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A submanifold φ: M → E^{m} is called "biharmonic" if it satisfies Δ^{2}φ=0 identically, according to the author. On the other hand, G.-Y. Jiang studied biharmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds as critical points of the bienergy functional, and proved that biharmonic maps φ are characterized by vanishing of bitension τ_{2} of φ. During last thr...

International organizations (IOs) are currently facing multiple pressures. On one hand, they are increasingly subjected to intense challenges from states and societal groups. On the other, IOs are more and more frequently confronted with cross-border crises that demand far-reaching decisions and operations under time constraints. While the literatu...

Pascal's Wager, proposed by the philosopher Blaise Pascal, argues that it is a safer bet to believe in God because the potential benefits of belief outweigh the potential consequences of disbelief. Zoe introduces this concept in simple terms and in a way that's accessible to her students. The Bet of Belief Zoe stands at the front of the class, hold...

It is widely acknowledged that both of Feferman and Takeuti maintained a sustained interest in theories of inductive definitions. Feferman, inspired by Kreisel, proposed a constructive foundation for subsystems of analysis based on intuitionistic theories of inductive definitions. Notably, one of Feferman's motivations was to provide more perspicio...

The purpose of this study is to analyze in depth the relevance of Vygotsky's constructivism learning theory in differentiated learning in elementary schools. Differentiated learning is an effort to adapt the learning process in the classroom to meet the learning needs of each individual. This adjustment is made by considering the interests, learnin...

Aims: The present research aims to recognize the indices of Smart and concepts related to "Intelligence" as well as to explain its relationship with architecture. Specifically, it aims to present strategies for the convergence of the concepts of "Intelligence" and "Place" in order to achieve phenomenon of "Intelligence Place" based on its defining...

It seems that if determinism holds, in other words, if every event has been caused by some previous events, then what an agent does at this moment has been caused by some events prior to the agent's birth. This means that no agent is morally responsible for what he does. On the other hand, if non-determinism holds, i.e. if some events occur randoml...

Globalisation has become the defining process of development as it contributes on one hand not only to the rapid integration of global economies, but in the development of specific sectors and countries. On the other hand, globalisation negates and endangers local development initiatives and economies. Against this rather divergent and seemingly di...

The relationship between perception and language in Merleau-Ponty’s works will here be explored in detail, leading to the conclusion that he integrates them and does not exclusively feature one over the other, as is frequently claimed. We will see that the issue of the relationship between perception and language is connected to the relationship be...

This Letter presents the first measurement of event-by-event fluctuations of the net number (difference between the particle and antiparticle multiplicities) of multistrange hadrons Ξ − and Ξ ¯ + and its correlation with the net-kaon number using the data collected by the ALICE Collaboration in pp, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass ene...

Electoral axiology and the effectiveness of electoral rights protection The subject of this study is the issue of electoral axiology. The system of values is a serious problem not only of electoral law, but of the law as a whole. In this paper, I analyze the normative acts, scientific views and decisions of authorities applying the law relating to...

The placement of micro phasor measurement units in an active distribution network can improve the monitoring performance of the system. However, the price and placement cost of micro phasor measurement units are high, so existing research mostly focuses on solving the problem of achieving global observability with the minimum number of micro phasor...

The individuals, belonging to all communities, categories and socio-economic backgrounds have one of the major goals of getting engaged in employment opportunities. In other words, they are committed towards alleviating the problem of unemployment. This is regarded to be of utmost significance in bringing about improvements in one’s financial posit...

Eco-evo-devo is an interdisciplinary field integrating ecology, evolutionary biology, and developmental biology. Niche construction refers to the phenomenon where organisms alter selection pressures through ecological activities, and ecological inheritance is the consequence of niche construction, passed down through generations. Development encomp...

The article covers the holding of the V Congress of the International Union of Architects in Moscow in 1958. The text provides a general overview of the work of the Congress, but focuses on the presentation of Soviet urban planning in the reports, exhibition displays and publications of the Congress. The article argues that all the topics presented...

