Determination of Dynamic Mechanical Properties on Addition of Carbon Black-Nanosilica Hybrid Fillers in NR-SBR Blends with Special Reference to Power Transmission Belt Applications by Thuruthil Raju Aswathy, Seshadri Mohan, Thangavel Kalaivendhan, A. Mohammed Adhil

“…Due to this high demand along with the requirement to meet certain special operating conditions, it is necessary to improve the belt properties continuously. In the last few decades, nanotechnology evolved as a suitable method for enhancing the properties of various rubber products without impacting the environment. …”
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Crises and the history of science: a materialist rehabilitation by Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh, Rory Kent, James Poskett

“…Over the past four decades, historians of science have come to discard crisis as a guiding heuristic in ‘big-picture’ narratives of scientific change. …”
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Cross-Strait Economic Relations: Recent Development and Implications for Taiwan by Min-Hua Chiang, Bernard Gerbier

“…First, over the last decade, Taiwan’s investment in China has changed from labour intensive manufacturing made mostly by small and medium companies to high technology led by large enterprises. …”
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Lesser Than Equal? by Saumya Uma

“…The article further analyses the status of women within Hindu family law in India from the time of the country’s independence and the law reform measures that have led to advancement in women’s equality rights in recent decades as well as discriminatory provisions that continue to persist through a historical, legal and feminist lens. …”
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Thermal-Hydraulic System Codes in Nulcear Reactor Safety and Qualification Procedures by Alessandro Petruzzi, Francesco D'Auria

“…In the last four decades, large efforts have been undertaken to provide reliable thermal-hydraulic system codes for the analyses of transients and accidents in nuclear power plants. …”
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The plurality of temporal reckoning among the Maya by William F. Hanks

“…This paper presents an overview of time reckoning in several domains of Maya language and culture, as observed in the Sierra region of Yucatan in the last decades of the twentieth century. It demonstrates that multiple systems of temporal reckoning and orientation co-operate in the traditional domains of daily practice, and it attempts to formulate principles by which different systems are combined in actional frameworks It is argued that most cyclicity in contemporary Yucatec Maya is derivative of natural or social processes and that in rituals it results from the translation of spatial arrays into temporal sequences. …”
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“Pest Forests”, “Utility Forests” and “Cow Bends” by Gerard A. Persoon

“…Nowadays they are valued as an important element in the country’s (agri)cultural heritage, but also for the role they play in terms of the polders’ biodiversity (flora as well as fauna), which has rapidly declined with the modernization of agriculture in recent decades. In this article an overview will be given of the origin of these ‘forest islands’ and how they have functioned in the Dutch polder landscape in the past century as an often ignored aspect of farmers’ knowledge and practices. …”
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Discourse Analysis of Nature Conservation Policies in Africa: a Beninese Case Study by Fanny Pochet

“…Political ecology studies the relationship between nature and society, a complex issue that has been explored in the African context by many of its researchers over the past few decades. Applied to the field of conservation, this approach provides a way to highlight the social and political processes inherent to the understanding of biodiversity conservation and its implementation, the creation of protected areas. …”
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Advanced ceramic materials for electrolytes and electrodes in reversible solid oxide cells by Panagiotis Kopras, Constantinos Tsanaktsidis, Nikolas Kiratzis

“…These challenges can be addressed through the prudent selection and fabrication of ceramic cell materials. After decades of research, a lot of significant achievements and progress have been made in addressing the major challenges, including lowering the operating temperatures to <500°C, mass-producing cells with high uniform quality that exhibit high initial performance and low degradation rates, and developing fuel electrodes with high resistance to carbon deposition and tolerance to material and fuel impurities. …”
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Gamification, collaborative learning and transversal competences: analysis of academic performance and students’ perceptions by Cecilia Latorre-Cosculluela, Verónica Sierra-Sánchez, Sandra Vázquez-Toledo

“…Abstract The importance and benefits of teamwork in the university context have been widely recognized in recent decades. However, there is little evidence that analyzes the effects of the combination of collaborative learning strategies and gamification methodologies for the improvement of transversal skills and academic performance. …”
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Health aspects of peanuts as an outcome of its chemical composition by Rabiatu Bonku, Jianmei Yu

“…The review discusses the health aspects, including allergy, of peanut consumption as they related to the chemical composition of peanuts using literatures published in past two decades with exceptions of a few older articles. Keywords: Peanuts, Health aspects, Nutrients, Vitamins, Peanut allergy…”
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Semiochemical Diversity in Practice: Antiattractant Semiochemicals Reduce Bark Beetle Attacks on Standing Trees—A First Meta-Analysis by Fredrik Schlyter

“…The more complex “push-pull” tactic has, in contrast, been repeatedly tested during the last decade. I analysed published data from 32 experiments in 9 papers published during 2000–2011 on Ips typographus and Dendroctonus ponderosae, to test if there was an overall effect of antiattractant semiochemicals, that is, if treatments reduced the number of attacks on standing trees at the habitat or stand scale. …”
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A Critique on the Book History of Iranian Studies in Russia by Abbas Panahi

“…These works had a great impact on the intellectual, political, and social atmosphere of Iran in recent decades. As a result, the critique of the Russians' record in this field could have opened new perspectives in the field of Iranian studies (Iranology), while the book under review provides a brief and hasty record of the trend of Iranology in the three-hundred-year history of this science in Russia. …”
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Penser la gouvernance de la biodiversité à travers l’analyse des dynamiques socio-écologiques by Zina Skandrani, Anne-Caroline Prévot

“…This paper addresses the evolution of nature conceptions in the last two decades as a response to the global ecological crisis and the parallel redefinition of landscape and society-environment relations it implies. …”
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Determinants of Short- and Long-Term Commercial Lending Rates in Peru, 2010–2022 by Sergio Bravo Orellana

“…The injection of money depends on the ability to promote cash flows through credit which boosts productive sectors. In the last decade, among Latin American countries, Peru has stood out for its key financial system and macroeconomic stability characteristics. …”
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In Memoriam: Elizabeth Ryan, EdD by Paula Termuhlen

“…Her contributions to the growth and development of future physicians spanned decades. Her simple motto of “work hard, be nice and earn your credibility” brought her the love and respect of those with whom she worked. …”
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Marriage and the Concept of Ubale, the Sanctity and the Ridicule: Ulale-Mobà as a Case Study by Oladiipo Ajiboye

“…Ùlále ̣ ̀ displays a long marriage process that could span two decades depending on the level at which a would-be bride is sighted by her suitor and approved of by her parents as found in ìnna síse ‘obligatory responsibility to in-laws’. …”
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Assessing vulnerability and framing adaptive options of two Mediterranean wine growing regions facing climate change: Roussillon (France) and McLaren Vale (Australia) by Anne-Laure Lereboullet, Douglas Bardsley, Gérard Beltrando

“…Results show that producers had to face an increase in temperature and a decrease in rainfall in the last decade, and this tendency, according to climate models, is likely to continue through to 2060, with a fair level of uncertainty. …”
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Water Stress Influence For Tomato (Solanum Lycopersicum) Production by Rusnam Rusnam, Ridho Adi Surya, Muhammad Makky

“…Tomato production in Indonesia has decreased over five decades. This lack of production is caused by the limitation of water supply during the dry season as to effect of its rooting. …”
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Relapsed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Presenting as Acute Renal Failure by Ashley Rose, Samuel Slone, Eric Padron

“…It is an aggressive hematologic neoplasm, with a bimodal age distribution typically presenting in childhood and the 6th decade of life (Terwilliger and Abdul-Hay, 2017). …”
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