A Review: Farmers' Local Wisdom on Natural Resources by Zuhud Rozaki, Oki Wijaya, Khamsing Keothoumma, Emil Salim

“…Local wisdom seems to have a role in managing natural resources with wise ways, get full benefits without destroying it. Natural resources, especially in terms of soil, water, plant and animal diversity, vegetation cover, climate, and ecosystem services, are fundamental for agricultural systems' structure and function. …”
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‘If this is of God’: Choosing to Curse in Ghanaian Charismatic Christianity by Mark S. Aidoo

“…Moreover, it is about destroying physical or spiritual beings that oppose one’s wellbeing. …”
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“Punk’s Not Dead, It Lives on The Football Terraces”: Tracing The Legacy of Punk in Subcultural Milieu of The Football Firms by Hüseyin Serbes

“…With the critical discourse analysis carried out in this context, the modern football phenomenon, which destroys the subjectivity of the fans, is investigated. …”
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Optimal Design of FPGA Switch Matrix with Ion Mobility Based Nonvolatile ReRAM by Peng Hai-yun, Zhou Wen-gang

“…The device has extreme short erasing time and the stored charge cannot be destroyed after power-off. Therefore, the ReRAM device is a significant storage device for many applications in the next generation. …”
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Staying Optimistic: The Trials and Tribulations of Leibnizian Optimism by Lloyd Strickland

“…The oft-told story of Leibniz’s doctrine of the best world, or optimism, is that it enjoyed a great deal of popularity in the eighteenth century until the massive earthquake that struck Lisbon on 1 November 1755 destroyed its support. Despite its long history, this story is nothing more than a commentators’ fiction that has become accepted wisdom not through sheer weight of evidence but through sheer frequency of repetition. …”
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Cryopreservation Techniques for Ram Sperm by Amit Saha, Mohammad Asaduzzaman, Farida Yeasmin Bari

“…However, successful cryopreservation of ram sperm is still a work in progress because a considerable percentage of sperm do not survive the freezing and thawing process. Sperms are destroyed during cryopreservation of semen due to varying concentrations of cryoprotective chemicals and if semen is not cooled at optimal cooling rates. …”
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Othering Nature in Arundhati Roy’s 'The God of Small Things': A Postcolonial Ecocritical Study by Ghulam Yasin

“…The research finds out that the humans’ desires for economic development are materialized through putting aside the traditional ways of agriculture, building dams, clearing forests, and adopting modern ways of living which destroy the balance of their ecosystem. These factors eventually lead towards the ‘othering’ of nature and the natives in the hands of the colonizers, having some hidden economic and political agendas. …”
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Les espaces ruraux du Brahmapoutre et les villes d’Assam : des chemins divergents ? by Émilie Cremin, Annick Hollé

“…Even when the river is controlled through embankments, inundations can inundate and destroy entire villages and rural areas. Local institutions in charge of implementing land management schemes put into place by the central government are failing to mitigate the precarious conditions in rural areas. …”
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Une double conduite en bois découverte avenue du Point-du-Jour à Lyon by Sylvain Motte

“…The base of this massive cubic section of masonry (2.70×2.64 m) stood in the ditch itself, destroying the original twin wooden pipe.…”
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The Origin of Individual Differences in the Course and Severity of Diseases by Sergey N. Rumyantsev

“…Until recently, the origin of this kind of biodiversity was poorly investigated and understood, but advances in immunology — especially in identifying constitutional (genetic) mechanisms of immunity — have contributed to our understanding of the origin of individual diversity in diseases. Any disease destroys only focal areas in the affected organisms, and the amounts, sizes, and distribution of such focal lesions vary from patient to patient. …”
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Le paysage est-il soluble dans le patrimoine écologique ? by Arnaud de Lajartre