Background/Objectives: Time estimation was investigated in 24 healthy adults, including 12 women and 12 men, before and after an exhaustive exercise. Methods: We compared the ability of estimating time intervals in the range 1 to 5 s using tasks requiring mental counting and tasks that did not allow it. Time estimation and blood lactate levels were...

In his final notebooks, published posthumously as On Certainty, Wittgenstein set forth a radical picture of the structure of rational evaluation, one that has arational hinge commitments at its heart. Much of the focus of discussion of hinge commitments has been on the commonsense, Moorean, factual commitments that fall into this class (such as tha...

In this paper natural necessary and sufficient conditions for quantifier elimination of matrix rings \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$M_n(K)$$\end{docume...

E-commerce has grown into a billion-dollar industry in recent times with an ever-increasing number of individuals using it regularly. Thus, e-commerce companies can gather interaction data from their customers and analyze it to create focused and personalized marketing campaigns. For large companies, it is possible to tap into these data for person...

As one of the body extensions, we prepared two extended CG left hands and investigated the elements necessary for the adaptation task to generate a strong sense of body ownership and agency. The results of the experiment showed that a sense of body ownership and agency occurred in less difficult tasks and that the hand movement component was not re...

A new compound [Y2(sq)3(H2O)4] (Y-sq; sq = squarate (C4O42–)) was prepared and structurally characterized. Since the RE-sq family (RE = Y, Dy, Yb, Lu) gave isostructural crystals, the objective of this study is to explore the effects of diamagnetic dilution on the SIM behavior through systematic investigation and comparison of diamagnetically dilut...

A linear functional u is classical if there exist polynomials ϕ and ψ with degϕ≤2 and degψ=1 such that Dϕ(x)u=ψ(x)u, where D is a certain differential, or difference, operator. The polynomials orthogonal with respect to the linear functional u are called classical orthogonal polynomials. In the theory of orthogonal polynomials, a correct characteri...

Luce Irigaray puts forth an ethic of belonging rooted in a return and reconsideration of the natural world and our place within it. Starting from a Heideggerian conception of world, Irigaray argues that we get caught up in our everydayness which includes our tool-being mode of engagement with the world as a world of objects ready to be used. Instea...

As one of the body extensions, we prepared a condition in which three CG left hands are manipulated with one left hand in a VR environment, and examined whether body ownership and agency occur. The results of the experiment showed that ownership and agency occurred in three hands, and the same was true even when three hands made different movements...

Digital Holographic Microscopy (DHM) is a technique that uses the phase information of light to generate a three-dimensional (3D) profile of an object. Recently, it has been utilized in various fields such as disease diagnosis and research on microorganisms. In the process in DHM, a narrow region around one of the sidebands from the frequency domai...

this paper shows one equation and a line of derivation of a golden rule that looks like a new rule for radioactive decay of any single subatomic particle and a general method for find the lifetime of any subatomic particle only by hand calculations.

The “costal fringe” refers to a linear arrangement of venous telangiectasias distributed along the anterolateral costal margins. The costal fringe is typically observed in older adults, although it has also been reported in younger patients. On the other hand, linear telangiectasias, arranged in a broad, crescent-shaped distribution across the ches...

The research in question is basic and correlational, focusing on the relationship between leadership styles and pedagogical management in the educational field. A descriptive method with a correlational design was used to carry out the study. The sample was composed of 29 teachers from two secondary level educational institutions with a technical v...

Superirradiance events are phenomena caused by cloud edges that enhance the global solar irradiance measured at the surface. On the other hand, extreme superirradiance is characterized by irradiance values higher than the estimated extraterrestrial irradiance. In this sense, the purpose of this work is to understand superirradiance and extreme supe...

