A Spiny Orb Weaver Spider, Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus) (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae) by Glavis B. Edwards, Jr.

“…This species belongs to a pantropical genus which contains many species in the Old World. With the possible exception of the West Indian G. tetracantha (L.) …”
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New Analyses of Duopoly Game with Output Lower Limiters by Zhaohan Sheng, Jianguo Du, Qiang Mei, Tingwen Huang

“…In the real business world, player sometimes would offer a limiter to their output due to capacity constraints, financial constraints, or cautious response to uncertainty in the world. …”
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Whither WikiLeaks? The Case for the Critical Diplomatic History Method in American Empire Studies by Edward Hunt

“…The documents feature important information about the role of the United States in the world, but few scholars have investigated what the documents reveal about the structures and operations of American empire. …”
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Making Space for Painting by Paul Duro

“…The resulting field therefore opens up a world that functions, at its limit, symbolically, mediating between the beholder on the one hand and the needs of the artwork on the other. …”
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Building an African Counter-Terrorism Architecture by Jolaade Omede, Arinze Ngwube

“… Following September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the world trade centre in the United States of America, the phenomenon of terrorism has attracted increasing global attention. …”
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Projetos Cidades Saudáveis na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa – Exemplo da "Mobilidade urbana" como área de intervenção by Ana Louro, Nuno Marques da Costa, Eduarda Marques da Costa

“…Sustainable Urban Development is a world-class policy goal, increasingly assuming multisectoral and multilevel principles. …”
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A large synthetic dataset for machine learning applications in power transmission grids by Marc Gillioz, Guillaume Dubuis, Philippe Jacquod

“…The obtained datasets are statistically validated against real-world data.…”
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L’expérience esthétique et les enjeux du corps comme exercices spirituels contemporains, le cas Richard Shusterman by Xavier Pavie

“…In ancient philosophy the body had a significant role as an understanding of the world and as a mean for spiritual exercises, but it was not without a certain number of ambiguities. …”
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Sowiecki dzikus, cuchnący dorsz i Muza – Władysława Chodasiewicza widzenie Petersburga by Jolanta Brzykcy

“…The cityscape is based on a series of antinomies: past – present, tradition – innovation, spirituality – materiality, sacrum – profanum, the real world – the surreal world, the culture of old Russia – the primitivism of new times. …”
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Cognition, physical function and life purpose in the rural elderly population: a systematic review by Hércules Lázaro Morais Campos, Elisa De Leon, Ingred Merllin de Souza, Anna Quialheiro, Elizabete Regina de Oliveira

“…Conclusion: The world ages very differently in rural areas, and the way we age is directly linked to where this process takes place. …”
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(Meta)verse as the next escaper from competition public enforcement by Luca Megale

“… While authorities discovered the need to regulate competition in the digital world, one of the Big Techs – Facebook – changed its name in Meta. …”
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Harnessing the energy transition from total dependence on fossil to renewable energy in the Arabian Gulf region, considering population, climate change impacts, ecological and carb... by Hilmi S. Salem, Musa Yahaya Pudza, Yohannes Yihdego

“…Although the total population of the GCC countries is around 60 million, making up only 0.76% of the world’s population (8 billion), they do consume 5.15 million barrels per day (bbl/d) of oil, forming nearly 5.8% of the world’s daily consumption, which is around 88.4 million bbl/d as of 2021. …”
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Finanční zajištění židovských uprchlíků v době první světové války v Čechách by Klára Habartová

“… The First World War struck the north-eastern part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Halič and Bukovina, where the great majority of the population consisted of Jews. …”
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Priority trends and prospects of blackberry breeding in conditions of Central Russia by L. A. Gruner, B. B. Kornilov

“…Significant achievements of world breeding, which gave modern cultivars a large set of economically important qualities and growing interest in it all over the world, including Russian gardeners, make it relevant to work with blackberries as an object of selection, and as a promising garden plant. …”
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The Small Wars Doctrine of the US Marine Corps and Colonial Experience of the European Powers by S. G. Malkin

“…The rapid transformation of the current world order excites renewed interest of the expert community in the phenomenon of empire (as a form of the organization of political life). …”
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Evaluating Avacopan in the Treatment of ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: Design, Development and Positioning of Therapy by van Leeuwen JR, Quartuccio L, Draibe JB, Gunnarson I, Sprangers B, Teng YKO

“…Despite the new guideline recommendations, clear guidance on how to employ avacopan in real-world clinical practice is lacking. We therefore also address in this review the data and clinical experience with avacopan obtained from real-world evidence. …”
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Life satisfaction of Palestinian and Polish students after pandemic COVID-19 by Krzysztof Zdziarski, Anna Knyszyńska, Katarzyna Karakiewicz-Krawczyk, Mariam Awad, Salam Awad, Narmeen Qumsieh, Marek Landowski, Beata Karakiewicz

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on the lives of all social groups around the world, including students who have had to face remote learning and isolation. …”
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RUSSIA'S RELATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION AND CHINA: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MUTUAL PERCEPTION IN THE BORDER REGIONS by R. H. Simonyan, T. M. Kochegarova

“…Occurred nearly a quarter of a century ago, the collapse of the Soviet Union - an event that led to the formation of a new configuration of the world-system. In this global role, the national significance of this event for Russia that she has to find their place in the world that actualizes a scientific discussion on this topic. …”
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المکتبات الخضراء ودورها فى مواجهة تحدیات الاستدامة البیئیة : دراسة تحلیلیة مقارنة by د. مها لؤى حاتم

“…The least effective stepsfor sustainability can have a significant impact on the overall picture of libraries.With a small funding, the library gets significant returns as a result of marketing.Achieving environmental awareness does not necessarily require significant effortor substantial funds, but also effective activities in developing joint relationshipswith other institutions, library friend groups, school projects, suppliers and librarybeneficiaries.The problem of the study lies in, the spread of the phenomenon of greenlibraries at the level of many developed countries in the Western world, andactivates its components at the level of the Arab world, which calls forextrapolation of the elements of environmental sustainability and therequirements of their application to various categories of libraries. …”
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A Hysteresis Model Incorporating Varying Pinching Stiffness and Spread for Enhanced Structural Damage Simulation by Mohammad Rabiepour, Cong Zhou, James Geoffrey Chase

“…Unlike the original BWBN model using constant pinching stiffness (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>k</mi><mi>p</mi></msub></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>), this modified new model, inspired by real-world structural damage, improves structural damage detection, identifiability, and analysis in real-world scenarios. …”
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