El tiempo vuela: el uso de aves y otros animales para representar las unidades de tiempo de la cuenta larga maya by Rogelio Valencia Rivera

“…The zoomorphic images used to represent the different periods that form the Mayan Long Count have never been explained in a global way and their meaning remains poorly understood. …”
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Farewell to Fiestas and Saints? Changing Catholic Practices in Contemporary Rural Oaxaca by Toomas Gross

“…Fiestas commemorating patron saints of the villages play a particularly important role in (re)constructing communal identity and the feeling of collective belongingness. Various global processes like secularisation, integration of local economies into the capitalist market system, increasing out-migration from villages, and the rise of Protestantism have undermined the position of the Catholic Church in the region. …”
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Design and Nonlinear Control of a 2-DOF Flexible Parallel Humanoid Arm Joint Robot by Leijie Jiang, Bingtuan Gao, Zhenyu Zhu

“…And the dynamic model of the mechanism is formulated by using the coupling theory of the flexible body’s large global motion and small flexible deformation. Based on derived dynamics, antivibration control of the joint robot is studied with a nonlinear control method. …”
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SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR FOR ASSESSING LAND DEGRADATION IN A SALT MINING AREA – OCNELE MARI CASE-STUDY by VIOLETA POENARU, ALEXANDRU BADEA, SORIN MIHAI CÎMPEANU, IULIA DANA NEGULA

“…Human activities through anthropogenic changes had negative impacts not only on land cover, but on many aspects of local, regional and global environments, including climate, biodiversity, soil condition and sediment flow. …”
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Compulsory Licensing in Intellectual Property Rights (IPR): Current Application and Future Prospects in Indonesia by Sahlan Sahlan, Ilham Nurman, Abdul Karim Uddin, Andi Bustamin Daeng Kunu

“…The implementation of Compulsory Licensing in the procurement of anti-retroviral drugs to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which poses a significant threat to Indonesia and global public health, exemplifies the essential necessity and utility of this concept. …”
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The Ignored Impact of the Livestock Sector on Climate Change: An Analysis from the Perspective of International Law by Melina Moreira Campos Lima

“…One conclusion reveals that state parties, by ignoring the sector, will violate several articles of the Agreement, which will likely lead to the failure of its main purpose of holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C.…”
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Ramas, familles, réseaux. Les supports sociaux de la diffusion de la santería cubaine (Cuba-Mexique) by Kali Argyriadis

“…Cuban santería is following a global trend towards transnationalisation, like all of the other so-called Afro-American religions, currently found in West Africa, Europe and across the American continent. …”
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Assembly and disassembly – The module as a compositional element for a ‘new’ sustainability – The Spanish case by Claudia Pirina, Giovanni Comi, Anna Frangipane

“…These works are offered as emblematic, in a logic of interaction and ‘synthesis’ between technology and design in relation to the contemporary global challenges of sustainability and energy transition. …”
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BUFFERING FUNCTION: A GENERAL APPROACH FOR BUFFER BEHAVIOR by André Fernando de Oliveira

“…Entretanto, há várias propostas e parâmetros que tentam explicar o comportamento tampão, tais como poder tamponante de Van Slyke, capacidade tamponante de Kolthoff, acidez, alcalinidade and outros, mas todos são incapazes de apresentar uma explicação global para esse comportamento. Neste artigo, propomos a Função Tamponante, que é uma equação fundamental que permite explicar todos os tipos comportamento tampão e os parâmetros já proposto, sem usar a Equação de Henderson-Hasselbach. …”
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Brief communication: virological outcomes and dolutegravir resistance mutations in HIV-infected patients: a multicenter retrospective cohort study in Mozambique by Anna Maria Doro Altan, Noorjehan Majid, Stefano Orlando, Elton Uamusse, Marcia Rafael, Zita Sidumo, Giovanni Guidotti, Fausto Ciccacci

“…Abstract The global HIV epidemic remains a major public health challenge, with DTG playing a key role in ART regimens due to its efficacy and tolerability. …”
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An international award-winning photograph illustrates how graphics convey climate change communication messages by Deborah HILTON

“…Research showed that mass communication could be an important means to address environmental global warming. This paper shows that photographs can convey climate change communication messages. …”
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Academic Dependency and Neoliberalism: Emerging Trends in Tourism Studies from a Latin American Lens by Gabriel Comparato, Florencia Viviana Moscoso

“…First, key aspects for considering and addressing the idea of neoliberalism in the social sciences of the Global South are explored. The second axis includes an analysis of dependency within tourism studies. …”
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Surface Level Ozone and its Adverse Effects on Crops and Forests: A Need for an Interdisciplinary Understanding by Sagar V. Krupa

“…Surface level ozone (O3) is clearly a global scale problem with regard to its adverse effects on crops, forests and native, terrestrial plant ecosystems. …”
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On the interaction between the immune system and an exponentially replicating pathogen by Alberto d'Onofrio

“…After the generalization, we study the properties of boundedness and unboundedness of the solutions, and we also give a condition for the global eradication as well as for the onset of sustained oscillations. …”
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Tuberculosis Presenting as Isolated Wrist Swelling: A Case Report and Review of Literature by Oshan Basnayake, Ahamed Nihaj, Ranji Pitagampalage, Harsha Mendis

“…Tuberculosis is a common disease entity in South East Asian countries with a significant global burden. An extra skeletal manifestation such as monoarticular TB is common, but isolated involvement of the wrist is rare. …”
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Mechanisms of lignin degradation and persistent free radical formation under light or thermal exposure by Jianghui Yun, Qiuting Yang, Guorui Liu

“…Research on PFRs formed in the process of lignin biomass combustion should be prioritized because of increasing global wildfire events.…”
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Does the COVID-19 XBB Omicron subvariant signal the beginning of the end of the pandemic? by Jinghao Nicholas Ngiam, Abdurrahmaan Al-Mubaarak, Sebastian Maurer-Stroh, Paul Anantharajah Tambyah

“…The XBB Omicron subvariant is rapidly becoming the dominant strain of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Singapore from October 2022 and is one of several variants circulating globally with the potential to dominate autumn/winter waves in different countries. …”
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Exploring small-scale optimization coupling learning approaches for enterprises’ financial health forecasts by Lin Zhu, Zhihua Zhang, M. James C. Crabbe

“…Abstract The financial health of leading enterprises has a significant impact on the sustainable development of the global economy. Most data-driven financial health forecasts are based on the direct use of small-scale machine learning. …”
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INTERNATIONALIZATION OF EDUCATION AS HIGH-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY by Anton N. Grigoriev, Georgy V. Korshunov

“…This article considers different aspects in building the export policy of educational services in the global education market and the education of international students in Russian universities. …”
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Changes in the organ of vision in neurofibromatosis type 1 in the developmental age by Mirosława Grałek, Katarzyna Piasecka, Katarzyna Wasyliszyn-Sieroszewska, Anna Niwald

“…Neurofibromatosis type 1 is a genetic disorder with clinical manifestations determined by their origin in the three germ layers. Globally, the prevalence of neurofibromatosis type 1 is estimated at 1 : 3,000 to 1 : 3,500. …”
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