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Language, Science and Globalization in the Eighteenth Century**

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 38-53, March 2023., 2023
Abstract Asia, America, and Europe have been intellectually intertwined for centuries. Several studies have been published revealing European scholars’ interest in the “exotic” languages of Asia and America, as well as in ethnographic and anthropological aspects.
Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez
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Sensitivity Analysis for a Redundant System with Random Inspection and R Repairmen Under Repair Pressure

Scientific Programming, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023
This study examines a repairable K‐out‐of‐(N + W): G system with warm standby components and R repairmen, where common cause failure (CCF), random inspection, and a repair pressure coefficient are involved. Due to the typical non‐self‐announcement of the standby component’s failure, performing a random inspection on warm standby components is necessary
Shan Gao, Zongbin Wang, Jiwei Huang
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World Englishes and English for specific purposes (ESP)

World Englishes, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 495-511, December 2022., 2022
Abstract This article sets out to review English for specific purposes (ESP) as a discipline and its conceptual and scholarly connections with the world Englishes (WE) approach English worldwide. This is done partly through a detailed literature review of articles on ESP in the Asian and European regions, taken from the journal English for Specific ...
Kingsley Bolton, Christopher Jenks
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Motivation and competition in health care

Health Economics, Volume 31, Issue 8, Page 1695-1712, August 2022., 2022
Abstract Non‐pecuniary sources of motivation are a strong feature of the health care sector and the impact of competitive incentives on behavior may be lower where pecuniary motivation is low. This paper measures the marginal utility of income (MUY) of physicians from a stated‐choice experiment, and examines whether this measure influences the ...
Anthony Scott, Peter Sivey
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Air2Land: A deep learning dataset for unmanned aerial vehicle autolanding from air to land

IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 77-85, June 2022., 2022
Abstract In this paper, a novel deep learning dataset, called Air2Land, is presented for advancing the state‐of‐the‐art object detection and pose estimation in the context of one fixed‐wing unmanned aerial vehicle autolanding scenarios. It bridges vision and control for ground‐based vision guidance systems having the multi‐modal data obtained by ...
Xunchen Zheng, Tianjiang Hu
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A century of Public Administration: Traveling through time and topics

Public Administration, Volume 100, Issue 1, Page 17-40, March 2022., 2022
Abstract Public Administration (PA) has been a unique witness and protagonist of scholarship in the field of public administration over the course of an entire century. On the occasion of the journal's 100th anniversary, we conduct a systematic analysis of the publication history using bibliometric methods enhanced by natural language processing.
Rick Vogel, Fabian Hattke
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The Contribution of Missionaries to Shona Lexicography*

Lexikos, 2010
The article discusses the developments in Shona lexicography during the colonial era and the contribution made by the missionaries in general and Father M. Hannan in particular which later resulted in the on-going process of compiling monolingual dictionaries by the African Languages Research Institute (ALRI) (into which the ALLEX project has been ...
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Nigerian English research: Developments and directions

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 182-198, March 2026.
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
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The Cultural Accommodation and Linguistic Activities of the Jesuits in China in the 16th–18th Centuries

Religions
From the 16th to the 18th century, Jesuit missionaries in China pioneered inter-cultural exchange by integrating cultural accommodation with groundbreaking linguistic research.
Fangfeng Dong, Yang Yang
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Energy Management for Low‐Carbon Distribution System With Smart Building Prosumers and EVs Interaction

IET Generation, Transmission &Distribution, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/December 2026.
This paper presents a multi‐level, multi‐objective energy management framework for low‐carbon distribution systems with smart building prosumers and electric vehicles. The proposed risk‐averse optimisation approach improves cost efficiency, reduces emissions, and enhances system stability under renewable generation uncertainties.
Armin Mohajeri Avval, Abdolmajid Dejamkhooy   +1 more
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