Metaphor as a Pragmatic Tool for Stylistic Enhancement: Cognitive and Translation Studies Perspectives by Svitlana Radetska, Oksana Milova

“…Metaphor serves multiple functions, including stylistic enhancement, cognitive structuring, and communicative efficacy. In translation studies, metaphor poses unique challenges due to its cultural and linguistic nuances. …”
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Evolution of Supernova Remnants in a Cloudy Multiphase Interstellar Medium by Minghao Guo, Chang-Goo Kim, James M. Stone

“…Thermal conduction has little effect on the dynamics of the SNR but smooths the morphology and modifies the internal structure by increasing the density of hot gas by a factor of ∼3–5. …”
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A systematic scoping review and thematic analysis: How can livestock and poultry movement networks inform disease surveillance and control at the global scale? by Sara C Sequeira, Natalie Sebunia, Jessica R Page, Taiwo Lasisi, Greg Habing, Andréia G Arruda

“…Five themes emerged: network structure, epidemic modeling, targeted control, outbreak analysis, and network inference. …”
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Oxygen vacancy-rich engineering-optimized molybdenum trioxide microbelts for room-temperature ppb-level trimethylamine detection by Kaidi Wu, Zhijie Xu, Kaichun Xu, Jinyong Xu, Yifan Luo, Marc Debliquy, Chao Zhang

“…Oxygen vacancies in metal oxides play a pivotal role in determining their electronic structure and interfacial redox dynamics. However, their sluggish kinetics and imbalanced adsorption/desorption hinder their performance. …”
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Trophic relations and ecological niches of darkling beetles of the genus <i>Nalassus</i> Mulsant, 1854 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in the Caucasus and description of a new species... by M. V. Nabozhenko, L. V. Gagarina, I. A. Chigray, S. V. Nabozhenko

“…The  number  of  beetles  per  area  was  counted  on 100 × 4 m transects. The number, sexual structure and diurnal activity (feeding, copulation) were observed with the pause of 15 to 25 minutes. …”
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Construction of a Value Evaluation System for Fujian Tubao Architectural Heritage Based on Grounded Theory and the Analytic Hierarchy Process by Xiaoyang Qiao, Xinwei Liu, Wenliang Ye, Maowei Chen

“…The framework ensures logical consistency in value structuring and enhances the scientific validity of results. …”
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GhostConv+CA-YOLOv8n: a lightweight network for rice pest detection based on the aggregation of low-level features in real-world complex backgrounds by Fei Li, Yang Lu, Qiang Ma, Shuxin Yin, Rui Zhao

“…To overcome these limitations, this paper introduces GhostConv+CA-YOLOv8n, a lightweight object detection framework was proposed, which incorporates several innovative features: GhostConv replaces standard convolutional operations with computationally efficient ghost modules in the YOLOv8n’s backbone structure, reducing parameters by 40,458 while maintaining feature richness; a Context Aggregation (CA) module is applied after the large and medium-sized feature maps were output by the YOLOv8n’s neck structure. …”
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Research on vehicle-rail coupling vibration at turnout and suppression method of medium and low speed maglev vehicle by HOU Longgang, LIANG Shulin, CHI Maoru

“…In the medium and low speed maglev vehicle-rail coupling system, the turnout is an important part of the line change of the maglev vehicle, and its main beam mostly adopts the web or box-shaped steel beam structure with relatively low modal frequency and damping. …”
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Application of Metalines to a Low-Profile Antenna Array for CP Multibeam Generation in the Elevation Plane by Hisamatsu Nakano, Tomoki Abe

“…First, dispersion diagrams are created for four types of CP cells (U1, U2, U3, and U4) in compliance with the specified low-profile structure and beam directions at <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$f_{\mathrm {D}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. …”
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The effect of cultivation technologies on chick pea productivity in the southern part of the Rostov region by S. A. Vasilchenko, G. V. Metlina

“…The article presents the data about the effect of fertilizing with microelements and growth regulators on field germination, safety of plants before harvesting, elements of yield structure and productivity, economic and bioenergetics efficiency of chick pea cultivation. …”
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Underwater Visual Multi-Target Tracking Algorithm Integrating Re-parameterization and Attention Mechanism by Junyi LI, Mingle HE, Chang LIU, Yong XU

