Blast Demolition Study of Guyed Masts by Abinet K. Habtemariam, Volkmar Zabel, Marcelo J. Bianco, Carsten Könke

“…Demolition of guyed masts is usually carried out by cutting down some of the supporting guy cables using an explosive in such a way that the mast can fall into the desired direction. …”
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Etiopathogenic Considerations of Alcohol in Pancreatitis by Leonardo Javier Pérez Ponce, Roberto Carlos Barletta Farías, Gabriela Castro Vega, Jorge Bárbaro Barletta Farías, Milagros Lisset León Regal, Lázaro Array Brito

“…It was concluded that the pancreas may brake down alcohol either via oxidative or non oxidative way, causing an increase of free radicals, pancreatic edema, intracellular trypsin activation, and the induction of proinflammatory transcription factors, which stimulate the stellate cells leading to a systemic inflammatory response and organic insufficiency.…”
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The impact of the cognitive-emotive dialectic on L2 development of English majors in the free teacher education program in China: a perezhivanie perspective by Wei Li

“…It also demonstrates that during the language learning process, predominantly negative emotions, while not inevitably hindering progress, can slow down the pace of language development, whereas positive emotions consistently foster language development. …”
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The Cinematic Visions and Dreams of Edgard Varèse by Gabriele

“…Only recently, now immersed in the digital production world of DAWs, does the new medium – as often happens – allow us to shed new light on the “old” analogue world and enable us to fully understand the visionary force of Varesi's aesthetics and the poignancy of his way of understanding music and images. The paper retraces the compositional parabola that involved the author for the last years of his life, setting it down in the recording studios and human environments in which he found himself operating, in order to reconstruct, through the dense network of relationships between technology and thoughts, the milieu that gave rise to one of the multiple roots of film music. …”
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Common Fixed Point Results for Intuitionistic Fuzzy Hybrid Contractions with Related Applications by Mohammed Shehu Shagari, Shazia Kanwal, Akbar Azam, Hassen Aydi, Yaé Ulrich Gaba

“…Over time, hybrid fixed point results have been examined merely in the framework of classical mathematics. This one way research has clearly dropped-off a great amount of important results, considering the fact that a fuzzy set is a natural enhancement of a crisp set. …”
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How benefits management helps balanced scorecard to deal with business dynamic environments by Jorge Gomes, Mário Romão

“…We suggest that in business dynamic environments the benefits management approach, by using the benefits dependency network can help BSCs to guide and support the benefits achievement related with investments, in a complementary way. By using a case study we try to show how a BSC exhibits limitations to deal with business disruptive environments and how a benefits management approach brings a strengthened business implementation vision, from strategy down to operations.…”
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Designing a system of learning materials to explain climate change to children by Lucy Blackwell

“…A cross-curricula approach, grounded in systems thinking, proved to be an effective way to break down and organize the content for this topic. …”
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Desperately looking for the truth: The traps and trappings of crime fiction in Charles Palliser’s The Unburied by Catherine Mari

“…Finally, by openly or obliquely subverting the rules of the genre, The Unburied plays down the revelation while conversely foregrounding the interpretative activity. …”
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The peculiarities of mathematic communication of the eight-formers by Viktorija Sičiūnienė

“…However, to solve them the boys most frequently choose an arithmetic way and wrote down only the answer. It is evident that the period of transition from concrete perception to the abstract one is at an average later for boys than girls. …”
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Project management principles special aspects by V. V. Eremin, D. V. Firsov, T. K. Chernysheva

“…The modern vector of development of the national economy and its focus on programme-targeted organisation makes us consider the principles of organisation in public administration in a new way. Modern conditions and principles of public administration require the adaptation of fundamentally new methodological guidelines that can not only manage existing systems, but also stimulate the emergence of fundamentally new economic and social realities. …”
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Empire Seen from Within. Cinema Objects, Spaces and Edifices in the Limelight in Colonial India and Ceylon (1899-1950) by Vilasnee Tampoe-Hautin

“…I will venture down this less beaten track in what will also be a reverse perspective. …”
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Spatial-Temporal Variation of Population Aging: A Case Study of China’s Liaoning Province by Dunyi Guan, Lei Lei, Zenglin Han

“…The study showed the positive spatial correlation of the aging level between the county units, thereby paving the way for future research on the balanced distribution. …”
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Unveiling the Role of Hahani (Paternal Aunts) in the VaTsonga Culture of South Africa by Stewart Lee Kugara, Lucky Sethuthuthu Vuma, Tsetselelane Decide Mdhluli

“…Down history, hahani (paternal aunt) played an indispensable role in the family. …”
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« The arrival of a foreigner and a stranger at my aunt’s house » : l’étrange et l’étranger dans The Moonstone (1868) de Wilkie Collins by Constance Collin

“…The text thus becomes foreign to its own rules and conventions, and the reader must struggle to make it his/her own way.…”
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Comment agir au cœur d’un paysage fluvial en mutation ? by Anourak Visouthivong

“…If these multi-scale top-down initiatives are based on a "Western-style" conception of the landscape (Gauché, 2015), is there not a risk of marginalising the cosmology of the Lao Loum ? …”
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Forced to Reimagine: Reflections on the Experience of Leicester Vaughan College Community Benefit Society by Miriam Gill, Lucy Faire

“…This article outlines the experiences of two tutors from an adult education department shut down by its higher education institution (HEI). It is a chronological reflective account of how members of the department responded to their exclusion by re-establishing their provision as a cooperative community benefit society (CBS), Leicester Vaughan College (LVC). …”
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The Pathophysiological Impact of HLA Class Ia and HLA-G Expression and Regulatory T Cells in Malignant Melanoma: A Review by Lasse Lindholm Johansen, Jørgen Lock-Andersen, Thomas Vauvert F. Hviid

“…The examination of the interaction between the human leucocyte antigen (HLA) system and prognostic outcome has shown interesting results, and a correlation between the down- or upregulation of these antigens and prognosis has been seen through many different types of cancer. …”
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Elastoplastic Modelling of an In Situ Concrete Spalling Experiment Using the Ottosen Failure Criterion by Lauri Kalle Tapio Uotinen, Topias Kalle Aleksi Siren

“…In conclusion, external heating is a potent way of inducing damage and thin concrete liner significantly reduces the amount of damage.…”
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Design of Energy-Efficient Protocol Stack for Nanocommunication Using Greedy Algorithms by Iqra Iqbal, Mohsin Nazir, Aneeqa Sabah

“…The results will be displayed and discussed to pave the way for future research in the domain of Internet of Nanothings (IoNT).…”
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An Analysis of Chinese Transport Infrastructure Loans and Investment in ICT in Nigeria by Innocent .A. Ocholi, Nnamdi .S. Okonkwo

“…Recommendations were suggested as a way forward. …”
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