Luxury, Mystification, and Oppressive Power in d’Holbach’s Philosophical Writings by Enrico Galvagni

“…First, I reconstruct d’Holbach’s well-known account of luxury contained in his Politique Naturelle (1773). Secondly, I show that a closer reading of his later work Morale Universelle (1776) discloses a new element: according to d’Holbach’s social philosophy, luxury is a mystification strategy used by tyrants to be seen as gods and consequently dominate their subjects. …”
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Aluminum in Effluents and Sludges from the Preliminary Coagulation in Dairy Factory Aerated Balancing Tanks: An Analytical and Sorption Study by Michał Sadowski, Piotr Anielak, Wojciech M. Wolf

“…The pretreatment dairy sludge can be applied in agriculture as fertilizer containing valuable nutrients. Hence, a simple, cost effective, and rapid method for the determination of aluminum content in the sludge is essential for calculation of the appropriate coagulant dose at the sludge pretreatment process. …”
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A community-based father education intervention on breastfeeding practice in Ethiopia: a quasi-experimental study by Wolde Melese Ayele, Tesfaye Birhane Tegegne, Asnakew Molla Mekonen

“…Abstract Background Breastfeeding is the cornerstone of a newborn’s nutrition, containing crucial nutritional components. While a substantial body of research focuses on mothers, there is limited understanding regarding effective strategies to engage fathers in promoting breastfeeding practices. …”
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Artificial-Intelligence-Based Investigation on Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Changes in Response to Population Growth in South Punjab, Pakistan by Tanweer Abbas, Muhammad Shoaib, Raffaele Albano, Muhammad Azhar Inam Baig, Irfan Ali, Hafiz Umar Farid, Muhammad Usman Ali

“…The results for Multan indicated substantial urban expansion as built-up areas increased from 8.36% in 2003 to 25.56% in 2033, with vegetation and barren areas displaying decreasing trends from 82.96% to 70% and 7.95% to 3.5%, respectively. Moreover, areas containing water fluctuated and ultimately changed from 0.73% in 2003 to 0.9% in 2033. …”
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Biosynthesis of Xanthan Gum from Fermenting Shrimp Shell: Yield and Apparent Viscosity by Larissa Alves de Sousa Costa, Márcio Inomata Campos, Janice Izabel Druzian, Ana Maria de Oliveira, Enio Nazaré de Oliveira Junior

“…Strain 1182 showed the highest yield (4.64 g·L−1) and viscosity (48.53 mPa·s), from the medium containing 10% (w/v) of SSAE. These values were higher than those obtained from the control medium containing sucrose. …”
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Evaluation of Current Households Management Practices of Solid Wastes from Pharmaceuticals in Soc Trang city, Vietnam by T. T. Tien, N. T. Giao

“…The interviewees did not have much knowledge of the impact of potentially harmful chemicals containing in the discarded medicines on health and ecosystems. …”
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Dyslipidemia rather than Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus or Chronic Periodontitis Affects the Systemic Expression of Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Genes by Rafael Nepomuceno, Bárbara Scoralick Villela, Sâmia Cruz Tfaile Corbi, Alliny De Souza Bastos, Raquel Alves Dos Santos, Catarina Satie Takahashi, Silvana Regina Perez Orrico, Raquel Mantuaneli Scarel-Caminaga

“…One hundred and fifty patients were separated into five groups containing 30 individuals each: (G1) poorly controlled T2D with dyslipidemia and CP; (G2) well-controlled T2D with dyslipidemia and CP; (G3) normoglycemic individuals with dyslipidemia and CP; (G4) healthy individuals with CP; (G5) systemic and periodontally healthy individuals. …”
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MLPR: YOLOv3 for Real-Time License Plate Recognition in Moroccan Video Streams by Hatim Derrouz, Hamza Alami, Reda Rabie

“…Furthermore, we collected and annotated a set of videos that contain vehicles with Moroccan license plates in various conditions. …”
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Recent Advances, Research Trends, and Clinical Relevance of Hyaluronic Acid Applied to Wound Healing and Regeneration by Gloria Huerta-Ángeles, Edgar Mixcoha

“…Finally, this review focuses on products containing HA, novel developments, gaps, and limitations of the current state of the art.…”
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Early Swimming Clubs: A Question of Class by Win Hayes

