De l’arbre au paysage d’arbres by Fabienne Cavaillé

“…In the third album, the readers discover a landscape in which trees have different functions interrelated with important socio-economic systems and social problems. In the reading programme, tree landscapes appear through the meanings and actions of individuals. …”
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Bilateral Facial Palsy in Rapidly Progressive Course of Wegener’s Granulomatosis: A Case Report by Anna Roszkowska, Monika Morawska-Kochman, Hanna Temporale, Małgorzata Sikorska-Żuk, Tomasz Kręcicki

“…Wegener’s granulomatosis belongs to a group of systemic vasculitis diseases, which is characterized by necrotizing vasculitis and presence of granulomas. …”
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The interception of organic chemistry and agriculture: a review of new method sustainable crop production by Ansar Bilyaminu Adam, Danladi Mudwa Dwanga, Emmanuel Kingsley Chinedu, Musa Yahaya Abubakar, Abubakar Aminu, Aboh Mbo Joseph

“…In addition, we look at how organic chemistry is used to create sustainable agricultural systems that make use of renewable resources, eco-friendly production techniques, and green chemistry concepts.…”
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Business process outsourcing as a key strategy of enterprises in an unstable economic situation by N. N. Trofimova

“…The study uses the author’s approach, based on the methods of scientific generalization, comparative analysis, systemic and situational approach. The paper justifies the application of the outsourcing strategy at enterprises, ascertains the main advantages and disadvantages of its implementation. …”
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Fungal clones win the battle, but recombination wins the war by André Drenth, Alistair R. McTaggart, Brenda D. Wingfield

“…The success of clonal fungi shaped systems for their classification and some pathogens are tacitly treated as asexual. …”
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Engineered Passive Glucose Uptake in Pseudomonas taiwanensis VLB120 Increases Resource Efficiency for Bioproduction by Tobias Schwanemann, Nicolas Krink, Pablo I. Nikel, Benedikt Wynands, Nick Wierckx

“…In this study, we heterologously expressed the energy‐independent glucose facilitator protein (Glf) from Zymomonas mobilis to replace the native energy‐demanding glucose transport systems, thereby increasing the metabolic energy efficiency. …”
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La ville du futur et ses spectres. Le cas d’Eko Atlantic City à Lagos by Hervé Roquet

“…I analyze how this performativity comes to ‘haunt’ the present through technological systems that go beyond the representational regime, and I introduce the concept of ‘inverted spectrality’ to describe this phenomenon. …”
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Performance Research on Multi-Target Detection in Different Noisy Environments by Yuhong Yin, Qian Jia, Huiqi Xu, Guanglei Fu

“…A new diagonal correction algorithm has been proposed to address the issue of degraded detection performance in practical systems due to array errors and environmental noises. …”
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Shock Protection of Portable Electronic Products: Shock Response Spectrum, Damage Boundary Approach, and Beyond by Suresh Goyal, Jim M. Papadopoulos, Paul A. Sullivan

“…Shortcomings of these methods are discussed, and the results are extended to apply to more general systems. Finally some general packaging and shock-mounting strategies are discussed in the context of protecting a fragile disk drive in a notebook computer, although the conclusions apply to other products as well. …”
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Effect of Several Naja atra Antivenom Injection Methods on the Rabbit Model of Naja naja atra Bite Poisoning by Jie Yang, Jin-Cheng Li, Zhou Huang, Dong-Ling Huang, Fan Wang, Wan-Xia Wei, Ji-Fei Nong, Feng Yang, Xue-Ling Lu, Jun-Rong Zhu, Wei Wang

“…In this study, the rabbit model was used to explore the effects of different antivenom injection methods on systemic and local poisoning symptoms. If topical injection of antivenom contributes to ameliorate tissue necrosis, then we need to reconsider the use of Naja atra antivenom.…”
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Advances in Imaging for Atrial Fibrillation Ablation by Andrew D'Silva, Matthew Wright

“…Options have flourished from procedural fluoroscopy, electroanatomic mapping systems, preprocedural computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, and combinations of these technologies. …”
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Biology and Management of the Bermudagrass Mite, Eriophyes cynodoniensis by Pablo Agustin Boeri, Nicole D. Benda, Joseph Bryan Unruh, Adam G. Dale

“… The bermudagrass mite, Eriophyes cynodoniensis (Sayed) (Arthropoda: Arachnida: Eriophyidae), also known as the couch grass mite, can be a serious pest of bermudagrass in multiple high-maintenance turf systems such as sod production, athletic fields, and golf courses. …”
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Guaranteed Cost Control for Exponential Synchronization of Cellular Neural Networks with Mixed Time-Varying Delays via Hybrid Feedback Control by T. Botmart, W. Weera

“…New delay-dependent sufficient conditions for the exponential synchronization of the error systems with memoryless hybrid feedback control are first established in terms of LMIs without introducing any free-weighting matrices. …”
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Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis in Marfan Syndrome by N. F. Vlahos, O. Triantafyllidou, N. Vitoratos, C. Grigoriadis, G. Creatsas

“…Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a systemic hereditable disorder of the connective tissue with mainly cardiovascular manifestations, such as aortic dilatation and dissection. …”
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The Utilization of a Fish Pump for Harvesting Shrimp from Tanks and Ponds by Cortney L. Ohs, Scott W. Grabe, R. LeRoy Creswell

“…Commonly, farmers drain their systems and collect shrimp in nets, mesh bags or baskets as water passes through the drain. …”
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Scientific and technological prerequisites for improvement and industrial development of low-flow compressor units based on long-stroke piston stages by V. L. Yusha

“…A number of scientific problems have been proposed and substantiated, the solution of which will make it possible to create competitive compressor units applicable in refrigeration and cryogenic engineering, thermostatting and life support systems, medicine and pharmaceuticals, petrochemical and oil and gas industries, small-scale energy, transport.…”
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Research of Surrogate Measure for Freeway Crashes Based on Tire Skid Marks by Yan Ma, Wenjing Huang, Zong Tian, Donghong Li, Hongzhou Cai, Jie Su

“…Traditional approaches to evaluating and predicting safety issues in traffic systems are via crash records. However, considering the characteristics of scarcity, inconsistency, inaccuracy, and incompleteness of crash records, conclusions and recommendations drawn purely based on crashes have limitations. …”
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Commercial Availability of Predatory Mites by Silvia I. Rondon, James F. Price, Oscar E. Liburd, Roger Francis, Daniel J. Cantliffe

“…These predatory mites are associated with several agricultural cropping systems including strawberries, raspberries, roses, grapes, citrus, ornamentals, and vegetables. …”
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Dynamic Models of Pollution Penalties and Rewards with Time Delays by Akio Matsumoto, Ferenc Szidarovszky

“…This environmental regulation is added to n-firm dynamic oligopolies, and the asymptotical behavior of the corresponding dynamic systems is examined. Two particular models are considered with linear and hyperbolic price functions. …”
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Special features of friction stir welding dissimilar joints by I. K. Chernykh, E. V. Vasiliev, R. V. Dylchenko, Yu. E. Zhdanova, B. K. Igisenov

“…In this article, there is some special features of obtaining dissimilar butt-welded and lap-welded joints for various material systems. The scheme for obtaining butt-welded joints of aluminum to steel with tool displacement is analyzed. …”
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