Electrical and Thermal Conductivity of Complex-Shaped Contact Spots by Beguin, Paul, Yastrebov, Vladislav A.

“…We then study shape effects on “multi-petal” spots exhibiting dihedral symmetry, resembling flowers, stars, and gears. The analysis culminates with self-affine shapes, representing a multiscale generalization of the multi-petal forms. …”
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Polarization Möbius strip at the tight focus of a generalized Poincaré beam by V.V. Kotlyar, A.A. Kovalev, A.M. Telegin

“…We demonstrate both theoretically and numerically that the initial beam has topological charge –1/2 and, in the center of the focal plane, there is a C-point (a point with circular polarization which makes a C-line along the optical axis) with the singularity index of –1/2 (star), whereas the vector of major axis of the polarization ellipse makes along a certain-radius circle around the optical axis a single-side polarization Möbius stripe of the order –3/2, which has three half-turnovers and one stitching, where two opposite major axis vectors of the polarization ellipse meet.…”
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HIGHLY SYMMETRICAL CRYSTALLIZATION IN SIX RECTILINEAR AND WELL-DEFINED AXES FOUND IN BOVINE CERVICAL MUCUS OBTAINED AT OESTRUS: A FINDING by M. E. Cortés, F. González, R. Hauyón, P. Vigil

“…However, a highly symmetrical arrangement was found, characteri - zed by a star-like morphology with six straight, highly defined axes that protrude from the same central point, forming 60º angles. …”
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Karyotype Analysis and Genome Size Estimation Using Flow Cytometry of the Genus <i>Encyclia</i> Hook. (Orchidaceae: Laeliinae) by Chengcheng Zhou, Qingyun Leng, Jinping Lu, Shisong Xu, Donghui Peng, Junmei Yin, Junhai Niu

“…Among the three detected intergeneric hybrids, both <i>Enanthleya</i> Circus Lady ‘Coastal Star’ and <i>Guaricyclia</i> Kyoguchi ‘Fumi’ are triploid, while <i>Robertsara</i> ‘Green Wonder’ is tetraploid. …”
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Hotel websites characterisation framework for consumer’s information needs by Célia M.Q. Ramos, Marisol B. Correia, João M.F. Rodrigues, Carlos M.R. Sousa, Pedro M. Cascada

“…This paper presents a framework for the characterisation of hotel websites, focusing on the amount of information available to the consumer in each website, which was applied in a case study during the last months of 2013 to the websites of five-star hotels that operate in the tourist region of the Algarve, Portugal. …”
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Fully automated extraction of high-quality total nucleic acids from FFPE specimens for comprehensive genomic profiling of solid tumors by Kristopher Amirault, Michael Collins, Luca Beker, Brandon Mills, Martina Werner, Jonathan Andreas, Daniel Hartman, Jordan Dargert, Vanessa Process, Sean Cederlund, Thuy Dao, Linnea Menin, Molly Ferrara, Andrew Briggs, Joshua Shreve, Daniel Metzger, Angela Stout, Erin Deblasi, Jie An, Taylor Jensen, Shengle Zhang, Vinesh Rana, Bryn Burlingame, Ulrich Thomann, Durga Prasad Dash, Sha Liao, Jeffrey M. Conroy, Eugenio Daviso

“…In this work we present an automated solution for upstream sample processing of solid tumors to enable high throughput and scalable CGP workflows by eliminating bottlenecks and enhancing results. The Sonication STAR automated DNA and RNA methods from FFPE Tissues was created as a collaboration between Hamilton Company, Covaris, and Labcorp and it offers the potential reduction in quantity not sufficient (QNS) samples and sequencing performance improvements resulting in a 16 % increase in fully reported tumor profiles for patients. …”
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ncRNA-Mediated High Expression of LPCAT1 Correlates with Poor Prognosis and Tumor Immune Infiltration of Liver Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Qiu Sun, Xudong Liu, Qunlong Peng, Lei Hu, Xiaochun Jiang

“…Then, ncRNAs contributing to the overexpression of LPCAT1 were explored in starBase by a combination of expression analysis, correlation analysis, and survival analysis. …”
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Tracing the Winds: A Uniform Interpretation of Helium Escape in Exoplanets from Archival Spectroscopic Observations by Patrick McCreery, Leonardo A. Dos Santos, Néstor Espinoza, Romain Allart, James Kirk

