A Positivity-Preserving Numerical Scheme for Nonlinear Option Pricing Models by Shengwu Zhou, Wei Li, Yu Wei, Cui Wen

“…The scheme is not only unconditionally stable and positive, but also allows us to solve the discrete equation explicitly. Monotone properties are studied in order to avoid unwanted oscillations of the numerical solution. …”
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The Impact of Liberalized Concealed Carry Laws on State Homicide Rates by K. Alexander Adams

“… Liberalized concealed carry laws test how firearm legislation affects crime in the US. This study analyzes the relationship between these laws, total homicide, and firearm homicide using panel data from 1980 to 2018 across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. …”
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Du concept psychiatrique à la métaphore théâtrale : le miroir de l’Autre dans les dramaturgies postcoloniales de Caryl Churchill et de Nick Gill by Liliane Campos

“…This is particularly clear in Mirror Teeth, which offers us no escape from its regressive nightmare.…”
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“Tratado” e Exercício de ser criança: a infância entre versos, rimas e tintas by Penha Lucilda de Souza Silvestre, Alice Áurea Penteado Martha

“…Indeed, these pictures enable us to rethink how the representation and the constitution of childhood in art are conceived and to under stand them in the weaving of poetry and painting, as well as the act of playing, in a dialectical process.…”
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Les héritages paysagers de la viticulture dans le Val de Loire d’Orléans à Tours et ses abords périphériques by François Legouy

“…Nevertheless, if this method has been proved by recent facts, it does not include long-term evolutions, as very well explained by Roger Dion. Older evolutions make us understand why vineyard has been maintained in such places, and not in others. …”
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The promise of attending to literary context for contextual biblical hermeneutics in Africa by D.W. Ellington

“… For important reasons, African contextual hermeneutics raises the main question: “What does the Scripture mean to us and our community?”. This article asserts that the reader-centred approach tends to allow the voice of the community to ring louder than the voice of Scripture. …”
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Communities facing disruption: the need to shift from individual to community paradigms in pastoral care by D. P. Mouton

“…Although people are affected by these in an individual capacity, the well-being of entire communities is at risk. This presents us with the question of whether our pastoral care orientations are adequately aligned with the needs of the communities affected by disruptive phenomena. …”
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The Possible Role of Transplacentally-Acquired Antibodies to Infectious Agents, With Molecular Mimicry to Nervous System Sialic Acid Epitopes, as Causes of Neuromental Disorders: P... by André J. Nahmias, Susanne Beckman Nahmias, Dan Danielsson

“…Lessons from four-decade investigations of the epidemiology, immunology, pathogenesis, prevention and therapy of perinatal infectious agents, which invade directly the nervous system, have led us to propose a new indirect effect hypothesis: maternal transplacentally-acquired antibodies, to agents with epitope molecular mimicry with the developing nervous system, can cross the fetus/infant's blood–nervous system barriers to cause NMD's, clinically manifest years later.…”
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ASSESSMENT OF LABOR RESOURCES OF SUBJECTS OF THE NORTH-CAUCASIAN FEDERAL DISTRICT UNDER CONDITIONS OF REGIONAL ASYMMETRY by E. A. Ostapenko

“…The analysis of indicators of population employment has allowed us to reveal, that the differences in development trends and proportions between the regions are due to the typology of the regions, to determine the development trends of the regions and to evaluate spatial imbalances in certain types of economic activity.…”
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Przyczynek do recepcji twórczości Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza w Chorwacji by Magdalena Krzyżanowska

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Intercambios artísticos en una diócesis transfronteriza by Marta Cendón Fernández

“…The multiplication of donations allows us to think that the new cathedral of Tui began around 1125, with a transept of three naves, similar to that of the cathedral of Santiago and the initial one in Braga, as well as a five-apse chevet, similar to the one proposed by the new bracarense project. …”
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Creating Wildflower Habitats in Golf Course Out-Of-Play Areas by Rebecca Nestle, Grace Cope, Nicole Benda, Adam G. Dale

“…With the most golf courses of any US state, Florida is poised to set the stage for golf course environmental stewardship. …”
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From Coagulation to Disinfection: Key Steps and Challenges in Wastewater Treatment by Wang Shengyuan

“…This paper explores the advantages and disadvantages of each wastewater treatment stage and evaluates the wastewater treatment infrastructure in the United States and China. The U.S. has better wastewater treatment systems, while China still has inadequate wastewater treatment facilities in rural areas. …”
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O diferencial do empreendedorismo solidário by Luiz Inácio Gaiger, Andressa da Silva Corrêa

“…Classical authors such as Schumpeter, Polanyi and Weber, besides some scholars dedicated to the solidarity economy or to micro-entrepreneurship, such as Laville, Portela and Hespanha, give us a theoretical framework, which is used to review the concept of entrepreneurship and to discuss the findings of some empirical investigations, particularly regarding solidarity micro-enterprises. …”
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« I was the only one of the family who wasn't quite sane » : être femme, épouse, mère et artiste dans The Creators (1910) de May Sinclair by Leslie de Bont

“…Yet, The Creators provides us with rather atypical reactions to the dialectics of feminine art and social norms: Jane Holland’s very modern conciliation between professional and family life and Nina Lempriere’s extreme androgynous attitudes, implying a new relation to norms, time and nature. …”
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Déclin des villes moyennes et conflictualité territoriale au Maroc. Les conséquences d’une pluralisation politique inachevée ? by David Goeury, Olivier Deau

“…Morocco is regularly the scene of particularly strong localized mobilizations that remind us of the structural difficulties of generating development throughout the country. …”
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Voluntarios en una guerra de tinta y papel: los voluntarios españoles de la Primera Guerra Mundial en la prensa by Alejandro Acosta López

“…Likewise, the influence of foreign propaganda strategies and the role played by foreign services in the strengthening of the discourse on volunteers is also assessed, which can help us to better understand the needs of the Spanish press and the ways of doing journalism in the period.…”
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Transição do Brasil Império à República Velha by Marcelo Figueiredo

“…Upon transition into a representative government, which begins with the Porto Revolution (1820), one has attempted to reintroduce the previous institutional condition to Brazil, virtually pushing us to Independence, eventually proclaimed on September 7th 1822. …”
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Coupling and Shielding Properties of the Baffle in ICP System by Jozef Brcka, R. Lee Robison

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Aristotelian scholia in the Serbian Church-Slavonic translation of Gregory Palamas’ “Apodictic treatises on the procession of the holy spirit” by Knežević Mikonja

“…The autograph of this translation, preserved in Codex 88 of the monastery Dečani, contains significant number of scholia, which help us additionally to follow the process of translating and commenting of Palamas’ basic text. …”
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