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

“…In his opinion, rock history did not necessarily have to be seen as an alternation between long periods of expectation and short heydays. It instead could be imagined as an eternal “rock dream” that would fulfill the wildest promises. …”
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A Method of Transoral Finger Dissection for a Giant Epiglottic Lipoma by Toshizo Koizumi, Katsunari Yane, Toshiaki Yamanaka, Tadashi Kitahara

“…Following a tracheotomy, microscopic surgery was inadequate to manipulate the epiglottic lipoma. Instead, we performed macroscopic surgery in which the epiglottic lipoma was pulled into the oral cavity with forceps and then separated from the surrounding tissues using the surgeon’s finger to dissect the tumor en bloc. …”
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Alternative models for cyclic lemming dynamics by Hao Wang, Yang Kuang

“…Many natural population growths and interactions are affected byseasonal changes, suggesting that these natural population dynamicsshould be modeled by nonautonomous differential equations instead ofautonomous differential equations. Through a series of carefullyderived models of the well documented high-amplitude, large-periodfluctuations of lemming populations, we argue that whenappropriately formulated, autonomous differential equations maycapture much of the desirable rich dynamics, such as the existenceof a periodic solution with period and amplitude close to that ofapproximately periodic solutions produced by the more natural butmathematically daunting nonautonomous models. …”
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Five Misconceptions About Interview Modes or: How to Improve Our Thinking About Face-to-Face Versus Remote Interviewing by Lars E. F. Johannessen, Erik Børve Rasmussen, Marit Haldar

“…We counter each assumption with a series of more productive methodological principles and advance instead a view we call interview mode pluralism , which offers a more nuanced and relational understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different interview modes. …”
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Planktonic Rotifers in a Subtropical Shallow Lake: Succession, Relationship to Environmental Factors, and Use as Bioindicators by Gaohua Ji, Xianyun Wang, Liqing Wang

“…Most of the environmental parameters had effects on rotifer abundance that could only be described by complicated curves, characterised by unimodality and bimodality instead of linearity. Our study highlighted the temperature influence on rotifer species composition and total abundance in subtropical lakes.…”
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Continuous-Time ΣΔ ADC with Implicit Variable Gain Amplifier for CMOS Image Sensor by Fang Tang, Amine Bermak, Amira Abbes, Mohieddine Amor Benammar

“…The second integrator is realized with a single-ended inverter-based amplifier, instead of a standard OTA. As a result, the power consumption is reduced, without sacrificing the noise performance. …”
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Application of Sustainability Criteria in Identifying Sites for Social Housing in Serbia by Tanja Njegić, Sanja Simonović Alfirević, Tijana Crnčević, Katarina Majhenšek

“…Applying sustainability criteria in the urban planning of the residual type of social housing in Serbia could prevent additional social exclusion of disadvantaged users, and enable the creation of viable instead of deprived neighborhoods. The aim of this study was to formulate sustainability criteria in identifying sites for social housing, and to evaluate the existing Serbian practice based on a defined multi-criteria model. …”
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Fabrication of Heterogeneous TiO2-CdS Nanotubular Arrays on Transparent Conductive Substrate and Their Photoelectrochemical Properties by Jing Liu, Chenhui Meng, Zhaoyue Liu

“…The use of transparent FTO instead of opaque Ti substrate allows incident light from the substrate side. …”
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Long-lived Charge-Transfer States in 9-Aryl-Acridinium Ions; A Critical Reinvestigation by Jan W. Verhoeven, Hendrik J. van Ramesdonk, Hong Zhang, Michiel M. Groeneveld, Andrew C. Benniston, Anthony Harriman

“…From the results obtained it appears likely that the long-lived species observed earlier in solution cannot be charge transfer in nature but must instead be identified as the lowest triplet state of the acridinium chromophore.…”
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Corporate Nietzsche: Assessing Prospects of Success for Managers with Master and Slave Moralities by A. Faisal, A. R. Aleemi

“…These findings are in line with the increasing focus on democratic and adaptable leadership instead of autocratic leadership styles in contemporary organizations.…”
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A Simplified Multiband Sampling and Detection Method Based on MWC Structure for Mm Wave Communications in 5G Wireless Networks by Min Jia, Xue Wang, Xuemai Gu, Qing Guo

“…In the reconstruction stage, the proposed method simplifies the computational complexity by exploiting simple linear operations instead of CS recovery algorithms and provides more stable performance of signal recovery. …”
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Market Power, NAIRU, and the Phillips Curve by Derek Zweig

“…A wavelet analysis reveals that the short-run NAIRU theory and Phillips curve relationships may be time-dependent, while the long-run relationships are essentially vertical, suggesting instead that each relationship is primarily observed over the medium-term (2-10 years), though the economically significant medium-term region has narrowed in recent decades to roughly 4-7 years. …”
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Neuroscience of Meditation by Vinod D. Deshmukh

“…Meditation is an art of being serene and alert in the present moment, instead of constantly struggling to change or to become. …”
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On the Exploration of Adaptive Mechanisms Providing Reliability in Clustered WSNs for Power Plant Monitoring by Sathiyaseelan Rathinavel, Vijayakumar Pandi, Audithan Sivaraman

“…Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are used in almost every sensing and detection environment instead of wired devices in the current world, all the more in power plant monitoring applications. …”
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On Travelling Wave Modes of Axially Moving String and Beam by Lei Lu, Xiao-Dong Yang, Wei Zhang, Siu-Kai Lai

“…The travelling wave modes show time-varying contour instead of static contour. In the model of an axially moving string, only backward travelling wave modes are found and verified by experiments. …”
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Novel Dual Band Microstrip Circular Patch Antennas Loaded with ENG and MNG Metamaterials by Md. Ababil Hossain, Md. Saimoom Ferdous, Shah Mahmud Hasan Chowdhury, Md. Abdul Matin

“…Using ENG metamaterial instead of the conventional dielectric, unconventional TMδ10 (1<δ<2) mode was produced to yield a dual band performance. …”
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Lady Clara Cavendish: Reynolds and Rymer’s Political Hoax by Rebecca L. Nesvet

“…This essay contends that Reynolds and Rymer’s Cavendish is not a random collection of pieces united merely by a byline. Instead, Cavendish’s supposed productions combine with paratextual material such as Reynolds’s advertising to articulate a consistent personality. …”
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What we talk about when we talk about decentralization? Insights from post-revolution Tunisia by Lana Salman

“…In a region with limited decentralization experiences, it is not enough to look at incentives of politicians to decentralize or the effects of decentralization programs once they are rolled out. Instead, we need to look at the confluence of domestic pressures to pluralize the terrain of politics and development agendas born outside the region’s borders which frames decentralization as an appropriate development framework at this juncture. …”
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Impact of the Aversive Effects of Drugs on Their Use and Abuse by Anthony L. Riley, Hayley N. Manke, Shihui Huang

“…One such property is their aversive effects that limit drug intake instead of initiating and maintaining it. Evidence of such effects comes from both clinical and preclinical populations. …”
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A Systems Thinking Approach to the Development of HBIM: Part 1—The Problematic Situation by Lucy J. Lovell, Richard J. Davies, Dexter V. L. Hunt

“…The responses to the survey suggest that the development of HBIM should prioritise the promotion of structured information management instead of the generation of detailed geometric models, a key theme of much existing research. …”
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