Models for plastic flow: People, places, concepts and techniques by Mike Ashby

“…The concept of dislocations, discrete carriers of deformation, and their interactions, had initiated a wave of activity across Europe and the US, offering the potential for micro-mechanical models for plastic flow and its dependence on composition, temperature, time (strain-rate) and prior mechanical history. …”
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En attendant Bouteflika. Le président et la crise de sens en Algérie by Thomas Serres

“…A review of the political temporalities that surround the figure of the Algerian president allows us a better apprehension of the scope and limits of symbolic state power. …”
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Performance management system in the higher learning institutions in Tanzania: horses for courses? by Thobias Komungemwe, Ramadhani Marijani

“…To achieve this objective, we employed a two-case mixed approach with a sample size of 256 respondents and 12 Key informants. This allowed us to study organizational context, in-depth issues, and the meaning of performance management using the Performance Improvement Model (PIM). …”
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Internationalization of service-oriented companies: Case study research into a hospitality group by Luísa Carvalho

“…Secondly, to discuss a case study focusing on the largest Portuguese hospitality group (Pestana Group). This allows us to formulate hypotheses that support empirical study and make some important observations regarding service-oriented companies…”
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Nicolas Laurence, La contestation portée par les innovations monétaires comme moteur de changement institutionnel. Le cas des monnaies locales et des cryptomonnaies by Nicolas Laurence

“…Resorting to a political economy of money allows us to question the place of power relations and conflicts in the process of monetary institution evolution.…”
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Solvability of an Integral Equation of Volterra-Wiener-Hopf Type by Nurgali K. Ashirbayev, Józef Banaś, Agnieszka Dubiel

“…As a special case of the mentioned integral equation we obtain an integral equation of Volterra-Wiener-Hopf type. That fact enables us to formulate convenient and handy conditions ensuring the solvability of the equation in question in the class of functions defined and continuous on the interval 0,∞ and having finite limits at infinity.…”
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Rejouer le paysage by Arsène Caens

“…The concrete, ordinary situation of the human body as it acts on, perceives the landscape, and verbalises its perception of it would allow us to account for the complexity of local uses, common knowledge and the practices of symbolisation often involved in the elaboration of our relationship with the perceived object. …”
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Nephrotic Syndrome in a Child Suffering from Tetralogy of Fallot: A Rare Association by Pépé Mfutu Ekulu, Orly Kazadi-wa-Kazadi, Paul Kabuyi Lumbala, Michel Ntetani Aloni

“…Conclusion. This case reminds us that children with tetralogy of Fallot may develop nephrotic proteinuria.…”
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ReMetCa: A Proposal for Integrating RDBMS and TEI-Verse by Elena González-Blanco, José Luis Rodríguez

“…The use of the TEI Verse module to tag metrical and poetic structures is especially important for two reasons: first, because it lets us tag different kinds of poems with a variable metadata structure, making it possible to express a very high level of detail for poetry description that cannot be registered in a conventional database; and second, as it enables extensibility and adds more information to enrich the conceptual model, which is under constant development.…”
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Un pays à l’image d’une jambe humaine : anatomie de l’imaginaire géographique et paysager italien by Justine Balibar

“…Advertising images and images promoting tourism have accustomed us to associate Italy with the image of a boot. …”
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New Plants for Florida: Tropical Fruit by Alan H. Chambers, Jonathan H. Crane, Richard L. Jones, Mary Duryea, Berry J. Treat

“… Florida tropical fruit industry acreage has fluctuated during the past 70 years due to natural disasters, foreign competition and changes in the U.S. demographics. Today, there are about 16,000 acres in cultivation, with an economic impact of over $137 million annually. …”
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Quelle place pour la durabilité dans les représentations sociales de la mobilité ? Vers une meilleure compréhension des actions mises en œuvre by Julien Schiebel

“…By determining social representations of mobility, this article allows a better understanding of the actions undertaken by the stakeholders of mobility. Moreover, it allows us to define the place of sustainability beyond that displayed in public discourses. …”
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Columbia / New York: The Ruins of the Civil War by Thomas Constantinesco

“…Although ruins were long held to be lacking in the nineteenth-century US landscape—and their absence deemed a sign of America’s newness—ruins were ubiquitous throughout the nation, in particular in its growing urban centres. …”
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Systematic risk variations (beta) convertible debenture brazilian companies by Renata Drumond Pinto Coelho Antonino, Wagner Moura Lamounier, Roberto Kaehler de Albuquerque Maranhão

“…Some applied researches in the U.S. capital market (STEIN, 1992; LEWIS et al, 2002; RAI, 2005) indicate that convertible debentures may be used as an alternative financing source when adverse selection problem makes stock issuing unattractive financing source. …”
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Numerical modeling of the behavior of concrete exposed to chloride ions by coupling age and mechanical stresses by Roubila Bendjaiche, Hocine Boudjehm, Zahreddine Nafa, fathe bouteldja

“…The relationship between the diffusion coefficient and age, when subjected to specific levels of uniaxial or biaxial stresses for various W/C ratios, has allowed us to assess the concentration of chloride ions and the time needed for corrosion to begin through the coating layer in three dimensions. …”
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Bouvard et Pécuchet et le savoir médical by Norioki Sugaya

“…This substantial file, which contains reading notes taken by the novelist for the writing of the medical chapter, allows us to understand to what extent the “comic of ideas”, characteristic of the encyclopedic novel, is the result of an intensive work on knowledge. …”
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Obediências e transgressões nas vivências da sexualidade by Andrea Cristina Martelli

“…The analysis of the narratives showed us that, on the one hand, religion and family are significant marks in the imaginary of sexuality of these teachers, but, on the other hand, they have built, over the course of their lives, imperceptible escapes and clever ways to avoid the institutional principles acquired over time. …”
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IA3, A Yeast Proteinase A Inhibitor, Is Intrinsically Unstructured in Solution by Terry Green, Kyle Perry, Leif Smith, Lowri H. Phylip, Timothy M. Logan, Stephen J. Hagen, Ben M. Dunn, Arthur Edison

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Ray Hollis de Philippe Starck : la mise en scène de l’ubiquité de l’objet by Florine Barnet

“…Philippe Starck’s collaboration with the mail-order company Les 3 Suisses is an example of the wish to make design available to everyone, and writing a biography of an object from this production allows us to explore different paths linked to its design and initial destination. …”
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Francisco Ferrer, une figure inspirante pour les mouvements de rénovation pédagogique de la transition démocratique espagnole ? (1975-1978) by Cécile Morzadec

“…Testimonies gathered between 2021 and 2022 from those involved in Spanish educational renewal will enable us to complete our observations by asking questions about Ferrer's place in teacher training, the relevance of his pedagogical proposals to teaching practices, and the different ways in which his work can be accessed after years of invisibility during the Franco era.…”
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