Existence of Solution and Self-Exciting Attractor in the Fractional-Order Gyrostat Dynamical System by Muhammad Marwan, Gauhar Ali, Ramla Khan

“…Furthermore, we obtained five equilibrium points, including four unstable spirals and one saddle node, using local dynamical analysis which acted as self-exciting attractors and a separatrix in a global domain.…”
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Who calls the shots in Naomi's life? Reading the Naomi-Ruth story within the African religio-cultural context

“…Such a worldview, in which the Sacred Other, the living and the (living) dead formed an integral whole, can also be observed at critical points in Naomi’s life: when Naomi bid farewell to her daughters-in-law (Rt 1:8-9); Naomi’s confession about Yahweh’s faithfulness to both the living and the dead (Rt 2:20); Naomi’s plan to seek security for Ruth through “levirate” marriage (Rt 3:1), and when she acted as a nurse to Mahlon’s son (Rt 4:5, 16). Basing one’s arguments on the apparent resemblances between the world view in which the narrative of Ruth is embedded and the African (Northern Sotho) world view, how may it be far-fetched to argue that the dead (males) called the shots in Naomi’s life? …”
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“Some Real War Shit. … I Fucking Held the Camera”: Re-implacing Iraq in Roy Scranton’s War Porn (2016) by Barbara Kowalczuk

“…“strange hells” shows how former National Guard soldier Aaron Stojanowski remains the subject of a place, Camp Crawford, an Iraqi detention center where he witnessed and perpetrated acts of torture and abuse. Recalling the human rights violations photographed at Abu Ghraib in 2003, Aaron’s “war porn” triggers re-implacing, that is, remembering and re-experiencing a past place (Casey). …”
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Reputation computation based on new metric in P2P network by BAO Yu1, ZENG Guo-sun1, ZENG Lian-sun3, CHEN Bo1, WANG Wei1

“…For most of P2P file sharing trusted download,the current researches of the evaluation of the trusted peers based on reputation simply rely on the history of interaction and are not paid enough attention on the time factor.The other behaviors like recommendation are also ignored.The attack actions in reputation evaluation were discussed,and the recommender behavior in P2P network was considered separately,which made up for computation based on the interac-tion behavior in computation of reputation.Secondly,for the positive and negative evaluation,different time-decline co-efficient was added in the method to distinguish the malicious node named smart node which acts as a malicious node at times.Simulation experiments show that this proposed method not only increase the good files ratio in P2P download files,but also restrain the collusion in malicious nodes,especially the spy action.…”
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A Protein Sequence Analysis Hardware Accelerator Based on Divergences by Juan Fernando Eusse, Nahri Moreano, Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves de Melo, Ricardo Pezzuol Jacobi

“…Most of the works in the literature focus on the implementation of hardware accelerators that act as a prefilter stage in the comparison process. …”
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Limits of deception in Islamic laws of war: the case of civilian disguises in suicide attacks by Fajri Matahati Muhammadin

“…This article explores whether suicide attacks disguising as civilians constitutes as an act of treason in fiqh al-siyar. It is found that such method of attack is not in itself treasonous therefore not in itself impermissible. …”
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HBT Radii: Comparative Studies on Collision Systems and Beam Energies by Debasish Das

“…We have found interesting similarity in the Rout/Rside ratio with mT across the collision systems while comparing the data for this specific energy zone which is interesting as it acts as a bridge from SPS energy regime to the RHIC energy domain.…”
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A Critical Approach to A Concise Introduction to Mixed Methods Research with Rhetorical Analysis by Mahdi Shaghaghi

“…Then by using Spurr’s (1993) model of rhetoric analysis, I tried to extract sample sentences from important sections of the book that explicitly have rhetorical acts and categorize them. This rhetorical aspect would be the point of departure for a methodological discussion about the pre-assumptions of this structure for research.…”
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Managing Rural Tourism in Corsica: How to Move from Competition to Complementarity. Discussion on the LEADER Program by Caroline Tafani

“…Thus, if, over and above the competition between institutions and the division between them, LEADER takes up the issue of tourism development in its areas of action, we can expect the programme to act as a rallying point for local initiatives and to encourage the emergence of an innovative, structured and legible offer for the destination. …”
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Perioperative Management of a Patient Taking Suboxone® at the Time of Ambulatory Surgery by Shawn H. Malan, Christopher H. Bailey, Narjeet Khurmi

“…Buprenorphine is a unique opioid which acts as a partial μ agonist and ĸ antagonist. These properties make it an effective tool in treating OUD and abuse. …”
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QALYs: The Math Doesn’t Work by Tia G. Sawhney, Angela Dobes, Sirimon O'Charoen

“…A new bill, H.R. 485, the Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act of 2023, was approved by the US House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee that will, if passed, end the practice of using QALYs in all federal programs.^1,2^ Proponents of the ban say that QALYs undervalue the positive effects of therapeutics on people with disabilities.^3^ We share their concerns. …”
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“Relief is a political gesture:” The Jewish Labor Committee’s interventions in war-torn Poland, 1939-1945 by Catherine Collomp

“…The channels of information and transmission by which the JLC acted are described in both cases. The common Bundist political culture shared by both the leaders of the JLC in New York (former political refugees themselves) and the most influential political organizations in the ghetto explains the JLC’s ability to come into contact with leaders of the ghetto and to react immediately to the news of the systematic destruction of the Jewish population. …”
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Does Brand Awareness Influences Purchase Intention? The Mediation Role of Brand Equity Dimensions by Vitor Azzari, Anderson Pelissari

“…Second, it uses the mediating effect of the other dimensions of CBBE (associations, loyalty, and perceived quality) to demonstrate that brand awareness acts as a first step in building brand value for consumers.…”
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Coming Out in Poland by Tomasz Basiuk

“…However, literary coming-out narratives have played a relatively minor role in Polish homoerotic writings while a prominent American gay coming-out novel has not had significant resonance after it was published in Polish translation, suggesting that neither the coming-out story nor the rhetorical act of coming out has been adopted without reservation. …”
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Minimalisme moral et maximalisme éthique chez John Dewey by Michel Fabre

“…Rejecting any idea of Moral Consciousness or Practical Reason as separate faculties, but also ethical Emotivism, he advises ethical debate, an act of common intelligence applied to live together. …”
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Red Ring Nematode, Bursaphelenchus cocophilus (Cobb) Baujard (Nematoda: Secernentea: Tylenchida: Aphelenchina: Aphelenchoidea: Bursaphelechina) formerly Rhadinaphelenchus cocophilu... by Angela S. Brammer, William T. Crow

“…., which is attracted to fresh trunk wounds and acts as a vector for B. cocophilus to uninfected trees. …”
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'Raising children': a character-based approach to residential child care by June Jones

“…This paper will explore a character-based approach to residential child care, where the aim is to develop a child's character so that right action will flow more readily than focusing on the rights and wrongs of individual acts. The aim is not to prescribe a set character that children ought to aim for, but examine how moral character develops and how those with responsibility for the child can aid the developmental process. …”

De l’indépendance politique à l’émancipation culturelle:le rôle de la diplomatie latino-américaine en Europe by Enrique Sánchez Albarracín

“…The goal for these emissaries of independent America, was first a reversal of perspective: ensuring that the new Latin American nations are no longer seen as objects but subjects of world history ; act on the representations and advocate for genuine reciprocity, while affirming a reappropriation of their geographical and cultural.…”
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