The Unsaturated Hydromechanical Coupling Model of Rock Slope Considering Rainfall Infiltration Using DDA by Xianshan Liu, Ming Xu

“…Water flow and hydromechanical coupling process in fractured rocks is more different from that in general porous media because of heterogeneous spatial fractures and possible fracture-dominated flow; a saturated-unsaturated hydromechanical coupling model using a discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) similar to FEM and DEM was employed to analyze water movement in saturated-unsaturated deformed rocks, in which the Van-Genuchten model differently treated the rock and fractures permeable properties to describe the constitutive relationships. …”
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Malo Adeux, Appropriation et légitimation du discours historique. L’exemple de trois traductions vernaculaires du De Excidio Troiæ de Darès le Phrygien : La Veraie Estorie de Troie... by Malo Adeux

“…In this study, I endeavor to show that appropriating the Trojan matter, even if the process is never made explicit in the texts, came from a specific interest for the story of Dares and more generally for the history of Troy.…”
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RESILIENCE AND REINVENTION: THE JOURNEY OF MIGRANT-OWNED MICRO ENTERPRISES IN SOUTH AFRICA BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER COVID-19 by Edson Chido Mutisi, Paddington Mutekwe, Celestine Padayachee

“…Research on micro-enterprises during the pandemic is generally inclined toward finding the impact of COVID-19 without a migration analysis. …”
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Comparison of Fuzzy AHP and Fuzzy TOPSIS for Road Pavement Maintenance Prioritization: Methodological Exposition and Case Study by Yashon O. Ouma, J. Opudo, S. Nyambenya

“…For road pavement maintenance and repairs prioritization, a multiattribute approach that compares fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and fuzzy Technique for Order Preference by Ideal Situation (TOPSIS) is evaluated. …”
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Diagnostics of Level of Formation of Motivational, Activity and Behavioral Components of Ecological Culture of Personality of Future Teacher: Application of Method by G. E. Zalessk... by I. P. Shutova, N. V. Osintseva

“…The authors believe that the process of development of these components reflects the dynamics of formation of the investigated personality traits. …”
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Visual and Statistical Methods for Analysing Irregularity Data in Rolling Stocks – An Application on Turkey’s Freight Wagons Fleet by Ömür AKBAYIR, Serdar BENLİGİRAY, Ahmet ONAY

“…Maintaining freight wagons is an essential operational process and a significant cost factor for rail transport companies. …”
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Assessment of the investment attractiveness of the regional economic sectors on the example of the Kirov region by E. N. Nagovitsyna, D. S. Tusin, E. A. Bratukhina

“…The article focuses on the fact that the general struggle for investment resources, both at the state level and at the regional level, forces us to study the essence, content of the investment process, the forms of interaction between its participants in more depth and in detail, assess the investment potential of individual sectors of the economy and look for ways to improve its efficiency. …”
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Bacterial and fungal community shifts during self-restoration of oil-polluted soils by L.R. Biktasheva, A.A. Saveliev, S.Y. Selivanovskaya, P.Y. Galitskaya

“…The structure of the fungal communities differed between the polluted and uncontaminated soils; however, the analysis of these differences showed no general patterns. …”
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The pattern of CBF and P5CS genes expression under freezing stress and effects of cold acclimation on free proline changes in chickpea (Cicer arietinum) by ROHOLLAH GHASEMI, Abdolreza Bagheri, Nasrin Moshtaghi, Farhad Shokouhi Far

“…One of the important processes in plant resistance to cold stress is known to acclimatize. …”
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Fostering social cohesion among Chinese students studying abroad: role of social organizations by Wang Ziwen, Razumenko Tetiana

“…These efforts are implemented through various Chinese public and government organizations. In the process of writing this article, the authors employed several general scientific methods, including personal experiences and interviews to examine initiatives facilitated by Chinese embassies abroad, non-governmental organizations, and representative offices of Chinese universities. …”
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What do physicians want at the end? An international qualitative study on physicians’ personal end-of-life preferences and what influences them by Sarah Mroz, Frederick Daenen, Sigrid Dierickx, Freddy Mortier, Ludovica De Panfilis, Luca Ghirotto, Toby Campbell, Kenneth Chambaere, Luc Deliens

