Mexican Redrump Tarantula, Brachypelma vagans (Ausserer) (Arachnida: Araneae: Theraphosidae) by Glavis B. Edwards, Kenneth L. Hibbard

“…The first author examined the specimen (which was only half grown) and tentatively identified it as Brachypelma vagans (Ausserer), a species known to be commonly imported by the pet trade under assorted common names (Central American, Guatemalan, Honduran, or Mexican black velvet tarantulas). …”
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STATE SUPPORT OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN RUSSIA AT FEDERAL AND REGIONAL LEVELS by N. Golovetskii, V. Grebenik, I. Kokhanovskaya

“…Despite the relatively high contribution to the provision of employment, small business in terms of such indicators as trade, economic efficiency plays a minor role in modern economic processes in our country. …”
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Le face à face hirak-pouvoir : La crise de la représentation by Louisa Dris Aït-Hamadouche, Chérif Dris

“…How could a movement for which no political, trade union or social force could claim paternity have forced a President of the Republic to give up a fifth term and continue in the long term while radicalizing his claims?…”
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Colonialism and Climate Crisis: The Root of Environmental Changes and the Rise of Environmental Awareness in Indonesia by Devi Itawan

“…It analyzed how the Dutch colonial exploitation, which was based on trade capitalism and later industrial capitalism, drove the re-organization of nature and integrated it into the world market system. …”
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Analysis of Digital Image Watermarking Techniques through Hybrid Methods by Mahbuba Begum, Mohammad Shorif Uddin

“…For designing an efficient and robust digital image watermarking system, the trade-off among imperceptibility, robustness, capacity, and security must be maintained. …”
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From resilience to viability: a case study of indigenous communities of the North Rupununi, Guyana by Andrea Berardi, Céline Tschirhart, Jayalaxshmi Mistry, Elisa Bignante, Lakeram Haynes, Grace Albert, Ryan Benjamin, Rebecca Xavier, Deirdre Jafferally

“…In this paper, we propose a framework - System Viability - able to coherently engage with six distinct properties of all systems, from ecosystems to communities, allowing the identification of trade-offs and synergies for maximising the chances of systems persistence. …”
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Biblical literacy and transnational Mayan liberation movements by Roberto Domingo Toledo

“…Still struggling for land-rights lost during colonialism and now suffering from neo-liberal trade policies, Mayan communities have creatively appropriated Christian doctrine to deal with their suffering. …”
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Taibai Materia Medica: Unofficial ‘Herb Physicians’ in North Western China by Lena Springer

“…One mode is botany-based official regulation of production and pharmaceutical trade. A second mode is cultural heritage preservation based on Daoist lineages.…”
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Finite strain formulation of the discrete equilibrium gap principle: application to mechanically consistent regularization for large motion tracking by Genet, Martin

“…The equilibrium gap principle offers a good trade-off between robustness and accuracy for regularizing motion tracking, as it simply enforces that the tracked motion corresponds to a body deforming under arbitrary loadings. …”
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ETHNOCENTRIC ATTITUDES AND BUYING DECISIONS OF POLES AND HUNGARIANS – THE ESSENCE AND MEASUREMENT WITH THE USE OF CETSCALE ANALYSIS by Andrzej Szromnik, Elżbieta Wolanin-Jarosz

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Construção social de mercados e as tendências de consumo: o caso do Pavilhão da Agricultura Familiar da EXPOINTER (RS) by Maycon Schubert, Sergio Schneider

“…The study also concluded that the fair was created by a coalition of interest by the government and social movements, especially the rural trade unions of family farmers.…”
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An Overview of the US and Mexico Strawberry Industries by Feng Wu, Zhengfei Guan, Alicia Whidden

“…This 4-page fact sheet provides an overview of the US and Mexican strawberry industries, paying special attention to the trade relations between the two countries. Written by Feng Wu, Zhengfei Guan, and Alicia Whidden, and published by the UF Food and Resource Economics Department, November 2015. …”
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Os movimentos sociais na crise financeira global: questões e polêmicas by Leonardo de Araújo e Mota

“…In the 1990s, anti-globalization movements began contesting the effects of neoliberal policies and their social consequences, organizing several protests in Seattle (1999), Genoa (2001), New York (2002), targeting institutions such as the G-8 group or the World Trade Organization (WTO). After the financial crisis of 2008 in the United States, other social movements of resistance to capitalism began to protest in the streets of the U.S. and Europe, among which are the Indignados (Spain), Occupy Wall Street (USA) and Geração à Rasca (Portugal). …”
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Higher-order topology for collective motions by Zijie Sun, Tianjiang Hu

“…In this paper, we propose a specified higher-order topology, rather than the pairwise individual-to-individual pattern, to enable optimal responsiveness-persistence trade-off in collective motion. Then, interactions in hypergraph are designed between both individuals and sub-groups. …”
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Two-Level Credit Financing for Noninstantaneous Deterioration Items in a Supply Chain with Downstream Credit-Linked Demand by Yong He, Hongfu Huang

“…Trade credit financing is a useful tool in business today, which can be characterized as the agreement between supply chain members such as permissible delay in payments. …”
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SUSTAINABILITY IN SERVICE´S SECTOR: NEW TRENDS OF SUSTAINABILITY TOOLS AND POSITIONING OF SERVICES IN ECONOMY by Johana Paluchová, Renata Prokeinová

“…As economies globalize, new opportunities to generate prosperity and quality of life are arising though trade, knowledge-sharing, and access to technology. …”
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Tobacco and smoking in Cuba: from the agricultural economy to the health economy by Efraín Sánchez González, Fé Fernández Hernández

“…The subtlety of the social costs attributable to smoking and the impact of the benefits of domestic and foreign trade do not allow a full assessment of the main effects of smoking from the socioeconomic aspect.…”
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Virtual reality as a way to good business by Mošorinski Predrag

“…The use of advertising within virtual world is a relatively new idea, due to Virtual World as a relatively new technology. According to trade media company Virtual Worlds Management, commercial investments in the virtual sector were in excess of USD 425 million in 2007, and USD 594 million in 2008. …”
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Robust Adaptive Beamforming via Modified Variable Loading with Subsampling Preprocessing by Xiangwei Chen, Weixing Sheng

“…For robust adaptive beamforming (RAB), the variable loading (VL) technique can provide a better trade-off between robustness and adaptivity than diagonal loading (DL). …”
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Une éducation à l’olympisme est-elle possible ? by Christophe Maillard, Éric Monnin

“…It would also allow to offer a look distanced on a widely celebrated and mediatized international event, which joins in a trade and social logic. It is in this context that the youth can benefit of a real Olympic education and that the education in the Olympic movement will can benefit from a real Olympic education and that the education in the Olympic movement can take its place within the “various teachings in” recommended by the Department of Education.…”
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