‘Queer Reverence’: Aubrey Beardsley’s Venus and Tannhäuser by Nicole Fluhr

“…The decision to restrict the setting to the Venusberg thus effects a dramatic shift in the significance of both this erotic playground and the narrative as a whole; the former is no longer the sinful ‘before’ that must be renounced to achieve the penitent ‘after’ and, as a result, Beardsley’s Tannhäuser doesn’t need to be redeemed and his story ceases to be a conversion narrative. …”
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Species evolution: cryptic species and phenotypic noise with a particular focus on fungal systematics by Anusha H. Ekanayaka, Anusha H. Ekanayaka, Samantha C. Karunarathna, Samantha C. Karunarathna, Saowaluck Tibpromma, Arun Kumar Dutta, Danushka Sandaruwan Tennakoon, Anuruddha Karunarathna, Ekachai Chukeatirote, Dong-Qin Dai, Steven L. Stephenson, Sajeewa S. N. Maharachchikumbura, Chao Liu, Alan J. L. Phillips

“…The evolution of a species can be understood in the context of two major concepts—the cryptic species concept and the phenotypic noise concept. The former represents morphologically indistinguishable but genetically distinct evolutionary lineages, while the latter represents the phenotypic variations of an isogenic population. …”
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Psoriasis severity in moderate to severe psoriatic Greek patients routinely treated with systemic treatment: a cross-sectional and retrospective chart review study (CRYSTAL-Greece) by Dimitrios Rigopoulos, J. Katsantonis, O. Neofotistou, V. Chasapi, E. Lazaridou, A. V. Roussaki-Schulze, M. Papakonstantis, C. Angelakopoulos, P. Rigatos, P. Aronis, C. Zeglinas, A. Kyriakakis, T. Heatta-Speicher, A. Kollia, K. Antachopoulou, E. Papadavid

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Hydrogen bond interactions of coumarin-153 in molecular solvents: molecular dynamics and principal component analysis by Goloviznina, Kateryna, Dudariev, Dmytro, Miannay, François-Alexandre,  Kalugin, Oleg, Koverga, Volodymyr, Takamuku, Toshiyuki, Vitale, Raffaele, Idrissi, Abdenacer

“…More specifically, the former H atoms interact preferentially with the hydroxyl oxygen atom of the solvent while the H$_{10}$ atom interacts preferentially with the ester oxygen atoms of propylene carbonate.Moreover, when C153 behaves as a hydrogen bond acceptor, PCA shows that the carbonyl O atom of C153 interacts preferentially with the hydroxyl H atom of the alcohols, while the F atoms mostly interact with the other ethyl and methyl H atoms of the solvent.…”
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Smoking and secondhand smoke exposure and carotid intima-media thickness: Baseline data from the Aidai Cohort Study in Japan by Makoto Saito, Yoshihiro Miyake, Keiko Tanaka, Chisato Nagata, Hidenori Senba, Yasuko Hasebe, Toyohisa Miyata, Takashi Higaki, Eizen Kimura, Bunzo Matsuura, Osamu Yamaguchi, Ryuichi Kawamoto

“…Independent positive relationships were shown between former smoking and pack-years of smoking and maximum CIMT in men but not in women. …”
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Imagined Libya: geopolitics of the margins by Luca Raineri

“…The subsequent sections analyze geopolitical discourses from different sources to offer a review of some important spatial imaginaries that have contributed to representing, constituting and apprehending Libya as a subject and an object of international politics: ancient geography’s environmentalism; Italy’s imperial colonialism; Gaddafi’s pan-Arabism and, later, pan-Africanism; and Turkey’s pan-Ottomanism.Before modern colonisation, the imaginary of (today’s) Libyan territory was long apprehended through the dichotomy between urban (hadari) and rural (badawi) spaces, with the political and normative centre of gravitation oscillating from the former (during the Arab and later Ottoman hegemony) to the latter (during the rise of the Sanussi order). …”
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Organisational Enablers of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Public Institutions: A Systematic Literature Review by Nina Tomaževič, Eva Murko, Aleksander Aristovnik

“…Firstly, the division of AI literature between natural and social sciences, with the former focusing on technical aspects and the latter on broader organisational themes, may have resulted in an incomplete depiction of the intersection of AI and organisational change. …”
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Optimal selection of satellite XCO₂ images for urban CO₂ emission monitoring by A. Danjou, G. Broquet, A. Schuh, F.-M. Bréon, T. Lauvaux, T. Lauvaux

“…Despite such efficient filtering, the accuracy of the estimates corresponding to the former group of images varies widely from city to city.…”
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A green forage diet enhances microbial diversity in buffalo rumen by Angela Salzano, Giovanna Bifulco, Alfio Calanni Macchio, Valentina Longobardi, Francesca Aragona, Giovan Maria Pacelli, Giuseppe Campanile

“…Indeed, at the order level, the Peptostreptococcales-Tissierellales, Veillonellales-Selenomonadales, and Bradymonadales groups showed statistically significant differences (p<0.05), with the former bacteria being more abundant in the Dry group and the other two in the Green group. …”
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A PEDAGOGIA DA ALTERNÂNCIA COMO PROPOSTA DE EDUCAÇÃO NO CAMPO: UM ESTUDO NA ESCOLA FAMÍLIA AGRÍCOLA ITAPIREMA EM RONDÔNIA, BRASIL by Claudineia Ferreira dos Santos, Charles Carminati de Lima, Yanet Reimondo Barrios, Daniete Fernandes Rocha

