Le vocabulaire des directions cardinales dans les dialectes du continuum cri-innu-naskapi-atikamekw by Vincent Collette

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L’ attirail d’un magicien rangé dans une cave de Chartres/Autricum by Dominique Joly, Richard Gordon, Jonathan Simon, William Van Andringa, Stéphane Willerval

“…Iron and copper-alloy pieces and bone hinges make possible the reconstruction of a casket, a cupboard and probably one or two chests.The text of the turibulum is inscribed from the top to the foot, on four columns divided by vertical lines, each one corresponding to a cardinal direction. It’s an invocation to the omnipotentia numina for their custos and one of the few beneficial magical texts discovered in the Roman world, which mentions a Roman citizen of the Carnutum civitas, C. …”
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Entre rutinas cotidianas y eventos extraordinarios: las construcciones de conceptos temporales en la sociedad maya prehispánica by Takeshi Inomata

“…With the development of maize agriculture during the Middle Preclassic, E-Group assemblages in the Maya area and related ritual deposits came to be tied more closely to the movements of the sun and the symbolism of cardinal directions. These data indicate that social practices shaped the construction of symbolic and temporal concepts associated with the architectural complexes. …”
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Statement of the Problem of Determining the Technical Appearance and Design Characteristics of Multi-Apartment Residential Buildings Based on the Expert Systems Method by Alexander A. Merkulov, Yury N. Razoumny, Olga A. Saltykova, Ivan V. Stepanyan

“…To solve this problem, structural optimization is used, which includes determining the number of elevators, the height of the building and the number of floors, orienting the building to the cardinal directions, determining the parameters of engineering communications and the investment attractiveness of new housing. …”
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Observations of the Biology and Ecology of the Black-Winged Termite, Odontotermes formosanus Shiraki (Termitidae: Isoptera), in Camphor, Cinnamomum camphora (L.) (Lauraceae) by Arthur G. Appel, Xing Ping Hu, Jinxiang Zhou, Zhongqi Qin, Hongyan Zhu, Xiangqian Chang, Zhijing Wang, Xianqin Liu, Mingyan Liu

“…Mud tubes faced all cardinal directions; most (60%) trees had multiple tubes at all directions. …”
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Population Distribution of Rats (Rattus argentiventer) and the Damage Intensity on Rice and Other Crops in Pleret, Yogyakarta, Indonesia by RR Rukmowati Brotodjojo, Ikhsan Lazuardi, Antik Suprihanti

“…Crop damage outside TBS was observed using the line transect method in the 4 cardinal directions with a distance of 250m, 500m, and 750m from TBS. …”
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Direction-Specific Signatures of Sport Participation in Center of Pressure Profiles of Division I Athletes by Stephen M. Glass, Scott E. Ross

“…# Background Descriptive and comparative studies of human postural control generally report effects for component or resultant dimensions of a measured signal, which may obscure potentially important information related to off-cardinal directionality. Recent work has demonstrated highly specific balance behavior that is often not easily reconciled with conventional theories of postural control…”
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Infestation and damage status assessment of white mango scale (Aulacaspis tubercularis) insect at boloso sore and boloso bombe districts of Wolaita Zone South Ethiopia by Andualem Alemayehu, Zerhun Tomas

“…Geographic location and ten samples of mango leaf were collected from four cardinal directions per tree of each stop for examining the infestation and severity status of WMS. …”
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