Organic Amendments and Earthworm Addition Improve Properties of Nonacidic Mine Tailings by P. M. Rutherford, J. M. Arocena

“…In many mined areas, lack of topsoil limits conversion of disturbed landscapes to former or other productive uses. We examined the use of biosolids (10 or 20% by dry mass), with or without sawdust, pulp sludge, and the contribution of an earthworm species (Dendrobaena veneta) to improve the properties of nonacidic mine tailings. …”
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Education in the Arab Countries. from the Depth of Centuries to Our Days by E. V. Koukhareva

“…The modern system of education in many Arab countries copies that of their former metropolies. Thus, the system of primary and secondary education in the countries of Maghreb described in the article, was formed under the influence of the French educational system, although in certain cases it takes into account specific national features.…”
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Induced Unbalance as a Method for Improving the Dynamic Stability of High-Speed Turbochargers by R. Gordon Kirk, Ali A. Alsaeed

“…The numerical predictions are also compared to the former experimental results of a similar turbocharger. …”
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(Non-)Paranoid Reading of Sigmund Freud and the Fear of Being Photographed: Corpus-Based Approach by Illia Ilin

“…In alignment with contemporary concepts of paranoid and non-paranoid reading in philosophy, the former encourages suspicion, undermining the integrity of the text, while seeking hidden meanings. …”
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Tire-Pavement Contact Stress Characteristics and Critical Slip Ratio at Multiple Working Conditions by Minrui Guo, Xinglin Zhou

“…However, the critical slip ratio at the time of braking differs from that at the time of acceleration, and the former is smaller than the latter.…”
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A Comparative Study on the Effects of Planarity of Access Region on the Low-Frequency Noise Performance of InAlN/GaN HFETs by Yatexu Patel, Pouya Valizadeh

“…Accordingly, the noise of the gated channel has been identified as the dominant noise source for both device types. Devices from the former category exhibit improved 1/f noise performance with lower drain noise-current spectral density. …”
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REMOVAL OF EXTERNALITIES IN TOURISM BY MEANS OF TOUR OPERATOR SPECIALISATION AND EDUCATION by Jasmina Grižnić

“…Due to a large stakeholder network in destinations, former “big players” know them well and propose new tourist attractions. …”
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Pulmonary fibrosis as the sole manifestation of anti-Ku antibody positivity in the absence of myositis: A case report by Angelo Nigro, Dr.

“…Case presentation: We report the case of a 70-year-old male, a former smoker with an 18-year smoking history who quit 20 years ago, presenting with a one-year history of progressive dyspnea and dry cough. …”
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Antoine Haumont : une patiente collecte photographique des paysages ordinaires du sport by Olivier Pégard

“…For 41 years (1969-2010), Antoine Haumont, a former professor at the École des Ponts, photographed a wide variety of spaces related to sports during his university trips in France and abroad, as well as during his private trips. …”
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Le musée vivant et le centenaire de l’abolition de l’esclavage : pour une reconnaissance des cultures africaines by Danielle Maurice

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Resilience-Based Optimization of Postdisaster Restoration Strategy for Road Networks by Xinhua Mao, Jibiao Zhou, Changwei Yuan, Dan Liu

“…., the resilience of performance loss and the resilience of recovery rapidity. The former is calculated based on TSTT, and the latter is computed according to the restoration makespan. …”
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The Story of Writing: From Classical Rhetoric to Rhetoric and Composition by I. B. Korotkina

“…The study concludes that the low quality of an academic text may result from either losing the predominance of the first two stages of rhetoric (invention and arrangement) or of the other three (style, memory, and delivery). The former signifies an ideological pressure on researchers to substitute their own rhetoric with quotes from canonized sources, whereas the latter provokes them to disregard language and style as inferior to research, because of which texts diminish in clarity. …”
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Maximally Localized States and Quantum Corrections of Black Hole Thermodynamics in the Framework of a New Generalized Uncertainty Principle by Yan-Gang Miao, Ying-Jie Zhao, Shao-Jun Zhang

“…That is, the decay time can greatly be prolonged in the former case, which implies that the quantum correction from the UV/IR mixing effect may give rise to a radical rather than a tiny influence to the Hawking radiation.…”
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Permeability of blood-tear barrier to fluorescein and albumin after application of platelet-activating factor to the eye of the guinea pig by J. L. Van Delft, F. Meijer, J. A. Van Best, N. J. Van Haeringen

“…Extravasation of fluorescein can be used as a measure for plasma leakage in the conjunctiva with the advantage over the Evans Blue method that the former is a non-invasive method.…”
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Do Young Schizophrenics with Recent Onset of Illness Show Evidence of Hypofrontality? by O. Gureje, O. Olley, R. A. Acha, B. O. Osuntokun

“…The results suggest that widespread cognitive deficits are a feature of both schizophrenia and mania but that frontal lobe dysfunction may be more specific to the former. It would also appear that these impairments are not artefacts of age, chronicity or of institutionalization, and are present even in schizophrenic patients who may have an illness with putative better outcome than those studied in previous reports.…”
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Could Executive Compensation Incentive Enhance the Efficiency of Enterprise Resource Allocation? An Empirical Study from China by Xianan Yin, Hua Ming, Jing Cui, Xinzhong Bao

“…The results show the following: (1) both monetary compensation incentive and equity incentive can significantly improve the efficiency of resource allocation, and the former is more significant; (2) there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between perquisite consumption incentive and resource allocation efficiency; (3) the above conclusion is still true in state-owned enterprises; (4) in private enterprises, the effect of equity incentive is more effective, but the effect of perquisite consumption incentive is less significant. …”
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Multiplicity of Solutions for a Class of Elliptic Problem of p-Laplacian Type with a p-Gradient Term by Zakariya Chaouai, Soufiane Maatouk

“…The key idea is to replace the former condition by the nonquadraticity condition at infinity.…”
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A Vibration Reliability Analysis Method for the Uncertain Space Beam Structure by Yanyu Mo, Shuxiang Guo, Cheng Tang

“…Then an optimization algorithm is introduced to verify the validity of the former frequency analysis method. Two examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the presented method.…”
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Bertrand Russell and Catalan Literature: In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays and Dictionary for the Idle by Gonçal López-Pampló Rius

“…However, our aim is to trace the link between these two authors and the influence that the former had on the latter, in the context of his general influence on both Spanish and Catalan contemporary essay. …”
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Effects of Bans on Prostitution on Prevalence of Induced Abortions by Takahide Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kobayashi

“…As to its mechanism, the outcomes of our additional identification suggest that former juvenile prostitutes who retired due to the bans contributed to the increase. …”
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