Une balle blanche dans un roman noir by Sophie Vallas

“…The novel is also a “baseball novel”: its plot essentially deals with a baseball New York team and its former, fallen star, and the final resolution of the mystery intervenes thanks to a revelation brought by a baseball game in which a rather rare and spectacular maneuver (the double suicide squeeze) is used by one of the teams to turn the tables and win the game. …”
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The Destiny of Hope: The “Damned Mob” of Women Activist Writers and the Indian Removal by Carroll Clayton Savant

“…Therefore, when women turned to it to voice opposition to Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act, they did so by embracing the traditionally-accepted methodology of the novel, but altering it through subversive language and plots to suit their critical needs. …”
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Petrushka in the Theatre for Children in the First Ten Years After the October Revolution (Two Plays by S.I. Marshak) by Svetlana P. Sorokina

“…Marshak thus naturally combined formulas and plot elements of folklore theatre with those of his own art. …”
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Response of Winter Wheat to 35-Year Cereal Monoculture by Andrzej Woźniak, Małgorzata Haliniarz

“…Winter wheat grown in the plot after common pea (PS) served as the control. …”
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Species diversity of soil animals at different desert habitats in Baijitan region of Ningxia and its relationship with environmental factors by Zhang Jiao, Li Yuecheng, Zhang Dazhi

“…The area of each plot is about 600 m² (6 m×100 m) . The segregate efficiency of soil animals among the 0-5, 5-10, 10-15 to 15-20 cm layer in different plots was studied using Tullgren and Baermann methods in August, 2013. …”
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Mythologization of Image of Marat Kirov in Novel “Sleep and Believe. Blockade Novel” by A. Turgenev by A. M. Lobin

“…This article presents the results of an analysis of the character system and plot-forming conflicts in the novel by Andrei Turgenev (Vyacheslav Kuritsyn) “Sleep and Believe. …”
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Soviet as personal: About Mikhail Elizarov’s song “Mr. Main Wind” by Olesya R. Temirshina

“…On a superficial level, the text presents the plot of collapse of the USSR; on a deep level, the historical narrative encodes the personal drama of the lyrical subject. …”
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“I Showed Him an Open Hand, He Showed me a Fist” by Richard Bauman

“…The emergent unfolding of the tale plot, which turns on constrasting interpretations of a series of thematized gestures, illuminates the dynamic tension between iconicity and ostension in performance. …”
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Chaucer’s Early Poem “Book of the Duchess”: Features of Topics by Vadim B. Semenov

“…Traditionally popular topics in Chaucerian studies related to this work are those that involve discussion of questions about the validity of the publishers’ choice of one of the surviving titles for the poem, about the correlation of the images of the main characters, including the Dreamer, in the plot and narrative, about the motivation for the two-part type of composition (The Proemium and The Dream) and the function of using in the plot of the retelling from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (the story of Ceyx and Alcyone), and finally, about the connection of this retelling with the “Boethian” poems of Guillaume de Machaut. …”
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Numerical modelling of rope elasticity for heave compensation lifting in offshore crane operations by Bassey Asanga, Akanimo Ekpenyong, Aniekan Ikpe

“…Second, the performance of wire rope based on rope stiffness was evaluated when HCS was turned off (WOC) and on (WC). The reciprocal of the slopes of the plots of extension against total tensile force on the wire rope regraded as stiffness were compared. …”
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Philosophical disputation vs. skill duel: methods of interpreting Latin hagiography in the old norse "Clemens saga" by Mariya Zenkova

“…Instead, he turns to Latin secular literature, turning the philosophical disputation into a contest in the Seven Liberal Arts, which are rarely found in the saga corpus. …”
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Assessing the dynamic impact of formal and perceived land rights on fruit tree cultivation: Exploring the moderating role of forest ecology, gender, and land acquisition method by Akalu Assfaw Wolde

“…Secure land rights are essential for encouraging long-term agricultural investment, particularly in developing countries. Fruit trees, in turn, play a critical role in livelihoods due to their nutritional, economic, and environmental benefits. …”
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The function of irony in the composition of a neo-romantic short story by Irina Klimenko

