Stakeholders’ Perception of the Process of Change in the Romanian Pre-University Education by Adriana GRIGORESCU, Luminiţa Mirela OLTEANU

“…Nowadays, there is a very bureaucratic pre-university education, relatively inefficient, in a continuous change of regulation. Having as the general target „The identification of the perception of the stakeholders of the education process regarding the need for change, the mechanisms of implementation and the pattern of the change to be efficient for the pre-university education system”, this research took place during the period of September-December 2012, on a population of 354 respondents, teaching staff and students of the pre-university education system, representatives of parents and local community, as well as businessmen, members of the schools administrative councils. …”
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Peut-on mesurer la vitesse du récit médiéval ? Réflexions sur le rythme, l’agencement et la lecture du roman en vers by Vanessa Obry

“…In Figures III, Gérard Genette considers the alternation of scenes and summaries as the traditional rhythmic pattern of the novel. The article considers the possible use of Genette’s theorical system on narrative speed, for the study of the writing process and for the understanding of the reading modes of the medieval narratives. …”
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Advances in Observation and Estimation of Land Use Impacts on Climate Changes: Improved Data, Upgraded Models, and Case Studies by R. B. Singh, Chenchen Shi

“…Global land use and land cover pattern has greatly changed in the past 50 years, which exerts direct or indirect influence on the climate change remarkably at both regional and global scales. …”
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Study on Control Optimization for Heavy Haul Train Based on Fuzzy Adaptive PID Control by ZHAO Qiaoni

“…The table mode of coupler force was established with the in-continuity of smooth unloading over the excessive pattern, and the fuzzy adaptive PID controller was used to control the force deviation and the change rate of the coupler force deviation. …”
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“This is not science. This is storytelling:” The Poetics of Science in Arcadia by Liliane Campos

“…This article explores the strong epistemological continuity of Stoppard’s references to science, which provide him with metaphors for the systematic instability of knowledge asserted by his plays. …”
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Slip model of the 17 November 2015 Mw = 6.5 Lefkada earthquake from the joint inversion of geodetic and seismic data by Konstantinos Chousianitis, A. Ozgun Konca, G.‐Akis Tselentis, Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos, Michail Gianniou

“…The joint inversion of all data sets revealed a relatively complex slip pattern with a heterogeneous distribution. Slip is confined in the upper 10 km. …”
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Dose-Modulated Maskless Lithography for the Efficient Fabrication of Compound Eyes With Enlarged Field-of-View by Jianghui Liu, Junbo Liu, Qingyuan Deng, Xi Liu, Yu He, Yan Tang, Song Hu

“…Besides, because the DMML uses sequential gray-levels to modulate the exposure depth, the fabricated structure has a more continuous profile surface. Combined with the thermal reflow process, and the pattern reversion process, the compound eyes array was transferred to the planar polydimethylsiloxane films with high quality. …”
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Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Green Infrastructure along the Urban-Rural Gradient of the Cities of Bujumbura, Kinshasa and Lubumbashi by Henri Kabanyegeye, Nadège Cizungu Cirezi, Héritier Khoji Muteya, Didier Mbarushimana, Léa Mukubu Pika, Waselin Salomon, Yannick Useni Sikuzani, Kouagou Raoul Sambieni, Tatien Masharabu, Jan Bogaert

