Angers/Iuliomagus, cité des Andécaves, et Le Mans/Vindinum, cité des Cénomans : deux capitales, deux modes de déploiement urbain by Pierre Chevet, Martin Pithon

“…While the first underwent from the 20s AD a massive urban restructuring arranged within an orthogonal street-grid covering 90 ha. and created in ten years, completely freed of topographical constraints, the second showed a more gradual development, with the laying out of the street-grid extending between 30 and 60-70 AD, with topographical adaptations and programmes to remodel the relief lasting throughout the 1st c. AD at least.These contrasting modes of development created very different urban landscapes. …”
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Abrupt Geographical Transition between Aposematic Color Forms in the Spittlebug Prosapia ignipectus (Fitch) (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) by Vinton Thompson, Gervasio S. Carvalho

“…These observations are at variance with several expectations for aposematic species: (1) that local populations will be monomorphic for warning coloration, (2) that adjacent populations monomorphic for different local color forms will be linked by populations with mixed or hybrid forms, and (3) that geographic boundaries between contrasting aposematic color forms should be temporally unstable.…”
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‘It’s bawdier in Greek’: A.C. Swinburne’s Subversions of the Hellenic Code by Charlotte Ribeyrol

“…And yet, this public or rather ‘official’ use of the Hellenic tongue to encode cultural excellence may be contrasted with the poet’s subversive treatment of Greek in his correspondence exploring more personal Sadian fantasies. …”
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Una aproximación cuantitativa para el estudio del exilio político argentino en México y Cataluña (1974-1983) by Silvina Jensen, Pablo Yankelevich

“…Éstas nuevas fuentes, con sus peculiaridades y limitaciones, permiten evidenciar los contrastes en los perfiles sociodemográficos de los argentinos que llegaron a México y Cataluña antes y después del golpe de Estado. …”
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A permanência do Regionalismo na literatura brasileira contemporânea by André Tessaro Pelinser, Márcio Miranda Alves

“…Se observa que la diferencia entre el presente y el pasado reside en el énfasis dado por los escritores al contexto y al espacio regionales, en un primer momento orgullosos de las particularidades regionales, y en la contemporaneidad preocupados por la problematización de los contrastes culturales. Se concluye que la literatura brasileña contemporánea debe mucho a la tradición regionalista, sin que ello implique cuestionamientos de calidad estética, y que corresponde a la crítica investigar los temas y las formas de la narrativa como claves de interpretación de problemas históricos que perduran.…”
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Impact of large-scale social restriction policy on the economy in Depok City, West Java province by Ridwan Ridwan

“…A Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) are restrictions on certain activities of residents in an area suspected of contracting disease and/or polluted in such a way as to prevent the possibility of spreading disease or pollution. …”
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Analyse généalogique et structure de la population. L’ascendance des natifs de la vallée de la Valserine (Jura français), XVIIe-XXesiècles by Guy Brunet, Stéphane Lallich, Alain Bideau

“…Is this population homogeneous or can we find several groups with contrasting genealogical histories? Our analysis shows the existence of two groups of natives: the individuals with at least one ancestor present in the valley, in each generation, from the end of the 17th century, and those whose local ancestry is not continuous. …”
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Corporate Nietzsche: Assessing Prospects of Success for Managers with Master and Slave Moralities by A. Faisal, A. R. Aleemi

“…These traits are then contrasted to the position(s) held by the subjects to see which morality type was more prevalent in higher management levels and whether the association was significant. …”
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Hierarchical Modeling and Dynamic Analysis of Hoist System in Electric Mining Shovel by Wei Sun, Jianan Du, Lintao Wang, Penglong Luan, Jie li

“…At last, the model validity was verified by contrasting the responses under actual test and the model. …”
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Mortality, Work and Migration. A Consideration of Age-specific Mortality from Tuberculosis in Scotland, 1861-1901 by Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett

“…We show that the age and gender-specific pattern of mortality in the rural area is consistent with higher male than female out-migration together with return migration of those who had contracted the disease elsewhere and needed care during their lengthy illness. …”
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The Use of Rose Bengal Plate Test to Asses Cattle Exposure to Brucella Infection in Traditional and Smallholder Dairy Production Systems of Tanga Region of Tanzania by Emanuel Senyael Swai, Luuk Schoonman