“…However, it is noteworthy in the study that the totality of the former students is satisfied with the school. …”
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Exploring dental students' knowledge on oral cancer prevention: a cross-sectional study in Moldova, Armenia, and Belarus by Olga Golburean, Diana Uncuta, Gayane Manrikyan, Natalia Shakavets, Izabella Vardanyan, Marina Markaryan, Ferda Özkaya, Daniela-Elena Costea, Tarig Al-Hadi Osman

“…This study aimed at evaluating knowledge about OC among dental students in Moldova, Armenia and Belarus; three former soviet countries with high rates of tobacco use. …”
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Advancements in Nanotechnology for Enhanced Food Safety and Hygiene: Pathogen Detection, Smart Packaging, and Preservation Applications by Farhang Hameed Awlqadr, Ammar B. Altemimi, Qausar Hamed AlKaisy, Syamand Ahmed Qadir, Aryan Mahmood Faraj, Tablo Azad H.Slih, Rawaa H. Tlay, Tarek Gamal Mohamed Abd El-Maksoud, Franscesco Cacciola

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THE ROLE OF N. I. VAVILOV AND VIR’S SCIENTISTS IN DESERT RECLAMATION by N. I. Dzyubenko, A. A. Kochegina

“…The article is devoted to the origins of the fight against desert expansion in Russia and former Soviet Republics of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, and N. …”
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Provide a Framework for the Application of Open Policy Making in Parliament of Iran by Mohsen Eynali, Seyed Abbas Ebrahimi, Mohsen Farhadinejad, Hasan Danaeefard

“…The target population encompasses all scientific experts in public policy (including faculty members of universities and research institutions with expertise in decision-making and public policy) and executive experts (including current and former members of the Parliament). Data collection tools included semi-structured interviews, library research, and literature review for the qualitative part, and questionnaires for the quantitative part. …”
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Sacredness of the Landscape of Vokė River in the Geography of Tatar Life Stories by Lina Leparskienė

“…The life stories of the Tatars from the village of Keturiasdešimt Totorių (Old Russian – Sorok Tatary, Eng. – Forty Tatars) and former Tatar settlement of Afindeviči (now part of Grigiškės town) provided pretext to explore the given territory as spiritual realm. …”
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Productivity and ecological functions of naturally regrown pine forests of the Ukrainian Polissia by Petro Lakyda, Volodymyr Blyshchyk

“…This tendency is especially evident in young stands due to the residual accumulation of nutrients in the soil of former agricultural lands. The relative stocking of the studied stands usually exceeds 1.0 (sometimes reaches 2.0 units), which indicates the need to develop an appropriate forest mensuration regulatory framework for a comprehensive assessment of this category of stands. …”
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Mortality and immunological indicators of men who have sex with men living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy: a 10-year retrospective cohort study in Southern China by Huaxiang Lu, Huanhuan Chen, Shujia Liang, Yuhua Ruan, He Jiang, Jinghua Huang, Guangjie Tan, Xiuling Wu, Jianjun Li, Chen Gong, Qiuying Zhu, Guanghua Lan

“…Except for the first viral load (P = 0.379), the median and last viral loads of the former were significantly lower than those of the latter (P < 0.001). …”
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Cerebral Ultrasound at Term-Equivalent Age: Correlations with Neuro-Motor Outcomes at 12–24 Months Corrected Age by Adrian Ioan Toma, Vlad Dima, Lidia Rusu, Alexandra Floriana Nemeș, Bogdan Florin Gonț, Alexandra Arghirescu, Andreea Necula, Alina Fieraru, Roxana Stoiciu, Larisa Andrășoaie, Loredana Mitran, Claudia Mehedințu, Al Jashi Isam

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> The abnormal gross and fine motor outcome in former premature infants at 12–24 months corrected age is significantly associated with abnormal findings in the head ultrasound examination performed at TEA reflecting both white matter (increased midbody distance) and grey matter (decreased diameter of the basal ganglia, decreased cortical depth and an immature gyration pattern) involvement.…”
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Creating pathways for collaboration between Argentina and the UK to utilise microbial biofilms in sustainable agriculture by Patricia L. Abdian, Miguel Cámara, Fabricio D. Cassan, Gabriel Castrillo, Marisa Díaz, Gustavo Gonzalez Anta, Claire Hodge, Jo Slater-Jefferies, Cait E. MacPhee, Enzo Moriconi, Paulina D. Rakowska, Rasmita Raval, Duncan Ross, Juan F. Sandoval, Diego O. Serra, Claudio Valverde, Jeremy Webb, Ana Winters

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Eco-optimizing rice-wheat system of Eastern Indo-Gangetic plains of India through resource conservation technologies: insights from field experiments and modeling by K. Srikanth Reddy, K. Srikanth Reddy, C. M. Parihar, P. Panneerselvam, Ayan Sarkar, Hari Sankar Nayak, Hari Sankar Nayak, Kiranmoy Patra, D. R. Sena, G. Sreeja Reddy, Alok Sinha, Sneha Bharadwaj, Sunil Kumar, Virender Kumar

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