“Absolute Alterity”? The Alien Animal, the Human Alien, and the Limits of Posthumanism in Star Trek by Manuela Neuwirth

“…Examining alien-pet relations in Star Trek: The Original Series, The Animated Series, and The Next Generation through a triangular structure of interconnected becomings, this paper argues that, while convergent and divergent becomings complicate established dualisms, the affective alien-pet interrelations in Star Trek ultimately effect a becoming-human for humanoid aliens while they mark the nonhuman animal as absolute other. Complementing Star Trek scholarship that calls the series’ status as inclusive utopia into question, this article likewise unmasks Star Trek as a distinctly humanist utopia that eventually promotes an anthropocentric position in the representation of animals as much as in the representation of other alterns.…”
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Tropical Fruit Pest Management Strategic Plan (PMSP) by Mark A. Mossler, Olaf Norman Nesheim

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Les traductions russes de La Légende de Saint Julien L’Hospitalier by Svetlana Maire

“…Julian the Hospitaller, wrote in 1876, is marked out by stylistic treasures where the form is also important as the content. …”
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Three looks at users: a comparison of methods for studying digital library use. User studies, Digital libraries, Digital music libraries, Music, Information use, Information scienc... by Mark Notess

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Des temples et des quartiers disparus en Chine by Adeline Herrou

“…Recent changes undergone by several (Quanzhen) Daoist temples in Central China, caused by a major-works policy, take on a special meaning if considered in light of the aftermath of the profound break that had already marked the religious landscape during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). …”
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Humdrum Tasks of the Salaried Men: Edwin Williams, a London County Council Architect at War by Nick Beech

“…Working at the London County Council Architects’ Department through the 1930s to 1950s, and known (if at all) as a member of the design team for the Royal Festival Hall, Edwin Williams is usually presented as a regressive figure, his design work marked by his Beaux Arts training. Using archival evidence and histories of the construction industry, this paper sets out Williams’s role in the organisation of rescue and recovery services in London during the Second World War. …”
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Biomechanics in the onset and severity of spondyloarthritis: a force to be reckoned with by Mark Hwang, Priyanka Iyer, Lauren Ridley, Michael M Weisman

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Comment l’exemple des cimetières-jardins interprète la mémoire funéraire québécoise by Manon Cornellier

“…As a result of a social disengagement towards them, these sites devoted to a long-term memory are somehow marked by forgetfulness and became incidentally actors in a short-term memory.…”
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Habiter la mémoire à la frontière de l’oubli : la maison comme seuil by Joana Duarte Bernardes

“…Finally, the house includes the threshold, a distinctive mark of the semantic whole of the house because it is the corridor one crosses in order to enter the house and to leave it. …”
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Harnessing Machine Learning for Diabetes Prediction: Optimizing Classifiers to Tackle Canada's Growing Health Challenge by Mark Gerald Anastacio, Alam Md Twariqul

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The Effects of Breathing Behaviour on Crack Growth of a Vibrating Beam by Wenguang Liu, Mark E. Barkey

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A structured model for the spread of Mycobacterium marinum: Foundations for a numerical approximation scheme by Azmy S. Ackleh, Mark L. Delcambre, Karyn L. Sutton, Don G. Ennis

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Present Uncertainty and Looking to the Past: The Ambiguous Literary Nationalism of Putnam’s Monthly by Mark NIEMEYER

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Responsible innovation in start-ups: entrepreneurial perspectives and formalisation of social responsibility by Simeon Veloudis, Mark Ryan, Elina Ketikidi, Vincent Blok

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Vibe++ background segmentation method combining MeanShift clustering analysis and convolutional neural network by Zihao LIU, Xiaojun JIA, Sulan ZHANG, Zhiling XU, Jun ZHANG

“…To solve problems of noise points and high segmentation error for image shadow brought by traditional Vibe+ algorithm, a novel background segmentation method (Vibe++) based on the improved Vibe+ was proposed.Firstly, binarization image was acquired by using traditional Vibe+ algorithm from surveillance video.The connected regions were marked based on the region-growing domain marker method.The area threshold was obtained with difference characteristics of boundary area, the connected regions below threshold were treated as disturbing points.Secondly, five different kernel functions were introduced to improve the traditional MeanShift clustering algorithm.After improving, this algorithm was fused effectively with partitioned convolutional neural network.Finally, program of classification of trailing area, non-trailing area and trailing edge area in the resulting image was performed.Position coordinates of the trailing area were calculated and confirmed, and the trailing area was quickly deleted to obtain the final segmentation result.This segmentation accuracy was greatly improved by using the proposed method.The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve segmentation accuracy of more than 98% and has good application effect and high practical value.…”
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« Bien sûr, les personnes âgées doivent en règle générale être interrogées en priorité. » by Luc Charles-Dominique

“…The only ones that counted were those marked by the seal of autochthony and antiquity. In reality, the archives thus constituted bear witness only to a certain form of musical culture of the oldest category of the population. …”
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Improving smuon searches with neural networks by Alan S. Cornell, Benjamin Fuks, Mark D. Goodsell, Anele M. Ncube

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An Unusual Presentation of Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma by Kurren S. Gill, Mark A. Frattali

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Henry Rider Haggard in Zululand: A Reluctant Imperialist? by Marie-Claude BARBIER

“…Those years were crucial in the history of the country because of the two deadly conflicts fought by the British: the Anglo-Zulu War and the first Boer war, both marked by the traumatic defeats at Isandhlwana and Majuba Hill. …”
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Neoadjuvant Radiation with Concurrent 5-FU Resulting in Complete Pathologic Response in Stage IIIB Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Urethra by Krishna H. Suthar, Meghana Kesireddy, Mark Sides, Amit Correa, Aijan Ukudeyva, Rohit Venkatesan

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