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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Development and study of iron-based nanoadsorbents by Deliyanni E., Bakoyannakis D., Zouboulis A., Matis K.

“…Main aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of the prepared material in the removal of heavy and toxic metal cations, like Cd(II), from aqueous solutions; cadmium constitutes a priority pollutant. Sorption was found to depended on the solution pH and its ionic strength. …”
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Pour une macroéconomie monétaire dynamique et complexe by Pascal Seppecher

“…For this reason, this theory constitutes a crucial support for an approach of macroeconomics based upon the interactions between the agents. …”
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Corps mécanique et pensée-mouvement : les marionnettes animales de la Handspring Puppet Company by Noémie Lorentz

“…Pushing against Descartes’ concept of the « Animal Machine », the Handspring’s puppets direct our attention towards the micro-movements which constitute the true drama of life, inviting us to redefine thought as movement.…”
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L’odeur de l’axé by Arnaud Halloy

“…I suggest three theoretical claims: the hypothesis of the metonymic function of smells (Howes 1987), i.e. that the very nature of smell—their liminal, intangible and evolutive character, as well as their privileged link to emotions—redouble at the experiential level the rituals’ symbolic function of transformation; the hypothesis of an “olfactive evaluative conditioning” (Zucco 2013) at the heart of the metonymic function of smells; the existence of olfactive practices and “styles,” which are constitutive elements of collective identities in Afro-Brazilian religions.…”
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Adoption in Spain by Pilar Benavente Moreda

“…The adopted’s right to know their origins constitutes an essential manifestation of the right to identity and free development of the personality of adopted persons, regulated by the articles 180, 5 and 6 of the Spanish CC and the articles 12 and 5, 1, i) of Law 54/2007, of December 28, on International Adoption. …”
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Oil Exploration and Exploitation in Ugbo (Ilaje) Communities of Coastal Yorubaland by ‘Gbade Ikuejube, O.A. Funmilayo

“…Environmental devastation, economic poverty and constant conflict constitute a lived reality. Oil exploitation activities have also left much of the area desolate, poor and uninhabitable. …”
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Locative Inversion and Stage Topics: A Cross-Linguistic Study by Joana Teixeira

“…In addition to the structures typically classified as locative inversion, cases of “absolute inversion” in French, “free” inversion in sentence-focus contexts in EP, and inversion structures with preposed participial and adjectival phrases in English and French are argued to be licensed by (c)overt sTOPs and, thus, constitute forms of (covert) locative inversion. We conclude that there is a strong correlation between sTOPs and subject-verb inversion cross-linguistically.…”
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Guerre sainte dans le Cône sud latino-américain : pentecôtistes versus umbandistes by Alejandro Frigerio, Ari Pedro Oro

“…Since this historical narrative assigns a specific place to the different ethnic and religious minorities within the nation, it constitutes a cultural resource that may be mobilized to vindicate a group’s rights or to deny them to its opponents.…”
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Enhancing the Diagnosis of Lateral Ankle Sprains: The Role of MSK Diagnostic Ultrasound in Evaluating ATFL and CFL by Robert C Manske, Chris Wolfe, Phil Page, Michael Voight

“…Lateral ankle sprains, predominantly involving the anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL) and calcaneofibular ligament (CFL), constitute a significant portion of sports-related injuries, with a notable rate of recurrence and progression to chronic instability. …”
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Cuatro inscripciones pertenecientes al antiguo Convento de San Vicente de Villamayor de los Montes by Alejandro García Morilla

“…This four-inscription group constitutes one of the few vestiges preserved from the early monastery of Villamayor.Here we study this corpus through the modern Spanish epigraphic method used for the edition of the Corpus Inscriptionum Hispaniae Mediaevalium, in order to present a critical and scientific study of this group which could allow us to go deep into the particularities of this advertising activity – that is what inscriptions are – and the purpose which these epigraphs may have had, as well as for a better knowledge of the society which created them. …”
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Atteintes pathologiques de Nazlet Khater 2 et activité minière au début du Paléolithique supérieur en Egypte by Sébastien Villotte, Isabelle Crevecoeur

“…The Nazlet Khater 2 (NK 2) skeleton, discovered in 1980 in Egypt, constitutes the oldest early Upper Palaeolithic modern human remains from North Africa. …”
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Répression et résurgence du judaïsme dans Daniel Deronda : les voies de la masculinité sont-elles impénétrables ? by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

“…George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda constitutes an inspiring testimony to 19th-century patriarchal society. …”
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Legal Guerilla: Jurisdiction, Time, and Abortion Access in Mexico City by Amy Krauss

“…It analyzes how jurisdictional claims work as a kind of lawfare from “above” and “below” examining: 1) how the Mexican Supreme Court invoked technicalities of jurisdiction to settle the constitutional conflict over the decriminalization of abortion in Mexico City, and 2) how a feminist litigator reappropriated the court's formal principles of legality toward their own ends in what they call “legal guerilla.” …”
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Large Language Model e sistema di giustizia amministrativa. Prime riflessioni sul ruolo del giudice amministrativo by Margherita Interlandi

“…Therefore, after briefly outlining the peculiarities of the functions of the administrative judge, we will dwell on the possible implications that could derive from using AI-based technology, with specific reference to the constitutional profiles that inform due process.…”
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Modeling Pan Evaporation for Kuwait by Multiple Linear Regression by Jaber Almedeij

“…Evaporation is an important parameter for many projects related to hydrology and water resources systems. This paper constitutes the first study conducted in Kuwait to obtain empirical relations for the estimation of daily and monthly pan evaporation as functions of available meteorological data of temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed. …”
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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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