The Floor is not the Ground by George Papam Papamattheakis

“…The floor is the most important element of logistics architecture, preparing a smooth surface for commodities circulation. By contrast, the ground embraces anomalies representing finitude, an important notion for the project of interruptions. …”
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Vnímanie choroby a starostlivosť o chorých u mendikantov na príklade sv. Alžbety Uhorskej by Katarína Nádaská

“…Sources originating from the period pertaining to Elizabeth’s life mention treatments of mainly infectious, highly repulsive diseases and the curing of corporeal defects, injuries and lethal injuries, in order to necessitate the biggest contrast and to excite awe in the recipients of the legends texts. …”
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Assessment of Coumarin Levels in Ground Cinnamon Available in the Czech Retail Market by Jana Blahová, Zdeňka Svobodová

“…The high coumarin content confirmed that these cinnamon samples obtained from cassia cinnamon were in contrast to the sample from Sri Lanka, which was coumarin-free.…”
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On the cooling number of the generalized Petersen graphs by Kai An Sim, Kok Bin Wong

“…Recently, Bonato et al. (2024) introduced a new graph parameter, which is the cooling number of a graph $ G $, denoted as CL$ (G) $. In contrast with burning which seeks to minimize the number of rounds to burn all vertices in a graph, cooling seeks to maximize the number of rounds to cool all vertices in the graph. …”
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Subject Alternation and Antecedent Preference in Romanian by Fabian Istrate, Anne Abeillé, Barbara Hemforth

“…This preference is, however, modified by the contrast effect with more pronominal subjects when there is an alternative explicit or presupposed referent in the context. …”
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Dynamic behavior of two models of adobe masonry dwelling with and without the confinement of concrete elements by Jesús Alonso Velarde Gil Lamadrid, María Teresa Sánchez Medrano, Alma Maria Cataño Barrera

“…This study presents the analysis of the dynamic behavior on the earthquake shaking table to contrast the response of adobe models at 1:3 scale without additional reinforcement in walls and roof, and with concrete reinforcement in walls and roof. …”
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Vertical Integration or Disintegration? A Bargaining Model of the Maquiladora's Case by Ikuho Kochi, Ramsés Jiménez Castañeda, Raúl Alberto Ponce Rodríguez

“…The above holds even if the domestic supplier participates in a bargaining game offering an efficient contract.…”
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Expect the Unexpected: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and the Creation of a Double Audience by Isabelle Licari-Guillaume

“…Popular and academic discussions of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic often tend to contrast the “expected audience” of very young girls with an adult, mostly male “unexpected audience.” …”
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Children's Conceptual Development: A Long-Run Investigation by Yilmaz Saglam, Merve Ozbek

“…They seemed lacking meta-conceptual awareness preventing them to compare and contrast their personal views to that of scientifically accepted one.  …”
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An Improved C-V Model and Application to the Coal Rock Mesocrack Images by Yulong Chen, Hongwei Zhang

“…Studies have shown that, compared to the original C-V model, the improved model achieves better image segmentation effects and more accurate quantitative information about coal rock mesostructures for coal rock mesoimages with low contrast ratios and nonuniform grayscale, a fact showing that it can be applied to the calculation of coal rock permeability and damage factors.…”
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Artificial intelligence in the service of entrepreneurial finance: knowledge structure and the foundational algorithmic paradigm by Robert Kudelić, Tamara Šmaguc, Sherry Robinson

“…The results demonstrate a high representation of artificial neural networks, deep neural networks, and support vector machines across almost all identified topic niches. In contrast, applications of topic modeling, fuzzy neural networks, and growing hierarchical self-organizing maps are rare. …”
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Brain Drain in Kosovo: Policy Recommendations for Talent Retention and Sustainable Development by Nimani Mentor, Nimani Arbenita Sylejmani

“…The findings align with established migration theories, including Push-Pull Theory and Human Capital Theory, illustrating how push factors like political instability and poor job prospects in Kosovo contrast with the pull factors of better salaries and career opportunities abroad. …”
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Distal Radius Salter-Harris III Transitional Fracture in an Adolescent Male by Adam Kurland, Brian Batko, Jeremy Hreha, Ashley Ignatiuk

“…In contrast to the well-described Tillaux fracture of the distal tibia, transitional fractures of the distal radius are exceedingly rare and have yet to be well described. …”
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Application of Fractional Wave Packet Transform for Robust Watermarking of Mammograms by Pushpa Mala Siddaraju, Devappa Jayadevappa, Kaliyamoorthy Ezhilarasan

“…The proposed scheme is tested on mammograms images and is subjected to common attacks like Gaussian filtering, median filtering, compression, sharpening, and contrast adjustments. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme is robust.…”
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Pattern Strabismus: Where Does the Brain's Role End and the Muscle's Begin? by Fatema F. Ghasia, Aasef G. Shaikh

“…Orbital mechanical factors, such as abnormal pulleys, were reported as a cause of pattern strabismus in patients with craniofacial anomalies, connective tissue disorders, and late-onset strabismus. In contrast, abnormal neural connections could be responsible for the development of a pattern in infantile-onset strabismus. …”
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Sociabilidades en las plazas de Buenos Aires. Usos, usuarios y diseño urbano by Carmen Egea Jiménez, Edwar Leonardo Salamanca Ospina

“…Algunos resultados señalan que la sociabilidad está presente de muchas formas en las tres plazas; que las personas disfrutan el espacio junto con personas conocidas y en contacto con extrañas; que el uso desarrolla una experiencia espacial creativa más allá del diseño; y que la distancia no es determinante para su uso.…”
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Call and Response by Jesse Foster Honsa

“…Crisis itself has had different meanings, from a moral apocalypse to a political risk to an historic opportunity. This is in contrast to how the term is used today, where it is no longer a climactic moment of decision and relief, but a perpetual and seemingly unsurmountable condition. …”
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Morphological and functional decline of the SNc in a model of progressive parkinsonism by Jacob M. Muñoz, John T. Williams, Joseph J. Lebowitz

“…The D2 receptor activated potassium current evoked by quinpirole was present initially, but declined after p30. In contrast, D2-IPSCs were absent at all time points. …”
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Lavado de manos. Alternativa segura para prevenir infecciones by Zenia Tamara Sánchez García, Geneva Hurtado Moreno

“…Se concluyó que lavarse las manos después del contacto con el paciente pone un obstáculo a la diseminación bacteriana, en especial de un paciente a otro y por tanto se previene las infecciones nosocomiales, tan comunes en nuestros hospitales.…”
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‘Our precious quand même’: French in the Letters of Henry James by Daniel Karlin

“…His creative and critical intelligence was profoundly at work in such word-choices, which are of particular interest in his letters, as opposed to his fiction, where the use of French almost always has a dramatic function. In letters, by contrast, we glimpse James’s own ‘character’ at work—and at play. …”
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