A 30 años de Ouro Preto. En busca de una respuesta contemporánea a la inserción internacional de la región by Marcel Vaillant

“…Se proponen diferentes caminos para lograr un formato regional que sea posible de ser aplicado y que supere el negativo estatus quo.…”
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Observed Performance and FEM-Based Parametric Analysis of a Top-Down Deep Excavation in Soil-Rock Composite Stratum by Gang Lei, Panpan Guo, Fucai Hua, Xiaonan Gong, Lina Luo

“…Two-dimensional finite element simulations were carried out to further explore the deformation and internal force responses of end-suspended piles and to capture the effects of pile diameter, embedded depth, and rock-socketed depth on the horizontal displacement and bending moment distributions along the pile shaft. …”
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THE IMPACT OF VIRTUAL REALITY ON SELF-ACTUALIZATION OF TEENAGERS: ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIMENSION by S. V. Storozhuk, Y. N. Goyan

“…Mechanization and computerization of modern society causes dramatic changes in the forms and methods of teaching. Their uniqueness lies in bringing computer technology and the Internet for education, causing formation of extreme polar social assessments of their impact on the harmonious development of children and adolescents, on possibility of self-actualization of natural potentials of teenagers whose minds are often on the brink of real and virtual worlds. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE CONSTRAINT EFFECT AND CREEP CRACK INITIATION TIME FOR STRUCTURE WITH ЕMBEDDED CRACKS by LI YuPeng, LI WenPeng, LI DingHe, WU DongQuan, WANG YuFeng, ZHENG YuXiang

“…Besides, for the creep crack initiation times, the structure with a larger <italic>a</italic>/<italic>t</italic> or <italic>a</italic>/<italic>c</italic> or loadings would accompany high crack driving force under creep condition, which could cause a shorter period to creep cracking initiation, as well as a smaller creep crack initiation time. …”
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Thompson Sampling for Non-Stationary Bandit Problems by Han Qi, Fei Guo, Li Zhu

“…We show that the regret upper bounds of both algorithms are <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mover accent="true"><mi>O</mi><mo stretchy="false">~</mo></mover><mrow><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><msqrt><mrow><mi>T</mi><msub><mi>B</mi><mi>T</mi></msub></mrow></msqrt><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, where <i>T</i> is the time horizon and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mi>B</mi><mi>T</mi></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> is the number of breakpoints. …”
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Weakened Effective Connectivity Related to Electroacupuncture in Stroke Patients with Prolonged Flaccid Paralysis: An EEG Pilot Study by Yi-Fang Lin, Xin-Hua Liu, Zheng-Yu Cui, Zuo-Ting Song, Fei Zou, Shu-Geng Chen, Xiao-Yang Kang, Bin Ye, Qiang Wang, Jing Tian, Jie Jia

“…These findings may help us to modulate the formulation of electroacupuncture treatment according to different durations of the flaccid upper extremity.…”
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Artificial-Intelligence-Based Investigation on Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Changes in Response to Population Growth in South Punjab, Pakistan by Tanweer Abbas, Muhammad Shoaib, Raffaele Albano, Muhammad Azhar Inam Baig, Irfan Ali, Hafiz Umar Farid, Muhammad Usman Ali

“…Landsat 7, Landsat 8, and Sentinel-2 satellite imagery within the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud platform was utilized to create 2003, 2013, and 2023 LULC maps via supervised classification with a random forest (RF) classifier, which is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI). …”
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PRC’s Public Diplomacy Practice in Central Asia: Current Situation, Challenges and Prospects by Yufei Wang

“…The second section identifies the reasons for mainstreaming public diplomacy agenda in China’s foreign policy towards the Central Asian countries in recent years. …”
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An Analysis of Meteorological Anomalies in Kamchatka in Connection with the Seismic Process by Alexey Lyubushin, Galina Kopylova, Eugeny Rodionov, Yulia Serafimova

“…Time series are subjected to Huang decomposition into sequences of levels of empirical oscillation modes (intrinsic mode functions—IMFs), forming a set of orthogonal components with decreasing average frequency. …”
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The Effects of Polyphenols on Texture and Flavor of Egg Yolk: A Molecular Docking Study by Tingting Tang, Ruyi Zhang, Cuihua Chang, Junhua Li, Luping Gu, Yanjun Yang, Yujie Su

