Design of a Miniature Jumping Robot by Yunqian Ma, Deyi Kong

“…The mechanism can effectively control the energy storage mechanism for fast energy storage and instantaneous release，so that the stored elastic potential energy can be efficiently converted into the kinetic energy of the robot. …”
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Microfinance for change: how financial innovation enables structural transformation by Shankar Ghimire, Bharat Singh Thapa, Rong Zheng

“…The results show that the number of households involved in agriculture significantly decreased, with the majority switching to businesses and convenience stores, indicating a shift to the manufacturing and service sectors. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF COOLING FLUID VARIATION ON THE THERMOELECTRIC HOT SIDE ON THERMOELECTRIC VACCINE COOLER BOX PERFORMANCE by Novreza Pratama, Imron Rosyadi, Hadi Wahyudi, M. Haykal Fasya

“…Vaccination is a critical component of global health. Vaccines must be stored at a constant temperature of 2-8℃, to maintain the viability of the vaccine cold chain. …”
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Natural Teleology in Hume's "Sceptical Solution" by Jonathan Cottrell

“…Inductive reasoning is a product of "custom", which has the natural function of reliably stocking our minds with true beliefs about the objects of "common life and practice". …”
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Rockstar Games, Red Dead Redemption, and Narratives of “Progress” by Esther Wright

“…Usually bound up with other loaded terms such as “civilization” (and its implicit antithesis, “savagery”), popular culture that falls under the broader umbrella of the Western genre has often used the idea of progress and development, from past to future, as a cornerstone of their stories and messages. This article uses game developer Rockstar Games and the company’s popular and commercially successful Red Dead Redemption franchise (2010-2018) to examine how narratives of “progress” have been used by the company not only to create their own representations of US history but, moreover, to prop up the promotional discourses that the company uses to brand themselves and sell their products. …”
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Les écoles publiques alternatives du Québec : description écosystémique par croisement des expériences vécues d’anciens élèves et d’acteurs actuels by Philippe Chaubet, François Bissonnette, Vicky Lachance, Jasmin Beauclair, Akâsha Fadoul

“…The article aims at the ecosystem description of the 48 schools in the network of alternative public schools of Quebec (RÉPAQ), based on the positive stories of the experiences of former students and current actors. …”
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Partially policy hidden CP-ABE supporting dynamic policy updating by Zuo-bin YING, Jian-feng MA, Jiang-tao CUI

“…Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) was considered to be appropriate for cloud storage.However,under traditional CP-ABE scheme which was limited in terms of the scale of the data and the quantities of the attributes,computation and communication costs would be introduced correspondingly whenever the data owner wants to update the policy.Moreover,the policy which was stored in the form of plaintext would also result in privacy leakage.Aiming at tackling the above two problems,a novel scheme called partially policy hidden CP-ABE supporting dynamic policy updating (DPUPH-CP-ABE) was proposed.Through utilizing proposed scheme,the computation cost will be reduced,especially on user side,leaving the most computational work to the cloud server.Meanwhile,the value of the user’s attributes will never be revealed to any third parties,and the users’ privacy will be effectively preserved.Besides,the scheme is proved to be adaptively chosen plaintext attack (CPA) secure in the standard model and can support any types of policy updating.…”
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De quelques héritages victoriens dans Ever After de Graham Swift (1992) by Isabelle Roblin

“…As with numerous re-writings of 19th century literary works (“retro-victorian” stories amongst others), Darwin’s and Lyell’s theories appear prominently in the novel. …”
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Embodying scenes of moral disorder: Bodily gestures as a site of signification in feminist TikTok activism by Sigurdardottir Heba, Rautajoki Hanna

“…In this article, we examine a group of activists on TikTok who topicalise gender-based violence and gender inequality through multimodal means of communication in short videos. …”
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Research on distributed identity authentication mechanism of IoT device based on blockchain by Chen TAN, Meijuan CHEN, Ebenezer ACKAH Amuah

