Dynamic Wheel Load Measurements by Optical Fiber Interferometry by Daniel Kacik, Ivan Martincek, Peihong Cheng

“…An optical fiber sensor, comprising a sensing fiber and a supporting structure, is securely bonded to the rail foot. As a train traverses the track, the resulting localized bending induces a change in the sensing fiber’s length, which manifests as a quantifiable phase shift in the interference signal. …”
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Multilingualism in Immigrant Journalism by Ilya Surguchev by T. S. Shevchenko

“…The factors that influenced the formation of the multi-layered structure of I. Surguchev’s language personality are revealed. …”
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‘Imagination of North’ in Author’s Landscape of V. L. Seroshevsky by N. K. Danilova

“…The methodological principles of modern cross-cultural research, where human life is a narrative structure are applied in the article. As a result of historical-cognitive and linguo-culturological analysis, Seroshevsky’s autobiographical chronotope, consisting of three periods, broadcasting the formation, development and transformation of the geocultural image of the North, was analyzed for the first time. …”
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Trickster Traits in the Folklore Image of Mazan-Batyr by Boris Yu. Sengleev

“…The article examines Mazan as a Trickster and places the structure of legends and tales associated with Mazan-batyr against the context of the Trickster narrative. …”
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The Expert Right to Submit Petitions as an Exercise Form of Expert Initiative by O. G. Dyakonova

“…The provisions of legislation on expert activities of the member States of the Eurasian Economic Union, the Model Law of the Eurasian Economic Community on forensic activities, as well as scientific positions on the nature, structure, exercise, limits and regulation of expert initiative are analyzed in the article. …”
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Modeling Interactive Enterprise Architecture Visualizations: An Extended Architecture Description by Dierk Jugel

“…In this article we introduce an extended conceptualization of the architecture description that defines the structure of interactive visualizations and the integration of further tools to flexibly respond to the information demands of stakeholders. …”
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Dynamics of interacting SIRS+V models of infectious disease spread by Shabunin, Aleksej Vladimirovich

“…The method is based on theoretical examination of the structure of the phase space of a system of coupled ODEs and numerical study of the transient processes in dependence on the coupling between subsystems. …”
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Fabrication and Characterization of Gas Sensor from ZrO2: MgO Nanostructure Thin Films by R.F. Magnetron Sputtering Technique by Khalil et al.

“…The average particle size of all prepared samples was found lower than 33.22nm and the structure was a monoclinic phase. The distribution of grain size was found lower than36.3 nm and uninformed particles on the surface. …”
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Celebrity as Hero of Mass Media Narration (by Material of Articles about Kim Kardashian) by A. I. Milostivaya

“…Analysis of the empirical material showed that the dominant markers of the narratives under consideration are: the lack of direct contact between narrator and celebrity; the frequency of evidence constructions for marking source of information to describe the hero; imagery and expressiveness in the portrait descriptions of celebrity; contrastive image of celebrity’s wealth and poverty as sensational detail; using a reduced vocabulary for the journalistic evaluation of the behaviour of a celebrity in a tabloid newspaper; portrait of a celebrity as a character in narrative or case reference when characterizing other denotative content; the alternation of the sensations in celebrity life and periods of comparative calm scene of action, that is, “weak positions” in the narrative structure.…”
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Measuring and Modeling of P- and S-Wave Velocities on Crustal Rocks: A Key for the Interpretation of Seismic Reflection and Refraction Data by Hartmut Kern

“…The coupling of the experimentally-derived in situ velocities of P- and S-wave and corresponding Poisson's ratios of relevant exhumed high-grade metamorphic crustal rocks from Central China with respective data from seismic refraction profiling provided a key for the lithologic interpretation of a deep seismic crustal structure.…”
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CCURRENT TRENDS IN INFANT MORTALITY AND PERINATAL LOSS RATES IN ST. PETERSBURG by N. V. Andriyanycheva, A. S. Simakhodsky

“…The analysis demonstrates that the transition to the new criteria of live birth has made changes in the structure of infant and perinatal mortality, which requires further improvement and new approaches to the executive monitoring of this important social marker.…”
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What to Reform in the European Budget? Some Reflections on the Stakes of the Current Budget Review Process by Dragoş Negrescu

“…The way it has developed over decades, both as concerns revenues and expenditure, superposed to a complex decision-making process, where member states retain veto rights in crucial respects, means that it currently displays a significant inertia, while its size and structure are not the most appropriate for endowing the Union with the means allowing it to best react to the present-day challenges. …”
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Epistemology of e-democracy and e-governance through scientific mapping by Esther García-Río, Pedro Baena-Luna

“…This paper aims to address the current limitations in knowledge about e-democracy by establishing the conceptual, intellectual, and social structure of scientific literature. Hence, this paper offers an in-depth bibliometric analysis of the literature that has addressed this reality since its first publication in 1983. …”
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Constructions with Evaluative Genitive Adnominal as Means of Axiological Marking by T. M. Shkapenko, S. B. Popova

“…The dependence of the character and intensity of evaluation on the semantic-syntactic structure of the combination is established. Inverted constructions like man of honor in which the characteristic property acquires the status of an inalienable value, and the subject itself acts as its reference carrier are described as having the greatest axiological potential. …”
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Partial information decomposition reveals that synergistic neural integration is greater downstream of recurrent information flow in organotypic cortical cultures. by Samantha P Sherrill, Nicholas M Timme, John M Beggs, Ehren L Newman

“…We asked how empirically observed synergistic integration-determined from partial information decomposition-varied with local functional network structure that was categorized into motifs with varying recurrent and feedback information flow. …”
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Integrated Investigation of the Time Dynamics of Forest Fire Sequences in Basilicata Region (Southern Italy) by Luciano Telesca, Rosa Lasaponara

“…This suggests that the fire sequence does not follow a Poisson distribution and instead exhibits a clustered structure, largely driven by the heightened frequency of events during the summer seasons. …”
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PERSONAL ACCOUNT AS AN ELEMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEM OF STATISTICS EDUCATION by N. B. Golovanova, A. V. Soroko

“…It is based on the hierarchical structure of the Russian education system and fully provides the solution of the problem of transfer to item-by-item statistics. …”
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On Some Peculiarities of Translation of Tourist Texts from Chinese into Russian by J. Zhang, Z. Liu

“…Attention is paid to the linguistic factors influencing the translation: the presence of non-equivalent language units and lexical lacunae found in the Chinese and Russian languages, differences in the structure of sentences, discursive characteristics. …”
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Ikere-Ekiti in Art and Cultural Narratives by dele jegede

“…But it is the annual celebration of the Olosunta festival that serves as the rallying point for the indigenes of the city at the same time that it provides a time-honored structure for handling potentially explosive cultural and political contestations. …”
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THE ASSESSMENT OF THE INVESTMENT EFFICIENCY OF RUSSIAN SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS by Ye. A. Vasin

“…The analysis revealed a number of flaws in the current organizational structure of sovereign fund management as well as factors retarding the effective fund value growth. …”
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