Old Maid No More by Donna Davis

“…“Twenty years ago, women were being warned that, according to demographic research, if they didn’t marry by the time they were in their early twenties, they would likely live out their lives unwed. …”
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How Pope Pius IX Stimulated 'Pillarization' in the Netherlands by Hans Knippenberg

“…Unintendedly, the Papal choice for Utrecht contributed to the later on development of the non-territorial, personalistic solution for the Dutch multicultural society at that time: the verzuiling.…”
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Breast Cancer: Coping with Hair Loss by Martha Monroe, Barbara Shea

“…There are so many things to pay attention to when faced with cancer and chemotherapy that many women may not take the time to look at the bright side of losing their hair. …”
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Early Adolescent Problem Behavior by Suzanna Smith

“…Early adolescence is a time of change in the relationship between parent and adolescent, and both have to adjust. …”
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Doctor Appointment Checklist by Martie Gillen, Carolyn S. Wilken

“…When you have a doctor appointment, you should make the most of your time with the doctor. This worksheet will help you remember what questions you want to ask and give you a space to take notes. …”
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Neural Network Predictive Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with Input Delay by Jiemei Zhao

“…To compensate for the time-delay in control system and realize the purpose of path tracking, a predictive control algorithm is proposed. …”
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Enjeux et fractures de la Bolivie en 2009 by Sébastien Hardy

“…However, by looking at the bigger picture, one finds the traditional dissensions which have polarized the country for a long time, and continue to do so.…”
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Collaborating in the Public’s Domain by Richard McCoy

“…Now conservators have the opportunity to harness the power of these technological advancements and begin building new ways to create and share more information on an institutional and personal level; at the same time conservators can directly engage the visitor in the creation of this information.  …”
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Reformace ve slezských městech na příkladu Krnova a Těšína by Jiří Válový

“…In the observed towns, it describes in what period of time and under what conditions the Reformation could develop. …”
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Sustainable Ovid? Humans, Hunting, and the Environment in Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Alison Sharrock

“…My argument is that one of the ways to ‘sustain’ the reading of Ovidian and other pre-modern poetry in the contemporary world is to explore it through the lens of the greatest challenge of our time, the ecological crisis. In this paper, I take hunting as a trope with which to examine the relationships between different inhabitants of the biosphere, using the stories of Actaeon and of the Calydonian boar hunt to show how Ovid’s Metamorphoses can draw the reader into engagement with clashes of needs and values, that have been at work since before the dawn of civilisation, and have reached a level of unprecedented urgency in the 21st century.…”
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Murcott (Honey Tangerine) by Stephen H. Futch, L.K. Jackson

“…This document was first time published in 1993.  …”
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The Richness of Italian Historical Demography by Marco Breschi, Alessio Fornasin, Matteo Manfredini

“…This methodology makes it possible to associate the sequence and timing of demographic events not only with the structural features of the households in which they occurred, but also with more general historical context and the economic factors that shaped the lives of people and households. …”
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Lucille Ball, the Queen of Show Business versus Lucy Ricardo, the Failed Actress by Aurélie Blot

“…Nonetheless, just a few people remember her as one of the most powerful women of her time. This might be because Lucille Ball refused to be considered as a businesswoman; she wanted to be seen as an actress above all. …”
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Les féminins conjugaux en français, ou la langue fonctionnant sans entrave by Thomas Linard

“…This research note, a result of lexicographical work on more than 200 matrimonial feminines in French, intends to show that the two categories, matrimonial and professional feminines, are not to be opposed, and that in fact, matrimonial feminines reflect a time when feminization took place without extralinguistic obstacles : in this way, they are useful for shedding light on the present.…”
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Maxillar Neurofibroma. A Case Presentation. by Ángel Luis Cruz Leiva, Orlando Sotolongo Terry, Blas Jorge González Manso

“…<p>A case of a 34 year-old patient who presented a relapsing maxillar neurofibroma of great dimensions is presented. At the time of removing the neurofibroma a bone block including the teeth from # 11 up to # 25 were resected. …”
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Whiteness Studies II by Peter Kolchin

“…The first article, originally published in the Journal of American History in 2002, examines the development of whiteness studies in the 1990s, and the second, which appears here for the first time, provides an update on more recent trends. The articles find considerable potential in whiteness studies, but also point to serious conceptual and methodological problems that deserve attention.…”
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A New Method of Kronecker Product Decomposition by Yi Wu

“…Kronecker product decomposition is often applied in various fields such as particle physics, signal processing, image processing, semidefinite programming, quantum computing, and matrix time series analysis. In the paper, a new method of Kronecker product decomposition is proposed. …”
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Des biens communs aux biens publics mondiaux by Bernard Hours

“…The notion of common good has a specific role at the present time of globalisation. The concept of global public good is also used in this context. …”
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Mindfulness: An Introduction by Parth Naik, Victor Harris, Larry Forthun

“…Because you don’t need any equipment to practice mindfulness, you can practice it discreetly anywhere, at any time. This 6-page fact sheet was written by Parth Naik, Victor Harris, and Larry Forthun, and published by the UF Department of Family Youth and Community Sciences, September 2013. …”
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Travestis brasileiras e exotismo sexual by Jorge Leite Jr

“…It is in this sense that the femininity of Brazilian trannies is able to enter the already vast field of the global imaginary on Brazilian eroticism. At the same time, this femininity is also able to tension many social difference markers (such as class, race/ethnicity and nationality) and to create for Brazilian trannies specific characteristics that are increasingly competitive in the transnational sex market.…”
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