Modeling Public Opinion Over Time and Space: Trust in State Institutions in Europe, 1989-2019 by Marta Kołczyńska, Paul-Christian Bürkner, Lauren Kennedy, Aki Vehtari

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Searching for Minimum in Dependence of Squared Speed-of-Sound on Collision Energy by Fu-Hu Liu, Li-Na Gao, Roy A. Lacey

“…There is a local minimum (knee point) which indicates a softest point in the equation of state (EoS) appearing at about 40A GeV/c (or 8.8 GeV) in cs2 excitation function (the dependence of cs2 on incident beam momentum (or center-of-mass energy)). …”
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Preserving Food: Freezing Fruits by Judy A. Harrison, Elizabeth Andress, Amy Simonne

“…Their texture, however, may be somewhat softer than that of fresh fruit. This document is Fact Sheet FCS 8767, a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Polylactic Acid with Aliphatic-Aromatic Polyester by Katsuyoshi Shinyama

“…In addition, adding PBAT to PLA made the PLA softer and even more so at temperatures above 40°C. …”
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Trophic and Temporal Niche Interactions in Sympatric Populations of Eremobates Palpisetulosus Fichter and E. Mormonus (Roewer) (Solpugida: Eremobatidae) by Fred Punzo

“…Seventy eight percent of the diet of E. palpisetulosus consisted of hard-bodied orthopteran and coleopteran insects, whereas 77% of the diet of E. mormonus consisted of softer-bodied dipteran, heteropteran, and orthopteran insects as well as spiders. …”
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Les fonds souverains : un nouveau mode de régulation du capitalisme financier ? by Bertrand Blancheton, Yves Jégourel

“…Considered to be investors with considerable financial clout, albeit passive and long-term, SWFs have long been seen as a restoring force in financial markets able to soften the impact of the destabilizing speculative strategies practiced by certain institutional operators. …”
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South Africa: the arduous task of facing our religious past by E. Oliver

“… The term ‘rainbow nation’ tends to soften both the intensity and divergence of the complex mixture of origins, languages, ideologies, cultures, lifestyles and skills of the South African society. …”
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Modelling and Simulation of Perturb and Observe MPPT Algorithm Based on The PI Controller for Photovoltaic System by Ahlam Mohamad Shakoor, Hersh Hasan Taha

“…The proposed PV system is composed of a Photovoltaic array, DC to DC boost type converter and an MPPT algorithm using perturb and observe method. 1Soltech 1STH-220-P module type was chosen in this study for the simulation and proposed PV The array consists of 40 rows of PV modules connected in parallel, while each row consists of 10 modules connected in a series. …”
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Open innovation and education by A. O. Karpov

“…The presented paper contemplates the model of innovative interaction between university, highFtech companies and venture enterprises. Being organized in the form of technological expert consortium, this model forms the processes of multilevel promotion of innovative products and paves the way for the fast technologization of knowledge and for bringing the innovative products to the market.…”
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Impact of monetary methods of economic regulation on fair pricing of shares in the Russian stock market by M. V. Kulikov

“…To eliminate the imbalances that have arisen in the financial market, the author suggests that the Central Bank of the Russian Federation implement a softer monetary policy, thus affecting the development of the domestic stock market and increasing the attractiveness of investments in securities of Russian corporations.…”
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Bifurcation Type Change of AC Electrostatically Actuated MEMS Resonators due to DC Bias by Dumitru I. Caruntu, Kyle N. Taylor

“…This paper investigates the nonlinear response of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) cantilever resonator electrostatically actuated by applying a soft alternating current (AC) voltage and an even softer direct current (DC) voltage between the resonators and a parallel fixed ground plate. …”
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Modern Possibilities of Using Lactulose in Clinical Practice by A. A. Sheptulin

“…Officially  permitted indications for its appointment in Russian Federation are functional constipation (including in children, the elderly and senile, pregnant women and women in postpartum period), an obstipation type of irritable bowel syndrome, the need to soften the consistency of feces in hemorrhoids and anal fissures, after operations on the colon and anorectal area,   as well as hepatic encephalopathy.  …”
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Numerical Simulation and Structural Optimization of Combustion Processes in a 750 t/d Waste Incinerator by Lei Zhang, Fei Yang, Li Xu, Shuhui Zhang, Xiaohan Ren

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Forecasting CDS Term Structure Based on Nelson–Siegel Model and Machine Learning by Won Joong Kim, Gunho Jung, Sun-Yong Choi

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“I just want to be the friendly face of national socialism” by Askanius Tina

“…In this manner, the analysis lays bare the strategies through which NRM seeks to soften, trivialise, and normalise neo-Nazi discourse using the power and appeal of culture and entertainment.…”
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Melting features and viscosity of SiO2-CaO-MgO-Al2O3-FeO nickel slag in laterite metallurgy by Pan C., Lv X., Bai C., Liu X., Li D.

“…The results showed that: 1) all the slag samples began to soften at the same temperature; 2) the softening temperature, melting temperature and flowing temperature decreased with the increase of basicity from 0.76 to 0.92, after that, the temperatures would increase sharply. 3) the inflection point temperature of viscosity-temperature curve became larger and larger with the increase of basicity within 0.76 ~ 0.99.…”
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A dynamic model describing heterotrophic culture of chorella and its stability analysis by Yan Zhang, Wanbiao Ma, Hai Yan, Yasuhiro Takeuchi

“…Yan etal, Isolation andheterotrophic culture of Chlorella sp., J. Univ. Sci.Tech. Beijing, 2005, 27:408-412). In this paper, based on thestandard Chemostat models and the experimental data on theheterotrophic culture of Chlorella USTB01, a dynamic modelgoverned by differential equations with three variables (Chlorella, carbon source and nitrogen source) is proposed. …”
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Investigation of foot biomechanics in youth basketball players by Hamza Sinen, Berkay Üzümcü, Yusuf Yaşasın, Görkem Açar, Sinan Seyhan

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Diagenetic Self-Organization and Stochastic Resonance in a Model of Limestone-Marl Sequences by Ivan L’Heureux

“…They are characterized by alternations of limestone-rich layers and softer calcareous-clayey material (marl) extending over hundreds of meters with a thickness of a few tens of meters. …”
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Thermal axion production at hard and soft momenta by Killian Bouzoud, Jacopo Ghiglieri

“…We show how these three schemes extrapolate differently into the regime of softer axion production, thus giving us a first quantitative handle on the theory uncertainty of the rate. …”
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