Avant la vida : aux origines de la légende de Jaufre Rudel, grand amour ou petite mort ? Les témoignages de Rofian et de Pétrarque by Roy Rosenstein

“…The vida has him arrive in the Holy Land as good as dead: per mort. For him to expire in the arms of his distant love, whom he would have seen up close at last, was an inspired step, but only one step. …”
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A High-throughput, Robotic System for Analysis of Aerosol Sampling Filters by Christian L’Orange, Gabe Neymark, Ellison Carter, John Volckens

“…The AIRLIFT is capable of analyzing approximately 260 filters per day while reducing the required personnel time by a factor of ~4.…”
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Pale Damsel Bug Nabis capsiformis Germar (Insecta: Hemiptera: Nabidae) by Karol L. Krey, Justin M. Renkema

“…All nympal and adult life stages of Nabis capsiformis are excellent predators and can typically eat one lepidopteran egg or aphid per day when small and as many as two dozen eggs or other prey as later instars and adults. …”
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Comprehensive toxicity assessment of silver nanoparticles on Bacteria, human vein endothelial cells, and Caenorhabditis Elegans by Bircan Dinç

“…Our results revealed a significant inhibition of bacterial growth (52 % at 50 μg/mL), a 25 % reduction in C. elegans reproduction at just 10 μg/mL, and a decrease in body bending frequency from 42 to 19 beats per minute. In HUVEC cells, the IC50 was found to be 38 μg/mL, with cellular uptake increasing proportionally to concentration after 48 h.This study highlights the unique toxicological profile of AgNPs at low concentrations across multiple biological systems, emphasizing the importance of careful consideration for their safe use in biomedical and environmental applications.…”
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Sizing and Simulation of PV-Wind Hybrid Power System by Mustafa Engin

“…Using the measured variables, the inverter and charge regulator efficiencies were calculated as 90% and 98%, respectively, and the overall system’s electrical efficiency is calculated as 72%. Life cycle costs per kWh are found to be $0.89 and LLP = 0.0428.…”
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Life Cycle Costs and Life Cycle Assessment for the Harvesting, Conversion, and the Use of Switchgrass to Produce Electricity by Nuttapol Lerkkasemsan, Luke E. K. Achenie

“…Using an average agriculture land fraction of the United States at 0.4, the estimated cost of electricity from pyrolysis of 5000 tons of switchgrass is the lowest at $0.12 per kwh. Using natural gas turbine power plant for electricity generation, the price of electricity can go as low as 7.70 cent/kwh. …”
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Le réchauffement climatique actuel influence-t-il l’activité des ouragans extrêmes de l’Atlantique Nord (1945-2018) ? by Karl Hoarau, Florence Pirard, Ludovic Chalonge

“…There is no trend in the absolute intensity of hurricanes per decade. It is still complicated to detect a possible global warming signal in hurricanes data with the natural variations on multiple time-scales.…”
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Multi-Objective Optimization and Decision Making for Spatial Layout of Sponge Facilities by ZHANG Dongqing, DING Xiangyi, WANG Jia, SONG Tianxu, MA Mengyang

“…The risk of urban flooding and non-point source pollution intensifies due to climate change and urbanization.Sponge city,a nature-based solution to adapt to climate change,is being promoted in China.How to plan and design sponge facilities to give full play to their diversified benefits becomes the key to effectively constructing a sponge city.In this study,a multi-objective optimization coupling model was constructed based on the NSGA-Ⅲ algorithm and SWMM.TOPSIS method was used to screen out the optimization scheme,and the hydrological benefits,environmental benefits,and irrigation water demand of the optimization scheme under hydrological years with high,normal,and low flows were analyzed.The method was applied to Dongshan Campus of Shanxi University.The results indicate that the three optimal schemes show good hydrological and environmental benefits under typical hydrological years,with an average annual runoff reduction rate of 68.3% and an SS reduction rate of 83.7%.Scheme S1 is the closest to the ideal scheme and has the largest irrigation water demand, which is about 228 000 m³ per year. Scheme S3 has a large proportion of vegetation sponge facilities and the highest utilization rate of rainwater, with an annual average of 141 000 m³.…”
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EFFICIENCY OF ENTERPRISE COSTS MANAGEMENT IN MODERN СONDITIONS by N. V. Arsenieva, L. M. Putyatina, L. A. Uglova

