Design, Sensing and Control of a Robotic Prosthetic Eye for Natural Eye Movement by J. J. Gu, M. Meng, A. Cook, P. X. Liu

“…Loss of an eye is a tragedy for a person, who may suffer psychologically and physically. …”
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Multiscale Investigations of Overtopping Erosion in Reinforced Tailings Dam Induced by Mud-Water Mixture Overflow by Meibao Chen, Xiaofei Jing, Xiaohua Liu, Xuewei Huang, Wen Nie

“…The overtopping failure that occurred to the reinforced tailings dam has led to devastating catastrophes, including severe environmental disasters as well as tragedy in terms of any loss of properties and life. …”
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THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT AS A CULTURAL TRAUMA OF UKRAINE by Ya.O. Yakovlieva

“…The article analyzes theoretical approaches to the study of the consequences of the Chernobyl tragedy in the context of cultural searches of modernity in the prospect of "memorial paradigm." …”
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The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on the air environment in India by N. Gupta, A. Tomar, V. Kumar

“…COVID-19 is a huge tragedy for the world community. Everything in the world is affected due to this pandemic right from economy to resources where the economy of major countries of the world are facing recession and resources are surplus with no takers at all. …”
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L’autre scène dans The Three Birds de Joanna Laurens (2000) : enjeux dramatiques de la réécriture d’un mythe by Solange Ayache

“…At the core of the play, which is a rewriting of another (lost) tragedy – that of Sophocles’ Tereus –, are Tereus’ lies, which are a rewriting of another (taboo) story – that of Philomela’s rape and amputated tongue. …”
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Resilience in maternal, newborn, and child health in low- and middle-income countries: findings from a scoping review by Olusesan Ayodeji Makinde, Babasola O. Okusanya, Nchelem K. Ichegbo, Ifeanyi C. Mgbachi, Emmanuel Olamijuwon, Fatima Abdulaziz Sule, Olalekan A. Uthman

“…The synthesised consensus definition of ‘maternal, newborn, and child resilience’ is ‘A woman’s ability to prevent or adapt to significant and challenging circumstances including threats, tragedy, and trauma to herself during pregnancy, childbirth, and puerperium and to her neonates or children five years or younger’. …”
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Le continent noir du désir masculin : Colet et Flaubert, encore by Barbara Vinken

“…According to these letters masturbation, linked to foot and shoe fetishism, was Flaubert’s most satisfying sexual practice. The tragedy of castration is embodied in the slippers, a childish way of interpreting sexual difference. …”
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«THE CONSCIENCE OF THE WORLD» OR «CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE»? TO THE ANNIVERSARIES OF THE EVIAN AND BERMUDA CONFERENCES by D. V. Ivanov, A. V. Krylov, V. M. Morozov, V. O. Pechatnov, S. A. Sklyarov, E. O. Shebalina

“…The author comes to the conclusion that Roosevelt administration and the president himself were not ardent advocates of the Holocaust victims, but they were not indifferent witnesses to the tragedy, doing for Jewish immigrants more than the governments of other Western countries. …”
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Exploring rural households’ knowledge and perception of acute kidney injury in the southern region of The Gambia: a mixed-method community-based cross-sectional study design by Bakary Kinteh, Sheikh Omar Sillah, Solomon P S Jatta, Sambou L S Kinteh, Mansour Badjie, Ebrima Touray, Amadou Barrow

“…Background The Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) outbreak in The Gambia is a national tragedy attracting international concern, linked to nearly 100 deaths in children. …”
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Workplace Health Promotion as a good solution to the negative impact of the financial crisis on healthcare systems by Francesco Chirico

“…In Greece, the recent austerity period imposed by the Troika has severely affected spending on healthcare services and the populations’ health has been referred to in the literature as ‘the Greek tragedy’ [2, 3]. While a systematic review on the impact of the 2008 financial crisis in Europe has shown heterogenous outcomes for health, there is consistent evidence linking economic crisis to mental health issues and the incidence of suicide [4]. …”
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A pulsed carbon dioxide laser-induced breakdown analysis for chemical profile of tsunami-affected soil by R. Mitaphonna, N. Idris, M. Ramli, N. Ismail, K. Kurihara, K. Lahna

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The catastrophic 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami left a profound mark, triggering significant contamination of organic and inorganic chemical components in the water and soil of affected regions. The effects of the tragedy, which occurred almost twenty years ago, are still evident in the soil as salt and metal pollutants continue to linger. …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“…Pathogens are among the existential risks to humanity that could potentially kill a large part of it in a very short time. For all the tragedy and horror it has brought upon the world, the Corona virus has not been lethal on such a large, all-encompassing scale. …”
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COVID-19 – if the cure is worse than the disease. The Italian chaos by Giuseppe FERRARI

“…The Italian Government as well as the WHO have chased the virus and changed direction every other day without a real intervention strategy aiming to contain the healthcare tragedy during the emergency period but at the same time to fully understand the characteristics of the virus. …”

Les statues des confédérés dans l’espace public aux États-Unis : pourra-t-on en finir avec une « mauvaise cause » ? by Marie-Jeanne Rossignol

“…In the wake of the Charleston (June 17, 2015) and Charlottesville (August 12, 2017) tragedies, part of the American public started demanding that monuments erected in praise of Confederate leaders, mostly at the turn of the twentieth century, be removed. …”
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La guérison dans Everyman by Martine Yvernault

“…Dying―holy dying―and healing, set against the social and historical backcloth of medieval Europe with its changes, tragedies and outbreaks of plague, imply a progress leading to the spiritual transformation of Everyman, probably a member of the merchant class, also showing the audience that the spiritual part of the body, promised to decay, may be amended and healedchemin, cheminement, Everyman et saint Paul, guérison, symbolisme de l’eau, thérapie…”
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The Great Vietnamese Famine of 1944-45 Revisited by Geoffrey Gunn

“…The deaths stemming from the great famine of 1944-45, which reached its zenith in March-April 1945 in Japanese-occupied northern Vietnam, eclipsed in scale all human tragedies of the modern period in that country up until that time. …”
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Amitié, convivialité et hospitalité au dix-huitième siècle: Le témoignage de Madame du Boccage by Cécile Champonnois

“… Madame du Boccage, connue pour son activité littéraire, étant une des rares femmes à avoir écrit une tragédie et un poème épique, livra encore à ses contemporains des descriptions de l’Angleterre et de la Hollande visités en 1750 et de l’Italie parcourue en 1758. …”
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The Response to Asymmetrical Violence in Black Space by Stephanie D. Jones

“…In this article, I uplift the voices of Oakland community members that demonstrate the tragedies of dispossession as they tell their own geographic stories. …”
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Quand la boussole perd le nord by Alain Gabet, Sébastien Jahan

“…Le courant révisionniste qu’il incarne vise notamment à faire porter une partie de la responsabilité de la tragédie aux rebelles du FPR et manifeste ainsi, une fois encore, sa capacité à faire valoir ses thèses jusque dans les collections les plus populaires et les plus prestigieuses.…”
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Les faits sont têtus : vingt ans de déni sur le rôle de la France au Rwanda (1994-2014) by Alain Gabet, Sébastien Jahan

“…Les accusations lancées par Paul Kagame à l’occasion des dernières commémorations du génocide des Tutsi ont ravivé les controverses sur la responsabilité de la France dans cette tragédie, contraignant une nouvelle fois nos gouvernants à un démenti offusqué. …”
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