the pattern of active faults of a low rank. …”
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Performance Degradation Law and Model Construction of Hydraulic Concrete Under Freeze-Thaw Cycles: A Comprehensive Review by Xiangyi Zhu, Xiaohe Zhou, Yuxuan Xia, Xudong Chen

“…As the combined effects of different factors cause more serious damage to hydraulic structures than a single factor, the evolution law is more complex. …”
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Innovative methods for isolating highly purified mitochondria essential for biomedical studies by Yan Huang, Xiangwaner Jin, Yi Zhang, Yanan Li, Jinming Liu, Yanjun Li

“…Mitochondria, being multifunctional and highly complex organelles, possess unique structures and exhibit heterogeneity. In recent decades, the isolation and purification of functional mitochondria have been instrumental for mitochondrial research. …”
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Identifying and tuning coordinated water molecules for efficient electrocatalytic water oxidation by Geng Zhang, Wei Guo, Hong Zheng, Xiang Li, Jinxin Wang, Qiuyu Zhang

“…Abstract Coordination complexes are promising candidates for powerful electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction but challenges remain in favoring the kinetics behaviors through local coordination regulation. …”
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Wear-resistant Ti/TiCp composite coatings via synchronous powder supplied wire arc additive manufacturing by Xinxin Guo, Ming Ma, Shuaifeng Zhang, Zhengying Wei

“…The effects of welding current on the composites' microstructure evolution and wear resistance were systematically investigated. …”
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Kinematics of Supernova Remnants Using Multiepoch Maximum Likelihood Estimation: Chandra Observation of Cassiopeia A as an Example by Yusuke Sakai, Shinya Yamada, Toshiki Sato, Ryota Hayakawa, Nao Kominato

“…To investigate asymmetric structures, such as singular components that deviate from the direction of expansion, the MLE method was extended to combine multiple computational domains and classify kinematic properties using the k -means algorithm. …”
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Anti-restriction functions of injected phage proteins revealed by peeling back layers of bacterial immunity by Sukrit Silas, Héloïse Carion, Kira S. Makarova, David Sanchez Godinez, Surabhi Haniyur, Lucy Volino, Wearn-Xin Yee, Andrea Fossati, Danielle Swaney, Michael Bocek, Eugene V. Koonin, Joseph Bondy-Denomy

“…Abstract Virus-host competition drives evolution of diverse antivirus defenses, but how they co-operate in wild bacteria and how bacteriophages circumvent host immunity remains poorly understood. …”
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Controllable surface carrier type of metal oxide nanocrystals for multifunctional photocatalysis by Han Li, Yingchun Ding, Kaiyi Luo, Qiuping Zhang, Huan Yuan, Shuyan Xu, Ming Xu

“…The approach is based on the surface redox properties of custom-designed p-n hetero-structured hybrid nanoparticles (NPs) containing copper oxide, and wide-gap metal oxide semiconductors (MOSs). …”
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Synchronous Behavior of Coupled Oscillatory Network with Different Interconnection Patterns by Zhongshe Gao, Xuefeng Liang, Lixin Yang

“…In addition, we find that when the weight coefficient is even, the synchronous ability of network increases with the increase in weight coefficient whatever the coupling strategy and topological structure be. However, when weight parameter is odd, the entire network with negative coupling cannot achieve synchronization. …”
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Systematic analysis of tensile properties of the TiVNbMoCr high entropy alloys in terms of the physical parameters by Zaidong Xu, Baolin Wu, Shihui Jiang, Naifu Zou, Yandong Liu, Claude Esling, Marie-Jeanne Philippe

“…This study designed a series of BCC-structured TiVNbMoCr alloys with different elemental proportions, and investigated the evolution of tensile properties. …”
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Analysis of X-Ray Surface Brightness Radial Profiles in Several Relatively Symmetric Young Supernova Remnants by Jin Cao, Yunyong Tang, Keli Peng, Nan Ding, Jinjie Yu

“…Based on observations from XMM-Newton, we analyze the surface brightness radial profiles of several young supernova remnants (SNRs) with relatively symmetric structures. The surface brightness data are obtained from the MOS1, MOS2, and PN instruments. …”
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Hologram imaging quality improvement by ionization controlling based on the self-trapped excitons with double-pulse femtosecond laser by Wang Feifei, Jiang Lan, Pan Changji, Wang Zhipeng, Lian Yiling, Wang Qingsong, Tao Wenpan, Sun Jingya