“…Aiming to solve problems of the low compatibility and weak anti-attack ability of the Internet of things (IoT) centralized platform in the device identity authentication process,a blockchain-based distributed IoT device identity authentication architecture was proposed.The digital identity and related information were stored in the new block data structure,and a distributed IoT device identity authentication mechanism was proposed based on the cryptography related knowledge.At the same time,a device digital certificate issuance process and a detailed process of the identity authentication were designed.The security analysis of the proposed mechanism were carried out from the aspects of power constraints,device privacy protection,and ability to resist attacks among various entities.The performance of three aspects,which were security attributes,computational overhead and storage overhead,were compared and analyzed.The results show that the proposed identity authentication mechanism can resist a variety of malicious attacks,achieve highly secure distributed IoT identity authentication,and has certain advantages in the performance.…”
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Local System Matrix Compression for Efficient Reconstruction in Magnetic Particle Imaging by T. Knopp, A. Weber

“…By thresholding the resulting matrix and storing the remaining entries in compressed row storage format, only a fraction of the data has to be processed when reconstructing the particle distribution. …”
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New Values of Cultural Heritage and the Need for a New Paradigm Regarding its Care by Iwona Szmelter

“…The complex care of cultural heritage in the field of visual arts involves a set of new values, stories, ideas, traditions, symbols, attitudes, and accomplishments. …”
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Joint Quality Investment and Inventory Decisions for Perishable Items with Reference Quality Effect under the O2O Environment by Yuan Li, Yumei Hou

“…A joint dynamic quality investment and inventory replenishment problem for perishable items with consideration of reference quality effect is investigated, where the retailer sells its products using a combination of the offline and online stores, and the sales function is sensitive to products’ quality and consumers’ reference quality. …”
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Seismic Performance of Lightweight Concrete Structures by Swamy Nadh Vandanapu, Muthumani Krishnamurthy

“…This paper attempts to predict the seismic response of a six-storied reinforced concrete frame with the use of lightweight concrete. …”
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Del papel en blanco y negro al Do it yourself digital. La evolución de la prensa graffitera en Madrid by Celeste Martín-Juan

“…This scene of muralism in Madrid, linked to Hip Hop culture as its branch of aesthetic expression, serves as a case study to observe the evolution of the Spanish specialized press: from the beginnings of the photocopied fanzine; going through the press of specialized stores; until the moment it hits the newsstands; and, finally, the impact of new digital formats.…”
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Corporate storytelling and the idea of Latin America by Mariana I. Paludi, Jean Helms Mills, Albert J. Mills

“…Based on the three themes of politics, economics, and culture, we present three grand narratives, or official stories, that we argue summaries PAA storytelling about Latin America between 1927 and 1960. …”
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“Soaring Towards the Sun”: The Icarus Complex in Daphne Du Maurier’s The Flight of the Falcon by Helena Habibi

“…Bird-men, compelled fatefully to soar sun-ward, haunt Daphne Du Maurier’s novels and short stories. Her incessant re-working of the myth of Icarus finds its climax in her later novel, The Flight of the Falcon (1965), in which Aldo Donati dons Daedalus-like wings, then, “like Icarus, […] fl[ies] too near the sun” before plummeting to his death. …”
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By a Thread: Encoding Online Forum Data in TEI by Sebastian Reimann, Lina Rodenhausen, Frederik Elwert, Tatjana Scheffler

“…Moreover, we propose a TEI header for storing forum metadata within the context of interdisciplinary research, which addresses the challenges of applying TEI elements to born-digital data. …”
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Referential Dependencies in Turkish: Some Novel Arguments on the Binding of Kendisi, O and Pro by Nazik DİNÇTOPAL DENİZ

“…Following Cardinaletti and Starke (1999) and Safir (2004), it is argued that pro is a weak pronoun which only refers to an antecedent mentioned in the context. …”
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The Network Global Optimal Mapping Approach Utilizing a Discrete Firefly Optimization Algorithm by He Jia, Li Xiaomei

“…A global approximation function that keeps learning samples stored is employed. The local map is converted using a set having a respective free rotation. …”
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