The Publishing Race by A.W. Misbach

“…As this letter was about what he termed, “the erasure of black lives” in publishing, I decided to publish the letter and invited Terry Morris from Pan Macmillan to respond in the interests of fairness and open debate. …”
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A Systematic Review of Deep Learning Methods Applied to Ocular Images by Oscar Julian Perdomo Charry, Fabio Augusto González Osorio

“…In addition, these methods are breaking the stigma of black-box models, with the delivering of interpretable clinically information. …”
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Dynamic monopolies in simple graphs by Leila Musavizadeh Jazaeri, Leila Sharifan

“…At first, each vertex is colored, Black or White. At each round, each vertex (simultaneously) recolors itself by the color of the majority of its closed neighborhood. …”
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The history, fungal biodiversity, conservation, and future perspectives for mycology in Egypt by A.M. Abdel-Azeem

“…Certain groups have never been studied in Egypt, such as Trichomycetes and black yeasts. By screening available sources of information, it was possible to delineate 2281 taxa belonging to 755 genera of fungi, including 57 myxomycete species as known from Egypt. …”
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Integrability, Variational Principle, Bifurcation, and New Wave Solutions for the Ivancevic Option Pricing Model by A. A. Elmandouh, M. E. Elbrolosy

“…The Ivancevic option pricing model comes as an alternative to the Black-Scholes model and depicts a controlled Brownian motion associated with the nonlinear Schrodinger equation. …”
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The mirage of a triune rainbow by E.M. Conradie

“…In a somewhat playful manner, a colourcoding for such discourse is proposed, identifying white, dark purple, light purple, green, brown, black, and grey perspectives on the Trinity. On this basis, the thesis is developed that discourse on the triune God takes place in self-isolating silos, so that conversation between these silos becomes difficult. …”
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Acute Esophageal Necrosis in a Septic Patient with a History of Cardiovascular Disease by Michael Coles, Victoria Madray, Pearl Uy

“…Acute esophageal necrosis (AEN), or colloquially named “black esophagus,” is a rare clinical condition often associated with ischemic injury to the esophagus secondary to splanchnic vasoconstriction during hypotensive episodes. …”
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Why the Length of a Quantum String Cannot Be Lorentz Contracted by Antonio Aurilia, Euro Spallucci

“…In the latter case, we determine the critical boost that separates the ordinary “particle phase,” characterized by the Compton wavelength, from the “black hole phase,” characterized by the effective Schwarzschild radius of the colliding system.…”
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Developing a Travel Time Estimation Method of Freeway Based on Floating Car Using Random Forests by Juan Cheng, Gen Li, Xianhua Chen

“…Different from other machine learning algorithm as black boxes, Random Forests can provide interpretable results through variable importance. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of the Value of Information in a Continuous Time Market Model with Partial Information: The Cases of Log-Utility and CRRA by Zhaojun Yang, Christian-Oliver Ewald, Wen-Kai Wang

“…We study the question what value an agent in a generalized Black-Scholes model with partial information attributes to the complementary information. …”
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Materialismo ecológico como materialismo de la reproducción: un diálogo entre Theodor Adorno y Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar by Andrés F. Parra-Ayala

“…Gutiérrez Aguilar, in turn, provides a grounded view, illustrating how certain political and communal practices among Indigenous and Black communities, as well as the life-sustaining work traditionally performed by women, reveal an emancipatory potential. …”
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La possibilité d’une île : la mythologie du Bronx, archipel enchanté, dans trois textes autobiographiques de Jerome Charyn by Sophie Vallas

“…Jerome Charyn recently published an autobiographical trilogy (The Dark Lady from Belorusse, 1997; The Black Swan, 2000 and Bronx Boy, 2007) in which the main focus, more than his adored and fascinating mother at the heart of the story, more than Charyn’s childhood and adolescence, is the Bronx. …”
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Phase-Dependent Color Polyphenism in Field Populations of Red Locust Nymphs (Nomadacris septemfasciata Serv.) in Madagascar by Michel Lecoq, Abdou Chamouine, My-Hanh Luong-Skovmand

“…The gregarization threshold is estimated at 100,000 hoppers/ha. A slight black spot on the hind femur is the first sign of gregarization. …”
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An Experimental Study of Photocatalytic Degradation of Congo Red Using Polymer Nanocomposite Films by Mashael Nasser Alshabanat, Murefah M. AL-Anazy

“…Eco-friendly polymer nanocomposite films were synthesized using biodegradable polymers of chitosan and polyvinyl alcohol as polymeric matrices and carbon black nanoparticles as the reinforcement. These films were applied to study their applicability to industrial wastewater purification as a photocatalyst for degradation of Congo red as a target pollutant and to study the effect of the polymeric matrix types of the films on their performance as a semiconductor photocatalyst. …”
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CONTEMPLATING ALLAN BOESAK’S FASCINATION WITH PREACHING “TRUTH TO POWER”

“…Boesak, as a son of liberation and Black theology, is known for aspiring to a new world through the biblical witness. …”
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Complex Dynamics of a Ratio-Dependent Predator-Prey Model Induced by Spatial Motion by Caiyun Wang, Jing Li, Ruiqiang He

“…Specifically speaking, Turing pattern of the predator populations goes gradually from a spotted pattern to a black-eye pattern, with the intermediate state being the mixture of spot and stripe pattern. …”
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Editorial by Thomas D. Wilson

“…Since we last published (in the middle of December), generative AI continues to make the headlines, particularly with Google’s attempts to satisfy the demands for “diversity”, by generating images of black, female Nazi soldiers. Needless to say, embarrassment all round. …”
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Hannah Arendt, Little Rock et la question de la neutralité scolaire by Michel Fabre

“…In order to depart from recurring debates in France, we propose here to take a detour through America, with the Little Rock affair and the Hannah Arendt’s paper about claims of the State to initiate the process of social desegregation by ordering public high schools to integrate black students. But engaging youth in adults political struggles, it is not betraying education ?…”
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Usage of Learning Management System Web Analytics in Blended Learning Self-Study Evaluation by G. P. Ozerova

“…This paper presents results of using developed methodology deployed in LMS BlackBoard on the example of Information Technology blended learning course in Far Eastern Federal University.…”
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Moving up North by Olivette Otele

“…Analysing how notions such as the Mediterranean with its historical colonial legacies have been re-appropriated and given way to the term the Black Mediterranean, allows us to understand the way the history of migration from Europe to Africa was linked to the idea of conquest and progress, while 20th and 21st century stories of migration from Africa to Europe are associated with invasion and disorder. …”
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