Povoar e enquadrar by Maria Filomena Andrade, João Luís Fontes

“…The very peculiar qualities of the city, possessed of an intense economic life, a growing population, a royal court that sojourned there with increasing regularity and for increasingly prolonged periods, attracted more and more people from diverse regions and stimulated the rapacity of noblemen and rich merchants who contributed to its rise as the capital city of the Kingdom. …”
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« The glittering game » : le jeu des choses dans A Lost Lady et My Mortal Enemy de Willa Cather by Céline Manresa

“…From the details of costumes to the decoration of houses, material possessions play an essential part in the reciprocal shaping of dwellers and dwellings, and in the dramatization of a bygone splendor. …”
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Ọmọ Tí A Kò Kọ́: Globalization and Cultural Education among New Generation Nigerian Yorùbá by Michael O. Afolayan

“…The essay draws on the semantic and philosophical content of kọ́ to articulate the argument that investments on material possession are counterproductive and antithetic to investment on human capital, the epitome of which is investing on one’s child/ ren. …”
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Les Karaboro et le rônier by Ali Bene, Anne Fournier

“…Among the Karaboro, the palmyra palm is traditionally seen as a blessing and its possession is a source of pride. Much still has to be clarified, but it seems that the ancestors of the Karaboro adopted the cultivation of Palmyra palm in the 18th century and that their primarily motivation was to alleviate food shortages, the many other uses of the plant only being added later. …”
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Viniculture in Mendoza from 1990: Between globalization and regional development by Pehuén Barzola-Elizagaray, Anabella Engelman

“…The rent accumulation in the commercialization sector and increased possession of land by entrepreneurs is highlighted. …”
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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

“…Due to the fact that some iconographic elements possess an inherent multivalued symbolic content (i.e. they are polysemic), sometimes the Maya painters or sculptors used writing to denote univocally the element they tried to represent. …”
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The biography of cultures: style, objects and agency by Caroline van Eck, Miguel John Versluys, Pieter ter Keurs

“…It is evident that artefacts possess agency; but how do they acquire it, and what role does their material and style play in this? …”
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RIVER AND SEA TRANSPORTS IN ROMANIA IN THE EUROPEAN UNION STRATEGY FOR THE DANUBE REGION PERSPECTIVE by RADU SĂGEATĂ

“…In this period of searches determined by the globalisation process, Romania possesses the necessary infrastructure to take over, store and transport the energy resources, it being a real partner in the alliances it belongs to. …”
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Human dignity, speciesism, and the value of life by Grzegorz Hołub

“…In the light of that, any living entity possesses its axiological importance and should be considered and treated accordingly. …”
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Phosphate Solubilizing Microorganisms: Promising Approach as Biofertilizers by Girmay Kalayu

“…Because P plays a vital role in every aspect of plant growth and development, deficiencies can reduce plant growth and development. Though soil possesses total P in the form of organic and inorganic compounds, most of them remain inactive and thus unavailable to plants. …”
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Essential Guide to Manuscript Writing for Academic Dummies: An Editor’s Perspective by Syed Sameer Aga, Saniya Nissar

“…In this review, we have attempted to include the essential information that novice authors in their early careers need to possess, to be able to write a decent first scientific manuscript ready for submission in the journal of choice. …”
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Ground Pearls, Earth Pearls, Pearl Scale, Margarodes spp. (Insecta: Hemiptera: Margarodidae) by Anthony Camerino

“…While retaining well-developed fossorial legs with numerous setae (which scale insects do not have), ground pearls do not possess the ability to secrete scales similar to their scale relatives (Beardsley and Gonzalez). …”
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Self-Healing Polymers Designed for Underwater Applications by Bambang Afrinaldi, Frita Yuliati, Hermawan Judawisastra, Lia A. T. W. Asri

“…The use of self-healing materials emerges as a promising strategy not only to address this issue but also possess the advantage of prolonging the product’s lifespan. …”
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Resource categories and performance in Portuguese non-profit sports clubs by Marco Arraya

“…The RBV posits that an organization’s success is mainly driven by resources that possess Barney’s VRIO (valuable, rare, inimitable, and organized) framework. …”
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Thermal Conductivity of Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanotubes: A Molecular Dynamics Study by Hui Guo, Chunqing Huo, Liang Yang, Shiwei Lin

“…In spite of the variation of diameters and chiral angles, the structure of nanotubes possesses high stability in the temperature range from 200 K to 600 K. …”
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Hepatoprotective effect of leaf extracts from Citrus hystrix and C. maxima against paracetamol induced liver injury in rats by Arumugam Abirami, Gunasekaran Nagarani, Perumal Siddhuraju

“…The present study shows that C. hystrix and C. maxima leaf extracts possess hepatoprotective action against paracetamol induced hepatotoxicity.…”
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Optimal Design of FPGA Switch Matrix with Ion Mobility Based Nonvolatile ReRAM by Peng Hai-yun, Zhou Wen-gang

“…The resistive random access memory (ReRAM) is a metal oxide which is based on nonvolatile memory device possessing the characteristics of high read/write speed, high storage density, low power, low cost, very small cell, being nonvolatile, and unlimited writing endurance. …”
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Gut Microorganism-Mediated Neutralization of Mycotoxins: A Promising Approach to Combat Fungal Toxicity by Md Minarul Islam, Nasir Uddin Mahbub, Mohammad Amirul Islam

“…Conversely, beneficial gut microbes possess the capacity to enzymatically degrade or sequester mycotoxins, thereby converting them into metabolites of reduced or negligible toxicity. …”
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Nonlinear Augmented Proportional Navigation for Midrange Rendezvous Guidance and Performance Assessment by Weilin Wang, Xumin Song

“…As saving time is a critical factor in space rescue and on-orbit service, the finite time convergence APN (FTCAPN) is further proposed which proves to possess convergence and high robustness. This paper builds on previous efforts in polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) to develop an efficient analysis technique for guidance algorithms. …”
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An Empirical Study on Evolution of the Connectivity for VANETs Based on Taxi GPS Traces by Huifang Feng, Youji Xu

“…The study of the evolution characteristics shows that the number of connected components, the size of the giant component, and the connectivity length time series possess strong temporal correlation and long-range dependence. …”
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