“…The features of romantic poetics thus identified later turn out to be objects of rethinking and parody in other literary movements, including neoromanticism. …”
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Geôle, enjôler, enjoliver : surveiller et (p)unir dans Lolita by René Alladaye

“…It tries to show that this notion dominates the Nabokov’s novel, both in terms of plot and narrative, and affects considerably our reception of the book, turning the reader into the captive of a singularly sophisticated textual mechanism.…”
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Restricted phase space thermodynamics of 4D dyonic AdS black holes: insights from Kaniadakis statistics and emergence of superfluid $$\lambda $$ λ -phase transition by Abhishek Baruah, Prabwal Phukon

“…Including the deformation parameter $$\kappa $$ κ introduces an unstable (ultra-large BH) branch seen in almost all the plots. Turning off the magnetic charge flips the direction of the phase transition seen during its presence. …”
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De la carte diachronique à la trajectoire géohistorique : modélisation du changement paysager d’un cône torrentiel by Thérèse Hugerot, Laurent Astrade, Christophe Gauchon, Estelle Ployon

“…This article presents the case of Saint-Antoine alluvial fan (Northern Alps), whose landscape trajectory, in the form of diachronic maps, transition diagram, ternary plot and heuristic timelines, reveals the trends and rhythms of change (continuity, bifurcation, turning point).…”
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Dystopia in the Skies: Negotiating Justice and Morality on Screen in the Video Game BioShock Infinite by Stefan Schubert

“…The game’s visual elements—as part of its larger plot, its narrative background, and the way history is depicted—particularly work to highlight racial and social injustice at the core of Columbia’s society. …”
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Computational Analysis of Gly482Ser Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism in PPARGC1A Gene Associated with CAD, NAFLD, T2DM, Obesity, Hypertension, and Metabolic Diseases by Somayye Taghvaei, Leila Saremi, Sepideh Babaniamansour

“…We observed loss flexibility in the RMSD plot of the Gly482Ser variant, which was further supported by a decrease in the SASA value in the Gly482Ser variant structure of PPARGC1A and an increase of H-bond with the increase of β-sheet and coil and decrease of turn in the DSSP plot of the Gly482Ser variant. …”
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Estimation of yield and nitrogen use efficiencies in hybrid maize varieties through site specific nitrogen management based on leaf color chart (LCC) by Suhail Fayaz, Raihana Habib Kanth, Tauseef A. Bhat, Eajaz Ahmad Dar, Zahoor Ahmad Shah, Moneesa Bashir, Aijaz Nazir, Bilkees Jamsheed, Mohd. Salim Mir, Zahoor A. Dar, Shailja Sharma, Aabid Hussain Lone, Dawood Yousuf, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Mohamed A. Mattar, Ali Salem

“…To perceive the specific leaf color chart (LCC) value for precision maneuvering of nitrogen in different maize hybrids, a field experiment was carried out at the research farm of Division of Agronomy, FoA, Wadura, Sopore, SKUAST-Kashmir, in the years 2019 and 2020 (Kharif seasons). Split Plot Design (SPD) employing three maize varieties (Shalimar Maize Hybrid-2 (SMH-2), Kanchan-517 and Vivek-45) in main plots and precision management of nitrogen (T1: Control, T2: Recommended Nitrogen (120 kg N ha–1), T3: 25% N as basal LCC @20 (≤ 3) kg N ha−1, T4: 25% N as basal LCC @30 (≤ 3) kg N ha−1, T5: 25% N as basal LCC @20 (≤ 4) kg N ha−1, T6: 25% N as basal LCC @30 (≤ 4) kg N ha−1, T7: 25% N as basal LCC @20 (≤ 5) kg N ha−1 and T8: 25% N as basal LCC @30 (≤ 5) kg N ha−1) in sub-plots was systemized. …”
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HANDEL’S OPERAS IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY DIRECTING: ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF FILM COMPOSITION PRINCIPLES IN OPERA PERFORMANCES / HÄNDELS OPERN IM KONTEXT MODERNER REGIE: ZUR... by KONSON GRIGORI R., KONSON IRINA A.

“…To study this phenomenon, we turned to the scientific tools developed in Russia by the two Soviet researchers who have become seminal in their field. …”
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