The “Top-Down” Approach to the Evaluation of Children with Febrile Urinary Tract Infection by Hans G. Pohl, A. Barry Belman

“…We will not discuss the controversies surrounding VUR treatment in this review focusing instead on a new paradigm for the evaluation of the child with UTI that is predicated on identifying those at risk for scarring who are most deserving of further evaluation by cystography.…”
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An improvement on the efficiency bounds and efficiency classifications in DEA with imprecise data by Bohlool Ebrahimi, Duško Tešić

“…The current paper shows that its model uses infeasible precise data instead of ordinal data. In addition, in some cases, we may be unable to calculate the relative efficiencies with his model. …”
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Communicating About Water in the Floridan Aquifer Region: Part 2—Do People Believe Water Science? by Sadie Hundemer, Shenara Ramadan

“…Moreover, when water science is rejected, policy discourse can devolve into a debate over water facts instead of weighing alternative management strategies. …”
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Weed Management in Home Lawns by Joseph Bryan Unruh, Barry Brecke, Laurie E. Trenholm

“…Weed control should be a carefully planned and coordinated program instead of a hit-or-miss operation. This document is ENH884, one of a series of the Environmental Horticulture Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Bodies in Agony: Classical Sculpture and Violence in Herman Melville's works by Ronan Ludot-Vlasak

“…Instead of pointing to an ideal of harmony and perpetuating a long-lasting tradition initiated by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, allusions to Greco-Roman sculpture in Melville’s works are intertwined with destructive forms of violence. …”
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Determining the Net Present Value of Timber Investments and Comparing Investments of Different Rotations by Andres Susaeta, Chris Demers

“… Would a forest landowner be economically better off growing a forest for pulpwood production with a short rotation instead of growing the same forest for sawtimber production with a longer rotation? …”
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Soulèvement populaire au pays de Chávez by Julien Rebotier

“…Stemming from a socio-historical and geographical perspective, a contextual and prospective analysis of such violence brings a better understanding of the events instead of merely judging a government. The analysis also brings Venezuelan riots into a continental crossroads: between the emerging of strong social queries (services, democracy, consumption) and the weakness of States that are only recently getting stronger from the regional left turn of the 2000. …”
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Militantisme et identités gaies et lesbiennes : quelle identité pour quels objectifs ? by Guillaume Marche

“…Consequently, the politically significant fault-line in the LGBT movement does not derive from traditional divisions (sameness v. difference, integration v. separation) : the significant issue is instead whether identity is conceived of in fixed, or fluid terms.…”
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Fausse extase et vrai fou : l'artifice revendiqué dans quelques poèmes de John Donne by Guillaume Fourcade

“…By self-consciously sapping their quest for unity and by substituting instead the fragmentation of meaning and genre, these texts stage themselves as lies and thus point out their artificial quality.…”
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Weed Management in Home Lawns by Joseph Bryan Unruh, Barry Brecke, Laurie E. Trenholm

“…Weed control should be a carefully planned and coordinated program instead of a hit-or-miss operation. This document is ENH884, one of a series of the Environmental Horticulture Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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A PLEA FOR LEADERSHIP THEORIES by V. Kessler

“…In this article, I critically analyse the trivialisation of leadership, often based on success stories, and offer seven methods to include theory in leadership classes, namely electing students; reversing the order: practice-theory instead of theory-practice; creating aha experiences with theory; selecting “good” theory; pointing out the benefit of a special theory; viewing theories as eye-glasses, and suggesting eye-glasses from different disciplines. …”
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Os físicos e a medicina da alma no Orto do Esposo by Marisa das Neves Henriques

“…In Orto do Esposo, a book from the end of the XIVth century or from the beginning of the XVth century, that explores monastic spirituality, one can find several physicians, all of them having a special role, in part due to the close relation between the spheres of profane and sacred.Nevertheless, the priority is taking care of the ill soul, instead of worrying too much about body. Health is synoym of salvation, so there is no secular science that could stand such noble project.Christ, the caelestis medicus, and the holy Bible, are the protagonists of a soul’s medicine that Orto do Esposo prescribes in detail. …”
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Determining the Net Present Value of Timber Investments and Comparing Investments of Different Rotations by Andres Susaeta, Chris Demers

“… Would a forest landowner be economically better off growing a forest for pulpwood production with a short rotation instead of growing the same forest for sawtimber production with a longer rotation? …”
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Conservation Easements: Options for Preserving Current Land Uses by Chris Demers, Douglas R. Carter

“… Conservation easements are cost-effective means for government agencies or non-government conservation organizations to protect land. Instead of purchasing land outright, these agreements allow organizations to purchase the development rights of a property. …”
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Herbesinning oor die betekenis en funksionering van die stadspoort gedurende die Yster II-tyd in ou Israel by A Coetzee

“…These scholars generally conclude that there is a rigid scheme of development from the casemate wall and six-chambered gates to the massive in and offset walls and four-chambered gates. Instead of the above rigid scheme based on a single functional factor, the variety of fortification methods that existed, simultaneously and side by side should be emphasised. …”
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Pastoral Places and the City: Environmental Rhetoric in Plato’s <i>Phaedrus</i> by Jack Love

“…Rather than seeing the natural world as a starting place for intellectual knowledge, Plato refuses the pastoral impulse that projects a construction of nature in Phaedrus. Instead, he values the noncity as any other place where individuals can come together in a dialectical fashion to ascertain truth. …”
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Statuts épistémologique et axiologique de la « théorie » architecturale. Pour une définition normative de la théorie en architecture by Adrien Marchand

“…If its impact in architectural field is undoubted, architectural theory’s study of is still complicated, if not avoided by the tenets of doctrinals approaches. Instead of proposing a study of one particular architectural theory, we aim to clarify the architectural theory’s status and the various ways it could take on the epistemological and axiological grounds — i.e. regarding the knowledge and values it produces.…”
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Bound for the 2-Page Fixed Linear Crossing Number of Hypercube Graph via SDP Relaxation by A. Suebsriwichai, T. Mouktonglang

“…We consider a conflict graph G′ of G. Then, instead of minimizing the crossing number of G, we show that it is equivalent to maximize the weight of a cut of G′. …”
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Riemann–Roch for the ring $\mathbb{Z}$ by Connes, Alain, Consani, Caterina

“…We show that by working over the absolute base $\mathbb{S}$ (the categorical version of the sphere spectrum) instead of ${\mathbb{S}[\pm 1]}$ improves our previous Riemann–Roch formula for ${\overline{\operatorname{Spec}\mathbb{Z}}}$. …”
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Eyeing the Beholder by Tobias Lindström

“…In this paper, the anthropomorphic figurines are instead explored through their physical properties, primarily their ability to look back at their human makers, handlers and onlookers. …”
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