The gauged $U(1)_{L_\mu-L_\tau}$ model is well-motivated to explain the muon $g-2$ anomaly and dark matter in previous studies. However, the latest NA64$\mu$ experiment has almost excluded all the parameter space for the muon $g-2$, which indicates that the light dark matter benchmark scenarios interpreting muon $g-2$ in previous studies are also n...

We revisit the well-studied problem of estimating the Shannon entropy of a probability distribution, now given access to a probability-revealing conditional sampling oracle. In this model, the oracle takes as input the representation of a set S, and returns a sample from the distribution obtained by conditioning on S, together with the probability...

The classical Church synthesis problem, solved by Buchi and Landweber, treats the synthesis of finite state systems. The synthesis of infinite state systems, on the other hand, has only been investigated few times since then, with no complete or systematic solution. We present a systematic study of the synthesis of infinite state systems. The main...

Popular recent critiques of mainstream feminism attack it for its complicity with a capitalist and racist social order. There is much in this critique that works. On the other hand, the conclusion of this critique often denies the validity and necessity for an independent feminist movement. Treating feminism as an adjunct of the socialist struggle....

You might expect women to take up the invitation of ecofeminism and to defend wild nature against patriarchy and industrial civilisation. Interviews with women in Australia show that often this is not the case. What can be more salient are class locations and the defence of what are seen as class interests. For example, working class women who dist...

Voice biometric tasks, such as age estimation require modeling the often complex relationship between voice features and the biometric variable. While deep learning models can handle such complexity, they typically require large amounts of accurately labeled data to perform well. Such data are often scarce for biometric tasks such as voice-based ag...

Canonical work handling distribution shifts typically necessitates an entire target distribution that lands inside the training distribution. However, practical scenarios often involve only a handful of target samples, potentially lying outside the training support, which requires the capability of extrapolation. In this work, we aim to provide a t...

We predict that the occurence of zero energy Yu-Shiba-Rusinov(YSR) bound states in two different setups, metal-spin flipper-metal-s-wave superconductor (N_{1}-sf-N_{2}-S) and superconductor-metal-spin flipper-metal-superconductor (S-N_{1}-sf-N_{2}-S) junctions, can generate multi-fold enhancement of surface-induced odd-frequency superconductivity....

The relationship between Morocco and Saudi Arabia within the framework of the Russian Eurasian Project and the Chinese Silk Road has witnessed significant development, primarily focused on economic and cultural integration between the two countries. Both Morocco and Saudi Arabia have worked to enhance cooperation in various fields including technol...

Object of this study is the perception of archives and archivists in the public imaginary through the analysis of the national and international literature review existing about the topic and the creation and distribution of an on line survey. Aim of this work is to trace an overview of the existing research about the theme, on the one hand, and to...

Considering the strong connection between traditional hand knitting and modern machine knitting, this book examines the construction and structure of weft knits, so that the reader can reproduce them both on modern knitting machines and by hand. An attempt is made to gather in one place the existing knowledge about both the most ordinary weft-knitt...

In this short intervention we introduce three new Roman coins that were discovered at Oancea, Galaţi county. Nowadays these coins are preserved in the collections of Oltenia Museum from Craiova. Somehow, under the circumstances we donʼt know, they reached on the hands of local educator from Oancea (together with other three from Oltina) who decided...

For the past 8 years, Cameroon has been witnessing a deadly conflict between anglophone separatist fighters and the Cameroon military over the form of governance. This study seeks to highlight anglophone attitudes and preferences towards forms of governance, as well as the differences between men and women and between northwesterners and southweste...

Zusammenfassung Einleitung Berufsmusiker sind aufgrund ihrer körperlichen Belastungen durch mehrstündiges Üben, Proben und Aufführungen einem erhöhten Risiko für gesundheitliche Beschwerden ausgesetzt. Die daraus resultierenden negativen Beanspruchungen können die Lebensqualität beeinträchtigen. Ziel war es, die arm- und handspezifischen Beanspruc...

