Dynamics of Weakness and Strength: Confronting Difficulties in The Bamboo Stalk. by maha yasir

“…The analysis points out that In the novel "The Bamboo Stalk," Saud Alsanousi tells José's coming-of-age story against the backdrop of societal prejudice and cultural clashes, evidencing both his strength and times of weakness. Through this narrative, he reveals man's struggle for acceptance and belonging. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON TENSILE PROPERTIES OF HUCK RIVET JOINT by ZHANG XiangFeng, QIN Nan, WANG YongYan

“…After that,the quasi-static tensile test was carried out on the Huck rivet of the fatigue test under low stress and low cycle times,we can found that in the second half of the Huck rivet shear performance curve,there is a trend of instantaneous load reduction,but it has little effect on the maximum shear strength. …”
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A convolutional neural network model and algorithm driven prototype for sustainable tilling and fertilizer optimization by Sajeev Magesh

“…This paper evaluates whether optimizing tillage intensity, timing, and fertilizer quantity using a convolutional neural network model and algorithm will address these problems. …”
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Effect of Irrigation on the Changes in Wetland Rice Productivity (Oryza Sativa L.) due to a Climate Change in North Sumatra Province by Hasbul Hadi, Diana Chalil

“…To overcome such climate change, it is necessary to provide irrigation that can accommodate excessive rain water and distribute it in times of shortage. Therefore, changes in rainfall will not be too influential on productivity. …”
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The role of diffusion-weighted MRI in the evaluation of imaging for prostate carcinoma: A systematic review by Komal Mishra, Asish Pavanan, Pratapsingh Hanumansingh Parihar

“…Background: Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men. In recent times, diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) sequence magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques have been used in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. …”
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PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MARKETING AUDIT AS STRATEGIC CONTROL

“…The research, although conducted at different times, in different markets and using different methods, undertook similar research topics, which allows, to some extent, a qualitative comparative analysis of their results. …”
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Preventing Foodborne and Non-foodborne Illness: Vibrio vulnificus by Anita C. Wright, Renée M. Goodrich, Michael A. Hubbard, Keith R. Schneider

“…This 3-page fact sheet is a major revision that discusses risk of infection, times to seek medical treatment, symptoms, activities related to illness, foods commonly associated with the bacterium, handling and storage of seafood and shellfish, and methods of prevention. …”
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Zymophagy: Selective Autophagy of Secretory Granules by Maria I. Vaccaro

“…Timing is everything. That's especially true when it comes to the activation of enzymes created by the pancreas to break down food. …”
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Del Antropoceno al Ecoceno: propuestas jurídicas de la transición ecosocial para el cuidado de la vida by Susana Borràs-Pentinat

“…In these times when we experience, first-hand, the limits of our existence, COVID-19 has proved to be another of the multiple consequences of the human footprint on the Earth ecosystem. …”
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A New Legal Concept for Understanding the Essence of Production and Consumption Waste: A View from Russia by Aleksey Anisimov, Dmitriy Motorin

“…This regulatory category has been changed several times within a short period. The study evidences that these changes were ontological, resulting from a change in approach to the distinction of waste from other results of economic activity. …”
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Revisiting Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus capucinus) and the Ancient Maya by Mary Baker

“…Originally refuted by Baker (1992), this paper reevaluates the evidence from both papers, taking an ethnoprimatological, four‑field approach and integrating content from cultural, biological, linguistic and archaeological anthropology to discuss evidence that capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus) were also found within the Maya region in ancient times. It is proposed, based on interspecific comparison of morphological and behavioral characteristics and linguistic data, that capuchin monkeys are also represented in depictions of monkey scribes. …”
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Research on Seismic Resistance of Precast Concrete Shear Walls with Bolt Splicing by XU Zhuang, ZHANG Ruigang

