Počasí v Čechách ve 30. a 40. letech 18. století v denících Tobiáše Antonína Seemana by Jan Munzar, Vítězslav Prchal

“…These records also enable us to evaluate winters: severe winters with plenty of snow were the winters of 1730/31 and 1731/32. …”
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Mechanisms of Diffusion for Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America. The Chilean Case by Osorio Gonnet, Cecilia

“…The conclusions consider the contribution of this proposal and discuss the future challenges in analyzing difussion processes that help us to understand broader changes in public policies in the region.…”
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Household Water Usage and Irrigation Practices by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn, Michael Dukes

“…This 5-page fact sheet outlines University of Florida researchers’ assessments of current US household indoor and outdoor water use to assist policy makers and researchers with creating incentives for homeowners to conserve water. …”
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Atala, Atala Hairstreak, Coontie Hairstreak, Eumaeus atala Röber (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) by Donald W. Hall, Jerry F. Butler

“… The atala is our largest and most spectacular eastern U.S. hairstreak. Due to decline in abundance of its host plant, coontie, because of over-harvest (as a source of starch) and habitat destruction due to development, the atala was believed to have become extinct. …”
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Uniform Lipschitz-connectedness and metric convexity by Paranjothi Pillay, Dharmanand Baboolal

“…In addition, we show that for a proper Lipschitz-connected metric space,  $L_d = 1$ precisely when $X$ is convex, which leads us to conjecture that $L_d$ is a kind of measure of convexity in a proper Lipschitz-connected metric space.  …”
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Usage de l’instruction au sosie pour la conception d’actions de formation en situation de travail (AFEST) : une illustration avec des liquidateurs/trices de retraite by Stéphane Balas, Solange Ciavaldini-Cartaut, Jean-François Métral

“…This reflection also leads us to recall that such a method, which makes it possible to identify the complexity of the activity of professionals, must be put at the service of an engineering which does not reduce this complexity.…”
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A Case Report on Prepubertal Vaginal Bleeding due to Leech Bite: History Is Very Important by S. M. Tajdit Rahman, Tasnim Shahriar, Adiba Tarannum, Md Abul Kasem, Tasnuva Akter

“…We described how focused history helped us in diagnosis and management of such case in rural areas with limited healthcare resources. …”
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To Police or Not to Police? Confronting Anti-Asian Violence in Portland, Oregon by Hilary Sanders

“…Hilgartner and Bosk’s model of the emergence of social problems sheds light on the selection of this issue within the institutional arena of local government, in a context of heightened mistrust of law enforcement. It also leads us to consider the competing definitions of the problem among Asian and Asian-American populations, and how these perspectives relate to possible policy solutions. …”
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The Role of the Risk-Neutral Jump Size Distribution in Single-Factor Interest Rate Models by L. Gómez-Valle, J. Martínez-Rodríguez

“…Finally, an application to US Treasury Bill data is also illustrated.…”
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Finding Relatedness: pathways for detecting textual relatedness in the medieval scholastic corpus by Jeffrey C. Witt

“…In each case, special attention is given to how the availability of a domain specific knowledge graph helps us both properly prepare the corpus for analysis and visualize the results in ways that enhance research. …”
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Atala, Atala Hairstreak, Coontie Hairstreak, Eumaeus atala Röber (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) by Donald W. Hall, Jerry F. Butler

“… The atala is our largest and most spectacular eastern U.S. hairstreak. Due to decline in abundance of its host plant, coontie, because of over-harvest (as a source of starch) and habitat destruction due to development, the atala was believed to have become extinct. …”
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Mite Pests of Southern Highbush Blueberry in Florida by Oscar Liburd, Lorena Lopez, Doug Phillips

“…The southern red mite is the key mite pest attacking blueberry plants in the southeastern US (Lopez and Liburd 2020). The false spider mite is a secondary leaf feeding mite pest that was reported attacking southern highbush blueberry in 2016 (Akyazi et al. 2017). …”
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Network Direct Selling Organisations by Sonja Verwey, Corné Davis

“…These organisations exist in more than 70 countries, and have almost 88 million members who generate over US$132 billion annually (WFDSA, 2011). This paper argues that although NDSOs can be differentiated from other types of organising, their characteristics can be linked to some key premises in postmodern thinking about organising. …”
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Carved in stone by Ana Catarina Basílio

“… The late 3rd millennium BC petrification phenomenon in southern Portugal challenges traditional interpretations, and invites us to explore the complex interplay between prehistoric memory and identity. …”
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Differences in pronotum shape in Phlaeothripinae thrips (Thysanoptera) of quarantine importance by Allan H. Smith-Pardo

“…To do that, a multitude of digital images and illustrations of different genera of phytophagous phlaeothripine thrips were examined to compare their pronotum shape for genera that contain more than 20 species, which are known to feed on plants, as well as those that have been intercepted at U.S. ports of entry coming from other countries. …”
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A Fast Finite-Difference Time Domain Simulation Method for the Source-Stirring Reverberation Chamber by Wenxing Li, Chongyi Yue, Atef Elsherbeni

“…The results show that the implementation of the method can give us the accurate frequency response of the source-stirring chamber and make the simulation of source-stirring chamber more efficient.…”
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Energetics and phase diagrams of Fe-Cr and Co-Cr systems from first principles by Vreštzál J., Houserová J., Šob M.

“…The structural energy differences, calculated by FLAPW (Full potential augmented plane wave) method, enable us to utilize a more complete physical information about total energy of intermetallic phases and to propose a new model for their thermodynamic description. …”
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Le paysagisme : source et ressource pour l’urbanisme ? by Benoît Romeyer

“…Whether analysed separately or together, these elements constitute resources that may be reconsidered and re-used in order to establish more balanced relationships with the elements surrounding us in our contemporary urban construct.…”
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Gut Microbiota in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review by Safae El Mazouri, Tarik Aanniz, Abdelhakim Bouyahya, Rachid El Jaoudi, Mahardian Rahmadi, Chrismawan Ardianto, Mouna Ouadghiri

“…The current review allows us to associate gut microbiota dysbiosis and ASD. …”
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GridLAB-D: An Agent-Based Simulation Framework for Smart Grids by David P. Chassin, Jason C. Fuller, Ned Djilali

“…Simulation of smart grid technologies requires a fundamentally new approach to integrated modeling of power systems, energy markets, building technologies, and the plethora of other resources and assets that are becoming part of modern electricity production, delivery, and consumption systems. As a result, the US Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity commissioned the development of a new type of power system simulation tool called GridLAB-D that uses an agent-based approach to simulating smart grids. …”
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