Use of game-based educational entertainment media to foster mathematical problem-solving proficiency in pre-service mathematics teachers by Romadiastri Yulia, Mujiasih Mujiasih, Riska Ayu Ardani, Mohd Afifi Bahurudin Setambah

“…The capacity to solve mathematical problems is an essential component of the professional abilities that pre-service instructors of mathematics are required to possess. …”
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All Iron Battery 3.0 by Dipak Koirala, Surendra K. Gautam, I. Francis Cheng, Peter B. Allen

“…The result is a highly rechargeable, low-cost energy storage system with a good price-performance ratio compared to commercial rechargeable batteries that is stable for 100+ cycles with 84 % capacity retention. The cell has a volumetric capacity of 9.6 Ah/L (energy of 11.52 wh/L) and power density of 72 Watts/m2.…”
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A Comparative Study of First-Order Reliability Method-Based Steepest Descent Search Directions for Reliability Analysis of Steel Structures by Hamed Makhduomi, Behrooz Keshtegar, Mehdi Shahraki

“…The efficiency of the gradient, HL-RF, and MHL-RF method was compared for a bar structure under tensile capacity, a multispan beam under bending capacity, a connection under tension load, and a column under axial force. …”
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Influence of Water on the Dynamic Adsorption of Chlorinated VOCs on Active Carbon: Relative Humidity of the Gas Phase versus Pre-Adsorbed Water by F. Cosnier, A. Celzard, G. Furdin, D. Bégin, J.F. Marêché

“…If the latter is pre-adsorbed, water is just displaced by the VOCs (overshoot). The adsorption capacities of the AC remain unchanged and only some minor changes in the shape of the breakthrough front, corresponding to hindered diffusion, may sometimes occur. …”
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Damage Occurrence under Dynamic Loading For Anisotropic Strain Rate Sensitive Materials by F. Lauro, B. Bennani, J. Oudin, X. Ni

“…This damage process leads to the progressive loss of the structure stress carrying capacity. The ductile fracture occurs once it has vanished. …”
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Impact of global warming in Latin America. There is much to do! by Ghiuliana Godo Vitate, Melissa Hernandez-Acapana, Brayan Flores Arandia, José Vela Ruíz, Ricardo Lama Morales

“…These factors complicate the response capacity of health systems, which already face significant limitations in resources and operational capacity.…”
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Forecast of Chaotic Series in a Horizon Superior to the Inverse of the Maximum Lyapunov Exponent by Miguel Alfaro, Guillermo Fuertes, Manuel Vargas, Juan Sepúlveda, Matias Veloso-Poblete

“…The theory of the nonlinear dynamic systems indicates the capacity of making good-quality predictions of series coming from dynamic systems with chaotic behavior up to a temporal horizon determined by the inverse of the major Lyapunov exponent. …”
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SVD-Aided Power Allocation and Iterative Detection Scheme for Turbo-BLAST System with Imperfect Channel State Information by Xiaomin Chen, Xiangbin Yu, Dazhuan Xu

“…At the transmitter, in order to maximize the capacity performance, the MIMO channel is decomposed into several parallel eigen subchannels by SVD, and then proper power based on the water-filling principle is allocated to every subchannel subject to the total transmit power constraint. …”
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The Adsorption of Phenol, -Cresol and -Catechol on a β-Cyclodextrin Derivative-Grafted Chitosan and the Removal of Phenols from Industrial Wastewater by Qi Yuan Chen, Jian Bo Xiao, Xiao Qing Chen, Xin Yu Jiang, Hong Zhu Yu, Ming Xu

“…The experimental results demonstrated that CCDC had a higher adsorption capability towards m -catechol than for phenol and m -cresol, with the adsorption capacity for m -catechol being 110.56 mg/g. The adsorption capacity was greatly influenced by the pH, time and temperature. …”
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Knockdown of decorin in human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells suppresses proteoglycan layer formation and establishes a pro-inflammatory environment on titanium oxide surfaces by Hisanobu Kamio, Kazuto Okabe, Masaki Honda, Kensuke Kuroda, Shuhei Tsuchiya

“…We utilized DCN RNA interference in human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hBMSCs) to investigate its effects on PG layer formation, proliferation, initial adhesion, cell extension, osteogenic capacity, fibrotic markers, and immunotolerance to TiOx in vitro. …”
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Environmental and Social Problems and Countermeasures in Transportation System under Resource Constraints by Qianyuan Li, Shaoying Tian

“…In this paper, the vehicle distribution route optimization problem under multiresource constraints such as vehicle energy capacity and vehicle loading capacity is studied, and the static and dynamic models of distribution route optimization under multiresource constraints are established. …”
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When home and work are not enough. The challenge of international migrants’ agency in the Italian Alps by Andrea Membretti, Fabio Lucchini, Monica Gilli, Mia Scotti

