Synthesis and Characterization of Nickel-Alumina Composites from Recycled Nickel Powder by V. G. Karayannis, A. K. Moutsatsou

“…The recycling of metallic waste to create more valuable materials and their valorization into upgraded metal-based composites constitutes an important field of study. The composite industry nowadays considers environmental improvements as important as other properties of the materials. …”
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Transcriptional Regulators of Claudins in Epithelial Tight Junctions by Niamat Khan, Abdul R. Asif

“…Human gastrointestinal tract is covered by a monolayer of specialized epithelial cells that constitute a protective barrier surface to external toxic and infectious agents along with metabolic and digestive functions. …”
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Gouvernance touristique des grandes stations et durabilité. Une lecture en termes de proximité by Emmanuelle Marcelpoil, Vincent Boudières

“…Methods of their management constitute an important axis of reflexion in the majority of the ski resorts, especially the most important, our goal in this paper. …”
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As múltiplas faces da comodificação e a constituição da crítica acerca das práticas de consumo contemporâneas by Ceres Grehs Beck, Luis Henrique Hermínio Cunha

“…As this process promotes long-term impacts on the constitution of societies, it calls for a reflection on the sociological field of “what” can be bought and sold and about the role of legitimizing agents of these new markets that arise. …”
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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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Melville’s Obsessional Form: Disjunction and Refusal in “Benito Cereno” by Matthew Scully

“…The perpetual turning motion constitutive of obsessional form thus helps redescribe the competing narrative styles of “Benito Cereno,” as well as the aesthetic and political implications of Babo’s resistance to the anti-Black structures of Delano and Cereno’s world. …”
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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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Le temps des morts-vivants : formes sérielles et potentiel critique des séries télévisées zombies by Clémentine Hougue

“…The article thus aims to shed light on the way in which the context of production and broadcasting, and consequently the form and duration of these television series, substantially inform their critical content : after having analyzed the formal aspects of these television objects, it will be a question of defining the image of the « time of the end » that they constitute, by looking at the representation of the undead or of the survivors who face them.…”
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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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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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“For REASON […] is nothing but Reckoning” : the Postulates of Hobbes’s and Descartes’s Rationalism by Jean-Marc Chadelat

“…The supremacy of reason asserted at the expense of any other human faculty finds expression first of all in a tendency to reduce all things to their constitutive parts, to bring these down to the level of their corporeal modality and determine them from a quantitative angle. …”
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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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Determination of user experience on food business websites by using Neuromarketing techniques by Erhan Babaç, Hilmi Rafet Yüncü

“…With these items, the needs assessment analysis was performed by applying the Delphi technique, on eight experts who constitute the subjects of the study at the same time. …”
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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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