Resilience and adaptive capacities of societies: social and cultural strategies by Francesca Cubeddu, Elvira Martini

“…Communities have always played a fundamental role in social construction and in the implementation of actions for growth and social regulation. …”
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Gateway to the East: Decorative Art and Orientalist Imagery in Moscow’s Kazan Station, 1913–1916 by John McCannon

“…The purpose of this article is to show that, while the designs and décor of Kazan Station were indeed anachronistic—especially considering the high-tech purposes and functions of the industrial-era railroad station—the anachronism, far from reflecting a lack of awareness or innovative ability, resulted from conscious decisions on the part of Alexei Shchusev as architect, Alexandre Benois as the individual who selected artists to work on the station, and the artists themselves, including Nikolai Roerich and Pavel Kuznetsov, namely, those who built and decorated the station deliberately concealed the station’s inherently modernist and utilitarian nature behind a backward-looking, past-oriented façade, both to fulfill their mission of commemorating old Russia’s imperial expansion and subjugation of the East and to assuage the social and cultural anxieties often stirred up in the late 1800s and early 1900s by the construction of infrastructural assets such as railroad stations.…”
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Cultural interaction and value pursuit: the Shijing in German culture by Yang Xinwen

“…The powerful textual interpretations and meaning-construction functions of the Shijing are key reasons for its enduring relevance in Germany. …”
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The Newspaper “Literature and Art of Bamlag” as a Literary Precedent of the GULAG by Tatyana Ye. Smykovskaya

“…Firstly, it is the only literary newspaper of the Gulag and, therefore, illustrates how the artistic language functioned within the system of the Soviet closed prison camps. …”
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The Effect of Sectoral Bank Loans on Economic Growth in Turkey by Tacinur Akça

“…Finally, the effect of shocks in sectoral loans on economic growth was evaluated by using impulse-response functions. The variables used were obtained from the CBRT (Banks Association of Turkey Risk Center). …”
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The role of Green Building Information Modeling (GBIM) in promoting architectural sustainability by Yousif Al-Mashhadani Mays, Abdulmunem Al-Tameemi Osamah

“…A comprehensive review of the literature and previous research is conducted to examine the benefits, challenges, levels of development, data requirements, and functionalities of Green BIM. The study then discusses selected international and regional case studies, in addition to a specific case study in Iraq, to assess the application and effectiveness of Green BIM in achieving sustainability. …”
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Organization of Educational Processes in Craft Classes of the Widow's Home in Nizhny Novgorod in Early 20th Century by A. V. Tikhovodova

“…The author concludes that the trustees of this charitable institution, in collaboration with local government bodies, aimed to provide comprehensive support to their wards, identifying and nurturing their talents. The functioning of the craft classes is reconstructed based on reports from the Widow's Home regarding its activities and a report on the construction of a new two-story building intended for the vocational school and dormitory.…”
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Simultaneous Optimal Allocation of EVCSs and RESs Using an Improved Genetic Method by Majid Farjamipur, Hossein Lotfi, Mohammad Hassan Nikkhah

“…In this regard, along with the construction of charging and discharging stations for electric vehicles, the construction of renewable sources in the network can play a complementary role for these stations. …”
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More than just mud: the importance of wallows to Javan rhino ecology and behaviour by Steven G. Wilson, Georgina Hockings, Jo-Anne M. Deretic, Salit Kark

“…We discovered that Javan rhino utilise wallows not only for thermoregulatory function, but also as sites of interaction and communication. …”
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Regreening Practices and Effectiveness Evaluation for Rocky Slope Drawdown Zones in Pumped Storage Power Station Reservoirs by YANG Zhi-chao, MA Xiao-xiao, CHANG Shi-ju, TANG Yu-shuang, ZHAO Rui-yi, WAN Dan, ZHANG Qian-zhu

“…[Objective] Reservoir construction has severely degraded the ecological environment of reservoir banks. …”
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Research on Pedestrians’ Visual Perception Characteristics Based on USGGS: A Case Study of the Six Inner-City Districts of Tianjin by Hanwen YANG, Shang’en TSOU, Yike HU

“…These findings emphasize the importance of considering USGGS configurations in urban planning to create visual environments that are better suited to the function of the place, enhance the ecological value of streets as well as the life quality of residents, and promote sustainable urban development.The challenges faced by street greening in Tianjin include uneven spatial distribution, insufficient resilience, low public participation and varying regional management levels. …”
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Extended Auxiliary Equation Method and Its Applications to Three Generalized NLS Equations by Gui-qiong Xu

“…The auxiliary equation method proposed by Sirendaoreji is extended to construct new types of elliptic function solutions of nonlinear evolution equations. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variation and Influencing Factors of Water Yield in Drinking Water Sources by Liu Anyou, Zou Jin, Liu Lei, Zhou Qibin, Li Yang, Rong Yi, He Xiao

“…[Objective] The spatial and temporal distribution of water yield at Yunlong Reservoir basin (one of the sources of drinking water in Kunming) from 2001 to 2020 was studied in order to provide a scientific basis for the sustainable development of a water yield service function, and for constructing an ecological compensation mechanism and ecological protection policies. …”
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Fresh Tea Leaf-Grading Detection: An Improved YOLOv8 Neural Network Model Utilizing Deep Learning by Zejun Wang, Yuxin Xia, Houqiao Wang, Xiaohui Liu, Raoqiong Che, Xiaoxue Guo, Hongxu Li, Shihao Zhang, Baijuan Wang

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PPAR-γ Ligand Inhibits Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Cell Proliferation and Metastasis by Regulating E2F2 by Ping-Li Yang, Jia-Shun Wang, Xiao-Mei Cheng, Jing-Cai Chen, Hui Zhu, Xiao-Lan Li, Li Cao, Wei Tang

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Classification of Nitrogen-Efficient Wheat Varieties Based on UAV Hyperspectral Remote Sensing by Yumeng Li, Chunying Wang, Junke Zhu, Qinglong Wang, Ping Liu

“…This approach aimed to mitigate the impact of high collinearity and noise in high-dimensional hyperspectral data on model construction. Furthermore, the SVM-XGBoost method integrated the extracted feature bands with the support vectors and decision function outputs from the preliminary SVM classification. …”
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Evaluation of Changes in Protein, Amino Acids, and Flavor during Mixed Fermentation of Chicken and Soybean by Zhengyu LONG, Jinhao ZOU, Huaigu YANG, Guopu REN, Qingming CAO, Daobang TANG

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Assessment of binary prediction of fraudulent advertisements in ATS candidate tracking cloud systems by V. V. Ligi-Goryaev, G. A. Mankaeva, T. B. Goldvarg, S. S. Muchkaeva, E. N. Dzhakhnaeva

“…The tkinter module was used for the graphical interface. The predict() function utilizes the trained model for predictions based on the feature vector.…”
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A multi-parameters assessment method and prediction model for ground vibration under the high-speed railway bridge by Wenya Yuan, Baoxin Jia, Zhiyang Zhou, Jing Zhang, Puzhen An

“…Besides, an application example of environment vibration prediction was given, and the site selection distance threshold away from the high-speed railways of different types of environmental vibration function areas were determined. The study showed that the proposed multi-parameters vibration assessment method was so comprehensive that it could take the vibration safety of building structures, human perception comfort and environmental vibration limit all into consideration. …”
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LEXICAL DESYNONYMY IN B. VIAN’S NOVEL “FROTH ON THE DAYDREAM” by Anastasiia V. Lepetiukha

“…All the distinguished types of lexical desynonyms perform the intra- and interphrasal stylistic‑expressive function reflecting the author’s individual vision of the objective reality. …”
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