Les sols créateurs de paysages à l’extrémité aval de l’île Saint-Denis by Jacques Dentzer, Théo Ramière, Grégory Garnier, Julie Carlier, Laurent Coudroy de Lille, Clara Delefosse, Jeanne Deschamps, Stéphane Mercier, Nathan Partouche, Ana Cristina Torres, Hugo Varin, Loreen Zuliani

“…These polluted soils are those of a site in a neglected outlying flood plain. Following decades during which industrial activities left the area, the relationship to nature and soil evolved from recreational use to ecological conservation and finally to ecological reconciliation. …”
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On the distribution and status of Carcharodus lavatherae, Pyrgus carthami, and P. serratulae (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) in Slovenia by Rudi Verovnik

“…Within the framework of the Slovenian butterfly atlas survey, several additional records have been gathered during the past two decades. C. lavatherae was found in four separate areas, but the knowledge about its threat status and habitat preference is still insufficient due to the scarcity of the encounters. …”
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A New Quantitative Definition of the Complexity of Organized Matters by Tatsuaki Okamoto

“…Although many definitions have been proposed toward this aim in previous decades (e.g., logical depth, effective complexity, natural complexity, thermodynamics depth, effective measure complexity, and statistical complexity), there is no agreed-upon definition. …”
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The PPAR Ω Pocket: Renewed Opportunities for Drug Development by Åsmund Kaupang, Trond Vidar Hansen

“…The past decade of PPARγ research has dramatically improved our understanding of the structural and mechanistic bases for the diverging physiological effects of different classes of PPARγ ligands. …”
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IMPROVING LITERACY SKILLS THROUGH STRENGTHENING THE QUALITY OF SCHOOL-BASED EDUCATION by Muamar Asykur, Mirwan Mirwan, Sampara Halik

“…This is because, in the last few decades, the competitiveness of Indonesian people has tended to be less competitive, one of which is due to the crisis of literacy culture. …”
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Smart cities survey: Technologies, application domains and challenges for the cities of the future by Ruben Sánchez-Corcuera, Adrián Nuñez-Marcos, Jesus Sesma-Solance, Aritz Bilbao-Jayo, Rubén Mulero, Unai Zulaika, Gorka Azkune, Aitor Almeida

“…The introduction of the Information and Communication Technologies throughout the last decades has created a trend of providing daily objects with smartness , aiming to make human life more comfortable. …”
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Conceptual competence in medicine: promoting psychosomatic awareness in clinics, research and education by Dirk von Boetticher

“…IntroductionIn recent decades, psychosomatic medicine has developed into a distinct specialty, bringing specific clinical concepts to bear seeking to acknowledge the unity (not the identity) of the mind and body in clinical care. …”
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E3 Ubiquitin Ligases: Potential Therapeutic Targets for Skeletal Pathology and Degeneration by Ruiyin Zeng, Yuan Xiong, Ze Lin, Adriana C. Panayi, Yun Sun, Faqi Cao, Guohui Liu

“…Dysregulation of the UPS system is associated with many conditions. Over the past few decades, there have been an increasing number of studies focusing on the UPS system and how it affects bone metabolism. …”
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3D DC Resistivity Inversion with Topography Based on Regularized Conjugate Gradient Method by Jian-ke Qiang, Xue Han, Shi-kun Dai

“…During the past decades, we observed a strong interest in 3D DC resistivity inversion and imaging with complex topography. …”
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A new species of genus Provanna (Gastropoda, Abyssochrysoidea) from gas hydrate-bearing sediments of the northern South China Sea by Cong Wu, Fang Chen, Ying Tian, Kazutaka Amano, Xin Su

“…Despite the increasing interest in cold seeps in South China Sea in recent decades, how this genus is distributed in this area is largely unknown. …”
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Les mobilisations des victimes de pesticides ont-elles modifié les pratiques des viticulteurs languedociens ? by Christian Nicourt

“…Among winegrowers investigated a decade ago, this conception change seems however limited. …”
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Evidence-based management of dermatophytosis in India today by Aparajita Ghosh, Saumya Panda

“…Introduction: Dermatophyte infection has become extremely resistant and widespread in all parts of India during the past decade. A change in the major causative organism has been identified to be a major factor behind the change in the character of the infection. …”
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C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and Autoimmune Disease: Facts and Conjectures by Alexander J. Szalai

“…Coincident with a now decade-long resurgence in clinical interest in associations of CRP with disease, our laboratory has been investigating the biology of CRP in vivo using human CRP transgenic mice (CRPtg). …”
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White Women and the Fight for Equality in the Southern United States (1920-1964) by Anne Stefani

“…If the modern Civil Rights Movement that led in a few years to the historic abolition of segregation by the federal government came as a surprise to many Americans at the time, as the so-called Solid South was adamant in its determination to maintain its racist institutions forever, it was indeed welcomed by a significant minority of southerners as the logical outcome of a painful reform movement that had started decades earlier in the region. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s that was led and popularized by charismatic male black leaders, the struggle for civil rights that preceded it was mostly led by white reformers, among whom women played a disproportionately important role, not always recognized as such. …”
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Comment la connaissance de la diversité posturo-locomotrice des primates a-t-elle transformé la compréhension de celle des hominines ? by Mathilde Lequin, François Marchal

“…In recent decades, the way paleoanthropologists conceive of bipedalism has changed considerably. …”
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Improvement of Soybean Crop for Yield, Stress Tolerance, and Value-Added Products Using a Transgenic Approach by Deepak B. Shelke, Mahadev R. Chambhare, Ganesh C. Nikalje, T. D. Nikam

“…Therefore, in the last two decades, soybean has gained attention for genetic improvement with remarkable developments in the manipulations of genes for the induction of desired characteristics. …”
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THE IMPACT OF MINING INDUCED URBANIZATION: A CASE STUDY OF KATHU IN SOUTH AFRICA by Fidelis EMUZE, Cornel HAUPTFLEISCH

“… Rapidity in urbanization has continued in the past decade despite the realisation that resources are finite. …”
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L’insularità, l’isolamento e l’autonomia alimentare degli ikoots (Oaxaca, Messico) fra storia, flussi oceanici e catene globali di depauperamento by Cristiano Tallè

“…The huave/ikoots live on a barrier island between the Pacific Ocean and a vast coastal lagoon system, in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Oaxaca, Mexico). In recent decades, their communities have experienced an ever-greater dependence on the supply chains which goes hand in hand with a growing territorial conflict and a progressive loss of fish food autonomy, based on an “ocean-political sovereignty” today in deep crisis. …”
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Characteristics of exposure to radioactive iodine during a nuclear incident by Zaletel Katja, Mihovec Anamarija, Gaberscek Simona

“…Among them is iodine-131, with a half-life of 8.02 days, which emits β radiation. For decades, it has been effectively and safely used in medicine. …”
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O casamento de Leonor e Frederico III (1451-1452) e as relações entre Portugal e o Sacro Império nos finais da Idade Média by António Martins Costa

“…The development of the historiography of medieval international relations in the last decades has given the pretext to observe the political approximation of those two kingdoms, geographically distant, based on an important royal marriage that has given us a considerable set of primary sources (chronicles, documents and iconography). …”
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