Exploring horses’ (Equus caballus) gaze and asymmetric ear position in relation to human attentional cues by Gabriela Barrera, Anna Albiach-Serrano, Federico Guillén-Salazar

“…For this purpose, we adapted a protocol used with domestic dogs [Kaminski et al. 2017] and observed horses’ spontaneous behavior (gaze, asymmetric ears position and vocalizations) in the presence of a human holding and not holding food in an attentive position (facing the horse with open eyes) and in a non-attentive position (with her back turned towards the horse). …”
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TÜRKİYE’DE PERFORMANS ESASLI BÜTÇE SİSTEMİNDE YAŞANAN VEYA YAŞANABİLECEK SORUNLARA ÇÖZÜM ÖNERİLERİ by Kuddusi Yazıcı

“…Bu bütçeleme sisteminin esas amacı, kamu sektörünün etkinliği ve verimliliğin artırılmasıdır. …”
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Investigations on Beekeeping and Breeding of <i>Apis cerana</i> in China by Xinying Qu, Xinru Zhang, Guiqian Zhang, Hanrong Qin, Huixia Zhang, Huiyu Tian, Xiao Chen

“…Compared with <i>Apis mellifera ligustica</i>, <i>A. cerana</i> is more adaptable to low temperature and scattered nectar sources. …”
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An Optimal Composition Strategy for Knowledge Service Component Based on Flexible Tracking Particle Swarm Algorithm by Yan-chao Yin, Fu-zhao Chen, Wei-zhi Liao, Cui-yin Liu

“…On this basis, a heuristic algorithm with the adaptive mutation probability is introduced to composite the multigranularity service component dynamically and robustly. …”
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Nutrient Stocks and Distribution in Ghanaian Cocoa Ecosystems by A. M. Mohammed, J. S. Robinson, A. Verhoef, D. J. Midmore

“…There is a paucity of information on nutrient stocks and distribution in the cocoa ecosystem for the management of production sites to improve its productivity. Apart, sites with long histories of cocoa production could differ in nutrient stocks and distribution relative to recent production regions. …”
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BİLGİ TEKNOLOJİLERİ VE YEREL YÖNETİMLER by Fatih YÜKSEL

“…Bu çerçevede ele alınan çalışmanın amacı; bilgi teknolojilerinin, yönetim faaliyeti üzerindeki rolünü ortaya koyarak, yerel yönetimlerin içinde bulunduğu sorunların çözümünde etkinliğini tespit etmektir. …”
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Stochastic black-box optimization using multi-fidelity score function estimator by Atul Agrawal, Kislaya Ravi, Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis, Hans-Joachim Bungartz

“…It can be combined with natural gradients in order to further enhance convergence properties. and it also incorporates multi-fidelity schemes and an adaptive selection of samples in order to minimize computational effort. …”
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Employment of Social Workers in the Public Sector: Current Situation, Challenges and Future Prospects by kamil Alptekin, Selami Topuz, Murat Öz

“…Factors that emerged during the period of uncontrolled growth in social work education such as mushrooming, lacking the standards, explosion in the number of graduates, and decline in the quality of education have been effective in the decline in employment. Apart from these, low levels of professionalization, recognition of other professions, lack of initiative and self-confidence, lack of recognition, and ongoing neoliberalist policies have also played a role in the contraction of employment in the public sector. …”
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INTERNALIZATION OF RELIGION AND CULTURE: RELIGIOSITY OF THE TEBUWUNG SOCIETY IN THE TINGKEPAN TRADITION by Ubaidillah

“…From these central figures, awareness emerged from understanding the ideas and moral messages of surahYusuf and Maryam in the hope of having descendants that handsome or beautiful face and character as depicted in the two surahs. Apart from being local wisdom, this tingkepan tradition constructively demonstrates the community's belief that the creation of man is closely related to the Oneness of God since he/she was in the womb.…”
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Study on Load-Bearing Characteristics of a New Pile Group Foundation for an Offshore Wind Turbine by Ruiqing Lang, Run Liu, Jijian Lian, Hongyan Ding

“…In this study, this procedure was carried out for a new high-rise cap pile group foundation adapted to the loading characteristics of offshore wind turbines. …”
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Modification of partial safety factors for a semi-probabilistic evaluation of existing timber structures by Maria Loebjinski, Zheng Li, Wolgang Rug, Hartmut Pasternak

