Learning from collaborative ‘conversations’ on the Students as Producer Pedagogic model: students’ views by Kate Strudwick, Phil Johnson

“…Through a set of collaborative ‘conversations’ the experiences of the pedagogic practices – from a sample of participating students – within and across the two institutions are contextualised in relation to the following projects: the Community Challenge project, developed and implemented at University Centre Blackburn College; and, the Student as Producer initiative developed and implemented at the University of Lincoln. …”
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Crowdfunding and wine business: Some insights from Fundovino experience by Angela Mariani, Azzurra Annunziata, Maria Carmela Aprile, Francesco Nacchia

“…Multiple data sources were used, among which documents and archival data from the Fundovino website, an email interview to its management team and an on line questionnaire sent to a sample of projects’ funders. The results suggest that crowdfunding is ideally suited for the wine sector and that winemakers could exploit both the financial and marketing opportunities offered. …”
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A Feature-Selective Independent Component Analysis Method for Functional MRI by Yi-Ou Li, Tülay Adali, Vince D. Calhoun

“…The feature-selective scheme is achieved through a filtering operation in the source sample space followed by a projection onto the demixing vector space by a least squares projection in an iterative ICA process. …”
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Instructional Design and Student Learning in Professional Legal Education by Julie Macfarlane, Pat Boyle

“…These two drivers for the study provided a dual motivation to explore the impact of this new program on a sample of its first year student entrants. In order to ensure that the research results from the project could be meaningful and usefully translated into evaluative judgements about the success of the program in meeting its goals, three working hypotheses were formulated which were used to guide the data-gathering phase of the project; that is, face-to-face interviews conducted with the students. …”
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ALTERNATIVE FARM PLANS FOR VAGETABLE FARMERS A HIGHER PROFIT MARGIN AND EFFICIENCY IN USING OPTIMUM RESOURCE STYLE ASSALAMEYYAH REGION AS AMODEL by Salim Al-Nua’imi, Sura Sa’il Abed Al-Ugaidi

“…Some attempts on the model were performed and the productive plan (optimum plan) obtained at the level of sample (70) farmers in (10) villages within the project area. …”
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Measuring the impact of the use of smart energy in logistics companies on technological progress, operations performance and green environment: Egypt as a case study by Nourhan Morsy El Barbary, Taha Kassem, Hebatallah Mohamed Elmesmary, Alexandra Ioanid

“…Moreover, this study has a limitation regarding the sample as it depends on a sample of 80 employees at a certain context the logistics industry.…”
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Optoelectric Properties of GaInP p-i-n Solar Cells with Different i-Layer Thicknesses by Tsung-Shine Ko, Der-Yuh Lin, You-Chi He, Chen-Chia Kao, Bo-Yuan Hu, Ray-Hua Horng, Fan-Lei Wu, Chih-Hung Wu, Yu-Li Tsai

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Detection of abortifacient agents in domestic ruminants, with a specific focus on Coxiella burnetii [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Susan Neale, René van den Brom, Anneleen Matthijs, Elsa Jourdain, Elodie Rousset, Marcella Mori, Tom N. McNeilly, Katja Mertens-Scholz, Ana Hurtado

“…They include a description of the essential and complementary samples needed for a definitive diagnosis, the analytical techniques to be used, and the interpretation and validity of each type of sample and technique. …”
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Effects of Soil Properties and Slope Angle on Deformation and Stability of Cut Slopes by Behailu G. Habtemariam, Kelifa B. Shirago, Democracy D. Dirate

“…The impact of soil parameters and slope angle on the deformation and stability of cut slopes is critical for defining road project safety measurement. This study investigates the effect of soil properties and slope angle on the deformation and stability of cut slopes in general and the specific Arba Minch-Chencha upgrading road project. …”
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SmellyCode++: Multi-Label Dataset for Code Smell Detection by Nawaf Alomari, Amal Alazba, Hamoud Aljamaan, Mohammad Alshayeb

“…Objective: This paper develops a multi-label dataset for code smell detection, integrating textual features and numerical metrics from open-source Java projects. Method: We collected code from 103 Java projects, parsed it into Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs), extracted features, and annotated samples based on prior studies. …”
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Selected aspects of perceptions of critical thinking among Polish and Czech primary school principals by Sławomir Śliwa

“…'Key competences in teaching and education' project was implemented under the Praděd Microprojects Fund. …”
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The Effect of Western Architecture on Losing Local Architecture Identity by Wrya Sabir Abdullah1,a,*

