Membership in and Presence of Voluntary Organisations during the Swedish Fertility Transition, 1880-1949 by Johan Junkka

“…This is achieved using individual-level longitudinal demographic data from northern Sweden linked with individual-level information on voluntary organisation membership and contextual level information on organisation activity. How living near an organisation influenced fertility is measured using mixed effect Cox regressions. …”
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On Historiography of Fights for Independence and Creation of Lithuanian Army by Vytautas Lesčius

“…The greatest contribution in this field was made by some Lithuanian war historians living abroad. In current Lithuania, the interest of the public in the subject has borne fruit—some extensive works based on the material drawn from archive stocks and other sources have been published, scientific journals come out, etc. …”
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Pacient a lékař – už ve starém Egyptě by Evžen Strouhal

“… Living conditions of the ancient Egyptians were not as ideal as it might seem, considerring their perfect creations of art and architecture which we admire today. …”
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Une vision sexuée de l’Histoire contemporaine espagnole à travers deux œuvres d’Antonio Altarriba et Kim, El arte de volar et El ala rota by Vanessa Auroy

“…Las existencias de Petra y Antonio ponen de realce los actos, las palabras y los silencios de millones de españolas y españoles que vivieron y sufrieron la contienda y sus consecuencias.This paper will study how, through the biographical comic books dedicated to his mother and his father, Antonio Altarriba gives us a gender-specific view of life during the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship. Petra and Antonio’s lives expose the acts, words and silences of millions of Spaniards, women and men, caught in the conflict and its consequences.…”
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Camellias at a Glance by Sydney Park Brown

“…Over the last 200 years, they have proven to be dependable additions to the southern landscape, where they grow and bloom with minimal care in most inland areas of North and Central Florida. Camellias are long lived and function well as foundation plantings, screens, accent plants, background groupings, and hedges. …”
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BOTANICAL GARDEN OF TVER STATE UNIVERSITY AS A SCIENTIFIC-EDUCATIONAL CENTER by Yu. V. NAUMTSEV, A. N. LEBEDEV

“…Employees of the garden are working on the creation and maintenance of in vitro collections of living plants (mostly rare and endangered species of natural flora and other groups of interest for research and educational purposes. …”
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Links for a common cultural identity in the Mediterranean Basin by Montserrat Bosch Gonzáles, Tiziana Campisi

“…Many cities overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, as Barcelona, Palermo and Skikda, still today impose a reflection about how is strong the evident relation between their different ways of living. We also want to associate the shared creation – through the European Erasmus+ project, K2 action, entitled Smart Rehabilitation 3.0 – of a common professional profile in Building Rehabilitation Expert, as a model of rehabilitation and safeguard for historic Mediterranean cities.…”
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Fall Detection and Direction Judgment Based on Posture Estimation by Chunmiao Yuan, Pengju Zhang, Qingyong Yang, Jianming Wang

“…Most of the existing fall detection algorithms require the monitored persons to carry wearable devices, which will bring inconvenience to their lives and few algorithms pay attention to the direction of the fall. …”
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A rhetorical analysis of Philippians 1:1-11 by A. H. Snyman

“…They are part of Paul’s rhetorical strategy in the letter, constructed from the text itself and aimed at persuading his fellow-Christians to persevere in proclaiming and living the gospel that they received at the founding of the church in Philippi. …”
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The Use of Comics to Promote a Community-based Peer-support Intervention among Young Refugees in a Camp in Greece by Chrysovalantis Papathanasiou, Aikaterini Kougioumtzi, Kanella Georgiou, Filippos Barbaresos

“…The study involved refugee communities that lived in the Closed Controlled Access Centre (CCAC) of Samos. …”
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Sports Marketing and Perceived Value: an application of the conjoint analysis in the Fan Membership Programs of Football by Pâmela de Souza Dias, Plínio Rafael Reis Monteiro

“…Football is ever present in Brazilians’ lives, and, more than a game, it also involves social and economic relations. …”
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A Dynamic Analysis of a Record Breaking Winter Season Blocking Event by Andrew D. Jensen

“…The objective of this work is to study in detail a strong North Pacific, large amplitude, and long-lived blocking event that occurred during January 23–February 16, 2014. …”
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Human dignity, speciesism, and the value of life by Grzegorz Hołub

“…In the light of that, any living entity possesses its axiological importance and should be considered and treated accordingly. …”
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Let's face it! Young people tell us how it is by Deirdre Watson

“…Scotland, 2003) highlights a number of serious issues, such as: the lack of emotional support for young people; the need for concentrated efforts to tackle bullying; the lack of meaningful inclusion in decision making about their lives; the importance of continuing contact with family and friends; inappropriate and harsh parenting by substitute carers; and a lack of certainty about future support when they leave the care setting. …”

Germany: strategies for labour force replacement amid demographic challenges by Mark B. Kondratyev

“…The prospects for integrating foreigners already living in the country are assessed and the problems complicating this process is analysed. …”
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Class imbalance learning–driven Alzheimer’s detection using hybrid features by Ran Baik

“…Alzheimer’s is the main reason which leads to memory loss of a human being. The living style of an affected person also varies. This variation in the lifestyle creates difficulties for a person to spend a normal life. …”
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Effect of Temperature on the Mechanical Properties of Carbon Composites by Ali Anvari

“…Furthermore, thermal fatigue lives of different single-walled carbon nanotube reinforced matrix nanocomposites have been evaluated. …”
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Developmental Principles: Fact or Fiction by A. J. Durston

“…While still at school, most of us are deeply impressed by the underlying principles that so beautifully explain why the chemical elements are ordered as they are in the periodic table, and may wonder, with the theoretician Brian Goodwin, “whether there might be equally powerful principles that account for the awe-inspiring diversity of body forms in the living realm”. We have considered the arguments for developmental principles, conclude that they do exist and have specifically identified features that may generate principles associated with Hox patterning of the main body axis in bilaterian metazoa in general and in the vertebrates in particular. …”
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Recoiling Black Holes: Electromagnetic Signatures, Candidates, and Astrophysical Implications by S. Komossa

“…This is a prediction of numerical relativity simulations, which imply that the newly formed single SMBH, after binary coalescence in a galaxy merger, can receive kick velocities up to several 1000 km/s due to anisotropic emission of gravitational waves. Long-lived oscillations of the SMBHs in galaxy cores, and in rare cases even SMBH ejections from their host galaxies, are the consequence. …”
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A Review: Farmers' Local Wisdom on Natural Resources by Zuhud Rozaki, Oki Wijaya, Khamsing Keothoumma, Emil Salim

“…Understanding farmers’ local wisdom on natural resources can help stakeholders make a suitable program for farmers' lives and natural resources development. …”
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