Reliability and Agreement of Hand-Held Dynamometry Using Three Standard Rater Test Positions by Frank Aerts, Holly Sheets, Chance Anderson, Natalie Bussie, Rose Hoskins, Amanda Maninga, Emily Novak

“…# Background The use of portable hand-held dynamometers is increasing in popularity due to their ease of use in different clinical settings, convenient size, portability, and overall affordability. …”
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The Validity of a Portable Strain-Gauge Apparatus Versus a Commercial Isokinetic Dynamometer for Evaluating Knee Extension Kinetics by Dustin Oranchuk, Chris Juneau, Shelley Diewald, Jono Neville, John Cronin

“… # Methods Healthy participants (8 males and 6 females; age 30.2±7.1 years) volunteered and performed knee extensions at a 90° knee angle on a dynamometer and a treatment plinth with a portable strain-gauge. Peak force (PF), peak rate of force development (PRFD), rate of force development (RFD~2080~) and impulse (IMP~2080~) from 20-80% of onset to peak force were assessed using both strain-gauge and isokinetic dynamometer. …”
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Teaching Process and Emotional Reactions in Mathematics by Shiv Kant Tiwari, Dragan Obradovic, Laxmi Rathour, Lakshmi Narayan Mishra, Vishnu Narayan Mishra

“…Unfortunately, statements such as "not for me", "I don't know math" and "my mom is not a mathematician" can often be heard from students. The popularity of mathematics is on the scale of less popular subjects in schools, although teachers are forcing the teaching of mathematics, and even the curriculum offers more math classes than some other subjects. …”
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American Studies by V. O. Pechatnov

“…Tutorials that are based on his lectures were very popular not only among students of MGIMO.…”
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The Middle East Shiite Arc: A Real Threat or Geopolitical Chimera? by A. V. Sarabiev

“…The term Shiite Crescent, or Shiite Arc, is becoming increasingly popular in political and academic discourse as well as in the media. …”
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The Effect of Volitional Preemptive Abdominal Contraction on Biomechanical Measures During A Front Versus Back Loaded Barbell Squat by Joseph B. McCormick, Alexander S. Drusch, Darragh J. Lynch, Gesine H. Seeber, Katherine F. Wilford, Troy L. Hooper, Brad S. Allen, Dennis G. O’Connell, Maria J. Mena-Iturriaga, Kinyata J. Cooper, Phillip S. Sizer

“…# Background Weightlifting is growing in popularity among recreational and competitive athletes. …”
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Effect of static magnetic field on microstructure and mechanical property of AlSi10Mg alloy by laser directed energy deposition by Weiming Niu, Bingke Song, Jiasen Han, Haiou Yang, Zhaopu Yao, Hui Chen, Xin Lin

“…Laser directed energy deposition (LDED) is one of the popular metal additive manufacturing techniques. However, owing to the steep temperature gradient in melt pool, its as-built part is featured by coarse columnar crystal structures which is detrimental for the mechanical properties. …”
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Baczko, Rousseau and Polish Republicanism by Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz

“…Starting from an in-depth knowledge of secondary literature and Polish sources, including the dossier provided to Rousseau by Count Michal Wielhorski, the author shows how Baczko succeeded in offering an innovative reading of this text of Rousseau, understood not so much as an attempt to apply the theories of the Social Contract to Polish reality, but as an encounter of idées-forces, images and social dreams, an encounter based on the reciprocity of an exchange that affects the interlocutors, the conservative Polish nobility and the theorist of popular sovereignty. …”
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L’émergence d’un autre ornement Art nouveau au tournant des années 1910 by Aurélien Locatelli

“…The pieces, very well-documented in the workshop archives, bear witness to a unique production that helped combine the popular arts with new motifs inspired by the stylisation of pine trees, snowflakes and alpine flowers. …”
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Hide and seek. Aspects of the dynamics of Bible translation by C. Lombaard

“… Art may be viewed as fetish, in that it forces meaning on a chaotic world — a dynamic which is briefly illustrated in this article by means of Pablo Picasso’s famous painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. …”
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The Social Enterprise Craze: CSO Financial Sustainability in Ghana by Oeding Noemí, Newby Kara

“…As a relatively stable democracy, Ghana has long been a popular country for international donors. However, recent changes in its classification by the World Bank and government proclamations have led to a reduction in foreign aid, forcing Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to confront the financial sustainability of their organizations. …”
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(Més)aventures d’une coalition contestataire : le cas de la Coordination nationale pour le changement et la démocratie (CNCD) en Algérie by Layla Baamara

“…Beyond the measures implemented by the government and despite low popular interest, interviews and on-site observations led to uncertainties about the logic and dynamics at work in this unique coalition. …”
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Ruling the streets: the policing of protest and political violence in Madrid during the Second Republic, 1931-1936 by Sergio Vaquero Martínez

“…Nevertheless, the generalised notion that the majority of deaths were the outcome of the repression of popular mobilisation contrasts with the practical inexistence of studies devoted to the specific interactions between coercive forces and collective challengers. …”
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 Jack Kerouac’s Ecopoetics in The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels : Domesticity, Wilderness and Masculine Fantasies of Animality by Pierre-Antoine Pellerin

“…Yet, large wild animals are almost never to be found in his novels and the long-awaited encounter with deadly predators does not occur, forcing the narrator to reconfigure the relationship between masculinity and animality. …”
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From Villainess to Gilead’s Nemesis: The (Un)easy Rehabilitation of Aunt Lydia by Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk

“…In the sequel to her most popular novel, that is, The Testaments, the author boldly rewrote the villainous Aunt as Gilead’s undercover agent, forcing the reader to reconsider their own perception and reception of this character retrospectively. …”
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Students’ perceptions of adopting songs for English online learning in Indonesian tertiary education by Eka Wulandari, Yuyun Putri Mandasari

“…The pandemic situation in the last two years has forced us to move almost all activities online, including our teaching and learning activities. …”
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READING THE LORD’S PRAYER THROUGH EWE-GHANAIAN DEMONOLOGICAL LENS by E. van Eck, D. Sakitey

“…However, there are forces  that interfere with one’s destiny. It is against this backdrop that one must relentlessly wage a spiritual warfare against those forces through not only tumultuous and verbose prayers, but also ritual  performances, in order to either protect a good fortune or reverse a bad one. …”
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‘An unbidden guest at your table’: Purity, danger and the house-fly in the middle-class home, c. 1870-1910 by Neil Davie

“…This article will examine the roots of the ‘house-fly danger’ in late-Victorian England, exploring contemporary debates in both the scientific literature and the popular press, and will discuss the surprisingly diverse ramifications of public concern about these insects. …”
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Formation of National Identity in Slovakia by M. V. Vedernikov

“…It believed that there was no historical continuity between Czechoslovakia and the modern Slovak state, that coexistence of Czechs and Slovaks in a single state was forced and Slovaks’ rights were oppressed for more than 70 years. …”
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Roads Old and New: Educational Strategies in University Choice by Russian Students by I. A. Skalaban, L. A. Osmuk, O. V. Kolesova, G. M. Cherepanov

“…The experience of university choice research in domestic and international practice consists of sufficiently popular description of educational demands, choice motivation and analysis of the choice-making process of university and specialty choice based on available information. …”
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