Nightingale Garden near the Sea: on the Question of Akhmatov’s Intertext in A. Blok’s poem Nightingale Garden by Tatiana Pakhareva

“…The article reveals numerous overlaps with the lyrics of Evening and Rosary mainly in draft versions of Blok’s poem, as well as some parallels with Akhmatova’s poem Near the Sea, created simultaneously with Nightingale Garden and published six months before the end of Blok’s work on his poem. …”
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Improvement of Presbyopia, Dry Eye, Intraocular Pressure, and Near Vision Through Cassiae Tea Consumption by Mei Fan, Jen-Lin Hung, Shao-Huan Hung, Li-Chai Chen, Chi-Ting Horng

“…Pupil size constricted, near vision improved, and serum SOD levels increased. …”
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Organic Alternatives to Quantum Dots for Intraoperative Near-Infrared Fluorescent Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping by Shunsuke Ohnishi, Stephen J. Lomnes, Rita G. Laurence, Andrew Gogbashian, Giuliano Mariani, John V. Frangioni

“…Intraoperative near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging provides the surgeon with real-time image guidance during cancer and other surgeries. …”
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Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Chemometrics for the Routine Detection of Bilberry Extract Adulteration and Quantitative Determination of the Anthocyanins by Claudio Gardana, Antonio Scialpi, Christian Fachechi, Paolo Simonetti

“…Therefore, a Fourier transform near-infrared (FT-NIR) spectroscopic method was validated based on principal component scores for the prediction of bilberry extract adulteration and partial least squares regression model for total anthocyanin evaluation. …”
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An overview of the transboundary dust events in southeastern Turkmenistan near the border of Iran (Sarakhs-Badkhyz region) by Mohammad Reza Mansouri Daneshvar, Seyed Javad Rasouli, Aliasghar Dehqanpour Aliaqa

“…Abstract This paper revealed the intensifying transboundary dust events in southeastern Turkmenistan near the border of Iran, using long-term spatial and statistical data (1980–2023). …”
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Structure and Physical Properties of PZT-PMnN-PSN Ceramics Near the Morphological Phase Boundary by Nguyen Dinh Tung Luan, Le Dai Vuong, Truong Van Chuong, Nguyen Truong Tho

“…The composition of PZT-PMnN-PSN ceramics near the morphotropic phase boundary obtained is the ratio of Zr/Ti: 49/51. …”
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Performance optimization of active RIS-assisted near-shore dual-function radar communicaiton system by XU Miao, YUE Dianwu, SUN Yu, WU Xiangkai, YUAN Meng

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Profiling Near-surface Winds on Mars Using Attitude Data from Mars 2020 Ingenuity by Brian Jackson, Lori Fenton, Travis Brown, Asier Munguira, German Martinez, Claire Newman, Daniel Viúdez-Moreiras, Matthew Golombek, Ralph Lorenz, Mark D. Paton, Dylan Conway

“…These results suggest that Ingenuity was probing winds sensitive to aerodynamic conditions hundreds of meters upwind instead of the conditions very near Mars 2020, but they may also reflect a need for updated boundary layer wind models. …”
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The Effect of Boattail Angles on the Near-Wake Structure of Axisymmetric Afterbody Models at Low-Speed Condition by The Hung Tran

“…At a boattail angle above 16°, the flow was fully separated near the shoulder and near-wake structure was highly changed. …”
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Dynamic Analyses of Isolated Structures under Bi-Directional Excitations of Near-Field Ground Motions by Gokhan Ozdemir, Ugurhan Akyuz

“…Nonlinear response history analyses (NRHA) of a 3-story isolated reinforced concrete (RC) building are carried out under both uni- and bi-directional earthquake excitations of near-field records. NRHA are conducted for a wide range of yield strength (Q/W) of lead rubber bearings (LRB), and isolation period (T). …”
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Counter Current Flow Limitation of Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow in Nearly Horizontal Pipe by Sigit Prayitno, R. A. Santoso, Deendarlianto, Thomas Höhne, Dirk Lucas

“…Experimental work about counter current two-phase flow of air and gas in nearly horizontal pipe has been performed. The work was performed in a 1.1 m long circular transparent acrylic pipe with 50 mm inner diameter, in two inclination angle settings (20° and 10° from horizontal). …”
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Passive Localization of 3D Near-Field Cyclostationary Sources Using Parallel Factor Analysis by Jian Chen, Guohong Liu, Xiaoying Sun

“…Then, we analyze the uniqueness of the constructed model and obtain three-dimensional (3D) near-field parameters via trilinear alternating least squares regression (TALS). …”
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Characterization and Goodness-of-Fit Test of Pareto and Some Related Distributions Based on Near-Order Statistics by Masoumeh Akbari

“…In this paper, a new definition of the number of observations near the kth order statistics is developed. Then some characterization results for Pareto and some related distributions are established in terms of mass probability function, first moment of these new counting random variables, and using completeness properties of the sequence of functions xn,0<x<1,n≥1. …”
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Large Scale Near-Duplicate Celebrity Web Images Retrieval Using Visual and Textual Features by Fengcai Qiao, Cheng Wang, Xin Zhang, Hui Wang

“…Near-duplicate image retrieval is a classical research problem in computer vision toward many applications such as image annotation and content-based image retrieval. …”
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A high-entropy alloy showing gigapascal superelastic stress and nearly temperature-independent modulus by Junming Gou, Guoxin Liu, Tianzi Yang, Xiaolian Liu, Yun Pan, Chang Liu, Yu Qian, Yao Liu, Ying Chen, Xuefeng Zhang, Tianyu Ma, Xiaobing Ren

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Preliminary study on mercury pollution affecting soil bacteria near a mercury mining area by Jianxiong Du, Yili Yuan, Jianfeng Li, Shuqing Zhang, Yuxiang Ren

“…In order to further explore the effect of mercury contamination soil (nearly 20 years) near a mercury mining area (Tongren, Guizhou, China) on the diversity and structure of the soil bacterial communities, five groups of soil samples (SMO2, SMO20, SMO30, SMO500, and SMO650) were collected at distances of 2, 20, 30, 500, and 650 m, respectively, from the only sewage outlet of a mercury mining area (Guizhou, China). …”
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The fate of recessive deleterious or overdominant mutations near mating-type loci under partial selfing by Tezenas, Emilie, Giraud, Tatiana, Véber, Amandine, Billiard, Sylvain

“…This may contribute to explain why evolutionary strata of recombination suppression near the mating-type locus are found mostly in automictic (pseudo-homothallic) fungi. …”
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A systematic review of the transformation of Lake Beseka from brine to nearly fresh lake water by Yosef Abebe, Taye Alemayehu, Bizuneh Asfaw Abebe, Tena Alamirew, Beteley Teckola, Esayas Alemayehu

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The Kinetic Model of the Peel Brittleness of Stored Cucumis Melons Based on Visible/Near-Infrared Spectroscopy by Defang Xu, Huamin Zhao, Shujuan Zhang, Chengji Li, Fei Zhao

“…A kinetic model based on visible/near-infrared spectroscopy of the peel brittleness of “Xintian-125” Cucumis melons, the research object, stored under room temperature, was established in order to realize real-time monitoring of the peel brittleness of Cucumis melons and for prediction of storage time. …”
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A New Local Modelling Approach Based on Predicted Errors for Near-Infrared Spectral Analysis by Haitao Chang, Lianqing Zhu, Xiaoping Lou, Xiaochen Meng, Yangkuan Guo, Zhongyu Wang

“…Over the last decade, near-infrared spectroscopy, together with the use of chemometrics models, has been widely employed as an analytical tool in several industries. …”
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