To Read or Not to Read Dickens in the Twenty-First Century: What If He Needed to Be Read Twice?, by Nathalie Jaëck

“…In this respect, Dickens, like his famous fellow literary adventurers, situates himself in a very intense literary period and contributes to creating it by writing ‘in the middle,’ in a still undefined theoretical space, away from Realism, but not yet caught in the Modernist system: they settle in the unstable state of imminence they historically find themselves in, and methodically explore its literary possibilities.…”
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Functionality of a Technical University Teacher: Targets by D. P. Danilaev, N. N. Malivanov

“…The paper points out the balancing problem of the teachers work, and the emerging dissonance among the goals, tasks set for them, and private indicators of their activities effectiveness. …”
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The impact of entrepreneurship, learning organization, organizational flexibility, and customer orientation on service quality: a study among IBII Jakarta lecturers by Ikhsan Ikhsan

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On the largest analytic set for cyclic operators by A. Bourhim

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Tuning initial pH to decrease salt ion transport in saltwater electrolysis by Rachel F. Taylor, Fernan Martinez-Jimenez, Bruce E. Logan

“…At fixed current densities of 10 mA cm−2 and 100 mA cm−2, setting an initial anolyte pH to 0 (rather than using a neutral pH) and catholyte pH of 14 achieved the goal of predominantly transporting water ions across the membrane, thereby accomplishing a substantial reduction in nitrate (substituting for chloride) ion transport. …”
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Emotional Competence as a Positive Youth Development Construct: A Conceptual Review by Patrick S. Y. Lau, Florence K. Y. Wu

“…In the discussion of theories of emotional competence, the functionalist and developmental perspectives and the relationships with positive youth development are highlighted. …”
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Time-Dependent Reliability Analysis of RC Deep Beams considering Linear/Nonlinear Creep and Shrinkage Using ANFIS Network and MCS by Seyed Bahram Beheshti Aval, Mohsen Ghabdian

“…In the nonlinear range, creep was taken into account by the affinity hypothesis theorem to consider the effect of high-level sustained loading. …”
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Novel design of drug delivery in stented arteries:A numerical comparative study by Mario Grassi, Giuseppe Pontrelli, Luciano Teresi, Gabriele Grassi, Lorenzo Comel, Alessio Ferluga, Luigi Galasso

“…Implantation of drug eluting stents following percutaneoustransluminal angioplasty has revealed a well establishedtechnique for treating occlusions caused bythe atherosclerotic plaque.However, due to the risk of vascular re-occlusion,other alternative therapeutic strategiesof drug delivery are currently being investigated.Polymeric endoluminal pave stenting is an emerging technologyfor preventing blood erosion and for optimizing drug release.The classical and novel methodologies are compared througha mathematical model able to predict the evolution ofthe drug concentration in a cross-section of the wall.Though limited to an idealized configuration, the presentmodel is shown to catch most of the relevant aspects ofthe drug dynamics in a delivery system.Results of numerical simulations shows that a bi-layer gel paved stenting guarantees a uniform drug elution anda prolonged perfusionof the tissues, and remains a promising and effective techniquein drug delivery.…”
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Effect of MnOx/α-Fe2O3 Prepared from Goethite on Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO with NH3 by Huimin Zhou, Lili Qian, Ting Cheng, Bo Du, Fengjie Xia, Chengzhu Zhu

“…A low-cost goethite and manganese acetate were used to prepare a MnOx/α-Fe2O3 composite catalyst by simple impregnation method for novel high-efficiency selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NO with NH3, and its denitration performance of composite catalyst under different conditions was investigated in a thermal fixed-bed catalytic reaction system. The results showed that MnOx/α-Fe2O3 with Mn/Fe molar ratio of 0.1 and calcination temperature of 400 °C had the best low-temperature catalytic activity and wider reaction temperature window compared with α-Fe2O3. …”
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Seismic performance evaluation of the Central Laboratory Universitas Andalas building with expansion joints by Fauzan, Aryo Agista Geby, Al Jauhari Zev

