Tensile strength of multi-material bolted double lap joints under static loading by Saoussane Bachi Bensaad, Mohamed Mazari, Otmane Lahlali

“…Multi-material bolted assemblies have recently gained increasing attention in the aerospace engineering field, due to enhanced design possibilities and positive size effects with regard to decreasing ply thickness. …”
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Oor die teologiese inhoud van die Belydenis van Belhar by D. J. Smit

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Cohabitation sociale et ordre public aux Champs-Élysées :Gestion et appropriation du carré des jeux (1700-1830) by Véronique Laporte

“…This is the why the authorities attempted to reduce the crowds on the Champs-Élysées by controlling the number and the nature of the games practiced in that public place.…”
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Effectiveness of a Simplified ESP Curriculum for Adult Learners by Khalid A. Alghamdi

“…Participants reported enhanced confidence in using English in professional settings, attributing this improvement to the curriculum's practical focus and opportunities for real-time practice during interactive tasks. …”
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Gender Differences in the Associations of Familial Social Support on Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults in Rural Japan: The Shimane CoHRE Study by Takeshi Endo, Takafumi Abe, Mitsuya Morita, Minoru Isomura

“…Building social support (SS) is gaining attention as a means to prevent depression; however, there is a lack of research on the suitable types of SS resources. …”
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Association between chronic respiratory diseases and frailty in Chinese elderly: a population-based longitudinal study by Ting Yang, Ping He, Dawei Zhu, Dan Guo, Ruoxi Ding, Ke Huang, Yanan Zhao, Xiaolong Guan

“…Specifically, asthma only (HR=1.89, 95% CI: 1.07 to 3.33) and asthma-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap (ACO) (HR=1.79, 95% CI: 1.19 to 2.69) were associated with a higher risk of frailty among the elderly, while COPD only was not (HR=1.11, 95% CI: 0.73 to 1.65).Conclusion This study shows a significant association between CRDs, particularly asthma only and ACO, and frailty in the elderly. We need to pay attention to the frailty status of CRDs patients and consider routine screening among them in both clinical practice and community settings. …”
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Porcine sperm bind to an oviduct glycan coupled to glass surfaces as a model of sperm interaction with the oviduct by Sandra Soto-Heras, Larissa J. Volz, Nicolai Bovin, David J. Miller

“…The ability of porcine sperm to attach to suLeX-surfaces and detach in response to progesterone and mature cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) was validated. …”
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Vulnerability Assessment of Urban Rail Transit Network—A Case Study of Chongqing by Lan Xu, Pengcheng Xiang, Yan Qian, Simai Yang, Tao Zhou, Feng Wang

“…The article uses the Space L method based on complex network theory to establish a topological model of the Chongqing rail transit line network, analyze the topological properties of the network, and use MATLAB 2020b software to conduct deliberate attacks on each station to assess the vulnerability of the Chongqing rail transit network in terms of changes in network efficiency. …”
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The German Days of Dora Pejačević by Domagoj Marić

“…On both occasions, Pejačević lived in both cities: on the first occasion, she attended composition classes with composers who are largely forgotten today, Percy Sherwood and Walter Courvoisier. …”
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Deep Q-Networks for Minimizing Total Tardiness on a Single Machine by Kuan Wei Huang, Bertrand M. T. Lin

“…Specifically, it achieves an average improvement of 14.33% over Earliest Due Date (EDD), 11.90% over Shortest Processing Time (SPT), 17.65% over Least Slack First (LSF), and 8.86% over Apparent Tardiness Cost (ATC). Conversely, the Number of Delayed Jobs strategy secures an average improvement of 11.56% over EDD, 9.10% over SPT, 15.01% over LSF, and 5.99% over ATC, all while requiring minimal computational resources. …”
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Comunicación clara en Latinoamérica by Claudia Andrea Poblete

“…La ruta de la comunicación clara (y el lenguaje claro) en América Latina no se puede separar de la creación de las redes de lenguaje claro que atraviesan este lado del mundo. Por lo anterior, el presente trabajo tiene como objetivo revisar los principales avances en comunicación clara a nivel latinoamericano con detención en los contextos de Chile, Argentina, Perú, Uruguay y Colombia. …”
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Damage Detection Method for High-Strength Aramid Conveyor Belts by Ling Yang, Yimin Wang, Di Miao, Xiaoxian Duan