“…Both theoretical and observational studies have aimed to determine how efficiently exoplanets convert their host star's X-ray and ultraviolet (XUV) radiation into atmospheric mass loss. …”
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THEORETICAL AND METHODICAL APPROACH TO ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES POTENTIAL by Yu. A. Zinnurova, E. M. Shironina

“…The matrix model, formed on the basis of scoring data, with four groups of personnel has been proposed in the article: “Stars” (it is characterized by a high level of responsibility and high complexity of the labour functions perfomed), “Experts” (high complexity of work with a relatively low level of responsibility), «Soldiers» (high responsibility with a low level of complexity), «Cogs» (low level of responsibility and complexity of the work performed). …”
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Theory of neutrino fast flavor evolution. Part II. Solutions at the edge of instability by Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Georg G. Raffelt

“…Abstract In dense neutrino environments, such as provided by core-collapse supernovae or neutron-star mergers, neutrino angular distributions may be unstable to collective flavor conversions, whose outcome remains to be fully understood. …”
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Improvement of the Conductive Ability of Polymer Electrolytes by Xu Hailiang

“…This paper will introduce the types and characteristics of polymer electrolytes based on three aspects. The star-shaped compound based on PEGMA, i.e., poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylate, can significantly enhance the mechanical and electrical properties of polymer electrolytes; the gel electrolyte prepared by compounding highly polar β-polyvinylidene fluoride (β-PVDF) with nylon 6 shows significant application potential in improving ion conduction efficiency and enhancing battery safety. …”
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“I felt I’d come home”: Sylvia Plath and France by Julie IRIGARAY

“…Almost all these places inspired a text (“Finisterre”, “Stars Over the Dordogne”, “Berck-Plage”, “The Matisse Chapel”). …”
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BgCut: Automatic Ship Detection from UAV Images by Chao Xu, Dongping Zhang, Zhengning Zhang, Zhiyong Feng

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Unpleasant Operas or French Music Drama as Heard by Corno Di Bassetto by Eduardo Valls Oyarzun

“…The status of George Bernard Shaw as an opera critic—a position he filled under the pen-name ‘Corno Di Bassetto’ in different periodicals such as The Star and The World—has been somewhat overlooked in the canon of late Victorian journalism. …”
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L’important n’est pas la destination, mais les seuils que l’on franchit. L’exemple des mondes possibles dans Fringe by Elaine Després

“…They did it at first with a certain simplicity, many classic series like Doctor Who, Star Trek or Stargate SG-1 proposing in each episode to enter a new world to explore. …”
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Effects of 12-week in-season low-intensity plyometric training on dynamic balance of pre-pubertal female volleyball players by Elif Turgut, Filiz Fatma Colakoglu, Pınar Serbes, Cengiz Akarcesme, Gul Baltacı

“…Dynamic balance was assessed with Star Excursion Balance test (SEBT). A repeated-measures ANOVA was performed. …”
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ÖZEL TELEVİZYON KANALLARININ TÜRK HABERCİLİĞİNE ETKİSİ* by Şerife Öztürk

“…O dönemde Türkiye'de bulunan yasa boşluğu nedeniyle Star 1 adıyla kurulan ilk özel televizyon kanalı, diğer girişimlere cesaret vermiştir. 1994 yılında özel televizyon yayınları yasal duruma gelmiştir. …”
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Une constellation nommée Argo – L’errance dans la science-fiction vidéoludique by Jean-Charles Ray, Simon Laperrière

“…Let’s remember that, to Janet Murray, navigable space is one of the pillars of digital environments (Murray, 1997). From Star Trek (Gadlow, 1972) to No Man’s Sky (Hello Games, 2016), the model of the galaxy that Mathieu Triclot links to video games’ free roaming (Triclot, 2011) offers a truly fertile field of exploration. …”
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Lifetime Optimization of an Indoor Surveillance Sensor Network Using Adaptive Energy-Efficient Transmission by Guifang Qiao, Guangming Song, Ying Zhang, Jun Zhang, Jin Peng

“…The omnirobots and static monitoring nodes form a surveillance sensor network which comprises several star-like wireless sensor networks. The static monitoring nodes sleep periodically and can be woken up by the pyroelectric infrared sensor. …”
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The Page and the Screen: Cinematic Images in the Private Diary of a Young Woman in the Fifties by Laura Busetta

“…The first-person diary becomes a place of interaction with cinematic imagery and star models while, in broader terms, it allows for a reflection on the social experience of cinema, in a historical moment in which it is at the center of the media and consumption system. …”
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