‘Ulamā’ and the Formation of Islamic Knowledge: Learning from Two Historical Experiences in Sumatra by Jajat Burhanudin

“…The discussions focus one the ways the difference in the systems of politics created the necessary condition for the rise of two expressions of Islam. The existence of Malay kingdoms in the east coast appeared to be a leading factor in establishment of the kingdom-oriented Islam, different from the stateless condition of the west coast which gave rise to the initial substance of Islamic civil society. …”
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The Ghosts of Justice and the Law of Historical Memory by Mónica López Lerma

“…The novel’s recurring expressions (i.e., shadows, the repressed, eternal return, ghosts, and blindness) stress the importance of coming to terms with the “ghosts of the past.” …”
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Going Through the Motions: American Bodies in Pharrell Williams’s “24 Hours of Happy” by Claude Chastagner

“…The video promoting Pharrell Williams’s 2013 hit “Happy” is unusual: it runs continuously for 24 hours and displays a succession of around 400 people dancing to the song and often singing its lyrics and displaying with their bodies and facial expressions the spirit of happiness that the song epitomizes. …”
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To Problem Concerning Calculation of Generalized Indices at Thermal Power Station by V. I. Nazarov

“…The paper contains expressions for calculation of specific fuel consumption rate in respect of electric and thermal power that reliably characterize thermodynamic efficiency of generating equipment operation.…”
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Los desafíos del gobierno propio: articulaciones entre lo legal y lo legítimo en una organización indígena del norte del Cauca by Daniel Campo Palacios

“…Esta apuesta nos debe llevar a evaluar, con una mirada etnográfica, cuáles son sus expresiones contemporáneas y cómo se manifiestan en los territorios y entre la población. …”
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Damage Evaluation of Bridge Hanger Based on Bayesian Inference: Analytical Model by Yang Ding, Jing-liang Dong, Tong-lin Yang, Zhong-ping Wang, Shuang-xi Zhou, Yong-qi Wei, An-ming She

“…For the damage evaluation model, the analytical expressions for calculating the weights by finite mixture (FM) method are derived. …”
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Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Promotes the Tumorigenesis, Lymphangiogenesis, and Lymphatic Metastasis in Cervical Cancer via Activating VEGFC-Mediated AKT and ERK Pathways by Xiao Chen, Luping Lin, Qiaoling Wu, Sang Li, Huihui Wang, Yang Sun

“…Meanwhile, TNF-α markedly upregulated p-AKT and p-ERK expressions in tumor tissues, whereas these changes were reversed by MAZ51. …”
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COMMUNICATION: DEFINITION, TYPES OF COMMUNICATION AND BARRIERS OF COMMUNICATION by P. Yakupov

“…Besides, the author tells us about types of communications, such as informative, convincing and expressional types. Also the author tell us about different types of barriers in communication with the practical examples concerning ethnocultural distinctions in a business sphere.…”
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Size Effects on Thermal Properties of Thin Metal Films With Rough Surfaces by C. R. Tellier

“…By calculating the effects of electronic scattering at rough surfaces by means of a combined Soffer-Cottey model, general theoretical expressions for the size effects in thermal properties of thin metal films are proposed. …”
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Analysis of an M/M/c Queueing System with Impatient Customers and Synchronous Vacations by Dequan Yue, Wuyi Yue, Guoxi Zhao

“…We obtain explicit expressions of some important performance measures by means of the two indexes. …”
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Green’s Functions for Heat Conduction for Unbounded and Bounded Rectangular Spaces: Time and Frequency Domain Solutions by Inês Simões, António Tadeu, Nuno Simões

“…This paper presents a set of fully analytical solutions, together with explicit expressions, in the time and frequency domain for the heat conduction response of homogeneous unbounded and of bounded rectangular spaces (three-, two-, and one-dimensional spaces) subjected to point, line, and plane heat diffusion sources. …”
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Development and investigation of the mathematical model for threedirectional forced synhronization system by Violeta Borsuk, Jonas Rimas

“… Investigation of the threedirectional forced synhronization system, composed of four oscillators, is carried out. The exact expressions of the step responses functions for the synchronization system are derived and the transition process in the system is analysed. …”
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Investigation of the mathematical model of the automatic control system by Jonas Rimas

“…The precise analytical expressions of the elements of the step responses matrix of the system are obtained. …”
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LOCAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DIFFICULT STOCHASTIC SYSTEM by A. A. Lobaty

“…Expressions for vectors of a pulling down and matrixes of diffusion of subsystems of difficult stochastic system in which the components depending on determined and casual influence of other subsystems of system are considered are analytically received.…”
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Chimonanthus nitens Oliv. leaves flavonoids alleviate hyperuricemia by regulating uric acid metabolism and intestinal homeostasis in mice by Wenya Meng, Lingli Chen, Kehui Ouyang, Suyun Lin, Yang Zhang, Jing He, Wenjun Wang

“…In addition, CLF repaired renal injury by significantly down-regulating mRNA and protein expressions of renal UA reabsorption-related proteins and up-regulating the mRNA and protein expressions of UA secretory-related proteins. …”
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PPARγ Agonist Rosiglitazone Suppresses Renal mPGES-1/PGE2 Pathway in db/db Mice by Ying Sun, Zhanjun Jia, Gang Liu, Li Zhou, Mi Liu, Baoxue Yang, Tianxin Yang

“…Strikingly, urinary PGE2 was remarkably elevated in db/db mice paralleled with the increased protein expressions of COX-2 and mPGES-1. In contrast, the protein expressions of COX-1, mPGES-2, cPGES, and 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase (15-PGDH) were not altered. …”
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Pulmonary prophylactic impact of melatonin and/or quercetin: A novel therapy for inflammatory hypoxic stress in rats by Al-Rasheed Nouf M., Fadda Laila, Attia Hala A., Sharaf Iman A., Mohamed Azza M., Al-Rasheed Nawal M.

“…The study aims to compare, through histological and biochemical studies, the effects of quercetin, melatonin and their combination in regulation of immuno-inflammatory mediators and heat shock protein expressions in sodium nitrite induced hypoxia in rat lungs. …”
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Effective Transmission Coverage Area-Based Link Dynamics Characterization of VANET in Highway Scenario by Chunfeng Liu, Oliver Yang, Gen Li, Yantai Shu

“…This paper uses the concept of effective transmission coverage area as a model for the derivation of analytic expressions in order to characterize the dynamic statistics of link lifetime, new link arrival rate, new link interarrival time, link breakage interarrival time, and so forth. …”
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Mass of the Stabilized Radion in the Limit of Finite Quartic Coupling by Ali Tofighi, Vahid Reza Shajiee

“…We find analytical expressions for the value of the modulus and the mass of the radion.…”
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Rolprent, Televisie en die Omgewing by Pieter Jacobus Fourie

“…A brief descrip tion of realism and expressionism as two dominant styles in filmmaking and of Direct cinema and cinéma vérité is given, and the implications of these styles for the relationship Image/environment are discussed. …”
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