Complexity and isotropization based extended models in the context of electromagnetic field: an implication of minimal gravitational decoupling by Tayyab Naseer

“…The field equations are then modified by introducing an additional source which is gravitationally coupled with the former fluid setup. Since this approach makes the Rastall equations more complex, the MGD scheme is used to tackle this, dividing these equations into two systems. …”
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THE CONCEPT OF “THE HOLY SEED” AS A COPING STRATEGY IN EZRA-NEHEMIAH AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR SOUTH AFRICA by N S Cezula

“… In a study describing the problems experienced by former political exiles who have returned to South Africa since 1990, Majodina argues that the psychological study of reintegration of refugees/exiles deserves a place in mainstream psychological research and not remain on the fringes. …”
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Images of a nation in crisis by Rodwell Makombe

“…In December 2010, South African cartoonist, Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro) was sued for portraying former President Zuma as a rapist. In February 2018, his contract of over ten years with The Sunday Times was abruptly terminated. …”
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Tree pruning in the structural approach to vowel reduction and lenition by Karolina Drabikowska

“…In particular, two basic directionalities are considered: top-down and bottom-up. The former has been proposed to account for vowel reduction whereby the highest positions are deleted retaining the head and potentially its sister. …”
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Saisir les liens entre trame bleue, paysages de l’eau et projets urbains by Anne Rivière-Honegger, Sylvie Servain, Gilles Armani, Dominique Andrieu, Hervé Parmentier

“…It appears that urban projects linked to watercourses contribute substantially to the improvement of the living environment in former industrial areas as well as to the development of leisure activities linked to water and amenities which are a part of the river landscape. …”
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Text vectorization in sentiment analysis: A comparative study of TF-IDF and Word2Vec from Amazon Fine Food Reviews by Lu Jiaxin

“…The consequence indicates that the former outperforms the latter in handling large datasets, particularly in distinguishing between different sentiment categories, but latter is superior in capturing the semantic relationship of words. …”
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The Impact of Geopolitical Risk on Systemic Risk Spillover in Commodity Market: An EMD-Based Network Topology Approach by Zhijing Ding, Xu Zhang

“…We proposed that the joint fluctuation of agricultural commodities and energy commodities makes the former become another important risk spillover point. …”
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Reflexivity, description and the analysis of social settings by Rodney Watson

“…One (among many other) crucial distinctions is that between 'stipulative' and 'essential' reflexivity - the former originating in part in G.H.Mead's notions of the 'I' and the 'Me', and extended within current theories of reflexive modernity. …”
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The effects of profit-sharing distributions on employee stock purchase plan participation by Jan C. Hennig, Rieke Hullmann, Holger A. Rau, Michael Wolff

“…Using panel data from a multinational firm, we find counterbalancing effects of the PSD.ResultsWhile it attracts new participants to the ESPP, a similar share of former participants exit the program after receiving the distribution. …”
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TRENDS IN CONSUMPTION OF MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCTS IN SLOVAKIA AFTER EU ACCESSION by Dušan Dobák, Zdenka Kádeková, Lubica Kubicova

“…Consumption of milk and dairy products in Slovakia lags far behind countries of the former EU-15. Consumption of these products in the value milk free butter was 158.6 kg in 2012. …”
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Space-Time Block Coding with Beamforming for Triple-Polarized Uniform Linear Array Systems by Xin Su, Kyung Hi Chang

“…Generally, space-time block coding (STBC) and beamforming (BF) gains cannot be obtained simultaneously because the former performs well under a low correlated MIMO channel, and the latter works efficiently in an environment with high correlation. …”
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MEASURING QUALITY OF READING MATERIALS IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK: THE USE OF LEXICAL DENSITY METHOD IN ASSESSING COMPLEXITY OF READING MATERIALS OF INDONESIA’S CURRICULUM – 13 (K13) ENGL... by Dian Sari

“…In order to assess the quality of K13 English textbook, in-depth analysis on selected reading texts will be performed by measuring their lexical density using the Castello (2008) refers to the former way as the method of calculating, which is Ure  (1971) and  Halliday (1985).  …”
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Switching categories in syntax by Paula Armelin, Dalila Maria de Souza, Lydsson Gonçalves

“…We argue that the distinction between nominal infinitives and passives is that in the former, the Switch carries an [N] feature, while in the latter, it brings an [A] feature to the structure. …”
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Jáchymovský mincmistr Mikuláš (Klaus) Kraus a jeho působení v obchodě s českým stříbrem v letech 1530-1535 by Petr Vorel

“…The article also describes the transition of this office from the administration of former private operators of the mint (the family of the Šliks of Pasoun) to the royal administration. …”
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OIL HIGHER EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT IN TATARSTAN REPUBLIC by Rasima M. Rakhimova, Marat R. Minkin

“…Thus began the history of Almetyevsk State Oil Institute, the former Centre for education and consulting of Moscow Oil Institute, and then Tatar Evening Department of the State Academy of Oil and Gas named after I.M. …”
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Paisagem Cultural: discussões contemporâneas por um (novo) olhar para o patrimônio cultural by Luciana de Castro Neves Costa, Juliane Conceição Primon Serres

“…Conceived as a new way of thinking and preserving cultural heritage that comprehends the materiality and immateriality of heritage assets as well as its natural and cultural sphere, the notion of landscape already integrates former discussions on heritage, under different values, in conventions and heritage documents. …”
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Groups of Negations on the Unit Square by Jiachao Wu

“…Two groups are found: one group consists of all the isomorphisms on LI, and the other group contains all the isomorphisms and all the strict negations on LI, which keep the diagonal. Moreover, the former is a normal subgroup of the latter. And all the involutive negations on the interval-valued set form a generator set of the latter group.…”
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Clerk, Chancellor, Castaway (1374–1419) by Tiago Viúla de Faria

“…A former member of the parish clergy and an occasional servant of Richard II, the scholar Adam Davenport became one of the main household officials of the Portuguese queen, Philippa of Lancaster, the daughter of John of Gaunt and the sister of Richard II’s usurper, Henry IV. …”
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Economic Dependence Relationship and Spatial Stratified Heterogeneity in the Eastern Coastal Economic Belt of China by Xianbo Wu, Xiaofeng Hui

“…Finally, the economically developed provinces maintain strong economic dependence with each other, such as Jiangsu (No. 7), Shandong (No. 9), and Zhejiang (No. 12), and Beijing (No. 1), Guangdong (No. 3), and Shanghai (No. 10). However, the former three provinces are more in the core position of this structure, that is, the other provinces maintain the stronger dependence relationship with these three provinces.…”
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Places Revisited: Transnational Families and Stories of Belonging by Pihla Maria Siim

“…Interviews were made with immigrants from the former Soviet Union living in Finland and their family members living in the country of origin (in Russian Karelia and Estonia). …”
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