“…The evolution of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index demonstrates a sawtooth pattern in the evolution of tall vegetation patches in Bujumbura, compared to a gradual decrease in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi. …”
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Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology by Elliot Gould, Hannah S. Fraser, Timothy H. Parker, Shinichi Nakagawa, Simon C. Griffith, Peter A. Vesk, Fiona Fidler, Daniel G. Hamilton, Robin N. Abbey-Lee, Jessica K. Abbott, Luis A. Aguirre, Carles Alcaraz, Irith Aloni, Drew Altschul, Kunal Arekar, Jeff W. Atkins, Joe Atkinson, Christopher M. Baker, Meghan Barrett, Kristian Bell, Suleiman Kehinde Bello, Iván Beltrán, Bernd J. Berauer, Michael Grant Bertram, Peter D. Billman, Charlie K. Blake, Shannon Blake, Louis Bliard, Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati, Timothée Bonnet, Camille Nina Marion Bordes, Aneesh P. H. Bose, Thomas Botterill-James, Melissa Anna Boyd, Sarah A. Boyle, Tom Bradfer-Lawrence, Jennifer Bradham, Jack A. Brand, Martin I. Brengdahl, Martin Bulla, Luc Bussière, Ettore Camerlenghi, Sara E. Campbell, Leonardo L. F. Campos, Anthony Caravaggi, Pedro Cardoso, Charles J. W. Carroll, Therese A. Catanach, Xuan Chen, Heung Ying Janet Chik, Emily Sarah Choy, Alec Philip Christie, Angela Chuang, Amanda J. Chunco, Bethany L. Clark, Andrea Contina, Garth A. Covernton, Murray P. Cox, Kimberly A. Cressman, Marco Crotti, Connor Davidson Crouch, Pietro B. D’Amelio, Alexandra Allison de Sousa, Timm Fabian Döbert, Ralph Dobler, Adam J. Dobson, Tim S. Doherty, Szymon Marian Drobniak, Alexandra Grace Duffy, Alison B. Duncan, Robert P. Dunn, Jamie Dunning, Trishna Dutta, Luke Eberhart-Hertel, Jared Alan Elmore, Mahmoud Medhat Elsherif, Holly M. English, David C. Ensminger, Ulrich Rainer Ernst, Stephen M. Ferguson, Esteban Fernandez-Juricic, Thalita Ferreira-Arruda, John Fieberg, Elizabeth A. Finch, Evan A. Fiorenza, David N. Fisher, Amélie Fontaine, Wolfgang Forstmeier, Yoan Fourcade, Graham S. Frank, Cathryn A. Freund, Eduardo Fuentes-Lillo, Sara L. Gandy, Dustin G. Gannon, Ana I. García-Cervigón, Alexis C. Garretson, Xuezhen Ge, William L. Geary, Charly Géron, Marc Gilles, Antje Girndt, Daniel Gliksman, Harrison B. Goldspiel, Dylan G. E. Gomes, Megan Kate Good, Sarah C. Goslee, J. Stephen Gosnell, Eliza M. Grames, Paolo Gratton, Nicholas M. Grebe, Skye M. Greenler, Maaike Griffioen, Daniel M. Griffith, Frances J. Griffith, Jake J. Grossman, Ali Güncan, Stef Haesen, James G. Hagan, Heather A. Hager, Jonathan Philo Harris, Natasha Dean Harrison, Sarah Syedia Hasnain, Justin Chase Havird, Andrew J. Heaton, María Laura Herrera-Chaustre, Tanner J. Howard, Bin-Yan Hsu, Fabiola Iannarilli, Esperanza C. Iranzo, Erik N. K. Iverson, Saheed Olaide Jimoh, Douglas H. Johnson, Martin Johnsson, Jesse Jorna, Tommaso Jucker, Martin Jung, Ineta Kačergytė, Oliver Kaltz, Alison Ke, Clint D. Kelly, Katharine Keogan, Friedrich Wolfgang Keppeler, Alexander K. Killion, Dongmin Kim, David P. Kochan, Peter Korsten, Shan Kothari, Jonas Kuppler, Jillian M. Kusch, Malgorzata