Vernacular Wooden Architecture in the City of Puntarenas: First Steps Towards Its Recognition by Kenia García-Baltodano, David Porras-Alfaro

“…In Puntarenas City, a historic and tourist port of Costa Rica, several vernacular buildings constructed in wood can be observed. …”
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Ecological Risk Assessment for Invasive Wildlife in Florida by Venetia Briggs-Gonzalez, Kyle Allen, Rebecca G. Harvey, Frank J. Mazzotti

“…Once an invader begins to establish and spread, its control costs increase rapidly. Florida ports are the entry points for about half of the reptiles, arachnids, insects, and crustaceans imported into the United States. …”
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A critical review of compensation converters for capacitive power transfer in wireless electric vehicle charging circuit topologies by Mohammad Amir, Izhar Ahmad Saifi, Mohammad Waseem, Mohd Tariq

“…This review paper introduced an experimental prototype of the Corbin Sparrow (CS), featuring an onboard battery charger and an off-board DC charging port. Additionally, it presented a novel conformal bumper-based approach, highlighting its distinct advantages compared to alternative charging methods. …”
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A Low-Profile Balanced Dielectric Resonator Filtering Power Divider with Isolation by Rong Cai, Chuan Shao, Kai Xu

“…Additionally, by technically utilizing the hollow structure of the stacked substrates, isolation resistor structures are introduced at the two output ports to improve the isolation level of the power divider. …”
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Installation Project for Water Purification from Suspended Particles by E.N. Neverov, A.K. Gorelkina, E.S. Mikhalova, P.S. Korotkih

“…The implementation of the proposed installation in the ports that ship coal allows us to evaluate not only water purification processes, but also measures aimed at optimizing expended resources and reducing the negative impact on the environment. …”
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Development of a Cost-effective Adsorption Dryer for High-quality Aerosol Sampling by Simonas Kecorius, Leizel Madueño, Susanne Sues, Josef Cyrys, Mario Lovrić, Mira Pöhlker, Kristina Plauškaitė, Lina Davulienė, Agnė Minderytė, Steigvilė Byčenkienė

“…The DD is equipped with ports for desiccant regeneration using clean and dry air, eliminating the need for desiccant removal from the dryer. …”
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Bidirectional Brush Seals – Post-Test Analysis by Robert C. Hendricks, Jack Wilson, Tom Y. Wu, Ralph Flower, Robert L. Mullen

“…A post-test analysis of a set of inside-diameter/outside-diameter (ID/OD) bidirectional brush seals used in three-port wave rotor tests was undertaken to determine brush bristle and configuration wear, pullout, and rotor coating wear. …”
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Dual Polarized Dual Fed Vivaldi Antenna for Cellular Base Station Operating at 1.7–2.7 GHz by Marko Sonkki, Sami Myllymäki, Jussi Putaala, Eero Heikkinen, Tomi Haapala, Harri Posti, Heli Jantunen

“…The antenna is designed for -14 dB impedance bandwidth (1.7–2.7 GHz) with better than 25 dB isolation between the antenna ports. The measured total efficiency is better than -0.625 dB (87%) and the antenna presents a flat, approximately 8.5 dB, gain in the direction of boresight over the operating bandwidth whose characteristics promote it among the best antennas in the field. …”
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Design and Experimental Assessment of a 2D Microwave Imaging System for Brain Stroke Monitoring by Jorge A. Tobon Vasquez, Rosa Scapaticci, Giovanna Turvani, Gennaro Bellizzi, Nadine Joachimowicz, Bernard Duchêne, Enrico Tedeschi, Mario R. Casu, Lorenzo Crocco, Francesca Vipiana

“…The device is a 2D version of the 3D system, currently under construction, and consists of an array of 12 printed monopole antennas connected to a two-port vector network analyzer through a switching matrix so that each antenna can act as a transmitter or receiver, thereby allowing the acquisition of the entire multistatic multiview scattering matrix required for the imaging. …”
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Design and Optimization of a Coherent Beamforming Network for an Aperiodic Concentric Ring Array by Armando Arce, Enrique Stevens-Navarro, Marco Cardenas-Juarez, Ulises Pineda-Rico, Jorge Simon, Marco A. Panduro

