Smoke or no Smoke? Questions of Perspective in North and South by Mary Debrabant

“…The novelist underplays the more sinister aspect of Milton’s environmental features and manufacturers are not explicitly held accountable for industrial waste. For all its smoke and grime, the bustling factory town compares not unfavourably with the backwardness of rural England, the idle drawing-room life of London or torpid Oxford academia. …”
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Polystyrene Microsphere Optical Properties by Kubelka–Munk and Diffusion Approximation with a Single Integrating Sphere System: A Comparative Study by Ali Shahin, Wesam Bachir, Moustafa Sayem El-Daher

“…Although absorption coefficient turned out to be much lower than scattering, constructing a realistic optical phantom requires taking into account absorption property of polystyrene. Complex refractive index of polystyrene based on these two methods was determined. …”
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Hyperactivity and Pro-inflammatory Functions of Platelets in Diabetes by Jordan Greaves, Giordano Pula

“…Overall, this article provides an important up-to-date overview of the pathophysiological alterations of platelets in DM, which need to be taken into account for the effective management of cardiovascular health in this disease.…”
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System of comprehensive evaluation of academic staff activity by I. Dudarev, V. Purtov

“…The evaluation of academic staff activities is mainly based on the results of their scientific work, but it is important to take into account other areas of their responsibilities. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to develop a system for the comprehensive evaluation of academic staff, which would consider the outcomes of their pedagogical, methodological, scientific, and organisational work. …”
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State of the digital age: modeling of institutional transformations by D. V. Shelokov

“…This is achieved by taking into account the largest number of factors in their relationship with each other, as well as goals of creating the model and the results expected from its implementation. …”
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Старините в прохода Траянови врата в пътеписите от XVI–XIX век by Ivan Valchev

“…., the first eyewitness account of the monument only dates from the first half of the 16th c. …”
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Conditional similarity triplets enable covariate-informed representations of single-cell data by Chi-Jane Chen, Haidong Yi, Natalie Stanley

“…Current supervised learning approaches for computing per-sample representations are trained only to accurately predict a single outcome and do not take into account relevant additional clinical features or covariates that are likely to also be measured for each sample. …”
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The strategy of sustainable development and waste management: Case study: Commercial power industry by S. Łęgowik-Świącik

“…The first part of the paper exposes the strategic dimension of the concept of sustainable development taking into account the economic and environmental efficiency of waste management achieved due to the use of modern management tools. …”
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Multifactor Analysis of Calibration and Service Quality of the Soil Moisture Sensor Applied in Subgrade Engineering by Ke Xiao, Wen-qi Bai, Si-si Wang

“…The influence of multiple factors on the quality and the accuracy of the soil moisture sensor should be taken into account. Both laboratory and field tests were performed by the time-domain reflectometry (TDR) method. …”
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Fatigue Characteristics of Prestressed Concrete Beam under Freezing and Thawing Cycles by Yuanxun Zheng, Lei Yang, Pan Guo, Peibing Yang

“…The research shows that the freezing and thawing cycles had obvious influence on fatigue life, and the freezing and thawing cycles should be taken into account for life prediction and quality evaluation of prestressed concrete beams.…”
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The Clinical Application and Progress of Mirogabalin on Neuropathic Pain as a Novel Selective Gabapentinoids by Hui Tang, Jing Lu, Yazhuo Duan, Dejun Li

“…It is noteworthy that mirogabalin should be administrated cautiously when combined with probenecid and cimetidine on account of a slight increase in pharmacodynamics effects of mirogabalin. …”
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CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: STRATEGIC GOALS AND TACTIC ACTIONS by O. A. Kolobov

“…The article describes new technologies of political actions of the Russian Federation in the Middle East region, taking into account the factor of peacemaking and the creation of normal living conditions for the countries and peoples of the Greater Middle East. …”
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A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey of UK Breast Surgeons’ Views on the Management of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ by Gurdeep S. Mannu, Joao H. Bettencourt-Silva, Farid Ahmed, Giles Cunnick

“…However, by quantifying this variation, it may be possible to take it into account when examining long-term trends in nationwide treatment data.…”
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The pandemic as a legal prerequisite for the introduction of some special legal regimes by N. O. Rastorhuieva

“…It is concluded that the term “pandemic” is mainly used in the medical field, however, the factors that cause a pandemic are not only important within the limits of medicine or sanitation, but also entail acute social consequences, taking into account the legal. It is noted that the pandemic is a prerequisite for the introduction of a state of emergency. …”
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About Innovative Content of Subject-Oriented Pedagogical Education by R. M. Asadullin

“…However, recent studies in this area do not fully take into account the nature of pedagogical activity and conditions of its formation. …”
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Acceptance of sexual attraction and its link to psychological distress and sexual offending among pedohebephilic clients: results from a preliminary analysis by Anna Konrad, Laura Maria Heid, Hannah Scheuermann, Klaus Michael Beier, Till Amelung

“…While theoretical and qualitative accounts suggest that accepting one’s pedohebephilic sexual interests may help mitigate both distress and problematic behaviors, the only published quantitative study to date has linked acceptance with behavior but did not analyze its effect on distress.MethodsWe examined the relationship between acceptance of sexual interests and child sexual abuse (CSA), the use of child sexual exploitation material (CSEM), and psychological distress in 238 pedohebephilic and teleiophilic men outside the judicial system (i.e., in the “Dunkelfeld”).ResultsCompared to teleiophilic individuals, pedohebephilic individuals showed lower acceptance of their sexual interests. …”
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Assessing Educators’ Readiness for Innovative Professional and Pedagogical Activities by G. R. Khusainova, S. G. Karstina, M. F. Galikhanov

“…The ongoing transformations in the modern world have a significant impact on the sustainable development of national economies, unify the requirements for human capital, and its educational level. Taking into account current trends, governments are taking significant measures to ensure and maintain the link between education, the economy and socio-economic development. …”
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An Experimental Study with Model Calibration for the Permanent Strain of Granite Residual Soil Subgrade under Drying-Wetting Cycles by Xuefei Yang, Dongxia Chen, Yue Liu, Sheng Zhang

“…Subsequently, a new criterion to characterize the permanent strain of GRS is deduced from the experimental results, which accounts for both strains and rates of strains. This criterion illustrates that with the increase of D-W cycles number, the permanent strain evaluation pattern of GRS is gradually changing from plastic stabilization to plastic creep. …”
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Mixed Integer Linear Programming Based Speed Profile Optimization for Heavy-Haul Trains by Huazhen Yu, Yihui Wang, Andrea D’Ariano, Anzheng Lai, Youneng Huang

“…The time characteristics of the air braking, such as the command delay and the change process caused by the air pressure, are taken into account, and then formulas are presented to calculate the air brake force. …”
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La monnaie, la politique et la possibilité d’un mode de développement à nouveau fondé sur le marché intérieur au Brésil et en Argentine by Jaime Marques Pereira

“…Based on a conception of money as a symbolic, political and economic fact, the expectations are analyzed as a cognitive operation located in history, structured by the three facets of money: (i) a symbolic form as a unit of account whose acceptance is based on a development model driving a long-term visibility; (ii) an institution demonstrating the political power that guarantees an issuance and exchange regime in which credibility stands medium-term predictability ; (iii) a market value of means of payment defining in the short-term the value of the various types of income received or to be received. …”
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