The impact of economic sanctions on the country's economy by S. Alikhani, I. P. Khominich

“…The authors give the substantiations for the negative impact of sanctions on the financial markets of Iran and Russia, including the banking and stock markets.…”
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A Mealybug Phenacoccus multicerarii Granara de Willink (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) by Ian Stocks

“…On a return visit to the store, the mealybug was observed in high numbers on numerous host plants. …”
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The Visible Aspect of Things: Towards a Synchronic Reading of Donald Barthelme by Surya Bowyer

“…In questioning the significance of causality, this mode of reading has wider implications insofar as it challenges the typical view that the short story should be approached as a form that is driven by narrative.…”
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Faisabilité et disparités des reconversions de l’architecture carcérale française by Alban Prin

“…The preservation of prison buildings has become a topical issue since the French State has accelerated the process of renewing its real estate stock, threatening the destruction of these buildings, and leading to the mobilization of researchers to ensure that these built testimonies do not disappear. …”
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Country of origin effect: a study with Brazilian consumers in the luxury market by Maria Gabriela Montanari, Jonny Mateus Rodrigues, Janaina de Moura Engracia Giraldi, Marcos Fava Neves

“…This study aimed to verify the extent of the influence of the country of origin in the decision to purchase a product when considering a number of other attributes such as brand, price, warranty and store. In order to verify this country of origin effect, we conducted an empirical study in which 329 Brazilian students used and evaluated three luxury brands from three different nations. …”
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Lisser l’avenir : le « journal » de Patrick Gass et la peinture de l’Ouest by Florent ATEM

“…Published as early as 1807—one year after the triumphant return to St. Louis—his story of the adventure would, for seven years, be the only available account of the American epic into the wilderness; a genuine invitation to traveling, it would singlehandedly fan the flame of expansionist desire. …”
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Moradores de cortiço, capitães da areia e cobradores urbanos: personagens excluídos da construção da ordem nacional by Eliana Kuster

“…We looked support in the Brazilian literature, used in dialogue with scholars who are dealing with the question under historical and social focuses, through works such as O cortiço, by Aluízio Azevedo (1890), Capitães da areia, by Jorge Amado (1937), and the shot story “O cobrador”, by Rubem Fonseca (1979). …”
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Strategies to Encourage Adoption of Stormwater Pond Best Management Practices (BMPs) by Homeowners by Emily Ott, Paul Monaghan, Ondine Wells, Gail Hansen, Laura Warner, Michelle Atkinson

“… Man-made ponds can be a useful way to collect, store, and treat stormwater runoff in residential areas. …”
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Kosta Nikolić’s Book Krajina (1991–1995). An Extended Review by Savković Mirko

“…Nikolić delves into the ideologically charged story of the failed separatist proto-state of the Republic of Serbian Krajina which existed on the territory of Croatia in the first half of the 1990s. …”
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FEATURING THE SECOND REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA: THE END OF CULTURATI AND THE RISE OF THE POSTMODERN by Marius Povilas Povilas Šaulauskas

“…Could the story of contemporary Lithuania, along with other post-communist countries, be written as a narration on a modern society that abruptly invaded the unexplored realities of the (post-modern) Plastic-Can as contrasted with the (modern) Iron Cage? …”
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Les Arméniens communistes en France, une histoire oubliée by Astrig Atamian

“…If the name Manouchian, immortalized by the “L’Affiche rouge” (“The Red Poster”), echoes well beyond the Armenian community, few amongst Armenians themselves actually know Manouchian’s story, or that of his comrades, in interwar France. …”
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Key storage management scheme based on keyed hash tree with state by Xiangyu WANG, Jianfeng MA, Yinbin MIAO, Kai ZHANG, Qiying WU

Subjects: “…key storage management…”
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IDS Transposer: A Users Guide by Emily Klancher Merchant, George Alter, Jane Wang, Ashok Bhargav

“… The Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) provides a standard format for storing and sharing individual-level longitudinal life-course data (Alter and Mandemakers 2014; Alter, Mandemakers and Gutmann 2009). …”
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Understanding Material Safety Data Sheet Language by Frederick M. Fishel

“…Their purpose is to provide handlers of chemicals, including pesticides, with the proper procedures for handling and working with the chemical. People who are primary users of a MSDS would include employees who handle a certain material in their daily occupations, those who store chemicals at their place of business, and emergency response crews who need to understand procedures associated should an emergency happen to occur. …”
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Discourse-level structuring of information in narrative:Signalling structural, interactional and cognitive shifts by Tuija Virtanen

“…The linguistic signalling of the structural, interactional and cognitive shifts in information structuring is examined in two different kinds of narratives in written French. The analysis of a short legend, in its entirety, and a narrative paragraph from a news story both point to high context-sensitivity in the signalling of the three parameters of discourse-level structuring of information, with that of the discourse level “newness” differing most markedly from the others.…”
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Choreography-driven business process management framework based on blockchain by Dongjin YU, Yijie WEI, Xiaoxiao SUN, Ke NI, Hujun SHEN

“…Aiming at the problems of high process instantiation cost and difficult version iteration in the current blockchain-based business process management systems, a choreography-driven blockchain business process management framework was proposed.The framework included a general smart contract that could be used to store business process choreography meta-models, model component evolution versions, and instance execution status.The cost of process model instantiation on the blockchain was significantly reduced by delaying model elements instantiation timing and integrating multiple process instances.At the same time, a version control method based on model data reuse and voting mechanism was introduced, so that process instances of different versions of orchestration models could be created in a single smart contract.A real case validates the effectiveness of the framework in distributed business process management.…”
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Entre a geografia da ciência e a prática da ciência geográfica: uma narrativa sobre personagens de Montpellier, França by Dante F. C. Reis Junior

“…Curiously, we come across the story of some characters who, not being all of them training geographers, practice research whose content is highly related to the thematic and methodological agendas of Geography. …”
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Johannes Hoornbeeck, a monumental 17th Century Dutch theologian: continuities in his thinking on doctrine and life by J. W. Hofmeyr

“…The focus then switches to Hoornbeeck himself: the story of his life, of his written legacy and of Hoornbeeck as a 17th-century theologian and representative of the Further Reformation. …”
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Application of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in inapetente conduct: a case study by Kevin Egúsquiza Vásquez

“…First, experiential avoidance was conceptualized as a transdiagnostic dimension common to various human problems. Then, the story of the participant was reviewed and the assessment of the case was done by the Parental Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (PAAQ) and a record length of conduct, based on all functional analysis of the case was conducted. …”
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German Loans in Early English by Ulrich Busse

“…The paper outlines the contribution of German to the word stock of English in the three periods of Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English, or, in other words, from the early Middle Ages up to 1700, and relates these words to major cultural events, such as the Christianisation of England, the Norman Invasion, the Reformation and to the beginnings of science and technology during the Renaissance. …”
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