“Common sense is hard work” but benefits from persistent collaboration: Lessons learnt from the development of The Collaborative Network for European Clinical Trials for Children (... by Sabah Attar, Carla Peacock, Mandy Wan, Erin Halil, Chloe Bickerstaff, Lionel Tan, Hafsah Bhatti, Ricardo M. Fernandes, Regis Hankard, Mark A. Turner

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Experimental and Theoretical Study of Gear Dynamical Transmission Characteristic Considering Measured Manufacturing Errors by Fang Guo, Zongde Fang

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Vehicle Driving Risk Prediction Based on Markov Chain Model by Xiaoxia Xiong, Long Chen, Jun Liang

“…Multinomial Logistic models with recursive feature variable estimation method are developed to improve the traditional state transition probability estimation, which also takes into account the comprehensive effects of driving behavior, traffic, and road environment factors on the evolution of driving risk status. …”
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Performance Characteristics of Silane Silica Modified Asphalt by Xuedong Guo, Mingzhi Sun, Wenting Dai, Shuang Chen

“…Meanwhile it is proved that silane silica has positive effect to improve the mixture of high and low temperature performance, water stability, and aging resistance through a series of road performance tests.…”
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Comparison of the effects of 3 kinds of oils rich in omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on glycolipid metabolism and lipoprotein subfractions by Hechun Liu, Feng Wang, Hui Xia, Da Pan, Ligang Yang, Shaokang Wang, Feng Zhao, Guiju Sun

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Design and Simulation of a Semi–Automatic Paver Block Making Machine. by Wamani, Samuel

“…Paver block placing by hand takes a lot of time and requires experienced labor. …”
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Unexpected Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on the Air Quality in the Metro Atlanta, USA Using Ground-based and Satellite Observations by Guanyu Huang, Reyla Ponder, Amber Bond, Hailey Brim, Akua Temeng, Aaron R. Naeger, Lei Zhu

“…Ground NO2 concentrations have decreased slightly 10.8% and 8.2% over the near-road (NR) and urban ambient (UA) stations, respectively. …”
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Motorcycle tourism: renewed geographies of a marginal tourism practice by Jean Scol

“…Motorcycle tourism is often considered a marginal practice with special habits where taking the road, riding styles and camaraderie play essential roles. …”
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Advancing the understanding of Naegleria fowleri: Global epidemiology, phylogenetic analysis, and strategies to combat a deadly pathogen by Awadh Alanazi, Sonia Younas, Hasan Ejaz, Muharib Alruwaili, Yasir Alruwaili, Bi Bi Zainab Mazhari, Muhammad Atif, Kashaf Junaid

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Decision Process Analysis on Project Priority Strategy: A Case Study of an ICT Design Firm by Vincent F. Yu, Catherine W. Kuo, Ruey Huei Yeh

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Activités artisanales sur la rive droite de la Vesle à Reims/Durocortorum by Émilie Jouhet, Michaël Brunet, Pierre Mathelart, Véronique Matterne

“…However, the demolishing of the most recent layers explains in part why no road or quay level related to this phase was discovered. …”
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Producer Services Openness and the Development of Servitization: The Perspective of Two-Way Openness by Wei Chen, Yinzhong Chen, Yifei Hao, Sili Chen

“…The policy implications of these research conclusions are as follows: firstly, taking co-construction of the “Belt and Road” as a chance to promote the new open pattern; secondly, focusing on expanding the openness of high-end producer services; and thirdly, taking innovation driven development as the guide to increase R&D investment of producer services.…”
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What drives potential accessibility decomposition? Temporal and spatial variability of the impact of infrastructure and population components in France, Spain, and Poland in the ye... by Piotr Rosik, Marcin Mazur, Marcin Stępniak, Tomasz Komornicki, Sławomir Goliszek, Patryk Duma, Paweł Churski

“…It has been shown that periods of very high impact of the development of road infrastructure on improving accessibility are mostly limited to a single decade in each of the countries examined, i.e., in the 1970s in France, the 1990s in Spain and the 2010s in Poland. …”
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Transportation System Vulnerability Assessment considering Environmental Impact by Juanjuan Lin, Wangbing Lin

“…However, transportation infrastructures are highly vulnerable to extreme events. Therefore, identifying the most critical component of the transportation system is among the first priorities of transportation network planners and managers. …”
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Dissociable effects of perceived control on reward-related neural dynamics under risk and ambiguity by Shiting Chen, Menglin Wu, Jianbiao Zhao, Guanglong Liu, Wendeng Yang, Ya Zheng

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Reliable Multihop Broadcast Protocol with a Low-Overhead Link Quality Assessment for ITS Based on VANETs in Highway Scenarios by Alejandro Galaviz-Mosqueda, Salvador Villarreal-Reyes, Hiram Galeana-Zapién, Javier Rubio-Loyola, David H. Covarrubias-Rosales

“…Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have been identified as a key technology to enable intelligent transport systems (ITS), which are aimed to radically improve the safety, comfort, and greenness of the vehicles in the road. However, in order to fully exploit VANETs potential, several issues must be addressed. …”
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Concept, Framework, and Data Model for Geographical Soundscapes by Xiu Lu, Guannan Li, Xiaoqing Song, Liangchen Zhou, Guonian Lv

“…Based on the MPEG-7 data model, this study develops a geographical-MPEG-7 data model which consists of low-, medium-, and high-level feature classes. Taking as an example soundscape data collected on a university road in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, in a real geographical environment, the concept, framework, and data model architecture of the geo-soundscape proposed in this study are demonstrated and described to validate the completeness and feasibility of the proposed model. …”
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Joint exposure to multiple air pollutants and residual cardiovascular risk in hypertension by Yalan Li, Wei Hong, Jingjing Wu, Jie Wang, Shiqi Liu, Hong Yuan, Jingjing Cai, Rujia Miao, Jiangang Wang, Yao Lu

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Le réseau hydraulique à Pompéi (Italie) de l’époque des Samnites à Auguste (fin ive-fin ier s. av. J.-C.) by Federico Giletti

“…With respect to the supply to the archaic city in the early and middle Samnite era, the evidence shows the use and spread across the main urban area of deep artesian wells, designed to intercept and capture the water present in the subsoil of Pompeii’s high ground. In our current state of knowledge, it is possible to identify 28 wells which, though already in use in the Archaic period, were perfectly integrated into the urban organisation of the Samnite city, where they were mainly located in open spaces, at crossroads and along roads. …”
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Evaluation of the needs assessment process of the training courses for the staff of the general sports and youth departments by Shahin Hayati, Haleh Fazel, Lora Chapari

“…A detailed needs assessment plan may take care of the least fragmentation, separation, and disintegration in the organization (Gooldstion, 2019). …”
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