Les quatre éléments dans « Karain » de Joseph Conrad : du mythe au manque by Catherine Delmas

“…The truth is also that of a metaphysical void corresponding to the epistemological break at the turn of the century and the loss of faith and ideals.…”
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Effect of Salt Content on the Evaporation and Cracking of Soil from Heritage Structures by Kai Cui, Xiaozheng Zhao, Mingming Hu, Chen Yang, Guanchang Xie

“…The degree of damage to heritage structures in arid areas can be particularly serious due to long-term exposure to a harsh arid climate. In this paper, the characteristics of evaporation and cracking of soil taken from heritage structures with different NaCl concentrations are experimentally investigated by subjecting saturated soil samples taken from the Wang-Jing tower in Weihui City, Henan Province. …”
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Covid-19, Congregational Worship, and Contestation over ‘Correct’ Islam in South Africa by Goolam Vahed

“…Conversely, what should Muslims do when they are required to follow the secular rules of a non-Muslim country that contradict their obligations to the tenets of their faith? The court case underlined the deep divides amongst Muslims and the changing structures of authority. …”
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Who Owns the Central Mosque? Ethnic Identity and the Struggle for Spiritual Space in Epe, Southwest Nigeria by Moruff Mudasiru

“…This article shows that it is also important to focus on sub-ethnic difference, and the meso-level conflicts and tensions that often occur within each faith. In Epe, a coastal town in Lagos, southwest Nigeria over eighty percent of the population profess Islam, but remain distinguished as different social and ethnic sub-groups, as “Ijebu Epe” and “Eko Epe.” …”
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20 kHz X-ray diffraction on Cu thin films explores thermomechanical fatigue at high strain-rates by T. Ziegelwanger, M. Reisinger, B. Vedad, K. Hlushko, S. Van Petegem, J. Todt, M. Meindlhumer, J. Keckes

“…Modern power devices face harsh conditions in automotive applications due to high current densities during overload pulses, leading to temperature spikes of up to 300°C at ultra-fast heating rates of up to 106 K/s. …”
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Thermo-Physiological Comfort Property of Military Combat Boot Material for Hot and Cold Climatic Conditions by Weldeyesus Wendowesen Bekele

“…The selection of proper materials for military combat boots in different climates is the main approach to reducing foot heat, foot pain, and foot injuries under any condition, providing comfort for wearers, and protecting feet against harsh conditions.…”
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TOURISM AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC WELLBEING OF PEOPLE IN CALABAR MUNICIPALITY, CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA by OKOI OFEM NNANA, BLESSING UPEH UGAL, UBI UBI OMINI, KINGSLEY TIKU NSAN

“…Firstly, the government should promptly initiate awareness campaigns and expose the community to the opportunities presented by the tourism industry through channels such as community mobilization, engagement with local chiefs, and collaboration with youth and faith-based organizations. Furthermore, there is a need to highlight the role of non-governmental organizations in contributing to the enhancement of the socio-economic well-being of the residents. …”
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What if writing rock history was also writing with “ifs”? Or how Lester Bangs liked playing a trick on his reader’s perception of time by Maud Berthomier

“…Bangs never ceased to raise this question with a lot of humor in his texts. …”
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A Practical Approach for Predicting Power in a Small-Scale Off-Grid Photovoltaic System using Machine Learning Algorithms by Aadyasha Patel, O. V. Gnana Swathika, Umashankar Subramaniam, T. Sudhakar Babu, Alok Tripathi, Samriddha Nag, Alagar Karthick, M. Muhibbullah

“…The key objective of this paper is to develop a scaled-down prototype of an IoT-enabled datalogger for photovoltaic system that is installed in a remote location where human intervention is not possible due to harsh weather conditions or other circumstances. …”
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Geen ander naam by J. du Preez

“…The author points out inter alia that Stendahl and Baum actually steer clear of the basic question as to whether texts like Acts 4:12 are meant to reveal to us that Christ is really the One and only Saviour for all people for all times, so that we ought to faithfully accept him as such. With regard to Christian people's attitude towards people of other faits, it is regarded as essential that the confession of Christ as the only true Saviour of the world should go hand in hand with true humility and tolerance born from love which God poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit (Rm 5:5). …”
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Articulating (ultimate) commitments: historical, factual and systematic considerations by D. F. M. Strauss

