Success or Failure in the City? Social Mobility and Rural-Urban Migration in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Groningen, the Netherlands by Richard Paping, Jacek Pawlowski

“…Analysis of both databases shows distinct social differences in rural-urban migration, with children from non-agrarian rural elite families moving very frequently to a city; whereas, children from farmers and unskilled (farm) labourers were much less attracted by urban centres, despite restricted job opportunities in agriculture. …”
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Improving EFL ninth graders’ reading comprehension through thieves learning strategy by Yenny Asmarni, Wisma Yunita, Dedi Sofyan

“…It can be concluded that applying Thieves strategy improved students’ reading comprehension and it was influenced by the student’s factors (attention, interest and participation) and the teacher’s factors (enriching the material and classroom management). …”
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L-Carnitine Alleviates the Myocardial Infarction and Left Ventricular Remodeling through Bax/Bcl-2 Signal Pathway by Hao-Ran Li, Xiao-Ming Zheng, Yan Liu, Jing-Hui Tian, Jie-Jian Kou, Jun-Zhuo Shi, Xiao-Bin Pang, Xin-Mei Xie, Yu Yan

“…Our data suggest that LC can effectively ameliorate left ventricular (LV) remodeling after MI, and its beneficial effects on myocardial function and remodeling may be attributable at least in part to anti-inflammatory and inhibition of the Bax/Bcl-2 apoptotic signaling pathway.…”
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Henri IV à la reconquête du royaume de France : les légendes en faveur du premier roi Bourbon, en musique by Cindy Pédelaborde

“…Music also served to strengthen the monarchic power, spreading the royalist images which depicted Henri IV as Mars or Hercules, as the glorious pacifying king (bringing down the evil League personified in the figure of Circe, the ogress Medea or Alcina), as the French Perseus liberating his sacrificed people from the yoke of Spain, or adorn him with Appolo's attributes –holding the lyre and surrounded by a sun halo.…”
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Partnering with Palliative Care: A Case Report of Severe Pain in Critical Limb Ischemia Treated Successfully with a Continuous Popliteal Nerve Catheter by Ryan S. D’Souza, Stephanie Shen, Frederick Ojukwu, Halena M. Gazelka, Bridget P. Pulos

“…She experienced a complicated hospital course with several failed attempts at surgical revascularization due to arterial rethrombosis. …”
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Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis of Hydraulic Turbine Governing Systems with Nonelastic Water Hammer Effect by Junyi Li, Qijuan Chen

“…In addition, chaotic characteristics of the system with different system parameters are studied extensively and presented in the form of bifurcation diagrams, time waveforms, phase space trajectories, Lyapunov exponent, chaotic attractors, and Poincare maps. Good correlation can be found between the model predictions and theoretical analysis. …”
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The Effects of the Treatment of the Periodic Boundary Condition in TRIAINA Codes with a Pressure Tube Creep Problem by E. H. Ryu, S. Y. Yoo, B. Y. Chung, J. Y. Jung

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Inverse Kinematics Algorithm for 6-DOF Joint Robot with Offset Wrist based on Modified Newton Iteration Method by Han Lei, Diao Yan, Zhang Xibin, Luo Hua

“…According to the forward kinematics,by combining the three components of position vector with the three independent elements of attitude matrix,a non- liner equation set which contains all joint variables can be obtained,and then the numerical inverse kinematics solutions for the robot with offset wrist can be searched with the modified Newton iteration method. …”
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LAND SUITABILITY ANALAYSIS OF SESAME CROP USING GIS TECHNIQUES by Ramesh Kumar Ghimire, Anuj Dhakal, Amir Pandit, Pragyan Ghimire, Sagar Pokharel

“…The research findings underscore the significance of climatological factors (55.8%), topography (31.96%), and soil attributes (12.196%) in determining sesame production suitability. …”
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Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Invasive Potential of Ornamental Plants in the Mediterranean Area: Implications for Sustainable Landscaping by Diana-Maria Mircea, Monica Boscaiu, Radu E. Sestras, Adriana F. Sestras, Oscar Vicente

