Science Before Dinner: Science popularization in Francoist Spain through the Los Progresos Científicos Broadcast by Boleda Jordi Ferran

“…Through the case study of Manuel Vidal Españó (1905-1984), a Spanish engineer and science popularizer, this paper addresses some features of science popularization in Franco’s dictatorship (1939-1975), such as the apolitical and uncritical techno-optimism and the (dis)continuities with the previous political regime. Vidal Españó conducted science radio talks on Radio Barcelona from 1924 until the late 1960s, particularly in his show Los Progresos Científicos (the Scientific Advances), which broke the typical one-way radio communication, establishing a dynamic relationship with his audience. …”
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Les marais salants brésiliens entre protection environnementale et pression foncière : un paysage en mutation by Vanessa Moura de Lacerda Teixeira

“…This article reflects on the aspects of salt marsh landscapes threatened by the continued expansion of the real estate sector. In seeking to develop real estate assets some decision makers consider salt marshes as a potential land source for urban development. …”
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Zagadnienie nawrócenia i pokuty w dziełach Sulpicjusza Sewera by Józef Pochwat

“…A striking feature of the Sulpicius message on conversion and penance is that a monk of Aquitaine continually shows the figure of St. Martin. Although he writes that the miracles of driving out demons are performed by the power of the cross of Christ, and that repentance is the work of Jesus’ grace and steadfast faith and trust in God’s help, it seems that for him the person of St. …”
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Neither “Platformization” Nor “Infrastructuralization”: Government as a Platform in China by Jingyan Elaine Yuan, Yuchao Zhao

“…Through a case study of “the digital reform” in Zhejiang Province, and the affiliated smart city project—City Brain—in Hangzhou, the municipal capital, this study draws on data from participatory observations and interviews to (1) provide a historical context, in which “platformization” in urban governance is aimed to serve market-oriented socio-economic reforms; (2) argue that such “platformization” is shaped by the long-standing structural tension between centralization and localism, which has been renewed by digital data flows; and (3) understand the shifting public–private demarcation in social interactions and arrangements to deflect continual frictions between the state, local agents, and platforms in the domain of digital governance.…”
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Managing Against the Development of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds: Sugarcane by Dennis C. Odero, Brent A. Sellers, Jason A. Ferrell, Gregory E. MacDonald

“…Although it is likely that small populations of herbicide-resistant weeds are already present in the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA), herbicide resistance is currently not a significant problem. The continued use of integrated and properly managed weed control programs should ensure that resistance does not become a major issue in the future. …”
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Event Forecasting in Organizational Networks: A Discrete Dynamical System Approach by Piotr Śliwa

“…The network perspective is believed to successfully model most of the socioeconomic phenomena, which, in combination with the prospects of continuously advancing tools for automated data mining and machine learning, gives a tempting promise to effectively forecast socioeconomic events occurring in our societies and businesses. …”
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The Role of the Surgeon and Transurethral Resection in the Treatment of Superficial Bladder Cancer by Alan M. Nieder, Murugesan Manoharan

“…TUR should be ideally performed under spinal anesthesia, with a continuous flow video resectoscope to maintain a stable bladder capacity, and a video monitor. …”
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L’iconographie de la croix sur les sarcophages du haut Moyen Âge en Gaule by Anne Flammin

“…In the Early Middle Ages, it continued to occupy a predominant place in iconography and was one of the most popular motifs in the decoration of sarcophagi from the late fifth to the early eighth century in Gaul. …”
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Asian Public Space since 1945: From Mao to the Mall and Beyond by David Grahame Shane

“…It also tracks the appearance of a specifically Asian rural-urban space-making system of urban villages that has emerged as a long cultural continuity in and around Asian cities. Four models of urban space are examined: Metropolis, Megalopolis, Fragmented Metropolis, and Megacity/Metacity. …”
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Neurosyphilis: An Unresolved Case of Meningitis by Shagufta Ahsan, Joesph Burrascano

“…Given the effectiveness of penicillin therapy, why is the rate of syphilis continuing to increase? Is it due to a failure of prevention or could it be also because of failure to diagnose and treat syphilis adequately, as in this case?…”
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Insider Trading with Memory under Random Deadline by Kai Xiao, Yonghui Zhou

“…In this paper, we study a model of continuous-time insider trading in which noise traders have some memories and the trading stops at a random deadline. …”
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Coefficients of prolongations for symmetries of ODEs by Ricardo Alfaro, Jim Schaeferle

“…He found that transformations which form a continuous group and leave a differential equation invariant can be used to simplify the equation. …”
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Locating the university lecture as a contemporary educational practice by Crook Charles

“…This is interpreted in relation to practitioners’ continued protection of three imperatives within live exposition: community, conviviality and conversation.…”
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“Nowadays the house would be called a stately home”: Pastoral Relocations in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia by John Bull

“…Change and flux are confronted by continuity and consistency. In this paper, I will consider the ideological implications of this paradox in relation to the playwright’s use of pastoral models that date from the English Renaissance, and yet reconfigure models of earlier post-second war British theatre, models that – according to many critical accounts – had long been superseded and abandoned. …”
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An Evaluation of the Security Ability of the Basic Endowment Insurance System for China’s Urban and Rural Residents by Bing Liu, Yuhong He, Zhi Liu

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Astrotheology: A proactive contextualization of novelty within space exploration by A.C. Pieterse

“…We live in a universe where there is a space for contingency and novelty; yet a creation that is lawful; there is also a movement towards entropy, and, finally, certain aspects in creation will remain a mystery. …”
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Modeling of chemo-radiotherapy targeting growing vascular tumors: A continuum-level approach. by Ioannis Lampropoulos, Marina Koutsi, Michail E Kavousanakis

“…The aim of this study is to demonstrate the enhanced efficiency of combined therapeutic strategies for the treatment of growing tumors, based on computational experiments of a continuous-level modeling framework. In particular, the tumor growth is simulated within a host tissue and treated as a multiphase fluid, with each cellular species considered as a distinct fluid phase. …”
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The Impact of Banks’ Commitment to the Decisions of the Basel II Committee and its Impact on their Performance: A Field Study in a Sample of Private Iraqi Banks by Rami Abbas Hameed

“… As a result of the increasing risks facing the banking system، which would negatively impact its performance and its continued provision of banking services to the public، the Basel II Committee was established to establish a set of pillars that، if applied, could have a positive impact on banking performance. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENTERPRISE PRODUCTION SYSTEM BY ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE RESOURCES by D. V. Shkolnyi

“…The stages of applied measures to improve the production system with various resources that include key development elements: the management system and processes, the formation of a system for collecting, analyzing and using best practices in order to increase the competitiveness of the enterprise, building a self-developing system of continuous improvements, creating an organizational culture that allows maximize the potential of employees and develop their abilities, have been considered in the article. …”
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Accounting Data Quality Evaluation Method Based on Improved Particle Swarm Algorithm by Mengying Sun

“…With the continuous improvement of the capital market and related laws and regulations, accounting as a reflection of the corporate capital movement will have a significant impact on the quality of the entire accounting information. …”
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