“…The results showed that brucellosis is prevalent and widely distributed locally, underscoring the need for further studies including surveillance and institution of preventive and control measures particularly among female young-stock and the general public who are at high risk of contracting brucellosis.…”
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Physical and Psychological Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Workers, Including End of Life Care Providers by Toral Shastri, Kunal Gawri, Estelamari Rodriguez, Richa Dawar

“… # Conclusions Several factors have contributed to increased physical and psychological stress among HCWs, such as extended working hours, sleep deprivation, job insecurity, the shift to telemedicine, the risk of contracting the virus and endangering their families, lack of childcare options, and the added pressure of homeschooling. …”
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Instrumental practice and body discomfort: study with musicians of violin and viola by Clarissa Stefani Teixeira, Rubian Diego Andrade, Fausto Kothe, Érico Pereira Gomes Felden

“…Those discoveries can elucidate part of the causes of the pains told by the musicians, since in the analyzed postures it identified contractions and unnecessary articulate positions during the whole time of the practice with instrument.…”
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Sur quelques modifications hydromorphologiques dans le Val de Seine (Bassin parisien, France) depuis 1830 : quelle part accorder aux facteurs hydrologiques et anthropiques ? by Séverine Lescure, Gilles Arnaud-Fassetta, Stéphane Cordier

“…In the same time, the low-water channel characterised by a contraction, especially in the estuarine area. Similarly, the number of islands decreased by 50% in the whole Seine valley. …”
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Improvement of flipped classroom teaching in colleges and universities based on virtual reality assisted by deep learning by Wenxia Dai, Qinqing Kang

“…Abstract In order to solve the limitations of flipped classroom in personalized teaching and interactive effect improvement, this paper designs a new model of flipped classroom in colleges and universities based on Virtual Reality (VR) by combining the algorithm of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP). Through cross-modal data fusion, the model deeply combines students’ operation behavior with teaching content, and improves teaching effect through intelligent feedback mechanism. …”
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Anti-Social Behavior and Teenager’s Wellbeing: A Case Study of Northern Division Kabale Municipality. by Kyarikunda, Esau

“…Official arrest records and self-reports of engagement in antisocial behavior were used to classify participants as antisocial and contrasted with teenagers' well-being alongside pro-social teenagers. …”
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Cadmium Tolerance and Detoxification Mechanisms of <i>Lentinula edodes</i>: Physiology, Subcellular Distribution, and Chemical Forms by Gaigai Chen, Bowen Han, Wene Nan, Xiaobo Dong

“…We investigated the physiological responses, subcellular distribution, and chemical forms of cadmium in two <i>Lentinula edodes</i> strains (1504 and L130) with contrasting cadmium tolerance. The results showed that appropriate, low-level cadmium promoted mycelial growth, and higher cadmium exposure induced obvious inhibition of mycelial growth by damaging the cell wall and membrane structure and triggering the overproduction of ROS. …”
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Pseudomyopathic Changes in Needle Electromyography in Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome by Teppei Komatsu, Kota Bokuda, Toshio Shimizu, Tetsuo Komori, Reiji Koide

“…Although the findings of needle EMG indicated myopathic changes at a glance, the motor unit potential (MUP) returned to normal after a sustained strong muscle contraction. We propose the name “pseudomyopathic changes” for this phenomenon.…”
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Monitoring of ecological environment changes in open-pit mines on the Loess Plateau from 1990 to 2023 based on RSEI by Xingbang Wang, Yanyun Nian, Haiyuan Wang, Jie Chen, Kegong Li, Tianming Hu, Zhiming Li

“…The results revealed that on the temporal dimension, a non-monotonic trend comprising an initial ascent, a descent, and a subsequent ascent in the ecological environment quality of the study area over the three-decade period. from a spatial perspective, the mining zone regions consistently exhibited a poor ecological state, contrasting with the generally better condition observed in non-mining regions. …”
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Pituranthos chloranthus Oil as an Antioxidant-Based Adjuvant Therapy against Cisplatin-Induced Nephrotoxicity by Aida Lahmar, Zaineb Dhaouefi, Rihab Khlifi, Fairouz Sioud, Leila Chekir- Ghedira

“…The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of Pituranthos chloranthus (PC) essential oil for contracting cisplatin-induced toxicity, in Balb/c mice. …”
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