Lagisz, Kristen Marianne Lalla, Daniel J. Larkin, Courtney L. Larson, Katherine S. Lauck, M. Elise Lauterbur, Alan Law, Don-Jean Léandri-Breton, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Kiara L’Herpiniere, Eva J. P. Lievens, Daniela Oliveira de Lima, Shane Lindsay, Martin Luquet, Ross MacLeod, Kirsty H. Macphie, Kit Magellan, Magdalena M. Mair, Lisa E. Malm, Stefano Mammola, Caitlin P. Mandeville, Michael Manhart, Laura Milena Manrique-Garzon, Elina Mäntylä, Philippe Marchand, Benjamin Michael Marshall, Charles A. Martin, Dominic Andreas Martin, Jake Mitchell Martin, April Robin Martinig, Erin S. McCallum, Mark McCauley, Sabrina M. McNew, Scott J. Meiners, Thomas Merkling, Marcus Michelangeli, Maria Moiron, Bruno Moreira, Jennifer Mortensen, Benjamin Mos, Taofeek Olatunbosun Muraina, Penelope Wrenn Murphy, Luca Nelli, Petri Niemelä, Josh Nightingale, Gustav Nilsonne, Sergio Nolazco, Sabine S. Nooten, Jessie Lanterman Novotny, Agnes Birgitta Olin, Chris L. Organ, Kate L. Ostevik, Facundo Xavier Palacio, Matthieu Paquet, Darren James Parker, David J. Pascall, Valerie J. Pasquarella, John Harold Paterson, Ana Payo-Payo, Karen Marie Pedersen, Grégoire Perez, Kayla I. Perry, Patrice Pottier, Michael J. Proulx, Raphaël Proulx, Jessica L Pruett, Veronarindra Ramananjato, Finaritra Tolotra Randimbiarison, Onja H. Razafindratsima, Diana J. Rennison, Federico Riva, Sepand Riyahi, Michael James Roast, Felipe Pereira Rocha, Dominique G. Roche, Cristian Román-Palacios, Michael S. Rosenberg, Jessica Ross, Freya E. Rowland, Deusdedith Rugemalila, Avery L. Russell, Suvi Ruuskanen, Patrick Saccone, Asaf Sadeh, Stephen M. Salazar, Kris Sales, Pablo Salmón, Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar, Leticia Pereira Santos, Francesca Santostefano, Hayden T. Schilling, Marcus Schmidt, Tim Schmoll, Adam C. Schneider, Allie E. Schrock, Julia Schroeder, Nicolas Schtickzelle, Nick L. Schultz, Drew A. Scott, Michael Peter Scroggie, Julie Teresa Shapiro, Nitika Sharma, Caroline L. Shearer, Diego Simón, Michael I. Sitvarin, Fabrício Luiz Skupien, Heather Lea Slinn, Grania Polly Smith, Jeremy A. Smith, Rahel Sollmann, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Shannon Michael Still, Erica F. Stuber, Guy F. Sutton, Ben Swallow, Conor Claverie Taff, Elina Takola, Andrew J. Tanentzap, Rocío Tarjuelo, Richard J. Telford, Christopher J. Thawley, Hugo Thierry, Jacqueline Thomson, Svenja Tidau, Emily M. Tompkins, Claire Marie Tortorelli, Andrew Trlica, Biz R. Turnell, Lara Urban, Stijn Van de Vondel, Jessica Eva Megan van der Wal, Jens Van Eeckhoven, Francis van Oordt, K. Michelle Vanderwel, Mark C. Vanderwel, Karen J. Vanderwolf, Juliana Vélez, Diana Carolina Vergara-Florez, Brian C. Verrelli, Marcus Vinícius Vieira, Nora Villamil, Valerio Vitali, Julien Vollering, Jeffrey Walker, Xanthe J. Walker, Jonathan A. Walter, Pawel Waryszak, Ryan J. Weaver, Ronja E. M. Wedegärtner, Daniel L. Weller, Shannon Whelan, Rachel Louise White, David William Wolfson, Andrew Wood, Scott W. Yanco, Jian D. L. Yen, Casey Youngflesh, Giacomo Zilio, Cédric Zimmer, Gregory Mark Zimmerman, Rachel A. Zitomer

