Due ritratti in cera in cerca di autore by Andrea Daninos

“…Thanks to documentation hitherto not linked to them, the author proposes to attribute the busts to Filippo Scandellari, the first artist to create realistic wax portrait busts in his birthplace of Bologna. …”
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Nasobiliary Drainage by Paul Kortan

“…Placement of nasobiliary tubes has now become a widely accepted method for therapeutic drainage and instillation of solvents into the biliary tree. The author routinely uses a 300 cm long, 7 or 10 French, specially performed Teflon catheter, which adapts to the anatomy of the duodenum and bile ducts, for the following indications: decompression of obstructed bile duct in acute suppurative cholangitis; prevention of stone impaction after endoscopic sphincterotomy; sequential cholangiography; biliary fistula; instillation of solvents for common bile duct scones; local radiotherapy of biliary malignancies; aspiration of bile for chemical and bacteriological studies; and drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts. …”
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Potential Breeding Habitat for Forest Birds Suburbs by Natalie Pegg, Mark Hostetler

“… Studies report that urban areas may not provide breeding habitat for interior-forest birds, but some residential neighborhoods do have sufficient vegetation to serve as breeding habitat for forest birds and even interior-forest specialists. The authors investigated the occurrence of three interior-forest specialists, pileated woodpeckers, summer tanagers, and northern parulas, during the breeding season in two suburban neighborhoods of Gainesville, Florida, and found that all three species occurred in residential neighborhoods consistently throughout the breeding season and were most often detected in local areas with dense vegetation from the ground to the canopy. …”
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Analysis of key trends and ways to improve the marketing activities of domestic manufacturers of municipal equipment by I. Yu. Okolnishnikova, E. V. Sumarokova, E. V. Krasnov

“…It is proved that they have a high market potential and objective prerequisites for import substitution, but they need to improve marketing support. The authors proposed and justified a set of measures to improve marketing activities, including development of financial instruments to support customers, expansion of the product line, improvement of distribution strategies, optimisation of call centers and the development of exports using state support tools.…”
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L’imagerie touarègue entre littérature savante et littérature populaire by Paul Pandolfi

“…This article is primarily based on the analysis of the stereotypical representation of Tuaregs in the “scholarly” literature of the colonial era, with particular references to two authors who have been instrumental in its development: Henri Duveyrier and Emile-Felix Gautier. …”
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The Body of Chagas Disease Vectors by Jean-Pierre Dujardin

“…This brief review over nearly three decades is organized here according to the body organs considered by the authors.…”
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The municipalities’ environmental situation assessment as a basis for customizing strategies by P. S. Trifonova

“…The article presents the author’s approach to assessing the tension of the ecological situation of the territories, which makes it possible to identify the most acute environmental problems. …”
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Psychological service of the university: a range of problems and directions of development by G. A. Velichko, G. Yu. Lizunova, I. A. Taskina

“…In addition, the students, especially undergraduates, being experiencing the impact of the environment, need support from the psychological service. The authors substantiate the need for further development of the psychological service of a higher educational institution, identify a range of problems relevant to the psychological services of universities. …”
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Les ambiguïtés du paysage forestier des Landes de Gascogne by Aude Pottier

“…On one hand, this last characteristic is often ignored by the public, while on the other hand, authorities gives a particular care to its protection. …”
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Features of event content and evaluation of significant life situations in persons with different levels of personal maturity by N. P. Andryushkova

“…Based on the results of the study, the author points out significant differences in the experience and description of life events as well as the definition of significant life situations among subjects with different levels of personal maturity.…”
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Viktor Denisenko’s Novel The Vilnius Apocalypse (2022) in the Context of the Christian Apocalyptic Tradition by Aleksej Burov, Diana Ickovič-Zenovič

“…The study suggests that the author makes extensive use of the elements of the Christian apocalyptic narrative, which undergo a transformation in the process of reception in terms of both form and content. …”
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Extension of simultaneous Diophantine approximation algorithm for partial approximate common divisor variants by Wonhee Cho, Jiseung Kim, Changmin Lee

“…In order to proceed, first the variants of the PACD problem are classified and how to extend the SDA algorithm for each is suggested. Technically, the authors show that a short vector of some lattice used in the SDA algorithm gives an algebraic relation between secret parameters. …”
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Iran’s Past Future: A Critique on the Book Iranian Ministry and Bureaucracy (Vezarat & Divansalari) in the Islamic Era by Morteza Bahrani

“…In this article, by reviewing Iranian Ministry and Bureaucracy (Vezarat & Divansalari) in the Islamic Era (written by Sadeq Sajjadi), I have critiqued our vicious history with regard to the author's approach to validation of the past, and have expressed some critical arguments in a suspicious hermeneutic method. …”
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Livin’ Da Dream? Playing Black, Illusions of Meritocracy, and Narrative Constraints in Sports Video Game Story Modes by Michael Fuchs

“…This article explores the racial politics of these games, in particular as experienced by a white player such as the author. Primarily focusing on narrative and gameplay, the article discusses how a white player’s control over black bodies confronts them with their racial normativity.…”
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Introducing and Reviewing the Book The Developments of the Arabic Language from the Beginning up to Now with Statistical Stylistics Approach by Zahra Karamzadegan

“…On the other hand, using shortcut solutions such as “trust in experience and reading text”, “paying attention to the semantic functions of linguistic forms”, “browsing syntactic books such as Jammu al-Darrow and Qatari al-Wadi al-Sadi's description” and “Referrals that collect syntactic evidence” can be extracted from high-frequency linguistic forms, and necessarily, as the respected author asserts, using the statistical method of time stylization is not the only solution.…”
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Distributed, layered and reliable computing nets to represent neuronal receptive fields by Arminda Moreno-Díaz, Gabriel de Blasio, Moreno-Díaz Jr.

“…To show their performancein the analysis of different non-trivial neuron-like structures, we use a computer tool specifically programmed by the authors to that effect. This tool is also extended to studythe effect of lesions on the whole performance of our model nets.…”
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Capsule endoscopy: New Technology That is Here to Stay by Robert Enns

“…CE identified more beads (median of six) than PE (median of three), with 64% sensitivity compared with 37% sensitivity for PE. The authors concluded that this new method of assessing the small intestine was superior to PE.…”
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Russian University Teachers’ Ethical Culture Regulation by A. A. Maksimenko, O. S. Deyneka, L. N. Dukhanina, D. V. Krylova

“…Based on a review of publications of Russian and foreign researchers, the authors highlight the most significant topics on the deontology of university life. …”
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A modernidade vista desde o Sul Global: três contribuições teóricas recentes by Marcos de Jesus Oliveira

“…Among those debates, the present work intends to present the contributions by Walter Mignolo, Kuan-Hsing Chen e Salman Sayyid, whose thought has set a series of theoretical problems not covered by European theories of modernity. Together, the authors reveal new ways to think a cartography about modernity, i.e., the diagrams of forces involved in its rhetoric.…”
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Paysages, usages et images de la nature dans une grande ville du Sud : quels enjeux à Antananarivo (Madagascar) ?  by Catherine Fournet-Guérin

“…In its last part, the article studies the representations of nature by public authorities who develop policies for the preservation of urban natural spaces with the aim of changing the negative image of the city. …”
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