Une transition économique inattendue : vers le « cupidalisme » ? by Wladimir Andreff

“…Originating in post-communist economies in transition asset grabbing has spread throughout the global economy through public assets transferred to private owners (privatisations), predatory real assets stripping by finance, the emergence of shadow finance (of which shadow banking), namely in all the black holes of global finance (tax and judiciary havens). …”
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Soil CO2 Efflux in a Mixed Pine-Oak Forest in Valsaín (Central Spain) by Rosa Inclán, Daniel De la Torre, Marta Benito, Agustín Rubio

“…Total soil organic matter, Walkey-Black C, particulate organic matter, organic matter fraction below 53 μm, total soil nitrogen content, total soil organic carbon content, and pH were also measured under three representative mature oak, pine, and mixed pine-oak forest stands. …”
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Identification of bald patches in degraded alpine meadows by UAV-based remote sensing and deep learning by Lu Wang, Lulu Cui, Zihan Song, Min Zheng, Chengyi Li, Xilai Li

“…Alpine meadow patchiness is the starting point and an important feature of the formation of ‘Black Beach’ on the Tibetan Plateau, which directly threatens regional ecological security and economic development. …”
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Science diplomacy as a tool for promoting the interests of Czechia in Africa by Mikhail V. Vedernikov

“…Its main instruments on the Black Continent have been studied – concluding official agreements with local partners, involving national businesses in promoting Czech science, advertising Czech higher education, and conducting scientific diplomacy through official development assistance. …”
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Kilonova/Macronova Emission from Compact Binary Mergers by Masaomi Tanaka

“…We review current understanding of kilonova/macronova emission from compact binary mergers (mergers of two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole). Kilonova/macronova is emission powered by radioactive decays of r-process nuclei and it is one of the most promising electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources. …”
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A Globally Optimal Robust Design Method for Complex Systems by Yue Chen, Jian Shi, Xiao-jian Yi

“…Second, it can be used for both analytically known and black-box performance functions. Third, it guarantees that any point selected within the obtained hyperbox satisfies the performance criterion as long as the performance function is continuous. …”
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Development Of Ship Archive Information System In XYZ Company With Scrum Methodology by Vika Insanittaqwa, M. Ihsan Alfani Putera, M. Fathurrahman Shidiq

“…A total of 55 Product Backlogs were completed over three Sprints. Black Box testing was conducted at each iteration with the supervision of XYZ Company staff, yielding satisfactory results. …”
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A Consequence-Based Response Framework for More Resilient Shipping Amidst Growing Uncertainty by Helen Thanopoulou, Siri Pettersen Strandenes

“…Considering significant shipping incidents of various less or more uncommon etiologies, such as the capsizing of vessels, missile attacks on merchant ships or vessel-onto-bridge collisions, this conceptual paper puts forward a consequence-based approach for assessing and managing shocks in the maritime domain, especially the ones classified in the “unknown-unknowns” or “Black Swan” categories. In the context of preparedness theory, the authors propose the adoption by shipping businesses, in parallel to any other risk approaches and tools, of the Assessment-reaction-Recovery-Conversion (ArRC) framework for managing risk and of relevant key recovery indicators which may assist in (a) increasing resilience through focusing the recovery planning on consequence-oriented, root-neutral reactions and (b) in promoting a “bounce-back-better” frame of mind and action plan, contributing to faster and easier recovery after a shock of any type.…”
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An Unusual Cause of Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Acute Esophageal Necrosis by Nikhil R. Kalva, Madhusudhan R. Tokala, Sonu Dhillon, Watcoun-Nchinda Pisoh, Saqib Walayat, Vishwas Vanar, Srinivas R. Puli

“…Acute esophageal necrosis (AEN), also called “black esophagus,” is a condition characterized by circumferential necrosis of the esophagus with universal distal involvement and variable proximal extension with clear demarcation at the gastroesophageal junction. …”
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On the coalitional decomposition of parameters of interest by Il Idrissi, Marouane, Bousquet, Nicolas, Gamboa, Fabrice, Iooss, Bertrand, Loubes, Jean-Michel

