Le monopole de l’État français sur les jeux d’argent : de l’art d’extorquer des fonds aux plus démunis by Quentin Duroy, Jon D. Wisman

“…Far from advocating for deregulation, this article provides instead an institutional analysis of the State’s role in the gambling industry which argues for a more careful approach to regulation, one which would not only decrease public interest in gambling but would also utilize fiscal revenue from gambling for the common good.…”
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Experimental evidence for a shallow cumulate remelting origin of lunar high-titanium mare basalts by Shuchang Gao, Yanhao Lin, Wim van Westrenen

“…These results, compared with Monte-Carlo simulations and modelled rare earth element abundances and samarium–neodymium-lutetium–hafnium isotopic signatures of the experimental melts, remove the requirement of a deep origin of the lunar high-Ti mare basalts. Instead, they provide new evidence supporting the hypothesis that high-degree impact-induced partial melting at shallow depth, with minor post-formation modification, played a key role.…”
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Recognition of fabric composition of clothing in an image in e-commerce using neural networks by V. V. Sorokina

“…Development of new approach for recognizing the fabric composition of clothing in e-commerce images by using generative adversarial network(GAN) to generate synthetic images of clothing with known fabric composition, to be used to train the CNN to classify the fabric composition of real clothing images. Instead of a classic clothing image, a copy is generated with the material zoomed to fibers and fabric structure.Methods. …”
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Differing Pattern of Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Very Elderly Men Expresses Dynamics in Atherosclerotic Load in the Senescence by Arkadiusz Siennicki-Lantz, Sölve Elmståhl

“…Higher ABPM reflects instead an increasing CBP and aggravating atherosclerosis during the preceding decade in that part of the cohort with previously favorable risk factor status.…”
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Ultrasound-Assisted Wittig Reaction for the Synthesis of 3-Substituted 4-Chloroquinolines and Quinolin-4(1H)-ones with Extended π-Conjugated Systems by Wahiba Frites, Massaab Khalfaoui, Lamouri Hammal, Vera L. M. Silva, Artur M. S. Silva

“…The attempted Diels–Alder reaction with 3-(buta-1,3-dien-1-yl)quinolin-4(1H)-one did not afford the expected cycloadduct; instead, 2-methyl-2H-pyrano[3,2-c]quinoline was obtained. …”
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Successful Resolution of a Large Left Atrial and Left Atrial Appendage Thrombus with Rivaroxaban by Safwan Gaznabi, Ashraf Abugroun, Hasan Mahbub, Enrique Campos

“…The patient refused warfarin therapy and instead chose to take rivaroxaban. Upon outpatient follow-up, 3 months later, no visible thrombus was appreciated on repeat TEE. …”
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Automated identification of bulk structures, two-dimensional materials, and interfaces using symmetry-based clustering by Thea Denell, Lauri Himanen, Markus Scheidgen, Claudia Draxl

“…Because SBC is not a machine learning-based method, it requires no prior training. Instead, it identifies clusters in atomistic systems by automatically recognizing common unit cells. …”
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The Self-Restrained Positive Legislator: Assessing the Constitutional Review of Legislative Omissions in Lithuania by Pūraitė-Andrikienė Dovilė, Valuta Andrius

“…More frequently, constitutional courts, instead of dealing with existing legislation, assume the role of assistants to the legislator. …”
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Analyzing Axial Stress and Deformation of Tubular for Steam Injection Process in Deviated Wells Based on the Varied (T,P) Fields by Yunqiang Liu, Jiuping Xu, Shize Wang, Bin Qi

“…The varied temperature and pressure fields were researched by the coupled differential equations concerning mass, momentum, and energy equations instead of traditional methods. The axial load, the normal pressure, the friction, and four deformation lengths of tubular string are got ten by means of the dimensionless iterative interpolation algorithm. …”
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MHD Natural Convection with Convective Surface Boundary Condition over a Flat Plate by Mohammad M. Rashidi, Mohammad Ferdows, Amir Basiri Parsa, Shirley Abelman

