Affect and Gender in Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark by Julia Tulloh Harper

“…Cormac McCarthy’s 1968 novel, Outer Dark, is arguably his only text that contains a true female protagonist. Rinthy Holme is a significant character in her own right, in part because almost half the storyline is dedicated to her, but also because she seems to generate what scholars have referred to as a sense of forcefulness or meaningfulness that is sometimes at odds with otherwise more problematic elements of her characterization. …”
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Activity-Guided Isolation of Antioxidant Compounds from Andrographis stenophylla Leaf by Neelaveni Thangavel, Jayanta Kumar Gupta

“…Methanol extract exhibited maximum antioxidant activity and was found to contain 2% of total phenolic compounds. Methanol extract was subjected to column chromatographic separation over silica gel G using ethyl acetate: formic acid: acetic acid: water. …”
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Restorative Justice Policy Model in the Future of Criminal Law by Rado Rudini Hasyim, Restu Monika Nia Betaubun, Emiliana B. Rahail

“…This research concludes that restorative justice is a necessity because in addition to international challenges and obligations, it has also become a national trend in the future of criminal law, especially through the New Criminal Code which contains mechanisms for restoring victims’ rights, penal mediation, diversion, supervision punishment and judicial pardon. …”
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A review on the microbiology of Ethiopian traditional fermented beverage products by Guesh Mulaw, Trhas Gebregziabher, Teklemichael Tesfay

“…Similarly, fermented foods contain probiotics, which are beneficial bacteria that help the body to digest food and absorb nutrients. …”
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Identification of Molecular Substrate for the Attenuation of Anxiety: A Step Toward the Development of Better Anti-Anxiety Drugs by Uwe Rudolph

“…Benzodiazepines like diazepam bind to GABAA receptors containing the α subunits α1, α2, α3, or α5, most likely in abgabg combinations.…”
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Recurrent Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor of Larynx Harboring a Novel THBS1::ALK Fusion by Namra Ajmal, Stacey M. Gargano, Ujwala Gosavi, Madalina Tuluc

“…The tumor demonstrated a novel THBS1::ALK fusion containing Exons 1–7 of the thrombospondin 1 (THBS1) gene fused to Exon 19 of the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene via next-generation sequencing with the NextSeq sequencer. …”
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Safe Handling of Food and Water in a Hurricane or Related Disaster by Ronald H. Schmidt, Keith L. Schneider, Renée M. Goodrich, Amarat Simonne, Douglas L. Archer

“… This document contains a summary of general recommendations to protect the safety of food and water in the event of a hurricane, flooding, or related natural disaster. …”
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A low‐rating 40‐pulse AC–DC rectifier based on a new passive harmonic mitigation circuit by Rohollah Abdollahi, Gevork B. Gharehpetian

“…This PHMC is based on 2 harmonic suppression circuits and contains four tapped reactor and 4 auxiliary diodes. 50 Hz simulations of the improved 40PR indicate that THD of the input current and voltage is less than 2%, which meets the IEEE‐519 standard. …”
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Metacognition in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata): does impulsivity explain unnecessary looks in the tubes task? by Lorraine Subias, Noriko Katsu, Kazunori Yamada

“…The macaques’ propensity to look inside a single tube containing food they cannot immediately reach was measured and compared to their behavior in the tubes task. …”
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On semilattices of groups whose arrows are epimorphisms by M. El-Ghali M. Abdallah, L. N. Gab-Alla, Sayed K. M. Elagan

“…Every partial group S with identity contains a unique maximal q partial group Q(S) such that (Q(S))1=S1. …”
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Cheshm ‘eye’ Expressions in Persian: A Different Perspective by Muhammad Salehi

“…Taking a close look at a number of modern Persian expressions in Iranian culture, containing the body-part term Cheshm, one can easily become aware of lack of a definite pattern in those expressions. …”
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Thermal and calorimetric investigations of titania–silica composites by B Charmas, J Skubiszewska-Zięba, H Waniak-Nowicka

“…The lowering of the freezing/melting points of water contained in the pores of the studied materials is strongly connected with their porous structure.…”
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A coupled elastoplastic damage model for brittle rocks by Zheng Li, Yundong Shou, Deping Guo, Filippo Berto

“…Brittle rock contains an important plastic deformation, which causes microcracks when coupled with stress-induced damage. …”
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Automatic Classification of Microseismic Signals Based on MFCC and GMM-HMM in Underground Mines by Pingan Peng, Zhengxiang He, Liguan Wang

“…The performance of this method is tested by its application to microseismic events selected from the Dongguashan Copper Mine (China). A dataset that contains a representative set of different microseismic events including rock mass rupture, blasting vibration, mechanical drilling, and electromagnetic noise is collected for training and testing. …”
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A Digital Trail of Rupture. The German Film Exile 1933-1945 in the Data of Günter Peter Straschek by Imme Klages

“…To this end, a database of GND exile data containing names, birth and death dates, professions, and countries of exile was compiled and enriched with data from online resources (Wikidata and IMDb). …”
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Influence of Distribution Modulus on the Compressive Strength of Ultra-High-Performance Concrete with Coarse Aggregate (UHPC-CA) by Zhihui Yu, Lishan Wu, Cong Zhang, Toshiyuki Bangi

“…The objective of this study is to figure out the influence of the q for the compressive strength of UHPC-containing coarse aggregate (UHPC-CA). Therefore, a series of investigations were conducted, covering the following aspects: first, the traditional design procedure, based on the MAA model, of UHPC-CA is revised by taking water and steel fibers into account in the particle packing system. …”
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The Potential Importance of MicroRNAs as Novel Indicators How to Manage Patients with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis More Effectively by Krzysztof Orczyk, Elzbieta Smolewska

“…The aim of the study was to browse the available data on microRNAs which may be utilized as potential biomarkers helpful in diagnosing and monitoring JIA patients. The review contains a brief summary on the most studied sequences: miR-16, miR-125a-5p, miR-146a, miR-155, and miR-223. …”
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Health aspects of peanuts as an outcome of its chemical composition by Rabiatu Bonku, Jianmei Yu

“…Peanut is an energy dense food item and it contains a substantial amount of fat, proteins, carbohydrate, both fat soluble and water soluble vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database by Annika Westberg, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…Based on digitized Swedish population registers between c. 1700-1950, the database contains micro-data that covers the agrarian society through industrialization and further on to the Swedish welfare state and contemporary society. …”
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From overtourism to undertourism... and back? The struggle to manage tourism regrowth in post-pandemic Amsterdam by Lola Kuenen, Robert Fletcher, Tom Jakobs, Martijn Duineveld, Ko Koens

“…Yet when COVID-19 halted the stream of tourists visiting Amsterdam, this created a unique opportunity to make more drastic changes, which the administration has addressed by proposing a new series of measures to proactively help contain tourism regrowth in the post-pandemic period. …”
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