Simulation of Chloride Diffusion in Cracked Concrete with Different Crack Patterns by Xiao-Yong Wang, Li-Na Zhang

“…For chloride ingression into cracked concrete, former researches mainly focus on influence of crack width on chloride diffusion coefficients. …”
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COMPARATIVE OVERVIEW OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT IN CROATIA AND SERBIA UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR II by Ljiljana Dobrovšak, Haris Dajč

“…The Zionist movement in the area of the former Yugoslavia first appeared at the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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A Dual-Controller of Quadrotor UAV Elastic Hanging Model Based on Event-Triggered Mechanism and Its Control Design by Sen Yang, Hang Guo, Jigang Tong, Tian Xie, Jingyi Yan

“…The energy based control law is employed for the accurate positioning task near the equilibrium point, and sliding mode control law is used to avoid the swing of the hanging payload during the transporting process. The former is designed based on the robust sliding mode control, and the latter is designed based on the energy analysis method, and the stability analysis of the designed system and the control law is carried out using the Lyapunov method and the Russell’s invariant theorem. …”
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FLOODING AND GEOMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF MODERN FLOODPLAIN – CASE STUDY OF THE DANUBE RIVER DOWNSTREAM OF THE DEVÍNSKA GATE by MILAN LEHOTSKÝ, JÁN NOVOTNÝ, JACEK SZMAŃDA

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Relaying Memory through a Generated Environment by Ahmad Beydoun

“…This study surveys three types of media sources that contain the memory of KDC: 1) interviews conducted with former prisoners; 2) the data-archives of a radio programme called Nahnu Bikhayr Taminuna Ankom(We are alive, tell us if you are) and 3) the built environment mapped with a sonic device. …”
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An Appraisal of the Chronology Problem in the “Rise of the West” Question by Gürsu Galip Gürsakal, Sezgin Kaya

“…“Rise of the West”, “Grand Question”, “The Great Divergence” are all different nomenclature for a pristine problematic in social sciences: The supposed discrepancy between the “East” and the “West” in a variety of domains whereby the “West” is assumed to acquire supremacy over the “East”. In the former part of our essay we try to acquaint the reader with the aforementioned literature. …”
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The Domestic Cat as a Large Animal Model for Characterization of Disease and Therapeutic Intervention in Hereditary Retinal Blindness by Kristina Narfström, Koren Holland Deckman, Marilyn Menotti-Raymond

“…Therapeutic trials have been performed mainly in the former type including stem cell therapy, retinal transplantation, and development of ocular prosthetics. …”
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Stoicism and Frankfurtian Compatibilism by László Bernáth

“…The main thesis of my paper is that commentators have so far missed the crucial difference between the Stoics’ approach to free will and Frankfurt’s, a difference that renders the former as the superior theory. I make three main claims. …”
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Performance Study of Modified Savonius Water Turbine with Two Deflector Plates by Golecha Kailash, T. I. Eldho, S. V. Prabhu

“…Net driving force can be increased by reducing the reverse force on the returning blade or increasing the positive force on the advancing blade. Former can be realized by providing a flow obstacle to the returning blade and latter can be realized by concentrating the flow towards the advancing blade. …”
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A Timetable Optimization Model for Urban Rail Transit with Express/Local Mode by Renjie Zhang, Shisong Yin, Mao Ye, Zhiqiang Yang, Shanglu He

“…The optimization of train patterns and timetables is vital in the application of the express/local mode. The former one has been widely discussed in the various existing works, while the study on the timetable optimization is limited. …”
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Stabilized Solution to Spurious Mode Problem and Ill-Conditioning in Interface Force Based Substructure Coupling Method by Hui-hua Feng, Xiao-long Mou, Khaled Teffah

“…There are two coupling methods, the interface degrees of freedom based coupling method and the interface force based coupling method, the former one is referred to as the primary assembly method, and the latter is referred to as the dual assembly method. …”
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Reparative Justice Vis-a Vis the legacy of slavery in the Caribbean. Interregional perspectives by Claudia Rauhut

“…The article analyzes the mobilization around this issue in the English-speaking Caribbean, the “reparative justice” agenda put forward by the CARICOM Reparations Commission- mainly composed by former British colonies in the Caribbean-, and the demands directed against European governments. …”
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L’histoire aux prises avec les mémoires. L’exemple du musée avorté de Montpellier sur l’histoire de la France et de l’Algérie by Jean-Robert Henry

“…The paper, written by the former chairman of the museum’s scientific committee, recalls the genesis and development of the project and questions the reasons both structural and short-term, local and national, which have weighed on its abandonment. …”
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“Mulier ne debuerit habere regnum”: a regência na menoridade de D. Afonso V vista pelos juristas by Manuel Francisco Ramos

“…Two of them: Afonso Mangancha and Jean Jouffroy, dean of Vergy, took a public position on these questions. The former jurist presented his view at the time of the events and the latter a posteriori. …”
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Machine-tool industry retrospective analysis in member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States by M. M. Shailieva, K. N. Sergeeva

“…And after the collapse of the country there is almost complete destruction of the machine-tool industry on the territory of the countries of the former USSR. The results obtained in the course of the study can be useful in scientific and practical activities in assessing the current situation, as well as prospects for the production and consumption of machine tools in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, including Ukraine and the Baltic states.…”
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Growth models and comparative political economy in Latin America by Nikolas Passos, Guilherme Spinato Morlin

“…This work extends the growth models perspective to emerging countries, integrating with former discussions on the Latin American political economy. …”
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Repository Corticotropin Injection for Treatment of Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies by Aarat Patel, Georgia Seely, Rohit Aggarwal

“…The two most common forms are dermatomyositis and polymyositis, the former of which entails a skin component. There are few approved therapeutics available for treatment of this group of diseases and the first-line therapy is usually corticosteroid treatment. …”
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Comparative Study of Two Commercial Photovoltaic Panels under Natural Sunlight Conditions by Daniel T. Cotfas, Petru A. Cotfas

“…Photovoltaic (PV) panels are used for both standalone applications and grid-connected systems. In the former case, the PV panels used vary in size, from very small, for smart solar garden lamps, to standard, in order to ensure the necessary electric energy for a house. …”
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Mixed Integer Programming-Based Liveness Test for FMS with Full Routing Flexibility by Lida Dong, Tianyang Chi, Chengcheng Zhu, Jun Yin

“…Furthermore, the liveness property of S*PR nets can be tested in two steps: first, for a given S*PR net, constructing an OSC-S*PR net to ensure that if the latter is live then the former must be live; second, testing liveness of the constructed OSC-S*PR net by the aforementioned MIP-based algorithm. …”
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An unwilling officer: the engineer Mikhail Vasilyevich Lebedev in the era of social cataclysms by D. I. Petin

“…The author concludes that, despite belonging to the category of «former people» and repression, the hero of the story has successfully adapted to the conditions of the Soviet society.…”
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