Recovering and Improvement of the Ancient Chinese South-pointing Chariot by Liu Zhao, Yang Muhan, Ma Kaiyue, Hu Zhuanliang

“…The checked south-pointing chariot is suitable for most conditions,and has great market prospects in machinery manufacturing,national defense and other fields.…”
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Documentary evidence and the production of power in medieval Nubia by Giovanni R. Ruffini

“…Some documents include explicit challenges to other texts, or defensive measures protecting a text against accusations of falsehood. …”
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Tuning Rheological Performance of Silica Concentrated Shear Thickening Fluid by Using Graphene Oxide by Wenchao Huang, Yanzhe Wu, Ling Qiu, Cunku Dong, Jie Ding, Dan Li

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Cugoano on Redressing Slavery: The Demands of Liberty by Iziah C Topete

“…Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s work from July 1787, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, defended redressing transatlantic slavery on principled grounds. …”
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REPRESENTAÇÕES DA DISCRIMINAÇÃO SOCIAL E RETROSPECÇÃO TELEFICCIONAL: Discursos de classe e geração a partir de comentários sobre a novela Esperança by Lília Junqueira

“… Resumo No texto a seguir defende-se a utilização do conceito de habitus para discutir os fenômenos da recepção da comunicação de massa. …”
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Habits of Mind A Brand New Condillac by Jeremy Dunham

“…This understanding depends on the acceptance of the activity of the mind, innate structure, and a moderate defence of instincts—all characteristics of the mind that he is most commonly read as rejecting. …”
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Pillbug, Roly-Poly, Woodlouse Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille) (Malacostraca: Isopoda: Armadillidiidae) by Julie A. Franklin, Morgan A. Byron, Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman

“…It is called a roly-poly because it rolls into ball when disturbed. This defensive behavior also makes it look like a pill, which is why it is sometimes called a pillbug. …”
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Droits d’usage et environnement : ce que nous enseignent les recours concernant les installations classées dans trois régions françaises by Haï Vu Pham, Philippe Jeanneaux

“…The REF stakeholders’ network analysis shows that the legal litigation is a relevant process to reveal defending interests at a tribunal. It also shows collective strategies and power used by stakeholders to establish new property rights. …”
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AN ASSESSMENT OF CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON NIGERIA'S NATIONAL SECURITY by Uti Harrison Onyeka, Ubong Ituen Ituen

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Comments on Keyan Tomaselli’s "The 2022 Copyright Amendment Bill: Implications for the South African universities’ Research Economy" by Brian Wafawarowa

“…The interest groups have retreated to their laagers and are defending their positions, ferociously and without regard for other perspectives and interests. …”
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«Den sletteste, den nedrigste og uretfærdigste Embeds Mand» Om prosessen mot byfogd og politimester i Christiansand Mauritz Antonius Schweder by Geir Heivoll

“…This article focuses on the trial against Schweder: the many accusations against him, his defense, and the ruling of the Supreme Court, thereby shedding light on a lesser known part of the legal history of the early Norwegian Police.…”
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Legal Identity and 13th-Century English Ireland by Stephen Hewer

“…This article sorts out defensive pleas and petitions from court judgments, and applies decolonial and intersectional-feminist methodologies to the terminology regarding the medieval courts and peoples. …”
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Pedro Boza (1660-1715) : au service de la justice dans la sierra zapotèque du Mexique by Thomas Calvo

“…In this microcosm he played on all sides, sometimes on the side of the established authority, sometimes in the service of a few caciques who were searching their own fortune. Boza always defended his interests. And how about those of the Monarchy? …”
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Twostriped Walkingstick, Anisomorpha buprestoides (Stoll) (Insecta: Phasmatodea: Pseudophasmatidae) by Michael C. Thomas

“…The last common name is particularly apt as this species is capable of squirting a strong-smelling defensive spray that is painfully irritating to the eyes and mucous membranes (Gray 1835, Meinwald et al. 1962, Eisner 1965, Stewart 1937, Hatch et al. 1993, Paysse et al. 2001, Dziezyc 1992). …”
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Plastin Family of Actin-Bundling Proteins: Its Functions in Leukocytes, Neurons, Intestines, and Cancer by Hiroto Shinomiya

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Representación del indígena en el cine venezolano: Contrastando estereotipos: entre ficciones y realidades by Emperatriz  Arreaza  Camero

“…The objective of this paper is to know the image of the indigenous communities in the Venezuelan cinema (1998-2008), and the representation of these ethnics groups, through the definition of “national identity” in contemporary Venezuela, especially since the struggles of the indigenous people for their cultural and ethnic survival, their defense of their land, and their political and economic self-determination.It is important to remember that in 1968, during the first government of Rafael Caldera (1969-1974), the country began a “new indigenous policy”, in the midst of the economic desarrollista model implanted for this government, called the conquest of the South [la Conquista del Sur], which also allowed a new ethnographic and socio-anthropological approach to the indigenous communities, from different filmmakers formed in Venezuela and abroad. …”
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STATUS AND PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPING EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN CHINESE LANGUAGE IN HIGHER SCHOOL by T. L. Guruleva

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« A Woman’s Answer » : Adelaide Procter et la poésie face au genre by Fabienne Moine

“…Thus, Procter, as a feminist, writes poems defending feminine values whilst resisting to self-deprecation and to the excessive enhancement of virtues. …”
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COMPUTER MODELING OF STRAINS ON PHASE BOUNDARIES IN DUCTILE CAST IRON AT HOT EXTRUSION by A. I. Pokrovsky, V. A. Kovtun, Т. V. Ryabchenko, I. Khrol

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Intestinal Epithelial Cells as a Source of Inflammatory Cytokines and Chemokines by Andrew W Stadnyk

“…The intestinal epithelium has long been known to provide nonspecific defences such as mucus, lysozyme and transport of secretory immunoglobulin via the polyimmunoglobulin receptor. …”
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