AUDIT OF INCOME FROM LOCAL FEES IN SELECTED COMMUNES OF THE POMERANIAN PROVINCE IN POLAND by Cezary Szydłowski

“…The local and spa fees constitute a small share in the total income of the budgets of the surveyed municipalities. …”
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The Establishment of Ramadan Principality by Fatma Akkuş Yiğit

“…Ramadan Principality is a Turkish state which was established in Cukurova, having Adana as center, in 14th century. Uc Ok Turcoman, constituting this state, were Turkish raider lords who served Mamluks from the beginning of the establishment. …”
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Can Highway Networks Promote Productivity? Evidence from China by Yumei Lin, Junpei Huang

“…The total mileage of highways in China ranks first in the world and constitutes an important symbol of China’s modernization. …”
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Shepherd on Meaning, Reference, and Perception by David Landy

“…I find that Shepherd is what we would nowadays call a meaning holist: she holds that the meaning of any natural-kind term is constituted by its place in a system of definitions, which system specifies the causal roles of the objects its terms name. …”
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A potential photo-protective, antioxidant function for DMSO in marine phytoplankton. by Brandon J McNabb, Philippe D Tortell

“…The marine compound dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is ubiquitous in the world's surface ocean, constituting one of the largest sources of reduced organic sulfur in seawater. …”
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Study on Nonlinear Damage Creep Model for Rocks under Cyclic Loading and Unloading by Liangliang Zhang, Xiaojian Wang

“…The differential damage constitutive equations of the proposed creep model under one-dimensional and three-dimensional stress states are derived based on the creep mechanics and elasticity theory. …”
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Study of Ground Vibration Site Effects on Substation in Inhomogeneous Strata by Jingqiu Yang, Quanjun Zhu, Xinming Li, Jinrui Zhang, Xiaolin Li

“…Based on the Mohr–Coulomb elastic-plastic constitutive model, the finite element models of the soft soil site and engineering site were established, and the seismic responses of the soft soil site with and without backfill were analyzed. …”
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The Real-Time-Based Assessment of the Microbial Killing by the Antimicrobial Compounds of Neutrophils by J. T. Atosuo, E.-M. Lilius

“…This E. coli-lux emitted, without any addition of substrate, constitutive bioluminescence (BL), which correlated to the number of viable bacterial cells. …”
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A Phenomenology of Closed Society in “The Drowned Girl” by Antanas Vienuolis: Anthropological Profiles by Jūratė Levina

“…Such mechanisms are foregrounded on three planes: (1) social, of the rules of relationships between people, which in the story constitute a hierarchal system of power relations modelled on the structure of the traditional family of the agricultural holding, (2) significative, comprising sense-making discourses (traditional customs and Christianity) whereby the culture, in this story, configures the world without transcending corporeally perceivable horizons of the actually lived present, and (3) anthropological, where sociocultural praxis and self-perception are grounded in the essentially unhuman nature which the culture tries to assimilate and erase without recognising its essential otherness. …”
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Urban Agriculture as a Catalyst for Revitalization Processes in Residential Districts of European Cities. The Case of Anderlecht, Roeselare and Romainville by Kleszcz Justyna

“…The article presented herein constitutes a research summary on urban, multi-purpose facilities that combine commercial, service and industrial functions with the concept of commercial urban agriculture and residential housing, which came into existence in the second decade of the 21st century as one of the forms of revitalization of neglected housing and industrial districts. …”
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Implementation of Virtual Crack Closure Technique for Damaged Composite Plates Using Higher-Order Layerwise Model by Kwang S. Woo, Jae S. Ahn

“…In assumed displacement fields, strain-displacement relations and three-dimensional constitutive equations of layers are obtained by combination of two- and one-dimensional shape functions. …”
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Mathematical analysis and modeling of DNA segregation mechanisms by Bashar Ibrahim

“…The results provide systems-level insights into mitotic transition and demonstrate that mathematical analysis constitutes a powerful tool for investigation of the dynamic properties of complex biomedical systems.…”
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CHRISTOPANGANISM: A RELIGION IN SEARCH OF RELEVANCE OR A CONTEXTUALIZED CHRISTIANITY IN NIGERIA? by Amos Francis Dike

“… The African belief in ancestral curses and witchcraft/witches constitutes a constant and permanent source of fear and anxiety to most Christians. …”
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GENETIC VARIABILITY OF SPRING COMMON WHEAT VARIETIES IN ALUMINUM TOLERANCE by E. M. Lisitsyn, O. S. Amunova

“…Moderately tolerant varieties constituted about 63 %, and highly tolerant, about 25,5 %. …”
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De Masaccio à Stalker: pour une esthétique du seuil et de son franchissement  by Sylvie Castets

“…Masaccio’s fresco “The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden” of 1425 constitutes a decisive step in the treatment of the space of representation. …”
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Imaginaire et différ(a)nce : générateurs de paysages by Rita Occhiuto

“…Thus emerge narratives and experiences producing images/drawings which convey characters, languages and tensions and constitute the creative and innovative force of landscape projects which consider what exists as a field of forces in action – therefore a territory in movement. …”
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Analysis of Hate Speech in the Perspective of Changes to the Electronic Information and Transaction Law by Defril Hidayat, Hengki Firmanda, Mahmud Hibatul Wafi

“…It further used normative legal study which included the process of identifying legal rules, principles, and doctrines to address the constitutional issues. The results showed that the amendments from the 2008 ITE Law to the 2016 ITE Law did not adequately the basic problems. …”
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Die Tweetoringkerk as een van die N.G.-Gemeentes van Bloemfontein gedurende die Anglo-Boereoorlog 1899-1902 by R. M. Britz

“…In the Boer Republics the church and Christian faith played a constitutive role. The article thus makes a significant contribution to the recent research on the Anglo-Boer War. …”
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Happiness Issue – Moral Aspects of its Biochemical Enhancement by Zlatica Plašienková, Martin Farbák

“…The search for happiness is something that constitutes human existence from its beginning, and even though people have achieved unimaginable progress in science and technologies, they still have not found the secret of being happy. …”
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Electron Number Density and Coherence Length of Boson-Fermion Pair in HTSC by Abel Mukubwa

“…A Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) of a nonzero momentum Cooper pair constitutes a composite boson or simply a boson. Previously, it has been shown that the quantum coherence of the two-component BEC (boson and fermion condensates) is controlled by plasmons where <1% of plasmon energy mediates the charge pairing but most of the plasmon energy is used to overcome the modes that compete against superconductivity such as phonons, charge density waves, antiferromagnetism, and damping effects. …”
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