Mechanical Properties of Scrap Tire Crumbs-Clayey Soil Mixtures Determined by Laboratory Tests by ShanShan Li, Dayong Li

“…The results indicate that it is possible for scrap tire crumbs used to improve clayey soil, which is suitable to act as a fill material.…”
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Conversions to Catholicism among Fin de Siècle Writers: A Spiritual and Literary Genealogy by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…The Tractarian theologian’s religion may at first sight have little in common with the aesthetic religion of the fin de siècle poets, and yet his view of the act of faith as founded on the senses, the emotions and the imagination was certainly an element that they were keen to appropriate, and his focus on the human conscience as the centre of religious experience is implicitly present in the solitary and highly subjective piety that emerges in the works of Gray, Johnson and Dowson.…”
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Ghanaian Settlers in Orimedu: Oju Ota, Gender, and Christianity in a Coastal Fishing Community by Adebayo Adewusi

“…However, by the 1980s and 1990s, when it became obvious that this arrangement made the local women very wealthy, the Ghanaians sought to recapture some of the profit by inviting their own wives to Orimedu to act as fish sellers and traders. This led to a more permanent presence of the Ghanaians in Orimedu, and eventually to the establishment – and acceptance – of Christian churches in the locality. …”
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Narrative Strategies and Intermedial Devices in Gabriel Josipovici’s In the fertile Land by Mário Semião

“…The study of this four-page story focuses on how the structure of the text not only incorporates a violation of narrative levels which acts as a metafictional strategy, but also on how that same disruption is linked with Karlheinz Stockhausen’s musical techniques. …”
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Cyber security and need to change the model of monitoring fraud and financial crime by Radić Nikola

“…Finally, hyperconnection multiplies the speed of information flow and reshapes the way people think and act, influencing the nature of a bank's relationship with its customers and other stakeholders. …”
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Företags försvar vid anklagelser om brott – betydelsen av den nordiska kontexten by Janne Flyghed, Isabel Schoultz

“…The current paper analyzes the strategies employed by these two businesses when defending themselves against allegations of criminal acts. Drawing on Stanley Cohen’s (2009) theoretical work on processes of denial and neutralization techniques, we have identified four main techniques used by the two companies to deflect allegations of criminal wrongdoing: literal denial; denial of knowledge; condemning the condemners; and appealing to a higher loyalty. …”
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Effect of Surface Morphology and Elemental Composition on the Magnetization Behaviour of Electrodeposited NiFe Films by Musaab Salman Sultan

“…This was attributed to the differences in the film’s elemental composition or the surface variation, which can act as pinning centers during the domain wall reversal. …”
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Influence Factors on General Contractor Capability in the Context of Transforming China by Jie Yang, Hetong Yuan, Lin Zhang

“…These research findings can thus act as a practical reference for future research attempting to provide technological and managerial solutions for promoting the development of general contracting.…”
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An Analysis of the Influential Factors of Violations in Urban-Rural Passenger Transport Drivers by Yun Xiao, Haoyun Liu, Zijun Liang

“…The research results can act as a reference for improving urban-rural traffic safety.…”
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Local changes in potassium ions regulate input integration in active dendrites. by Malthe S Nordentoft, Naoya Takahashi, Mathias S Heltberg, Mogens H Jensen, Rune N Rasmussen, Athanasia Papoutsi

“…Our results suggest that local, activity-dependent [K+]o changes in dendrites may act as a "volume knob" that determines the impact of synaptic inputs on feature-tuned neuronal firing.…”
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Management competencies at different organizational levels: A study of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences by Parisa Yoshari, Maryam Naghshi, Saeed Musavi, Rahim Khodayari-Zarnaq

“…The study found the competencies managers need to act well. By improving these competencies and communicating better, managers can increase organizational commitment and achieve goals.…”
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Significance of Persistent Inflammation in Respiratory Disorders Induced by Nanoparticles by Yasuo Morimoto, Hiroto Izumi, Etsushi Kuroda

“…In allergic responses, nanoparticles act as Th2 adjuvants to activate Th2 immune responses such as activation of eosinophil and induction of IgE. …”
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A Sense of Time(ly) Seeing in DeLillo’s Later Novels by Stefania Iliescu

“…Readerly involvement resides, I argue, in the reader-cum-viewer position and the tension that develops from the interplay between the characters’ embodied act of seeing and the readers’ responses in relation to the narrative framing of the scene; the reading experience thus acquires emotional relevance. …”
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The BRICS in Southern Africa by Caroline Chagas de Assis

“…As a result, BRICs started their relations with Africa differently, but they acted in similar sectors. The fellow paper pursues to analyze the Brazilian, Russian, Indian and Chinese (called here as BRICs) insertion in Southern Africa, highlighting the main convergence sectors and divergences between them. …”
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Some objective factors influencing delinquent behavior of regional youth in the 2000s by V. S. Yuzhaninov

“…In order to study the latter and establish the existence of a relationship between them and youth crime, we have selected the most common criminal acts committed in the youth environment such as theft and robbery, as well as the most numerous crimes committed by young people against life and health such as infliction of minor and moderate harm to health. …”
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Science on the Summit: Exploring Scientific Tourism Through the Lens of Eighteenth Century Mountain Ascents by Ion Mihailescu, Simon Dumas Primbault, Jérôme Baudry

“…Second, the scientific publications which described these experiments acted as guides to the summit for its readers, as shown by the example of the first ascents of Mont Buet by Jean-André Deluc, Marc-Théodore Bourrit, and Horace Bénédict de Saussure. …”
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Event-Triggered Bipartite Formation Control for Switched Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems with Function Constraints on States by Yingxue Hou, Shu Li

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Screening of potential GCMS derived antimigraine compound from the leaves of Abrus precatorius Linn to target “calcitonin gene related peptide” receptor using in silico analysis... by Parthasarathy V., Ajay Kumar T.V

“…The results showed that five lead compounds of A. precatorius may act as good inhibitors for migraine headache and the compounds can be re-designed and synthesized for better antimigraine activity. …”
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O açaí no contexto do território e da territorialidade ribeirinha na Amazônia brasileira by Rosana Torrinha Silva de Farias, Daguinete Maria Chaves Brito

“…The big question, which is at the center of the investigation, is to unveil how the açaí acts as an element in the formation of the riverside territory and territoriality? …”
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IL-1β and Allergy: Focusing on Its Role in Allergic Rhinitis by Han-Rui Wang, Shi-Zhuang Wei, Xiao-Yu Song, Yao Wang, Wen-Bin Zhang, Chao Ren, Ya-Kui Mou, Xi-Cheng Song

“…Previous studies have shown that interleukin-1β (IL-1β) acts as a key cytokine to participate in and promote the occurrence and development of allergic diseases. …”
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