“…This improvement could be attributed to hydrophobic interactions, hydrogen bonds and ionic bonds formed between polyphenols and egg yolk proteins. …”
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Colour Removal from Dye Wastewater Using Sugar Cane Dust as an Adsorbent by S.D. Khattri, M.K. Singh

“…The equilibrium data obey the requirements of the Langmuir adsorption model, demonstrating the formation of a monolayer of dye molecules on the outer surface of the adsorbent. …”
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Pure Sociology: Subjectivity at Risk? by James J. Chriss

“…In this paper I analyze antisubjectivism in sociology in the form of Donald Black’s “pure sociology,” as well as the antihumanist network theory of Stephan Fuchs. …”
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Supervisory written feedback in ELT practicum: exploring content, linguistic features, and perceptions of preservice teachers by Safaa M. Abdelhalim, Asma Abdullah Alsahil

“…Additionally, we underscore the influence of observation instruments, emphasizing the value of less structured forms for reflective exchanges in supervisory written feedback.…”
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Clinical Outcomes in Diabetic Females Presenting with STEMI: A Cohort Study by Anjana Ajith Beena, Priya Shanmukhan, Veena Felix, Alummoottil George Koshy, Kunjukrishnapilla Sivaprasad

“…Studies have rarely addressed the differences in the course of myocardial infarction in diabetic females and this underrepresentation has influenced the formulation of guidelines. Aim: To evaluate the in-hospital composite outcomes of death, non fatal myocardial infarction, emergency revascularisation, heart failure and cerebrovascular accident in diabetic women presenting with ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI), as well as the individual in-hospital outcomes and outcomes at one and three months follow-up. …”
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The Electrochemical Variation of a Kind of Protein Staining and Food Dye as a New Corrosion Inhibitor on Mild Steel in Acidic Medium by Demet Özkır

“…With surface characteristic analyses, such as field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) and atomic force microscope (AFM), it was further determined that the metal surface in HCl of FG-FCF was protected. …”
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Impact of SARS-CoV-2 on Ambient Air Particulate Matter in Tehran by Sasan Faridi, Fatemeh Yousefian, Sadegh Niazi, Mohammad Rezvani Ghalhari, Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand, Kazem Naddafi

“…Contrary to expectation, the average concentrations of both the PM2.5 and the PM10 were markedly higher during the former, increasing by 20.5% and 15.7%, respectively, for the first month of the outbreak (20 February–19 March 2020) and by 23.5% and 20.0% for the subsequent Nowruz New Year holidays (from late March till early April), which resulted in overall increases of 20.5% and 16.5% for the entire period. …”
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Ağır Hizmet Araçlarının Gürültü Kalkanı Parçasının Akustik ve Mekanik Dayanım Performansının İncelenmesi by Sena Arslan, Merve Çalışkan Akduman, Dilara Çay, İbrahim Aydın, Öznur İskender

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Phase-Only Antenna Array Reconfigurability with Gaussian-Shaped Nulls for 5G Applications by Giulia Buttazzoni, Massimiliano Comisso, Federico Ruzzier, Roberto Vescovo

“…The proposed algorithm, which is based on the method of successive projections, relies on closed-form expressions for both the projectors and the null positions, thus allowing a fast computation of the excitation phases at each iteration. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF ACCREDITATION IN RUSSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION: HISTORY AND FUTURE by Vladimir G. Navodnov, Galina N. Motova

“…The authors argue that socio-economic and demographic conditions determined the specific features of modernization in the structure of higher education and the development of the Russian model of accreditation in the form of institutional evaluation. The reasons for establishing two types of accreditation - state and public-professional - are pointed out. …”
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Overcoming immunosuppression in cancer: how ketogenic diets boost immune checkpoint blockade by Victoria E. Stefan, Daniela D. Weber, Roland Lang, Barbara Kofler

“…Abstract Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) is now part of the standard of care in the treatment of many forms of cancer, yet it lacks efficacy in some patients, necessitating adjunct therapies to support the anti-tumor immune response. …”
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