i=0 (Information has no intrinsic meaning) by F.J. Miller

“…We have progressed from the industrial age through the information age into what is being promoted as the 'golden age' of knowledge and, in the process, we've been led to believe that information contains meaning - rather than just standing for, provoking or evoking meaning in others. …”
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Évaluations d’incidences Natura 2000 et sports de nature : un virage paradigmatique dans la conduite d’une action publique ? by Ludovic Falaix

“…Does the reinforcement of the environmental constraints, which are implied by the decree n° 2010-365 related to the evaluation of the impact of Natura 2000, speed the Ministry of Sport up into a legitimacy crisis in so far as the analysis of the impact of the practice of outdoors activities on the natural environment, that is apprehended as a coercion means to contain the spontaneous development of outdoors sports, does not come under the responsibility of the Ministry of Sports ?…”
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Characteristics of a New Plastic Explosive Named EPX-1 by Ahmed Elbeih

“…EPX-1 is a new plastic explosive (in the research stage) which has been prepared for military and civilian applications. EPX-1 explosive contains pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) with different particle size as explosive filler bonded by nonenergetic thermoplastic binder plasticized by dibutyl phthalate (DBP). …”
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Design of the Gear Fault Test System based on the Method of Transmission Error Detection by Wang Bolei, Cui Yanping, Lu Zhaojing

“…The method of transmission error detection is applied to gear fault diagnosis,the transmission error signal of the gear system is obtained by measuring pulse width time of the gearbox shaft angular encoder output two square wave pulse.Secondly,the transmission error signal is decomposed into a finite number of intrinsic mode components（IMF） by the method of empirical mode decomposition,and then the IMF component containing the most dominant fault information are filtrated to merged into a new signal.Finally,the order analysis and spectrum analysis on the new signal is carried out,the fault characteristics are obtained and gear fault diagnosis is realized.The designed two channel data acquisition card is applied to build up the gear fault analysis test system based on the method of transmission error detection.The experiment results show that the gear fault analysis test system can be effectively diagnose the gear fault.…”
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St. Augustinegrass - Made for the Florida Shade? by Laurie E. Trenholm, Russell Nagata

“… Landscapes generally contain areas where turfgrass will grow under some degree of shade for some part of the day. …”
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Stepwise fuzzy correction of the algorithm filters of random signals by A. A. Lobaty, A. S. Radkevich

“…The task of estimating the information contained in random signals from various sources – meters. …”
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Investigation of the Effects of Some Cardiovascular Drugs on Angiogenesis by Transgenic Zebrafish by Hui Lv, Bo Liu, Yongwen Qin

“…Zebrafish embryos at a one-cell stage or two-cell stage were cultured with embryo medium containing cardiovascular drugs at a final solvent concentration of 0.5% (V/V) dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) for 24 hours in 24-well plates. …”
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La voie d’Aquitaine entre Tolosa (Toulouse, Haute-Garonne) et Carcaso (Carcassonne, Aude) : stations et sites de bord de route by Michel Passelac

“…There are no sure signs of multiple activities, but they often contain remains of blacksmiths’ forges, food preparation areas, and stables. …”
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Le Maroc au temps des femmes ? La féminisation des associations locales en question by Yasmine Berriane

“…Through the study of the feminization of local associations in a contained area, this article examines the ensuing socio-political transformations. …”
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New Studies of the Structure and the Texts of Abba Garima Ethiopian Gospels by Sergey Kim

“…The author also discusses philological characteristics of the two subsidiary texts originally included in the Abba Garima manuscripts, ‘Discourse on the Harmony of Gospels’ and ‘Letter of Carpianus’ of Eusebius of Caesarea. The article contains an edition, an English translation and a succint historical commentary of three hitherto inedited donation notes from the 15th-16th centuries.…”
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Relations entre associations féminines palestiniennes des deux côtés de la Ligne verte by Elisabeth Marteu

“…Thus, even though some Arab nationalist and Islamic movements stand up for a Palestinian transborder mobilization, realities and local priorities still contain any substantial achievement.…”
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Automating Historical Source Transcription by Gunnar Thorvaldsen

“…Other fields like occupations or gender contain numeric or letter codes and are transcribed wholesale with routines interpreting the layout of the graphical images. …”
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Immoral Obscenity: Censorship of Folklore Manuscript Collections in Late Stalinist Estonia by Kaisa Kulasalu

“…The history of folkloristics contains many cases of obscene materials that were excluded from field notes, books and archives. …”
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Fuzzy Inference-Based Adaptive Sonar Control for Collision Avoidance in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles by Kot Rafał

“…Based on 100 simulation scenarios containing various trajectories created by the mission planner, with various shapes, dimensions and arrangements of static obstacles, and various arrangements and displacement vectors of dynamic obstacles, the effectiveness of the proposed system was tested in comparison with other classical approaches such as a single echosounder and sonar with a fixed scanning sector width. …”
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A Model of Influential Factors in Franchise Operations by Helder de Souza Aguiar, Marcos Roberto Luppe, Paulo Tromboni de Souza Nascimento

“…In order to do so, we studied and assessed articles and books between 2014 and 2019 that contain aspects related to franchise operations; they were compiled in a way that had not hitherto been addressed by seminal authors. …”
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Flow features and truth scale based single-ended objective assessment of perceived quality of VoIP service by CHENG Wei-qing1, GONG Jian1, DING Wei1

“…It only needs to monitor IP packets containing voice data from the peer user received by a local end user to calculate metrics,with no need to synchronize clocks or parse application protocols. …”
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Contaminants in the Urban Environment: Dioxins by Yun-Ya Yang, Gurpal S. Toor

“…They are by-products of a number of human activities such as combustion of fuels and wastes containing polyvinyl chloride (PVC), chlorine bleaching of paper products, and selected industrial processes. …”
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A New Method for Isomorphism Identification of Planetary Gear Train based on Improved Hamming Number by Sun Wei, Li Anming, Kong Jianyi, Zuo Huiyan, Wei Sijia

“…The isomorphism identification is one of the indispensable processes in structure synthesis of planetary gear train.It is of great significance for the creation of novel planetary gear train with excellent transmission characteristics.A new method for identifying isomorphism of planetary gear train based on improved Hamming number is proposed.Firstly，a new method for describing the topological diagram of planetary gear train by improved link adjacency matrix is proposed.This matrix contains all the information of the topological structure of planetary gear train and has the uniqueness of description.Then，the basic feature of planetary gear train is represented by the feature code，which is the necessary condition for isomorphism.Then，the principle of improved Hamming number is defined，and the Hamming code is obtained.By distinguishing whether the structural constants of the feature code and the Hamming code are equal，the isomorphism of the planetary gear train is identified.Finally，the validity and reliability of the method are verified by examples.…”
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Bouvard et Pécuchet et le savoir médical by Norioki Sugaya

“…This substantial file, which contains reading notes taken by the novelist for the writing of the medical chapter, allows us to understand to what extent the “comic of ideas”, characteristic of the encyclopedic novel, is the result of an intensive work on knowledge. …”
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The Role of RaxST, a Prokaryotic Sulfotransferase, and RaxABC, a Putative Type I Secretion System, in Activation of the Rice XA21-Mediated Immune Response by Pamela C. Ronald

“…These observations suggest a model where RaxST sulfates a molecule that contains a leader peptide, which is cleaved by the peptidase domain of the RaxB protein and secreted outside the bacterial cell by the RaxABC T1SS.…”
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