Tennessee Williams’s post-pastoral Southern gardens in text and on the movie screen by Taïna Tuhkunen

“…By relying on the conception of the pastoral garden as theorized by Leo Marx in The Machine in the Garden (1964), the author pays specific attention to the way mid-xxth century cinema kept recreating Williams’s Southern gardens as a corrupted and dehumanized space pierced through by disquieting shrieks.…”
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Strengthening and toughening an ultra-high strength medium Mn steel by fibrous ferrite bridging mechanism by Chao Zhang, Qian Cheng, Bo Yang, Wuli Su, Xue Chen, Qingyuan Wang, Wenquan Cao, Chongxiang Huang

“…Such excellent strength-ductility synergy is attributed to the fully activated fibrous ferrite bridging mechanism, in which the micro-voids at the grain boundaries of martensite serve as the bridging cracks while fibrous ferrites act as the bridging ligaments. …”
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Research of fracturing in the body of ground water dams by Makhmudov Abdulatif, Shakirov Bakhtiyar, Ermatov Qobiljon, Shakirov Boburmirzo, Uljaev Farokhiddin

“…The main similarity relationships when modeling earth dams using a centrifuge: density, relative deformation and stress are the same, which makes it possible to predict the assessm ent of cracking in more detail. Great attention is always paid to the reliability and safety of hydraulic structures. …”
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Quelle place pour les activités pastorales dans la reconversion économique du Vicdessos (Pyrénées ariégeoises) ? by Pierre Dérioz, Maud Loireau, Philippe Bachimon, Églantine Cancel, David Clément

“…À l’heure de la reconversion volontariste de ce petit territoire vers les activités récréatives de pleine nature (station sport nature du Montcalm) la petite vingtaine d’élevages en activité apparaît garante de la ressource paysagère sur laquelle repose l’attractivité touristique (abords des villages, estives). …”
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Research on flood defense mechanism of SDN control layer:detection and mitigation by Qizhao ZHOU, Junqing YU, Dong LI

“…Aiming at the problem of spoofing flood defense in the control layer of SDN, a controller defense mechanism (CDM)was proposed, including a flood detection mechanism based on key features multi-classification and a flood mitigation mechanism based on SAVI.The flood feature analysis module of the control layer was designed for flood detection, and boosting algorithm was used to overlay each feature weak classifier to form an enhanced classifier, which can achieve more accurate classification spoofing flooding attack effect by continuously reducing the residual in the calculation.In CDM, a flood mitigation mechanism based on SAVI was deployed to realize flood mitigation, which performed flood packet path filtering based on binding-verification mode, and updated the flood features of access layer switches with dynamic polling mode to reduce redundant model update load.The experimental results show that the proposed method has the characteristics of low overhead and high precision.CDM effectively increases the security of the control layer, and reduces the time of host classification of spoofing flood attack and the CPU consumption of corresponding controller.…”
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Exploring Force Production Reliability across Different Levels of Clinical Experience during a Simulated One-handed Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization Treatment: A Pilot... by Moni Syeda, Jason Bartholomew, Shayane Valenzuela Santiago, Ashley J Reeves, Nickolai JP Martonick, Scott W Cheatham, Russell T Baker Jr.

“…Participants performed 15 one-handed sweeping strokes with an IASTM instrument on a skin simulant attached to a force plate for a standardized hypothetical treatment scenario. …”
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Comparing Transport Corridors Based on Total Economic Cost by Alwyn J. Hoffman, Crynos Mutendera, Willem C. Venter

“…The motivation for the research is the paradox that, while Beira is closest to the hinterland served by these corridors, it attracts the least cargo. Historical research compares corridors in terms of both direct costs and time delays, but without translating time delays and variability in time delays into the economic costs experienced by corridor users. …”
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The culture of memory of Serbian builders of recent times by Kadijević Aleksandar

“…Within the organized culture of commemoration of artistic creators in Serbia, the least attention is arguably paid to builders of the recent era due to an insufficiently developed awareness of the artistic value of their work. …”
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Reducing dementia-related stigma and discrimination among community health workers in Brazil: protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial by Nicolas Farina, Deborah Oliveira, Sara Evans-Lacko, Cleusa P Ferri, Carolina Godoy, Fabiana A F da Mata, Elaine Mateus, Ana Carolina Arruda Franzon

“…The control group will keep their usual routine. Knowledge, attitude and intended behaviour stigma-based outcomes will be assessed at baseline and at follow-up (30 days after intervention) to both groups, with additional questions on feasibility for the experimental group at follow-up. …”
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Spatial delineation on marine environmental characteristics using fuzzy c-means clustering method by E.D. Lusiana, S. Astutik, N. Nurjannah, A.B. Sambah

“…It was expected that the areas within each group would have identical attributes and ecological processes.FINDINGS: The results suggested that the marine environmental factors in Lesser Sunda can be simplified using a principal component analysis technique: 6 principal component factors explained 81.06 percent of the overall raw data variability for the wet season, and 7 principal component variables explained 84.51 percent of the overall raw data variability for the dry season. …”
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Milli-Interacting Dark Matter Interpretation of the Direct-Search Experiments by Quentin Wallemacq

