La diffusion des rickshaws au Tchad, une réponse « par le bas » aux besoins de mobilité des populations urbaines ? by Ronan Mugelé, N'Dilbé Tob-Ro

“…After the well-known success of motorcycle cabs or "clandos," recent years have seen the rapid spread of another light means of transport, the rickshaw, which is now used in most urban centers. …”
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A series transformation formula and related polynomials by Khristo N. Boyadzhiev

“…In one particular case, our formula reduces to a series transformation formula which appears in the works of Ramanujan and is related to the exponential (or Bell) polynomials. Another particular case, based on the geometric series, gives rise to a new class of polynomials called geometric polynomials.…”
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Roads and Roadlessness: Driving Trucks in Siberia by Tatiana Argounova-Low

“…The article intends to contribute to the broad corpus of literature on mobility and argues that an alternative perspective on roads and road-users from a geographical area beyond the West might better inform and add another dimension to our notions of roads and our movement along them. …”
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Use of Arduino for Monitoring the Air Quality of Indoor Environments by Felipe Macedo Freitas Siqueira, Lizandro de Sousa Santos

“…A thermal comfort index (TCI) was proposed, where a scale from 0 to 1 based on the weighted average of the individual indices was developed. Another approach, based on artificial neural networks, was formulated in which the parameters were used as input arguments of the network and the TCI was used as a target parameter. …”
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Granular Cell Tumour of the Bile Duct in Association with Intrahepatic Bile Duct Adenomas by F Schweiger, J Radhi, FW Coop, RW Murphy

“…Intrahepatic bile duct adenoma is another rare benign biliary neoplasm that does not manifest clinically but can be confused with metastatic carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma or other focal liver lesions at laparotomy or autopsy. …”
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Hemopericardium and Cardiac Tamponade Secondary to Migrated Inferior Vena Cava Filter by Jeet J. Mehta, Benjamin DeMarco, John P. Vavalle, Khola S. Tahir, Joseph S. Rossi

“…Imaging revealed two fractured legs of an inferior vena cava filter, with one leg within the anterior myocardium of the right ventricle and another penetrating the inferior septum through the middle cardiac vein. …”
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A LOW-COST METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF DUPLICATE HOLDINGS AMONG GENEBANK ACCESSIONS by F. . Yndgaard, I. G. Loskutov, S. O. Solberg, O. N. Kovaleva, A. . Kolodinska-Brantestam, J. T. Svensson

“…In 13% of the pairs, the accessions were probably distinct and another 24% fell in-between these categories and required further investigation. …”
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Discovering Spirituality: A Guide for Teens by Larry Forthun, Angelica Johns

“…Every teenager at one time or another has asked these questions. It’s the answers that are hard to figure out. …”
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First Video Case Report of Chronic Retrograde Jejunojejunal Intussusception after Subtotal Gastrectomy with Braun’s Anastomosis by Savaş Bayrak, Hasan Bektaş, Necdet Derici, Ekrem Çakar, Şükrü Çolak

“…Intussusception, which is seen rarely in adults, is defined as the pulling or invagination of a part of the intestine into another segment of the intestine. In this case report we present chronic retrograde jejunojejunal intussusception following gastric surgery with Braun’s anastomosis in adult with video presentation. …”
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Thermalization in Krylov basis by Mohsen Alishahiha, Mohammad Javad Vasli

“…Abstract We study thermalization in closed non-integrable quantum systems using the Krylov basis. …”
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God and Universities by John B Cobb Jr

“…Also the limiting of acceptable thinking to topics falling within one academic discipline or another had no place for continuing a discussion of the topic. …”
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The Dynamics of the Schoener-Polis-Holt model of Intra-Guild Predation by Eric Ruggieri, Sebastian J. Schreiber

“…Intraguild predation occurs when one species (theintraguild predator) predates on and competes with another species(the intraguild prey). A classic model of this interaction wasintroduced by Gary Polis and Robert Holt building on a model ofcompeting species by Thomas Schoener. …”
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Unsteady free convection of a stagnation point of attachment on an isothermal surface by D. B. Ingham, J. H. Merkin, I. Pop

“…For a range of values of parameter c, which describes the local geometry, the development of the various physical properties of the flow are calculated and compared with their values at small and large values of time. In another range of values of c the numerical results suggest the development of a singularity in the boundary-layer equations at a finite value of time. …”
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A lesson in love: Farid al-Din Attar’s story of Sheikh San’an and the Christian girl by R. de Groot

“…The sheikh’s surprise meeting with the girl leads him to the painful insight that, although he is an accomplished and highly respected scholar, he does not know true love. Only with the help of outrageous means of humiliation, inflicted upon him by a girl of another faith, including the rejection of his own religion as he knows it, is he able to bring his path to perfection. …”
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Citrus Rust Mite Phyllocoptruta oleivora (Ashmead) (Arachnida: Acari: Eriophyidae) by Emilie Demard, Jawwad A Qureshi

“… The citrus rust mite, Phyllocoptruta oleivora (Ashmead), also called silver mite, is an important pest of citrus in most humid regions of the world (McCoy and Albrigo 1975, Vacante 2010) (Figure 1). …”
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Devenir conseiller principal d’éducation : recompositions et tensions d’un système de formation by Claude Javier

“…It reveals the recompositions of training in the face of the challenges of a new mode of management of the public service, introducing another form of governance of the educational system (Bouvier, 2012) and contributes to the identification of the tensions inherent in the dynamics of professionalization of beginning CPE.…”
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Generalized Kudryashov Method for Time-Fractional Differential Equations by Seyma Tuluce Demiray, Yusuf Pandir, Hasan Bulut

“…These time-fractional equations can be turned into another nonlinear ordinary differantial equation by travelling wave transformation. …”
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Le film du temps en Imerina (Madagascar) : dialogue entre lecture paysanne et lecture « scientifique » by Daniel Peyrusaubes

“…To decipher the climatology of a geographical area usually consists in interpreting data collected from a corpus of statistics and instrumental observations. However, another source of data is based on the knowledge of the local populations. …”
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Left Subclavian Artery Pseudoaneurysm after a Traffic Accident: A Case Report by J. Enamorado-Enamorado, J. J. Egea-Guerrero, J. Revuelto-Rey, E. Gordillo-Escobar, C. Herrera-Melero

“…There were not clavicular or rib fractures, or another type of chest trauma to justify such a vascular injury. …”
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On the Korteweg-de Vries equation: an associated equation by Eugene P. Schlereth, Ervin Y. Rodin

“…The purpose of this paper is to describe a relationship between the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation ut−6uux+uxxx=0and another nonlinear partial differential equation of the form zt+zxxx−3zxzxxz=H(t)z.The second equation will be called the Associated Equation (AE) and the connection between the two will be explained. …”
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