South Sea Daggers and the Dead Man’s Eye: Foreign Invasion in Fin-de-Siècle Optogram Fiction by Andrea Goulet

“…These discourses—of biological vulnerability, of psychic pathology, and of social-geographical deviance—allow us to re-read the optical theme of the retinal membrane as symbol for the anxiety-provoking porosity of national and civic boundaries in an age of colonial exchange.…”
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Western North American Cruise Shipping Network: Space Structure and System by Xumao Li, Chang Li, Zukun Long

“…The interconnection of different systems forms a T-shaped cruise shipping network in geographical space.…”
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Estimation Model of Soil Freeze-Thaw Erosion in Silingco Watershed Wetland of Northern Tibet by Bo Kong, Huan Yu

“…Different soil FT erosions with different intensities have evidently different spatial and geographical distributions.…”
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Lost Pathways of Urban Development by Erik Harms

“…The trees and pathways in these photographs evoke an aspect of sociality often overlooked in the logocentric anthropological and geographical literature on development-induced evictions. …”
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Florida Biosolids: Management and Land Application Rules by John Hallas, Cheryl L. Mackowiak, Ann C. Wilkie

“…., land application requirements, biosolids storage, cumulative application limits, setback distances, pH, soil depth, runoff prevention, additional application site restrictions for Class B biosolids, NMPs, and special geographic areas. Written by John Hallas, Cheryl L. …”
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Document publication. Survey of 1545 Livonia and the Great Duchy of Lithuania borderline audit (Livonian officers report) by Tomas Čelkis, Darius Antanavičius

“…The document contains toponymic and geographical information as well: the mound names by the borderline and even the temple on one of the mounds are mentioned. …”
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Cultural landscapes. Artificial between resilience and natural selection by Marina Fumo

“…Knowing the peculiar features of a natural or urban artificial landscape and identifying in it with a feeling of belonging, as a place bearing culture and traditions, has always linked the human beings to their territory, to a geographical context. In the current global environmental crisis, the rural landscape is once again considered an asset for man, especially for its cultural and spiritual values, as a fundamental scenario to build individual and collective life. …”
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La déforestation baisse en Amazonie. Vraiment ? by François-Michel Le Tourneau

“…To do so, we first present the data that are available to the public about deforestation, distinguishing their (sometimes apparently contradictory) characteristics and underlining the Amazon’s inherent ecological and geographical complexity. In a second part, we describe the history of deforestation since 1985, first at the level of the whole basin (or pan-Amazonia) and then focusing on the Brazilian Amazon. …”
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Écrire l’histoire des migrations de travailleurs pauvres (Toscane, 13e-15e siècles) : historiographies et problèmes by Cédric Quertier

“…But relationship between status and economic condition must be deepened, because free work also means creation of new forms of exploitation, because, in the same time that citizenship becomes complex, crafters and workers are made stranger in their own society, and because links between social and geographical mobility are an open field of investigation.…”
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Global burden of five major types of gastrointestinal cancer by Arjun Singh

“…The most prevalent GI malignancies are colorectal, gastric, liver, oesophageal, and pancreatic cancers. Marked geographic variations exist, with high incidence in developed regions contrasting with high mortality in developing areas. …”
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Collaborative Task Offloading Strategy of UAV Cluster Using Improved Genetic Algorithm in Mobile Edge Computing by Hong Wang

“…Aiming at the problem that traditional fixed base stations cannot provide good signal coverage due to geographical factors, which may reduce the efficiency of task offloading, a collaborate task offloading strategy using improved genetic algorithm in mobile edge computing (MEC) is proposed by introducing the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) cluster. …”
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L’élection présidentielle de février 2019 au Sénégal by Mamadou Bouna Timera, Momar Diongue, Ousmane Thiam

“…Although the ruling party's candidate was renewed, the results of the vote did not show large geographical disparities between the power and the opposition. …”
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Theory and Application of Vessel Speed Dynamic Control considering Safety and Environmental Factors by Tianrui Zhou, Qinyou Hu, Zhihui Hu, Jiamao Zhi

“…Traditional speed control methods only consider geographical constraints, which is difficult to achieve the goal of safe navigation and maritime traffic efficiency simultaneously. …”
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Determining the attractiveness of Serbian spas as a destination for wellness tourism by Belij-Radin Marija

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Study of the Use of Antinematode Drugs, Mebendazole and Pyrantel, in Galicia (Spain) from 2016 to 2020 by S. Vázquez- Prieto, A. Vaamonde, E. Paniagua

“…The difference in the mean DHD between both drugs and the geographical differences observed was statistically significant. …”
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Broadband availability in metropolitan and non-metropolitan Pennsylvania by Lawrence E. Wood

“…As broadband increases in importance, it becomes imperative to assess how its use and availability may vary, especially in relation to issues such as geographic location. For rural areas in particular, the availability of broadband service is especially important. …”
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Mycobacterium ulcerans and Mycobacterium marinum: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Treatment by Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Pendru Raghunath, Long Chiau Ming, Jodi Woan-Fei Law

“…Meanwhile, M. marinum, as an NTM has also become important emerging causal agents of cutaneous disease in various geographical regions. Although having common ancestry and highly similar in genetic makeup, M. ulcerans and M. marinum have differential impacts on the host innate immune system. …”
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The Scanian Economic-Demographic Database (SEDD) by Martin Dribe, Luciana Quaranta

“…At the individual level, SEDD combines various demographic and socioeconomic records, including causes of death, place of birth and geographic data on the place of residence within a parish. …”
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Capitalisme agraire en Indonésie : les marchés du travail et de la terre comme déterminants des rapports salariaux dans les plantations de palmier à huile by Stéphanie Barral

“…The role of companies in the definition of social protections as well as access to land for complementary ones entails important geographic inequalities between agricultural laborers.…”
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R post-vocalique et histoire de l’anglais by Jacques Durand

“…While the loss of post-vocalic r’s does require an explanation in phonetic and phonological terms, I mainly concentrate on broader sociolinguistic and sociohistorical issue: on the one hand, the early emergence in Britain of London and the surrounding counties as a centre from which changes radiate across the whole of Britain; on the other hand, the complex evolution of English in the United States with the emergence of new social and geographical boundaries. The paper will attempt to show that, while the selection of particular traits to separate dialects is usually arbitrary from a strict linguistic point of view, once a trait has been selected and functions as a ‘shibboleth’ in the Biblical sense (Judges, xii, 5-6, “King James Version”, 1611) powerful societal forces can conjoin to maintain and reinforce it. …”
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