Origin and Attribution of the Items in Eastern European Champlevé Enamels Style (Late 2nd – 4th Centuries) Found South-Eastward of the Main Dnieper Area by Oleg A. Radyush

“…Most known enameled finds belong to this time period, although some types of items can be traced back to the late 4th to early 5th centuries. Archaeological finds from closed complexes in the Northwestern Black Sea region, the Crimea, the North Caucasus, and the Lower Don are dated to all stages of the enameled style development. …”
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RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND TURKEY: THE PROSPECTS OF COLLABORATION by A. T. Mozloyev

“…The tragic event is not only about our plane being shut down but also about the murder of our soldiers what, also considering the reluctance of the Turkish elite to make apologies and its aspiration to postpone the normalization of the relations, makes it difficult to at least bring the relations back to their initial level.…”
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A new skink of the genus Scincella Mittleman, 1950 (Squamata, Scincidae) from Son La Province, northwestern Vietnam by Anh Van Pham, Thomas Ziegler, Cuong The Pham, Thao Ngoc Hoang, Hanh Thi Ngo, Minh Duc Le

“…Scincella truongi sp. nov. is characterized by a combination of the following characters: size medium (SVL up to 59.4 mm); primary temporals 2; external ear opening without lobules; loreals two; supralabials seven or eight; infralabials six or seven; nuchals in three pairs; midbody scales in 28 rows; dorsal scales smooth, in six rows across the back; paravertebral scales 60–67, not widened; ventral scales in 60–70 rows; ten smooth lamellae beneath finger IV and 13–15 beneath toe IV; toes not reaching to fingers when limbs adpressed along body; dorsal surface of body and tail bronze brown with few black spots, a dark stripe running from nostril to eye and extending from posterior corner of eye along upper part of flank to the middle of the tail. …”
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L’Algérie « post-décennie noire » : de l’imposition de l’impunité à la revendication d’une justice transitionnelle by Morgane Jouaret

“…This contribution proposes to look back at the process of “national reconciliation” after the black decade in Algeria (1992-1999) in order to analyze the co-construction of memorial narratives by institutional and associative actors. …”
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A Consequence-Based Response Framework for More Resilient Shipping Amidst Growing Uncertainty by Helen Thanopoulou, Siri Pettersen Strandenes

“…Considering significant shipping incidents of various less or more uncommon etiologies, such as the capsizing of vessels, missile attacks on merchant ships or vessel-onto-bridge collisions, this conceptual paper puts forward a consequence-based approach for assessing and managing shocks in the maritime domain, especially the ones classified in the “unknown-unknowns” or “Black Swan” categories. In the context of preparedness theory, the authors propose the adoption by shipping businesses, in parallel to any other risk approaches and tools, of the Assessment-reaction-Recovery-Conversion (ArRC) framework for managing risk and of relevant key recovery indicators which may assist in (a) increasing resilience through focusing the recovery planning on consequence-oriented, root-neutral reactions and (b) in promoting a “bounce-back-better” frame of mind and action plan, contributing to faster and easier recovery after a shock of any type.…”
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Tracking Nonlinear Correlation for Complex Dynamic Systems Using a Windowed Error Reduction Ratio Method by Yifan Zhao, Edward Hanna, Grant R. Bigg, Yitian Zhao

“…Current methods either are like a “black box” that is difficult to understand and relate back to the underlying system or have limited universality and applicability due to too many assumptions. …”
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A Novel Protective Framework for Defeating HTTP-Based Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service Attacks by Mohammed A. Saleh, Azizah Abdul Manaf

“…Then, it traces back the true attacking IP source. Thirdly, the flexible advanced entropy based (FAEB) scheme is to eliminate high rate DDoS (HR-DDoS) and flash crowd (FC) attacks. …”
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The Upregulation of COX2 in Human Degenerated Nucleus Pulposus: The Association of Inflammation with Intervertebral Disc Degeneration by Chang Liu, Guoyan Liang, Zhantao Deng, Jing Tan, Qiujian Zheng, Feng-Juan Lyu

“…Intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD) is an important risk factor of low back pain. We previously found upregulated markers of fibrosis, the late stage of chronic inflammation, in degenerated IVD with a small number of clinical specimens. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty” by Hamid Reza Maghsoodi, Mohammad Javad Masoominia

