CANDU Safety R&D Status, Challenges, and Prospects in Canada by W. Shen, F. Doyle

“…In Canada, safe operation of CANDU (CANada Deuterium Uranium; it is a registered trademark of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited) reactors is supported by a full-scope program of nuclear safety research and development (R&D) in key technical areas. …”
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Modeling of Information Diffusion in Twitter-Like Social Networks under Information Overload by Pei Li, Wei Li, Hui Wang, Xin Zhang

“…Users are classified into different types according to their in-degrees and out-degrees, and user behaviors are generalized into two categories: generating and forwarding. View scope is introduced to model the user information-processing capability under information overload, and the average number of times a message appears in view scopes after it is generated by a given type user is adopted to characterize the information diffusion efficiency, which is calculated theoretically. …”
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Protein Precipitation by Metal Hydroxides as a Convenient and Alternative Sample Preparation Procedure for Bioanalysis by Emanuele Salina, Luca Regazzoni

“…Organic solvents and acidic chemicals are the two most popular reagents used for this scope. Organic solvents are quite effective precipitating agents, but require a medium-to-large sample dilution. …”
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The Homosexual Exception? The Case of the Labouchère Amendment by William Fize

“…Indeed, while before it was passed, only sodomy had been a criminal offence, this amendment extended the scope of the criminal law by making a misdemeanour ‘the commission of or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of any act of gross indecency with another male person’. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Drones and Riders in On-Demand Meal Delivery Based on Prospect Theory by Hong Jiang, Xinhui Ren

“…Moreover, research has proven that drone delivery will help expand the scope of instant delivery, and the rational layout of drone airports and strengthening of consumer awareness and friendliness towards drone delivery will also help promote the development of drone delivery.…”
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L’insécurité foncière dans et autour des Aires Protégées de Madagascar : un obstacle à surmonter pour la conservation de la biodiversité et le développement rural by Sigrid Aubert, Saholy Rambintsaotra, Jules Razafiarijaona

“…In this context, “land within the scope of legislation relevant to protected areas” and “land requiring the enforcement of applicable official conventions pertaining to legislation concerning natural resource management” must be subject to a specific land-tenure regulation (article 38 from law 2005-019 of 17th October, 2005 which fixes the principles governing the different land-related statutes of Madagascar). …”
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Concave Pattern of a Maximal Expiratory Flow-Volume Curve: A Sign of Airflow Limitation in Adult Bronchial Asthma by Akihiko Ohwada, Kazuhisa Takahashi

“…We evaluated spirometric parameters, the MEFV curve, and its concave shape (scoop between the peak and endpoint of expiration) in 27 nonsmoking asthmatic patients with physician-confirmed wheeze and positive bronchial reversibility after a short-acting β2-agonist inhalation. …”
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Gene Therapy: A step toward advanced orthodontics – A narrative review by Monika Shukla, Shalu Jain, C. Munish Reddy, Pradeep Raghav, Kumar Amit, Rinchin Yangzom, Shivika Garg, Aastha Kamrani

“…Aim: This narrative review was conducted to understand the role of gene therapy for various orthodontic procedures and its future scope. Methods: Research publications were searched on search engines such as Scopus, PubMed, and Google Scholar, and articles with terms such as “gene therapy, orthodontic tooth movement (OTM), condylar growth, and bone repair” were collected. …”
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Dynamic Investigation in Green Supply Chain considering Channel Service by Qiuxiang Li, Mengmeng Li, Yimin Huang

“…The conclusions are as follows: the stable scope of the green supply chain system enlarges with decision makers’ risk-aversion level increasing and decreases with service value increasing; excessive adjustment of price parameters will make the green supply chain system fall into chaos with a large entropy value; the attraction domain of initial prices shrinks with price adjustment speed increasing and enlarges with the channel service values raising. …”
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Reading John 11:1-45 from a post-normal times perspective by J. Thomaskutty