“…The long-standing commitment to reason, embodied in the identification of thought and being, resulted in what the physicist, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, calls faith in science which according to him is the governing religion of our time. …”
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Réflexions sur la déchéance de nationalité en contexte terroriste – (pluri)appartenance et (sous)citoyenneté en France et au Maghreb by Delphine Perrin

“…Most of the attacks affecting the Euro-Mediterranean space, as well as Africa and the Middle East, are claimed to be conducted in the name of a war between civilizations, by jihadist Islamists associated with various groups such as Al Qaeda, and more recently by the self-proclaimed «Islamic State» (also known as Daesh). They are generally committed by European nationals who strike their own country. …”
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Islamic Family Law Reform in Indonesia Through Supreme Court Circulars: A Maqasid Sharia Perspective by Fauzan Arrasyid, Pagar Pagar, Dhiauddin Tanjung

“…The regulations issued in SEMAs have fulfilled six aspects of maqasid sharia, namely: (a) aspects of faith, creed, and monotheism; (b) aspects of human nature and moral improvement; (c) aspects of common sense and legal contextualization; (d) aspects of human rights, freedom, equality, justice, and women's rights; (e) aspects of good order and civilization; (f) aspects of public interest (maslahah)…”
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‘Savages’ and Spiritual Engines: Feeling the Machine in H. G. Wells’s Time Machine and ‘Lord of the Dynamos’ by Tamara Ketabgian

“…Yet, while The Time Machine offers us fantastical devices that we must take on faith, ‘The Lord’ reads theistic humanism unsparingly against itself, through acoustic bonds that join people and things within an industrial power station. …”
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‘A wound that aches yet isn’t felt ... a pain that rages without hurting’: Getting to know the identity of outsourced housekeepers through the bond of memory and social class by Viviani Teodoro dos Santos, Marivânia Conceição de Araújo, Marcio Pascoal Cassandre

“…The identity of the group is marked by: dramatic events, however, surrounded by gestures of solidarity; an intense and heavy daily work, marked by the hierarchy of distinctions; and a trajectory that is based on elements such as faith and daily dedication, so that, when playing a role in the system, they need to use conformism as a survival strategy.…”
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Advanced Text Summarization Model Incorporating NLP Techniques and Feature-Based Scoring by Estabraq Abdulreda Kadhim, Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi, Hadi S. Aghdasi

“…This study shows that the proposed methodology generates summaries that are not only informative but even semantically faithfully reproduce the original textual information; it achieves high scores in terms of F1-measure across different evaluations like BERTSCORE (0.8857) and ROUGE-1(0.6388), ROUGE-2(0.5662) and ROUGE-L (0.6421). …”
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Variability of mitochondrial DNA D-loop sequences in Zabaikalskaya horse breed by L. A. Khrabrova, N. V. Blohina, B. Z. Bazaron, T. N. Khamiruev

“…It is characterized by e durance and good adaptability to year-round herd maintenance in the harsh conditions of the Baikal steppes. To determine the genetic characteristics of the maternal lineage of the Zabaikalskaya horse breed based on mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms, we collected hair samples from 31 horses belonging to breeding farms in the Trans-Baikal Territory. …”
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Bioacaricides in Crop Protection—What Is the State of Play? by Dejan Marčić, Ismail Döker, Haralabos Tsolakis

“…Among the biochemicals of plant origin, the most widely used to date have been the products based on pyrethrum—obtained from the Dalmatian daisy, <i>Tanacetum cinerariifolium</i> (Asteraceae)—and azadirachtin, obtained from the Indian neem tree, <i>Azadirachta indica</i> (Meliaceae). …”
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Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie by Iria Gonçalves

“…But by tradition, more than a thousand years old, in Europe and the Mediterranean, bread was the food par excellence, the only one that the faithful asked God for in their prayers because it was the one whose lack meant hunger. …”
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A software-defined multi-modal wireless sensor network for ocean monitoring by Hanjiang Luo, Xu Wang, Ziyang Xu, Chao Liu, Jeng-Shyang Pan

“…However, several challenges arise when implementing the concept of software-defined networking in maritime wireless sensor networks, as the networks operate in harsh ocean environments, and the dominant underwater acoustic systems are with limited bandwidth and high latency, which render the implementation of software-defined networking central-control difficult. …”
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