In (Finite Fields Their Appl. 46, 38–56 2017), Wu et al. defined the notion of quasi-multiplicative (QM) equivalence among permutation polynomials. Other than showing thoroughly, there is no efficient approach to determine whether two given permutation polynomials are QM equivalent or not. This paper provides new results to determine QM equivalence...

The purpose of the research is to expand the socio-philosophical understanding of the phenomena of old age and aging by referring to the knowledge and methodology of humanistic gerontology, which largely guides the search for the actual meaning and value of the late life stage in postmodern reality. The scientific novelty of the study, on the one h...

While national innovativeness is of pivotal relevance for economic development, so far, relatively little attention has been paid to the social drivers of innovativeness. Thus, the role of social norms and values as drivers of innovativeness is somewhat blurry. Tackling this gap, the article at hand reflects the concepts of social capital, trust, a...

This article explores the ordered concepts of ‘Law and Gospel’ by Martin Luther and ‘Gospel and Law’ by Karl Barth. On the one hand, Luther understood Law and the Gospel as two different but not separate concepts of Christian life. The Law is what God asks Christians to do, while the Gospel is what Christians receive from God. On the other hand, Ba...

Combining multi-criteria decision analysis and trend reversal discovery make it possible to extract globally optimal, or non-dominated, data in relation to several criteria, and then to observe their evolution according to a decision-making property. Thus, we introduce Emerging Skycube, a concept associating Skycube and emerging datacube. As far as...

By providing educational services, universities pursue the satisfaction of public interests on the one hand, and commercial benefits on the other hand. In this sense, a problem arises to evaluate the effectiveness of the financial resources, spent for the purpose of educational services. The article proposes approaches to evaluating the use of fina...

Determination of the elastic field developed in a heterogeneous material provides useful information for calculating its overall elastic properties. When dimensions of inhomogeneities in such a material are comparable to the intrinsic length scale of its constituents, classical elasticity ceases to produce reliable solutions. Mindlin’s first strain...

ZET Çağdaş kamu yönetimi kavramının getirdiği en yeni yaklaşımlardan biri de performans olgusudur. Performans, belirli bir süre içinde bireylerin veya grupların görevlerini yerine getirmek için yaptıkları planlı eylem ve çabalarının nicel ve nitel sonucudur. Öte yandan performans yönetimi, sağlık hizmetlerinin kalitesinin, verimliliğinin, kapsayıcı...

This paper presents the results of a research project undertaken by a team of researchers at the Università Iuav di Venezia, which began in January 2021 and ended in January 2023. The project investigated the present-day reality of design studios in the Veneto region, to understand the transformations that have occurred in the ways of thinking and...

We study the asymptotic properties of a continuous Timoshenko linear beam model immersed in a three-dimensional space and used in the analysis of tower buildings. Assume that the bending and axial behaviors are coupled on the one hand, while the shear and torsional behaviors are coupled on the other hand. If the displacement vector is totally dampe...

The collection of photogenerated electrons is a bottleneck to the photoelectrochemical performance of particulate photoanodes. In this work, the electron‐conducting array insertion strategy is applied for the assembly of LaTiO2N and SrNbO2N particulate photoanodes, and the candidates of conductive arrays are expanded from rigid vertically grown ZnO...

Quantitative phase imaging is a method of choice to observe structure and dynamics of unlabelled biological cells. Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) reconstructs high resolution images over a wide field of view, but requires capturing many images, thus limiting acquisition speed. On the other hand, differential phase contrast (DPC) is fast but...

The human wrist affects the ability to efficiently perform many manipulation tasks. Despite this, most upper-limb prostheses are focused on the hand's mobility, which makes users compensate for the lost wrist mobility with complex manipulation strategies relying on the mobility of other body parts. In this context, research on wrist prostheses is s...

