“I know this is good, but I am confused”: English teachers’ self-efficacy in implementing the Independent Curriculum by Zuliati Rohmah, Hamamah Hamamah, Esti Junining

“…The results show that most English teachers understand the freedom offered by the government to schools and teachers in the new curriculum. …”
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Sexualités au Maghreb by Valérie Beaumont, Corinne Cauvin Verner, François Pouillon

“…While refusing to adopt the “Orientalist” perspective (Arab-Islamic sexuality explained by the sacred texts) the “culturalist” perspective (a specifically North African way of configuring sexuality), the “moralist” perspective (societies being menaced by political islam or the “corrupted West”) and the “activist” perspective (as a defence of individual freedom, notably sexual, feminism, or political Islam), these contemporary ethnographies recreate the tensions between individualism and community ethos, between national and local dictates, between western ethics and religious proscription, all of these attracting considerable media coverage. …”
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Output Feedback Fractional-Order Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control of Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles by Yaoyao Wang, Jiawang Chen, Linyi Gu

“…For the 4-DOF (degrees of freedom) trajectory tracking control problem of underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) in the presence of model uncertainties and external disturbances, a novel output feedback fractional-order nonsingular terminal sliding mode control (FO-NTSMC) technique is introduced in light of the equivalent output injection sliding mode observer (SMO) and TSMC principle and fractional calculus technology. …”
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Sensitivity of Eigenvalues to Nonsymmetrical, Dissipative Control Matrices by Vernon H. Neubert

“…Systems with two, three, and eight degrees of freedom are investigated.…”
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Model for home-preschool continuity in linguistically and culturally diverse settings by Mila Schwartz, Hanna Ragnarsdóttir

“…With the advent of international freedom of movement, we are witnessing a rapid influx of children from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds in mainstream preschools. …”
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Constituent Quark Scaling of Strangeness Enhancement in Heavy-Ion Collisions by Nirbhay K. Behera, Raghunath Sahoo, Basanta K. Nandi

“…This scaling at RHIC indicates that the partonic degrees of freedom play an important role in the production of multistrange particles. …”
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Deceptive Self-Presentation: The Role of Social Media User Motivation and the Dark Triad Personality by Ujam Jaenudin, Elis Anisah Fitriah, Mirna Devi

“…Online identity frauds such as love scams, catfishing, and fake content are associated with the freedom of personalization offered by social media platforms which can lead to deceptive self-presentation behavior and impressions. …”
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Home, Physical Disability and Sense of Belonging in Nina Raine’s Tribes by Nurten Çelik

“…Home has traditionally been perceived as a location that provides control, freedom of self-expression, and psychological, social, and physical security. …”
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Design of Optimal QFT Controller and Prefilter for Buck Converter Using Metaheuristic Algorithms by Nitish Katal, Shiv Narayan

“…The designed 2-degree-of-freedom QFT control system offers a robust behavior and efficiently handles the parametric uncertainties. …”
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Short Data-Based Output-Only Identification for Time-Varying Systems with Fast Dynamic Evolution by Zhi-Sai Ma, Qian Ding

“…However, these methods require a significant number of parameters to represent complicated time-dependencies and dynamics characterized by larger numbers of degrees-of-freedom. In such cases, the ordinary least squares estimation may lead to less accurate or even unreliable estimates. …”
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Nonlinear Vibrations of FGM Cylindrical Panel with Simply Supported Edges in Air Flow by Y. X. Hao, W. Zhang, S. B. Li, J. H. Zhang

“…Here, Galerkin’s method is employed to discretize this continuous nonlinear dynamic system to ordinary differential governing equations involving two degrees of freedom. The chaotic and periodic response are studied by the direct numerical simulation method for influences of different Mach number and the value of in-plane load. …”
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The Reflection of the Removal of the Enver Pasha’s Remains from Tajikistan to Turkey in the Turkish Press by Fahri TÜRK

“…Due to incentives of Süleyman Demirel, Turkey gave Enver Pasha his reputation back and brought his remains to İstanbul and reburied in the Hill of the Monument of Freedom. This situation led to new discussions among Turkish elites, in which represented thoughts could be divided into two groups. …”
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The essence and significance of ensuring the independence of the prosecutor’s office in Ukraine by O. M. Shumilo

“…It is established that the independence of the prosecutor’s office is a principle and, at the same time, a state in which the prosecutor's system functions independently of the influence of external factors, including political and economic factors, as well as other persons, ensuring freedom to perform its functions and powers on the basis of the law and the principles of justice. …”
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Instantaneous Modal Parameter Identification of Linear Time-Varying Systems Based on Chirplet Adaptive Decomposition by Jie Zhang, Zhiyu Shi

“…The efficiency of the method is first verified through a numerical simulation of a three-degree-of-freedom time-varying structure. Then, the method is demonstrated by comparing with the traditional wavelet and time-domain peak method. …”
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Transmission Error Analysis and Disturbance Optimization of Two-Stage Spur Gear Space Driven Mechanism with Large Inertia Load by Jianfeng Ma, Chao Li, Lingli Cui

“…For the nonlinear disturbance actual issues of the model space drive mechanism two-stage spur gear system, a nonlinear dynamic model of 14-DOF (degree of freedom) two-stage spur gear with time-varying stiffness and damping was established. …”
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Ewolucja tureckiej polityki bezpieczeństwa by Magdalena Kumelska-Koniecko

“…Balancing moves can cause geopolitical alienation and limit Turkey's freedom of action, reducing the effectiveness of diplomatic efforts, which are an essential tool for resolving international conflicts. …”
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A Laryngoscope with Shape Memory Actuation by Fischer Nikola, Ho Patty, Marzi Christian, Schuler Patrick, Mathis-Ullrich Franziska

“…We present a novel blade design with two degrees of freedom, continuously transforming a straight into a curved blade. …”
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Ego-Motion Estimation for Autonomous Vehicles Based on Genetic Algorithms and CUDA Parallel Processing by Abiel Aguilar-González, Alejandro Medina Santiago

“…In this work, we propose a brute-force-based ego-motion estimation algorithm that takes advantage of the constraints of autonomous vehicles, which are assumed to have only three degrees of freedom (x, y, and yaw). Our approach is based on a genetic algorithm to efficiently explore potential vehicle movements. …”
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Enthusiastic, realistic and critical: discourses of Internet use in the context of everyday life information seeking Internet, Everyday life, Information seeking, Discourse analysi... by Reijo Savolainen

“…The Enthusiastic repertoire emphasizes the strengths of the Internet, conceiving it as a 'great enabler' or as a 'technology of freedom'. In this repertoire, positive expressions such as fast, easy and interactive are favoured. …”
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Mises en lumière et zones d’ombre dans l’ouverture au public de la Petite Ceinture ferroviaire de Paris by Ioana Iosa, Cosme Vallet

“…Through an analysis of discourses and actions of the various actors involved (in particular the experiments put in place by the skills groups), we wish to facilitate the reader’s critical analysis of the balance between urban manufacturing methods (close to marketing), and the freedom left to the inhabitants of Paris, Ile de France and Belt residents in the transformation of this collective wealth. …”
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