Descending Necrotising Mediastinitis: A Case Report Illustrating a Trend in Conservative Management by B. A. P. Jayasekera, O. T. Dale, R. C. Corbridge

“…The decline in mortality has been attributed to earlier diagnosis by way of contrast-enhanced computed tomographic (CT) scanning and aggressive surgical intervention in the form of transthoracic drainage. …”
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La flûte pinkuyllu des Provincias Altas du Cuzco (Pérou) : organologie et symbolique érotique d’un aérophone andin by Raphaël Parejo-Coudert

“…The long recorder called the pinkuyllu, from the High Provinces of Cuzco (Peru), is an aerophone which has seldom been studied, and about which very little is known. In contrast to the incomplete, approximate and somewhat fanciful descriptions that exist elsewhere, this article presents the first organological and acoustic study of this instrument, based on exemplars in the author’s possession and on field recordings he has made. …”
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Market Share Delegation in a Bertrand Duopoly: Synchronisation and Multistability by Luciano Fanti, Luca Gori, Cristiana Mammana, Elisabetta Michetti

“…The paper stresses the importance of complementarity between products as a source of synchronisation in the long term, in contrast to the case of their substitutability. This means that when products are complements, players may coordinate their behaviour even if initial conditions are different. …”
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Choosing the Optimal Spatial Domain Measure of Enhancement for Mammogram Images by Karen Panetta, Arash Samani, Sos Agaian

“…Medical imaging systems often require image enhancement, such as improving the image contrast, to provide medical professionals with the best visual image quality. …”
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La recrudescence des coupes rases en Morvan (2011-2020) : un mitage de la forêt sur fond de crise des scolytes by Adrien Baysse-Lainé, Antoine Reynaud

“…The vast majority of clearcuts are small, in contrast to the (larger) surface area thresholds used by the authorities to control them. …”
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Les revenants et leurs liens avec les êtres et les objets « transitionnels » by María Dolores Muñoz Jiménez

“…He presents himself as a transitional entity who, in this particular model, will allow the renewal of the contract between the living and the dead, and the redefinition of the nocturnal reality of the village. …”
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Algunas “lápidas” sobre la práctica médica by Alfredo Darío Espinosa Brito

“…Se presentan aquí un grupo de frases y comentarios, calificados como “lápidas”, escuchadas/aprendidas por el autor a partir de una larga práctica médica, en el contacto directo con muchos colegas en diferentes lugares, que recogen, de manera breve y coherente, conocimientos o consejos útiles para el desempeño de la profesión y que pueden ser útiles para otros, sobre todo, los más jóvenes.…”
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Collecta, du point de vue du design : faire affleurer les données by Kim Sacks, Sophie Fétro

“…Awareness of the depth and thickness of a website makes it possible to develop a three-dimensional way of thinking about interfaces, to go beyond the overly blunt contrast between what is visible and what is not, and to envisage a permeability that promotes a better understanding of content that can be questioned and “explored”. …”
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Ecological Capacity Assessment for Ecotourism Development Using Geographic Information System (Case Study: Mianeh County) by Hojjat Mohamadi Torkamani

“…The results indicate that about 78 percent of the city's area is in an appropriate and even better condition for the development of ecotourism, and in contrast, about 23 percent of its area faces limitations for the development of ecotourism. …”
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The research museum – a place of integrated knowledge production by Helmuth Trischler

“…Today they mostly position themselves as institutions of biodiversity research with their scientific programmes centre-stage and their public galleries as secondary activity. In contrast, museums of science and technology have long been struggling with their role in advancing the production and dissemination of knowledge based on object-oriented research. …”
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Le Paysage, le style, et la modernisation agricole : la vallée de l’Orne dans Bouvard et Pécuchet by Grant Wiedenfeld

“…Attention to the stylistic subtleties now reveals a contrast of ancient and modern that forces reflection on that era’s agricultural modernization and on the relationship of humans to nature. …”
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Optimum Intervention in Transportation Networks Using Multimodal System under Fuzzy Stochastic Environment by Gurupada Maity, Vincent F. Yu, Sankar Kumar Roy

“…Multimodal transport refers to the transportation of goods under a single contract but performed with at least two different modes of transport. …”
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A study of value iteration and policy iteration for Markov decision processes in Deterministic systems by Haifeng Zheng, Dan Wang

“…For VI, convergence is contingent upon verifying that the cost difference function stabilizes to a constant $ k $ ensuring uniformity across iterations. In contrast, PI achieves convergence when the value function maintains consistent values over successive iterations. …”
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A cost/benefit analysis of clinical trial designs for COVID-19 vaccine candidates. by Donald A Berry, Scott Berry, Peter Hale, Leah Isakov, Andrew W Lo, Kien Wei Siah, Chi Heem Wong

“…We compare and contrast the expected duration and number of infections and deaths averted among several designs for clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccine candidates, including traditional and adaptive randomized clinical trials and human challenge trials. …”
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Brazilian Multinationals ́ Competences: Impacts of a “Tug of War” Between Cultural Legacies and Global Mindedness by Germano Glufke Reis, Maria Tereza Leme Fleury, Afonso Carlos Corrêa Fleury, Felipe Zambaldi

“…The results suggest that global mindedness, which encompasses global orientation, g lobal knowledge, and global skills, is positively related to the development of subsidiari es ́ competences. By contrast, cultural factors, including power distance and uncertainty a voidance, are negatively related to competences development. …”
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Cugoano on Redressing Slavery: The Demands of Liberty by Iziah C Topete

“…Clarkson developed a social contract theory, claiming that mentality endows all humans with liberty as a natural right. …”
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STUDI EKSPERIMEN PENINGKATAN PERPINDAHAN KALOR FLUIDA NANO CuO /AIR PADA VERTICAL HELICAL MICROFIN TUBE by Budi Kristiawan, Ilham Khoirudin, Agung Tri Wijayanta, Syamsul Hadi, Hilbran Tama Dida Effendi

“…Hot water flows on the side of the annulus. In contrast, nanofluid CuO/distilled water concentration of 0.05 vol% flows laminarly in the inner pipe of the microfin tube with cross-flow and parallel-flow arrangements. …”
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“Primary Omental Hydatid Cyst”: A Rare Entity by Shailesh Sable, Jyoti Mehta, Sudeep Yadav, Priyadarshan Jategaokar, Premashish J. Haldar

“…Diagnosis can be achieved with contrast-enhanced computed tomography of abdomen and pelvis along with serology. …”
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Noise amplification and ill-convergence of Richardson-Lucy deconvolution by Yiming Liu, Spozmai Panezai, Yutong Wang, Sjoerd Stallinga

“…It can offer an increase in contrast, but converges poorly, and shows enhancement of noise as the iteration progresses. …”
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Unusual Ant Hosts of the Socially Parasitic Ant Anergates atratulus (Schenck, 1852) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) by Albena Lapeva-Gjonova, Kadri Kiran, Volkan Aksoy

“…The reported ant hosts belong to the Tetramorium chefketi species complex in contrast with the typical hosts from Tetramorium caespitum/impurum complex. …”
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