Seismic Fragility Analysis of Buildings Based on Double-Parameter Damage Models considering Soil-Structure Interaction by Panpan Zhai, Peng Zhao, Yang Lu, Chenying Ye, Feng Xiong

“…Most conventional seismic fragility analyses of RC buildings usually ignore or greatly simplify the soil-structure interaction (SSI), and the maximum interstory drift ratio (MIDR) is often adopted to establish seismic fragility curves. In this work, an eight-story RC building was designed to study the influence of the SSI on the seismic fragility of RC buildings. …”
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Knowledge Integration and Analysis of Technological Innovation in Prefabricated Construction by Yudan Dou, Xiaoxue Fu, Tianxin Li

“…In response to these challenges, this study applies knowledge graph techniques to aggregate, correlate, and store knowledge pertaining to PC technological innovations. …”
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The big law enforcement information exchange challenge by Nikolett Ujfalussy

“… Aim: The paper attempts to take stock and present the most significant dilemmas and challenges of cross border criminal data and intelligence exchange between law enforcement authorities of EU Member States that can be experienced by police personnel in the field at the moment. …”
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« KOMM, KÜSS MICH COMPUTER / KOMM, PROGRAMMIERE MICH » by Bruno Dupont

“…Its protagonist dresses his computer up as a woman in order to experience a love story with it. F.C Delius’ Die Frau, für die ich den Computer erfand (2009) depicts the imaginary romance between Konrad Zuse, the inventor of an ancestor of the computer, and his fantasized representation of the female mathematician Ada Lovelace. …”
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The 2022 Copyright Amendment Bill: Implications for the South African universities’ research economy by Keyan Tomaselli

“…The study reveals the stark contradictions within emerging state policy relating to the creative industries in an era when information has economic value.  …”
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Hall of Heroes: A Digital Game for Social Skills Training with Young Adolescents by Melissa E. DeRosier, James M. Thomas

“…This paper describes the design and preliminary evaluation of Hall of Heroes, a digital game that presents SST through an engaging superhero-themed virtual story world. Participants were randomly assigned to complete the digital game (n = 15) or to a waitlist control condition (n = 14) and were compared on parent-report measures of social emotional functioning. …”
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Using Statistical Model to Study the Daily Closing Price Index in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) by Hassan M. Aljohani, Azhari A. Elhag

“…The closing price is the last regular deal that took place during the continuous trading period. …”
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4 3 2 1, The Book of Endlessly Forking Paths by Ilana Shiloh

“…The novel’s structural principle evokes Borges’ iconic story, “The Garden of Forking Paths”, where the Argentinian author toys with the idea of bifurcating time and parallel fictional lives. …”
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Questioning Agency Through Intergenerational Dialogue: The Adult Ghosts and the Forgetting Children in Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill by Hera Kim

“…Specifically, this essay argues that Kipling does not simply represent the adult voice within the imperial discourse, but rather renders ambiguity in uniting the anxieties of the Empire’s previous generation and the hopes for the Empire’s future generation. In the story, although Kipling’s narrative return to the construction of the old England and evocation of its war heroes seem designed for the Empire’s imperialism, the conversations between the adult heroes and Dan and Una raise the unsettling issue of the past heroes’ being wounded ghosts brought about by the British Empire’s imperialism. …”
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Structures, Morphological Control, and Antibacterial Performance of Ag/TiO2 Micro-Nanocomposite Materials by Muhammad Akhsin Muflikhun, Alvin Y. Chua, Gil N. C. Santos

“…Treating the S. aureus stock with Ag/TiO2 nanocomposites is able to reduce bacterial growth with a significant result.…”
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“I embroider the beauty that is my head and not the dead trees around me” art heritage and resilience in South Sudan: a gendered view by Tamsin Bradley, Atem Beny, Rebecca Lorins

“…Findings – The picture that emerges contrasts starkly against the dark narratives that commonly portray South Sudan. …”
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A landscape of shifting identities amid urban invasion: Tamara Duda’s novel Daughter through a translation lens by Anna Antonova

“…This article will focus on Daisy Gibbons’s 2021 translation of Tamara Duda’s 2019 novel Daughter, set in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, to examine the translator’s project of reconstructing the complex interplay of Eastern and Western Ukrainian identities embroiled in the narrative of crawling occupation. Daughter tells the story of Russia’s 2014 invasion of Donetsk, dissecting the city’s fragmented identity along cultural and linguistic divides and exploring internal tensions and propaganda-fueled conflicts leading to its eventual downfall. …”
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‘In-Betweenness’ Declared and Confirmed: Zoë Wicomb’s October in the Untightened Grip of Ethnic and National Identification by Bartnik Ryszard

“…In light of the above, a perspective accommodated here examines Wicomb’s thematization and confirmation of transitional experiences elaborated on a story of two females as becoming autonomous coloureds as well as mutable/unfixed/migrating characters. …”
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Generating Encrypted Document Index Structure Using Tree Browser by Doaa N. Mhawi, Haider W. Oleiwi, Heba L. Al-Taie

“… The document indexing process aims to store documents in a manner that facilitates the process of retrieving specific documents efficiently in terms of accuracy and time complexity. …”
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Dans les marges de l’orientalisme britannique : le cas d’Isabella Bird et de Journeys to Persia and Kurdestan (1891) by Laurence Chamlou

“…A solitary traveller, she had already published five travelogues. This sixth story is a reflection on the affirmation of identity. …”
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The history of an Indonesian asylee in the Soviet Union / Russian Federation: Sartoyo, 30 years without citizenship (1966–1997) by A.I. Danial

“…It was concluded that the life story and experiences of survival of an ordinary person – an eyewitness, an actor, or a victim of political processes – can be summarized by using the oral history methods. …”
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The Galungan Holiday in Postmodern Historical Studies by I Nyoman Wijaya

“…The research results show that the reference to Galungan as the day of victory of dharma over adharma is the result of demythologization, a fictional story that is reconstructed and considered as truth. …”
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Debt sustainability of state-owned enterprises in Indonesia by Esther Sri Astuti Soeyaningrum Agustin, Eko Listiyanto, Nur Komaria

“…Key financial indicators, including profitability, liquidity, leverage, and efficiency, are analyzed for 16 SOEs listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange from 2017 to 2021. The findings reveal considerable risks to SOE debt sustainability across industries, with no sector being consistently secure or unstable. …”
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State organization for reconstruction of cities in Western Siberia in postwar period (Omsk situation) by V. S. Kuzevanov

“…This article discusses the design activities of Soviet architects for the reconstruction of the housing stock and the restoration of the cultural and residential infrastructure of cities in Western Siberia from 1945 to 1955. …”
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Seagrass communities on the North Coast of Aceh by Khairunnisa Khairunnisa, Zuhilma Dewi Arie, Ramadhani Pitri, Farahisah Harum

“…By focusing on species diversity, density, biomass, and estimation of carbon storage capacity, this research will provide valuable insights into the ecological and carbon storage functions of seagrass ecosystems in this region, contributing to their conservation and sustainable management.…”
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