The acquisition of four adverbs in a learner corpus of L2 French by Victorine Hancock, Anna Sanell

“…Although these four adverbs are non-obligatory elements in the utterance, they seem to have two fundamental modifying functions, namely enhancement (aussi and vraiment) and mitigation (peut-être and seulement). They also appear at early stages of acquisition. The study concentrates on the positions and discourse functions of the adverbs in a developmental perspective. …”
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Exploring the Definition of Non-Monotonicity – Logical and Psychological Considerations by Piotr Łukowski, Konrad Rudnicki

“…Logicians argued, that in some cases, such reasonings appear to be non-monotonic. Thus, many different, seemingly non-monotonic systems were created to formally model such cases. …”
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Ka-Band Lightweight High-Efficiency Wideband 3D Printed Reflector Antenna by Yu Zhai, Ding Xu, Yan Zhang

“…This paper presents a lightweight, cost-efficient, wideband, and high-gain 3D printed parabolic reflector antenna in the Ka-band. …”
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Lavoro, consumo e tempo libero nelle pratiche informali di riciclo alimentare. Il reciclaje nella città di Granada (Spagna) by Giorgio Cassone

“…This paper analyses informal food-recycling practices: the research, reclamation, circulation, and consumption of food rejected from the urban food cycle and the transformation of garbage into an edible and familiar object. …”
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Tours de Babel et lettres de feu : motifs bibliques dans le Berlin de Vladimir Nabokov by Monica Manolescu-Oancea

“…This article adopts a different stance, focusing on two Old Testament motifs that appear in Nabokov’s last Russian novel (The Gift) and in his autobiography, namely the Tower of Babel and the letters of fire from the book of Daniel. …”
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Empowering SMEs innovation through intangible factors by Agus Syarip Hidayat, Wee Ching Pok

“…While research has focused chiefly on empowering SMEs' innovation through tangible factors, this paper explores the contribution of intangible factors towards innovation under frugality conditions. …”
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Making the most of grasslands and heathlands by Doyle McKey

“…Techniques and systems that have long been studied independently—soil burning in grassland and heathland agriculture throughout the world, historical plaggen cultivation in northern European heathlands, and raised-field agriculture in present-day Africa and New Guinea and pre-Columbian South America—appear on closer inspection to be variants on a common theme. …”
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Eddy Heat Conduction and Nonlinear Stability of a Darcy Lapwood System Analysed by the Finite Spectral Method by Jónas Elíasson

“…A discrete Fourier transform is used for numerical simulations and here frequency combinations appear that the traditional cut-off infinite transforms do not have. …”
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What does it drive the relationship between cardiovascular disease mortality and economic development? New evidence from Spain by Carla Blázquez-Fernández, David Cantarero-Prieto

“…Due to its importance, in this paper, we analyse cardiovascular disease mortality across the 17 Spanish regions over the period 2002–2019. …”
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Confirmatory Virucidal Activity of Ionised Active Water S-100® on the SARS-CoV-2 Virus by Nathalie Wurtz, Issam Hasni, Audrey Bancod, Bernard La Scola

“…Among the mechanisms of action that are not completely understood, an antimicrobial activity would appear to be important. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we assessed the inactivating efficacy of this solution on SARS-CoV-2 based on the recommendations of the NF-EN-14476+A2 standard. …”
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Cartilaginous Choristoma of the Gingiva: A Rare Clinical Entity by Ramalingam Suganya, Narasimhan Malathi, Subramani Vijaya Nirmala, Chinnaswami Ravindran, Harikrishnan Thamizhchelvan

“…They are a “heterotopic” rest of cells, as they appear as a tumor-like mass. Herein we report a case of cartilaginous choristoma in a 54-year-old male who presented with a swelling on right lower gingiva. …”
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Experimental Study and Numerical Simulation on Mechanical Properties of the Bottom Plate in the Assembled Composite Slab with Additional Steel Trusses by Xiuying Yang, Yuzhuo Wang, Yongxin Liu, Zhenyu Wei

“…In engineering applications, cracks often appear in the bottom plate before casting the upper concrete, which even leads to the failure of the composite slab. …”
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Approximate Super- and Sub-harmonic Response of a Multi-DOFs System with Local Cubic Nonlinearities under Resonance by Yang CaiJin

“…A multi-degree-of-freedom dynamical system with local cubic nonlinearities subjected to super/subharmonic excitation is considered in this paper. …”
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Effects of Cryptocurrencies on Global Economics: A Review Study by Rogash Younis Masiha

“… The features of a new global economy appear stronger and faster than the changes recorded by the economy throughout history, and the “Covid-19” pandemic has accelerated these transformations, achieving on the ground a global experience to deal with digital payment via credit cards and the use of online payment applications, and it marks the beginning of the end of the era of paper currencies. …”
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Dispersion of optical vortices in twisted elliptical-core optical fibers with torsional stresses by B.P. Lapin, E.V. Barshak, D.V. Vikulin, C.N. Alexeyev, M.A. Yavorsky

“…In this paper, the dispersion of optical vortices (OVs) with a topological charge l >= 1 in twisted elliptical fibers (TEF) with torsional stresses (TS) is studied. …”
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Residential child care and the psychodynamic approach; is it time to try again? by Charles Sharpe

“…Research such as the work done by Berridge and Brodie (1998) indicates that the vast majority of children in residential care have had early childhood disruptions or traumas such as physical or sexual abuse. Hence it would appear that this group of children could be helped by the use of psychodynamic approaches. …”

Quality of Life: A Longitudinal Analysis of Correlates of Morale in Old Age by Said Shahtahmasebi

“…This paper examines recurrent continuous morale in old age within a statistical modelling paradigm. …”
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The Symbolism and Aesthetics of the Window as a Visual Motif in the TV Series “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Ángeles Martínez-García, Mónica Barrientos-Bueno

“…Accordingly, a comprehensive enquiry is performed here into one such aspect, namely, the windows appearing in the first season of the series. The aim is to verify the aesthetic and staging resources used when windows appear on screen. …”
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Operational Efficiency Comparison and Transportation Resilience: Case Study of Nanjing, China by Yangjin Chen, Yifan Qin

“…With the changes in global climate, adverse weather events appear to be more frequent. The efficiency, reliability, and safety of transportation operations can be compromised by extreme weather conditions. …”
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Research on the Adaptive Damping Method of Strap-Down Inertial Measurement Unit Based on the Magneto Rheological Technology by Heng Zhang, Xiaoting Rui, Fufeng Yang, Gangli Chen

“…To improve the output accuracy of strap-down inertial measurement unit which is in compound dynamic environment of missile which has a high acceleration, strong impact, and high vibration, an adaptive damping method of taking the magneto rheological elastomer as the vibration damper is designed. This method takes the error between the vibration response of the missile and the dynamic response of SIMU as the performance index of optimal control. …”
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