“…We found substantial heterogeneity among results for both datasets, although the patterns of variation differed between them. For the blue tit analyses, the average effect was convincingly negative, with less growth for nestlings living with more siblings, but there was near continuous variation in effect size from large negative effects to effects near zero, and even effects crossing the traditional threshold of statistical significance in the opposite direction. …”
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Recent Riverbed Evolution and Protective Measures in Taiziji Reach by HE Xiao-zhi, YUE Hong-yan, LUAN Hua-long, HUANG Wei-dong, XU Fang

“…The Tietongzhou branch would continue to exhibit a pattern of left branch and right main channel, with the right branch showing a general scouring trend. …”
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Survey on self-reported psychotropic drug prescribing practices of eating disorder psychiatrists for the treatment of young people with anorexia nervosa by Ian C K Wong, Maedeh Y Beykloo, Dasha Nicholls, Mima Simic, Ruth Brauer, Elizabeth Mills

“…Objectives To survey current prescribing practices of psychotropic drugs by child and adolescent eating disorder (CAED) psychiatrists in the treatment of anorexia nervosa (AN).Design Cross-sectional self-administered survey.Setting All children and young people eating disorder services (CYP EDS) in England during a national training programme.Participants 44 CAED psychiatrists practising in CYP EDS in England.Primary and secondary outcome measures CAED psychiatrists completed a questionnaire regarding the pattern of psychopharmacological care in AN that they provide and the medication treatment pattern at their CYP EDS. …”
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Sibling Relations among Herders in Mărginimea Sibiului (Southern Transylvania) by Marin Constantin

“…Our field data point to the importance of the brothers’ and sisters’ joint work in terms of the apprenticeship of young shepherds, the task rotation during seasonal transhumance, the sharing of their parents’ herds, and (as a result) the intergenerational continuity of pastoral ownership. Therefore, sibling relations among herders should be considered not only demographic evidence of consanguinity but more importantly a traditional pattern of sociality and economic mutual help, i.e., an institution. …”
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Functional Thinking in Mathematics Learning: What and How to Measure it? by Gamarina Isti Ratnasari, Djamilah Bondan Widjajanti, Sri Andayani

“…Furthermore, in measuring functional thinking, it can be seen based on the indicators, namely writing the next element based on the previous pattern (recursive pattern), using the relationship between elements to continue the relationship to elements in general (covariational relationship), and stating the relationship between two elements that vary in the form of function rules (correspondence). …”
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A new horizon for rule-making in global ocean governance? Reflections on the IUCN’s contributions and limitations by Xidi Chen, Yu Zhong, Lishan Zhang

“…As traditional risks in global ocean governance continue to deteriorate and new challenges emerge, the state-centered pattern of the international rule-making approach often demonstrates inefficiency and lack of fairness, hindering the achievement of SDG 14 and damaging the common interests of the international community. …”
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EHD Spinning process for QD color converting display by Ilju Moon, Jin Woo Jung, Seongyong Kim, Keon Kuk

“…We identified the basic properties of QDs ink and substrate for EHD spinning and further proved patterning manufacturability with an optimized printing process. …”
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A Beam Steering Vector Tracking GNSS Software-Defined Receiver for Robust Positioning by Scott Burchfield, Charles Givhan, Scott Martin

“…Additionally, controlled reception pattern antennas can be used to steer the effective antenna gain pattern to resist interference. …”
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Exploring nonlinear dynamics in periodically driven time crystal from synchronization to chaotic motion by Alex Greilich, Nataliia E. Kopteva, Vladimir L. Korenev, Philipp A. Haude, Manfred Bayer

“…Abstract The coupled electron-nuclear spin system in an InGaAs semiconductor as testbed of nonlinear dynamics can develop auto-oscillations, resembling time-crystalline behavior, when continuously excited by a circularly polarized laser. …”
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Influence of microcrack types on macroscopic cracking of sandstone under freeze-thaw erosion. by Yanan Sun, Bing Liang, Junzu Ma, Jiaxu Jin, Daoliang Liu

“…When the freeze-thaw cycle reached 80 times, the ringing counts changes significantly, showing a continuous accumulation trend. The trend of b value shows that microcracking of rock samples with high degree of freeze-thaw erosion is a continuous process of accumulation. …”
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Jewish Anti-Christian Polemical Treatises in Early Modern Central and Eastern Europe: Where are They? by Daniel J. Lasker

“…Hence, such works are prevalent in areas where Jews engaged in theology – the Islamic world, Iberia, Provence, and Italy – and almost nonexistent in northern Europe (Ashkenaz), where there was little interest in theology. This pattern continued into the early modern period, at which time Ashkenazic Jews still produced almost no anti-Christian polemical works. …”
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Development of Cellular Cast Structures for Improving Heat Transfer in Thermal Energy Storage Systems by K. Naplocha, J. Grzęda, O. Trzaska, N. M. Raźny, A. Dmitruk

“…Microscopic observations confirmed high-quality, continuous coating on aluminum casting surfaces with characteristic microgrooves remaining after the printed pattern.…”
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