Rwanda after the Genocide: Formal and Informal Institutions in Overcoming Development Traps by E. S. Glazova

“…An explanatory hypothesisis that antagonistic relationship between formal and informal institutions makes it impossible to overcome path dependence. The problem is illustrated by the case of Rwanda, which, despite the large-scale foreign aid in the 1960s-early 1990s, failed to resolve the growing socio-political contradictions that eventually led to the 1994 genocide. …”
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Priapism in Antipsychotic Drug Use: A Rare but Important Side Effect by Igne Sinkeviciute, Rune A. Kroken, Erik Johnsen

“…Moreover, the patient used combinations of antipsychotic drugs. The case thus illustrates the etiological complexity which could delay a diagnosis of antipsychotic-induced priapism, and the problem of establishing a link between priapism and one particular ingredient of a drug combination. …”
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Formfunktionen der Sonatenform. Ein Beitrag zur Sonatentheorie auf der Grundlage einer Kritik an William E. Caplins Verständnis von Formfunktionen by Ulrich Kaiser

“…Applying this critical view to the formal functions ›main theme‹, ›transition‹, ›subordinate theme‹, and ›closing section‹, an alternative concept for the musical analysis of sonata form is developed and illustrated with compositions from the second half of the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century.…”
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Predictive Probability Models of Road Traffic Human Deaths with Demographic Factors in Ghana by Christian Akrong Hesse, Dominic Buer Boyetey, Albert Ayi Ashiagbor

“…The objective of this study was to illustrate and estimate probability models that can predict road traffic fatalities. …”
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Solving the Problem of Linear Programming with Cost Coefficients and Grey Resources Using the Primal Simplex Algorithm by Farid Pourofoghi

“…We emphasize that the proposed concept is useful for real and practical situations. To illustrate the efficiency of the method, we solve an example of Grey Linear Programming (GLP).…”
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Promoting Agricultural Research and Development to Strengthen Food Security in South Asia by Ghose Bishwajit

“…This study also depicts the current situation of food security in South Asia and illustrates how agricultural education and innovation hold the master key to solve the food security issues for the world's most densely populated region.…”
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Hypercrater Bifurcations, Attractor Coexistence, and Unfolding in a 5D Model of Economic Dynamics by Toichiro Asada, Panagiotis Markellos

“…In both these cases the related hysteresis effects are illustrated by numerical simulations. In the third case a remarkable feature is the apparent unfolding of an attracting CIC before it evolves to a chaotic attractor. …”
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Reappraisal and neotypification of Phyllachora feijoae by L.C. Costa, D.M. Macedo, R.W. Barreto

“…Phyllachora feijoae is also illustrated here for the first time.…”
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Machine learning for predicting earthquake magnitudes in the Central Himalaya by Ram Krishna Tiwari, Rudra Prasad Poudel, Harihar Paudyal

“…We also checked the performance of these models by three parameters Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Mean Squared Error (MSE), and Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) and noticed the better performance of RFR model. The findings illustrate that RFR is achieving better performance than the other two algorithms, as the predicted magnitudes are close to the actual magnitudes. …”
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Representation of Ethiopian Wet Spells in Global and Nested Models by Mark R. Jury, Sen Chiao

“…Background is given to illustrate the Hadley circulation and easterly jets over Ethiopia, using sections on 37°E in July–August 2011. …”
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Cooperative Fuzzy Games Approach to Setting Target Levels of ECs in Quality Function Deployment by Zhihui Yang, Yizeng Chen, Yunqiang Yin

“…The solution for the proposed model is Pareto-optimal. An illustrated example is cited to demonstrate the application and performance of the proposed approach.…”
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Le couple anticipation/décision aux prises avec l’exceptionnel, l’imprévu et l’incertitude by Valérie November, Alice Azémar, Sophie Lecacheux, Thierry Winter

“…Through two case studies located during the Irma-José-Maria crisis, one observed in the National French Crisis Center and the other experienced by a government operator, at a more regional level, this article illustrates these obstacles and highlights the fragmentation of the anticipation/decision couple in the practice of the different ORSEC levels. …”
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Quantum GIS (QGIS): An introduction to a free alternative to more costly GIS platforms by Jeffry M. Flenniken, Steven Stuglik, Basil V. Iannone

“…Learn how to create a land-cover map for a county of interest and create heatmaps that illustrate the density of a given attribute (Florida Springs for this example). …”
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Design of Efficient Full Adder in Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata by Bibhash Sen, Ayush Rajoria, Biplab K. Sikdar

“…Experimental results illustrate the significant improvements in design level in terms of circuit area, cell count, and clock compared to that of conventional design approaches.…”
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Freinet and Montessori in practice. A comparative analysis of the meanings attributed to the process of learning by early education teachers – research report by Jarosław Jendza, Joanna Grzanka

“…Freinet teachers concentrate on the techniques and then – in their narratives – outline the values related to education whereas Montessori teachers’ narratives are oriented at values and only illustrated with some technological examples. The outcomes of the analysis can be formulated in a form of provisional synthesis: The realization of constructivism in education is not connected so much with so called “active learning techniques” but rather with values, individual and shared axio-educational orientations and the quality of relations between various subjects involved in education. …”
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Birhythmicity and Hard Excitation from Coupled Synthetic Feedback Loops by Aimin Chen, Caixia Liu, Junwei Wang

“…Through bifurcation analysis on these two synthetic cellular networks, we analyze the function of network structure for the collapse and revival of birhythmicity and hard excitation with the variation of parameters. The results have illustrated that the bifurcation space can be divided into four subspaces for which the dynamical behaviors of the system are generically distinct. …”
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Innovative Integration and Optimization of RE and Smart Energy Management Systems in Skyscrapers: Enhancing Sustainability and Energy Self-Sufficiency in Vertical Cities by Yan Bingzhuo

“…Case studies like Masdar City and Shanghai Tower illustrate successful applications of these technologies. …”
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Rheological Characteristics of Tire Rubber-Modified Asphalt following Thermal Variation by S. Chen, J. Cao, C. f. Zheng, X. D. Guo

“…The performance difference between the four modified asphalts and the base asphalt was compared through experiments to illustrate the advantages of rubber-modified asphalt. …”
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Text-image relationships in contemporary fairy tales by Victoria Yefymenko

“…French, R. Munsch) and illustrated fairy tales (E. Delessert, B. Ensor) and directed at revealing various types of text-image relations. …”
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Higher-Order Expansions for Estimators in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters by Paul Rilstone

“…The results in the paper accomplish three objectives: (i) provide simpler methods for deriving higher-order moments when nuisance parameters are present; (ii) indicate more explicitly the sources of deviations of estimators’ sampling distributions from that given by standard first-order asymptotic theory; and, in turn, (iii) indicate in which situations the corrections (either analytically or by a resampling method such as bootstrap or jackknife) should be made when making inferences. We illustrate using several popular examples in econometrics. …”
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