“…Production cost indicators have been analysed: cost of unit of goods, cost of all realized production, costs per one ruble of realized production and their change in time. …”
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Optimal Approaches for Measuring Tongue-Pressure Functional Reserve by Catriona M. Steele

“…Tongue-palate pressure data were collected from 78 healthy adults (40<age  40; 38>60) during anterior and posterior MIPs, regular (RESS) and effortful (ESS) saliva swallows, and water swallows (4 repetitions per task). Six different measures of reserve were calculated using maximum anterior MIPs or ESS pressures at the top, and mean or maximum RESS or water swallow pressures at the bottom of the range. …”
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Explosion pressure of industrial titanium powder and its suppression characteristics by explosion suppressants SiO2, K2CO3, and NaHCO3 by Tianqi Liu, Kenan Liu

“…The optimal concentration of powder cloud mass is 350 g m−3, under this condition, the rate of energy release per unit time is the highest, the maximum pressure of titanium powder explosion is 0.48 MPa. …”
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Playing by the rules: Government regulation and consumer trust in the online poker industry by Kahlil S. Philander, Bradley S. Wimmer

“…Players are willing to pay an extra $1.83 per hour to play on government-regulated sites and players who view these sites as more secure are willing to pay even more. …”
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Specimen Level and Component Level Simulations of Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior under Cyclic Bending by Suresh Kumar R, B N Rao, Velusamy K, Jalaldeen S

“…The design code guidelines as per RCC MRx A16 in LBB demonstration is conservative in nature. …”
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Gender inequality in the Nordic film industry: Exploring above-the-line positions in film production by Loist Skadi, Ehrich Martha Emilie, Radziwill Sophie, Prommer Elizabeth

“…Our analysis of 1,070 films produced and released theatrically between 2010 and 2020 in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden shows men dominating directing, writing, and producing roles in 75 per cent of the cases, with women slightly more present in producing. …”
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Challenges and risks in the process of Russia’s post-pandemic economic recovery by O. M. Makhalina, V. N. Makhalin

“…The indicators of the main goal to be achieved by the end of 2021 are: sustainable growth of the personal income; reduction of unemployment to 5%; growth of the gross domestic product by 2.5% per annum. In conclusion, the challenges and risks in implementing the “National Action Plan” have been formulated.…”
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Les politiques d’appui à l’agriculture familiale au Brésil et au Maroc : quelques éléments de comparaison by Nicolas Faysse, Philippe Bonnal, Eric Sabourin

“…Public policies in both countries acknowledge the duality of the agricultural sector, but this duality is defined per area in Morocco, whereas is it based on explicit characteristics of farms in Brazil. …”
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Small-Animal X-ray Dose from Micro-CT by John M. Boone, Orlando Velazquez, Simon R. Cherry

“…For a typical X-ray system with 1.0 mm of added Al at 40 kVp, the dose coefficients (dose to mouse per air kerma at isocenter) were 0.80, 0.63, 0.52, and 0.44 mGy/mGy for mouse diameters of 10, 20, 30, and 40 mm, respectively. …”
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Autogovern i justícia: entre les limitacions constitucionals i les possibilitats de reforma by Miguel Ángel Cabellos Espiérrez

“…Aquest treball pretén, doncs, identificar el que encara es podria fer, mitjançant reformes legals, per augmentar en l’àmbit de la justícia el paper de CA interessades com ara Catalunya, dotant de major coherència la relació entre poder judicial i model d’Estat, i al mateix temps es vol apuntar com fer-ho sense perdre de vista els problemes i reptes que l’esmentat poder té pendents d’afrontar.…”
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Effect of Physiotherapy Combined with MOTOmed Viva2 on Motor Function of Children with Cerebral Palsy by Chuntao ZHANG, Zhenhuan LIU, Malan ZHANG

“…Two groups received therapy for twenty minutes each time, five times per week, twenty times for one small course, twenty days rest after each small course, and three small courses for a big course. …”
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On Pseudorapidity Distribution and Speed of Sound in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions Based on a New Revised Landau Hydrodynamic Model by Li-Na Gao, Fu-Hu Liu

“…We propose a new revised Landau hydrodynamic model to study systematically the pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles produced in heavy ion collisions over an energy range from a few GeV to a few TeV per nucleon pair. The interacting system is divided into three sources, namely, the central, target, and projectile sources, respectively. …”
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