Kinetic aspects of malachite deposition on marble from copper lactate solutions by Gogol, Daniil B., Rozhkovoy, Ivan E., Sadyrbekov, Danyar T., Aldabergenova, Saule K., Makasheva, Astra M.

“…The reaction rate constant is $4.19 \times 10^{-6}~\text{s}^{-1}$ and the effective diffusion coefficient is $1.39 \times 10^{-12}~\text{m}^2/\text{s}$ at room temperature (25 °C). …”
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A Comparative Study of Passenger Multitasking Activities on Commuting and Leisure Electrified Intercity Railways by Xing Yao, Chunhui Jing, Yaoxuan Huang, Jinyi Zhi

“…The probability of taking a break for passengers on the commuting line was 3.625 times that of the leisure line, and passengers who were not seated on this line were found to be more likely to be idle. …”
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Hypertension in Adolescents: Effect on Neurobehavioral and Cognitive Functioning by Irina Madaeva, Olga Berdina, Vladimir Polyakov, Sergey Kolesnikov

“…Speech index was significantly 2.8 times lower in OSA patients than in non-OSA patients (P<0.05). …”
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Top-Emission Organic Light Emitting Diode Fabrication Using High Dissipation Graphite Substrate by Yu-Sheng Tsai, Lin-Ann Hong, Jian-Ji Huang, Kuan-Hung Yeh, Fuh-Shyang Juang

“…Graphite component lifetime was determined to be 1.875 times higher than the glass components and 1.125 times higher than that of copper.…”
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Gully mitigation and rehabilitation measures have varying effects on soil macrofauna abundance and diversity in semi-arid lands by Harrison Churu, Solomon Kamau, Wilson Ng’etich, Keziah Magiroi, Bonface Alkamoi, James Mutio, Syphyline Kebeney, Fred Wamalwa

“…Specific genera were also affected negatively, with abundance of Lumbricus sp. reducing by up to 6 times in degraded lands compared with terraced croplands which had 65 individuals m−2, and by more than 9 times compared with that of terraced pasturelands that had 97 individuals m−2. …”
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Characteristics of TPT initiation and completion among people living with HIV by L. Gunde, A. Wang, D. Payne, S. O'Connor, A. Kabaghe, N. Kalata, A. Maida, D. Kayira, V. Buie, L. Tauzi, A. Sankhani, A. Thawani, E. Rambiki, A. Ahimbisibwe, T. Maphosa, K. Kudiabor, R. Nyirenda, J. Mpunga, K. Mbendera, P. Nyasulu, F. Kayigamba, M. Farahani, A. C. Voetsch, K. Brown, A. Jahn, B. Girma, K. Mirkovic, the MPHIA Survey Team

“…The adjusted odds of ever taking TPT were 8.0 and 5.2 times as high in the Central and Southern regions, respectively, compared to the Northern region; 1.9 times higher among those in the highest wealth quintile, and 2.1 times higher for those on antiretroviral therapy >10 years. …”
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Power Transmission for Millimeter-Wave Indoor/Outdoor Wearable IoT Devices Using Grounded Coplanar Waveguide-Fed On-Body Antenna by Fuad Erman, Slawomir Koziel, Alhareth Zyoud, Leifur Leifsson, Ubaid Ullah, Shaker Alkaraki

“…This paper presents for the first-time evaluation of wireless power transmission (WPT) for sustainable low-powered Internet of Things (IoT) devices in realistic indoor/outdoor scenarios using empirical propagation models at 28 GHz. …”
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“An Essay on Thunder and Small Beer”: a Systemic Approach to Thackeray’s Preface to The Kickleburys on the Rhine by Maxime Leroy

“…Thackeray’s preface was written in response to an unfavourable review published in The Times. Using systemic triangulation will consist in reading it from three different but complementary angles: its functional, structural and historical aspects. …”
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The dust-jacket considered by Margit J Smith

“…This article addresses the  history of protective book coverings from earliest times to their current use;  their design as it mirrors changes in the graphic arts and materials over the past century; scholarly, commercial, and marketing use of dust-jackets, collections in institutions. …”
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Joseph Delteil à la recherche de l’Occitanie by Hervé Terral

“…Joseph Delteil (1894-1978), a French-speaking writer from Aude, claims to have been born in Villar-en-Val (Aude) in the garrigue (more likely in a village bedroom), a few dozen kilometers from the Big Blue. At various times in his work, Delteil set out regular milestones for understanding the "Midi", whose different facets he explored in terms of both landscape and history.…”
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Memórias manchadas e ruínas memoriais em A mancha e “O condomínio”, de Luis Fernando Veríssimo by Leila Lehnen

“…This article proposes that what it calls “schizophrenic memory sites” – places that are constructed as palimpsests of various (and, at times, contradictory) versions of the past – are connected with what anthropologist James Hoslton (2008) denominates “differentiated citizenship”. …”
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Editorial by M. Laubscher

“… Only time will tell whether the current edition speaks knowingly into our “now”. …”
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Il dono di Keynes per l’ordine economico internazionale by Mario Cedrini

“…The rediscovery, in the times of the crisis, of John Maynard Keynes’s proposals for postwar reform of the international economic order invites historians of economic thought to clarify the purposes of Keynes’s international diplomacy. …”
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An Improved Theoretical Approach to Study Electromagnetic Waves through Fiber Bragg Gratings by Pedro Pereyra

“…We show that using the theory of finite periodic systems we obtain an improved approach to calculate transmission coefficients and transmission times of electromagnetic waves propagating through fiber Bragg gratings. …”
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Entre piratas y fantasmas: ciberespacio y contracultural by Galo Cevallos Rueda

“… El hacker más famosos Kevin Mitnick, logró alterar la información de muchas empresas como : New York Times, Nokia, que tuvieron un gran costo para las autoridades pertinentes. …”
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XV.-XVI. Yüzyıllarda Isparta Kazası: Nüfus ve Yerleşme by Züleyha USTAOĞLU

“…Isparta which has been known since ancient times and referred as “Seperde” or “Sparda” or “Isparada” in the sources; was the centre town of Hamid Sanjak in the Ottoman Empire in XV. and XVI. century. …”
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Luigi Foscolo Benedetto 1920 – Albert Thibaudet 1922 by Peter-Michael Wetherill

“…What our two scholars achieve, even if they are dated at times, is a corrective to the often journalistic, contradictory excesses of present-day readings.…”
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Water availability in southwest Georgia and northeast Florida by Sadie Hundemer, Martha C. Monroe

“…The aquifer’s capacity is large but limited, and meeting the area's water demands will require balancing withdrawals from the aquifer with replenishment from rainfall, a particularly difficult problem in drier times. …”
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Healthy Living: Tips for Staying Regular by Linda B. Bobroff

“…Constipation means having a bowel movement fewer than three times a week. Stools are usually hard and can be painful to pass. …”
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