Ascospore discharge, germination and culture of fungal partners of tropical lichens, including the use of a novel culture technique by E. Sangvichien, D.L. Hawksworth, A.J.S. Whalley

“…Generally, crustose lichens exhibited the highest discharge rates and percentage germination. In contrast, foliose lichen samples, although having a high discharge rate, had a lower percentage germination than crustose species tested. …”
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Vericiguat: A New Hope for Heart Failure Patients by Raquel Chiles, Rami A. Al-Horani

“…Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) is the inability of the heart to adequately contract or eject blood. This heart is unable to produce adequate cardiac output to perfuse vital tissues. …”
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Effects of Organizational Culture on Employer Attractiveness of Hotel Firms: Topic Modeling Approach by Kyoung-Joo Lee, Sun-Yong Choi

“…The research results show the positive and significant impact of four cultural attributes—collaborative, employee development, fair compensation, and customer focus—on employer attractiveness measured by both users’ employer satisfaction and recommendations to friends. In contrast, an innovation culture has no significant effect on attractiveness.…”
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L’étude du suivi du regard : un nouvel outil au service du projet de paysage ? by Vincent Bouvier

“…Beyond our control, our eyes are attracted by an important luminous contrast between the background and the present objects and the position they occupy in the landscape. …”
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Incremental Matrix-Based Subspace Method for Matrix-Based Feature Extraction by Zhaoyang Zhang, Shijie Sun, Wei Wang

“…The extracted matrix-based feature is useful to both dimension reduction and spatial statistics analysis for an image. In contrast, the efficiency of MKPCA is highly restricted by the dimension of the given matrix data and the size of the training set. …”
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A Risk-Averse Newsvendor Model under Stochastic Market Price by Huirong Zhang, Zhenyu Zhang, Jiaping Zhang

“…When the inventory cost is low, the market price’s uncertainty leads the firm to increase the stocking quantity. In contrast, when the inventory cost is high, market price uncertainty leads the firm to decrease inventory. …”
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Glucocorticoids: mechanisms of action and anti-inflammatory potential in asthma by V. H. J. van der Velden

“…Glucocorticoids inhibit many inflammation-associated molecules such as cytokines, chemokines, arachidonic acid metabolites, and adhesion molecules. In contrast, anti-inflammatory mediators often are up-regulated by glucocorticoids. …”
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Monitoring Identification of salt crusts in dry areas by satellite data’s processing by fariba sfanyary, nader sarmasty, sid kazem alavipanah

“…After exerting essential corrections for visual inter pretation , contrast optimization and making pseudo-colorful images were used to specity the salt crusts. …”
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Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Imaging of a Patient with Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Prostate by Gonca Kara Gedik, Guler Yavas, Murat Akand, Esin Celik, Oktay Sari

“…Transurethral resection confirmed the diagnosis. In contrast to prostatic adenocarcinoma, high fluorodeoxyglucose accumulation was observed in the primary tumor of the prostate gland.…”
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SiCitra: Aplikasi Berbasis Web untuk Pemrosesan Citra Digital Menggunakan OpenCV by Lutfi Riani, Afnan Zahra, Fadly Kurniawan, Ihsan Lana Valenza, Fadhlan Zaki Darmansah, Gema Parasti Mindara, Endang Purnama Giri

“…Aplikasi ini menyediakan fitur manipulasi citra seperti seperti filter warna, deteksi tepi, image processing, rotasi & flip, emboss effect, brightness & contrast, Text Overlay hingga analisis warna melalui antarmuka intuitif. …”
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Ortodoks teologi ved en skillevej by Emil Hilton Saggau

“…The state-embracing ideal is in contrast to the monastic ideal of a heavenly citizenship, which refuses to be deployed by the state. …”
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Performance, Hybridity and Convergence in the Poetry of Alice Oswald and Kae Tempest by Bastien Goursaud

“…It posits that all actualisations of the poem – whether in a poetry book, a recording, a video, or a live performance – are equally important and must be studied in contrast to one another as part of the poetry collection. …”
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Buenos Aires, Londres, New Jersey : Errico Malatesta, engagement et vie transnationale d’un Italien anarchiste by Davide Turcato

“…The quixotic and ultimately irrationalistic one favoured by mainstream historiography looks upon the anarchists’ wanderings as those of uprooted knights errant always at the mercy of events. In contrast, I analyse anarchist exile in the context of Italian migration, through the life of a key figure. …”
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Inverse Tone Mapping Based upon Retina Response by Yongqing Huo, Fan Yang, Vincent Brost

“…Comparisons with three recent algorithms in the literature also show that the proposed method reveals more important image details and produces less contrast loss and distortion.…”
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Mass mediatisation of social media by Marion Olga Alina, Donal McCracken

“…In attempting to do so, mass media has consequently mediatised social media, especially as seen through the lens of the agenda-setting theory, which this paper argues is in contrast with the discursive nature of social media as a public sphere. …”
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Well-Posed Inhomogeneous Nonlinear Diffusion Scheme for Digital Image Denoising by V. B. Surya Prasath, Arindama Singh

“…We create a smooth transition region around probable edges found and reduce the diffusion rate near it by a gradient-based diffusion coefficient. In contrast to the previous anisotropic diffusion schemes, we prove the well-posedness of our scheme in the space of bounded variation. …”
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De la matière conquérante à la matière troublante by Ilona Woronow

“…Matter represents for them untouched nature, the objective of any landscape project of this time. By contrast, form connotes an artistic intervention which, according to the dissimulatio artis principle, must be concealed. …”
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New Work Forms: How to Integrate Them in Our Social Insurances by Saskia Montebovi, Alberto Barrio Fernandez, Paul Schoukens

“…This will depend on the number of elements in respect to which the atypical employment relationship differs from the established standard: the full-time employee with a permanent employment contract. What we propose is a social security system that is sufficiently flexible in its implementation to give the different groups of workers an equal place and at the same time maintain a financially sustainable social security system providing sufficient social security protection for typical and atypical workers.…”
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L’illustration marginale d’un ouvrage profane : étude du manuscrit Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 95, xiiie siècle (1290) by Irène Fabry-Tehranchi

“…This article shows how in Merlin and its Vulgate Sequel marginal scenes overlap with widespread subjects in courtly and chivalric vernacular romances, in contrast with Latin and religious works. The reuse of similar patterns in principal and marginal miniatures, examined in the episode of the Battle of Danablaise, where King Arthur fights the Saxon King Rion, highlights the need for a comprehensive reading of text and images, taking into account the mise en page and the different levels of illustration in the manuscript.…”
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Data-Driven Finite Element Models of Passive Filamentary Networks by Brian Adam, Sorin Mitran

“…The procedure is exemplified for an actin mesh described by Brownian dynamics and eight-node cuboid finite elements but is generally applicable with respect to both the microscopic model and the type of finite element approximation. In contrast to standard finite element formulations derived from hypotheses on assumed deformation behavior, the data-driven procedure introduced here is completely determined by the observed behavior be it obtained from simulations or experiment.…”
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