From Ancient Traditions to Modern Design: Interpretation of Some Ornaments on Leathercraft Items by Albina Khayrullina-Valieva

“… Information about the art and design of Tatar footwear, revealed in different historical records, travel diaries, and descriptions of museum collec- tions, is of great importance. It allows us to assume a strong traditionalism of leather mosaic in the Tatar folk decorative and applied arts. …”
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Massive Fluctuations in Deconfining SU(2) Yang-Mills Thermodynamics by Ingolf Bischer

“…In spite of the observed increasingly suppressing effect when increasing 2-particle-irreducible (2PI) loop order, a quantitative analysis enables us to disprove the conjecture voiced in hep-th/0609033 that the loop expansion would terminate at a finite order. …”
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Californie à Paris: Photographic Circulation and the Making of Imperial Identities, c. 1900 by Carolin Görgen

“…This article proposes a case study of the souvenir album Californie: Illustration pour l’Exposition de Paris 1900 with the aim to trace how photographic illustration catered to both Californian promotion in Europe and community-building on the West Coast in a period of emerging US imperialism. Analyzing the sequence of images, their mise-en-scène alongside elaborate descriptions and translations into French and German, the article reconstructs the emergence of a shared narrative of the imagined West, with a specifically “Californian” visual vocabulary. …”
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RETRACTED: An Adaptive Hierarchical Network Model for Studying the Structure of Economic Network by Xiaoteng Yang, Zhenqiang Wu, Shumaila Javaid

“…Meanwhile, we select four real data sets for model evaluation and observe the resilience in the network hierarchy evolution and the differences formed by different patterns of hierarchy preference mechanisms, which help us better understand data science and network dynamics evolution.…”
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Discussion on Reciprocity, Unitary Matrix, and Lossless Multiple Beam Forming Networks by Nelson Jorge G. Fonseca

“…The Lorentz reciprocity theorem enables us to establish that the transmitting and receiving patterns of any antenna are identical, provided some hypotheses on this antenna and the surrounding medium are satisfied. …”
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Modeling Spatial Riding Characteristics of Bike-Sharing Users Using Hotspot Areas-Based Association Rule Mining by Chao Sun, Jian Lu

“…As for characteristics of riding destination, the combinations between landscapes and financial insurance facilities, between landscapes and companies/enterprises, and between companies/enterprises and financial insurance facilities are more likely to be visited simultaneously. These findings make us understand urban spatial structure in response to traffic plan and provide evidence for bike-sharing dispatch optimization.…”
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On Application of Ordered Fuzzy Numbers in Ranking Linguistically Evaluated Negotiation Offers by Krzysztof Piasecki, Ewa Roszkowska

“…We show that the proposed framework allows us to represent the negotiation information in a more direct and adequate way, especially in ill-structured negotiation problems, allows for holistic evaluation of negotiation offers, and produces consistent rankings, even though new packages are added or removed. …”
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The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011 – Proposed Rule for Preventive Controls for Human Food by Soohyoun Ahn, Keith R. Schneider, Michelle D. Danyluk, Renee Goodrich-Schneider

“…FSMA aims to ensure the safety and security of the US food supply by focusing on preventing food safety problems rather than responding after they occur. …”
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PHILOSOPHY OF DESCARTES: BASIC INTENTION AND STATUS OF ANTHROPOLOGY ABSTRACT by Anatolii Malivskyi

“…The use of phenomenology and hermeneutics enables us to comprehend the key philosopher’s ideas as the manifestation of his personality. …”
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Huntsman Spider, Heteropoda venatoria (Linnaeus) (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae) by Glavis B. Edwards, Jr.

“….), sometimes called the giant crab spider or the banana spider (due to its occasional appearance in marketed bananas), is a cosmotropical species introduced into and now occurring in the U.S., in subtropical areas of Florida, Texas, and California. …”
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Serialization of Ọbasa’s Poems in The Yorùbá News by Tolulope Ibikunle

“…Tis work will therefore dwell on Intertextuality and its influence on the works of Ọbasa, which will enable us to discuss his creative ability as a cultural activist. …”
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Recent Advances in the Valorization of Biodiesel By-Product Glycerol to Solketal by Supongsenla Ao, Samuel Lalthazuala Rokhum

“…This study opens up incredible prospects for us to use renewable energy sources, which will benefit the industry, the environment, and the economy.…”
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Magistrates’ Travelling Libraries: The Circulation of Normative Knowledge in the Portuguese Empire of the Late 18th Century by Airton Ribeiro da Silva Jr.

“…Censorship sources allow us to identify the books chosen by these itinerant magistrates as being indispensable for the exercise of their judicial function. …”
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Unveiling the Power of Race and Education in Shaping Entrepreneurial Dreams: An Empirical Study in Florida by Donovan Collier, Ravi Chinta

“…As the largest empirical study of its kind at the state level in the U.S., it addresses a gap in the literature by focusing on a narrowly defined geographic area. …”
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Régénération de l’histoire locale et interprétation empirique des aspects de son autonomie by Yamada Keijiro, Fujikura Hideyo, Hagai Masami, Nishi Ken, Evellin-Katsuki Keiko

“…The result of our study confirmed the existence of a process of "regeneration of local history" consisting of four stages and enabled us to identify the following key concepts : "self-understanding", the "internalisation of otherness" and the "space of the public sphere". …”
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Des enseignants brésiliens sur les réseaux sociaux : gestion de la proximité et de la distance face au public scolaire by Tiago Ribeiro Santos

“…The first one points to what we have called the “gathering of differentiated social circles”, allowing us to recognize the uniqueness of a space such as Facebook in relation to the management of proximity and the distance of the teacher from the school public. …”
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Spin cobordism and the gauge group of type I/heterotic string theory by Christian Kneißl

“…First, the Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence is used to obtain the cohomology of the classifying space of the Spin(32)/ℤ2 with ℤ2 coefficients. This will enable us to start the Adams spectral sequence for finally obtaining our result, the spin cobordism groups. …”
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Ukrainian Labour Migration to Europe During the War: A Review of Current Realities by Oleg M. Yaroshenko, Nataliia O. Melnychuk, Ivan P. Zhygalkin, Nataliia M. Shvets, Viktoriia I. Zholudieva

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Believing After Darwin: the Debates of the Metaphysical Society (1869–1880) by Catherine Hajdenko-Marshall

“…As such, the Metaphysical Society remains an interesting experiment, which failed, but which still has a lot to teach us.…”
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Supporting Collaborative Privacy-Observant Information Sharing Using RFID-Tagged Objects by Shin'ichi Konomi, Chang S. Nam

“…RFID technology provides an economically feasible means to embed computing and communication capabilities in numerous physical objects around us, thereby allowing anyone to effortlessly announce and expose varieties of information anywhere at any time. …”
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