RUSSIAN AND LITHUANIAN TRANSLATION OF HUMOUR IN THE ANIMATED SITCOM “THE SIMPSONS” by Živilė Nemickienė, Dovilė Urbonienė, Ričardas Povilaitis

“…Created in the USA, the sitcom (an abbreviated version of the situation comedy) has always been an extremely popular genre of a television show. …”
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Determining the required level of care for patients with acute bacterial meningitis: case reports and literature review by G. Makarevičius, N. Giedraitienė, A. Klimašauskienė

“…However, since neurological condition is not the only factor contributing to the outcomes of bacterial meningitis, over- and undertriage cannot always be avoided. In this article, we present two cases of bacterial meningitis: an elderly man who was denied ICU care since his consciousness was only mildly altered, and a woman who was admitted to ICU because she was diagnosed with meningococcus meningitis. …”
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Intrathoracic Displacement of the Humeral Head with Polytrauma: Case Report by Kipras Sasnauskas, Robert Vrublevski, Povilas Masionis, Sigitas Ryliškis

“…Although some authors suggest leaving humeral fragment in some cases while others suggest to always remove. Exact indications of such decision are unclear. …”
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IMPLEMENTATION OF GEOGEBRA COURSEWARE IN TEACHING THE CONCEPT OF MATHEMATICAL FUNCTION by Y. V. Gromova, I. S. Safuanov

“…Regarded as the key instrument of mathematics and experimental modeling, the notion of function including its perception, interpretation and application have always been under the scrutiny of Russian and foreign scientists. …”
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Chronic Appendicitis: Possible Differential Diagnosis in Patients with Chronic Abdominal Pain by Iva Ljubas, Ivana Jurca, Dora Grgić

“…Chronic appendicitis is a rare medical condition characterized by less severe and continuous abdominal pain and a clinical picture lasting longer than 1-2 days and extending over months, even years, and it is not always possible to consider it as a preliminary diagnosis. …”
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Environmental Factors Influencing Foraging Activity in the Social Wasp Polybia paulista (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Epiponini) by Naila Cristina de Souza Canevazzi, Fernando Barbosa Noll

“…Collection of liquids was always higher than that of solids; preys were collected all year long, and nests showed two annual episodic expansions. …”
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Ecosystem Services Valuation for Estuarine and Coastal Restoration in Florida by Susanna Blair, Carrie Adams, Tom Ankersen, Maia McGuire, David Kaplan

“…Unfortunately, ecosystem restoration efforts have not always been a priority for coastal management. This 10-page literature review surveys the available ecosystem-service valuation literature for five of Florida’s coastal natural communities—oyster reefs, beach dunes, mangrove forests, seagrass beds, and salt marshes—to facilitate the quantification of ecosystem services to provide a better measure of the full impact of restoration efforts. …”
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Dynamics of the Exponential Population Growth System with Mixed Fractional Brownian Motion by Weijun Ma, Wei Liu, Quanxin Zhu, Kaibo Shi

“…It is interesting that the phenomenon of large deviations always occurs for addressed system when 1/2<H<1. Moreover, several numerical simulations are reported to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.…”
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The Ministerial Advisory Committees and 3 years of COVID-19 expertise – is the Department of Health’s model for information-sharing pandemic-ready? by M Richter, Y Nokhepheyi

“…Yet, the expert advice that it received was not always readily made available to the public. This submission analyses the time elapsed between the submission of COVID-19 Ministerial Advisory Committees memoranda to the Minister of Health, and the Department of Health’s subsequent publication of these for the period August 2020 - January 2024. …”
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Analysis of a Delayed SIR Model with Nonlinear Incidence Rate by Jin-Zhu Zhang, Zhen Jin, Quan-Xing Liu, Zhi-Yu Zhang

“…If ℜ0 is less than one, the disease-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable and the disease always dies out, while if it exceeds one there will be an endemic. …”
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The Philosopher’s Poet: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on Wallace Stevens by Bart Eeckhout

“…By pitting the voices of poets against those of philosophers, the article allows the reader to observe empirically how poets are often wary of addressing Stevens’s philosophical weight except by noting the formal and stylistic enactment of mental activity in his verse, while philosophers sometimes fail to acknowledge the intrinsic nature of lyric thinking, and thus do not always manage to contribute to a deeper understanding of the poetry as such.…”
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Potential Use of Volcanic Ash as Filler Material in Hot Mix Asphalt by Basha Fayissa, Achalu Kebede, Fekadu Fufa

“…Due to the depletion of these conventional materials, this cannot be always true. To overcome such problems, several alternative construction materials have been proposed as sustainable solutions. …”
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Characterization of a Cournot–Nash Equilibrium for a Fishery Model with Fuzzy Utilities by R. Israel Ortega-Gutiérrez, Raúl Montes-de-Oca, Hugo Cruz-Suárez

“…However, in the fuzzy case, game theory is not the best way to represent a real fishing problem because players do not always have enough information to accurately estimate their utility in the context of fishing. …”
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Semantyczno-pragmatyczne znaczenie natury by Jacek L. Łapiński

“…Over the whole history of human thinking the true substance of this term has been always variable - determined by various factors: historic periods, philosophical and social trends, religions, different scientific exploration strategies, etc.…”
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Turn-taking in conversation uttered by Madurese community in Jember by Bambang Wibisono, Akhmad Haryono

“…In formal communication, the turn-taking pattern is always shown without overlapping speech. Interrupting people's speech in situations of formal verbal communication is considered to violate prevailing rules and is subject to negative stigma from society. …”
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A Dictionary Learning Method with Total Generalized Variation for MRI Reconstruction by Hongyang Lu, Jingbo Wei, Qiegen Liu, Yuhao Wang, Xiaohua Deng

“…Reconstructing images from their noisy and incomplete measurements is always a challenge especially for medical MR image with important details and features. …”
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Recreational Fishing Effort and How Management Actions Can Affect It—Part 2: Literature and a Case Study. by Edward Camp, Michael S. Allen, Thomas T. Ankersen, Savanna Barry, Mark W. Clark

“…Decisions that change the allowable harvest or the type of access to certain fishing areas are often expected to have strong effects on fishing effort, but the outcome of these actions is not always obvious. To provide greater insight into what may happen to fishing effort after management decisions, we describe case studies from the North American fisheries literature, some Florida-specific. …”
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Application of Optimized Support Vector Machine Model in Tax Forecasting System by Yu Xin

“…The amount of tax data is greatly increased, the difficulty of tax forecast is improved, and the accuracy is always difficult to keep up with the development demand. …”
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Visualization Method in Mathematics Classes by Laxmi Rathour, Dragan Obradovic, Shiv Tiwari, Lakshmi Mishra, Vishnu Mishra

“…Developing students’ educational abilities has always been one of the most urgent. The more fully a student's potential is realized, the more success a person will be able to achieve in life and career. …”
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From Incoherence to Sustainability: Performance, Activism, and Social Media in the Most Recent Russian Poetry by Kirill Korchagin

“…The type of performance in question, which originally implied active absorption in the poetic text, occupied an important place in Russian art of the twentieth century – from the first experiments of the historical avant-garde to Moscow Conceptualism (above all, in the their “Collective Actions”). As such, it has always maintained a closeness to the poetic work and was most often practiced by poets who sought to extend their texts beyond the space of the page and into the “external” world. …”
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