“…The present review examines the responses of ornamental plants’ grown in the Mediterranean region to relevant abiotic stress conditions such as drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, heavy metal toxicity, and atmospheric N deposition, emphasising physiological and biochemical responses that allow them to adapt to unfavourable environments. …”
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Synthetic data as external control arms in scarce single-arm clinical trials. by Severin Elvatun, Daan Knoors, Simon Brant, Christian Jonasson, Jan F Nygård

“…Clinical trials typically comprise only a few hundred patients usually with high-cardinality features, which makes individual data instances more exposed to re-identification attacks. We examine whether synthetic data can serve as a proxy for the empirical control arm data by providing the same research outcomes while reducing the risk of information disclosure. …”
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BALTIC ETHNOCRACIES BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE EU: IN SEARCH OF CONSENSUS UNDER CONDITIONS OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS by V. V. Vorotnikov

“…The attitude to this problem became crucial during recent political crisis in Latvia, whereas in Lithuania and Estonia it led to changing rhetoric on foreign political issues by opposition parties. …”
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Investigating the Impacts of Ionospheric Irregularities on Precise Point Positioning Over China and Its Mechanism by Wei Li, Shuli Song, Weili Zhou, Na Cheng, Chao Yu

“…Abstract The impacts of ionospheric irregularities on precise point positioning (PPP) have been commonly noticed in the field of the ionosphere and the precise application of the Global Navigation Satellite System. But few attentions have been paid to how ionospheric irregularities deteriorate the performance of PPP. …”
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Fulminant Diabetes in a Patient with Advanced Melanoma on Nivolumab by Nora Chokr, Hafsa Farooq, Elizabeth Guadalupe

“…Fulminant diabetes is an immune endocrinopathy that results from a violent immune attack leading to complete destruction of pancreatic beta cells in genetically predisposed people. …”
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A Christian ethical perspective on the moral status of the human embryo by J. M. Vorster

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RACIONALAUS KONSENSUSO PROBLEMA: J. RAWLSAS VERSUS J. F. LYOTARD’AS by Nida Vasiliauskaitė

“…Siekiama atskleisti svarbesnius koncepcijų ypatumus, trūkumus ir vidinį nenuoseklumą, parodyti, kaip bendra antifundamentistinė nuostata sankcionuoja prieštaringas implikacijas, ir atkreipti dėmesį į tai, kad šios problemos supratimą sąlygoja išankstinės prielaidos apie episteminio pliuralizmo mastą ir jo sąsajas su politiniu diskursu (kad konsensuso galimybės arba negalimybės tezė suponuojama iš anksto). …”
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Funcionalidad familiar: hombres que tienen sexo con hombres y sexo solo con mujeres by Pavel Rodríguez-Bustamante, Francisco Javier Báez-Hernández, Vianet Nava-Navarro, Arelia Morales-Nieto, Miguel Ángel Zenteno-López, Kathy Abigail Rodríguez-Bustamante

“…Se recomienda generar mayores evidencias al fondo común del conocimiento, a fin de derribar prejuicios, visibilizar la demanda de cuidado y promover la formulación de estrategias en atención a las necesidades de este grupo vulnerable.…”
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Cognitive Driven Multilayer Self-Paced Learning with Misclassified Samples by Qi Zhu, Ning Yuan, Donghai Guan

“…In recent years, self-paced learning (SPL) has attracted much attention due to its improvement to nonconvex optimization based machine learning algorithms. …”
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DEKARTIŠKASIS DIEVO ĮRODYMAS: PRIELAIDOS IR INTENCIJOS by Skirmantas Jankauskas

“…Aptariant šį principą, atskiriamas jo atradimo ir įteisinimo kontekstas. Teigiama, kad šį principą tiesiogiai numato aktyvaus gamtotyrinio mąstymo struktūra, o visuotinė abejonė yra tik būdas, kuriuo tą principą Descartes pagrindžia. …”
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Kinetics and mechanisms of EDTA photocatalytic degradation with TiO2 under different experimental conditions by Paola A. Babay, Carina A. Emilio, Rosana E. Ferreyra, Eduardo A. Gautier, Raquel T. Gettar, Marta I. Litter

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