“…The model reproduces the positive results from DAMA/LIBRA and CoGeNT and is consistent with the absence of signal in the XENON100, CDMS-II/Ge, and LUX detectors. Dark atoms, interacting with standard atoms through a kinetic mixing between photons and dark photons and a mass mixing of σ mesons with dark scalars, diffuse elastically in terrestrial matter where they deposit all their energy. …”
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Evaluation of Plants and Weeds Extract on the Corrosion Inhibition of Mild Steel in Sulphuric Acid by Abida Begum

“…The inhibition efficiency increased with increase in the concentration of all tested inhibitors to attain a maximum value at 1.0%. Free energy values for adsorption process show that the process is spontaneous. …”
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Pedagogical strategy for the correction of language disability in preschool children by Elaine Álvarez Martínez, Félix Lázaro Huepp Ramos, Miladis Fornaris Méndez

“…<strong><br />Conclusion</strong>: the strategy designed for comprehensive attention to the language development of preschool children was effective. …”
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Alcances de la política pecuaria en México. El caso del Progan 2008-2013 by Adolfo Álvarez-Macías, Víctor Manuel Santos-Chávez

“…Metodología: Se ha revisado la normatividad del Progan, se han aplicado entrevistas abiertas a sus operadores y se procesaron datos de una encuesta por muestreo a 2,420 beneficiarios, con representatividad nacional, con base en la cual se diseñaron y estimaron indicadores productivos relacionados para una línea de base, 2010 y, en un segundo momento, 2013 a partir de los cuales se calcularon las tasas de cambio entre los dos años.Resultados: Se detectaron efectos marginales a nivel de finca en los diferentes indicadores estimados lo que se atribuyen a limitantes del diseño y, sobre todo, por los obstáculos que se han detectado en su instrumentación. …”
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Performance et rareté des coopératives de travailleurs : contributions empiriques à partir du cas français (Scop) by Thibault Mirabel

“…WOFs represent an implementation of democracy in firms. Despite their attractiveness, WOFs represent a minute proportion of firms in our contemporary economies (2,400 in France). …”
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Management of multi-source information to identify the typology of the horizontal structures in historical masonry buildings: the case study of the Museum of Capodimonte in Naples... by A. Maione, L.U. Argiento, C. Casapulla, A. Prota

“…To this aim, non-destructive techniques of instrumental investigation have lately attracted increasing attention, although the provided data are frequently not exhaustive and require to be integrated with different sources of information, such as historical documents and hypotheses of critical interpretation. …”
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Exploring the effect of cold stress on the semen quality parameters of buffalo bulls by Karpenahalli Ranganatha Sriranga, Pawan Singh, Ravinder Singh, Tejeshwari Satpute, Prince Vivek, Tushar Kumar Mohanty, Pradeep Kumar, Ranjit Singh Kataria, Megha Pande, Manishi Mukesh

“…Semen collection of these bulls was done twice during the peak of winter and spring seasons with overall average ambient temperature (°C) of 12.55±0.22 and 20.21±0.68, respectively, and blood was collected on the same day for biochemical analysis. Routine seminal attributes, viz., semen volume, sperm concentration, mass activity, individual motility, viability, acrosome integrity, and hypo-osmotic swelling test (HOST), were evaluated immediately after semen collection, and diluted semen was cryopreserved for further studies. …”
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ESSENCE OF THE PROBLEMS OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES OF CIVIL SERVANTS AT THE STAGE OF RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION by D. Simutova

“…The problems that arise at the stage of attracting personnel to the civil service of the Russian Federation have been considered from the point of view of the established qualification requirements for civil service positions. …”
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TPDTNet: Two-Phase Distillation Training for Visible-to-Infrared Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Object Detection by Siyu Wang, Xiaogang Yang, Ruitao Lu, Shuang Su, Bin Tang, Tao Zhang, Zhengjie Zhu

“…To improve the detection accuracy attained for infrared images, we propose a novel two-phase distillation training network (TPDTNet). …”
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Ações de conscientização sobre uso de repelentes e formas de combate ao mosquito Aedes aegypti by Denise de Abreu Garófalo, Anna Luiza Behling Pinto Chize, Luiz Eduardo Fileto Caldeira, Dalila dos Santos Cerqueira Pinto, Luciana Betzler de Oliveira de Siqueira, Ana Paula dos Santos Matos, Bárbara da Silva e Souza Lorca, Zaida Maria Faria de Freitas, Eduardo Ricci Júnior

“…Repellents, such as DEET, IR3535, and icaridin, are substances that inhibit their attack and consequently prevent those diseases. In order to (i) inform adults and/or pregnant women and (ii) raise awareness among children and adolescents from the state school system about the correct use of repellents against diseases caused by Aedes aegypti, the research group composed of undergraduate and graduate students, professors and pharmacists of the University Pharmacy of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro prepared information brochures and interactive games, in partnership with the UFRJ School of Fine Arts, and promoted lectures for adults and pregnant women in different public and private institutions around the city of Rio de Janeiro. …”
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