Parental Evaluation of a Responsive Parenting Program for Infants with Hearing Loss by Reinhild Glanemann, Karen Reichmuth, Stephanie Brinkheetker, Antoinette am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen, Katrin Neumann

“…The aspects most appreciated were meeting other affected parents and the concrete individual support of parent–child communication, including video feedback. …”
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Abrasion resistant characteristics of UHPC based on high-speed underwater method: Efficiency, process, evaluation, and mechanisms by Xuan Qiu, Jihui Zhao, Zhong Li

“…Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) exhibits excellent abrasion resistance and has great potential for application in hydraulic engineering. …”
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Тhe features of using PR and advertising in international business by Iryna Derid, Karina Bozhko, Inna Zorianska

“…General scientific methods are used: a statistical method for studying trends in the use of the Internet and social networks, as well as for researching the ratios of different types of advertising in advertising expenditures in different countries of the world; the case study method for researching advertising and PR campaigns; methods of analysis, synthesis, and descent from the abstract to the concrete to link advertising influences and cultural characteristics. …”
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Behavior of unconfined steel-fiber reinforced UHPC post high-temperature exposure by Sohit Agrawal, Erika Yulianti, Mugahed Amran, Chung-Chan Hung

“…Ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) is renowned for its superior mechanical and durability characteristics. …”
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Analysis of Pure Bending Vertical Deflection of Improved Composite Box Girders with Corrugated Steel Webs by Chi Ma, Shi-zhong Liu, Jin Di, Rui-jie Zhang

“…Steel bottom plates are applied as replacements for the concrete bottom plates in order to reduce the dead weight of the composite box girders with corrugated steel webs and steel bottom plates (CSWSB). …”
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Experimental Investigation of Heat-Damaged RC Slender Spiral Columns Repaired with CFRP Rope by Ahmed M. Ashteyat, Ala’ Taleb Obaidat

“…Carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) is widely used in construction to extend the service life of building structures through the repair and rehabilitation of reinforced concrete (RC) columns. However, due to the difficulty of wrapping CFRP strips spirally around an RC spiral column, a flexible CFRP rope material has been developed as an alternative, which will be used as a spiral hoop for repairing circular columns. …”
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Modeling a Virtual World for the Educational Game Calangos by Angelo C. Loula, Leandro N. de Castro, Antônio L. Apolinário, Pedro L. B. da Rocha, Maria da Conceição L. Carneiro, Vanessa Perpétua G. S. Reis, Ricardo F. Machado, Claudia Sepulveda, Charbel N. El-Hani

“…This paper presents an electronic game that fulfills these gaps in order to make the students’ work with ecological concepts more concrete, active, and systematic. The paper presents the computational model of the ecological system included in the game, based on a real ecological case, a sand dune ecosystem located in the semiarid Caatinga biome, namely, the sand dunes of the middle São Francisco River, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. …”
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A comparative study to estimate three commercial products of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) on blood biochemistry, sexual hormones concentrations, reproductive indices, and lar... by El-Sayed I. Attia, Mohamed F. A. Abdel-Aziz, Habib Ul Hassan, Mohammad Z. Ahmed, Takaomi Arai, Hamed H. E. Saleh

“…Both males and females received the same single dose of hCG (1500 IU)/kg of biomass. 80 brood-stock (40 female + 40 male) were used and distributed in two replicates in 8 square concrete ponds (water volume: 2.4 m3) each tank was randomly stocked at a rate of (5 males + 5 females). …”
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Suitability of Sand as Improvement to Mechanical Properties of Laterite Soil for Road Subbase. by Tumusiime, Darious

“…In construction, sand is a vital component of concrete, mortar, and asphalt. It is also used as a base material for roads and pavements, providing stability and drainage. …”
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Constructing Identities: Amos Tutuola and the Ibadan Literary Elite in the wake of Nigerian Independence by Mackenzie Finley

“…Yet if education represented a rather concrete, institutionalized divide between the elite and the everyday Nigerian, this paper will suggest that the resulting epistemological difference served as a more fluid, ideological divide. …”
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Developing an Ethical Regulatory Framework for Artificial Intelligence: Integrating Systematic Review, Thematic Analysis, and Multidisciplinary Theories by Jian Wang, Yujia Huo, Jinli Mahe, Zongyuan Ge, Zhangdaihong Liu, Wenxin Wang, Lin Zhang

