As quitandadeiras de Minas Gerais: memórias brancas e memórias negras by Javier Alejandro Lifschitz, Juliana Bonomo

“…In this article, we analyze narratives of memory about homemade pastries (quitandas) and the women who make them (quitandeiras) in the state of Minas Gerais, in three historical moments: as practices of African origin, which during the eighteenth and nineteenth century was reproduced in the colonies by black slave women selling food on the streets, carrying their trays; as practices of Portuguese origin, held within farms domestic black slaves under the supervision of white mistresses of Portuguese origin and, finally, as current policy of cultural heritage. …”
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Des îles à la montagne : paysages publicitaires de la feta by Katerina Seraïdari

“…In spite of their differences, the landscapes represented in both cases refer to an origin rather than to a place - a Greek origin in the case of "tourist" feta and a local and regional origin in the case of domestic feta, which emphasizes the importance of the terroir.…”
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On the Multiplicity of Solutions for the Discrete Boundary Problem Involving the Singular ϕ-Laplacian by Zihua Qiu

“…Instead, we consider an auxiliary problem associated with the original one. We show that, if the nonlinear term oscillates suitably at the origin, there exists a sequence of pairwise distinct nontrivial solutions with the norms tend to zero. …”
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Modified Crossed-Wire Antennas Radiating a Circularly Polarized Conical Beam by Kazuhide Hirose, Kazuhiko Hata, Hisamatsu Nakano

“…The wire length of each antenna is increased twice as long as that of the original antenna. First, a bent-type antenna is analyzed using the method of moments. …”
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Endettement des États et crise de l’euro by Bernard Billaudot

“…The diagnosis proposed in this paper is that the key origin of this crisis is not a series of high government deficits (non financial origin), but the present mode of European government financing (financial origin based on its de-nationalization in the under construction Europe context). …”
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Ethno-cultural characteristics of Japanese communication style by N. N. Izotova

“…The article discusses the originality of communication processes in the Japanese culture-related originality of language and style of communication, the Japanese, both among themselves and with foreigners. …”
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Examining equity and graduation rates at two institutions using a course deficit model and the collaborative learning through active sense-making in physics curriculum by Cassandra A. Paul, David J. Webb

“…We find that the original results hold at another institution despite some changes to the original curriculum and a somewhat different student population. …”
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Feedback and formative assessment—looking backwards to move forward by Nora McCarthy, Karen Neville, Andrew Pope

“…A suggestion is made to re-embrace the original definition components of ‘feedback’, as all of the original parameters of this term, when well established in industry and biology, did not migrate into education. …”
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On Regularization of an Optimal Control Problem for Ill-Posed Nonlinear Elliptic Equations by Peter I. Kogut, Olha P. Kupenko, Rosanna Manzo

“…As a consequence, we prove the existence of optimal solutions to the original problem and propose a way for their approximation.…”
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Study of the Similarities in Scale Models of a Single-Layer Spherical Lattice Shell Structure under the Effect of Internal Explosion by Wenbao Wang, Xuanneng Gao, Lihui Le

“…Thus, it is feasible to forecast the internal explosion effect of the original structure size model by using the experiment results of the scale model with scaling coefficient λ≥0.1.…”
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A New Modified Peck Formula for Predicting the Surface Settlement Based on Stochastic Medium Theory by Zhanping Song, Xiaoxu Tian, Yuwei Zhang

“…Taking the shallow-buried section of Mulingguan tunnel entrance as a case, the surface settlement calculated by the modified Peck formula and original Peck formula was compared with the observed data, respectively. …”
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Correction to: Effects of organic amendment on some soil physicochemical characteristics and vegetative properties of Zea mays in wetland soils of the Niger Delta impacted with cr... by Francis E. Egobueze, Josiah M. Ayotamuno, Chukwujindu M. A. Iwegbue, Chibogwu Eze, Reuben N. Okparanma

“…Okparanma was misspelled as âRuben N. Okparanmaâ. The original article has been updated.  …”
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Synovial Macrophages in Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Past, Present, and Future by Jiajie Tu, Xinming Wang, Xun Gong, Wenming Hong, Dafei Han, Yilong Fang, Yawei Guo, Wei Wei

“…Owing to the limited number and inaccessibility of synovial macrophages (SMs), the origin of SMs has not been fully elucidated. Previous studies suggested that SMs have two major origins, namely, tissue-resident and monocyte-derived SMs. …”
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Some simple epidemic models by Fred Brauer

“…The SARS epidemic of 2002-3 led to the study of epidemic models including management measures and other generalizations of the original 1927 epidemic model of Kermack and McKendrick. …”
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Expanding the knowledge of Brazilian Gastrotrich biodiversity: Freshwater Paucitubulatina (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotida) from Northeastern Brazil by Axell Kou Minowa, André Rinaldo Senna Garraffoni

“…We report the first occurrence in Brazil of Chaetonotus majestuosus Grosso & Drahg, 1984, originally described from Argentina, and the second record in Brazil of Chaetonotus dadayi Schwank, 1990, originally found in Paraguay, and the first occurrence beyond ‘terra typica’ of Heterolepidodermella jureiense Kisielewski, 1991, originally discovered in Southeastern Brazil. …”
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Deep-Learning Based Depth-Tracking of Stacking-Faults in Epitaxially Grown Silicon Wafers by Theresa Trötschler, Saed Al-Hajjawi, Siddharth Raghavendran, Jonas Haunschild, Matthias Demant, Stefan Rein

“…However, our results also indicate that a non-negligible part of stacking faults has its origin within the epitaxial layer. …”
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The Role of Diasporas in the Current World Politics by I. D. Loshkariov

“…These situations may include the unsatisfactory status of the given community, migrants’ desire to improve certain political or economic conditions in the territory of origin, the prerequisites for changes in the relationships between the hostland and the homeland, urgent crises in the country of origin. …”
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Carriage Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Poultry and Cattle in Northern Algeria by Saliha Bounar-Kechih, Mossadak Taha Hamdi, Hebib Aggad, Nacima Meguenni, Zafer Cantekin

“…In order to determine antibiotic resistance S. aureus poultry and bovine origin, 8840 samples were collected from slaughterhouses in the northern region of Algeria between years 2009 and 2014. 8375 samples were from an avian origin (1875 from laying hens and 6500 from broiler chickens) and the rest was from bovine origin. …”
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«Invasion Set of Languages»: War of 1812 by Eyes of Soldier’s Foreigners of Great Army by N. A. Kopylov

“…On the basis of documents of a personal origin the perception of events of campaign of 1812 officers and the soldiers of a foreign origin who were a part of Great army reveals.…”
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Ortner's syndrome resulting from aortic pseudoaneurysm owing to intimal sarcoma of the aorta by Akio Shimoji, MD, Naoto Fukunaga, MD, PhD, Tatsuto Wakami, MD, Otohime Mori, MD, Kosuke Yoshizawa, MD, Nobushige Tamura, MD, PhD

“…Computed tomography angiography revealed a 44-mm aortic pseudoaneurysm with thrombus originating at the left subclavian artery. At total aortic arch replacement, an intimal defect was found at the origin of the left subclavian artery, where the pseudoaneurysm originated. …”
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