Constraint Embankment Construction to Prevent the Collapse of Underground Caves by Zhen Zhang, Zhongda Chen

“…Dozens of underground karst caves were found before constructing the Changli highway. The thickness-to-span ratio of nearly half of the caves is less than 0.05, and the greatest ratio is only 0.35, far less than the value demanded by local construction specifications (0.8). …”
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Gendering the Decision-Making Positions in Higher Education: A Cross-Sectional Gender Audit in Three Selected Universities in Malawi by Juliet Chiwaya Kamwendo

“…The paper provides recommendations as follows: (i) promoting women in research in order to allow more women in positions of decision-making, (ii) repurposing the institution gender policies, (iii) women agency change of mindset and make concerted efforts to emancipate themselves from negative stereotypes and barriers in institutions. …”
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Review of Culture in Construction Projects: Status Quo and Challenges by Jin Li

“…The results indicated that the high-published contributors of countries were Peoples R China, Australia, the USA, England, and Singapore. …”
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Vestimentary eponyms in contemporary Spanish language by Y. V. Slivchikova

“…In a consequence of the perpetual changes in the world of fashion, which can be explained by the introduction of new tendencies, materials and designers, the vocabulary that describes clothing enlarges by the internal means of the language and with the help of lexical borrowing. …”
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Pedagogika muzealna. Cele, idea, kierunek rozwoju i zastosowanie w praktyce na przykładzie „lekcji muzealnej” w polskim muzeum historycznym by Mallek Anna

“…Museum education is a subdiscipline of Pedagogy which has been changing rapidly during the current century. The beginning of such education was inevitably related to the origin of the museum. …”
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Sustaining the Fabric of Time: Urban Heritage, Time Rupture, and Sustainable Development by Kaixuan Wang, Kalliopi Fouseki

“…The Dongjiadu case illustrates two distinct categories of time rupture, underscoring the need for sustainable practices that harmonize cultural continuity with contemporary growth. …”
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Floral Nectary Anatomy and Ultrastructure in Mycoheterotrophic Plant, Epipogium aphyllum Sw. (Orchidaceae) by Emilia Święczkowska, Agnieszka K. Kowalkowska

“…Flowers are not resupinate with a sack-shape spur and cordate lip, which is divided into two parts: the basal (hypochile) and distal one (epichile). …”
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Four-Channel Vibrating Testbed Design for Full Vehicle Durability Simulation by Huiqi Du, Shiqing Xu

“…In order to reflect the fatigue process of parts more truly, the anomaly points were identified and eliminated based on the two-parameter rain-flow counting method. By representing the transfer function in the frequency domain, the measured signal is changed quickly by Fourier, and the uniqueness of the transfer function is ensured by establishing an invariant system. …”
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Hybrid Time Series Method for Long-Time Temperature Series Analysis by Guangdong Huang, Jiahong Li

“…The result shows that the RMSE of the two hybrid algorithms is much lower than that of the DA algorithms. …”
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The Power of Discourse in Postmetaphysics: Between Dialectical Materialism and Transcendentalism by A. S. Merzenina

“…At the beginning of the article, the author examines two ways of formulating onto-theology in philosophy — transcendental and dialectical. …”
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BEYOND ONE PARTY STATE DOMINANCE: A REVIEW OF RECURRENT ISSUES IN NIGERIA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC by IDREES MAHMUD GANA

“…This study adds to our knowledge of Nigeria's political trajectory by emphasizing the need for election changes to build a more inclusive and competitive political scene. …”
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Hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma with TFE3 rearrangement: a case report and literature review by Ke Meng, Xingrong Yang, Sitong Guo, Juan Tao

“…The patient did not receive any treatment according to her condition and no change was detected in the mass’s size and number on CT images during 3.5 years of follow-up.…”
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Evaluation on the effectiveness on the implementation of WHO caregiver skills training (CST) programme in Hong Kong: a randomised controlled trial protocol by Wai-Ching Paul Wong, Siu-Lun Chow

“…A randomised controlled trial design was adopted to compare the changes between the two groups regarding caregivers’ skills, knowledge and practices when interacting with their children with impairments due to ASD. …”
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Global Fluoroquinolone Resistance Epidemiology and Implictions for Clinical Use by Axel Dalhoff

“…In general, the continued increase in fluoroquinolone resistance affects patient management and necessitates changes in some guidelines, for example, treatment of urinary tract, intra-abdominal, skin and skin structure infections, and traveller’s diarrhea, or even precludes the use in indications like sexually transmitted diseases and enteric fever.…”
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Individual‐based simulations of genome evolution with ancestry: The GenomeAdmixR R package by Thijs Janzen, Fernando Diaz

“…However, a thorough understanding of how local ancestry changes after admixture and how selection affects patterns of local ancestry remains elusive. …”
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The effect of living conditions on the stature of men and women: the case of south-eastern France (18th, 19th and 20th centuries) by Luana Batista-Goulart, Isabelle Séguy, Stefan Tzortzis, Gérald Quatrehomme

“…In this paper we analyse the impact of different living conditions on the length of the femur, as a proxy for stature, of three Mediterranean samples with known historical contexts, and assess sex differentials in femur length changes. The first collection analysed is composed of 18th century plague victims who had suffered several previous starvation episodes. …”
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Tumor-initiating and metastasis-initiating cells of clear-cell renal cell carcinoma by Dinh-Xuan Pham, Tien Hsu

“…Recent advances in genome analyses of ccRCC indicate that in ccRCC, tumor-initiating cells (TICs) and metastasis-initiating cells (MICs) are two distinct groups of progenitors. MICs result from various genetic changes during subclonal evolution, while TICs reside in the stem of the ccRCC phylogenetic tree of clonal development. …”
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Aeronautical and Aerospace Material and Structural Damages to Failures: Theoretical Concepts by Andriy Viktorovich Goncharenko

“…Moreover, an increase in the number of parameters and further complication of the problem setting will not change the principle of the problem solution.…”
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Réconciliation nationale et compensation en Algérie et au Maroc by Yazid Ben Hounet

“…In Morocco, an arbitration committee (1999) and then the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (2004) were set up to turn the page on the period of the “years of lead” (reign of Hassan II) during which state crimes were committed (torture, imprisonment, assassinations, etc.). …”
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Compositional Variation of PCBs, PAHs, and OCPs at Gas Phase and Size Segregated Particle Phase during Dust Incursion from the Saharan Desert in the Northwestern Anatolian Peninsul... by S. Levent Kuzu

“…The mass median diameter of PAHs did not change significantly during different atmospheric conditions due to their local sources. …”
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