Cambios en la producción y consumo de viandas en Cuba by Norma Helen Juárez

“…The focus of analysis was the use of "viandas", a term constituting a food group composed of various roots, tubers, rhizomes, banana and squash of the genuses Maníhot, discorea, Xanthosoma, ipomoea, solanum, colocasia, musa y cucúrbita. …”
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Integrated Experimental and Numerical Comparison of Different Approaches for Planar Biaxial Testing of a Hyperelastic Material by Andrea Avanzini, Davide Battini

“…Planar biaxial testing has been applied to a variety of materials to obtain relevant information for mechanical characterization and constitutive modeling in presence of complex stress states. …”
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Revisiting ECB’s Technocratic Legitimacy: No Longer Fit‐for‐Purpose? by Dimitrios Argyroulis, Nikolas Vagdoutis

“…This article revisits the technocratic model of legitimacy that the European Central Bank (ECB) has enjoyed since its early period, by exploring the Monetary Policy Strategy statements that constitute the “comprehensive framework” guiding the Bank’s operational decisions. …”
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Friedrich Hölderlin or Emanuele Severino? The Sacral Dimension of Nature in the Context of Modern Technology by Andrzej Kobyliński

“…It is a space inhabited by the sacred. Nature constitutes the sacred All, beyond which nothing else exists. …”
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THE IMPOVERISHED AND THEIR ENTITLEMENT TO ADEQUATE HOUSING: A SYNTHETIC ANALYSIS by DAVID KUMIJE, ABUBAKAR ZUBAIRU AGUYE

“…Shelter is a crucial key among the basic necessities of life, and it is one of the fundamental rights recognized by many constitutions worldwide. Content analysis of relevant legal instruments and literature was employed as a research methodology. …”
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Atmospheric Brown Carbon: Sources, Optical Properties, and Chromophore Composition by Ashmeet Kaur Alang, Shankar G. Aggarwal

“…Abstract Brown carbon (BrC) constitutes a significant portion of organic carbon (OC) and exerts a substantial influence on air quality, atmospheric chemical processes, and the impact on climate dynamics. …”
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Voice Quality in British English. Its Nature, Functions and Applications by Stephan Wilhelm

“…On a sociolinguistic level, we give evidence that, in some cases at least, voice quality constitutes a reliable marker of geographical or social origins. …”
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Game Play Schemas: From Player Analysis to Adaptive Game Mechanics by Craig A. Lindley, Charlotte C. Sennersten

“…Predesigned schema models are knowledge representations constituting anticipated or desired learned cognitive outcomes of play. …”
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Static and Dynamic Compression Performances of Hybrid Fiber-Reinforced Lightweight Aggregate Concrete by Yan Zhou, Ming-Gao Chen

“…Based on the statistical damage theory, the compressive damage constitutive model of fiber LAC is established; fiber improves the ductility and energy absorption capacity of LAC and shows better impact resistance. …”
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Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge Levels, Risk Perceptions and Intentions to Use Renewable Energy: A Structural Equation Model by Mehmet Demirbag, Sirin Yilmaz

“… In today’s world, energy consumption constitutes a topic on countries’ main agendas. In parallel with the military, technological and scientific developments associated with the increasing population, countries are generating policies that highlight energy sources that play a part in global competition. …”
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Once more on musical topics and style analysis. A critical examination of Agawu’s analysis of the introduction to Beethoven’s Pathetic Sonata by Ana Stefanovic

“…Subsequently, the question may be asked, “What constitutes a musical topic/topos?” If it is supposed that it represents a sign-function (Umberto Eco), what is a minimal entity that is sufficient to be referred to as a topic/topos? …”
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Silent Protesters or Acceptors? The Reaction of the Russian-speakers to the Removal of the Soviet Monuments in Latvia and Estonia after Russia’s Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine* by Aleksandra Kuczyńska-Zonik

“… For a long time the approach of the both two Baltic states to the Soviet heritage was formed by: (1) international and bilateral agreements which obliged states to protect monuments and memorial sites of the Soviet Army as well as (2) numerous Russian-speaking community for whom the Soviet statues constitute its cultural identity. The situation has significantly changed due to Russia’s aggressive policy against Ukraine, when the authorities made several attempts to remove the Soviet monuments. …”
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Optimal Approaches for Measuring Tongue-Pressure Functional Reserve by Catriona M. Steele

“…Reduced FR is thought to constitute a risk for developing functional swallowing impairments. …”
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Análise de um empreendimento de economia solidária sob a ótica da sociologia das ausências e das emergências by Marília Veríssimo Veronese

“…However, they seek possibilities of a new beginning, showing that the field presents emancipatory potentiality, where collective can permit the subjects particularization, which can be recognized and constituted by themselves.…”
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The Crisis of Managerial Information Flows in Education: Theoretical Aspects and Social Realities by A. M. Osipov

“…The redundancy, intensity and formalization of these flows constitute one of the painful aspects of work in this sphere, along with unfairly low wages. …”
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Mechanistic Study of Rail Gouging during Hypersonic Rocket Sled Tests by Xuewen Zhou, Huadong Yan, Cheng Chen, Yuanfeng Yu

“…The critical condition for gouging was derived based on a thermoviscoplastic constitutive model supplemented by a three-variable criterion for an adiabatic shear instability. …”
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Research on Creep Characteristics and the Model of Artificial Frozen Soil by Chaochao Zhang, Dongwei Li, Changtai Luo, Zecheng Wang, Guanren Chen

“…Based on the creep test results, a fractional-order constitutive model of frozen silt with sand was proposed. …”
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An Efficient Hierarchical Video Coding Scheme Combining Visual Perception Characteristics by Pengyu Liu, Kebin Jia

“…Different visual perception characteristic saliencies are the key to constitute the low-complexity video coding framework. …”
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NF-κB Inhibitory Activity of the Di-Hydroxy Derivative of Piperlongumine (PL-18) by Yael Schlichter Kadosh, Subramani Muthuraman, Ariel Kushmaro, Rajendran Saravana Kumar, Jacob Gopas

“…Furthermore, PL-18 inhibited the production of proinflammatory cytokines expressed by L428, a cell line with a constitutive active NF-kB. Altogether, our results suggest that PL-18 is a molecule of interest to be further developed to treat persistent infections with severe inflammation.…”
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Emergent online discourses and the (re)framing of women’s identity by Sibongile Mpofu

“… The advent of social media communication platforms, specifically blogs as sites of political engagement, means that they now constitute the key carriers of democratic public discourse. …”
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