Contenu et contenant de la revue Développement durable & territoires (DD&T) : 20 ans de publications au croisement de la durabilité et des territoires by Christelle Audouit, Arnaud Buchs, Guillaume Schmitt

“…Thirdly, we show that the geographical coverage of the journal is increasing, both in terms of the fields covered and the institutions to which the authors belong. This is accompanied by a growing internationalisation of the journal.…”
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Generalized Quadratic Linearization of Machine Models by Parvathy Ayalur Krishnamoorthy, Kamaraj Vijayarajan, Devanathan Rajagopalan

“…Two machine models are shown to belong to this class and are reduced to only linear terms through coordinate and state feedback. …”
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The Impact of “China-Central and Eastern Europe Cooperation” and “Belt and Road Initiative” on Sino-Albanian Relations by Rahman NURDUN

“…The end of WW II in 1945 did not usher in a new era of lasting peaceful environment but brought in confrontations between two opposite camps based on two different ideologies and value systems: One was US-led Western industrialized countries in favor of democratic systems; another was Soviet Union dominated Eastern Bloc countries upholding socialism. China and Albania belong to the latter camp, but split with the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin due to Nikita Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization stance. …”
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Iris Recognition Using Image Moments and k-Means Algorithm by Yaser Daanial Khan, Sher Afzal Khan, Farooq Ahmad, Saeed Islam

“…An arbitrary image is assumed to belong to the cluster whose centroid is the nearest to the feature vector in terms of Euclidean distance computed. …”
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Geoglossum subdifforme sp. nov. and G. simile, Two New Earth Tongues from South Korea by Chang Sun Kim, Young-Nam Kwag, Dae Ho Kim

“…The two species were identified to belong to the genus Geoglossum; the species G. simile and a new species named G. subdifforme sp. nov. …”
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CARTOGRAPHIE DE LA VARIABILITÉ SPATIALE DE LA SALINITÉ DU SOL DANS DE LA ZONE ENDORHÉIQUE DE GADAINE (NORD-EST ALGÉRIEN) by RABAH BOUHATA, MAHDI KALLA, HADDA DRIDDI

“…The process of soil salinization is one of the causes of desertification in Algeria and in the world, according to the figures (FAO, 2005), where it found that 500 000 ha/year of soils belong to them. In eastern Algeria, the endorheic areas of Gadaine plain present an expanding soil salinization taking the form of a generalized phenomenon. …”
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Western North American Cruise Shipping Network: Space Structure and System by Xumao Li, Chang Li, Zukun Long

“…We found that Alaska, Hawaii, and the west coast of Mexico all belong to seasonal cruise market areas. Cruise itineraries in these areas are categorized into one-way and round-trip itineraries, and more than 70% of the itineraries are short duration and medium duration. …”
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The effect of random scale changes on limits of infinitesimal systems by Patrick L. Brockett

“…Also investigated is when limit distributions from S and S′ are of the same type, and conditions insuring products of random variables belong to the domain of attraction of a stable law.…”
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Idioms in the Series of “Gossip Girl Season 4”: Semantics Study by Tiefanny Dewi Puspita Taloko

“…The most frequent idiom in “Gossip Girls Season 4” belong to semi-transparent idiom. In order to fully comprehend the idiom, we must first understand the context: who is the speaker, what the speaker is talking about, when the speaker is speaking, and where the speaker is speaking. …”
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COMPOSITION AND UTILIZATION OF THE APPLE- TREE COLLECTION IN BELARUS by Z. A. Kazlouskaya

“…New late-ripening apple-tree cultivars Belana, Diyament, Zorka, Krasavita, Navavita and Sakavita with high scab resistance and high fruit quality have been developed.…”
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The Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) by Joseph M. Schaefer, Mark E. Hostetler

“… Armadillos are prehistoric-looking animals that belong to a family of mammals found primarily in Central and South America. …”
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Anisotropic Chemical Etching of III—V Crystals Dissolution Slowness Surface and Application to GaAs by C. R. Tellier, G. Huve, T. G. Leblois

“…The analytical equation for the dissolution slowness surface of III–V crystals that belong to point group 4¯3 m is derived using a tensorial analysis of the anisotropic chemical dissolution. …”
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Mitral Valve Endocarditis due to Lactobacillus by Patrick Groga-Bada, Iris I. Mueller, Federico Foschi, Meinrad Gawaz, Christian Eick

“…Lactobacillus species are Gram-positive, facultative anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria. They belong to the lactic acid bacteria group and are also known as a usual part of the normal flora of the gastrointestinal tract as well as of the urinary and genital tracts. …”
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Hybrid governance structure between public company and private partners: the case of Infraero in the Brazilian airline sector by Paulo Burnier da Silveira

“…The remaining 51% shares belong to private companies, namely those that constitute the consortium group that won the correspondent public tender. …”
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Una concepción del tiempo no-lineal en dos lenguas: el maya yucateco colonial y actual y la lengua de señas maya yucateca by Olivier Le Guen

“…I will take examples from two languages that can be considered to belong to the same culture, namely Yucatec Maya culture. …”
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A New Species of Afrotropical Ants in the Genus Bothroponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) by Abdulmeneem M. A. Joma, William P. Mackay

“…We also compare the new species to all of the other 10 taxa that belong to the cavernosa complex. A key to the cavernosa complex species of the Afrotropical Bothroponera is provided along with diagnosis, comparison, distribution, habitat, biology, and etymology for the new species.…”
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Three new asexual Kirschsteiniothelia species from Guizhou Province, China by Xing-Juan Xiao, Ning-Guo Liu, Jian Ma, Li-Juan Zhang, Dan-Feng Bao, Song Bai, Fatimah Al-Otibi, Kevin D. Hyde, Yong-Zhong Lu

“…Phylogenetic analyses of ITS, LSU, and SSU sequences, performed using Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian Inference methods, confirmed that these isolates belong to Kirschsteiniothelia. Based on distinct morphological characteristics and molecular phylogenetic evidence, we describe three new species: Kirschsteiniothelia guizhouensis, K. weiningensis, and K. xishuiensis. …”
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Evolution of the C-Type Lectin-Like Receptor Genes of the DECTIN-1 Cluster in the NK Gene Complex by Susanne Sattler, Hormas Ghadially, Erhard Hofer

“…Pattern recognition receptors are crucial in initiating and shaping innate and adaptive immune responses and often belong to families of structurally and evolutionarily related proteins. …”
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Shivasia gen. nov. for the Australasian smut Ustilago solida that historically shifted through five different genera by Matthias Lutz, Kálmán Vánky, Marcin Piątek

“…Ustilago solida has previously been included in five different genera (Ustilago, Urocystis, Sorosporium, Cintractia, and Tolyposporium), however, molecular analyses revealed that this smut does not belong to any of these genera and represents a distinct ustilaginalean lineage. …”
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The behavior of the lattice parameters in the Bi-Sn-Zn system by Braga Helena M., Ferreira J., Malheiros L.F.

“…It was found that the lattice parameters of (Bi), (Sn) and (Zn) don't change with the composition, at room temperature, as expected since all samples belong to the three phase region. It was also concluded that (Bi) behaves like an isometric crystalline solid on the contrary of (Zn) that has different expansion coefficients for different crystallographic directions a (= b) and c.…”
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