Negotiating a place in town. Street vending in Thika (Kenya) by Nathan Mwangi Kariuki, Sylvain Racaud

“…There is also a gap between local or national texts and everyday practices, as illustrated by petty corruption. These « informal” trading streets showcase the confrontation between two legitimacies: that of people with low incomes rooted in the local context and that of project promoters of a globalized urban modernity. …”
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Socially resilient mobility planning: Main challenges and design implications by Oliver Weberg, Jesper Lund, Vaike Fors, Andrea Resmini

“…These findings are illustrated in this article through five design implications, each highlighting strategies to integrate social resilience into mobility systems, ensuring they are responsive and supportive of the communities they serve.…”
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Brain Drain in Kosovo: Policy Recommendations for Talent Retention and Sustainable Development by Nimani Mentor, Nimani Arbenita Sylejmani

“…The findings align with established migration theories, including Push-Pull Theory and Human Capital Theory, illustrating how push factors like political instability and poor job prospects in Kosovo contrast with the pull factors of better salaries and career opportunities abroad. …”
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Vulnerability of vascular endothelium in lipopolysaccharide toxicity: effect of (acyl) carnitine on endothelial stability by W. C. Hülsmann

“…The literature presented illustrates that lipopolysaccharide (LPS), from bacterial cell walls, induces tumour necrosis factor (TNF) synthesis in macrophages. …”
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Time-Varying Biased Proportional Guidance with Seeker’s Field-of-View Limit by Zhe Yang, Hui Wang, Defu Lin

“…Extensive simulations considering both kinematic and realistic missile models are performed to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method.…”
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A Gradient Stable Node-Based Smoothed Discrete Shear Gap Method for Analysis of Reissner–Mindlin Plates by Yadong Xu, Guangsong Chen, Jinsong Tang

“…Several numerical examples are provided to illustrate the accuracy and effectiveness. The results demonstrate that the presented method is free of shear locking and can overcome the temporal instability issues, simultaneously obtaining excellent solutions.…”
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Human Behaviour Analysis of Barrier Deviations Using a Benefit-Cost-Deficit Model by Philippe Polet, Frédéric Vanderhaegen, Patrick Millot

“…The results of an experimental study conducted on a railway simulator (TRANSPAL) are used to illustrate the advantages of the BCD model. In this study, human operators were faced with barriers that they could choose to deactivate, or not. …”
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State-Space Geometry, Statistical Fluctuations, and Black Holes in String Theory by Stefano Bellucci, Bhupendra Nath Tiwari

“…We provide a set of physical motivations pertaining to the extremal and nonextremal black holes, namely, the meaning of the chemical geometry and physics of correlation. We illustrate the state-space configurations for general charge extremal black holes. …”
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El ave como cielo: la presencia del ave chan en las bandas celestes mayas by Rogelio Valencia Rivera, Daniel Salazar Lama

“…In Mayan pictorial tradition, the use of certain iconographic elements serves to transmit messages with a high symbolic content, whether these messages refer to mythological narratives, or illustrate historical events that approximate mythical ones. …”
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Improved Dynamic Response of a Single-Phase-Integrated KY Boost Converter with an MLI System of a DC-AC Converter in Motor Speed Regulation by V. Mohan, K. Nandakumar

“…The proposed model is simulated with the MATLAB software, and the attained outcome illustrated an enhanced dynamic performance by using the FOPID-controlled KBC-MLI system. …”
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Reliability Modeling for Multistate System with Preventive Maintenance under Customer Demand by Jinlei Qin, Zheng Li

“…Two numerical examples have been illustrated to show the validity of the proposed model. …”
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Snow and Dickens: The Victorian ‘Inconvenient Truth’ by Wayne Melville et Philip V. Allingham

“…Scientists’ investigations into environmental issues often fail to promote political change unless those investigations are popularised in the public consciousness. We will illustrate this thesis through the work of Dickens and the pioneering physician, Dr John Snow. …”
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Comparison of Different Confidence Intervals under Type-I Censoring Scheme by Ali Algarni, Abdullah M. Almarashi, Debasis Kundu, G. A. Abd-Elmougod, Sayed Abdel-Khalek

“…The Monte Carlo simulation study is used to compare different methods. Finally, for illustrative purposes, the real dataset is used and analyzed.…”
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The Understanding of the Meaning of Intercultural Communication by Non-philological and Philological Students of Business English Courses at the University of Presov by Lucia Dančišinová

“…The aim of the paper is to analyse and compare the process of definition of intercultural communication in university textbooks with the definitions by philological and non-philological students of Business English courses at the University of Presov, to illustrate the possible problems with understanding the meaning as a result of different purposes and contexts of educational reality. …”
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Complex Dynamical Behavior of Holling–Tanner Predator-Prey Model with Cross-Diffusion by Caiyun Wang, Yongyong Pei, Yaqun Niu, Ruiqiang He

“…Spatial predator-prey models have been studied by researchers for many years, because the exact distributions of the population can be well illustrated via pattern formation. In this paper, amplitude equations of a spatial Holling–Tanner predator-prey model are studied via multiple scale analysis. …”
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A Polycentric Approach for Addressing Wicked Social Problems by Jordan K. Lofthouse, Leah Kral

“…We use two examples to illustrate our argument, including post-disaster recovery and climate change mitigation.…”
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A study of two Chinese-style Clarinet Works Colors from China and Hommage to China from the Perspective of Cultural Holism by Congjie Zhao

“…It was proposed mainly based on the background of increasingly frequent cultural exchanges in the world today, and contemporary Western classical music works illustrate this trend by increasingly incorporating non-Western music elements. …”
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A Stochastic Decision Support System for Economic Order Quantity Problem by Amir Yousefli, Mehdi Ghazanfari

“…Comparison between the results of the developed PRB and the optimum solutions which is provided in the numerical example illustrates the efficiency of the developed PRB.…”
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Smoking Hot: the Odalisque’s eroticizing Cigarette by Liesbeth Grotenhuis

“…Sold in eye-catching tin boxes, the Egyptian landscape illustrations soon changed into better selling eastern beauties, obviously tempting potential male users. …”
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The Role of Ground-Based Robotic Observatories in Satellite Projects by R. Hudec

“…In addition to this, there are also satellite projects outside the high-energy astronomy, in which the robotic telescopes can also play an important role. We will illustrate this on the example of the ESA satellite Gaia. …”
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