“…Data collection and analysis were informed using the reflexive thematic analysis approach. …”
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Assessing the impact of socio-technical congruence in software development: a systematic literature review by Binish Raza, Rodina Ahmad, Mohd H.N.M Nasir, Shukor S.M Fauzi, Muhammad A. Raza

“…For instance, (1) STC-related literature exists, but only one research work mainly focuses on the risk of overwhelming STC (i.e., excessive STC measurement may overburden the software development process); (2) STC measurement techniques facilitate the identification of congruence gaps, but no attention have been given towards the unweighted social network analysis based STC measurement models; (3) STC measurement techniques are generally applied in the development phase of the project lifecycle, but these measurements are rarely used in other software development phases, such as the requirement and testing phases or all phases; and (4) The development factors that effects on STC measurement are rarely focused by researchers in context of various domains.…”
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ExtraCECI: a community-based person-centred-enhanced care intervention to improve the quality of life and person-centred outcomes for people living with HIV/AIDS in Ghana—protocol... by Helen Elsey, Catherine Hewitt, Richard Harding, Ada Keding, Justin Fenty, Mary Abboah-Offei, Andrews Ayim, James Akazili, Stephen Ayisi Addo, Kennedy Bashan Nkhoma, Gladys Dzansi, Samson Abboah-Offei, Antonina Yakimova, Vivian Efua Senoo-Dogbey

“…This protocol describes a cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT) and process evaluation to evaluate the effectiveness of the extra community-based enhanced care intervention (ExtraCECI) to improve the quality of life and person-centred outcomes for PLWHA in Ghana.Methods and analysis This cRCT will randomly assign 26 recruited HIV clinics using 1:1 allocation to either ExtraCECI intervention or standard HIV care, with each clinic recruiting an average of 25 participants, that is, 650 in total. …”
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High interstitial fluid pressure enhances USP1-dependent KIF11 protein stability to promote hepatocellular carcinoma progression by Zhengyi Wu, Chao Li, Shouhua Zhang, Liang Sun, Junwen Hu, Bingbing Qiu, Shuiqiu Liu, Yiran Hong, Tianxiang Chen, Kai Wang, Xiangbao Yin, Jinlong Yan

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Experience of Developing a database of storytellers of the Yakut Epos by S. D. Lvova, L. N. Gerasimova

“…The results of the analysis of the basic principles of compiling the database “Olonkhosuts of Yakutia of the 17th—20th centuries” — about the storytellers of the Yakut national epic are presented. …”
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INVESTIGATION OF INHIBITORY EFFECT OF THE RASPBERRY FRUIT EXTRACT (Rubus idaeus L.) ON CORROSION OF COPPER IN 3% NaCl SOLUTION by Dejana Kasapović, Fehim Korać, Farzet Bikić

“…By UV/VIS spectrophotometry analysis, a significant content of polyphenols was found in the raspberry fruit extracts. …”
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Private practice dentists’ conceptions of overtreatment: A qualitative study from Norway by Julie Skrede Edvinsen, Bjørn Hofmann

“…Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed by thematic analysis in a six-step process including coding and identifying main- and sub-themes. …”
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Promoting Conceptual Learning Using Scaffolded Activities That Incorporate Interactive Simulations by Pooja Ajayan, Raymond Cao, Jack F. Eichler

“…Interactive simulations have been shown to enhance conceptual understanding through multiple dynamic representations and supporting the inquiry process by offering repeated trials with rapid feedback. …”
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Marketing Strategy of Griya iB Hasanah Financing Products: Evidence from the Bank Syariah Indonesia in Mataram by Salwa Hayati, Nurul Susianti, Muhammad Paozan Azim

“…How to improve the quality of human resources, in the process of serving customers, increasing promotional and outreach activities that place more emphasis on ASN, civil servants, and the general public, either by door to door, or by promoting through advertising in the form of banners and brochures, and down directly to the developer. …”
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Hepatocellular carcinoma and features of its development by R. A. Zubkov, K. N. Zabobonin, E. V. Simonova, E. R. Zubkova

“…To analyze and systematize the references about special features of hepatocellular carcinoma pathogenesis in patients withhepatitis types B and C for estimation of potential markers search, which will be enough sensitive, but economically profitable and available for prognosis and postoperative monitoring of these groups of patients.Materials and methods. The methods of analysis, synthesis and generalization of scientific data are used in the current work. …”
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