Plane Frame Structures: Optimization and Design Solutions Clustering by Joana S. D. Gaspar, Maria A. R. Loja, Joaquim I. Barbosa

“…This work aims to constitute a framework dataflow based on the prediction, optimization, and characterization of optimal solutions. …”
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La transparence et l’obstacle. Analytique du contrôle aux checkpoints dans l’Irak post-Saddam by Juliette Duclos-Valois

“…This article explores the widening gap between the official function of checkpoints and their operational reality. …”
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Knowledge-Qua in Groups by Jesper Kallestrup

“…Finally, we elaborate on the societal function of knowledge-qua, as well as the different epistemic assessments that arise, depending on whether the role or its occupant is considered.…”
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Toll-Like Receptors, Tissue Injury, and Tumourigenesis by Savvas Ioannou, Michael Voulgarelis

“…Several studies have shown that TLRs, and their intracellular signalling components, constitute an important cellular pathway mediating the inflammatory process. …”
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Krucha obecność. Wokół florystyczno-werbalnej notatki z Książki pamiątek Cypriana Norwida by Elżbieta Dąbrowicz-Płachecka

“…This form of expression, composed of small leaves and words, can be interpreted in the context of the romantic culture of memory, but it also constitutes a case of self-communication (according to the definition by Juriy Lotman) in a unique situation, only retrospectively equipped with the function of commemoration. …”
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Technical and scientific terms in poetry translation: The tensions of an 'anti-poetical' textual feature by Feng Wang, Kelly Washbourne

“…Technicisms in poetry constitute a close relative to allusions but can be functionally different, as technicisms may or may not have allusive force. …”
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In-determinism in Susanne Langer’s Philosophical Concept of Feeling and Eastern Thinking Tradition by Agáta Košičanová

“…The submitted study aims to open a possible untraditional vista for comprehension of, first and foremost, a communicative function of art employing non-reductive comprehension of its nature. …”
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Mimesis - między udawaniem a referencją by Zofia Mitosek

“…All these processes lead to the questioning of mimesis as a palpable property in the structure of the text, stressing the reader's and the reading's role in the constitution of the mimetic effect.</span>…”
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Comprendre le processus de production de la santé au travail. La situation des salariés sourds et malentendants by Sophie Dalle-Nazébi, Audrey Sitbon

“…We demonstrate that to perform their function, disabled employees are in the habit of negotiating a particular work organisation for themselves even as they readjust the modalities of their efforts to cooperate and access information. …”
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Insurance of local government budgetary units by Piotr Mikuszewski

“…This is a role of an insurance program implemented as part of a modern insurance policy, including by local government units and their budgetary entities. The primary function of the compensation is to provide restitution, which means a restoration of assets to their pre-damage state. …”
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Incorporating Transverse Normal Strain in the Homogenization of Corrugated Cardboards by Shao-Keng Liang, Zhi-Wei Wang

“…To address this limitation, the present work proposes an improved plate element designed by expanding the deflection function to the quadratic term of the thickness coordinate, enabling a linearly varied transverse normal strain. …”
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“Gente-grande”: denúncia da pequenez dos adultos by Juracy Assmann Saraiva, Ernani Mügge

“…Thus, the short story written by Domingos Pellegrini executes the forming function of art, since it acts on the reader, drawing his/her attention to human dramas, particularly those of children.…”
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Comment interpréter une revue ? Quelques pistes de lecture by Francis Mus

“…Concretely, I will focus on the complex notion of believe, which functions as binder and holds the network together. …”
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Rating approach to complex evaluation of investment attractiveness of coal mining enterprises by Ihor Hryshko

“…The research work has resulted in determination and specification of the content and constitutive elements of an investment process, the basic approaches in determination of investment attractiveness as well as methods of its evaluation.  …”
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Thermodynamically Consistent Evolution Equations in Continuum Mechanics by Angelo Morro

“…Firstly, the (non-negative) entropy production is viewed as a constitutive function per se. Secondly, the inequality is viewed as a constraint on the pertinent fields and it is solved by using a representation formula, which allows for the the admissibility of a class of models. …”
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Exploring Religious Ritual Frameworks in the Oral Performance of the Old Norse, Eddic-Style Praise Poems Hákonar­mál, Eiríksmál, and Hrafnsmál by Simon Nygaard

“…Hákonarmál Eiríksmál, and Hrafns­mál) are analysed using performance and ritual studies in order to consider the poems possible function as orally performed poems in a presumed Viking Age context. …”
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Dyskusja na temat reformy ustroju Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej w latach 1956-1957 by Lech Mażewski

“…And yet, it was then when practically all possible political-legal institutions were deliberated and at least briefly considered as potential solutions, and some were returned to in subsequent political debates or reflected in the amended Constitution of 1952. The very fact that such a variety of different options was discussed despite the populist opinions praising the fundamental act on the political system then binding in Poland was in itself a positive feature, the basic weakness of the discussion, however, lay in the fact that participants in the debate did not realise the importance of a framework for the post-totalitarian system in which Poland was to function after the transformations of 1956. …”
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On Possible International Legal Consequences of creating the Eurasian Economic Community’s Customs Union by S. V. Komendantov

“…The ways of creation of the treaty-legal basis of CU with third states in conceptual plan are also researched.Legal mechanism of realization of supranational functions of CU on the territory of participating country from the point of view of the states of the Constitution which concern the state sovereignty has been investigated. …”
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Bifurcation Behaviors of Steady-State Solution to a Discrete General Brusselator Model by Ruyun Ma, Zhongzi Zhao

“…Assume that f∈C0,∞,0,∞ is a strictly increasing function, and f′f−1a∈0,∞. Taking b as the bifurcation parameter, we obtain that the solution set of the problem constitutes a constant solution curve and a nonconstant solution curve in a small neighborhood of the bifurcation point b0j,f−1a,ab/f−1a2. …”
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MicroRNA: role in macrophage polarisation and colorectal cancer pathogenesis by Haihong Lin, Haihong Lin, Jun Zhou, Ying He, Yifan Zhu, Yifan Zhu, Puwen Chen, Hongwei Yan, Junyun Huang, Junyun Huang, Junyun Huang, Ersheng Gong, Ersheng Gong, Xiaoling Wang, Xiaoling Wang, Xiaoling Wang

“…Elucidating the crosstalk between miRNA-mediated gene regulation and macrophage functional polarization in CRC pathogenesis constitutes a critical research priority. …”
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