From the history of Lithuanian picture books (1900-1930) by Ingrida Korsakaitė

“…In the late 19th century, picture books became popular in many countries such as Germany, England, and France. …”
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Validation of Infinite Impulse Response Multilayer Perceptron for Modelling Nuclear Dynamics by F. Cadini, E. Zio, N. Pedroni

“…Their use is becoming increasingly popular in the complex modeling tasks required by diagnostic, safety, and control applications in complex technologies such as those employed in the nuclear industry. …”
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‘Grim Realities’ or ‘Light of Fancy’? Charles Dickens in the Bulgarian Classroom by Zelma Catalan

“…A greater attention to Dickens’s relation to popular culture will allow students from non-Anglophone countries to tap into the richness and variety of his art.…”
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Black Scale Saissetia oleae (Olivier, 1791) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae) by Morgan A. Byron, Jennifer L. Gillett-Kaufman, Sandra A. Allan

“…In Florida, black scale is found on citrus, cultivated olive, avocado, and many popular landscape plants. It is likely that black scale, like many invasive pests, was imported to the United States on infested nursery plants. …”
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Microscopic methods in analysis of submicron phospholipid dispersions by Płaczek Marcin, Kosela Magdalena

“…The publication explicates the most popular microscopical techniques used nowadays for characterization of the morphology of nanoparticles suspended in pharmaceutical formulations; ad vantages and disadvantages of these methods are also discussed. …”
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Oscar Braun by Daniel Azpiazu, Martín Schorr

“…El texto completo fue publicado en 1974 por la editorial El Coloquio bajo el título El plan económico del gobierno popular. Se trata de una serie de reflexiones que a pesar de haber sido escritas en otro momento histórico, arrojan numerosas claves interpretativas de la particular coyuntura económica y socio-política de la época, así como sobre los conflictivos escenarios que ha venido transitando nuestro país en los años recientes.…”
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Zmartwychwstanie przez technikę. Problem tożsamości umysłu w koncepcjach rozwoju sztucznej inteligencji. by Olgierd Sroczyński

“…In contemporary popular concepts concerning the development of artificial intelligence, it is assumed that if a program/model provides answers or operates in a manner similar to humans, then it can be considered to have achieved human-level capability. …”
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'Florida Whitewater' Caladium - A University of Florida Cultivar by G. J. Wilfert, Brent K. Harbaugh, B. D. Miranda

“…'Florida Whitewater', derived from a cross between the popular caladium cultivars 'White Wing' and 'White Queen', initially was evaluated in 1985 as GC85-338. …”
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Preventing Foodborne Illness: Listeriosis by Keith R. Schneider, Renée M. Goodrich-Schneider, Michael A. Hubbard, Susanna Richardson

“…Listeriosis is one of several foodborne diseases that are often reported in the scientific and popular press. In the United States, it affects about 1,600 people every year, with about 270 of those cases resulting in death. …”
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“La suavidad de Artemisa”: reflections on the reception of Artemisia Gentileschi in Spain by Jesse Locker

“…Although these works were intended for private collecting, from the late eighteenth century onwards in Spain there was also a widespread trend for organising popular exhibitions of wax figures, often by Italian artists and entrepreneurs, of whom this article provides an overview, with a particular focus on wax portraits of Spanish royalty. …”
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Calvyn oor natuurrampe by P. C. Potgieter

“…This article explores how John Calvin’s reasoning in this regard could be a relevant contribution towards deeper insight in the extremely difficult issue of a theodicy. Contrary to a popular idea that Calvin adopted an extremely harsh line on providence according to which God becomes responsible for every kind of disaster, it is argued that he maintains a fine balance between the loving grace of our heavenly Father and his righteous judgment over mankind who undermined his intended order of nature by sin. …”
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Lauterbeckův Regentenbuch a Veleslavínova Politia historica by Matěj Novotný

“… The Regentenbuch was a popular political handbook written by the German scholar and politician Georg Lauterbeck (152[?]…”
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Limiting Behavior of Travelling Waves for the Modified Degasperis-Procesi Equation by Jiuli Yin, Liuwei Zhao, Shanyu Ding

“…Using an improved qualitative method which combines characteristics of several methods, we classify all travelling wave solutions of the modified Degasperis-Procesi equation in specified regions of the parametric space. Besides some popular exotic solutions including peaked waves, and looped and cusped waves, this equation also admits some very particular waves, such as fractal-like waves, double stumpons, double kinked waves, and butterfly-like waves. …”
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Pattern Synthesis of Linear Antenna Arrays Using Enhanced Flower Pollination Algorithm by Urvinder Singh, Rohit Salgotra

“…Experimental results show that EFPA algorithm provides enhanced performance in terms of side lobe suppression and null control compared to FPA and other popular algorithms.…”
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Le traitement médiatique des violences faites aux femmes : entre instrumentalisation et invisibilisation by Association Faire Face

“…Moreover, focusing on violence perpetrated by certain populations (racialized and / or from the popular class) invisibilizes violent acts perpetrated by men from other social groups as well as the specific violence experienced by racialized women in the public space. …”
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O discurso do movimento #OcupeOCocó e sua luta pela significação nas redes sociais by Luciana Correia Barbosa, Sérgio Carvalho Benício de Mello, Henrique Muzzio

“…The purpose of this article is to analyze the speech #OcupeOCocó, a popular movement in defense of Coco Park, in Fortaleza (Brazil), which emerged on social networks in July 2013, and its struggle for meaning in social networks from posts and users’ comments on the official website of the movement on Facebook and its Twitter profile. …”
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Energy Optimization-Based Clustering Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things-Survey by Vijayendra K. H. Prasad, Sasikumar Periyasamy

“…Research on popular themes today is mainly concentrated on cutting-edge home applications made up of Internet of Things gadgets. …”
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Research Progress in the Application of Gas Chromatography-Ion Mobility Spectrometry in Food Authentication by ZHANG Biying, SUI Yumeng, ZHANG Xin, LI Yongjie, KONG Baohua, LIU Haotian, CHEN Qian

“…With the advantages of environmental friendliness, ease of use, simple operation, and suitability for continuous large-scale industrial detection, GC-IMS has gradually become a popular analytical technology in the field of food authentication in recent years. …”
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An Aggregating Prediction Model for Management Decision Analysis by Jianhong Guo, Che-Jung Chang, Yingyi Huang, Xiaotian Zhang

“…To further enforce the effectiveness of data uncertainty processing, this study proposed an aggregating prediction model for management decision analysis using small data sets. Compared with six popular approaches, the results from the experiments show that the proposed method can effectively deal with the small data set prediction problem and is thus an appropriate decision analysis tool for managers.…”
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Modification of Low Refractive Index Polycarbonate for High Refractive Index Applications by Gunjan Suri, Gouri Shankar Jha, Geetha Seshadri, Rakesh Kumar Khandal

“…Polycarbonates and polythiourethanes are the most popular materials in use today, for optical applications. …”
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