“…It prevents contact between them (pounding) during any seismic event, allowing the building to be declared safe during an earthquake. …”
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Microenvironment-confined kinetic elucidation and implementation of a DNA nano-phage with a shielded internal computing layer by Decui Tang, Shuoyao He, Yani Yang, Yuqi Zeng, Mengyi Xiong, Ding Ding, Weijun Wei, Yifan Lyu, Xiao-Bing Zhang, Weihong Tan

“…We explain the contradiction between fast molecular diffusion and effective DNA computation using a “diffusion trap” theory and comprehensively overcome the kinetic bottleneck of DNP by determining the rate-limiting step. …”
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THE SEMANTIC PROSODY ANALYSIS OF ‘INCREASE’ IN COVID-19: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY by Anis Sulalah

“…The data are collected using a corpus-based approach, Covid-19 corpora, and the data analysis using semantic prosody based on Stubbs's (1998) theory. The result of the data showed that word increase in Covid-19 corpora have negative meaning if it is collocated with several word such as risk, rate, levels, number, significantly and associated and followed by negative word but it will have positive meaning if it is located with word expression. …”
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Seroprevalence characteristics of hepatitis E virus among blood donors infected with hepatitis B virus by YU Qin, XU Tingting, YANG Hao, ZHAO Lei

“…The prevalence of anti-HEV IgG and IgM antibody in the HBV group were 34.63% and 1.11%, respectively. Among them, the prevalence of anti-HEV IgG and anti-HEV IgM in the HBV group was 34.63% and 0, respectively (P<0.05), while in the OBI donors, they were 41.55% and 2.82%, respectively. …”
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Las dinámicas de clasificación y exposición de las colecciones etnográficas en el Museo Etnológico de Berlín a través de algunos ejemplos americanos by Margarita Valdovinos

“…As it will be shown with some examples of the American collections, it is the interaction between the theoretical propositions and the economic, social and politic circumstances that determined the order and the reorganization of the Berliner ethnographic collections.…”
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Effects of exercise training on the nigrostriatal glutamatergic pathway and receptor interactions in Parkinson’s disease: a systematic review by Shahid Ishaq, Iqbal Ali Shah, Shin-Da Lee, Shin-Da Lee, Bor-Tsang Wu

“…Exercise training is one of the non-pharmacological, non-invasive therapeutic approaches.ObjectiveThis systematic review is the first to summarize the effects of exercise training on the regulation of protein and gene expressions within the nigrostriatal glutamatergic pathway and its receptor interactions in animal models of Parkinson’s disease (PD).MethodologyThe PubMed, Web of Science, and Embase electronic databases were searched, and 9 out of 96 studies that met the PRISMA guidelines were included. …”
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Statistical Analysis of Joint Type-I Generalized Hybrid Censoring Data from Burr XII Lifetime Distributions by Mahmoud Ragab, Aisha Fayomi, Ali Algarni, G. A. Abd-Elmougod, Neveen Sayed-Ahmed, S. M. Abo-Dahab, S. Abdel-Khalek

“…The observed censoring data are used under maximum likelihood and the Bayes method to estimate the model parameters. The theoretical results are discussed and assessed through data analysis and Monte Carlo simulation study. …”
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Molecular Structure and Electronic Properties of Porphyrin-Thiophene-Perylene Using Quantum Chemical Calculation by Tatiya Chokbunpiam, Patchanita Thamyongkit, Oraphan Saengsawang, Supot Hannongbua

“…The results from the method validation revealed that using the density functional theory approach at B3LYP/6–31G(d) data set was the optimal one, considering the accuracy attained and maintaining the computer time required within tractable limits. …”
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Well-Posedness and Numerical Study for Solutions of a Parabolic Equation with Variable-Exponent Nonlinearities by Jamal H. Al-Smail, Salim A. Messaoudi, Ala A. Talahmeh

“…By using a nonlinear operator theory, we prove the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions under suitable assumptions. …”
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Analysis of slope stability to determine the causes of collapse the primary canal in the North-Raman irrigation-area, Central Lampung by Kastamto, Fitri Arniza, Mera Mas, Zain Alfath, Susarman, Dewantoro Fajar

“…A high void ratio can cause water infiltration into the soil, thereby reducing soil stability and bearing capacity.…”
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Complex Structure around a Circumstellar Disk Caused by Interchange Instability by Masahiro N. Machida, Shantanu Basu

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