“…This algorithm effectively enhanced the network’s multi-scale feature extraction capability and improved the detection accuracy of the model by integrating a structurally re-parameterized multi-scale feature extraction convolutional structure(DBB-RFAConv) and the AMSCE-attention mechanism. …”
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Transformation of foreign commerce of Ukraine: realities, problems, perspectives by Nataliia Husieva, Yurii Kandyba, Pavlo Kobylin

“…The import was characterized by decrease in the share of raw materials and increase in the share of all other goods during the mentioned period. Commodity structure of foreign trade became more proportional, without a highly dominant product. …”
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Impact of the financial crisis on revenues of urban municipalities in Poland – experiences the COVID-19 pandemic by Katarzyna Maj-Serwatka, Anna Wichowska

“…The analyses demonstrate a shift in the urban municipalities revenue structure in Poland, which is the effect of a decreased share of own revenue, especially tax revenue, and an increase in the share of transfer revenue. …”
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Investigation of physical and chemical properties of new derivatives of 5-(thiophene-3-ylmethyl)-4R-1,2,4-triazole-3-thiols by A. V. Khilkovets

“…During their further chemical transformation, a number of new corresponding alkyl derivatives were obtained. The structure of the synthesized compounds was confirmed using modern physical-chemical methods of analysis. …”
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Controllable Synthesis of BixOyBrz/TiO2 Heterojunctions with Excellent Visible‐Light‐Driven Photocatalytic Activities for Phenol by Guoli Fang, Zhuoyi Niu, Gang Zhang, Xianghui Yan, Jie Wei, Jahanzaib Israr

“…Moreover, the heterojunction structure promotes the separation of photo‐generated electrons and holes in Bi4O5Br2/TiO2, while ·O2− and h+ are the main active species during its photocatalytic processes.…”
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The Ister (Film) as an Experience of Visual Philosophizing: Ethical Aspects of Technology in M. Heidegger’s Philosophy by Olga V. Konfederat, Natalya G. Dyadyk

“…As a result, it is asserted that a cinematic work can serve as a tool for understanding complex philosophical concepts and be an experience of philosophizing as a thinking practice. Following the structure and content of The Ister, we can pose and discuss at a philosophical level current socio-cultural problems, such as the relationship between humans and technology, the philosophical foundations of politics, the issue of human identity in a globalizing culture, the structure of historical time, marked by humans according to their ideas about what is right and proper. …”
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Epidemiological characteristics of acute respiratory viral infection and influenza in Russian Federation and Moscow by T. S. Saltykova, B. A. Zhigarlovsky, A. V. Ivanenko, N. A. Volkova, V. I. Antonova, N. I. Briko

“…The greatest proportion in the structure of the incidence of ARVI is children under 17 years. …”
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Revolutionizing environment friendly FASnI3 perovskite solar cells with pioneering selenium doped metal chalcogenide charge transport layer unlocking 32% efficiency by Akash Anand Verma, D. K. Dwivedi

“…With Sn(S0.92Se0.08)2 as ETL and PTAA as Hole transport layer (HTL), the PSC’s performance is maximized and the optimal performance device structure is attained. For our investigation, the optimal device structure is (Au/PTAA/FASnI3/Sn(S0.92Se0.08)2/FTO). …”
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Detection of fractured zones, faults, and cavities by high resolution muon tomography in the Buda Hills by László Balázs, Gergő Hamar, Ádám Csicsek, Gergely Surányi, Dezső Varga

“…Abstract The high-penetration cosmic-ray muons can be used for scanning and exploring the structure of large geological formations, up to several hundred meters of thickness. …”
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Multifunctional metamorphic III-V distributed Bragg reflectors grown on Si substrate for resonant cavity surface emitting devices by Tsimafei Laryn, Rafael Jumar Chu, Yeonhwa Kim, Eunkyo Ju, Chunghyun Ahn, Hyun-Yong Yu, May Madarang, Hojoong Jung, Won Jun Choi, Daehwan Jung

“…Here, we propose multifunctional metamorphic In0.1Ga0.9As/AlAs distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) on Si which serve as a bottom mirror with a high reflectivity of 99.8% while simultaneously reducing the crystalline defect density by a factor of three, compared to GaAs/AlAs DBR on Si. The proposed DBR structure also exhibits a crack-free and exceptionally smooth surface morphology with root-mean-square roughness of 1.2 nm, which is five times smoother than the conventional GaAs/AlAs structure on Si. …”
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