Literature and History: Study of Nigerian Indigenous Historical Novels by Lere Adeyemi

“…In Yoruba society, literature and history are im­portant in explaining the fullness of life and the world around us. It is against this background that this paper examines the relationship between literature and history and how Yoruba novelists use their works as vehicles for the repre­sentation of history. …”
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Evaluating Stress during Pregnancy: Do We Have the Right Conceptions and the Correct Tools to Assess It? by Raquel González-Ochoa, Elly N. Sánchez-Rodríguez, Anahi Chavarría, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Ospina, Tania Romo-González

“…Biased perspectives could lead us to use and/or design inadequate/incomplete panels of biochemical determinations and/or psychological instruments to diagnose it accurately during pregnancy, a psychoneuroimmune-endocrine state in which allostatic loads may be significant. …”
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Provincial diffusion, national acceptance: the transfer of conservation easement policy in Canada by Forrest Hisey

“…I found a lack of formal subnational policy networks and an increased role of subnational policy innovators unlike previous studies, while the substantial U.S. influence align with older policy cases. ENGOs were the most active proponents to push for CE legislation, not policymakers or foreign states. …”
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Territoires du productivisme, paysages altérés by Alessandra Marcon

“…Given that these alterations are complex in nature and interwoven within different scales, urban planning and landscape architecture need new tools and critical approaches to help us understand and reinterpret the complexity of these alterations. …”
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Programs and Activities for Gifted Youth at Pillar University by Irina I. Ukraintseva, Galina M. Konovalova, Andrey V. Tambovtsev, Olga V. Bergen, Daria A. Pushkareva

“…For this purpose, Sochi State University has developed a number of projects of various target orientations, including with partners (Educational Center “Sirius”, ANO “Sea of Ideas”, etc.), which allows us to expand the geography of admission and raise the initial level of applicants’ training. …”
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The Renewal of the Twenty Years in Theater: Revisions Based on The Danton Case by Stanisława Przybyszewska from 2008 by Katarzyna Fazan

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La prefectura y las subprefecturas ayacuchanas como artífices del nacionalismo ante el litigio fronterizo entre Perú y Ecuador (1910) by Miriam Encarnación-Pinedo, Carmen Cazorla-Zen

“…Originality: The role played by local authorities in constructing Peruvian nationalism has not been sufficiently addressed; however, it is of great importance since it allows us to understand the homogenizing effort of the nascent State and its multiple contradictions. …”
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Immigration and Competitiveness – Some Methodological Questions by Tünde Patay

“…The Member States of the European Union aim to harmonise their definitions and data on migration issues, however, the daily practice leads us to the questions of reliability and comparability of migration statistics; and the interdisciplinary character of migration research offers the use of variable research methods. …”
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Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome: A Rare Cause of Recurrent Facial Nerve Palsy and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome by Behiye Deniz Kosovali, Asiye Yavuz, Fatma Irem Yesiler, Mustafa Kemal Bayar

“…On dermatologic examination, oedema on her face, pustular lesions on her skin, and fissure on her tongue were detected. The patient informed us about her recurrent and spontaneous facial paralysis in previous years. …”
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François Lamy’s Cartesian Refutation of Spinoza’s Ethics by Jack Stetter

“…In conclusion, I turn to Lamy’s objection that Spinoza’s philosophy is question-begging in view of Spinoza’s account of God, and I exhibit what this point of criticism tells us about the intentions of the first French Cartesian rebuttal of the Ethics.…”
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Demographics of Physician Associates (PAs) in Obstetrics and Gynecology: Where They Work and How They Compare to Other PAs by Melissa A. Rodriguez, Roderick S. Hooker, Kasey K. Puckett, Andrzej Kozikowski

“…As of 2020, maternal and infant health in the US has worsened. At the same time, the number of health professionals available to manage female health issues is changing; the number of physicians in obstetrics and gynecology (Ob-Gyn) and midwives is decreasing, whereas the number of Ob-Gyn physician associates (PAs) is growing. …”
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Professional development for faculty in Uzbekistan by Tina A. Coffelt, Jacek A. Koziel, Jacek A. Koziel

“…Agricultural and biosystems engineering and English faculty members at a US Midwest university forged an interdisciplinary partnership to virtually deliver a 5-month program to an initial cohort of 68 participants. …”
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Phototunable Magnetism in Copper Octacyanomolybdate by Jun Ohara, Shoji Yamamoto

“…Their ground states generally stay paramagnetic down to temperatures of the K order but exhibit a spontaneous magnetization upon photoirradiation usually below a few tens of K. To interest us still further, such a ferromagnetic stateinduced by blue-laser irradiation is demagnetized step by step through further application of red or near-infrared laser pulses. …”
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Des talus pleins les yeux by Denis Delbaere, Sabine Ehrmann

“…As a result, embankments, ever present in the view most of us have of the places we travel through every day when using motorways or railways, are also the ones we take the least notice of since we perceive them simply as green spaces devoid of any intrinsic value. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization and Primary Antimicrobial, Antifungal Activity Evaluation of Schiff bases of 4-Chloro-(3-substituted-phenylimino) - methyl-[2H] - chromene-2-one by Amit Kasabe, Vijay Mohite, Jayesh Ghodake, Jaydeep Vidhate

“…Coumarins show promising antimicrobial and antifungal activity, this prompted to us to synthesize new derivatives of coumarins. 4-Chloro-2-oxo-2H-chromene-3-carbaldehyde was reacted with substituted aniline and rectified spirit to obtain a new series of Schiff bases of 4-chloro-(3-substituted-phenylimino) -methyl- [2H]-chromene-2-one (3a-i). …”
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An intrinsic temporal dimension of DNA: the new concept of time-island by Giovanni Villani

“…The conditions of closure of these pieces of DNA and the conditions of prolongation of the life time of the perturbation have allowed us to introduce the concept of time-island for the base-pairs sequences with these characteristics. …”
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Peculiarities of general cultural and political values transformation in Russia by B. S. Nevolin, V. F. Nitsevich

“…The results of the sociological study allow us to conclude that the political views of one part of the Russian society are polarized, but the level of apolitical attitude of the other part is increasing.…”
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Complexity of a Microblogging Social Network in the Framework of Modern Nonlinear Science by Andrey Dmitriev, Vasily Kornilov, Svetlana Maltseva

“…The use of adiabatic approximation allows us to model a microblogging social network as a nonlinear random dynamical system with multiplicative noise with the power-law in one-dimensional phase space.…”
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Measuring Contagion of Subprime Crisis Based on MVMQ-CAViaR Method by Wuyi Ye, Kebing Luo, Shaofu Du

“…The results imply that there is contagion from the US to all other countries, except for China. Furthermore, the changes of the market risk are found to be consistent with market events and media reports during that period.…”
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Constraints on Light Neutrino Parameters Derived from the Study of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay by Sabin Stoica, Andrei Neacsu

“…The study of the neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay mode can provide us with important information on the neutrino properties, particularly on the electron neutrino absolute mass. …”
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