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The digital transformation of tourism has turned traveler reviews into a continuously expanding record of what visitors value, yet this evidence is fragmented across platforms and languages and is usually reduced to star ratings that obscure the unde...

Bilingual children commonly mix languages. Their language mixing generally adheres to grammatical constraints, yet it may impose processing and production costs. This study examined how 4-to-7-year-old English-, Polish-, and Turkish-Dutch bilingual c...

Over recent decades, planners in the U.S. have increasingly adopted mixed-use projects to reduce automobile dependency and strengthen local community identity, although results remain inconsistent across cities. Urban health and fitness outcomes are...

Hate speech on social media may spread quickly through online users and subsequently, may even escalate into local vile violence and heinous crimes. This paper proposes a hate speech detection model by means of machine learning and text mining featur...

With the rapid expansion of social media, detecting offensive language has become critically important for healthy online interactions. This poses a considerable challenge for low-resource languages such as Roman Urdu which are widely spoken on platf...

This study investigated family language policies (FLP) in the current context of the Macao Special Administrative Region (Macao SAR). It explored family language ideologies, management strategies, and intergenerational practices through questionnaire...

In bilingual communities, social interactions take place in both single- and mixed-language contexts. Some of the information shared in multilingual conversations, such as interlocutors’ personal information, is often required in consequent social en...

Mining activities are usually associated with negative outcomes. Therefore, it is crucial to identify and assess these outcomes by the mining company to achieve proper management. The present study has been defined to discover the outcomes of mining...

In this work, we investigate a special type of CS below word level, which is observed in mixed compound words. In particular, we discuss mixed Italian–German compounds; this combination is particularly interesting since, in the two languages, t...

For health, environmental, and animal welfare reasons, an increase in the consumption of meat in our diet is of great concern in today’s society. Meat substitutes have been advocated for a long time as a solution to these problems and are evolv...

Super-resolution (SR) plays an important role in the processing and display of mixed-resolution (MR) stereoscopic images. Therefore, a stereoscopic image SR method based on view incorporation and convolutional neural networks (CNN) is proposed. For a...

Purepecha has no grammatical gender, whereas Spanish has a binary masculine–feminine system. In this paper we investigate how early sequential Purepecha–Spanish bilinguals assign gender to Purepecha nouns inserted into an otherwise Spanish utterance,...

Language mixing is a common feature of bilingual communication, yet its predictors and effects on children’s vocabulary development remain debated. Most research has been conducted in contexts with clear societal and heritage languages, leaving...

This article explores the features of speech practices of young people in Kazakhstan in the conditions of interaction between Kazakh, Russian, and English, taking into account the influence of the digital environment and modern socio-cultural factors...

This exploratory implementation pilot examined selected implementation and feasibility indicators for embedding structured Attributional Retraining (AtR) within a voice-responsive low-code virtual reality (VR) artifact-design environment and describe...

Small contractors need reliable digital workflows to detect excess material consumption before reference budgets are exhausted. However, digital delivery records alone cannot ensure effective quantity control when reference quantities contain errors...

Sentiment classification in under-resourced languages remains challenging because of scarce annotated corpora, linguistic complexity, and computational constraints. Indian regional language Malayalam further intensifies these challenges through its a...

Roman Urdu hate and offensive language detection is difficult because informal social-media posts combine non-standard spelling, code-mixing, local abusive expressions, and severe label imbalance. Existing transformer-based detectors improve contextu...

Let $R={\mathbb{F}}_4+u{\mathbb{F}}_4,\mathrm{with}{u}^2=u$ and $S={\mathbb{F}}_4+u{\mathbb{F}}_4+v{\mathbb{F}}_4,with{u}^2=u,v^2=v,uv=vu=0$. In this paper, we study ${\mathbb{F}}_{4}RS$-cyclic codes of block length $(\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma )$ and construct cyclic DNA codes from them. ${\mathbb{F}}_{4}RS$-cyclic codes can be viewed as $S[x]$-submodules of $\frac{{\mathbb{F}}_q[x]}{\&lan}$...

Thai sentiment analysis on social media remains challenging due to the lack of explicit word boundaries, informal expressions, code-mixing, short text length, and severe class imbalance, particularly in the WISESIGHT benchmark dataset. Although trans...

Thisstudy introduces a new model for detecting insults in Roman Urdu, filling an important gap in natural language processing (NLP) for low-resource languages. The transliterated nature of Roman Urdu also poses specific challenges from a computationa...

Fairness audits of hate-speech classifiers are typically performed at a single annotation budget, leaving a basic question unanswered: how much labeled data does a trustworthy fairness audit require? We introduce ABFR (Annotation-Budget Fairness Reli...

Large language models (LLMs) now generate fluent natural language and source code, creating challenges for authorship attribution, academic integrity, and software supply-chain security. Most existing detectors for AI-generated content are evaluated...

Subchannel codes have been widely used for thermal-hydraulics analyses in nuclear reactors. This paper details the development of a novel subchannel code within the Idaho National Laboratory’s (INL) Multi-physics Object Oriented Simulation Envi...

The development, verification, and validation of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes in reference to nuclear power plant (NPP) safety has been a focus of many research organizations over the last few decades. Therefore, a collection of Rossendor...