“…Understanding the behavior of a black-box model with probabilistic inputs can be based on the decomposition of a parameter of interest (e.g., its variance) into contributions attributed to each coalition of inputs (i.e., subsets of inputs). …”
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Designing 3D Animated Games as Learning Media For Lontara (Edulontara) Based on Android by Suci Rahma Dani Rachman, Ardimansyah, Baso Arfan Efendy, Riyan Alfian Syarif

“…The system development method used is waterfall starting from data collection, system analysis, application design, system testing and implementation. Black-box testing method that focuses on the functional requirements of the software. …”
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Elucidation of delignification promotion mechanism by soda cooking with addition of anthraquinone derivative using phenolic β-O-4-type lignin model oligomer by Ke Luo, Taiki Nishimoto, Yasuyuki Matsushita

“…When 2-EAQ was added, coniferyl alcohol was detected in the black liquor, confirming the reductive degradation of the lignin model oligomer by 2-EAHQ. …”
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The Effect of Educational Robotics Applications on Students' Academic Achievement and Problem-Solving Skills in Science Education by Abdullah Koray, Behice Hilal Uzuncelebi

“…The study sample consist of 36 5th grade students attending a public school in Turkey located in a district center in the Western Black Sea region. The study was carried out in a six-week period in the 2019-2020 academic year, and 19 of the students were selected as the control and 16 as the experimental group. …”
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An exploratory study of interpretability for face presentation attack detection by Ana F. Sequeira, Tiago Gonçalves, Wilson Silva, João Ribeiro Pinto, Jaime S. Cardoso

“…Though often more accurate, these models operate as complex black boxes. Interpretability tools are now being used to delve deeper into the operation of these methods, which is why this work advocates their integration in the PAD scenario. …”
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Role of Formal Artistic Education in the Relationship between Golden Proportion and Perceived Beauty of Artistic Stimuli by A. Félix Vico-Prieto, Ángel Cagigas, Juan M. Rosas, José E. Callejas-Aguilera

“…In Experiment 1, both groups of participants had to choose between pairs of black and white adaptations of Mondrian paintings modified to fit either the golden or the 1/6 proportion. …”
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Relationship between Angular Measurements and Facial Shape of Young Ivorians with Normal Dental Occlusion by Moussa Diomande, Jean-Bertin Beugre, Mariam Konaté Kady Koueita, Frédéric Vaysse

“…It was a descriptive and cross-sectional study of 108 black Ivorian subjects. For each subject selected, two standardized photographs (full face and profile) were taken, followed by anthropometric measurements. …”
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First Report: Spodoptera Picta Guerin-Meneville, Armyworm on Swamp Lily (Crinum x powellii ‘Album’) in Bogor, Indonesia by Nadzirum Mubin, Khalisa Sasti Andina, Bela Hasna Audia

“…Characteristics of the larvae were dark grey with a longitudinal black line, a striking yellow line that runs along the middle of the dorsal, and a Y shape in the head. …”
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Tracking Nonlinear Correlation for Complex Dynamic Systems Using a Windowed Error Reduction Ratio Method by Yifan Zhao, Edward Hanna, Grant R. Bigg, Yitian Zhao

“…Current methods either are like a “black box” that is difficult to understand and relate back to the underlying system or have limited universality and applicability due to too many assumptions. …”
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Empedobacter brevis Bacteremia in a Patient Infected with HIV: Case Report and Review of Literature by Syed Bokhari, Naeem Abbas, Manisha Singh, Richard B. Cindrich, Cosmina Zeana

“…A 69-year-old man with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and CD4 count of 319 presented with chief complaints of black tarry stools, nausea and vomiting for 2 days. …”
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A Novel Protective Framework for Defeating HTTP-Based Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service Attacks by Mohammed A. Saleh, Azizah Abdul Manaf

“…Firstly, an outer blocking (OB) scheme blocks attacking IP source if it is listed on the black list table. Secondly, the service traceback oriented architecture (STBOA) scheme is to validate whether the incoming request is launched by a human or by an automated tool. …”
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