Environmental Deterioration and Conservation in Cuban Agriculture by José Alvarez

“… The reports included in this series intend to address the increasing level of interest in the Cuban market for food and agricultural products among U.S. firms and to assist them in becoming more familiar with that market. …”
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Adult Children of High-Conflict Marriages by Donna Davis

“…“Most of us have probably heard someone declare that they had remained in their marriage 'for the sake of the kids.' …”
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An Unconditionally Stable, Positivity-Preserving Splitting Scheme for Nonlinear Black-Scholes Equation with Transaction Costs by Jianqiang Guo, Wansheng Wang

“…This numerical method is based on the LOD-Backward Euler method which allows us to solve the discrete equation explicitly. The numerical results for vanilla call option and for European butterfly spread are provided. …”
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New Karhunen-Loève expansions based on Hahn polynomials with application to a Sobolev test for uniformity on Johnson graphs by Pycke, Jean-Renaud

“…We give a new family of Karhunen-Loève expansions involving Hahn polynomials. This enables us to introduce discrete analogues of Watson statistics, and a test for uniformity on Johnson’s graphs. …”
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Des mots du politique aux maux du territoire. La performativité des récits métropolitains dans la gouvernance de la nature estuarienne by Charles de Godoy Leski

“…Territorial interdependencies redefined by the function of nature facing flooding risks allow us to analyze the construction of city/nature interdependencies. …”
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Asian Soybean Rust by Wayne M. Jurick II, Dario F. Narvaez, Carrie L. Harmon, James J. Marois, David L. Wright, Philip F. Harmon

“…Harmon, describes this fungal plant disease new to the US since 2004, its symptoms, causal organism, disease cycle and epidemiology, diagnosis, and management. …”
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The Asiatic garden beetle Maladera castanea (Arrow 1913) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) by Paul E. Skelley

“…This is the first report of this pest beetle in the lower southeastern U.S. coastal plain. This 3-page fact sheet was written by Paul E. …”
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Flaubert et la stéréographie française, 1850-1880 by Arden Reed

“…Like a time capsule, French stereography from 1850 to 1880 captures for us his visual surroundings and his cultural context: a world of visual clichés that parallel his idées reçues: romantic plots, exotic locations, erotic fantasies, people represented like objects and the reverse. …”
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Just(ice) Smiling? Masks and Masking in the Occupy-Wall Street Protests by Andreas Beer

“…The essay analyzes concepts of social justice, which were influential during the US-American Occupy protests of 2011. It discusses the recent genealogy of notions of social justice in the alter-globalization movements of the 1990s and argues that constitutive elements of Occupy’s tactics, like carnivalesque frivolity, recurred to protest forms of that decade. …”
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Research of the Test and Diagnosis of Torsional Vibration of RV Reducer by Huang Dishan, Liu Jinlei, Gu Jingjun

“…The research experiment shows that the technology will effectively monitor and diagnose the manufacturing defect of the RV reducer and help us to improve the products quality in the manufacturing process.…”
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The influence foreign countries in creation of the mathematics syllabus in Lithuania between two world wars by Birutė Ragelytė, Alma Paukštienė

“…The influence and experience of foreign countries in creating the mathematics syllab us are introduced. Results of analysis Lithuanian mathematics syllabus and foreign counties (France, Austria, Germany, Italy) of this period are presented in this article. …”
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Design and study of ultra-wideband folded loop antennas by LV Wen-jun, ZHU Hong-bo

“…Design of a novel ultra-wideband folded loop antenna was proposed.It was fed by coplanar waveguide and can be easily integrated with other microwave circuits.By introducing a pentagonal folded loop,the bandwidth of the an-tenna is improved twice than that of conventional folded loop antenna.Parametric study is carried out numerically by us-ing EM simulators.Based on numerical results,the antenna is also studied experimentally.As can be seen,an operation bandwidth of over 4.75:1 is obtained.The presented antenna may be practical for ultra-wideband applications.…”
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European Fire Ant, Red Ant (suggested common names), Myrmica rubra Linnaeus (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) by H. Alejandro Arevalo, Eleanor Groden

“…It describes this adventive stinging ant found mainly in the northeastern U.S. Includes sections on synonymy, distribution, description, life cycle, economic importance, and management. …”
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Safe Dishwashing Without an Automatic Dishwasher for Home, Community Events, and Outdoor Activities by Morgan Denhard, Amy Simonne, Ricki McWilliams

“… Most of us are accustomed to the ease and convenience of washing our dishes in an automatic dishwasher. …”
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Kay Boyle and Mary Reynolds: Friendship Intensified by War by Page DOUGHERTY DELANO

“…For both of them, their engagement in the war, Boyle as an anti-Fascist fiction writer, and Reynolds as a participant in the French Resistance, shifted their sense of citizenship—as women, as women sharing allegiances both to France and the U.S., and as engaged people. This reading expands our understanding of wartime citizenship for those who aspire to a heterogeneous, democratic polity.…”
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Hanter la machine : reconquêtes de la conscience humaine dans le cyberpunk à la française by Simon Bréan

“…The Cyberpunk movement provided us with many ways to question how the individual may cope with information technologies and cybernetics, which radically affect bodies and social interactions. …”
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Une « dictature démocratique » : Getúlio Vargas, raconté par Jean-Gérard Fleury by Régis Tettamanzi

“…In fact, this biography tells us as much about Brazil as about France: it constructs an image of the Brazilian president, and at the same time witnesses the popular aspirations of a certain French political right trend between the two wars.…”
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Les désastres de la guerre by Jean-Philippe Chimot

“…Today, the strength of Goya’s Disasters lies perhaps in his premonition of the unbearable cruelty that nations reserve for one another, as though the Enlightenment had from that moment on accentuated the shadows which are still surrounding us.…”
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The Battle of Stalingrad and the Second Front Problem by V. O. Pechatnov

“…Using less-known documents from American and British archives the article examines the impact of developments on Soviet-German front in late 1942 on military-political planning in U.S. and U.K. with a special emphasis on the second front problem. …”
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The learning of cultural diversity and the patrimonialization of biodiversity by José Rogério Lopes, Paolo Totaro

“…The enunciation of these agencies, in turn, takes into account that the latter are conditioned or mediated by market and institutional devices of cultural and environmental policies, such us emergent arrangements of biodiversity.…”
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