In the domain of ocean engineering, the authenticity of visual systems is a major challenge in developing marine simulators. A simulation strategy based on the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation method is proposed in this study to enhance the realism of fluid–solid coupling scenes in a marine simulator visual system. Based on the SPH...

Kadu Sarkara Yogam is a rare and intricate method for creating temple idols in Kerala and Tamil Nadu India. Unlike many other idol-making techniques, Kadu Sarkara Yogam utilizes a unique combination of materials (herbs) and a specific on-site construction process. There is only limited use of the craft. It's important to note that only a handful of...

The article aims at describing finitely generated free algebras in certain finitely generated varieties of commutative BCK-algebras. To achieve this, we first investigate homomorphisms from free commutative BCK-algebras to free ŁBCK-algebras that extend the insertion of generators. The approach allows us to utilize existing results on free ŁBCK-alg...

We define a new ‘potential-weighted connective constant’ that measures the effective strength of a repulsive pair potential of a Gibbs point process modulated by the geometry of the underlying space. We then show that this definition leads to improved bounds for Gibbs uniqueness for all non-trivial repulsive pair potentials on \documentclass[12pt]{...

Bielliptic surfaces are the last family of Kodaira dimension zero algebraic surfaces without a classification result for the Chern characters of stable sheaves. We rectify this and prove such a classification using a combination of classical techniques, on the one hand, and derived category and Bridgeland stability techniques, on the other. Along t...

This paper deals with minimisation of fuel consumption under real driving conditions using a vehicle speed advisor. The aim is to explore the potential of speed profile optimisation in real driving conditions while assessing the suitability of an application which recommends the driver the optimal vehicle speed sequence that minimises the fuel cons...

The word "trust" and its derivatives are used in various positions of Nahj al-Balagha in the form of a verb and a noun. In addition, the roots of other words close to the same meaning, such as "rahn", "din", "ahd" and "misagh" are also used in Nahj al-Balagha , and the analysis of the meaning of each can be the subject of a separate article, but th...

In the paper, we consider the harmonic maps between surfaces \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\Sigma $$\end{document} and S in the homotopy class of a (b...

Empirical evidence shows that fully-connected neural networks in the infinite-width limit (lazy training) eventually outperform their finite-width counterparts in most computer vision tasks; on the other hand, modern architectures with convolutional layers often achieve optimal performances in the finite-width regime. In this work, we present a the...

Decision-making regarding cookies and cookie consent dialogs on hospital websites is challenging. On the one hand, their use can offer hospitals various advantages when interacting with their target groups. On the other hand, they are controversial as hospital websites are critical areas where people are vulnerable or at risk of disclosing sensitiv...

The high number of legal regulations, intense competition and rapid developments in business life create a heavy workload and serious stress on Certified Public Accountants. In this study, it is to determine the relationships between heavy workload, job satisfaction, poor performance and job stress experienced by Certified Public Accountants. Accor...

We consider the process of electron-positron pair production in the presence of strong electric backgrounds being rapidly switched on and off and examine the total particle yield. For sufficiently sharp field profiles, the particle number can be substantially enhanced. It is demonstrated that this enhancement is quite similar to the phenomenon of d...

Nighttime temperatures have a direct impact on the health and well-being of the population, and are closely linked to the aggravation of certain pathologies and mortality. As global warming acquires extraordinary magnitudes, concepts such as warm night, tropical night or equatorial night, used as indicators to evaluate the evolution of temperatures...

A successful healthcare organization is indispensable in achieving both the quality of care for the patients and individual well-being. In Croatia, patients can access health care from either public or private providers. This study assessed satisfaction levels from 423 patients who accessed services from both public and private healthcare instituti...

The reactive cancellation of real-world actions typically requires complex combinations of both muscle contraction and/or muscle suppression. However, current experimental paradigms solely examine contexts in which action cancellation requires muscle suppression. To provide fundamental insights into inhibitory control mechanisms, we directly compar...

