Long-Term Consequences: Deep Time in Barry Lopez’s “The Stone Horse” by Norma Tilden

“…Lopez’s essay describes the writer’s encounter with an earthwork fashioned by Quechan artists perhaps four centuries ago in a California desert. The image is not carved into the hard desert pavement, but constructed from a process of re-arranging small stones and scraping dirt away. …”
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Scénario socio-économique et écologique des changements de l’occupation des terres au Bénin by Joseph Oloukoi

“…Dense forest and gallery forest presented a regressive trend in the four landscape units selected. The socio-economic scenario reveals that vegetation formations will almost disappear at the profit of farm and fallow lands and settlements in 2016, 2025, trend that will be consolidated in 2034. …”
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التراث العربى للمخطوط :دراسة مقارنة لتشریعات حمایته والحفاظ علیه by د. ناهد محمد بسیونى سالم

“…Documents and manuscripts express human intellectual life in allscience and knowledge fields, Arab world is reach in many manuscriptsspread all over the world, this heritage was exposed to many disasterswhich resulted in wasting or damaging some of and due to its importanceand problems it is exposed to, some Arab countries passed differentlegislations to maintain and keep its manuscript heritage, but we find somecountries passed manuscripts legislations and others incorporated undertheir archeological maintenance legislations, accordingly this studyhighlighted Arab legislations passed for manuscripts maintenance andprotections in Oman, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and comparing them to ideallaw of manuscripts protection in Arab countries, the study followedcomparative analytic method depending on analyzing and classifyingthese laws and comparing their particulars, the study found that Omani lawis more agreeing with ideal law in Arab countries than Egyptian and Saudilaw, the four laws agreed upon that national library shall be responsible forcollection, registration, maintenance, restoration and manuscripts copying,legislations stipulated penalties ranging from damage to prison in case ofviolating some clauses and prohibited exporting manuscripts abroad. …”
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Preserving data privacy in social recommendation by Shu-shu LIU, An LIU, Lei ZHAO, Guan-feng LIU, Zhi-xu LI, Kai ZHENG, Xiao-fang ZHOU

“…Social recommendation is a method which requires the participants of both user’s historical behavior data and social network,which generally belong to different parties,such as recommendation system service provider and social network service provider.Considering the fact that in order to maintain the value of their own data interests and user’s privacy,none of them will provide data information to the other,two privacy preserving protocols are proposed for efficient computation of social recommendation which needs the cooperation of two parties (recommendation system service provider and social network service provider).Both protocols enable two parties to compute the social recommendation without revealing their private data to each other.The protocol based on the well-known oblivious transfer multiplication has a low cost,and is suitable for the application of high efficiency requirements.And the one based on homomorphic cryptosystem has a better privacy preserving,and is more suitable for the application of higher data privacy requirements.Experimental results on the four real datasets show those two protocols are efficient and practical.Users are suggested to choose the appropriate protocol according to their own need.…”
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Electrical and Thermal Conductivity of Complex-Shaped Contact Spots by Beguin, Paul, Yastrebov, Vladislav A.

“…This approach inspired the form of the phenomenological model for self-affine spots, which maintains physical consistency and relies on four geometric characteristics: standard deviation, second spectral moment, Nayak parameter, and Hurst exponent. …”
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Beyond polarity: How ESG sentiment influences idiosyncratic volatility in the Turkish stock market by Alev Atak

“…Using FinBERT-ESG, a language model specifically designed for financial and ESG-related texts, we construct four novel indices: the Positive ESG Index (PESGIN), capturing positive ESG sentiment; the Negative ESG Index (NESGIN), representing adverse ESG sentiment; the Balanced Polarity Index (BPI), measuring the overall balance between positive and negative sentiment; and the Amplified Negative Polarity Index (ANPI), which emphasizes the intensity of negative sentiment. …”
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An Application of ANN Ensemble for Estimating of Precipitation Using Regional Climate Models by Dongwoo Jang

“…It is expected that more detailed analysis will be possible if it is applied not only to four cities but also to other regions in Korea. If observed precipitation data are collected in sufficient quantity, the applicability of the ANN model will widen.…”
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Menggali Kesiapsiagaan Keluarga dalam Perencanaan Tanggap Darurat Bencana bagi Penyandang Disabilitas Mental di Indonesia by Rika Sarfika, Ainul Fitri, Elvi Oktarina

