The effect of flaw on rock mechanical properties under the Brazilian test by Yu Zhou, Guang Zhang, Shunchuan Wu, Li Zhang

“… Tensile strength is one of the most significant parameters for rock. Rock-like materials were used to prefabricate Brazilian disc specimens containing a single flaw. …”
Get full text

A Comparative Analysis of Manual and Computer Constant Comparison Methods: Using Data from a Constructivist Inquiry of Experiences Working with Ethnic Agencies by Suzie Weng

“… A dilemma one may face in analyzing qualitative data is whether to use a manual approach with index cards or a computer data management tool like ATLAS.ti.  This paper compares the two approaches in organizing and analyzing data using the same data set.  The data were collected and first analyzed in a constructivist inquiry course according to the methods laid out by Rodwell (1998).  This process involved unitizing data onto index cards and these cards were then sorted into categories during the constant comparison process.  Later, the same data were linked to ATLAS.ti where they were unitized and categorized simultaneously.  Constant comparison took place when all the data were coded.  A comparison of the two methods allowed the author to determine the strengths and limitations for the various stages of constant comparison. …”
Get full text

How Do WE Address the Instructors in the Expanding Circle? Perspectives from Turkish EFL Speakers by Ahmet Can Uyar, İsmail YAMAN

“…Far from the norm-referenced approach which focuses on labeling non-native-like practices as failures, this study casts light on the underlying mechanisms of the identified address preferences from a variationist point of view. …”
Get full text

Safe spaces for feminist activists online: Chinese networked feminists’ self-censorship strategies in response to online misogyny and government censorship by Aizi Chang

“…Through an analysis of social media platforms like XiaoHongShu, this research highlights how Chinese feminists adapt their activism to resist aggressive censorship and misogynistic backlash, framing self-censorship as a proactive and creative tool rather than a passive response to repression. …”
Get full text

3M: Multi-style image caption generation using Multi-modality features under Multi-UPDOWN model by Chengxi Li, Brent Harrison

“…We demonstrate the effectiveness of our model on generating human-like captions by examining its performance on two datasets, the PERSONALITY-CAPTIONS dataset, and the FlickrStyle10K dataset. …”
Get full text

On the analytical model for jitter by Saralees Nadarajah, Alassane Ba

“…Jitter in Internet Protocol (IP) networks refers to the variation in packet arrival times, which can cause delays or disruptions in real-time communications like voice or video calls. Managing jitter is crucial for applications requiring consistent data flow, such as voice over internet protocol, online gaming, and video conferencing, to maintain quality and reliability. …”
Get full text

Deep multi-biometric fuzzy commitment scheme: fusion methods and performance by Valentina Fohr, Christian Rathgeb

“…Three fusion methods are proposed: concatenation, interleaving, and random shuffling within the fuzzy commitment scheme using error correction methods based on Hadamard and Reed-Solomon codes. The evaluation of performance and security reveals that random shuffling outperforms other methods like interleaving and concatenation in terms of recognition performance. …”
Get full text

BELARUSIANS’ SELFIDENTIFICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CIVILIZATIONAL BORDERLAND by L. Volakhava

“…Lukashenko’s pendulum-like foreign policy highlights the national identity reference points and defines its either pro-Russian or pro-Western leaning. …”
Get full text

Moiré Effect: Index and the Digital Image by Stella Baraklianou

“…Most widely recognisable in colour printing practices, generally viewed on screens (computer and TV) they are in most cases examples of interference within a signal or a code, unwanted visual mis-alignment. Especially in digital image capture, moiré patternings appear when a geometrically even pattern, like a fabric or close-up of fine texture, has an appearance of rippled water with blue or red hues of concentric circle formations. …”
Get full text

Drawing Boundaries Between Data Protection and Privacy: the Centre for Reforming the Data Protection Paradigm by Haodi Deng

“…Similarly, China has firmly separated data protection and privacy through legislation like the Civil Code and the Personal Information Protection Law. …”
Get full text

Dɛnkyɛm: Identity Development and Negotiation Among 1.5-Generation Ghanaian American Millennials by Jakia Marie

“…The findings suggest that many individuals of this generation had unrealistic expectations of what life in the United States was like, which made the initial transition difficult. …”
Get full text

Using d2d for Writing XML by Markus Lepper, Baltasar Trancón y Widemann

“…Being standard XML, switching the backend to other formats (like TEI plus MEI) seems promising—not affecting the underlying design criteria. …”
Get full text

Assessing the prevalence of unethical behaviour in the South African police service by Maxwell Haurovi, Alouis Chilunjika

“…SAPS encountered challenges like police corruption, bribery, illegal protection, and extortion. …”
Get full text

Context-sensitive Dialogues by Vilhjalmur Arnason

Get full text

Tjieng Tjang Tjerries and other stories by Jolyn Phillips by Naledi Msimang

“…She stays true even to the mix of English and Afrikaans spoken in the town, and code-switches from one language to the other regularly and unapologetically so. …”
Get full text

Performance-portable Binary Neutron Star Mergers with AthenaK by Jacob Fields, Hengrui Zhu, David Radice, James M. Stone, William Cook, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Boris Daszuta

“…We introduce an extension to the AthenaK code for general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in dynamical spacetimes using a 3+1 conservative Eulerian formulation. …”
Get full text

Mycobacterium leprae Slide Positivity at Felege Hiwot Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: Seven Years Retrospective Study by Mulat Erkihun, Ayenew Assefa, Biruk Legese, Andargachew Almaw, Ayenew Berhan, Birhanu Getie, Teklehaimanot Kiros, Alemie Fentie, Yenealem Solomon, Bekele Sharew, Zelalem Asmare, Bayu Ayele

“…Socio‐demographic data like age, sex, and confirmed cases were collected carefully. …”
Get full text

Validation of the MIRACLE2 Score for Prognostication After Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest by Nicholas Sunderland, Francine Cheese, Zoe Leadbetter, Nikhil V Joshi, Mark Mariathas, Ioannis Felekos, Sinjini Biswas, Geoff Dalton, Amardeep Dastidar, Shahid Aziz, Dan McKenzie, Raveen Kandan, Ali Khavandi, Hazim Rahbi, Christopher Bourdeaux, Kieron Rooney, Matt Govier, Matthew Thomas, Stephen Dorman, Julian Strange, Thomas W Johnson

“…An optimal pathway of care is yet to be defined, but prognostication is likely to assist in the challenging decision-making required for treatment of this high-risk patient cohort. …”
Get full text

A New Rarity Assessment of the “Disk of Satellites”: The Milky Way System Is the Exception Rather Than the Rule in the ΛCDM Cosmology by Chanoul Seo, Suk-Jin Yoon, Sanjaya Paudel, Sung-Ho An, Jun-Sung Moon

“…The majority of satellite galaxies around the Milky Way (MW) show disk-like distributions (the disk of satellites; DoS), which is a small-scale problem of the lambda cold dark matter cosmology. …”
Get full text

Improved Low-Complexity, Pilot-Based Channel Estimation for Large Intelligent Surface Systems by Ali Gashtasbi, Mário Marques da Silva, Rui Dinis

“…It also looks at more advanced methods, like using low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, antenna selection, and optimized pilot design, to make the method more accurate and effective. …”
Get full text