On the nature of civilization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“… The article by the medievalist historian presents a critical review of the reports on the nature of civilization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Polish, Russian, German, and Lithuanian historiography based on the definition of civilization by the Polish theorist of history, Feliks Koneczny ("Civilization is a method of arranging communal life"), and proves that this civilization was neither Western-Latin nor Eastern-Byzantine, but, rather, quite an independent one, with its own necessary minimum of European values.   …”
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Dispersal and individual variability: laboratory experiments with the woodlouse Porcellio scaber by Janusz Uchmański, Krzysztof W. Opaliński, Karolina Rau, Alexei V. Uvarov

“…This can be connected with the Brownian way of movement of woodlouse during penetration of surrounding environment or with the arrangement of the experiment in which the costs of dispersal were low.…”
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European UNESCO Geoparks: Introduction to Part II by Michael Benton

“…The second set of 36 articles in this Part cover the long span of geological time from the Triassic to the Quaternary, arranged in chronostratigraphic order. These document some of the most important stages in the history of life, especially focusing on life after the end-Permian mass extinction, as marine and terrestrial ecosystems rebuilt, and the ‘modern-style’ faunas and floras emerged.…”
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Drying and Preserving Plant Materials for Decorative Uses by Sydney Park Brown, Patricia White, Benny Tjia, Marion R. Sheehan

“… Dried and preserved plant materials are popular for home decor. Dried arrangements can preserve the graceful lines, textures, and colors of flowers and foliage with a subtle and gently aged appearance. …”
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Drying and Preserving Plant Materials for Decorative Uses by Sydney Park Brown, Patricia White, Benny Tjia, Marion R. Sheehan

“… Dried and preserved plant materials are popular for home decor. Dried arrangements can preserve the graceful lines, textures, and colors of flowers and foliage with a subtle and gently aged appearance. …”
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Tom, volume e arranjo no chiaroscuro da memória: Sinfonia em branco, de Adriana Lisboa by Regina R. Félix

“…This article shows the parallel between the psychological process of the characters Tomás, Maria Inês and Clarice and the musical, plastic, cinematographic, and literary forms through which they express their gradual awareness in dealing with their traumas. Tone, volume, and arrangement merge with each other. They are configured as appearance and absence, in shadow and light, and in voices that modulate silences and protests. …”
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Restricting Voting Rights in Modern America by Desmond King, Rogers M. Smith

“…Holder ruling invalidating Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is in part a product of efforts to resist further transformations to the traditional American institutional arrangements that have conferred advantages on whites, especially disproportionate political power. …”
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Distributed Fiber Optic Strain Sensing Technology for Monitoring Soil Deformation Induced by Leakage in Buried Water Pipelines: A Model Test Study by Lin Cheng, Yongkang Sun, Zhaohan Wang, Wenqi Gao, Zhuolin Li, Zengguang Xu, Jiang Hu

“…When only one survey line is arranged, it is preferable to place the optical fiber directly above the pipeline. …”
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Retrospective and Prospective Investigations about “Quatrefoil” Erythrocytes in Canine Blood Smears by Alessandra Gavazza, Marianna Ricci, Martina Brettoni, Biancaurora Gugliucci, Anna Pasquini, Daniela Rispoli, Nicola Bernabò, George Lubas

“…Few hypotheses were discussed to explain the origin and meaning of this RBC arrangement.…”
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Parametric study of rider’s comfort in a vehicle with semi-active suspension system under transient road conditions by Arinola Bola Ajayi, Ediketin Ojogho, Surajudeen Adedotun Adewusi, Sunday Joshua Ojolo, Julio Cesar Costa Campos, Antonio Marcos de Oliveira Siqueira

