Defanging Diversity by Daniel Kees

“…They don’t want to realize that there is not one step, morally or actually, between Birmingham and Los Angeles. - James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro (2017) This article explores the jurisprudential underpinnings of the so-called “diversity rationale” that until recently had been considered a powerful vehicle for fostering racial diversity on elite college campuses. …”
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Intercultural learning in diverse schools: obstacles, opportunities, and outlooks by Thor-André Skrefsrud

“…This paper ends with a consideration of the future prospects of intercultural learning, suggesting more research on how intercultural learning actually takes place in schools and society. …”
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Tourism, heritage and Islam: Fes, a tourism centre and a Tijani centre by Anne Ouallet

“…In Fes, tourism management of holy sites is based on segregation as secular tourists, the only group actually referred to as “tourists”, are banned from entering mosques.…”
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The Bioactivities of Phycocyanobilin from Spirulina by Yi Li

“…Phycocyanobilin (PCB) is a linear open-chain tetrapyrrole chromophore that captures and senses light and a variety of biological activities, such as anti-oxidation, anti-cancer, and anti-inflammatory. …”
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Milli-Interacting Dark Matter Interpretation of the Direct-Search Experiments by Quentin Wallemacq

“…Reaching underground detectors through gravity at thermal energies, they form bound states with nuclei of the active medium by radiative capture, which causes the emission of photons that produce the observed signals. …”
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Surviving in Overijssel. An Analysis of Life Expectancy, 1812–1912. by Sander Wennemers, Hilde Bras

“…Therefore, studies on average life expectancy or studies, which examine the whole of the Netherlands do not fully capture the differential determinants of this process. …”
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Tracer l’animal dans les nouvelles de Rick Bass by Claire Cazajous-Augé

“…These traces thus show that something resists the human attempt to intellectually and physically capture animals. When an animal appears in the wilderness or in the text, it disturbs the course of the narrative. …”
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Economic Contributions of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Food Industries in Florida in 2015 by Alan W. Hodges, Mohammad Rahmani, Christa D. Court

“…This analysis was conducted using the Implan regional economic modeling system and associated state and county databases (IMPLAN Group LLC) to estimate economic multipliers and contributions for over 500 different industry sectors. Multipliers capture the indirect and induced economic activity generated by re-spending of income or sales revenues in a regional economy. …”
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Photographier les villes à venir : diffusion des économies urbaines et morcellement des terres au Kenya by Bérénice Bon

“…These land markets without construction, which contribute to urban sprawl, are less considered in academic literature that focuses on the expansion of built-up areas and access to services in metropolitan peripheries. Photography captures attention on these plots left vacant for several years. …”
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Assessing subtle changes in arid land river basin ecological quality: A study utilizing the PIE engine platform and RSEI by Aizemaitijiang Maimaitituersun, Han Yang, Nuerbiye Aobuliaisan, Kamuran Maimaitiaili, Ouyang Chenyu

“…RSEI, from the first principal component, captures the basin’s EQ; 2. From 2001 to 2023, the URB showed an EQ deficiency, with areas of improvement, deterioration, and stability at 32.34 %, 22.99 %, and 25.46 % respectively—an overall enhancement. …”
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Individual mobility prediction by considering current traveling features and historical activity chain by Xiaotong Zhang, Zhipeng Gui, Yuhang Liu, Dehua Peng, Qianxi Lan, Zhangxiao Shen, Huan Chen, Yuhui Zuo, Yao Yao, Huayi Wu, Kai Li, Kun Qin

“…These issues hinder the model from effectively capturing complex mobility patterns. To fill this gap, we propose a novel method that incorporates current traveling features and historical activity chain to predict the coordinates of traveling destination. …”
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Thermal performance enhancement in evacuated tube solar collector with working fluid MWCNT/Al2O3/MgO tri-hybrid nanofluid by Sathish Thanikodi, Jayant Giri, Rathinasamy Saravanan, Shafiq Ahmad, Ahmad O. Hourani

“…By exploring advanced tri-hybrid nanofluids, the study aims to significantly improve the thermal performance and energy capture of ETSC systems, contributing to more sustainable and efficient energy generation. …”
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A Method for Quantifying Mung Bean Field Planting Layouts Using UAV Images and an Improved YOLOv8-obb Model by Kun Yang, Xiaohua Sun, Ruofan Li, Zhenxue He, Xinxin Wang, Chao Wang, Bin Wang, Fushun Wang, Hongquan Liu

“…The results indicated that on the 13th day post seeding, a 2640 × 1978 image captured at 7 m above ground level exhibited optimal detection performance. …”
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The Australian and New Zealand Fontan Registry Quality of Life Study: Protocol for a population-based assessment of quality of life among people with a Fontan circulation, their pa... by Daniel S J Costa, Kim Dalziel, Yves d’Udekem, David S Winlaw, David S Celermajer, Nadine A Kasparian, Diana Zannino, Rachel Bishop, Kate H Marshall, Susan R Woolfenden, Gary F Sholler

“…Clinical characteristics are captured via self-report and parent-proxy report, as well as the ANZFR. …”
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Order reduction for an RNA virus evolution model by Andrei Korobeinikov, Aleksei Archibasov, Vladimir Sobolev

“…A mathematical or computational model in evolutionary biologyshould necessary combine several comparatively fast processes,which actually drive natural selection and evolution, with a veryslow process of evolution. …”
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Imaginaries of Judicial Practices in Cali, Colombia by Lina Buchely, Mónica Londoño, Christian Castillo, Juan Loaiza

“…These findings demonstrate that, against liberal discourses that emphasize the order, unity and rationality of public actions, that the power of the state actually operates through the disaggregated, the irrational and the emotional, a much wider and inexplicable framework.…”
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Variational modeling adapted to the medium with gradient properties by Nait-Ali, Azdine, Ben Elhaj Salah, Sami

“…Traditional scale transition methods are inadequate in capturing the essential gradient properties of some materials. …”
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Forecasting Volatility with Time-Varying Coefficient Regressions by Qifeng Zhu, Miman You, Shan Wu

“…The empirical results suggest that time-varying coefficient models do generate more accurate out-of-sample forecasts than the corresponding constant coefficient models. By capturing and studying the time series of time-varying coefficients of the predictors, we find that the coefficients (predictive ability) of heterogeneous volatilities are negatively correlated and the leverage effect is not significant or inverse during certain periods. …”
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A Variable Precision Attribute Reduction Approach in Multilabel Decision Tables by Hua Li, Deyu Li, Yanhui Zhai, Suge Wang, Jing Zhang

“…In this study, we propose a variable precision attribute reduct for multilabel data based on rough set theory, called δ-confidence reduct, which can correctly capture the uncertainty implied among labels. Furthermore, judgement theory and discernibility matrix associated with δ-confidence reduct are also introduced, from which we can obtain the approach to knowledge reduction in multilabel decision tables.…”
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Semisupervised Kernel Marginal Fisher Analysis for Face Recognition by Ziqiang Wang, Xia Sun, Lijun Sun, Yuchun Huang

“…In addition, in order to make the nonlinear structure captured by the data-dependent kernel consistent with the intrinsic manifold structure, a manifold adaptive nonparameter kernel is incorporated into the learning process of SKMFA. …”
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