“…They needed to belong to leisure organisations that both met their requirements for sport or physical activity and also allowed them to meet other social needs in relation to their leisure being distinctive and maintaining their class position and separation from the lower classes. The second group contains two sub groups: the upper middle class managers or owners of factories and secondly the allied groups of those involved in the running of organisations aiming to attract large memberships such as churches. …”
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Study on the Mixed Materials Proportion of Stratum Based on the Modelling Experiment by Yijun Zhou, Tao Xu

“…The mixed materials are used to simulate the stratum of the model test, including the iron ore powder, natural sands, gypsum, and lime. The stratum contains silty clay and silt soil. First of all, the symmetry coefficient of model mechanics parameters are calculated by the equation, and the symmetry ratio is 16 : 1. …”
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Risk of transition to lead-free in the space sector: Sn whisker growth in thermal vacuum conditions from submicron Sn layer by Balázs Illés, Agata Skwarek, Tamás Hurtony, Olivér Krammer, Bálint Medgyes, Krzysztof Szostak, Gábor Harsányi, András Kovács, Béla Pécz

“…The vacuum-grown whiskers contained approximately half the amount of Cu6Sn5 inclusions than the ambient-grown ones, which could be related to the more uniform stress relaxation of the oxide-free surface in the vacuum. …”
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Impact of cooling diabetic patients’ fingertips compared to vibrating stimulation on pain from the glucometer needle: A cross-over trial study by Vahid Vejdanihemmat, Hiva Azami, Leili Tapak, Shiva Borzouei, khodayar Oshvandi

“…The study design consisted of six blocks, each containing three interventions: vibration stimulation (A), cold therapy (B), and a combination of both C. …”
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Jezuité v Historii církevní Pavla Skály ze Zhoře a jejich možná role ve Skálově pojetí dějin by Tereza Lyčková

“…Being written by a protestant author, ’Historie církevní’ contains rather a detailed image of the Jesuit Order hidden within its text. …”
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Thermodynamical Restrictions and Wave Propagation for a Class of Fractional Order Viscoelastic Rods by Teodor M. Atanacković, Sanja Konjik, Ljubica Oparnica, Dušan Zorica

“…We discuss thermodynamical restrictions for a linear constitutive equation containing fractional derivatives of stress and strain of different orders. …”
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Management of Sensor-Related Data Based on Virtual TEDS in Sensing RFID System by Wuming Luo, Miodrag Bolic, Jing Wang, Xin Qian

“…Several experiments were carried out with a newly developed container supply chain monitoring application system based on SRFID to examine the performance of the system.…”
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A Novel Edge Detection Algorithm for Mobile Robot Path Planning by Rami Al-Jarrah, Mohammad Al-Jarrah, Hubert Roth

“…In addition, the proposed algorithm has been tested through real-time robot navigation system, where it has been applied to detect the robot and obstacles in unstructured environment and generate 2D maps. These maps contain the starting and destination points in addition to current positions of the robot and obstacles. …”
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Chemical Composition and Antibacterial and Antioxidant Activities of Stem Bark Essential Oil and Extracts of Solanecio gigas by Mequanint Molla Yitayeh, Amanu Monie Wassihun

“…The GC-MS analysis identified 23 components, accounting for 98.7% of the total oil containing Methylene chloride (49.2%), sabinene (10.5%), 1-nonene (11.3%), Terpinen-4-ol (6.9%), Camphene (4.3%), γ-terpinene (3.6%), α-phellandrene (2.9%) β-myrcene (2.6%), 1,2,5-Oxadiazol-3-carboxamide, 4,4′-azobis-2,2′-dioxide (2.4%), α-terpinene (1.9%), 1-Octanamine, N-methyl- (1.9%), ρ-cymene (1.6%) as major components. …”
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Determination of Species‐Specific Differences in Intracranial Volume of Tuj Sheep and Hair Goats Using Stereology and Computed Tomography Methods by Ali Koçyiğit, Betül Kanik, İsmail Demircioğlu, Yasin Demiraslan

“…ABSTRACT The intracranial cavity contains vitally important organs. The brain, cerebellum, meninges and the vessels that supply these organs are located in the intracranial cavity. …”
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Interpretable and integrative deep learning for discovering brain-behaviour associations by Corentin Ambroise, Antoine Grigis, Josselin Houenou, Vincent Frouin

“…Multi-view unsupervised learning frameworks, particularly deep learning models, present promising solutions for integrating and analysing complex datasets. Such models contain generative capabilities which facilitate the exploration of relationships between different data views. …”
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