“…The results demonstrated the controllability of STEs and quality improvement of final structures by double-pulse femtosecond laser processing.…”
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The occurrence characteristic and dissolution mechanism of lithium-rich sediments in Salt Lake Mahai of Qaidam Basin, NW China by Yanjun Zhao, Pengyu Long, Hua Zhang, Yufei Hu, Zihao Cui, Yumeng Zhang, Minglu Zhang, Qiang Wang, Shengzhong Hu

“…Lithium commonly occurred as structurally incorporated or adsorbed pattern within the clay minerals, particularly illite, leading to a relatively slow dissolution rate in brine during leaching. …”
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Metal halide perovskites for solar‐to‐chemical energy conversion in aqueous media by Chunhua Wang, Yang Ding, Yannan Wang, Zhirun Xie, Zhiyuan Zeng, Xin Li, Yun Hau Ng

“…We first articulate the structures and properties of MHPs, followed by elaborating on the origin of instability in MHPs. …”
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DIDACTICS: DEVELOPMENT OR STAGNATION? by I. P. Smirnov

“…ARTICLE RETRACTEDThe aim of the paper – the detailed analysis of the monograph «Contents and Structure of Regularities of Process of Training (Theory and Experiment)» which is written by the corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Education (RAE), Doctor of pedagogical sciences, Professor I. …”
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The Roles of the Eastern Atlantic Niño and Central Atlantic Niño in ENSO Prediction by Yuzhi Gan, Xingchen Shen, Yishuai Jin, Zhengxiang Rao, Yiqun Pang, Shouyou Huang

“…After selectively including in or excluding from the LIM the EA and CA modes of the Tropical Atlantic, respectively, we discover that the EA mode has a greater significance in ENSO prediction compared to the CA mode. The evolution of the EA and CA mode optimum initial structures also confirms the impact of the EA mode on the Tropical Pacific. …”
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Model for assessing the maturity level of digital transformation in higher education institutions: a theoretical-methodological approach by Jessie Bravo-Jaico, Roger Alarcón, Carlos Valdivia, Nilton Germán, Janet Aquino, Oscar Serquén, Laurita Guevara, Armando Moreno Heredia

“…This methodology allowed the construction of a digital maturity model integrated with eight dimensions, based on the main organizational processes in higher education, with four key components of DT and four relevant actors of the university system, thus structuring a framework that allows analyzing and evaluating the state of DT in the various institutions and thus improving the quality and efficiency of their processes in the current digital era.…”
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Engineering triple O-Ti-O vacancy associates for efficient water-activation catalysis by Feng Bi, Qingjie Meng, Yili Zhang, Hao Chen, Boqiong Jiang, Hanfeng Lu, Qinghua Liu, Hongjun Zhang, Zhongbiao Wu, Xiaole Weng

“…Abstract Defect engineering can create various vacancy configurations in catalysts by finely tuning the local electronic and geometric structures of the active sites. However, achieving precise control and identification of these defects remains a significant challenge, and the origin of vacancy configurations in catalysts, especially clustered or associated ones, remains largely unknown. …”
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Direct reactions with the AT-TPC by Yassid Ayyad, Daniel Bazin, Daniel Bazin, Francesca Bonaiti, Francesca Bonaiti, Jie Chen, Xiaobin Li, Adam Anthony, Melina Avila, Saul Beceiro-Novo, Khushi Bhatt, Cristina Cabo, Tatsuya Furuno, Valdir Guimarães, Alex Hall-Smith, Curtis Hunt, Heshani Jayatissa, Takahiro Kawabata, Harriet Kumi, Jose Manuel López-González, Juan Lois-Fuentes, Augusto Macchiavelli, Gordon McCann, Claus Müller-Gatermann, Alicia Muñoz-Ramos, Wolfgang Mittig, Wolfgang Mittig, Bruno Olaizola, Zarif Rahman, Daniel Regueira, Javier Rufino, Soki Sakajo, Clementine Santamaria, Michael Z. Serikow, Michael Z. Serikow, Tianxudong Tang, Tianxudong Tang, Ivan Tolstukhin, Nathan Turi, Nathan Turi, Nathan Watwood, Juan Zamora

“…Fundamental and exotic phenomena such as collective modes, pairing, weakbinding effects and evolution of single-particles energies can be investigated in peripheral collisions between a heavy nucleus and a light target. …”
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