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The Phenomenon of Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian Prime Minister, is about to turn 80 this September. He has dominated Italian politics since 1994 and is now Italy's longest-serving PM since Mussolini.
Anna Y. Kovaleva
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In order to ensure the safe, stable and economical operation of the power system, it is necessary to forecast the short-term power load. This helps to coordinate supply and demand balance among grid companies and planned maintenance of grid equipment ...
Bin Chen, Peishan Ye, Haowen Du
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Media Power: Cigarette Package Design in China
Chinese tobacco packaging can be viewed as complex advertising practice. On the one hand, the cigarette pack is used to attract consumers, and on the other hand, it plays a role in health communication for discouraging smoking in China.
Xiaolong Zhang
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Local Press in Poland: The Internet Instead of Print?
This article examines changes in Polish local press at the turn of the second and the third decade of the 21st Century, directly or indirectly related to the coronavirus pandemic.
Jolanta Kępa-Mętrak
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Fuel Consumption Prediction Models Based on Machine Learning and Mathematical Methods
An accurate fuel consumption prediction model is the basis for ship navigation status analysis, energy conservation, and emission reduction. In this study, we develop a black-box model based on machine learning and a white-box model based on mathematical
Xianwei Xie +5 more
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The paper analyses six rounds of the European Social Surveys (from 2000 to 2012) to explore how 1) media uses, 2) unconventional and 3) conventional (i.e. voting) forms of political participation have changed in sixteen European countries.
Sergio Splendore
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An dissipated energy based analysis of fatigue crack propagation law [PDF]
The experimental study of heat flux evolution at the fatigue crack tip during biaxial loading was carry out in this work. The plane samples of stainless steel AISI 304 with thick of 3 mm were weakened by notch to initiate fatigue crack at the centre of ...
Vshivkov Aleksei +4 more
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Distribution and Deposition of Cylindrical Nanoparticles in a Turbulent Pipe Flow
Distribution and deposition of cylindrical nanoparticles in a turbulent pipe flow are investigated numerically. The equations of turbulent flow including the effect of particles are solved together with the mean equations of the particle number density ...
Wenqian Lin, Ruifang Shi, Jianzhong Lin
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With the development of display technology, more displays can cover the wider gamut, but most of the content they show is based on a small gamut. It is significant to employ gamut expansion (GE) to expand the small gamut images to a wider target gamut ...
Huailin Li +3 more
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Pressure Drop and Particle Settlement of Gas–Solid Two-Phase Flow in a Pipe
Particle settlement and pressure drop in a gas–solid two-phase flow in a pipe with a circular cross-section are studied at mixture inlet velocities (V) ranging from 1 m/s to 30 m/s, particle volume concentrations (αs) ranging from 1% to 20%, particle ...
Wenqian Lin, Liang Li, Yelong Wang
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