Power at play in paranormal history by Christine Ferguson

“…I suggest how a new curatorial approach to the materials might reject the familiar – and largely inaccurate – narrative of deliberate hoax and deception still widely attached to the case, and instead use them to tell a new story about the technological experimentation, artistic aspirations and social restrictions experienced by working-class girls in early twentieth-century Britain.…”
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Groundwater resources: Challenges & solutions by Richard J. Cooper, Kevin M. Hiscock

“…Despite this, decades of unsustainable exploitation have led to acute degradation of groundwater quantity and quality, creating pressing challenges that society must address if we are to maintain viable access to this crucial resource for future generations. Taking stock of the current situation, in this contribution we begin by reviewing some of the major global groundwater resource pressures, before exploring a range of technological, engineering, societal and nature-based solutions to address these challenges. …”
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Gulliver and the Gentle Reader by Claude RAWSON

“…This is part of what Swift meant when he told Pope that the story was designed to vex the world rather than divert it.…”
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Cypress Weevil, Eudociminus mannerheimii (Boheman) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Albert E. Mayfield, III

“…Small diameter bald cypress nursery stock has also been damaged by larvae tunneling through the main stem and root collar. …”
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The assessment of environment protection cooperation in the South China Sea by Satyawan Ignatius Agung

“…Located in a strategic position and geopolitics significance, the South China Sea is rich of biodiversity so it has abundance of fish stock to sustain food security among people in the coastal area. …”
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Are Consumers Interested in Ornamental Plants That Benefit Pollinator Insects? by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn

“…It covers consumers’ current actions to aid pollinators, their interest in purchasing plants to help pollinators, and their perceptions about plant availability, and it describes strategies for merchants and producers to cater to consumer preferences for in-store communications/promotions and help them to find and purchase plants that aid pollinator insects. …”
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FOOD, MODERNITY AND IDENTITY: ROOTED COSMOPOLITANISM IN ADICHIE’S AMERICANAH by Syarif Hidayat

“…Americanah is a novel that tells the story of a Nigerian immigrant living in the United States who decided to return to Nigeria. …”
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Pathologic Fractures: A Neglected Clinical Feature of Parathyroid Adenoma by Hassan Abshirini, Iran Rashidi, Nader Saki

“…The pattern of clinical presentation of primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) has changed dramatically from a severe disease to an asymptomatic condition in Western countries. The story is completely different in Eastern countries. …”
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The Effect of Targeted Monetary Policy on Bank Lending by Olli-Matti Laine

“…The cumulative effect of TLTROs on participating banks’ stock of corporate loans is estimated to be significant (about 20 per cent). …”
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Research and implementation of network architecture of LSN DCI EVPN VxLAN by Yongming YAN, Liang ZUO, Bin XU, Haifeng XU, Kechuang YE

“…With the rise of virtualization technology,the architecture of traditional data center is disrupted.There exit a large number of interconnected needs among the data centers,such as data center active-active,data center redundancy,data synchronous backup,data migration,integrated data store,shared virtual resource pool,virtual machine drift and so on.Thereby,a large amount of east-west flow was generated,it is necessary to build a reliable,flexible,secure,and easy to deploy layer-2 and layer-3 network to meet the requirement of DCI (data center interconnection).The network architecture of EVPN VxLAN was analyzed,there hasn’t been successful large-scale business case for implementation of multi-vendor DCI EVPN VxLAN networking.Combined with current status of LSN data center of Shanghai Telecom,the deployment of DCI via existing network was proposed and achieved.…”
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ECONOMIC-MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF INVESTMENT ACTIVITY IN HOUSING AND CONSTRUCTION SPHERE by E. Acri, I. Egorova

“…The model of a private investor investing his capital in the creation of a new housing stock also takes into account the compensatory principles in the relations between the investor-bodies of the city government.…”
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VIKOR Method for Evaluating the Management Quality of Teacher Education with Probabilistic Hesitant Fuzzy Information by Li Zhiqi

“…Comprehensive and systematic study on teacher quality control in compulsory education within the county is the key to improve the teacher quality of it as well as improve and complement research in related fields. And in stark contrast to the importance of the problem, there is no in-depth and systematic result on the monitoring on teacher quality within the county which becomes a matter of concern in current research in the field of education issues. …”
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Diabelskie koło historii. Poetyki miejskie w powieści Aleksieja Iwanowa Cienie Teutonów by Svetlana Pavlenko

“… Shadows of the Teutons, a novel by the contemporary Russian writer Aleksei Ivanov, was published in 2021. The story unfolds across two different time periods. …”
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Enhancing collapse performance of vulnerable RC frames through steel Bracing: A FEMA P695 methodology study by Ali Sadeghpour, Giray Ozay

“…This study examines 1-, 3-, and 6-story RC frames, introducing concentric steel braces in various configurations as a cost-effective reinforcement method. …”
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An Efficient Key Management Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks by Dahai Du, Huagang Xiong, Hailiang Wang

“…Thus, MAKM minimizes the key storage space. Furthermore, sensor nodes in the network can update their key seeds very quickly. …”
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Implementing a Distributed WSN Based on IPv6 for Ambient Monitoring by D. F. Larios, J. M. Mora-Merchan, E. Personal, J. Barbancho, C. León

“…In these networks, a centralized server is usually used to collect and store the sensor information. However, new distributed protocols allow connections directly to the WSN nodes without the need of a centralized server. …”
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Banishment into Wilderness: The Trauma of Dispossession and Dislocation in "Gravel Heart" by Jacinta Matheka

“…I conclude that, telling the story from the perspective of the migrant, the author enables the narrator to illuminate his victimhood, while portraying his ability to survive in spaces that are intended to silence him.           …”
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Assessing Damage and Restoring Trees After a Hurricane by Edward F. Gilman, Mary L. Duryea, Eliana Kampf, Traci Jo Partin, Astrid Delgado, Carol J. Lehtola

“…Includes sections with guidelines for chainsaw safety, how to hire tree care professionals, how to tell which damaged trees can recover and which should be removed, how to restore trees to health after a hurricane by pruning -- both immediately after the storm and after few years' growth, specialized information for dealing with palm and pine trees, how to prevent damage by using effective design and management practices, and lists of decay resistant and wind resistant tree species for Florida. …”
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Ghostly (re)visions: Embodying the Indian Caribbean churile by Christopher L. Ballengee

“…Using four key examples — Vanessa Godden’s performance film Churile (2016), Sabiyha Rasheed’s song ‘Choorile’ (2020), Kevin Jared Hosein’s short story ‘Maiden of the Mud’ (2016) and Ryan Persadie’s drag persona Tifa Wine in his ongoing Coolieween project — I discuss how the churile becomes a potent symbol for confronting the legacies of indenture. …”
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« Never was there a happier partnership » : les illustrations d’Arthur Hughes pour At the Back of the North Wind de George MacDonald by Catherine Persyn

“…Last but not least, the eponymous character of the story and mouthpiece of the author’s philosophical views, the magical North Wind, whose sole mention immediately calls to mind the most inspired and best-known engravings of the whole series, deserved to be studied at some length, which is done under the heading : You Cannot Barre Love Oute.…”
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