Application of the electron backscateered diffraction method in microstructure research for determining of causes of metal structures destruction by L. V. Markova, V. V. Koleda, N. S. Kolodinskaya

“…The application of the diffraction method for backscattered electrons allows us to take a fresh look at the structural changes in the material as a whole and on the processes of destruction of metal structures in particular. …”
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Daring to Be Different: The First-Person HIV-Positive Narrator in Two South African Novels by Lizzy Attree

“…Reading these two novels together helps us to understand literary patterns, associations and dissociations, which reveal a cultural symbology of HIV/AIDS, part of a wider cultural symbology of illness in South African literature. …”
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Statistical production of Bc mesons in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC energy by Shouxing Zhao, Min He

“…We study the production of Bc mesons via c and bottom (b) quark recombination in a statistical fashion by placing Bc in the position of a member of the family of open b hadrons, which allows us to make quantitative predictions for the modifications of the production fraction (fc) of Bc mesons and its relative production to B mesons in sNN=5.02TeV Pb-Pb collisions with respect to proton-proton (pp) collisions at the same energy. …”
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PATHOS: Pervasive at Home Sleep Monitoring by Ian Obermiller, Sheikh I. Ahamed

“…Here, we mean Pathos will help us to keep healthy: both mentally and physically. …”
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Estéticas del observador en la vida tecnificada by Alejandro Lozano

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A Quantum Space behind Simple Quantum Mechanics by Chuan Sheng Chew, Otto C. W. Kong, Jason Payne

“…In physics, experiments ultimately inform us about what constitutes a good theoretical model of any physical concept: physical space should be no exception. …”
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Leukocyte Telomere Length and Cognitive Function in Older Adults by Emily Frith, Paul D. Loprinzi

“…We evaluated the specific association between leukocyte telomere length and cognitive function among a national sample of the broader U.S. older adult population. Data from the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) were used to identify 1,722 adults, between 60-85 years, with complete data on selected study variables. …”
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Host-Parasite Relationship in Cystic Echinococcosis: An Evolving Story by Alessandra Siracusano, Federica Delunardo, Antonella Teggi, Elena Ortona

“…In vitro and in vivo immunological approaches, together with molecular biology and immunoproteomic technologies, provided us exciting insights into the mechanisms involved in the initiation of E. granulosus infection and the consequent induction and regulation of the immune response. …”
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PyIRTAM: A New Module of PyIRI for IRTAM Coefficients by Victoriya V. Forsythe, Ivan Galkin, Sarah E. McDonald, Kenneth F. Dymond, Bruce A. Fritz, Angeline G. Burrell, Katherine A. Zawdie, Douglas P. Drob

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Exploring horses’ (Equus caballus) gaze and asymmetric ear position in relation to human attentional cues by Gabriela Barrera, Anna Albiach-Serrano, Federico Guillén-Salazar

“…Also, there is some evidence that they might be able to infer the knowledge state of a human and communicate intentionally with us. However, this ability is not fully characterized and certain behaviors, like gaze, asymmetric ears position or vocalizations, which could work as attention-getting behaviors, have been scarcely studied in this context. …”
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Public accountability and institutional change in Latin America. Introduction to dossier by Adrián Gurza-Lavalle

“…We highlight the importance of an encompassing reading that would allow us to think in terms of democratic accountability regimes, beyond specific experiences of social, political or administrative control. …”
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Accent Choices of English Majors in the Netherlands: Patterns and Motivations by Gezina Christien Dorothé Huttenga, Dick Smakman

“…Further, it was investigated how important students felt identity expression was relative to other criteria in their pursuit of a certain accent. This group gives us an impression of the norms that future teachers may apply in their classes. …”
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L’Arbre des rues de Mexico : une ressource au-delà de son exploitabilité by Nora Itri

“…Analyzing this particularity in the physical and historical constitution of the Mexican megalopolis allows us to renew the meaning that is conventionally attributed to the notion of resource. …”
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The Doomsday Project, Deep Events, and the Shrinking of American Democracy by Peter Dale Scott

“…The second, closely related, is the progressive shrinking of public politics and the rule of law as they are subordinated, even domestically, to the requirements of covert U.S. operations abroad.The third, also closely related, is the important and increasingly deleterious impact on American history and the global extension of American power, of what I have called deep events. …”
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The Impact of Family Setting and Local Opportunities on Leaving Home and Migration Destinations of Rural Youths, The Netherlands 1860-1940 by Bastian Mönkediek, Jan Kok, Kees Mandemakers

“…Dutch farmers and workers differ in the type of family economy in which children were integrated, and contrasting them will allow us to explain the speed, the directions, and the individual and family backgrounds of the process of leaving agriculture. …”
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Czym jest edukacja biologiczna w wychowaniu człowieka? by Ilona Żeber-Dzikowska

“…The wide range of biological contents as well as the short reflection on the subject of gaining the knowledge in the range of Biology allows us to notice, that this discipline, similarly to other disciplines shapes the personality of young, growing up people. …”
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The siliconvalization of work. An argentine experience by Patricia Ventrici, Hernan Palermo

“…Any discussion about digital or algorithmic technologies leads us immediately into the already protracted debate about which stage of capitalism are we in right now. …”
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Regulating DeFi: Safeguarding Market Integrity While Managing High Expectations by Luka Orešković, Ivana Bajakić

“…Drawing on a qualitative analysis of primary sources, namely EU and US legislation, and supported by relevant reports and case studies made by financial authorities, international standard-setting bodies, and business associations, this paper adopts a theoretical approach. …”
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Group-based siamese self-supervised learning by Zhongnian Li, Jiayu Wang, Qingcong Geng, Xinzheng Xu

“…To expand the siamese self-supervised architecture, we increased the number of image instances in each crop, enabling us to obtain an average feature from a group of views to use as a distortion, invariant embedding. …”
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Société de l’aveu, cis-tème de l’aveu : repenser le consentement à la lumière des images intimes de personnes trans* dans les medias by Alexandre Baril

“…Using the example of trans* people and inspired by Foucault’s work on confessing, I argue that we live in a “confessing society” that leads us to believe that disclosing our deepest selves is liberating and a transphobic/cisgenderist “confessing cis-tem” that, together, push trans* people to show their naked bodies/souls to satisfy public curiosity. …”
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