Ecological-environmental consequences of urban sprawl in rural settlements around the Hamedan city by Naser Shafiei Sabet, Sogand Khaksar

“…Introduction: Imposition by cities of new roles and functions on peripheral areas has provoked economic, social and spatial disturbances in those areas (Shafiei Sabet & Bozorgniya, 2013). …”
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The Processes of Intelligent Firefighting in Seawater Tunnel: a Case Study of Karnaphuli Tunnel in Bangladesh by Yan Yi, Tao Yang, Songsong Xiao, Xing Liu, Min Deng, Zewen Sun, Zhengyang Fan, Hao Huang

“…Considering the characteristics of marine corrosion, a two-layer anti-corrosion structure with epoxy zinc-based powder coating as the bottom layer and functional coating as the surface layer was adopted. …”
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Bridge Deck Load Testing Using Sensors and Optical Survey Equipment by Hubo Cai, Osama Abudayyeh, Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Upul Attanayake, Joseph Barbera, Eyad Almaita

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Em Nome do “Pai”, do “Filho” e do Espírito de Corpo: Ou como recordar a provável 1ª Edição da Cartilha do Guerrilheiro da UNITA by Fidel Reis

“…It was possible to glimpse, in the mentioned Cartilha do Guerrilheiro, a discursive production that might refer to a process of construction of an organizational identity sustained, not only by a mobilizing belief (revolutionary nationalism) but also by a logic of functioning based on the principle of discipline. …”
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Les « territoires créatifs » à l’échelle transfrontalière by Thomas Perrin

“…“Participatory” City, functional vs. cultural identity in the geo-strategic construction of territories, and the different uses of territories as cultural resources in a context of economic competition and territorial differentiation. …”
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METHODOLOGY OF ASSESSMENT AND SELECTION OF ECONOMIC FACTORS CONDITIONING THE OPERATION OF INTEGRATED LOGISTICS CENTRES by Leszek MINDUR, Grzegorz SZYSZKA

“…The authors of the article have discussed the methodology of assessment and selection of economic factors for the cost-effective construction and operation of ILCs by taking the perspective of entities involved in the construction and functioning of these centres into consideration. …”
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Le pacte agriurbain de la vallée ombrienne et les districts agricoles et culturels de Milan by Giulia Giacchè, Biancamaria Torquati, Lionella Scazzosi, Paola Branduini

“…In peri-urban areas, the level of integration with the urban areas, the spatial organisation of the city and surroundings and the functions of agricultural system determine specific features of agricultural landscapes. …”
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Особливості інтеграції рослин в архітектуру у світових прикладах проектування житла by Serhii Buravchenko, Oleksandr Pyvovarov, Liliia Bezpala

“…The world tendencies of the combination of housing function and cultivation of gardening, care for it and influence on the environment are analyzed. …”
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Effect of acupuncture on patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A multicenter randomized controlled trial by Jiansheng Li, Yang Xie, Yanjun Wang, Lei Wu, Xuefeng Yu, Li Bai, Suju Shao, Miao Zhou, Mingli Zhang, Xueqing Yu, Weihong Han, Xuanlin Li, Tao Chen

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A Game Theory-Based Approach to Hierarchically Rank Responses to Geological and Geotechnical Risks by Mohammad Amin Ghasvareh, Gholam Reza Lashkaripour, Hossein Sadeghi, Javad Tayyebi

“…Many tunnel construction projects have experienced failures that have caused a lot of damage. …”
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Key Design Points of the Reserved Rail Transit Project in Xiong’an New Area Underground Integrated Transportation Hub by LI Heyong, XING Jiayong, MAO Wei

“…［Result & Conclusion］ Key design points for the reserved rail transit project in the transportation hub are as follows: The system types and vehicle formations shall be determined based on the planning conditions; Reasonable station locations and station types shall be decided with the idea of overall optimization; Station and city integration shall be used as a strategy to coordinate urban and traffic functions；The layout plan of the hub shall be improved with the concept of integrated design; Following the principle of intensive and appropriate development, the phased construction of the hub shall be studied; The reserved and pre-embedded measures shall be coordinated for detailed implementation.…”
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The Main Tasks of Forensic Research Conducted in Trials on Land Disputes by A. Yu. Butyrin, O. V. Zhukova, E. B. Stativa

“…It also should be identified to which specific class, kind, type the object belongs (addressing classification task) – it allows verifying the category of land and the type of permitted use of the disputed land; recognizing the kind, type, and functional purpose of the construction objects located on it.  …”
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Truncated Modular Exponentiation Operators: A Strategy for Quantum Factoring by Robert L. Singleton Jr

“…I propose a method for constructing the ME operators that requires only $3n + 1$ qubits with no ancillary qubits. …”
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Pathway-based network medicine identifies novel natural products for Alzheimer’s disease by Yumei Liang, Siqi Xie, Jianping Jia

“…Methods In this study, we constructed an AD-related pathway-gene network via text mining and pathway database construction. …”
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Relationship Between Landscape Character and Public Preferences in Urban Landscapes: A Case Study from the East–West Mountain Region in Wuhan, China by Xingyuan Li, Wenqing Pang, Lizhi Han, Yufan Yan, Xianjie Pan, Diechuan Yang

“…The results show that (1) public preferences hotspots are concentrated in three types: (a) urban construction-driven types, including areas dominated by commercial service functions and those characterized by mixed-function residential areas; (b) natural terrain-dominated types with well-developed supporting facilities; and (c) hybrid transition types predominated by educational and scientific research land uses. …”
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Retinal vein occlusion risk prediction without fundus examination using a no-code machine learning tool for tabular data: a nationwide cross-sectional study from South Korea by Na Hyeon Yu, Daeun Shin, Ik Hee Ryu, Tae Keun Yoo, Kyungmin Koh

“…An easy-to-use oversampling function was employed to address class imbalance, enhancing the usability of the workflow. …”
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An Unsupervised Approach to Derive Right Ventricular Pressure–Volume Loop Phenotypes in Pulmonary Hypertension by Nikita Sivakumar, Cindy Zhang, Connie Chang‐Chien, Pan Gu, Yikun Li, Yi Yang, Darin Rosen, Tijana Tuhy, Ilton M. Cubero Salazar, Matthew Kauffman, Rachel L. Damico, Casey Overby Taylor, Joseph L. Greenstein, Steven Hsu, Paul M. Hassoun, Catherine E. Simpson

“…The gold standard for assessing RV function and ventriculo‐arterial coupling is the construction of multi‐beat pressure–volume (PV) loops. …”
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Optimization of Engineering Pipe-Line Networks at Hydraulic Calculation by A. Savastsiyonak

“…One of the most vital problems in the field of power engineering is a reduction of construction cost. Expenses on construction and operation of engineering networks ensuring functional purpose of buildings. …”
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Dendrobium officinale polysaccharide promotes angiogenesis as well as follicle regeneration and hair growth through activation of the WNT signaling pathway by Yujin Zhang, Qing Tang, Bijun Zeng, Fengjiao Wang, Meijunzi Luo, Pan Huang, Ling Chen, Haizhen Wang

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