“…Subsequently, this paper provides a stepwise evaluation procedure including modified PSF considering both, an update of the target reliability and update of the material parameters obtained by a survey on site and is thus adaptive for different individual cases and level of information.  …”
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The Populus MYB transcription factor PSAR1 negatively regulates salt stress and is a repressor of ABA signaling by Qing Fang, Caiyun Zhang, Jingjie Liu, Zhi Zeng, Yanke Lu

“…Plant transcription factors and their associations with ABA (abscisic acid) are critical for development and adaptation to environments. Here, we report that the Populus MYB transcription factor Salt stress – and ABA signaling-Repressor 1 (PSAR1) combines with ABA signaling to negatively regulate salt stress responses. …”
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Battery Prognostics and Health Management: AI and Big Data by Di Li, Jinrui Nan, Andrew F. Burke, Jingyuan Zhao

“…The convergence of AI with Industry 4.0 technologies not only resolves existing challenges but also introduces innovative approaches that enhance the adaptability and precision of battery health management. …”
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How Developments in Genebanks Could Shape Utilization Strategies for Domestic Animals by Qianzi Ren, Ying Gong, Peng Su, Gang Liu, Yabin Pu, Fuqing Yu, Yuehui Ma, Zhenqing Wang, Yefang Li, Lin Jiang

“…In the face of these challenges, we emphasize the critical importance of promoting indigenous livestock and poultry germplasm resources in biodiversity conservation to enhance the adaptability and resilience of agricultural systems. …”
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Problems of poetic translation by M. R. Arpentieva

“…Poetry translation may be defined as relaying poetry into another language. Apart from transforming text, poetry translation also involves cognition, discourse, and action by and between human and textual actors in a physical and social setting. …”
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PRESERVING AND MANAGING CHINESE SETTLEMENT HERITAGE TOURISM IN LASEM, INDONESIA by Prisca Kiki WULANDARI, Muhammad BAIQUNI, Ahmad ZUBAIDI

“…The results of this study show that the community or owner in managing settlements or Chinese houses as tourist destinations should have three capacities in the social resilience perspective, namely 1) coping capacity, which includes resources, knowledge, skills, and learning; community as the main actor, community awareness, and social kinship system; 2) adaptive capacity which includes: community networks, human and environmental relations, and community participation; and 3) transformative capacity which includes community infrastructure, multi-stakeholder partnerships, technological innovation, diversity and economic innovation. …”
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Empirical Mode Decomposition and Neural Networks on FPGA for Fault Diagnosis in Induction Motors by David Camarena-Martinez, Martin Valtierra-Rodriguez, Arturo Garcia-Perez, Roque Alfredo Osornio-Rios, Rene de Jesus Romero-Troncoso

“…In this work, a novel digital structure to implement the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) for processing nonstationary and nonlinear signals using the full spline-cubic function is presented; besides, it is combined with an adaptive linear network (ADALINE)-based frequency estimator and a feed forward neural network (FFNN)-based classifier to provide an intelligent methodology for the automatic diagnosis during the startup transient of motor faults such as: one and two broken rotor bars, bearing defects, and unbalance. …”
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Signal Feature Extraction and Quantitative Evaluation of Metal Magnetic Memory Testing for Oil Well Casing Based on Data Preprocessing Technique by Zhilin Liu, Lutao Liu, Jun Zhang

“…And, based on wavelet transform (WT), the adaptive wavelet denoising method and data smoothing arithmetic are applied in testing the system of MMM. …”
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DÖVİZ PİYASALARINDA EWMA MODELİ KULLANILARAK HESAPLANAN VOLATİLİTE TAHMİNLERİNİN TEST EDİLMESİ by Cantürk Kayahan, Oğuzhan Aydemi̇r, Barış Akçay

“…Volatilite modellerinin temel amacı, volatilitenin doğru tahmin edilmesidir. Çünkü geleceğe yönelik alınan kararların başarısı bu tahminlerin tutarlılığına bağlıdır. …”
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COVID-19 SÜRECİNDE ÜNİVERSİTE ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN UZAKTAN EĞİTİM EĞİLİMİNİN ARAŞTIRILMASI by Hakan Eygü

“…Bu araştırmanın amacı Covid-19 döneminde üniversitelerde zorunlu olarak verilen uzaktan eğitim ile öğrencilerin uzaktan eğitime eğilimini belirlemektir. …”
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