“…The design of its cover and back cover unfairly evokes a black, defeated, and poor image of the people of Iran.…”
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Proclamation of the All-Russian Empire – the Beginning of the Way to the Great Power Status by V. A. Artamonov

“…The demarcation of the borders of 1714 threw Russia back several hundred kilometers from the Black Sea region. …”
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Quantification of Escherichia coli Transfer from Plastic Mulch to Field-grown Tomatoes and Bell Peppers by Autumn R. Burnett, Faith Critzer, Timothy Coolong

“…Once inoculum was dry, the fruit was either dropped from different heights through a PVC pipe or placed back onto the mulch in its initial resting place. …”
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Chronic Inflammatory Arthropathy Preceding Acute Systemic Manifestations of Sarcoidosis: A Possible Overlap of Idiopathic Juvenile Arthritis and Sarcoidosis by Matheus Campello Vieira, Priscilla Gomes Tosta, Fernanda Morello Nicole, Lucas Enock V. Roberto, Júlia Guasti P. Vianna, Paulo de Coelho Castro, Rafael Burgomeister Lourenço, Erica Vieira Serrano, Valéria Valim, Weverton Machado Luchi

“…We describe a case of a 40-year-old black patient referred to our service for evaluation of nephrolithiasis and persistent elevation of plasma creatinine. …”
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Pressure-dependent current transport in vertical BP/MoS2 heterostructures by Ofelia Durante, Sebastiano De Stefano, Adolfo Mazzotti, Loredana Viscardi, Filippo Giubileo, Osamah Kharsah, Leon Daniel, Stephan Sleziona, Marika Schleberger, Antonio Di Bartolomeo

“…van der Waals heterostructures between two-dimensional (2D) materials offer versatile platforms for innovative electrical device architectures and applications. Black phosphorus (BP) and molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) emerge as promising candidates for heterostructures, owing to their exceptional electronic properties and gate-tunable capabilities. …”
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Une famille transatlantique : les Fleuriau by Jacques de Cauna

“…We can clearly see today, through the new context of cultural studies, how French families dealt with colonial contingencies characterized in particular by the presence of Blacks and free men of color in La Rochelle (he brought back with him two of his daughters of color and gave plantations and slaves to his sons of color who stayed back in Saint-Domingue) with an undeniable flexibility in the adaptation of their traditional strategies regarding kinship, marriage, godparents, and inheritance.The family of La Rochelle is in a way remodelled in the light of the Domingan slave society, but still seeking to preserve the interests of its members. …”
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Research progress of phosphogypsum-based backfill technology by Qiusong CHEN, Aixiang WU

“…Typically, phosphogypsum appears gray-black or gray-white, with a pH value ranging from 1.2 to 6. …”
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Crimean-Ottoman Factor in the Socio-Cultural System of Russia in Early Modern Times by T. V. Chernikova

“…But the transfer of the agrarian center to the south was restrained by the constant military danger from the Wild Field, which was part of the Horde, and then the Crimean Khanate, backed until the end of the 18 century by the Ottoman Empire, perceiving the Black Sea with its “inland lake”. …”
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Exemples d’habitats aristocratiques sur les sites des rues Eugène-Desteuque et Ponsardin à Reims/Durocortorum by Magalie Cavé, Stéphane Sindonino, Sabine Groetembril

“…It would take less than a generation for houses built in perishable materials to be abandoned for the adoption of Roman style construction (e.g. the opus signinum floors decorated with black and white tesserae crosses on rue Eugène-Desteuque). …”
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Notation publications in the context of musical life in Lithuania in the XVI-XVII centuries by Jūratė Trilupaitienė

“…It is thought that the impetus and backing of Radvila the Black as patron of the first Protestant hymnal led to the publication of his court composers' work outside the borders of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, as was done in Cracow in the middle of the century. …”
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THE STRUGGLE OF IDEAS AND «THE NEW TURKEY» by V. A. Nadein-Raevskiy

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Racial/Ethnic inequality & contemporary disparities in mortgage lending. by Meghan M O'Neil, Vincent J Roscigno

“…Specifically, mortgage originations, while generally less likely in high minority concentrated areas, appear to be more likely for Black/Hispanic borrowers in areas that have been becoming increasingly minority concentrated. …”
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