“…The study elaborates on the speed with which the narrative evelops from John 11:1-45; the scope of the story that extends from the local Bethany to universal realities; the scale of the story, as it changes directly between both the local and global situations, and the simultaneity of the event, as it initiates multiple interactions within the macronarrative framework. …”
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Measuring Scientific Process Skills with Different Test Formats: A Research from the Perspective of Cognitive Styles by Sema Aydin-Ceran, Salih Ates

“…However, it was concluded that there was no significant difference between mean scores of students in the fielddependent and field-independent cognitive style in both open-ended and performance-based SPS tests. Within the scope of the research, possible factors causing this result such as the difference of students' cognitive style tendencies, the test format used to measure scientific process skills, or the structure of the measured scientific process skills were discussed.…”
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Natural beauty of modern art philosophy: evaluation of the art form of sport ice and snow sculpture in landscape architecture by Jiahao Chen, Jiaxuan Chen, Liquan Chen

“…Research has shown that the understanding of natural beauty, by modern art philosophy, has gone beyond the scope of traditional aesthetics and is more concerned with the interaction between nature and humans. …”
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Review of the Book “Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power” by Rasoul Afzali, Mohammad zohdi Gohar, Akbar Valizadeh

“…Agnew attacks the government so severe that the audience think government does not have any role in economy outside the scope of the community and the social forces. Therefore, how we can accept that the hegemony establishment by the most powerful government in the second half of the twentieth century, that is the USA, has been a non-governmental process leaves the audience with no answer.…”
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Perception of Ayurveda Postgraduates to the Introduction of Formative Assessment by Vaishali Kuchewar, Shweta Parwe

“…It predominantly assesses the cognitive part and no scope to improve their clinical skills. In view of it, this study was planned to conduct formative assessment for postgraduate students with the help of Mini-CEX and DOPS and to seek their perception. …”
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Percorsi culturali e patrimonio religioso: Multi-dinamica di una categoria trasversale in un contesto turistico by Isabelle Brianso

“…Queste comunità di attori operano in un contesto turistico attraverso dinamiche di rete grazie a strumenti partecipativi, socio-tecnologici e digitali con lo scopo di costruire la loro identità culturale, visiva ed europea. …”
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Socio-Legal Strategies against a Total Abortion Ban in El Salvador: Alliances in Hostile Contexts by María Angélica Peñas Defago, Violeta Cánaves

“…The paper depicts a concrete example of how networks centered on abortion struggles can go beyond feminist movements and national borders, and shows the domestic impact of broadening the scope of the audience, the actors involved, and the spheres where abortion law discussions take place. …”
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Forecasting slipform labor productivity in the construction of reinforced concrete chimneys by Şahin Tolga Güvel

“…The aim of this study is to identify the factors that influence productivity in the construction of reinforced concrete chimney (RCC) and to develop a predictive model for forecasting slipform labor productivity in RCC projects. In this scope, 73 “daily site reports” from two RCC constructions were utilized to calculate the slipform labor productivity. …”
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Quorum Systems towards an Asynchronous Communication in Cognitive Radio Networks by Sylwia Romaszko, Petri Mähönen

“…Quorum systems were originally developed for and widely used in the scope of operating systems. Recently, quorum systems have been also started to be applied to wireless communications. …”
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Modern Diplomacy and the Changing Nature of International Politics in the 21st Century by Marc E. Oosthuizen

“…[i] This intricacy is because the post-Cold War international era requires diplomacy to move from being foremost about high politics such as security, military and geopolitical issues to incorporating a wider and growing scope of issues outside of a state’s national borders like migration, gender, global warming, desertification and diseases. …”
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Compositional analysis of interrogative imperatives in Hungarian by Judit Kleiber, Gábor Alberti

“…We intend to explore the scope of the hypothesis that the pragmatico-semantic content of mixed-type sentences can be obtained compositionally. …”
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