Provision of information by local governments using the Internet: case studies in Japan by Yoshio Arai

“…First, the process of the diffusion of local government websites in Japan is analyzed. …”
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Reduction kinetics of lead-rich slag with carbon in the temperature range of 1073 to 1473K by Hou X., Chou K.C., Zhao B.

“…The reduction reaction was found to be mainly liquid-solid reaction, which was chemically controlled at initial stage and diffusion controlled at later stage. The apparent activation energy was calculated to be 83.8 kJ/mol at chemically controlled stage and 224.9 kJ/mol at diffusion controlled stage for reduction of industrial sinter. …”
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Internet das coisas (IoT) e novas dinâmicas da produção agrícola no campo brasileiro by Mait Bertollo, Ricardo Abid Castillo, Matheus Dezidério Busca

“…The analysis of the agents involved in the development, diffusion and connection of these systems and the assessment of their impacts on agricultural production allow us to visualize two complementary and contradictory processes in the Brazilian countryside: 1) the deepening of inequalities, arising from the socially and spatially selective diffusion of digital technologies; 2) the potential mitigation of the deleterious effects of the first trend, that is, of the disparities between agents of the upper and lower circuit of agrarian economies, through the diffusion and trivialization of the use of information technologies and internet infrastructures in the context of family farming, valuing the diverse knowledge of small and medium producers and cooperatives.…”
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Franges intra-urbaines à l’épreuve des projets de paysage by Émeline Bailly

“…With diffuse urban sprawl on the outskirts of urban centres, urban fringes are shifting and becoming less easily distinguishable. …”
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Performance Evaluation Indexes in Public Administration Some issues of their actual usefulness by Laura Tampieri

“…The paper aims to compare performance indicator systems of Austria, Italy and Slovenia, emphasizing the relationship between the indicators and their diffusion in government managerial control. In particular the paper underlines the connection between the difficulty of indexes application and the level of diffusion. in Public Administrations.…”
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Soret and Dufour Effects on Natural Convection Flow Past a Vertical Surface in a Porous Medium with Variable Viscosity by M. B. K. Moorthy, K. Senthilvadivu

“…The heat and mass transfer characteristics of natural convection about a vertical surface embedded in a saturated porous medium subject to variable viscosity are numerically analyzed, by taking into account the diffusion-thermo (Dufour) and thermal-diffusion (Soret) effects. …”
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Electrical Characterization and Modeling of a Gelatin/Graphene System by Giovanni Landi, Andrea Sorrentino, Salvatore Iannace, Heinrich C. Neitzert

“…A model based on the effect of the electrical double layer and on the diffusion of the charge carriers is used for the analysis of the experimental data, obtained in the frequency domain. …”
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La pieza fresca: una actividad docente a rescatar by Luis Alberto Corona Martínez, Laydamí Rodríguez Amador

“…La pieza fresca es un tipo particular de discusión diagnóstica que permite una aproximación inicial a la concordancia clínico-patológica. …”
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Analysis of the growth kinetics of Fe2B layers by the integral method by Keddam M., Kulka M.

“…In this study, an alternative approach based on the integral method was proposed to estimate the values of boron diffusion coefficients in the Fe2B layers grown at the surface of Armco iron. …”
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Dufour and Soret Effects on Melting from a Vertical Plate Embedded in Saturated Porous Media by Basant K. Jha, Umaru Mohammed, Abiodun O. Ajibade

“…Thermal-diffusion and diffusion-thermo effects on combined heat and mass transfer in mixed convection boundary layer flow with aiding and opposing external flows from a vertical plate embedded in a liquid saturated porous medium with melting are investigated. …”
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Whole-Body MRI in Oncology: Focus on 3D Sequences in Musculoskeletal Oncology by Laura Fayad, Ali Ghasemi, Shivani Ahlawat

“…Its integration with diffusion-weighted imaging and apparent diffusion coefficient mapping offers quantitative insights into tumour biology, notably enhancing treatment planning and response evaluation. …”
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History of Lithuanian press of national rennaisance and its creator: a subjective version by Domas Kaunas

“…The letter provides rich biographical data on Martynas Jankus. …”
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Politiques publiques sectorielles suisses de lutte contre la dégradation des sols by Fabien Jakob

“…The sealing of areas, earthworks or backfilling, the diffusion of contaminating substances in the soil, topsoil harvesting or the transformation of forests, of natural or agricultural environments for other purposes (housing, activities, transport, leisure) result in soil significant and ongoing deterioration. …”
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A Novel, Patient-Specific Mathematical Pathology Approach for Assessment of Surgical Volume: Application to Ductal Carcinoma in situ of The Breast by Mary E. Edgerton, Yao-Li Chuang, Paul Macklin, Wei Yang, Elaine L. Bearer, Vittorio Cristini

“…Based on this prediction, we hypothesize that the volume of breast with ducts affected by in situ tumors at the time of diagnosis will be closely approximated by a model-derived mathematical function based on the ratio of tumor cell proliferation-to-apoptosis indices and on the extent of diffusion of cell nutrients (diffusion penetration length), which can be measured from immunohistochemical and morphometric analysis of patient histopathology specimens without the need for multiple-time measurements. …”
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Application of Wasted Oolong Tea as a Biosorbent for the Adsorption of Methylene Blue by Yunfei Hu, Yue Zhang, Yuqun Hu, Chen-Yao Chu, Jinke Lin, Shuilian Gao, Dongyi Lin, Jing Lu, Ping Xiang, Tzu-Hsing Ko

“…The fitting results obtained from the intraparticle diffusion model suggested that the intraparticle diffusion was not the only rate-controlling step and some other mechanisms along with the intraparticle diffusion were probably involved. …”
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Mathematical model of evaluating dissipated pollution and its numerical realization by Vytautas Kleiza, Gaudenta Sakalauskienė

“… The paper considers pollution spreading models, based on turbulent diffusion equation, as well as their numerical realization using particular data of rivers in Lithuania. …”
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Los secretos significados by Eduardo Kigman Garcés

“… Es una discusión acerca de la identidad en base a tres diferentes perspectivas: etnicidad, masculinad y región. …”
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Intracellular dry mass density increases under growth-induced pressure [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Baptiste Alric, Hyojun Kim, Julien Roul, Nolan Chan, Morgan Delarue

“…Recent studies have shown that in these confined spaces, the diffusivity of intracellular nanoparticles decreases. …”
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Light microscopic studies on the alpha-naphthyl acetate esterase activity of the fetal bovine peripheral blood lymphocytes by İlhami Çelik, Reşat N. Aştı, Mustafa Ü. Boyraz

“…<p> Large majority of the alpha-naphthyl acetate esterase pozitive lymphocytes showed localised granularpositivity, whereas, in the smaller numbers of positive cells, a diffuse granular staining pattern was observed.<p> Neutrophyls were negative. …”
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Two Kinds of Hydrogen Monomers Manifested in Plasma-Exposed Silicon by Vladimir V. Voronkov

“…In boron-doped silicon annealed in a plasma ambient (at 150°C), the reported hydrogen concentration profile and the hole profile cannot be simultaneously fitted assuming only one kind of in-diffusing hydrogen ions H+ of a definite parameter D+K (where D+ is the diffusivity of H+ and K is the equilibrium dissociation constant of the HB defect, the passivated boron). …”
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