“…A design scheme of fully-assembled precast concrete shear walls with unit components spliced by bolts is proposed for the prefabricated unit residence system.An integral precast wall and two overlapped precast ones (consisting of two thin panels spliced horizontally by bolts) are designed,and low-cycle static loading tests of the walls under the bend-shear coupled loading mode are performed to study the seismic resistance of the structures.The research results indicate that the failure mode of the overlapped wall is the same as that of the integral one,and the crack development of the wall body is insufficient.The bearing capacity of the overlapped wall is equivalent to that of the integral one.The former is more ductile,whose displacement ductility factor is about 1.1 times that of the latter.The initial stiffness of the integral wall is larger than that of the overlapped one,but the former's stiffness degrades faster.In addition,the quantity and locations of bolts have little effect on the energy dissipation capacities of overlapped walls,and joint connection might be the only function of bolts for overlapped walls.…”
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Les mystérieuses antiquités de Prosper Biardot (1805–1873) by Angélique Allaire

“…His publications contain contrasting ideas fluctuating between very innovative positions on restorations and now outdated theories on the symbolism of the terracottas, which were part of the trends of the times. His album of chromolithographic plates is, on the other hand, one of the rare illustrated accounts of this type of work and for this reason regularly cited in the historiography of the discipline. …”
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How to improve psychiatric nosography in the XXI century: a phenomenologist”s viewpoint by Giovanni Stanghellini

“…Classifications of mental disorders reflect much more the minds of psychiatrists than the patients’ minds since these classifications are more focused on the interests of stakeholders (including governmental agencies, advocacy groups, medical insurance, and pharmaceutical companies) than on the experiences of patients. We live in times of rapid socio-cultural changes, and respective changes in the forms of mental suffering are increasingly characterized by fragmentariness and episodicity. …”
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Central Pain and Complex Motoric Symptoms after Gosarelin Therapy of Prostate Cancer by G. Ernst, A. Gericke, P. Berg

“…A 76-year-old man with prostate cancer T3N0M0 and increasing PSA was treated with goserelin three times in a half year. As soon as the first treatment, he described subjective muscle weakness. …”
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Abdominal Decompression in Children by J. Chiaka Ejike, Mudit Mathur

“…Medical management strategies to achieve these goals should be employed but when medical management fails, timely abdominal decompression is essential to reduce the risk of mortality. …”
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Enhanced Ehlers transformation and the Majumdar-Papapetrou-NUT spacetime by Marco Astorino

“…Abstract The transformation which adds (or removes) NUT charge when it is applied to electrovacuum, axisymmetric and stationary space-times is studied. After analysing the Ehlers and the Reina-Treves transformations we propose a new one, more precise in the presence of the Maxwell electromagnetic field. …”
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Deduplication algorithm based on condensed nearest neighbor rule for deduplication metadata by Wen-bin YAO, Peng-di YE, Xiao-yong LI, Jing-kun CHANG

“…Building effective deduplication index in the memory could reduce disk access times and enhance chunk fingerprint lookup speed,which was a big challenge for deduplication algorithms in massive data environments.As deduplication data set had many samples with high similarity,a deduplication algorithm based on condensed nearest neighbor rule,which was called Dedup²,was proposed.Dedup²uses clustering algorithm to divide the original deduplication metadata into several categories.According to these categories,it employs condensed nearest neighbor rule to remove the highest similar data in the deduplication metadata.After that it can get the subset of deduplication metadata.Based on this subset,new data objects will be deduplicated based on the principle of data similarity.The results of experiments show that Dedup²can reduce the size of deduplication data set more than 50% effectively while maintain similar deduplication ratio.…”
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Advanced HCCI Engines: Challenges and Potential Applications by Xie Mingyang

“…Despite these advantages, challenges such as limited control over combustion timing, susceptibility to knocking, and the generation of unburned hydrocarbons have hindered widespread adoption. …”
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Occupations in the European Labour Market During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Sara Flisi, Giulia Santangelo

“…First, containment measures put in place in member states at different times and with different levels of severity determined the interruption of several economic activities that were considered non-essential. …”
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