Estimating Willingness to Pay for New Mandarin Cultivars: A Revealed Preference Approach by Xiang Bi, Lisa House, Zhifeng Gao, Frederick Gmitter

“… California has overtaken Florida to become the major US domestic mandarin producer. Despite a shift in consumer preferences toward the ‘Clementine’ mandarin that is widely grown in California, this cultivar is not well adapted to the subtropical climate of Florida. …”
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Time to Change the 'Change': Stigma and Support in Blogs about the Menopause by Keren Darmon

“…Furthermore, I examine the texts for indications regarding the 'sources and solutions for gender inequality in the workplace' (Gill, Orgad 2015: 340) and ask: What can this tell us about the networks' position vis-à-vis the menopause, feminism, and postfeminism? …”
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The Polynomial Pivots as Initial Values for a New Root-Finding Iterative Method by Mario Lázaro, Pedro Martín, Antonio Agüero, Ignacio Ferrer

“…The pivots present the property of lying close to some of the roots under certain conditions; this closeness leads us to propose them as efficient starting points for the proposed iterative sequences. …”
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L’accommodation dans le débat politique britannique Question Time. Quelle modélisation pour quelles stratégies ? by Laurent Rouveyrol

“…Dwelling on the concept of “positioning processes” (rapports de places) this framework enables us to encompass a wide range of discursive and linguistic phenomena observable in mediatized interaction, ranging from macro to micro orders, such as the “enunciative staging processes”, by which speakers achieve different degrees of involvement in their speech. …”
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L’ixeutique, un exemple de gestion empirique de la biodiversité végétale par la communauté traditionnelle Tsaaya du massif du Chaillu, Congo by Victor Kimpouni, Jean Pierre Makita-Madzou, Ernest Apani, Marcel Motom

“…In spite as of authorized efforts, the endogenous and empirical knowledge of the populations qualified of primitives, the field of the people and his environment studies still holds secrecies for us. The object of this study is to highlight the knowledge of the Tsaaya community of Chaillu through the ixeutic. …”
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‘Savages’ and Spiritual Engines: Feeling the Machine in H. G. Wells’s Time Machine and ‘Lord of the Dynamos’ by Tamara Ketabgian

“…Yet, while The Time Machine offers us fantastical devices that we must take on faith, ‘The Lord’ reads theistic humanism unsparingly against itself, through acoustic bonds that join people and things within an industrial power station. …”
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National Defense as fiscal policy during the Mauricio Macri administration (2015-2019) by Sergio Gabriel Eissa

“…The conflict opposed those who i) Wanted to involve the military in the war against drugs, following US preferences, ii) Those who saw the military as a bloated and expensive organization that weighed excessively on the Government´s budget, and iii) and those who advocated redeploying the military as an anti-crime outfit, as a means to safeguard its budget, preserve a socially legitimate role for it and indirectly fund its main traditional national defense role. …”
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Pricing Corporate Bonds with Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk, and Their Correlation by Xinting Li, Baochen Yang, Yunpeng Su, Yunbi An

“…We document that the varying correlation between default and illiquidity explains the phenomenon of bond death spiral observed in a financial crisis. Finally, we take the US corporate bond market as an example to demonstrate our conclusions.…”
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Later-Life Mortality and Longevity in Late-18th and 19th-Century Cohorts. Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Heading? by Rich J. Mourits

“…These findings have major implications on how we view the demographic and epidemiological transition, and forces us to reconsider existing explanations for improvements in survival during the 19th century. …”
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Hypertext’s social significance for a digital age person’s mental identification by N. Y. Paudial, L. V. Filindash

“…The exhibition at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts “There are strange approaches...”, understood by us as hypertext, is evaluated from the point of view of structuring, content, justification of the technologies used. …”
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Expériences paysagères et pratique du ski de randonnée dans les Alpes françaises by Stéphane Marpot, Laine Chanteloup, Clémence Perrin-Malterre

“…Ultimately, this practice invites us to raise the questions how people learn different ways of feeling about and acting within the environment and looks at a creative form of composing elementary landscapes.…”
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Rough Approximation Spaces via Maximal Union Neighborhoods and Ideals with a Medical Application by Mona Hosny, Tareq M. Al-shami, Abdelwaheb Mhemdi

“…One of the interesting obtained characterizations of the current models is preserving the monotonic property, which enables us to evaluate the vagueness in the data and enhance the confidence in the outcomes. …”
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Antibacterial and Antioxidant Compounds from the Flower Extracts of Vernonia amygdalina by Abere Habtamu, Yadessa Melaku

“…Vernonia amygdalina is traditionally used in Ethiopia to treat various diseases. This prompted us to isolate bioactive compounds from the flowers of this plant. …”
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Transferring Transnationally, Transforming Locally, Imagining Transnationally: The Transference of Interwar Poland’s Popular Culture to Israel and Its Rediscovery in the Last Decad... by Marcos Silber

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Methods of long-term planning of corporate financing by V. V. Prokhorov, I. P. Rozhnov

“…The study of the mentioned methods allowed us to propose a method of planning the bond interest rate, which calculates the weighted average of the forecast bond interest rate. …”
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(De)Globalization, the Global Imaginary, and Religious Narratives: A Theoretical Framework and the East Asia Litmus Test by Beilei Bai

“…Focusing in the second part of this article on trends and representations proper to China in its regional context enables us to better assess how the globalization and deglobalization narratives intermingle in religious and secular dimensions in a way that reshapes each of them.…”
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Preparations of the Shipping Company “Żegluga Polska SA” for the Second World War by Jordan Siemianowski

“…The analysis and criticism of sources allowed us to draw many interesting conclusions in the presented article. …”
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To the question of ethno-cultural policy of contemporary states by E. S. Karsanova

“…This article is an attempt to answer this question.The analysis of trends in modern ethno-cultural policy in some European countries allows us to consider the dynamics undergoing ethno-political and sociocultural processes, in some cases as a solution to actual economic tasks and labor migration, in others - as a search for optimum ways of artificial creation of unified multicultural space.The conducted research allows to conclude that the declaration of the principles of multiculturalism doesn’t give a guarantee of achievement of interethnic tolerance, on the contrary, its functional application in a form of a certain formal technique, is obviously unpromising right where the target state policy is realized…”
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Du livre à l’information : un tournant historiographique by Jérôme Lamy, Johann Petitjean

“…The third and last debate concerns the finest scriptural materials, examined from the most discrete markers of thought as well as the process, modern, of progressive diversification of the supports during the period. Their study allows us to better understand the way in which early modern documents were included in the labile structures of a society great consumer of information under its various forms: handwritten or printed books, handwritten or printed newsheets, correspondences, etc.; a society great consumer of documents, and paper.…”
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Darunnajah Vote System Application Design Using PHP Programming Language by Supriadi Panggabean, Wahyu Joko Saputro, Faishal Wafiq Zakiy, Tutik Lestari, Ahmad Rifqi

“…Voting is the most important part of choosing leaders in an organization or institution, especially for those of us who use a democratic system. The election of organizational leaders in Darunnajah is still carried out conventionally, elections still use paper to select organizational leaders which is carried out by recording and counting the name or picture of one of the candidates. …”
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