Persistent Topological Laplacians—A Survey by Xiaoqi Wei, Guo-Wei Wei

“…Persistent topological Laplacians constitute a new class of tools in topological data analysis (TDA). …”
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Viscoelastic Flow through an Axisymmetric Contraction Using the Grid-by-Grid Inversion Method by H. M. Park

“…In this method, the hyperbolic constitutive equation is split such that the term for the convective transport of stress tensor is treated as a source which is updated iteratively. …”
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Study on the Vector Quadrilateral Isoparametric Shell Element with Shear Deformation by Zhen Wang, Yang Zhao, Zhi Ding, Huiping Tang

“…Then, the bilinear elastoplastic constitutive of material is introduced into the vector finite shell element, and the nonlinear effect of the material is realized based on the integral method along the thickness. …”
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Duncan’s Open Form and Cagean Intermedia: The Practice of “Theatre” After Black Mountain by Edward Alexander

“…I examine the postwar avant-garde as a cultural formation in which Duncan’s serial open-form compositions and Cagean event-based work constitute branches of a single sensibility whose root can be intimated in the watchword “theatre” that haunts this period’s work.…”
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El ensayo filosófico en lengua española: ¿una respuesta unificada al problema de la modernidad y del progreso? by Ricardo Tejada

“…A brief review of some texts of 20th century Spanish and Latinamerican essayists shows to what extent criticizing progress is recurrent and constitutes a way of proposing new forms of modernity which are not under any dictatorship of erroneus or incomplete modernizations. …”
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A Stored Products Pest (no official common name), Oryzaephilus acuminatus (Insecta: Coleoptera: Silvanidae) by Michael C. Thomas, Robert E. Woodruff

“…They were identified by the senior author as Oryzaephilus acuminatus Halstead, constituting the first United States record. Recommendations were immediately made to fumigate the area where the seed was stored in order to prevent establishment of the pest. …”
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Moradores de cortiço, capitães da areia e cobradores urbanos: personagens excluídos da construção da ordem nacional by Eliana Kuster

“…We tried to investigate the construction of an ideal of nation and which are the desired features for the composition of this national order, that is constituted as a factor of Brazilian identity. We looked support in the Brazilian literature, used in dialogue with scholars who are dealing with the question under historical and social focuses, through works such as O cortiço, by Aluízio Azevedo (1890), Capitães da areia, by Jorge Amado (1937), and the shot story “O cobrador”, by Rubem Fonseca (1979). …”
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The Cultural Economy Moment? by Flew Terry

“…While work undertaken in cultural studies has contributed to these developments, the development of neo-liberalism as a meta-concept in critical theory constitutes a substantive barrier to more sustained engagement between cultural studies and economics, as it rests upon a caricature of economic discourse. …”
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Les mécanismes législatifs de l’autoritarisme algérien face au hirak : entre répression de la mobilisation et prévention de toute organisation du mouvement by Massensen Cherbi

“…In addition, Ordinance No. 21-08 of 8 June 2021 more broadly and severely criminalized the demands of the movement, extending the qualification of terrorist act and sabotage to the fact of “striving or inciting, by any means, to access power or change the system of governance by non-constitutional means” (Penal Code, art. 87 bis, para. 14).…”
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Singing and Sounding the Sacred – the Function of Religious Songs and Hymns in the Public Sphere by Elsabé C. Kloppers

“…I depart from the premise that the singing of hymns in the public sphere constitutes a form of religion lived in public. When the singing is reflected upon and discussed in public, also in social media, it can be seen as a form of public theology. …”
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FEATURING THE SECOND REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA: THE END OF CULTURATI AND THE RISE OF THE POSTMODERN by Marius Povilas Povilas Šaulauskas

“…Is it the intrusion of the Postmodern, which constitutes the main source of problems she today encounters as well as the conceptual key to understand the ongoing transformations of the "unhandy" post-communist habitat? …”
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Ts’akiel. Vestidos rituales, prácticas de transfiguración y temporalidades superpuestas en la fiesta del k’in tajimol (Chenalhó y Polhó, Chiapas) by Rocío Noemí Martínez G.

“…The purpose of this article is to analyze the textiles (woven and embroidered), artifacts and iconography that characterize so-called ts’akiel ritual garments during the Tsotsil people’s K’in Tajimol festival, which takes place in Chenalhó and Polhó (respectively a constitutional municipality and an autonomous municipality in Chiapas, Mexico, which are compared here). …”
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Discourse-level structuring of information in narrative:Signalling structural, interactional and cognitive shifts by Tuija Virtanen

“…In each pair/gradient of concepts one member/pole – “theme”, “comment”, and “new” – is argued to constitute the Figure, against the (necessary) Ground of the other. …”
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Normal Stress Differences and Yield Stresses in Attractive Particle Networks by David I. Verrelli, Adam R. Kilcullen

“…With this foundation, experimental observations of normal stress differences in some suspensions and colloidal systems are surveyed, along with constitutive models that allow for normal stress differences to arise prior to yielding. …”
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KANT ON JUSTICE by Seniye Tilev

“…Finally, I state that because moral purposiveness of reason demands realization of a system of justice, Kant sets constituting a civil condition and global justice as a duty towards which we all required to work as a moral duty.…”
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Inscription and interpretation of text: a cultural hermeneutic examination of virtual community by Gary Burnett, Michael H. Dickey, Michelle M. Kazmer, Katherine M. Chudoba

“…People engaging in electronic exchanges can create communities--places with socially constituted norms, values, and expectations. We adopt an anthropological perspective, yoked with a methodology based in hermeneutics, to illustrate how language use both reflects and influences culture in a virtual community. …”
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Introduction: Views from the Shoreline: Community, Trade and Religion in Coastal Yorubaland and the Western Niger Delta by Insa Nolte, Olukoya Ogen

“…This article argues that the study of the coast, like that of other borderlands, affirms that both mixing and the assertion of difference are constitutive of the political economy of the area. …”
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The Importance of Being Honest: Free Spirits and Idiosyncrasy in Nietzsche by Zachary Stevens

“…The coupling of Dionysus and Apollo has to be replaced with Dionysus and Ariadne because, using key terms from Deleuze's Nietzsche, the sense and value of critique is generated from a labyrinthine, Dionysian meaning as will to power and Ariadne's thread as evaluation based on the eternal recurrence, constituting the idiosyncrasy and the free spirits, respectively. …”
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Diagnosis and treatment of portal hypertension in children (Part II: treatment) by Rafael Trinchet Soler, Yanet Hidalgo Marrero, Luis Marcano Sanz, Ramón Villamil Martínez

“…Undoubtedly the gastrointestinal bleeding due to esopagheal and gastroesophageal varices, erosive gastritis and peptic ulcers constitute the most difficult and dangerous challenge for doctors and patients. …”
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Sztuczne zapłodnienie z perspektywy bioetyki rodziny by Mariusz Ciszek

“…In this publication I am going to present the problem of artificial insemination, which constitutes an integral part of the bioethics of a family, the main criterion of moral appreciation is a right of a child.…”
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