Oscillations Control of Rocking-Block-Type Buildings by the Addition of a Tuned Pendulum by Luca Collini, Rinaldo Garziera, Kseniia Riabova, Mariya Munitsyna, Alessandro Tasora

“…From the analytical/numerical simulations, we derive some important conclusions, providing us with the tools suitable for the design of absorbers in practical cases.…”
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Controlling Invasive Exotic Plants in North Florida Forests by Chris Demers, Patrick Minogue, Michael Andreu, Alan Long, Rick Williams

“… Of the more than 4,000 known plant species growing in Florida, approximately 30% are not native to Florida or the Southeast, and in the U.S., invasive exotic species cost an estimated $120 billion each year in damages. …”
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El conde D. Enrique Manuel (c.1343-1414) y las relaciones cortesanas luso-castellanas en tiempos de crisis dinásticas by César Olivera Serrano

“…This close family relationship allows us to understand a second level of analysis: his political leadership during the reigns of Fernando I of Portugal and Juan I of Castile. …”
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INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL AS ONE OF THE FACTORS OF DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL-CORPORATE TECHNOLOGIES by S. V. Ilchenko, N. D. Dmitriev, A. I. Rokov

“…This study is a theoretical springboard for further study of the relationship between intellectual capital and social and corporate technologies, which will allow us to model the dependence, taking into account industry factors.…”
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PREACHING WHEN VIRAL THREATS CONVERGE: USA SERMONS, 31 MAY AND 7 JUNE 2020 by S.A. Brown

“…Sermons preached in the USA in congregations of distinctive predominant racial identity on the two Sundays following Floyd’s death (31 May and 7 June 2020) are assessed hermeneutically, asking: “In what ways did US sermons, preached on 31 May and 7 June 2020, interpret divine presence and activity in relation to the preacher’s interpretation of listeners’ needs and responsibilities; biblical text(s) referenced, and/or the dual public crisis impinging on national life?” …”
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Modes and moods of “Slave Anastácia,” Afro-Brazilian saint by Paul Christopher Johnson

“…Thinking through mood points us toward material conjunctures and emotional resonances whose agency is diffuse but nevertheless generates predispositions to act in certain ways.…”
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Les dents moustériennes de la grotte Boccard, lieu-dit Bas-de-Morant (commune de Créancey, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne) by Bruno Maureille, François Djindjian, Maria Dolorès Garralda, Alan E. Mann, Bernard Vandermeersch

“…The metrical and morphological, descriptive and comparative studies of these remains enable us to integrate them within the variability of Neanderthal teeth and to exclude them from the variability of recent Homo sapiens sapiens. …”
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(2, 2p + 1) minimal string and intersection theory I by A. Artemev, I. Chaban

“…This identification allows us to efficiently study correlation numbers at finite matter central charge. …”
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Approximate Analytical Solution to Nonlinear Delay Differential Equations by Using Sumudu Iterative Method by Asfaw Tsegaye Moltot, Alemayehu Tamirie Deresse

“…Some basic properties and theorems which help us to solve the governing problem using the suggested approach are revised. …”
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De los candires a Kandire. La invención de un mito chiriguano by Isabelle Combès

“…This paper examines the contradiction between the current use of the term « Kandire » and what the 16th century sources – which are the only ones that actually mention the word – can teach us about it. Currently « Kandire » is assimilated to the « land without evil » of the Bolivian Guaraní-Chiriguano. …”
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Performance Evaluation of LMS and CM Algorithms for Beamforming by Mossaab Atzemourt, Abdelmajid Farchi, Younes Chihab, Zakaria Hachkar

“…We also note that a judicious choice of the control parameter mu leads to a better speed of convergence for the two algorithms. Let us note, however, that LMS is more efficient. Our simulations show that in an environment affected by white Gaussian noise, LMS is more robust than CM. …”
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Protagonismo juvenil e capital humano: uma análise da participação política da juventude no Brasil by Marcos Vinicius da Silva Goulart, Nair Iracema Silveira dos Santos

“…The notion of human capital is used, allowing us to indicate that the political and social action of youth can be seen as a kind of investment in themselves and a mode of subjectivation.…”
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Practical aspects of forecasting the company’s financial performance by V. V. Kookueva, A. A. Aliev, R. I. Khavich

“…Based on the combined application of various economic and mathematical methods, the forecasting method has been improved, which makes it possible to reduce the forecast error, which in turn allows us making more accurate financial decisions.…”
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The influence of urban space in dramatic conflicts: transnationality in Mexican fiction films by Silvana Flores

“…The topic of migration and its entailments with the plots of these titles will allow us to elucidate the role awarded to the capital cities as spaces of cultural exchange, as also as essential elements for the achievement of the purposes of their characters, promoting a (des)centralizing vision of those types of territories.  …”
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Nanoclustering in Silicon Induced by Oxygen Ions Implanted by D. Manno, A. Serra, E. Filippo, M. Rossi, G. Quarta, L. Maruccio, L. Calcagnile

“…Raman spectroscopy data allowed us to estimate an average cluster size of about 50 nm. …”
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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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Using the three-way matrix for AHP-group decision-making by Elisa Fiorenza

“…The aim of this paper is to summarize the problem of representing the different preferences between the criteria and the alternatives, for the various decision makers using the three-way data matrix. This matrix allows us to examine, in a contemporary and global manner, the preferences of several decision-makers in the decision-making context. …”
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Measurement of Quality of Life VII. Statistical Covariation and Global Quality of Life Data: The Method of Weight-Modified Linear Regression by Soren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick

“…As we need to be certain that the procedure is valid, we hereby invite the scientific community to give us further critique of the method and suggestions for its improvement.…”
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Notes on the Biology of the Cixiid Planthopper Cixius meridionalis (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) by M. L. Bowser

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THE CONCEPT OF THE SIMULATION MODEL OF THE DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM OF THE COAL ENTERPRISE by I. S. Bondarenko

“…The subsystems of the model allow us to consider the dynamics of the production enterprise in all the variety of its activities, for different variants of the technology and organization of production of the existing control system, the planned system and promising management solutions. …”
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