A SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY APPROACH TO IMPROVING THE SUPPLY CHAIN OF A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN GAUTENG PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA by Lewis Tsuro, Stan Hardman

“… The Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) was developed as a set of tools for identifying and making incremental steps to improve situations with poorly defined causes or solutions. The supply chain forms a key process of any construction project; however, on any given construction site, supply chain inefficiencies could arise from many different avenues. …”
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The Iconography of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: The Symbolic Means in Visual and Design Culture by Arun Mascarenhas

“…Ambedkar’s impact on society, particularly formerly untouchable communities, has been a focal point in understanding the dynamics of caste, politics, and community life in India. …”
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Assessment of Environmental Hazards and Vulnerability of The Rud–E-Shur, Rud-E-Shirin and Rud-E-Minab International Wetland Using the DPSIR Model by Hengameh Safa Eisini, Saber Ghasemi, Afshin Danehkar, Mohsen Dehghani Ghanateghestani, Hossein Parvaresh

“…These forests are valueable due to the having sensitive biophysical resources, breeding important and biodiversity. …”
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Data Verification of Logical Pk-Anonymization with Big Data Application and Key Generation in Cloud Computing by Sindhe Phani Kumar, R. Anandan

“…Cloud-based informational indexes are used in the proposed framework, which is effective at handling large amounts of data through MapReduce; a parallel data preparation form is obtained; to get all information as new facts that joins after a while, information anonymization techniques to carry out each protection and immoderate information utilization while updating take place; information loss and clean time is reduced for substantial amounts of data. …”
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Effects of CuCl𝟐 on the Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Behavior in Nonaqueous and Aqueous Medium by Ravi K. Shukla, K. K. Raina

“…The material parameters corresponding to these ternary nonaqueous and aqueous mixtures were evaluated to understand the mechanisms of deriving forces responsible for the modification of mesophases in the presence of metal salt.…”
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Unexpected scarcity of ANME archaea in hydrocarbon seeps within Monterey Bay by A. C. Semler, A. E. Dekas

“…However, we observed atypical microbial communities: extremely few ANME sequences were detected in either 16S rRNA or <i>mcrA</i> gene surveys at Clam Field (<span class="inline-formula">&lt;</span> 0.1 % of total community reads), even after 6 months of incubation with methane in the laboratory, and only slightly more ANME sequences were recovered from Extrovert Cliff (<span class="inline-formula">&lt;</span> 0.3 % of total community reads). …”
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Importer et diffuser la littérature scientifique européenne en Géorgie dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle : le discours de vulgarisation de la presse géorgienne by Tamara Svanidzé

“…It analyzes the principal mechanisms that allow the flow of ideas in this field, such as the elaboration of a new terminology, the establishment of selection criteria for foreign texts, and development of the discursive strategies facilitating the diffusion of such texts. …”
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Numerical Study of the Aerodynamics of a Hovering Hummingbird’s Wing with Dynamic Morphing by Yuanbo Dong, Bifeng Song, Dong Xue, Yuanbo Li, Wenqing Yang

“…A significant enhancement in aerodynamic forces was found during the downstroke, along with a large number of power consumptions. …”
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Volumetric Denoising of XCT Data Using Quantum Computing by Thomas Lang, Anja Heim, Anastasia Papadaki, Kilian Dremel, Dimitri Prjamkov, Martin Blaimer, Markus Firsching, Stefan Kasperl, Theobald O.J. Fuchs

“…Next, we provide an implementation in form of quantum circuits and consider issues of a practical implementation occurring specifically in 3D. …”
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Numerical Scheme for Finding Roots of Interval-Valued Fuzzy Nonlinear Equation with Application in Optimization by Ahmed Elmoasry, Mudassir Shams, Naveed Yaqoob, Nasreen Kausar, Yaé Ulrich Gaba, Naila Rafiq