“…Also, the Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) is used to replace the Multi-head Self-Attention (MHSA) in the PSA structure, while the SimSPPFCSPC module is used to replace the original SPPF structure. …”
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IKIMOKYKLINIO AMŽIAUS VAIKŲ DOROVINIŲ VERTYBIŲ UGDYMO(SI) BŪDAI ŠEIMOJE by Gitana Baležentienė, Algimantas Bagdonas

“…Tyrime sprendžiamas probleminis klausimas: kokie yra ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų dorovinių vertybių ugdymo(si) būdai šeimoje? Tyrimo tikslas: atskleisti ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų dorovinių vertybių ugdymo(si) būdus šeimoje. …”
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Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders in the context of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic by R. Kaladytė Lokominienė

“… Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is able to invade the human nervous system and can cause headache, nausea, vomiting, febrile seizures, encephalopathy, encephalitis, ataxia or psychiatric disorders, as well as quantitative disturbances of smell and taste which are observed both during the course of Parkinson’s disease and other alpha-synucleinopathies, only in slowly progressive and irreversible manner. …”
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Alternate mutation modalities in models of population dynamics by Jonathan Bartlett

“…Problematic results of current attempts to create total models of population dynamics may be due to this incompleteness. …”
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Hotel customer segmentation and sentiment analysis through online reviews: An analysis of selected European markets by Anderson S. Oliveira, Ana I. Renda, Marisol B. Correia, Nuno Antonio

“…After the analysis of 8,596 online textual reviews, the results demonstrated that not only satisfaction and dissatisfaction rates towards hotel attributes differ according to the language, but also that customers from different countries place dissimilar emphasis on hotel attributes. …”
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Whole organism and tissue-specific analysis of pexophagy in Drosophila by Francesco G. Barone, Marco Marcello, Sylvie Urbé, Natalia Sanchez-Soriano, Michael J. Clague

“…We show that these reporters are colocalized with a peroxisomal marker and that they can reflect pexophagy induction by iron chelation and inhibition by depletion of the core autophagy protein Atg5. Using light sheet microscopy, we have been able to obtain a global overview of pexophagy levels across the entire organism at different stages of development. …”
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Deconstructing the Monolith: An Educational Module for Understanding Disparities Within Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Populations by Karan D. Luthria, Dylan K. Kim, Samantha Xing, Mina Yuan, Jerry Zhou, Catherine A. Shu, Usha S. Krishnan

“…Whether attending virtually or in person, participants reported notable improvements in their self-evaluated confidence in treating AANHPI patients. …”
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Secure and efficient group handover authentication protocol based on trajectory prediction in 5G-V2X by Yinghui ZHANG, Jiale QIAN, Jin CAO, Dong ZHENG

“…Aiming at the efficiency issue of handover authentication for a large number of vehicles in the 5G-V2X scenario, a secure and efficient group handover authentication protocol based on trajectory prediction was proposed.Firstly, the effect of completing key agreement protocol in advance was achieved by predicting vehicle trajectories.Secondly, vehicles with mobility relevance were treated as the same group through user grouping algorithms, and then all vehicles within the group were batch verified using certificateless aggregation signature technology.In addition, to address the vulnerability of aggregated signature technology to DoS attacks, a binary search method was used to quickly locate malicious users and improve the efficiency of group handover authentication protocol.Finally, the security analysis of the protocol was conducted using the formal verification tool Scyther, and compared with the existing optimal protocol, the computational efficiency is improved by 30%.…”
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CGV-Net: Tunnel Lining Crack Segmentation Method Based on Graph Convolution Guided Transformer by Kai Liu, Tao Ren, Zhangli Lan, Yang Yang, Rong Liu, Yuantong Xu

“…On TunnelCrackDB, CGV-Net attains accuracy, recall, and F1 scores of 81.15%, 83.54%, and 82.33%, respectively, showcasing its superior performance in challenging segmentation tasks.…”
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