Social media addiction and borderline personality disorder: a survey study by Madison Collins, Jon E. Grant

“…Background and aimsBorderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious and difficult to treat psychiatric condition characterized by affective and interpersonal instability, impulsivity, and self-image disturbances. …”
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On the electric behaviour of conductive grease inside the contact zone by Yuxin Zhou, Jinjie Liu, Xinming Li, He Chong, Bo Han, Qinghua Bai

“…This paper combines bulk grease characterization and contact film study considering both electrical and tribological loading conditions. …”
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Stages of organising educational activities with migrant children in France by V. Yakymenko

“…It has been found that the first stage (the 70s - 90s of the twentieth century) - the stage of launching the development of issues of organizing educational activities with migrant children in France - was characterized by the adoption of a number of legislative acts aimed at organizing educational activities with children from migrant families; defining the essence of the leading concepts; clearly defining the purpose and objectives of organizing this activity; formulating the leading principles of organizing educational activities with migrant children and the main directions of teachers' activities; outlining the principles of the It is proved that the second stage (the early 20s of the XXI century) - the stage of improving the organization of educational activities with migrant children in France - was characterized by further adoption of important legislative acts, expansion of the tasks of organizing this activity; enrichment of the content and activities of schools with migrant families; expansion of the principles of organization of the French education system; introduction of new forms of organization of educational activities; widespread use of project activities; organization of psychological support for migrant children. …”
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Electroabsorption Modulated Lasers With High Immunity to Residual Facet Reflection by Using Lasers With Partially Corrugated Gratings by Puspa Devi Pukhrambam, San Liang Lee, Gerd Keiser

“…Residual facet reflection can significantly degrade the performance of electroabsorption modulated lasers (EMLs) operating at high data rates. This issue also complicates the fabrication and characterization of the highly demanded light sources for optical interconnects and transmission. …”
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Virtualized Microphone Array for Moving Sources Mapping by Francesca Sopranzetti, Alessia Caputo, Paolo Castellini

“…The acoustic analysis of a moving object, such as in pass-by or fly-over tests, is a very important and demanding issue. These types of analyses make it possible to characterize the machine in quite realistic conditions, but the typical difficulties related to source localization and characterization are usually exacerbated by the need to take into consideration and to compensate for the object movement. …”
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Where ? When ? And how often ? What can we learn about daily urban mobilities from Twitter data and Google POIs in Bangkok (Thailand) and which perspectives for dengue studies ?... by Alexandre Cebeillac, Eric Daudé, Thomas Huraux

“…This paper, focused on the dengue endemic mega-city of Bangkok (Thailand), explores the potentialities of (A) using a land use classification from Google’s points of interest (POIs) to assess the likelihood of performing an activity from (B) a large dataset of individual geolocated tweets to characterize and quantify daily mobility. These emerging data sources allow the characterization of (C) the rhythms of daily mobility in Bangkok, from the perspective of (1) the macroscopic urban pulse and (2) the rhythms and aims for individual movement. …”
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A Review of Research on Potential Solutions for Dendrite Growth in Solid State Cells by Liu Yang

“…However, technological constraints still limit the widespread implementation of these strategies, and more advanced characterization techniques are needed to better understand and address the issue of dendrite growth in solid-state batteries.…”
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Prediction of rock type from physical and mechanical properties by data mining implementations by Fatih Bayram

“…Abstract Rock type characterization is an essential issue in mining and other geosciences. …”
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CONDITION ASSESSMENT OF SUBJECTIVE COMFORT AND THE REACTIONS OF THE POPULATION IN THE URBAN CONTEXT OF EXPOSURE TO NOISE by NICA-BADEA Delia, PASARE Minodora Maria

“…The paper considers this issue matters as of interference noise of the ordinary activity of the population owing to its cause and its presence in all departments of life. …”
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Heterogeneity Measures for Analyzing the Scale Effect and Anisotropy of Joint Roughness by Jibo Qin, Zhenhan Zhang, Jun Ye