The previous study, where the void fraction predictability of three different thermal-hydraulic system codes was assessed against PSBT (PWR Subchannel and Bundle Test) benchmark data, indicated a general overprediction tendency of all system codes, e...

To improve utilization of text storage resources and efficiency of data transmission, we proposed two syllable-based Uyghur text compression coding schemes. First, according to the statistics of syllable coverage of the corpus text, we constructed a...

The circular economy (i.e., reuse and recycling of waste materials) is gaining attention for the goal of achieving net-zero waste. In this regard, the use of waterproofing membrane waste in bituminous materials can be a valid option, as every year, a...

As bilingual families increase, the phenomenon of language mixing among children in mixed-language environments has gradually attracted academic attention. This study aims to explore the impact of language mixing on vocabulary acquisition in bilingua...

Augmenting the author’s prior research on lyrical code-switching, as presented in Picone, “Artistic Codemixing”, published in 2002, various conceptual frameworks are made explicit, namely the enlistment of multimodal and intertextua...

Form-based design codes have emerged as a planning tool aimed at shaping the physical form of neighborhoods to reinforce local character and enhance sense of place (SoP). However, their effectiveness in delivering these outcomes remains underexplored...

One of the modern trends in the design of human–machine interfaces (HMI) is to involve the so called spiking neuron networks (SNNs) in signal processing. The SNNs can be trained by simple and efficient biologically inspired algorithms. In parti...

This paper describes a method for producing a novel type of ferromagnetic coded micro-carrier. The ferromagnetic coded micro-carriers are about 200 μm in length, 200 μm in width and 50 μm in thickness, and contain eight code elements with two disting...

The slow neutron-capture process (s-process) efficiency in low-mass AGB stars (1.5 < M/M${}_{\odot }$ < 3) critically depends on how mixing processes in stellar interiors are handled, which is still affected by considerable uncertainties. In this work, we...

Thermal hydraulics, in certain components of nuclear reactor systems, involve complex flow scenarios, such as flows assisted by free jets and stratified flows leading to turbulent mixing and thermal fluctuations. These complex flow patterns and therm...

A list of diagnosis codes mapped to CDC-defined high-risk conditions for severe COVID-19 outcomes is currently not available in the literature. We reviewed the CDC list of underlying conditions associated with severe COVID-19 and a coding expert and...

“Triggered switching” is the theory that code-switching happens more often with words connected to both languages, such as cognates. Corpus analyses have supported this theory; however, they do not allow testing for directional causality....

Let $\mathfrak{R}={\mathbb{F}}_q[u_1,u_2,u_3]/⟨u_i^2=u_i,u_i{u}_j=u_j{u}_i=0⟩$ and ${\mathbb{F}}_q\mathfrak{R}=\left\{(a,d)\right|a\in {\mathbb{F}}_q,d\in \mathfrak{R}\}$, where $q=p^m$, p is a prime, and $m\in {\mathbf{N}}^{+}$. We investigate the algebraic structure of the non-separable constacyclic codes over the mixed-alphabet ring ${\mathbb{F}}_q\mathfrak{R}$ and the...

In the last few years, the modeling of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars has been much investigated, both focusing on nucleosynthesis and stellar evolution aspects. Recent advances in the input physics required for stellar computations made it poss...

Simulation codes allow one to reduce the high conservativism in nuclear reactor design improving the reliability and sustainability associated with nuclear power. Full-core coupled reactor physics at the rod level are not provided by most simulation...

The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together research evidence from studies into code-switching, that is, the alternation and mixing of languages as practiced on a daily basis by bilinguals throughout the world [...]

The mixing processes of granular materials have gained wide interest among various fields of science and engineering. In this study, our focus is a mixing process for offshore mining. We conducted numerical simulations using the discrete element meth...

This paper investigates the seismic behavior of a class of mixed reinforced concrete-steel buildings. In particular, mixed buildings constructed by r/c (reinforced concrete) at their lower story(ies) and structural steel at their upper story(ies) are...

Efficient and intuitive programming strategies are essential for enabling robots to adapt to small-batch, high-mix production scenarios. Mixed reality (MR) and programming by demonstration (PbD) have shown great potential to lower the programming bar...

Network coding is a potent technique extensively utilized in decentralized Internet of Things (IoT) systems, including the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). Nevertheless, the inherent packet-mixing characteristics of network coding expose data trans...

Semantic communication is emerging as a promising communication paradigm, where semantic coding plays an essential role by explicitly extracting task-critical information. Prior efforts toward semantic coding often rely on learning-based feature extr...

Following effective seismic codes, common buildings are considered to be made of the same material throughout the story distribution and based on an ideal rigid soil. However, in daily construction practice, there are often cases of buildings formed...

Damping modeling significantly influences the numerical seismic response of buildings, something that, despite being repeatedly emphasized in earthquake engineering research, is still overlooked even by seismic codes. It is a fact that, for simplific...

This study analyzes the turbomachinery flow of a gas turbine using OpenFOAM, an open-source CFD code. While foam-extend, a version of OpenFOAM, includes tools for turbomachinery analysis, some of its codes are incomplete, resulting in incorrect resul...

This study investigates how participants conceptualise sustainability and sustainability citizenship, as well as how these conceptualisations relate to perceived agency. Drawing on two open-ended prompts, it analyses participants’ visions of a...