“…A qualitative study was prepared using a phenomenological approach. A total of four participants who had family members with mental disabilities in Patient Nan Tigo Village participated in this study. …”
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Play, reflect, cultivate social and emotional learning: a pathway to pre-service teacher SEL through playful pedagogies by Lina Darwich, Dennis DeBay, Lisa Forbes, Julia Mahfouz

“…Specifically, we introduce a conceptual model that combines a four-level pyramid of playful learning with an iterative reflection process. …”
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Exploring academic dishonesty among medical students during clinical rotations: Prevalence, causes, and types in NKUMS, Iran by Morteza Rastgar, Saeed Rabbani, Esmaeil Farrokhi, Hasan Namdar Ahmadabad

“…We used a questionnaire consisting of four parts: demographic characteristics, causes of dishonesty, types of dishonesty, and suggestions for reducing dishonesty. …”
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Proposition d’une démarche commune pour la sélection de variations asymptomatiques osseuses et dentaires répétables et reproductibles en anthropologie biologique by Ariane Ducher, Bérengère Saliba-Serre, Laurine Renaud, Bruno Foti, Émeline Verna

“…The analyses were performed after four rounds of scoring (three observers), and when more than 20 observations of polymorphic variations were obtained. …”
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Identification of Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, Poison Sumac, and Poisonwood by Sydney Park Brown, Joe Sewards, Patricia Grace, Sherrie Lowe

“…Unfortunately, the native plants poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, and poisonwood can make these outings a miserable experience. All four contain urushiol, a plant oil that can cause a severe skin rash (dermatitis) when any part of the plant is contacted. …”
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The Perspectives of Diabetes Educators and Dietitians on Diet and Lifestyle Management for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Qualitative Study by Amber J. Hanks, Clare Hume, Siew Lim, Jessica A. Grieger

“…Thirteen semistructured interviews were conducted, audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analysed for codes and themes. Four themes emerged: guidelines and resources, dietary intervention, management delivery, and communication. …”
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Evaluation proceeds model middling kriging in distribution spatial land use city (Case study: city Kerman) by Ali Asghsr Abdollahi, moslem ghasemi

“…Results resolution explanatory existence pattern cluster in the land use study, administrative and commercial and pattern diffused for land use medical in the city Kerman. In between four pattern use study follow of better order. Too results research rectitude, specified pattern kriging ordinary with model gauss beater shape pattern distribution spatial use in the city Kerman…”
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Analysis on the Factors Influencing the Behavior of Purchasing Enterprise Brand Fruits: Empirical Study Based on 312 Consumers in China by Wenbin Jiang, Liyu Ju, Yongju Zhang, Ziyu Li

“…Among them, the first four factors have a positive effect, while the last two have a negative effect. …”
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Failure of Ketoprofen and Interferon Combination Therapy to Improve Interferon-Resistant Chronic Hepatitis C by Frank H Anderson, Lecheng Zeng, Eric M Yoshida, Natalie R Rock

“…Seventeen patients, nonresponsive after at least six months of treatment with IFN-α2b and subsequently treated with the combination of IFN-α2b plus ketoprofen for four months, were studied. Serum aminotransferases (alanine aminotransferase [ALT] and aspartate aminotransferase [AST]) and serum hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA were analyzed before and throughout treatment. …”
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A Hybrid Wavelet Transform Based Short-Term Wind Speed Forecasting Approach by Jujie Wang

“…Simulation results in four different cases show that the proposed method increases wind speed forecasting accuracy.…”
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THE USE OF COMMUNICATIVE TEACHER TALK STRATEGY FOR ENGLISH TEACHER OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN THE ERA OF AEC AND GLOBALIZATION by Anggie Intan Rustantya

“…The researcher conducted this study to an English teacher was able to apply four characteristics of communication teacher talk in primary education. …”
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Maternal Mortality Determinants in Rural Kenya: An Audit of Three Hospitals by Brian Barasa Masaba, Rose M. Mmusi-Phetoe, Bernard Rono, Daniel Kyalo Muthiani, Jonathan Taiswa, Stephenie Lydia Ojiambo, Damaris Moraa, John Kennedy Moturi

“…Materials and Methods: A four-year retrospective, cross-sectional study was conducted in three tertiary hospitals within Migori county in Kenya. …”
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Classification of Gastrointestinal Diseases Using Hybrid Recurrent Vision Transformers With Wavelet Transform by Biniyam Mulugeta Abuhayi, Yohannes Agegnehu Bezabh, Aleka Melese Ayalew, Miraf Alemayehu Lakew

“…The classification phase employs an ensemble of four classifiers: support vector machines, Bayesian network, random forest, and logistic regression. …”
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