On the Edge of Space and Time: Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic by Laur Vallikivi

“…Among their favourite targets are the small-numbered indigenous groups in the Russian Arctic, where the numbers of converts are steadily growing. One particular denomination, known as the Unregistered Baptists, are among the leading agents of religious change in the North today. …”
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Whitefringed Beetles, Naupactus (= Graphognathus) spp. (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Wayne N. Dixon

“…Whitefringed beetles are considered serious pests of many agricultural crops (Young et al. 1950) and have become pests of young pines planted on converted croplands in the South. This document is EENY-294 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular 309), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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L’invention du biome Cerrado by Catherine Aubertin, Florence Pinton

“…Its projection on the international stage during the Conference of Copenhagen on Climate Change in 2009 thereafter contributed to turn this vaguely delimited territory into an international issue for climate change and struggle against deforestation, with the affirmation of two opposite trends: an agribusiness converted to green technologies and the implementation of areas of socio-biodiversity. …”
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Design of Digital Teaching Platform for Spoken English Based on Virtual Reality by Shijun Bao

“…The signal processed by the front-end amplifier circuit is converted into a digital signal through analog-to-digital conversion, and the digital receiving system is realized by means of software radio, which reduces the dependence on the hardware circuit and enhances the portability of the system. …”
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Narrowband interference suppression in vector OFDM systems by ZHANG Guo-mei, ZHU Shi-hua

“…By modifying the received vector sequences, the reception over vector channels in a VOFDM system was converted to the detection in a MC-CDMA system. Then the minimum mean-square error combining （MMSEC） technique was adopted to suppress the narrowband interference. …”
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Study on the Dynamics Characteristic of Three- ring Gear Reducer with Thermo- elastic Coupling by Wen Fang, Pang Yi, Chen Jizhao, Liu Wenbin

“…Based on the result,the thermal elements is converted to the structural elements in ANSYS,the node temperature of the model is load,then the natural frequency and vibration model is obtained. …”
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Théorie comptable de la monnaie et de la finance by Maxime Izoulet

“…As it developed over time in relation to the trade of commodities, this system of credit money, which was initially pegged to official currency, has then become autonomous during conflicts, in different countries, when its convertibility with the official currency was suspended. …”
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MIMO OTA performance testing of vehicles by Lei LI, Guiming WEI, Guokai JIANG, Jiaxu FENG, Xiang WU

“…Intelligent traffic system is one of promising technologies for traffic industry.Based on communication among cars, pedestrian, traffic infrastructure and cellular networks, it’s able to significantly promote on road safety and efficiency by making proper traffic instructions.How to precisely evaluate the communication performance of a whole vehicle become a hot-topic in the field.Unfortunately, there is still no solution about the setup and procedures for the OTA testing.A low-cost solution was proposed by reconstructing channel models and optimizing the existing testing system framework that referred to as multi-probe anechoic chamber.The proposed method was able to multiple the test area with limited channel emulator RF channels by introducing a low-cost digital converter.Numerical simulations indicate that the proposed method has the ability to reproduce spatial and temporal correlation features of the target channel model, which is coherent with related standards’ requirements.…”
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Chronique d’un scandale by David M. Halperin

“…The outcry was the direct result of grandstanding by right-wing media and pressure groups promoting family values, but it also stemmed from the very content of the class: because Halperin presented male homosexuality as the outcome of an initiation, and the class itself as an example of such an initiation, he was accused of using taxpayers’ money for the purposes of converting his students to homosexuality. Still, what scandalized both right-wing and gay rights organizations was less the issue of sex than the very topic of the class, which set out to treat male homosexuality as a cultural practice with its own codes and modes of transmission.…”
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Commodity Outlook 2003: U.S. and World Sugar Markets by Andrew Schmitz

“…Brazilian sugar producers are supported by their government sugar-ethanol program in which over 50 percent of the sugarcane grown in Brazil is converted into fuel. Sugar prices for U.S. and E.U. producers should remain at the current levels. …”
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Fish Oil in the Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis by C Ó'Moráin, A Tobin, T McColl, Y Suzuki

