The Picture of Dorian Gray : la passion du réel/la passion du semblant by Annie Ramel

“…The Picture of Dorian Gray was written in a period of transition between the 19th century and the 20th, and my point is that Wilde’s aestheticism must be re-appraised in the light of Zizek’s thought. A study of doors and windows in the novel shows that Dorian commits a major transgression which consists in mistaking the « window » of fantasy for a « door » that leads beyond the pleasure principle and provides « the thrill of the Real ». …”
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Homogeneity Test of Response Rate Functions in Bilateral Correlated Data under Dallal’s Model by Hengyi Zhao, Xiaojuan Wang, Jingwen Bian, Shenglong Chen, Zhiming Li

“…The risk difference, relative risk ratio, and odds ratios of response rates are widely used to measure cured effects for such data. …”
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Unplanned Reoperation Rate at a Government-Designated Regional Trauma Center in Gangwon Province by Minju Kim, Seongyup Kim

“…Using data collected over 5 years at Wonju Severance Christian Hospital Trauma Center in Korea, this study aimed to determine whether the unplanned reoperation rate in the field of trauma surgery could be used to assess the quality of an institution’s surgical care. …”
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How to Chemigate Salinity-Stressed Plants with Hydrogen Peroxide to Increase Survival and Growth Rates by Guodong Liu, Yuncong Li, Kimberly Moore, Kim Gabel, Lei Wu, Rafael Muñoz-Carpena

“…HS1280/HS1280: How to Chemigate Salinity-Stressed Plants with Hydrogen Peroxide to Increase Survival and Growth Rates (ufl.edu) …”
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Crack growth rate prediction based on damage accumulation functions for creep-fatigue interaction by A.V. Tumanov, V.N. Shlyannikov, A.P. Zakharov

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A Numerical Integration Method for Calculating the Bit Error Rate of Time-Modulated Array by Kexin Wang, Jian Zhang, Gang Xin, Xue Lei, Jun Gao, Tianpeng Li

Subjects: “…Bit error rate…”
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Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Mann Iteration Converges to a Fixed Point of Lipschitzian Mappings by Chang-He Xiang, Jiang-Hua Zhang, Zhe Chen

“…For given x0∈C, suppose that the sequence {xn}⊂C is the Mann iterative sequence defined by xn+1=(1-αn)xn+αnTxn,n≥0, where {αn} is a sequence in [0, 1], ∑n=0∞αn2<∞, ∑n=0∞αn=∞. …”
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The asymmetric effect of exchange rate pass-through to domestic prices: Evidence from Nigeria by Aminu Alarudeen, Afolabi Joshua Adeyemi

Subjects: “…exchange rate passthrough…”
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Competitive Removal of Perchlorate Ions by Quaternary Amine Modified Reed in the Presence of Nitrate and Phosphate by Salem Baidas, Khaled Al-Deyain, Xiaoguang Meng, Baoyu Gao

“…We report a kinetic and equilibrium study in which we examined the removal of perchlorate anions from water by adsorption onto modified reed (MR), an adsorption material constituted by giant reed (GR) particles whose anion adsorption properties have been enhanced by quaternary amine (QA) crosslinking. …”
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Low-Complexity Timing Correction Methods for Heart Rate Estimation Using Remote Photoplethysmography by Chun-Chi Chen, Song-Xian Lin, Hyundoo Jeong

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Comparison and Analysis of Calculation Methods for Rated Static Load of Planetary Roller Screw Mechanism by Kang Xinhong, Wei Peitang, Hu Rui, Zhou Pengliang, Du Xuesong, Zhu Caichao

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The Effect of Initial State Error for Nonlinear Systems with Delay via Iterative Learning Control by Zhang Qunli

“…An iterative learning control problem for nonlinear systems with delays is studied in detail in this paper. …”
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Asynchronous effects of heat stress on growth rates of massive corals and damselfish in the Red Sea by Fiza Zahid, Laura Gajdzik, Keith E. Korsmeyer, Jordyn D. Cotton, Daren J. Coker, Michael L. Berumen, Thomas M. DeCarlo

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Enhanced Small Reflections Sparse-Spike Seismic Inversion with Iterative Hybrid Thresholding Algorithm by Yue Feng, Ronghuo Dai, Zidan Fan

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NOMA-MIMO in 5G network: a detailed survey on enhancing data rate by Murad Halabouni, Mardeni Roslee, Sufian Mitani, Osama Abuajwa, Anwar Osman, Fatimah Zaharah binti Ali, Athar Waseem

“…The application of NOMA in the power domain (NOMA-PD) with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and other emerging technologies allows to achieve the demand for higher data rates in next-generation networks. This survey aims to funnel down NOMA MIMO resource allocation issues and different optimization problems that exist in the literature to enhance the data rate. …”
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Rate Control in Atrial Fibrillation by Cooling: Effect of Temperature on Dromotropy in Perfused Rabbit Hearts by Karl Mischke, Markus Zarse, Christian Knackstedt, Patrick Schauerte

“…With decreasing temperature, significant increases of the spontaneous sinus cycle length, decreases of the mean ventricular heart rate during atrial fibrillation, and relevant increases of atrial and ventricular refractory periods were observed (ANOVA P<.01). …”
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Effective High-Order Iterative Methods via the Asymptotic Form of the Taylor-Lagrange Remainder by Isaac Fried

“…The asymptotic form of the Taylor-Lagrange remainder is used to derive some new, efficient, high-order methods to iteratively locate the root, simple or multiple, of a nonlinear function. …”
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A Methodology for Clustering Items with Seasonal and Non-seasonal Demand Patterns for Inventory Management by Burak Kandemir

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The influence of pre-university education resources on school dropout and the unemployment rate in Romania is significant? by Marian Zaharia

“…In Romania, especially at county level, school dropout rate in primary and secondary education, school dropout rate in high school and professional education, as well as unemployment rate, differ significantly from one county to another, the values being in some cases quite increase. …”
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Linear growth rate of vyrezub (Rutilus frisii Nordmann, 1840) in the Dnister River basin by V. Gurbyk, A. Mruk, L. Strembitskyi, A. Kucheruk

“…Purpose. To achieve high rates of recruitment of natural localities with vyrezub (Rutilus frisii Nordmann, 1840), it is a priority to increase the size characteristics of fish seeds under aquaculture conditions, which is interdependent on the linear growth rate of different age groups of vyrezub. …”
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