Modification of Low Refractive Index Polycarbonate for High Refractive Index Applications by Gunjan Suri, Gouri Shankar Jha, Geetha Seshadri, Rakesh Kumar Khandal

“…The present paper describes the conversion of low refractive index polycarbonates into high refractive index material by the use of a high refractive index monomer, polythiol, as an additive. Novel polycarbonates, where the properties of refractive index and Abbe number can be tailor made, have been obtained. …”
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Pine Shoot Beetle, Tomicus piniperda (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scolytidae) by Michael Thomas, Wayne N. Dixon, Thomas R. Fasulo

“…Department of Agriculture and state departments of agriculture has revealed its presence (as of 29 December 2003) in twelve northern states: Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin (Anonymous 2004b). Because T. piniperda occurs about as far south in the Old World as the latitude of Florida, it is considered a potential threat to at least some of the pine species intensively cultivated in Florida. …”
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Les mausolées de la fin de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge central : entre gestion d’un héritage et genèse de nouveaux modèles by Thomas Creissen

“…Gradually, mausoleums were abandoned in favour of funerary annexes added to churches, churches-mausoleums, or anonymous burials located in or around churches. These changes reflect a new social approach to death. …”
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Pine Shoot Beetle, Tomicus piniperda (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scolytidae) by Michael Thomas, Wayne N. Dixon, Thomas R. Fasulo

“…Department of Agriculture and state departments of agriculture has revealed its presence (as of 29 December 2003) in twelve northern states: Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin (Anonymous 2004b). Because T. piniperda occurs about as far south in the Old World as the latitude of Florida, it is considered a potential threat to at least some of the pine species intensively cultivated in Florida. …”
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Fuzzy Based Design for Third-Party Pipeline Failures in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria by GO Ariavie, RE Emetitiri, OE Ononeme, ID Olowu

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The use of big data in interdisciplinary research on example of the Greater Mediterranean macroregion by O. V. Yarmak, T. V. Zharkova, D. G. Sarkisov

“…Among the main problems and threats, the authors consider the following: personal data confidentiality breach, and increased data manipulation for political purposes, the emergence of illegitimate forms of citizens self-organisation, the transition of Internet users to anonymous accounts due to the practice of “privatization” of personal data by non-state and terrorist groups in regional spaces, preventing the qualitative collection of data. …”
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Fuzzy Based Design for Third-Party Pipeline Failures in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria by GO Ariavie, RE Emetitiri, OE Ononeme, ID Olowu

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Provably secure biometric and PUF-based authentication for roaming service in global mobility network by E. Haodudin Nurkifli

“…To ensure secure mutual authentication and prevent attacks such as impersonation, physical attacks, and DoS attacks, GLOMONET must provide strong anonymity, address loss of synchronization issues, and incorporate unclonable devices as an essential security feature. …”
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Forms of global governence by M. V. Kharkevich

“…Market control happens via anonymous pricing mechanism. Network, in contrast to the market is characterized by a closer value link between the actors, but unlike the hierarchical relationship actors are free to leave the network. …”
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Coimagining the Future of Voice Assistants with Cultural Sensitivity by Katie Seaborn, Yuto Sawa, Mizuki Watanabe

“…Crowdsourcing this process online and anonymously may add value. However, most work has been done in the English-speaking West on dialogue data sets. …”
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The Evolution of Woman. George Eliot’s“Woman in France: Madame de Sablé” by Barbara Pauk

“…The various readings of one of her essays “Woman in France: Madame de Sablé”, published anonymously in 1854, reflect the very different ways in which Eliot’s position regarding the woman question has been interpreted. …”
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Bedside Teaching in Undergraduate Surgical Education: A Pilot Study of Students’ Perspective by Mohammed Alfehaid

“…Hence this pilot study was conducted to assess the students’ perspective about this tool and suggest remedies for the deficiencies. Methodology. An anonymous questionnaire was designed and students were requested to register the response offline. …”
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Église et scandales : Trollope ou la condamnation de l’excès by Hervé Picton

“…The 1830s were marked by a host of Church scandals widely reported by the press and in particular by the radical journalist John Wade in his Extraordinary Black Book published anonymously in 1831. Wade lashes out at idleness, pluralism and absenteeism and exposes shocking disparities in income among the clergy of the established Church. …”
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Kinetics of Vinyl Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate Initiated by Ce(IV)-Vanillin Redox System by M. Palanivelu, K. E. N. Nalla Mohamed, T. Hidayathulla Khan, M. Prem Nawaz

“…The rate of polymerization (Rp) and the reaction orders with respect to monomer, initiator and ligand have been determined and found to be 1.5, 0.5 and 0.5 respectively. …”
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Prophet: A Context-Aware Location Privacy-Preserving Scheme in Location Sharing Service by Jiaxing Qu, Guoyin Zhang, Zhou Fang

“…Then, we propose a novel location anonymization mechanism, which adopts a ε-indistinguishability strategy to protect user’s sensitive location information published. …”
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Reporting What’s Going on at the Neighbors from a Distance: Turkish News Channels’ Breaking News Coverage of the 2018 Missile Strikes against Syria by Ayşen Akkor Gül

“…Deviations from traditional journalism consisted of“reporting rumors,” “citing anonymous sources,” and “making personal references.” …”
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How Does Nursing Staff Perceive the Use of Electronic Handover Reports? A Questionnaire-Based Study by Torbjørg Meum, Gro Wangensteen, Karen S. Soleng, Rolf Wynn

“…Following the implementation of electronic nursing records in a psychogeriatric ward, we examined nursing staff's attitudes and perceptions to the implementation of an electronic handover routine. A web-based anonymous and secure questionnaire was distributed by e-mail to all nursing staff at a psychogeriatric ward at a university hospital. …”
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Effects of Thyme Extract Oils (from Thymus vulgaris, Thymus zygis, and Thymus hyemalis) on Cytokine Production and Gene Expression of oxLDL-Stimulated THP-1-Macrophages by A. Ocaña, G. Reglero

“…As a cellular model of inflammation/atherogenesis, we use human macrophages derived from THP-1 monocytes and activated by oxidized LDLs. These cells were incubated with the thyme fraction oils, and the productions and gene expressions of the inflammatory mediators TNF-α, IL-1B, IL-6, and IL-10 were determined. …”
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Couple-Based Intervention to Improve HIV Care Engagement for Women and their Partners in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Outcomes of a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial by Jennifer M. Belus PhD, Alastair van Heerden PhD, Abigail C. Hines MPH, Thembelihle P. Pita MCom, Yvonne Mdakane MSS, Jessica F. Magidson PhD, Heidi van Rooyen PhD, Ruanne V. Barnabas MBChB, PhD

“…Adult women with HIV adherence difficulties in a monogamous relationship with a male partner for ≥6 months were recruited in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. …”
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Breast cancer screening among married women in Tanzania: does household structure matter? by Roger Antabe, Yujiro Sano, Daniel Amoak, Emmanuel Kyeremeh

“…Moreover, findings from multivariate logit regression analysis indicate that married women from monogamous marriages were more likely to have undergone breast cancer screening compared to their polygamous counterparts, even after accounting for demographic, socioeconomic, and healthcare characteristics (OR = 1.81, 95% CI = 1.24, 2.64). …”
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