“…EPA is a good substrate for lipoxygenase enzymes and is efficiently converted to leukotriene 85, which is less biologically active. …”
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Economic assessment of the digitalization of state property (based on the materials of the Perm territory) by E. V. Rozhkov

“…Digitalization of property in the regions will allow you to convert analog data streams into digital format and transfer existing communications into computer technologies. …”
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Buffer-aided cooperative NOMA with power transfer by Long YANG, Li ZHAO, Yuchen ZHOU, Bingtao HE, Jian CHEN

“…To improve the throughput of multiuser simultaneous wireless information and power transfer systems, a buffer-aided cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access scheme with power transfer was designed to maximize the average throughput under the constraints of average/peak power, user’s rate, and the buffer stability.To reduce the optimization complexity, the Lyapunov’s method was introduced to convert the long-term average optimization problem into a series of time-discrete subproblems, and an adaptive transmission and resource allocation optimization algorithm was proposed, where the working mode, the user scheduling and the power allocation were dynamically optimized according to the time-varying channel/buffer state.Simulation results demonstrate that compared with the existing schemes, the proposed scheme can significantly enhance the average throughput whilst achieving the tradeoff between the delay and throughput.…”
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Issues at the Rural-Urban Fringe: Land Use -- Agricultural Zoning by Rodney L. Clouser

“…Many states use more than one technique in an attempt to prevent land from converting from agricultural to non-agricultural use. …”
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Retina-imitation sampling based binary descriptor by Qingsheng YUAN, Guoqing JIN, Dongming ZHANG, Xiuguo BAO

“…The existing binary descriptors，generated from random or uniform point pairs sampling，suffer from low robustness and high computation.A novel sampling method,named RBS (retina-imitation based sampling),was proposed， which combines different densities sampling,multi-scale smoothing and reception field overlapping to imitate the converting from light signal to vision of ganglion cells of human retina cells,and further selects most discriminative comparison pairs based on learning on training data.Finally，compact binary descriptor was generated based on comparisons between the neighbor mean instead of singe sampled point.The experimental results show the RBS-128 with 128 bit outperforms FREAK and BRSIK with 512 bit about 16.4% and 5.3% in precision on the dataset provided by Mikolajczyk.…”
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Unusual Case of a Torted Mesenteric Fibroid by Rawan Bajis, Gregg Eloundou

“…Intraoperatively, a large necrotic mass originating from the mesentery and attachments to the bowel at the ileocaecal junction was noted. When converted to laparotomy due to limited access and poor visualisation, the uterus, ovaries, and tubes were found to be normal. …”
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Optimization Design of Structures Subjected to Transient Loads Using First and Second Derivatives of Dynamic Displacement and Stress by Qimao Liu, Jing Zhang, Liubin Yan

“…The inequality time-dependent constraint problem is converted into a sequence of appropriately formed time-independent unconstrained problems using the integral interior point penalty function method. …”
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Analysis of Heat Transfer in Berman Flow of Nanofluids with Navier Slip, Viscous Dissipation, and Convective Cooling by O. D. Makinde, S. Khamis, M. S. Tshehla, O. Franks

“…The governing partial differential equations and boundary conditions are converted into a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations using appropriate similarity transformations. …”
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Survey on Encoding Schemes for Genomic Data Representation and Feature Learning—From Signal Processing to Machine Learning by Ning Yu, Zhihua Li, Zeng Yu

“…In machine learning, DNA sequences are often converted to numerical values for data representation and feature learning in various applications. …”
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Applications of Recombinant DNA Technology in Gastrointestinal Medicine and Hepatology: Basic Paradigms of Molecular Cell Biology. Part C: Protein Synthesis and Post-Translational... by Gary E Wild, Patrizia Papalia, Mark J Ropeleski, Julio Faria, Alan BR Thomson

“…The polypeptide chain is subsequently folded into the appropriate three-dimensional configuration and undergoes a variety of processing steps before being converted into its active form. These processing steps are intimately related to the cellular events that occur in the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi compartments, and determine the sorting and transport of different proteins to their appropriate destinations within the cell. …”
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