“…The influence of joint roughness on the mechanical properties of rock mass is usually quantitatively characterized by joint roughness coefficient (JRC). The scale effect and the anisotropy of joint roughness are its important characteristics. …”
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Publication activity indicators of the Moscow Healthcare Department organizations in the subject area "Transplantation" by E. I. Aksenova, N. N. Kamynina, K. Yu. Tarkhov

“…Conducting a scientometric study to characterize, analyze and evaluate the publication activity of the Moscow Healthcare Department organizations in the subject area "Transplantation".Material and methods. …”
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EVERYDAY LIFE AND DEMOGRAPHIC PROCESSES IN VIRGIN LANDS OF ORENBURG REGION by O. Kuznetsova

“…The social structure characterizing the form of coexistence of different national traditions in virgin territories is analyzed. …”
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Enhanced Cybersecurity Framework for Unmanned Aerial Systems: A Comprehensive STRIDE-Model Analysis and Emerging Defense Strategies by Hailong Xi, Le Ru, Jiwei Tian, Bo Lu, Shiguang Hu, Wenfei Wang, Hongqiao Wang, Xiaohui Luan

“…Most current studies on UAV cybersecurity issues tend to focus on individual UAVs, often neglecting the holistic cybersecurity of UAS. …”
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Applying the socio-ecological systems framework to assess the sustainability of tropical cattle ranching in Mexico by Daniela Figueroa, Leopoldo Galicia, Véronique Sophie Ávila Foucat, Benito Díaz-Morales

“…Utilizing surveys conducted with 350 producers of a silvopastoral cattle network in southern Mexico, the structure and interactions of cattle SES were characterized. Furthermore, based on information derived from a workshop with producers, the framework was operationalized through variables representing action situations and generating outcomes in terms of management, organizational issues, and ecosystem services. …”
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Investments in the Sharing Economy and their Impact on the Employment Structural Changes by G. M. Galeeva, L Kh. Ishtiryakova

“…The article examines topical issues related to structural changes in employment in the Russian economy, due to the intensive development of the sharing economy. …”
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Expérimentation d’une évaluation des impacts sur la santé comme vecteur d’un apprentissage collectif des liens entre santé, développement durable et urbanisme by Anne-Laure Legendre, Benjamin Combes, Johan Verstraeten, Yorghos Remvikos

“…HIA differs from other forms of policy assessments as it relies on core values among which democracy, equity and sustainable development. It is also characterized by a cross-sectional approach based on the diversity of health determinants that are taken into account. …”
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INFLUENCE OF INTERNATIONALIZATION OF TAX LAW ON RUSSIAN TAX LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE AREA OF CORPORATE TAXATION by K. Ponomareva

“…The author comes to the conclusion that the most relevant and most controversial issues are taxation of payment of royalties, debt financing and intra-group expenses. …”
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Mm-Wave Building Penetration Losses: A Measurement-Based Critical Analysis by Silvi Kodra, Marina Barbiroli, Enrico Maria Vitucci, Franco Fuschini, Vittorio Degli-Esposti

“…In particular, outdoor-to-indoor and through-floor attenuation need to be analysed and carefully characterized at mm-waves in order to correctly approach both coverage and interference assessment issues. …”
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A method for mining over-limit patterns of low voltage in users based on hierarchical affinity propagation clustering by SHEN Shuhao, ZHONG Qing, XU Zhong, WANG Gang, LI Haifeng, WANG Longjun

“…Mining different over-limit patterns of the low voltage is very important to guide the management of low voltage issues in users. Due to the complexity and the ever-changing nature of voltage, the over-limit patterns of low voltage are always inherently unknown in users. …”
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Visual feedback and motor memory contributions to sustained motor control deficits in autism spectrum disorder across childhood and into adulthood by Robin L. Shafer, James Bartolotti, Abigail Driggers, Erin Bojanek, Zheng Wang, Matthew W. Mosconi

“…The development of motor memory and visuomotor feedback processes contributing to sustained motor control issues in ASD are not known. The present study aimed to characterize age-related changes in visual feedback and motor memory processes contributing to sustained fine motor control issues in ASD. …”
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