The Dissenting Nights of the Neo-Wood Colliers of the Vercors: A Forest Chronotope for a Heterotopia by Christophe Baticle, Philippe Hanus

“…For around two decades the charcoal burning festivals of the Vercors have been bringing together a group of individuals – with libertarian and/or ecologist aspirations – for the space of a few weeks to produce an unusual chronotope with the support of the local inhabitants: the erection then carbonisation of a charcoal pit in the forest, around which will be added the village of the “neo-wood colliers” and the festive infrastructures according to the rhythm furnished by the progress of the combustion, in the fashion of a heterotopia contesting daytime life in the valley. …”
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An Assessment of Land Use Land Cover Using Machine Learning Technique by V. Pushpalatha, H. N. Mahendra, A. M. Prasad, N. Sharmila, D. Mahesh Kumar, N. M. Basavaraju, G. S. Pavithra and S. Mallikarjunaswamy

“…This research paper presents a comprehensive assessment of the built-up area in Mysuru City over the decade spanning from 2010 to 2020, employing advanced geospatial techniques. …”
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TRANSFORMATIONAL PROCESSES IN THE CHURCH CULTURAL AND ADAPTATION SITUATION OF MODERN RUSSIA by Dmitry A. Tsyplakov, Svetlana M. Tsyplakova

“…The article explicates the new situations that the Church has faced in modern Russia in recent decades. This is an explosive uncontrolled transformation of the media space, challenges from other religious movements, and much more. …”
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Genetic Insights into Bicuspid Aortic Valve Formation by Brigitte Laforest, Mona Nemer

“…BAV is a heritable trait, but the genetic basis underlying this cardiac malformation remains poorly understood. In the last decade, thanks to studies in animal models as well as genetic and biochemical approaches, a large number of genes that play important roles in heart development have been identified. …”
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Evaluation of a 38 L Explosive Chamber for Testing Coal Dust Explosibility by Robert Eades, Kyle Perry

“…Research has been conducted globally on this topic for decades. The first explosibility tests in the United States were performed by the Bureau of Mines using a 20 L chamber. …”
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Transformations in the governance of French medical laboratories by Antoine Leymarie

“…However, since the early 2000s, PMLs have undergone significant changes in terms of concentration, industrialisation and financialisation that has radically changed the landscape of the sector. In the space of two decades, the number of PMLs has fallen from 4000 to around 300 and almost 80% of them are now owned by six financial groups. …”
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Une République islamique sans mosquée by Fariba Adelkhah

“…Considering the changes of the past two decades, it would be better to speak of religious centers rather than mere places of worship.…”
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Media representations of sexuality in an era of pornification by Nicola Döring, Nicole Krämer, Dan J. Miller, Thorsten Quandt, Gerhard Vowe

“…At the same time, interdisciplinary pornography research has been evolving in recent decades, with communication science making important contributions to this area. …”
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Transcendence of the Human Far Beyond AI—Kafka’s <i>In the Penal Colony</i> and Schopenhauerian Eschatology by Søren Robert Fauth

“…The technological development in recent decades has been extraordinary, leading to new attempts to overcome the all-too-human condition. …”
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Osteoporosis Syndrome in Thalassaemia Major: An Overview by Meropi Toumba, Nicos Skordis

“…Peak bone mass is achieved shortly after completion of puberty and normally remains stable until the third decade of life when age-related bone mass begins. …”
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An Overview of Global Papaya Production, Trade, and Consumption by Edward A. Evans, Fredy H. Ballen

“…The market demand for tropical fruits has been growing steadily over the past two decades. Global papaya production has grown significantly over the last few years, mainly as a result of increased production in India. …”
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Rôle de la glace saisonnière dans la dynamique de l'écosystème marin de l'Antarctique : impact potentiel du changement climatique global by Gustavo Ferreyra, Irene Schloss, Serge Demers

“…Such replacement has been related to the decrease in duration and extent of seasonal ice during the last decades, which in turn shows a strong correlation with the air temperature increase in some areas of Antarctica (Amundsen – Bellingshausen seas and Antarctic Peninsula). …”
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Metamorfoses da cidade medieval. A coexistência entre a comunidade judaica e a catedral de Viseu by Anísio Miguel de Sousa Saraiva

“…The first testimonies of the Hebraic presence in this city are from the late 13th century, whose commune prospered mainly from the early 15th century, at the time when Viseu initiated a major process of rebuilt, after three decades of conflict and destruction which characterized the Ferdinand Reign and the first years of D. …”
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Biodiversity restated: &amp;gt; 99.9% of global species in Soil Biota by Robert J. Blakemore

“…More than a decade of research led to the conclusion in 2022 that the Soil Biome is home to ~ 2.1 × 1024 taxa and thus supports &amp;gt; 99.9% of global species biodiversity, mostly Bacteria or other microbes, based upon topographic field data. …”
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Les jardins urbains de Séville by Raúl Puente Asuero

“…From 1983 the association Comité Pro-Parque Educativo Miraflores decided to occupy an immense dump of 90 has and to transform this lot degraded in a park with the idea of improving these peripheral neighborhoods of the city. After three decades, the neighbors of the Miraflores Park have been involved actively in the improvement of the city claiming and assuming the management of social programs.Nowadays, in the current context of multi-crisis and as mechanism of response of the population, there is taking place an exponential growth of the urban gardens in Spain with a welfare vocation, of self-consumption, of guarantor of the sovereignty and the food safety and as social resource for disadvantaged families.Many urban gardens have been still the model initiated by the Miraflores Park and all has as common denominator that they are public alive spaces that strengthen the social fabric of the cities. …”
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Stick tool use by chimpanzees in a forest fragment in Uganda’s Budongo-Bugoma corridor: preliminary observations from Kasongoire by Aimee Oxley, Balinda Kiiza Jovan

“…Chimpanzees there have never been observed using stick tools despite being studied for decades, although, more recently, probing and digging tool use has been documented in neighbouring forest fragments. …”
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Shelters in the Night. The Role of Architecture in the Process of Understanding High-Altitude Areas by Roberto Dini, Stefano Girodo

“…Such shelters act as catalysts in the transformation of the alpine region from an ancestral space to an outpost of scientific knowledge, the “playground” of mountaineers, a place of symbolic and political conquest and, successively, a site of loisir for tourists.In just a few decades, mountain guides and mountaineering associations played a decisive role in this process, initiating the progressive physical alteration of high-altitude areas and paving the way for a widespread building and infrastructural colonisation that has been constantly evolving to this day.Structurally, mountain huts and bivouacs reflect the ways in which the space, landscape and time have been conceptualised and used over the ages, forming an interesting area of study: from the early structures, which were self-contained and impervious to the surrounding landscape, serving merely to provide protection from the outside, up to today’s landmark structures.…”
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Recommendations for Management of Patients with Carotid Stenosis by Arijana Lovrencic-Huzjan, Tatjana Rundek, Michael Katsnelson

“…Despite numerous trials and decades of clinical research, the optimal management of symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid disease remains controversial. …”
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La cooperación Sur-Sur y el reto de su cuantificación, evaluación y valoración by Huitron, A.

“…The emergence of a more active South-South cooperation (SSC) constitutes on of the most relevant factors for change in the International arena in the last decades. It is an expression of the new role that emerging economies of the world embody in the ensemble of the International transactions and in the generation of dynamic poles of political and economic power. …”
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Fatigue loading characteristic for the composite steel-concrete beams by Ahmed I.Hassanin, Hesham M. Fawzy, Ahmed I. Elsheikh

“…During the past few decades, composite beams (steel I beam and concrete slab) have had a wide range of uses, particularly in bridge construction. …”
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