“… Even when they have access to housing and employment, international migrants struggle to develop their own agency, i.e. the capacity to act in their own life contexts, exercising citizenship rights within substantive inclusion processes in the wider communities. …”
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Design and Experimental Study on Shock-Absorbing Steel Bar with Limit Function for Bridges by Zhaoguang Li, Ri Gao, Wei Jia

“…Besides, the shock-absorbing device has a high initial stiffness and can provide stable bearing capacity after yielding. The equivalent viscous damping ratio reflects that the designed shock-absorbing steel bar has good energy dissipation capacity.…”
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Effet du zaï amélioré sur la productivité du sorgho en zone sahélienne by Philippe Bayen, Salifou Traoré, Fidèle Bognounou, Dorkas Kaiser, Adjima Thiombiano

“…For this purpose, a random block experimental design of Fisher was used to test the germination capacity, the growth and the yield of sorghum on degraded land following zaï hole size and organic input. …”
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Application of the Power Grid Business Carrying on Low Earth Orbit Broadband Satellite Internet by Liang ZHU, Shaobo QI, Bo YANG, Bingyu XU, Zifan LI, Shijie ZHANG

“…LEO (Low-earth-orbit) broadband satellite internet can provide a lot of user with all-time network coverage, broadband access and information transport service, which has the advantage of high capacity, broad band, low delay and high elasticity as space information network.This made the application service in vertical industry based on LEO satellite network become research hotspots.Based on the research and analysis of power grid communication demand, the application solution of power industry based on LEO broadband satellite internet were proposed, focused on three core business of power grid, included the power grid construction, power grid operation, and emergency rescue.Also, the design of system composition, workflow, and satellite terminal architecture were researched.Further, the transmission performance, continuous communication, and service switching of mobile satellite terminal were tested based on LEO broadband satellite network, which could provided low delay and high capacity for remote data transmission.The result was consultant significance for future application development and engineering implementation in power industry.…”
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Les conditions de la problématisation pour favoriser l’accès au politique : le cas de l’huile de palme à l’école primaire by Nicole Mencacci

“…The article focuses on educations to, and the conditions of their implementation, so that the capacity to problematize (Caparros-Mencacci, 2014) of learners is elicited. …”
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Equilibrium and Kinetic Adsorption of Organic Compounds onto Organobentonite: Application of a Surface Diffusion Model by Raúl Ocampo-Pérez, Roberto Leyva-Ramos, Erika Padilla-Ortega

“…The effect of pH on the adsorption capacity was studied by determining the adsorption isotherm over the pH range 3–12. …”
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Incertezza, precarietà, capacità di immaginazione del futuro e modernità: un confronto tra Appadurai e De Martino by Alessandro Mancuso

“…In this article, I trace a comparison among different components of both anthropologists’ theoretical apparatus, trying not only to sketch the basic elements of their “general anthropology”, but also their interplay with their interpretation of causes, phenomenology and possible ways out of the contemporary crisis, of cognitive and ethical kind, in the capacity for imagining the future in today globalised world. …”
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Research on optimization of indoor positioning batch ranging system based on DS-TWR algorithm by Hongwei SUN, Xuehong CAO, Liangbao JIAO, Lin MENG, Ziheng LIU, Feng YUAN

“…Aiming at the current problems of the ultra wide band (UWB) indoor positioning system based on the double sided two-way ranging (DS-TWR) algorithm, there are more communication times and a higher conflict rate in a multi-tag environment, an improved algorithm was proposed.The Hash algorithm to hash and distribute the communication content between the tag and the anchor was used, so that the anchor could reply to multiple tags in a regular and unified manner during each ranging process, which greatly reduced the number of times the anchor sends RES (responds) data.Experimental results show that the improved algorithms’ communication times between a tag and the anchor were reduced by 15% compared with the traditional DS-TWR algorithm, which increases the time proportion of the anchor receiving state in ranging, thereby reducing the anchor receiving RNG (range) data.The collision rate of packets, the success rate of ranging has increased by 43.6%.Due to the reduction in the number of communications required in each positioning cycle and the reduction in the collision rate between data packets, a smaller channel capacity would be required, thereby increasing the label capacity of the positioning system, which has strong engineering significance.…”
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Effective Remediation of Lead Ions from Aqueous Solution by Chemically Carbonized Rubber Wood Sawdust: Equilibrium, Kinetics, and Thermodynamic Study by Swarup Biswas, Umesh Mishra

“…Experimental data confirmed that the adsorption capacities increased with increasing inlet concentration and bed height and decreased with increasing flow rate. …”
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