Initiations in the Burmese Ritual Landscape by Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière

“…Looking at initiation rituals in these three ‘paths’ is a means of understanding how they frame contrasting kinds of differently valued religious practice, and of showing that, although not often discussed, rituals do matter in Burma because they help distinguish categories of action according to their relative religiosity. …”
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Les voyages dans les ghost stories de Montagu Rhodes James : à la découverte d’horizons inattendus by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…These prim and fussy bachelors embark on their scholarly field studies in a very buoyant mood, hoping to make key discoveries in situ although the prospect of travelling somewhat disturbs them, the more so as four out of five of them have to go abroad and stay at foreign inns or hotels... As a matter of fact, James perpetuates the period Gothic tradition whereby foreign countries — and more especially « Papist » ones — symbolise danger and threat. …”
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High-order harmonic generation driven by perfect optical vortex beams: Exploring the orbital angular momentum upscaling law by Bikash Kumar Das, C. Granados, M. Krüger, Marcelo F. Ciappina

“…Orbital angular momentum (OAM) light beams for high-order harmonic generation (HHG) provide an additional degree of freedom to study the light-matter interaction at ultrafast timescales. A more sophisticated configuration is a perfect optical vortex (POV) beam, a light beam with a helical wave front characterized by a phase singularity at its center and an azimuthal phase variation. …”
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Evaluation of Key Parameters Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Airborne Pollution (PM10) Prediction by Marco Antonio Aceves-Fernández, Ricardo Domínguez-Guevara, Jesus Carlos Pedraza-Ortega, José Emilio Vargas-Soto

“…Particulate matter with a diameter less than 10 micrometers (PM10) is today an important subject of study, mainly because of its increasing concentration and its impact on environment and public health. …”
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ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION DISCLOSURE AND FIRM VALUE OF LISTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN NIGERIA by M.L. SUBAIR, N.O. SALAU, O.A. OYENIYI, B.B. ANIFOWOSE

“… In recent times, firms’ neglect of their environmental and social responsibilities has become a matter of concern. Their activities are often aimed at making profit in line with the identified problem. …”
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Anaerobic Digesters for Manure Management at Livestock Operations by Rishi Prasad, George Hochmuth, Ann C. Wilkie

“…The stabilization process reduces the organic matter and water contents, unpleasant odors, concentrations of pathogenic microorganisms, and weed seeds. …”
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Vienna’s Resistance to the “Neoliberal Turn" by Florian Urban

“…The Vienna case also suggests that the ‘neoliberal turn’ in housing provision was a matter of political choice rather than economic necessity.…”
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A Synchronization Criterion for Two Hindmarsh-Rose Neurons with Linear and Nonlinear Coupling Functions Based on the Laplace Transform Method by Chunlin Su, Bin Zhen, Zigen Song

“…In addition, the calculation quantities always are small no matter the linear and nonlinear coupling functions, which show that the approach presented in this paper is easy to be developed to study synchronization between a large number of HR neurons.…”
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Constraining the equation of state in neutron-star cores via the long-ringdown signal by Christian Ecker, Tyler Gorda, Aleksi Kurkela, Luciano Rezzolla

“…Abstract Multimessenger signals from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are promising tools to infer the properties of nuclear matter at densities inaccessible to laboratory experiments. …”
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Feminist stylistic analysis and LGBTQA+ representation in Lady Gaga’s born this way by Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, Siti Hafifah

“…The choices of word, phrase, clause and sentence as well as the discourse unit credit about self-liberation, and loving every part of oneself, no matter what race, belief, or sexuality one is on. …”
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Elicitation and experimentation: implications for English sociolinguistics by Cameron Morin, Carmelo Alessandro Basile

“…We also argue that research in these strands of language variation should continue to embrace the ultimately observational nature of its results and use experimental terminology with great care, as part of a scientific approach to uncovering relationships that matter in the real world such as variation in the social practice of language, rather than describing causal links directly. …”
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Reaching for Epistemic Humility by Lyudmila Bryzzheva

“…<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="d12606384e105">Positionality matters. Muscle memories matter. This article traces the journey of a white Russian female scholar from voice, agency, and her ultimate reach toward epistemic humility. …”
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Problems of obtaining state support for a film creation project by Yu. V. Vorontsova

“…The producer’s activity is impossible without finding financing for a project, and in most cases, the Russian government helps film companies in this matter. The problem of the described process is imperfection of the mechanisms established by the state. …”
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Non-derivative axionic couplings to nucleons at large and small N by Francesco Bigazzi, Aldo L. Cotrone, Matti Järvinen, Elias Kiritsis

“…Abstract Among the possible CP-odd couplings of the axion to ordinary matter, the most relevant ones for phenomenology are the Yukawa couplings to nucleons. …”
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Feasibility of Imaging Myelin Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis by Maria I. Zavodszky, John F. Graf, Cristina A. Tan Hehir

“…Physiology-based pharmacokinetic modeling combined with PET image simulation applied to a brain model was used to examine whether such an agent would allow the differentiation of artificial lesions 4–10 mm in diameter from the surrounding normal-looking white and gray matter. Furthermore, we examined how changes in agent properties, model parameters, and experimental conditions can influence imageability, identifying a set of conditions under which imaging of MS lesions might be feasible. …”
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The Chini integrability condition in second order Lovelock gravity by Mohammed O. E. Ismail, Sunil D. Maharaj, Byron P. Brassel

“…Abstract We analyse neutral and charged matter distributions in second order Lovelock gravity, also known as Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet gravity, in arbitrary dimensions for a static, spherically symmetric spacetime. …”
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Rencana Pelaksanaan Pembelajaran (RPP) in learning entrepreneurship subjects at SMAN 1 Lembang by Bella Putri Iskandar, Nabil Fatya NH, Naia Dwi Anindita

“…The research findings indicate that the effectiveness of learning is closely related to well-planned and implemented RPP, supported by teaching methods suitable for the components of the subject matter. A well-structured RPP serves as a practical guide to achieving learning objectives. …”
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Family violence in the new Russian realities: essence, types and reasons by R. M. Sadykov, N. L. Bolshakova

“…In many societies, family violence between a man and a woman is not perceived as a crime against society, but is a private matter of the family. It is believed that family members resort to physical violence in cases where they have no other opportunity to influence the family’s decision-making due to lack of authority. …”
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Inclusive, Exclusive, Didactic: Typologies of Islamic Thought on Apostasy in Muhammadiyah by Sholihul Huda, Zuly Qodir, Nafik Muthohirin, Warsidi Warsidi

“…Responses vary, with the inclusive view treating apostasy as a private matter between the individual and God, a basic human right with no legal consequences, supported by the Qur'an and the 1945 Constitution. …”
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Speculative Transitions: Hegel, John Huston’s Moby Dick and the Dissolve by Joshua Harold Wiebe

“…Making use of a famous example from The Phenomenology of Spirit, the article elaborates the confused position of the speculative proposition and demonstrates the necessity of explanatory tools that approach the matter obliquely. In the process of making this argument, other attempts to put dialectics and montage together (notably, Eisenstein’s) are situated in relation to the instructional potential of the dissolve. …”
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