“…Furthermore, the numeric examples show a complexity reduction on the coherent feeding network configuration based on the number of control signal inputs compared with a conventional phased antenna array; in the proposed configuration, the main beam is steered and shaped with N-1 control feeding ports per ring in this antenna system.…”
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How safety leadership, social capital, and safety awareness affect safety citizenship behavior: a mediation perspective by Andjar Budi Wibawanti, Lim Sanny, Denny Siahaan, Sundring Pantja Djati

“…The study employs a causal design and survey methods in a quantitative manner. 120 crew members of passenger ships that were docked at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta made up the sample. A Likert scale questionnaire was utilized as the research tool for safety leadership, social capital, safety awareness, safety motivation, and SCB. …”
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Two-Dimensional Cutting (TDC) Vitrectome: In Vitro Flow Assessment and Prospective Clinical Study Evaluating Core Vitrectomy Efficiency versus Standard Vitrectome by Mitrofanis Pavlidis

“…To evaluate comparative aspiration flow performance and also vitrectomy operating time efficiency using a double-cutting open port vitreous cutting system incorporated in a two-dimensional cutting (TDC, DORC International) vitrectome design versus standard vitreous cutter. …”
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Morbidity of Inguinofemoral Lymphadenectomy in Vulval Cancer by A. A. Soliman, M. Heubner, R. Kimmig, P. Wimberger

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Cultura Organizacional, Estrutura Organizacional e Gestão de Pessoas como Bases para uma Gestão Orientada por Processos e seus Impactos no Desempenho Organizacional by Nathália de Melo Santos, Marcelo Bronzo, Marcos Paulo Valadares de Oliveira, Paulo Tarso Vilela de Resende

“…Foram utilizados dados de uma amostra de 368 empresas brasileiras de médio e grande porte. Por meio da modelagem de equações estruturais, foram analisadas as associações entre os construtos do modelo nomotético proposto. …”
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Impact of Data Centers on Climate Change: A Review of Energy Efficient Strategies by Daniel Raphael Ejike Ewim, Nwakamma Ninduwezuor-Ehiobu, Ochuko Felix Orikpete, Blessed Afeyokalo Egbokhaebho, Akeeb Adepoju Fawole, Chiemela Onunka

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Analyzing the effectivity of evidence-based practice in health science higher education: a narrative review by Victória Guzzo da Silva, Dafne Port Nascimento, Sarah Beatriz Obadovski Alves Nascimento, Amanda Costa Araujo

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LEADING INDIAN BUSINESS-GROUPS by M. A. Vorobyeva

“…It is shown that the role of modern business-groups in the Indian economy is determined by their high rate in the gross domestic product (GDP), huge overall actives, substantial pert in the e[port of goods and services, as well as by their activities in modern branch structure formatting, and developing labor-intensive and high-tech branches. …”
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Comparison of Memory Assignment Schemes for Switch Architectures with Shareable Parallel Memory Modules by Sanjeev Kumar, Alvaro Munoz

“…Switching Architectures deploying shareable parallel memory modules are quite versatile in their ability to scale to higher capacity while retaining the advantage of sharing its entire memory resource among all input and output ports. The two main classes of such architectures, namely, the Shared Multibuffer-(SMB-) based switch and the Sliding-Window-(SW-) based packet switch, both deploy parallel memory modules that are physically separate but logically connected. …”
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Espace d’assistance, espace de pouvoir : les dispositifs d’accueil et d’hébergements dans quelques monastères bénédictins en Normandie aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles by Mathilde Gardeux

“…Les investigations ont porté sur l’organisation de l’accueil des pauvres comme des hôtes de marque, en joignant l’analyse des sources écrites et des vestiges archéologiques, afin de dessiner une première vue d’ensemble de la topographie de l’accueil et de la place occupée par les laïcs, nobles ou pauvres, à l’intérieur de ces établissements.…”
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An Extendable Gaussian Mixture Model for Lane-Based Queue Length Estimation Based on License Plate Recognition Data by Chaofeng Tan, Hao Wu, Keshuang Tang, Chaopeng Tan

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