“…This paper studies local architecture identity in Erbil and Sulaimaniyah cities showing how local architecture has distorted during contemporary architecture developments especially within the contemporary investment Residential projects. This study adopted a comparative qualitative methodology that makes comparison between traditional urban and architectural samples in both cities with samples that have been design after 2003 to show how western architecture has influenced local architecture identity. …”
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Checking Mehr housing development policies in the framework of infill development from View residents Mehr housing of Mahabad city by yousouf Bahrami, ghaderymotlagh iraj, behroz oftadeh, sid ali hosieni

“…The present study aimed to assess the conformity of Mehr housing projects by Infill development pattern to answer this question: What is the relationship between Mehr housing project in the city of Mahabad with Infill development and with its spatial conditions of the city. …”
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La création in situ sert-elle vraiment le rayonnement des espaces périphériques ? by Sylvain Guyot, Grégoire Le Campion, Olivier Pissoat

“…A total of 2,646 original site-specific works/projects were referenced from a sample of approximately one-third of the artistic venues. …”
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Correlation study some dynamic properties with density, point load Index and Uniaxial compressive strength of some units of Mukdadya (lowerBakhtiari) Formation by Burkan S. Othman, Dahir K. ALI

“…The mathematical relations showed a good correlation coefficient between the dynamic and geotechnical properties of the rock samples, that confident relations could use to estimate the geotechnical properies in the field by measuring sciesmic wave velocities in any future engineering projects. …”
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Neglecting future sporadic volcanic eruptions underestimates climate uncertainty by Man Mei Chim, Thomas J. Aubry, Chris Smith, Anja Schmidt

“…Abstract Most climate projections represent volcanic eruptions as a prescribed constant forcing based on a historical average, which prevents a full quantification of uncertainties in climate projections. …”
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Assessment of genetic diversity among seed transfer zones for multiple grassland plant species across Germany by Walter Durka, Stefan G. Michalski, Johannes Höfner, Anna Bucharova, Filip Kolář, Christina M. Müller, Christoph Oberprieler, Kristýna Šemberová, Markus Bauer, Matthias Bernt, Walter Bleeker, Stefan Brändel, Solveig Franziska Bucher, Pia Maria Eibes, Michael Ewald, Ronny Goldberg, Kerstin Grant, Sylvia Haider, Alexander Harpke, Friedhelm Haun, Rico Kaufmann, Lotte Korell, Dierk Kunzmann, Daniel Lauterbach, Simon Leib, Nikola Lenzewski, Holger Loritz, Anna-Maria Madaj, Ann Kareen Mainz, Philipp Meinecke, Hanna Mertens, Maren H. Meyer, Martin Musche, Michael Ristow, Christoph Rosche, Christiane Roscher, Daniel Rutte, Annemarie Schacherer, Wolfgang Schmidt, Joraine Schmoldt, Simone Schneider, Jan-Hinnerk Schwarz, Sandra Skowronek, Stephanie A. Socher, Nils Stanik, Alina Twerski, Karin Weiß, Martin Weiß, Alexander Wille, Andreas Zehm, Christian Zidorn

“…Here we describe the driving principles and main methods of the project. A total of 33 species were collected at an average density of ∼1 sample/1000 km2 across the 22 existing STZs, and a total of 11,976 samples were genotyped with SNP markers. …”
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Energy-efficient recognition of human activity in body sensor networks via compressed classification by Ling Xiao, Renfa Li, Juan Luo, Zhu Xiao

“…Random projection as a data compression tool is individually implemented on each sensor node to reduce the amount of data for transmission. …”
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Where is Delftia? Implementing citizen science into the biotechnology and environmental science curriculum by Porché L. Spence, Carlos Goller, Noah Riley, Daiza Norman, Zakiya Leggett

“…Undergraduate students enrolled in ES100 and BIOL2700 collected samples from various locations as part of a class assignment. …”
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Investigation of Implantation-Induced Damage in Indium Phosphide for Layer Transfer Applications by U. Dadwal, V. Pareek, R. Scholz, M. Reiche, S. Chandra, R. Singh

“…The surface morphology of the as-implanted InP samples was studied by optical microscopy. The implantation-induced damage was investigated by cross-sectional TEM, which revealed the formation of damage band in both cases near to the projected range of implanted ions. …”
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