Damage Detection on Sudden Stiffness Reduction Based on Discrete Wavelet Transform by Bo Chen, Zhi-wei Chen, Gan-jun Wang, Wei-ping Xie

“…Numerical simulation using a five-story shear building under different types of excitation is carried out to assess the effectiveness and reliability of the proposed damage index for the building at different damage levels. …”
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Five Misconceptions About Interview Modes or: How to Improve Our Thinking About Face-to-Face Versus Remote Interviewing by Lars E. F. Johannessen, Erik Børve Rasmussen, Marit Haldar

“…In this article, we take stock of existing writings on interview modes in qualitative interview research. …”
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Investigation of the lateral performance of trapezoidal double corrugated steel shear walls with two different corrugation angles by Yuanyuan Hu, Xianhui Yan

“…The samples studied in this research were a one-story, one-span frame with three trapezoidal corrugated double plates with angles of 30, 45, and 60°. …”
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Sacrul și profanul în modernitatea occidentală. Ocultism, vrăjitorie și mode culturale by Dragoș DRAGOMAN

“…The survival of traditional religious and cultural elements, even in the most degraded forms, tells the story of their capacity to adapt to modern cultural contexts. …”
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Felsefenin Öyküsü by Rabia Dirican

“…Her sayfasında farklı bir görselle desteklenen eser, bir yandan felsefeyi sürükleyici bir öykü tadında sunmakta, bir yandan da felsefenin sorularla yüklü doğasını koruyarak düşünmeye davet etmektedir. Orijinal adı The Story of Philosophy olan eser ilk bakışta İngilizce kaleme alınmış bir Binbir Gece Masalları’nı çağrıştırmakta, sayfalar ilerledikçe farklı bir ciddiyete bürünerek ülkeler arası politik meselelere kadar uzanmaktadır. …”
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Quadrant categorization of spillover determinants of sovereign risk of BRICIT nations: a Bayesian approach by Pawan Kumar, Vipul Kumar Singh

“…Notably, China’s CDS is the most sensitive to shocks, with the CDS volatility primarily driven by China’s geopolitical risk. …”
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Emergency Continued by Christopher Beilings

“…Andrew Dreyer, a teacher and writer, is the protagonist of the story and is at odds with his sense of self, his belonging, his personal and social history, and his political agency. …”
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Estelle L’Hardy’s Ecstatic State and Jenny Wren’s Blessed Children: Dickens’s Invention within the Evolving Mental Sciences by Carole Koepke Brown

“…A circumstantial case proposes that Dickens (two close friends were familiar with the Estelle case) worked strategic variations on Estelle’s case to heighten the drama in Fanny Cleaver/Jenny Wren’s story of her ecstatic state in which the blessed children would comfort her. …”
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Design and optimization of high-contrast gratings for multispectral VCSEL-SOI laser sources by I.S. Shashkin, M.I. Kondratov, A.E. Grishin, K.E. Pevchikh, S.O. Slipchenko, N.A. Pikhtin

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Prospective preschool teachers learning to use picturebooks for philosophical inquiries by Sofia Nikolidaki

“…However, they often rely heavily on asking children numerous questions while reading picturebooks, such as identifying the protagonists of the story, detailing the sequence of events, and exploring the who, what, when, where, and why. …”
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Development of a New Composite Index for Measuring Sustainability Performance of Manufacturing Companies Operating in BIST Sustainability Index by Soner Alaca, Mustafa Tepeci

“…The results further indicated that the economic dimension score of the analyzed organizations had a weighty and salient effect on the total corporate sustainability performance score. …”
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Does Regime-Dependent Volatility Drive Dynamism in Investor Herding? by Komal Jindal, Meera Bamba, Mamta Aggarwal

“…This research is significant for individual investors, portfolio managers, and stock market regulators.…”
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Excerpt from Moore’s Mugabe’s Legacy: Coups, Conspiracies, and the Conceits of Power in Zimbabwe by David B. Moore

“…I brought Zvomuya and his interpretations to my story in these excerpts: I owe him the book’s literary legacy. …”
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From collective vulnerability to the emancipatory agency of the self by Santiago Urrea Yela, David Osorio-García

“…Through her leadership and persistence, Sonia redefined her identity, transforming her experiences into community resilience and social transformation. Her story illustrates how vulnerability can catalyze political and social reconfiguration when supported by social capital and collective action. …”
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The Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Reporting and Financing (Bank Loans and Debt Securities) by Azam Valizadeh Larijani, Sarina Mafakheri Bashmagh

“…The sample included 134 companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) from 2014 to 2020. The results showed a positive and significant relationship between CSR reporting and the amount of financing obtained from both the capital market (through debt securities issuance) and the money market (bank loans). …”
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‘A queer combination of a child’s mind with a grown-up joke’: Dickens’s Child Narrators in Holiday Romance (1868) by Isabelle Hervouet

“…It features four child narrators embarked on a mission: adults are at so great a remove from childhood that they are unable to see the importance of imagination and of story-telling; the four children will have to reinvent the world and tell adults what it should be like. …”
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Development of Difference Spectroscopic Method for the Estimation of Balsalazide in Bulk and in Formulation by K. Anandakumar, Nageswararao Pacha, J. Saminathan, R. Subathrai, Kumarasamy Gandla

“…Since the drug was freely soluble in distilled water, a stock solution (1 mg/mL) was prepared with distilled water. …”
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Study of the Impact Irregular Concrete Facilities with the Shear Walls Based: The Effect of Soil-Structure Interaction with ABAQUS Software by Wisam Fawzi Aljuhaishi, Javad Esfandiari

“…The results showed that for soil type 1(hard soil which Vs=1000 m/s, v=0.15, q=50000 Kg/m2, P=2000 Kg/m3, r=0.5 m) structural system of concrete shear walls with better displacement, maximum structural stiffness, better behavior was observed in the structure. Three-story frame with concrete shear wall has a significant increase compared to similar frames with more floors, which shows the good performance of this system in structures with fewer floors. …”
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Effectiveness of Implementing Vertical Space Utilization in Badung District by I. W.A. Puspanegara, N. M.J. Senastri, I. N.A. Puspadma

“…The results indicate that there is a discrepancy between the desired and actual outcomes of the implementation of vertical space utilization related to multi-storey buildings in Badung Regency. A discrepancy was identified between the intended and actual implementation of vertical space utilization related to multi-story buildings in Badung Regency. …”
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Socio-Economic Characteristics and Animal Feed Resources of Ruminant Farmers in Katsina State, Nigeria by A. Aruwayo, K.S. Ahmed, I.R. Muhammad

“…Some of the feedstuffs were not available at some periods of the month, a vivid picture of the time of their availability as shown in research could help the farmers to know when these feedstuffs are available and then buy at cheaper price and store for use at the time of scarcity. This will ultimately reduce cost of feeding and consequently, the cost of production. …”
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