“…This is significant because the transmission of vibration associated with suspension systems are dependent on the frequency spectrum of the road input, and the nature of the suspension system and the vehicle seating arrangement that is producing the vibration. Thus, this study focuses on the discomfort experienced by passengers based on parametric study of vehicle with semi-active suspension system under transient road conditions.  …”
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Numerical Simulation Study on the Distribution Law of Deviatoric Stress of Floor under the Influence of Mining by Hongtao Liu, Tianhong Huo, Yongen Li, Ming Luo, Guangdong Zhou, Zengji He

“…Due to the lack of protective layer mining conditions, we can only arrange the floor gas extraction roadway (FGER) to extract the gas from the overlying coal seam of the FGER to ensure safe production. …”
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Crystalline structures in foams: guided mechanical self-assembly of bubbles in fiber arrays by Marwan Chammouma, Manon Jouanlanne, Antoine Egelé, Damien Favier, Jean Farago, Aurélie Hourlier-Fargette

“…Producing crystalline structures requires specific care: for example, Kelvin foams—periodic assemblies of bubbles arranged on a body-centered cubic lattice—are a typical example of a structure which is challenging to obtain experimentally, despite it being a local minimum of energy. …”
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When Silence Speaks: Public Service Innovation, Village Authority, and the Negotiation of Traditional Justice in Rural Indonesia’s Youth Protection System by Erna Setijaningrum, Antun Mardiyanta, Bintoro Wardiyanto, Suhaimi Abd Samad

“…These institutional arrangements position villages as sites of public service innovation at the intersection of competing normative orders, especially regarding youth protection standards and cultural practice maintenance. …”
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The Late 1980s HIV Outbreak in the Southeast of Soviet Russia: Soviet Government and Its Policy against the Epidemic (The Case of Kalmykia) by Margarita V. Baduginova

“…The study provides a first insight into the official Soviet policy and anti-HIV nationwide arrangements (1985–1990), and reviews the 1988–1989 HIV outbreak in the southeast of the RSFSR. …”
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Analysis of the Neurogenesis: Prepattern gene network сontrolling the first stage in Drosophila melanogaster bristle pattern development by D. P. Furman, T. A. Bukharina

“…The microchaetes (hairs) are numerous and arranged in perfect rows along the body. The macrochaetes (bristles) are rather few and are strictly positioned on the head and notum, being referred to as bristle pattern. …”
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Differentiated Regional (Dis)Integration Post Brexit by M. V. Strezhneva

“…Each of them can include a wide array of structural arrangements, some differentiation dynamism, different levels of centralization in separate domains, as well as certain (variable) numbers of participants in distinct arrangements. …”
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Trichoscopic Features of Lichen Planopilaris versus Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia: A Systematic Review by Shreya K. Gowda, Enzo Errichetti, Biswanath Behera, Vishal Thakur

“…Shiny white area was seen in both groups in the inactive stages. The target arrangement of blue-grey dots, milky-red areas, and irregularly arranged white fibrotic dots were seen in late LPP, and black dots, lonely hairs, and loss of vellus hairs were detected in the later stages of FFA. …”
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Beyond periodicity: tailoring Tamm resonances in plasmonic nanohole arrays for multimodal lasing by Shadman Shahid, Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder

“…In this work, we modify the hole sizes and arrangements of the metal NHA and examine the effects on EOT and Tamm resonances. …”
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Contributions to the taxonomy of Dichotomius Hope, 1838 (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Dichotomiini): Description of a new subgenus and redefinition of Dichotomius sensu stricto spec... by Jorge Armando Arias-Buriticá, Fernando Zagury Vaz-de-Mello

“…The subgenus Dichotomius s. str., in its new, more restricted sense, is delimited to include approximately 73 species arranged into, 12 species groups, plus two incertae sedis species. …”
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Effects of Landslides on the Displacement of a Bridge Pile Group Located on a High and Steep Slope by Y. F. Zhang, J. Li, W. Li, J. M. Li, H. Y. Liu

“…In addition, using a pile arrangement with a larger pile diameter and lower number of piles is more beneficial for controlling the horizontal displacement of the bridge foundation. …”
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