Digital Games as Safe Places: The Case of Animal Crossing by Ferreira Cátia, Ganito Carla, Gonçalves Soraia

“…Digital games have become a popular cultural pastime and a profitable media industry, with an average player age of 32. …”
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Die Erinnerung an die Sächsische Schweiz in den Reisetagebüchern der Schwester Florentyna und Symforoza Krzyżanowska by Katarzyna Król

“…They followed a marked and popular trail, and covered individual stages of the journey by carriage, on foot or by barge. …”
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Digital Competence among Teacher Training Master’s Degree Students: Differences by Gender, Age, and Field of Study by Estibaliz Cepa-Rodríguez, Vanesa Lancha-Villamayor

“…Digital competence (DC) among education professionals is a very popular object of study in approaches oriented towards educational innovation. …”
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Evaluation of Antioxidant Activities and Tyrosinase Inhibitory Effects of Ginkgo biloba Tea Extract by Pongsathorn Klomsakul, Arisara Aiumsubtub, Pornchanok Chalopagorn

“…(Ginkgoaceae) is one of the best-selling products, popular in nutritional properties and health benefits. …”
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Preferential mortgage: discrimination or differentiation by A. V. Romanova, S. Yu. Shchukin, S. V. Chelokidi, N. E. Spirina, L. R. Khakimova, L. A. Koptev

“…Mortgage lending is one of the most popular, but expensive types of lending. State participation through incentives increases the attractiveness of mortgages, but at the same time leads to sectoral, territorial, and subjective injustice.   …”
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Two-scale convergence analysis and numerical simulation for periodic Kirchhoff plates by Zhiwei Huang, Xiaomiao Zeng, Chen Wang, Chongren Liu

“…Homogenization analysis methods provide a high-efficiency tool to address periodic structures. However, the popular Asymptotic Homogenization Method (AHM) cannot be directly applied to the homogenization of periodic plate structures due to less periodicity in the bending deformation direction. …”
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Positive Politeness Used in the Interviews Conducted by Desi Anwar to Dewi Soekarno and Bill Gates by Theresia Arianti

“… Interview is a popular means of gathering information in our society. …”
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Experiencia de innovación didáctica sobre la creación de nuevos artefactos narrativos en la educacion artística con obras literarias by Ana María Marqués Ibáñez

“…Estas ilustraciones han tenido gran impacto dentro de la cultura popular. En este artículo exploro la aplicación de nuevos formatos narrativos en la educación artística para futuros maestros de Primaria basados en ilustraciones de la Divina Comedia. …”
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A Torus-Chaotic System and Its Pseudorandom Properties by Jizhao Liu, Xiangzi Zhang, Qingchun Zhao, Jing Lian, Fangjun Huang, Yide Ma

“…Exploring and investigating new chaotic systems is a popular topic in nonlinear science. Although numerous chaotic systems have been introduced in the literature, few of them focus on torus-chaotic system. …”
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The Chemical and Nutritional Properties of Processed Fruit Enriched with Algae by Somayeh Ranjbar-Shamsi, Anousheh Sharifan, Mozhgan Emtyazjoo, Maryam Moslehishad

“…Currently, processed fruits (sour fruit and fruit paste) are consumed as one of the most popular goodies in the some countries, and the position of this product in the food basket of Iranian families is gradually becoming important. …”
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Manta Ray Foraging Optimization (MRFO)-Based Energy-Efficient Cluster Head Selection Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks by Mahmoud A. Khodeir, Jehad I. Ababneh, Bara’ah S. Alamoush

“…Wireless sensor network (WSN) has become a very popular technology with a wide range of applications. …”
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Integrity of Best-Answer Assignments in Large Enrollment Classes; the role of Compulsory Attribution by Kurt Schmitz, Veda Storey

“…Best-answer assignments are popular among instructors of large enrollment classes due to the relative ease with which scoring, and feedback, can be managed at scale. …”
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A patrimonialização da memória social: uma forma de domesticação política das memórias dissidentes ou indígenas? by Alejandra Aguilar Pinto

“…The definition of history and memory (Popular memory group, 1982) has played a key-role during the construction of national identities and political domination, through the imposition of specific and partial versions as universal and shared ones, and through the occlusion, exclusion and silencing of the meanings of the past for subaltern groups. …”
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Shifting Musical Imaginaries at the Polynesian Cultural Center by Cynthia L. Van Gilder, Dana R. Herrera

“…In this article, we analyze the significant changes recently made to their long-standing and highly popular canoe-based musical show through a comparative analysis of the musical imaginaries embodied in each version. …”
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Aquaculture applications of the Family Blenniidae by Jesse Von Linden, Joshua T. Patterson, Cortney L. Ohs, Matt DiMaggio

“…Distinct behavior and a wide range of colors makes blennies a popular choice in the aquarium hobby. These hardy fish are small and rarely aggressive to other reef species making them great for beginning aquarists, or fishes that can be added to an established reef community. …”
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CULTURA, COMUNICACIÓN Y TRANSFORMACIONES SOCIALES EN LA ÉPOCA TRANSNACIONAL by Daniel Mato

“…Por vía del contraste muestra además las limitaciones de las concepciones hegemónicas de la idea de “cultura”, las cuales reducen esta idea a alguna colección limitada de fenómenos, sean las bellas artes, la cultura popular, las industrias culturales y/o el consumo cultural, para proponer una perspectiva en la que “cultura” no es un sustantivo, sino un adjetivo orienta el análisis hacia los aspectos de producción y circulación de sentido presentes en todo tipo de experiencias sociales. …”
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Aquaculture applications of the Family Blenniidae by Jesse Von Linden, Joshua T. Patterson, Cortney L. Ohs, Matt DiMaggio

“…Distinct behavior and a wide range of colors makes blennies a popular choice in the aquarium hobby. These hardy fish are small and rarely aggressive to other reef species making them great for beginning aquarists, or fishes that can be added to an established reef community. …”
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A Fissile Ripple Spreading Algorithm to Solve Time-Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem via Coevolutionary Path Optimization by Wen Xu, JiaJun Li

“…The objective of the proposed model is to minimize the travelling time and path length of the vehicle, which are the popular indicators in path optimization. Some significant factors usually ignored in other research are considered in this study, such as congestion evolution, routing environment dynamics, signal control, and the complicated correlation between delivery sequence and the shortest path. …”
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Troubling Toys: Rare-Earth Magnet Ingestion in Children Causing Bowel Perforations by Parkash Mandhan, Muthana Alsalihi, Saleem Mammoo, Mansour J. Ali

“…Rare-earth magnets are small 3–6 mm diameter spherical powerful magnets that are sold as popular desk toys for adults and were previously found in construction toys in attractive colors for children to play with. …”
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A New MPPT Technique for Fast and Efficient Tracking under Fast Varying Solar Irradiation and Load Resistance by Libin Xu, Ruofa Cheng, Jiajing Yang

“…The conventional incremental conductance (INC) algorithm is the most popular algorithm. But due to the fixed step size, its response speed is low under the rapid change of the solar irradiation level or load resistance. …”
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