Innovation in firms can be doubly influenced by government-supported alliances (GSAs) for innovation and non-government-supported knowledge networks, but we know little about why and how GSA participation affects firm exploratory innovation and its combined effects with structural holes in the knowledge network. Drawing on research on corporate pol...

Zusammenfassung Der tiefgreifende Wandel in der Medienlandschaft stellt auch die Österreichische Nationalbibliothek vor die strategische Herausforderung der Transformation zur „Teaching Library“. Der digitale Umbruch macht es erforderlich, nicht nur Wissen bereitzustellen, sondern Leser*innen auch dabei zu unterstützen, dieses Wissen zu finden, ihn...

CITATION: Koutoulas, D. (2024). Products. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. 824-826. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74923-1_293. ABSTRACT: This encyclopaedia entry includes a definition of the tourism product in relation to the primary and secondary needs of tourists. With the tourism product being a compos...

Gegen Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts entsteht mit dem Experiment eine neue Aneignung von Welt und damit Wissen. Dieses Wissen ruht in einer Erfahrung (wie es bis heute das Französische expérience als Synonym für Erfahrung und Experiment transpor tiert). Genauer handelt es sich um das Hervorbringen von Ereignissen als spezifische Begebenheiten-in ihren v...

This paper deals with the following nonlocal system of equations: \begin{equation} \tag{$\mathcal S$}\label{MAT1} \begin{cases} (-\Delta_p)^s u = \frac{\alpha}{p_s^*}|u|^{\alpha-2}u|v|^{\beta}+f(x)\;\;\text{in}\;\mathbb{R}^{d}, \, (-\Delta_p)^s v = \frac{\beta}{p_s^*}|v|^{\beta-2}v|u|^{\alpha}+g(x)\;\;\text{in}\;\mathbb{R}^{d},\, u,v >0\, \mbox{ in...

In this study, we address the central issue of statistical inference for Markov jump processes using discrete time observations. The primary problem at hand is to accurately estimate the infinitesimal generator of a Markov jump process, a critical task in various applications. To tackle this problem, we begin by reviewing established methods for ge...

Safe knife practices in the kitchen significantly reduce the risk of cuts, injuries, and serious accidents during food preparation. Using YOLOv7, an advanced object detection model, this study focuses on identifying safety risks during knife handling, particularly improper finger placement and blade contact with hand. The model's performance was ev...

This study aimed to examine the effect of video-supported mental training on the technical development of male football players in the 12-14 age group. 24 male athletes aged 12-14 participated in the study voluntarily. Volunteers were divided into a physical training group (FG, n:12) and a physical training and mental training group (FZG, n:12). Vo...

Aristotle introduced the modal notion of possibility and necessity. In Aristotle's language de dicto modality is that which involves the whole compound of subject and predicate. On the other hand, when a modal word qualifies only the predicate part of the statement, the modality is called de re. This paper examines Aristotle's modal notion in conte...

Two dimensional intergranular brittle cracks propagating through a microstructured material produce fracture profiles which, at scales larger than the microstructural length scale, are anti-persistent and close to directed random walks with Hurst exponent \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts}...

The palatal rugae or the rugae palatinae are anatomical formations seen inside the oral cavity, being an intrinsic feature of the hard palate region. The paper at hand investigates the anatomy, ontogeny and usability of palatal rugae for the forensic application. Given their specificity and variation between individuals, palatal rugae can be quite...

In this work, the efficiency (time) and effectivity (fitness) of two parallel variants of Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) have been evaluated, the synchronous PSPSO and the asynchronous PAPSO. In this study, an implementation of PAPSO is utilised, which deviates from the master-slave principle. Instead, all particles function as independent worke...

Background A traditional method for validating a surrogate endpoint typically involves assessing the correlation between changes in biomarkers and changes in clinical endpoints using Pearson’s and/or Spearman’s correlation. However, this approach may not provide an accurate representation of the true correlation due to several reasons: (i) it only...