“…A convective boundary condition is applied instead of the usual boundary conditions of constant surface temperature or constant heat flux. …”
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Employment status and women's fertility: Do working women have fewer children? by Yulmardi Yulmardi, Erfit Erfit, Putra Dios Nugraha

“…However, after applying IPW weighting, employment status no longer has a significant effect on the number of children. Instead, economic factors, particularly household income, play a more significant role in determining fertility. …”
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Study on the Confidence and Reliability of the Mean Seismic Probability Risk Model by Xiao-Lei Wang, Da-Gang Lu

“…It is suggested that the seismic risk model considering high confidence levels instead of the mean seismic probability risk model should be used in the future.…”
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Why do we need indexicals in communication? by O. A. Kozyreva

“…The reason for that is using indexicals instead of descriptions reduces the accuracy of information communicated in utterances. …”
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Maceration of Extra Virgin Olive Oil with Common Aromatic Plants Using Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction: An UV-Vis Spectroscopic Investigation by Ozren Jović, Iva Habinovec, Nives Galić, Marijan Andrašec

“…In addition, for some samples, total phenols were determined using Folin-Denis reagent and compared with the similar maceration procedure in water solvent (instead of olive oil). Maceration without ultrasound in olive oil for each plant was also compared with ultrasound-assisted extraction. …”
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Same-sex marriage: a defense based on foundations of natural law by Pablo Antonio Lago

“…Departing from a critical analysis of Finnis’ natural law theory and his marriage conception, I argue that a better matrimony conception needs to be grounded on a wide vision of human sexuality, which encompasses lesbian and gay couples. Instead of procreation (which is one of the marriage points in Finnis’ conception), human experience shows that sex is not limited to breeding - it is a way people can achieve pleasure and high levels of intimacy, regardless their sexual orientation. …”
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A video steganalysis method based on coding cost variation by Jianyi Liu, Cong Zhang, Ru Zhang, Yi Li, Jie Cheng

“…By counting the sub-pixel coding costs of motion vectors before and after video recoding, the Sum of Absolute Difference values of motion vectors instead of predicted residuals are applied to steganalysis and detection, and the steganographic algorithm based on motion vectors is effectively detected. …”
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Simulation of IoT Smart Home Network with Decision Making Based on MajorDoMo Platform by U. A. Vishniakou, ChuYue Yu

“…The purpose of the article is to model a smart home with decision-making and the use of the MajorDoMo IoT platform instead of a cloud platform. The main features of the article are: modeling of the IoT network for controlling the control unit on the MajorDoMo platform, the use of the MajorDoMo IoT platform in the Windows system for making decisions when controlling household appliances (fan or air conditioner) based on the temperature and humidity values received from a smartphone modeling sensors, transmitting the results of controlled data to the user's home page. …”
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Slowness and Renewed Perception: Revisiting Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho (1993) with Don DeLillo’s Point Omega (2010) by Françoise Sammarcelli

“…In 1993 Douglas Gordon appropriated Alfred Hitchcock’s famous film Psycho and slowed it down to approximately two frames a second (instead of the usual twenty-four). The resulting work, 24 Hour Psycho, is a silent, disorienting installation that draws our attention to time and memory while questioning authorship. …”
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MSCs: Delivery Routes and Engraftment, Cell-Targeting Strategies, and Immune Modulation by Thomas J. Kean, Paul Lin, Arnold I. Caplan, James E. Dennis

“…Engraftment efficiency is enhanced by using intra-arterial delivery instead of intravenous delivery, thus avoiding the “first-pass” accumulation of MSCs in the lung. …”
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Introduction: Urban-Rural Differences in Historical Demography by Christa Matthys, Jan Kok, Richard Paping

“…For many migrants, their migration was not a definitive break with the place of origin, and they did not assimilate completely to the dominant behavior in their destination. Instead, migrants often remained embedded in and influenced by trans-regional social networks. …”
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