Impact of Urban Undersea Tunnel Longitudinal Slope on the Visual Characteristics of Drivers by Shoushuo Wang, Zhigang Du, Fangtong Jiao, Libo Yang, Yudan Ni

“…Then, the difference between the up-and-down slope (direction) factor and the longitudinal slope (percent) factor on the two indexes were analyzed using the two-way repeated measures ANOVA. …”
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The Influence of Seasons and Weather on the Volume of Trauma Patients: 4 Years of Experience at a Single Regional Trauma Center by Se Heon Kim, Young Hoon Sul, Jin Young Lee, Joong Suck Kim

“…Statistical analysis was done using the independent <i>t</i>-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), and linear regression analysis. …”
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FEATURES OF DECENTRALIZATION IN THE UK: EXPERIENCE OF INTERACTION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY FOR UKRAINE by Olha Andrieieva, Nataliia Larina, Yurii Ruban

“…It is stated that there is a sharp gap between the way decentralization agreements are interpreted in Westminster and the way they are interpreted in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. …”
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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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Le webdocumentaire : un outil numérique innovant au service de l’enseignement, de la recherche et de la valorisation by Alexandre Klein

“…Fundamentally interactive, this medium combining text, pictures, video, sound, and animation allows to broadcast knowledge online in an accessible and participative way. It appears as an excellent tool to present and valorise research work (especially historical work) as well as to hand down its content and results to a large and various public. …”
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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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REPRESENTATION OF THE MEMORIAL CULTURE IN CHECHEN PAINTING (2000-2012) by Nasrudi U. Yarychev, Zarema R. Khamzatova

“…For the authors, memorial culture comes down to a variety of ways to materialize the socio-cultural ethnic context, including the visualization of mythological and religious meanings, as well as the translation of mental characteristics and ethnic archetypes. …”
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A deep dive into cation-modified structural, mechanical, magneto‑electronic, and thermophysical properties of MAlO3 (M = Ca, Sr, Ba, and Ra): First-principles investigation by Asif Hosen, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Ahmad A. Mousa, Mohammed S. Abu-Jafar

“…The electronic and magnetic characteristics of CaAlO3 reveal metallic features for both up-spin and down-spin channels. In contrast, SrAlO3, BaAlO3, and RaAlO3 have half-metallic characteristics displaying a metallic nature in the down-spin channel while acting as insulators in the up-spin channel. …”
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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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Effect of Crusher Arm Position and Surface Friction on the Mechanical Behaviour of a Crusher under Static Conditions by Mustafa Murat Yavuz

“… Crushers are utilized to break down or crush various components in industrial applications are subjected to high stresses. …”
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