“…But will the latter prove soluble in the former, within a world in which the goal has become to make everything not yet destroyed part of heritage ? This temptation is particularly applicable to Nature, and it is not trivial to point out that this fast-paced slide towards the AVAP was born of the Law of 12 July 2010, in itself the national commitment to the environment called Grenelle II. …”
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Overview of US Tahiti Lime Production and Markets: Trade and Consumption Analysis by Trent Blare, Fredy BALLEN, Jonathan Crane

“…However, there are few commercial orchards left for these lime cultivars in the state. Many orchards were destroyed during Hurricane Andrew, and those that survived were then eliminated by Florida’s Citrus Canker Eradication Program in the late 1990s and early 2000s. …”
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READING ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART FROM CÉSAIRE’S PERSPECTIVE ON ANTICOLONIALISM by Yohanes Tuaderu

“…The harassment of human values - what Césaire called "thingification", trampled culture, damaged socio-cultural foundations, destroyed native religions, and confiscated ancestral inherited lands have apparently become the trigger for the struggle against colonialism. …”
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Advances in Immunotherapy for Melanoma: A Comprehensive Review by Carmen Rodríguez-Cerdeira, Miguel Carnero Gregorio, Adriana López-Barcenas, Elena Sánchez-Blanco, Beatriz Sánchez-Blanco, Gabriella Fabbrocini, Brunilda Bardhi, Ardiana Sinani, Roberto Arenas Guzman

“…These treatments have the same goal as drugs that are already used to stimulate the proliferation of T lymphocytes in order to destroy tumor cells; however, immunotherapies aim to selectively attack the tumor cells of each patient. …”
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A Novel Mesh Quality Improvement Method for Boundary Elements by Hou-lin Liu, Cui Dai, Liang Dong, Ming-gao Tan

“…In addition, the existing smoothing algorithm can improve the mesh quality only by repositioning vertices of the interior mesh. Without destroying boundary conformity, bad elements with all their vertices on the boundary cannot be eliminated. …”
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Appropriate amount of modified corn flour improves the structural and physicochemical properties of wheat dough by Mengdi Song, Zhiqiang Fan, Zhan Liang, Shihong Wang, Xing Zhang, Youqiang Pei, Haiyan Gao, Jie Zeng

“…However, the excessive addition of SG-CF or HB-CF destroyed the gluten network structure. Results of this study are expected to provide valuable guidance for the application of SG-CF and HB-CF in flour-based products.…”
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A Novel Experiment to Study the Roll Motion Characteristics of a Sailing Ship in a Landslide-Generated Wave in the Three Gorges Reservoir by Peiyin Yuan, Pingyi Wang, Yu Zhao

“…Strong earthquakes, heavy rains, changes in reservoir water levels, and other external factors destabilize large rock masses causing them to fall into the water at high speed, thereby destroying the original ecological balance in the region. …”
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IoT-Based a Control System for Household Waste Management Machines at Waste Disposal Sites using Human Machine Interface Method by Pawenary pawenary, Hendri Hendri, Dwi Listiawati, Andi Dyah Harum Hardyanti, Yessy Asri, Anton Satria Prabuwono

“…Developing a control system using the HMI method is not just a solution but an innovative approach that aims to find an effective solution in managing or destroying waste that requires less labor, so there is no need to increase assistance. …”
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Animal Models of Chronic Pancreatitis by Makoto Otsuki, Mitsuyoshi Yamamoto, Taizo Yamaguchi

“…Pancreatic injury induced by repetitive injections of supramaximal stimulatory dose of caerulein (Cn) or by intraductal infusion of sodium taurocholate (NaTc) recovered within 14 days, whereas that caused by repetitive injection of arginine or by intraductal infusion of oleic acid was persistent. However, the destroyed acinar tissues were replaced by fatty tissues without fibrosis. …”
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Development of an Environmentally Friendly Resist-Removal Process Using Wet Ozone by Hideo Horibe, Yousuke Goto

“…Using TOF-SIMS, we clarified that the molecule of cresol novolak resin was destroyed and carbonized by ion implantation.…”
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