“…However, translating these principles into concrete, real-world applications for AI development remains a pressing need and a significant challenge. …”
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Association between biomass cooking fuels and prevalence of tuberculosis among households: a cross-sectional study from 2019 - 2021 in India by Baikunth Kumar Yadav, Pranveer Singh, Prakasini Satapathy, Ponnusamy Thillai Arasu

“…The current study tries to bridge the gap and analyze the cause-effect relationship to come up with concrete remedies for its minimization and help secure the holy grail of TB-free India. …”
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Influential Mechanisms of Roughness on the Cyclic Shearing Behavior of the Interfaces Between Crushed Mudstone and Steel-Cased Rock-Socketed Piles by Yue Liang, Jianlu Zhang, Bin Xu, Zeyu Liu, Lei Dai, Kui Wang

“…In the waterway construction projects of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, crushed mudstone particles are widely used to backfill the foundations of rock-socketed concrete-filled steel tube (RSCFST) piles, a structure widely adopted in port constructions. …”
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Study on the Mechanism and Control of Rock Burst of Coal Pillar under Complex Conditions by Xingping Lai, Huicong Xu, Jingdao Fan, Zeyang Wang, Zhenguo Yan, Pengfei Shan, Jie Ren, Shuai Zhang, Yanbin Yang

“…There is an obvious difference in the stress state between the coal pillar under the solid coal and the coal pillar under the gob in W1123. The concrete manifestation is that the vertical stress of the coal pillar below the solid coal is greater than the vertical stress of the coal pillar below the gob. …”
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Dynamics of a predator-prey system with prey subject to Allee effects and disease by Yun Kang, Sourav Kumar Sasmal, Amiya Ranjan Bhowmick, Joydev Chattopadhyay

“…We provide basic dynamical properties for this general model and perform the detailed analysis on a concrete model (SIP-Allee Model) as well as its corresponding model in the absence of Allee effects (SIP-no-Allee Model); we obtain the complete dynamics of both models: (a) SIP-Allee Model may have only one attractor (extinction of all species), two attractors (bi-stability either induced by small values of reproduction number of both disease and predator or induced by competition exclusion), or three attractors (tri-stability); (b) SIP-no-Allee Model may have either one attractor (only S-class survives or the persistence of S and I-class or the persistence of S and P-class) or two attractors (bi-stability with the persistence of S and I-class or the persistence of S and P-class). …”
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Low carbon effects of super large diameter shield directly cutting piles project: A case study in China by Yifan Chen, Xiangsheng Chen, Jian Ouyang, Xiang Shen, Shuhua Huang, Jian Sheng, Liang Zhang

“…The results show that the material production phase is the primary source of carbon emissions in cutting pile projects using the pile underpinning method (with concrete and steel being the main contributors, accounting for over 90 %), comprising 69.86 % of the total emissions. …”
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Production performance and water quality of Caulerpa lentillifera with fermented fruit vegetable fertilizer by Eddy Supriyono, Chrisliana Chrisliana, Yuni Puji Hastuti, Kadek Lila Antara, Yong Ee Ling, Wildan Nurussalam

“…This study used an initial weight of 500 g which was reared in a concrete tank with a capacity of 1000 L for 30 days growth period. …”
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考虑黏结滑移的型钢超高性能混凝土组合梁受力性能影响因素分析 by 沈德建, 白松林, 姜国庆, 刘慈, 李明

“…型钢混凝土组合结构中采用超高性能混凝土（ultra-high performance concrete，UHPC）可以提高承载能力、减小截面尺寸，同时改善其因密集配置箍筋和剪力件而导致的施工复杂等问题。…”
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Potential for circular economy in the construction sector. An explorative study about single-use masks and sustainable building material based on a customer and construction compan... by Daniela Ludin, Erika Mueller, Asli Ercengiz, Jannick Lumpp, Wanja Wellbrock

“…A popular idea is the use in construction materials like concrete. This way used masks will be recovered and alternatively reused. …”
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Experimental investigation on the anti-detonation performance of composite structure containing foam geopolymer backfill material by Hang Zhou, Hujun Li, Zhen Wang, Dongming Yan, Wenxin Wang, Guokai Zhang, Zirui Cheng, Song Sun, Mingyang Wang

“…Explosion tests were conducted using several composite structure models, including a concrete lining structure (CLS) without foam geopolymer and six foam geopolymer composite structures (FGCS) with different backfill parameters, to study the dynamic response and wave dissipation mechanisms of FGCS under explosive loading. …”
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