Matriarchal Exemplarity in Elizabeth Isham’s Booke of Rememberance by Emma Rayner

“…Elizabeth Isham’s Booke of Rememberance (written 1638-9) has emerged in recent decades as one of the seventeenth century’s finest surviving examples of life-writing. …”
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Cotton in ancient Sudan and Nubia by Elsa Yvanez, Magdalena M. Wozniak

“…It was confirmed during the first decades of Sudanese archaeology by the discovery of many cotton textiles found in Meroe and Lower Nubia, and more recently completed by several archaeobotanical studies conducted in the same regions. …”
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La querelle des noms. Chaînes et strates ethnonymiques dans le Chaco boréal by Nicolas Richard

“…The ethnic names, still in use in 1940, to designate the indigenous peoples of the Chaco Boreal (Chulupi, Moro, Chamacoco, Lenguas…) were gradually replaced over the following decades by a new layer of names (Nivaclé, Ayoreo, Ishir, Enlhet…) all of which can be translated as « men », or « humans ». …”
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Differential Evolution without the Scale Factor and the Crossover Probability by Xiaowei Zhang

“…Differential evolution has made great achievements in various fields such as computational sciences, engineering optimization, and operations management in the past decades. It is well known that the control parameter setting plays a very important role in terms of the performance improvement of differential evolution. …”
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Interleukin 2-Based Fusion Proteins for the Treatment of Cancer by Alana MacDonald, T.-C. Wu, Chien-Fu Hung

“…Although modest success is observed in the clinic, cancer patients receiving IL-2 therapy experience a wide array of side effects ranging from flu-like symptoms to life-threatening conditions such as vascular leak syndrome. Over the past three decades, efforts have focused on circumventing IL-2-related toxicities by engineering methods to localize IL-2 to the tumor or secondary lymphoid tissue, preferentially activate CD8+ T cells and NK cells, and alter pharmacokinetic properties to increase bioavailability. …”
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Symposium on the role of religious leaders in peacemaking and social change in Africa: Zambia's case by F.D. Sakala

“…This made Zambia an example of a new wave of democratization which is sweeping across Africa in this last decade of the twentieth century. This paper looks at the role of religious leaders in peacemaking and social change in Zambia. …”
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A Review of the Methods for Predicting the Effective In-Plane Shear Modulus of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) by Mehsam Tanzim Khan, Ying Hei Chui, Dongsheng Huang

“…Few methods have been proposed over the last decade to determine the in-plane shear modulus of CLT. …”
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BRICS in a world at crossroads? by Siphamandla Zondi, Norman Sempijja, Thulisile Mphambukeli

“…It has over the past decade and a half decided to bring Russia into West’s fold in defence of a US - anchored western international order. …”
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Symmetry-Aware 6D Object Pose Estimation via Multitask Learning by Hongjia Zhang, Junwen Huang, Xin Xu, Qiang Fang, Yifei Shi

“…Although 6D object pose estimation has been intensively explored in the past decades, the performance is still not fully satisfactory, especially when it comes to symmetric objects. …”
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Critique Interdisciplinary an the Book Anthropology of Music The by Mohammad Ali Merati

“…The process of this critique will have comparisons in the methods and ideas of comparative musicology that have been revived in the last decade or two with international music associations. …”
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Fighting against depopulation in inland Spain. Alternatives from Art, Design and Architecture by José-Luis Baró Zarzo, Javier Poyatos Sebastián, Nydia Martínez Martínez

“…Unless this is remedied many more villages will disappear in the coming decades, adding to the many deserted areas found in ‘empty Spain’. …”
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Predicting Convergence of Per Capita Income in Spain: A Markov and Cluster Approach by José F. Gálvez-Rodríguez, Miguel Manzano-Hidalgo, Amelia V. García-Luengo

“…In this work we analyze the evolution of productivity, in terms of the convergence of per capita income, of all the Spanish provinces, based on data from the previous decade. On the one hand, a cluster analysis allows us to group the Spanish provinces according to four income levels (low, medium-low, medium-high and high), which can be determined from the quartiles of the distribution, and, on the other hand, Markov chains make it possible to study the long-term evolution of productivity and convergence between the provinces, as well as the speed of convergence towards the equilibrium situation. …”
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OPTICS OF LOOKING TO THE FUTURE (Paper 3) by V. I. Baidenko, N. A. Selezneva

“…The paper identifies the focus of 10th and 11th EQAF on trends in higher education development for the coming decades and reveals the dynamics of mentality changes in higher education occurred for the time of the Forums.…”
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At any cost: a paradigm shift in the culture of caesarean section rate monitoring in the United Kingdom by Oguljemal Redjepova, Ashwini Bilagi

“…CS rates in the UK have risen considerably over the last few decades and, in this time, there has been national effort at the level of government to kerb such rises due to concerns about the associated morbidity, and the medicalisation of birth. …”
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INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES AS A FACTOR OF INCREASING THE COMPETITIVENESS AND COMPETITIVE STABILITY OF SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS by A. K. Kiryukhin, D. V. Akopyan, I. A. Suvorov

“…Under such conditions, the role of internal factors of enterprise competitiveness increases. In recent decades, the introduction of such technologies in service enterprises has become increasingly widespread, ranging from simple tools (e-mail or messengers) to global introduction in the business structure ( using electronic commerce or creating virtual enterprises). …”
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TODAY'S ROUND OF THE BOLOGNA PROCESS: CONTINUED OPTIMISM. AND A LITTLE BIT ABOUT RUSSIAN (Paper 1) by V. I. Baidenko, N. A. Selezneva

“…Of course, the authors' intention is to reflect this collective conceptual and methodological activity in the context of the Bologna Process, which obviously has already gone through an optimistic round of its first decade and entered into a contradictory, multi-speed and multilevel reality of transition to the institutional level of reforms.The first article deals with some issues of the current stage of Bolognatransformations amid financial, economic and demographic crisis. …”
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Variations in Aggressive and Indolent Behaviour of Central Dentinogenic Ghost Cell Tumor by Radhika Manoj Bavle, Sudhakara Muniswamappa, Soumya Makarla, Reshma Venugopal

“…The two cases discussed in this article are divergent in behaviour with features such as presentation, seen in early decades as central intraosseous tumors in the maxilla and mandible. …”
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In silico docking and molecular dynamics for the discovery of inhibitors of enteric methane production in ruminants — A review by Kamburawala Kankanamge Tharindu Namal Ranaweera, Myunggi Baik

“…Livestock, particularly ruminants, have been a major research topic in recent decades due to their methane production. Therefore, the objective of the current review was to comprehensively discuss the in silico techniques used to mitigate methane production from ruminants. …”
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Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) Following Immune Checkpoint Therapy (ICT) by Saivaroon Gajagowni, Emily Wang, Jianbo Wang, Matthew T. Campbell, Bilal A. Siddiqui

“…In the past decade, the use of immune checkpoint therapy (ICT) has increased across many malignancies, including metastatic renal cell carcinoma as an option for frontline and subsequent lines of therapy. …”
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Pro-Environmental Behavior Model among University Students by Hetti Rahmawati, Fonny Dameaty Hutagalung, Yudi Tri Harsono, Nur Rohmah Hidayatul Qoyyimah

“…According to the rational perspective from Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), belief, personal norm, and perceived behavioral control (PBC) affect actions through behavioral intention. In the past two decades, TPB has become the most extensively discussed concept in explaining pro-environmental behavior (PEB) but still needs re-examination in the Indonesian context. …”
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