“…Some real-life applications are considered from optimization as numerical test problems which contain interval-valued trapezoidal fuzzy quantities in parametric form. Numerical illustrations are given to show the dominance efficiency of the newly constructed iterative schemes as compared to existing methods in literature.…”
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Two novel entomopathogenic fungal species of Lecanicillium isolated from soil in China by Tongyi Liu, Wei Chen, Yanhong Tang, Fen Liu, Liyan Yao, Qiongbo Hu, Ke Zhang, Qunfang Weng

“…The new species are formally named as follows: L. anqingense sp. nov. and L. renii sp. nov., respectively. …”
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Experimental and simulation investigation of ultrasonic elliptical vibration cutting of tungsten alloys in ultra-precision machining by Sen Yin, Wai Sze Yip, Zhigang Dong, Renke Kang, Suet To

“…Finite element modeling (FEM) reveals that ultrasonic vibration can decrease the cutting force to varying degrees and increase the strain rate in the tungsten alloys cutting zone up to 1.8E5 s−1, with the effect of elliptical locus being the most prominent. …”
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N6-methyladenosine methylation regulators can serve as potential biomarkers for endometriosis related infertility by Yalun He, Jie Ding, Tonglin Bai, Yangshuo Li, Xiaolan Liang, Yiming Chen, Yi Lin, Wen Cheng, Chaoqin Yu

“…N6-methyladenosine (m6A) methylation, the most common form of methylation in eukaryotic mRNAs, has gained attention in the study of female reproductive diseases, including EMS and infertility. …”
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Aerosol layer height (ALH) retrievals from oxygen absorption bands: intercomparison and validation among different satellite platforms, GEMS, EPIC, and TROPOMI by H. Kim, H. Kim, X. Chen, X. Chen, J. Wang, J. Wang, J. Wang, J. Wang, Z. Lu, Z. Lu, Z. Lu, M. Zhou, G. R. Carmichael, G. R. Carmichael, S. S. Park, J. Kim

“…The GEMS ALH displays minimal bias (0.1 km) but a slightly lower correlation (<span class="inline-formula"><i>R</i></span> <span class="inline-formula">=</span> 0.64). …”
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Surgical Treatment for Recurrent Refractory Skenitis by E. P. Miranda, D. C. Almeida, G. P. Ribeiro, J. M. Parente, A. G. Scafuri

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Unlocking the full potential of resistance training: a comparative analysis of low- and high-intensity effects on neurotrophic growth factors and homocysteine by Chongwen Zuo, Yi Yin, Zhiyang Zheng, Ren Mu, Yuxin Liang, Shan Wang, Chaoqun Ye

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Teaching a neural network modeling socio-economic development of the region by S. V. Romanchukov, O. G. Berestneva, L. A. Petrova

“…The article is devoted to the formation of an array of data for the construction of an artificial neural network, designed to search for relationships between social and economic parameters of the development of regions of the Russian Federation. …”
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Genotypic Profiling of Bacillus cereus Recovered from Some Retail Foods in Ogun State, Nigeria, and Their Phylogenetic Relationship by Titilayo O. Adesetan, Moses O. Efuntoye, Olubukola O. Babalola

“…By comparing the phylogenetic relationship, eleven of the strains did not cluster with the reference strains from the GenBank but form distinct clades, which means they are likely to be of different ancestors. …”
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Extending Ginkgo to Manage Reconfigurable Hardware-Based Kernels by Alejandro Morales-Peña, Esteban Meneses

“…We generated 3 FPGA-based kernels for the CSR, SELLP, and SELL SpMV formats, and obtained speedups of at least 10x concerning CPU-based kernels. …”
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Immersivity: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Spaces of Immersion by Florian Freitag, Céline Molter, Laura Katharina Mücke, Helena Rapp, Damien B. Schlarb, Elisabeth Sommerlad, Clemens Spahr, Dominic Zerhoch

“…This article proposes to shift the scholarly focus from the conceptually, terminologically, and methodologically fuzzy notion of “immersion” to the concept of “immersivity,” and thus from a discussion of experiences to an analysis of the productive forces that enable such experiences (aesthetic and otherwise). …”
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