A Critique on the Book “From Arabia to the Pacific: How Our Species Colonised Asia” by Seyyed Milad Hashemi

“…The focus of this book is on the dispersal of Middle and Upper Paleolithic hominins and the dynamism of their range expansion/ contraction in Asia. In the book, our species, modern human, is introduced as an invasive species from an ecological point of view; because such groups quickly settled across the whole ancient continent and in doing so, others, such as Neanderthals became extinct. …”
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Dry Needling with Fascial Winding in Nontraumatic Medial Tibial Shin Pain by Manoj Kumar Sharma, Sarika Chaudhary

“…A significant association has been discovered between shin pain with distance runners and proving the impact of the physical demands inherent in these physical activities. Contraction of the deep leg flexors during running leads to stress transfer to the tibial fascial attachment, i.e. deep crural fascia at the medial tibial crest which results in fascial dysfunction resulting in shin pain and discomfort. …”
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Life insurance premium and Covid-19 by Glušac Danijela

“…We consider it important to comprehensively explain the premium as an essential element of the life insurance contract. The analysis includes how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting life insurance premiums. …”
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Experimental Study on Hygrothermal Deformation of External Thermal Insulation Cladding Systems with Glazed Hollow Bead by Houren Xiong, Jinming Xu, Yuanzhen Liu, Shimeng Wang

“…Deformation of substrate expanded with heat and contracted with cold due to the small temperature variation. …”
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Carp Edema Virus Disease (CEVD) / Koi Sleepy Disease (KSD) by Shohreh Hesami, Pedro Viadanna, Natalie K. Steckler, Staci Spears, Patrick M. Thompson, Karen L. Kelley, Roy P. E. Yanong, Ruth Francis-Floyd, Johnny Shelley, Joseph M. Groff, Andy Goodwin, Olga L. M. Haenen, Thomas B. Waltzek

“…This 6-page fact sheet describes symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and what fish producers, wholesalers, or retailers can do if they suspect carp may have contracted the disease. Written by Shohreh Hesami, Pedro Viadanna, Natalie Steckler, Staci Spears, Patrick Thompson, Karen Kelley, Roy Yanong, Ruth Francis-Floyd, Johnny Shelley, Joseph Groff, Andy Goodwin, Olga Haenen, and Thomas Waltzek, and published by the School of Forest Resources and Conservation Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, October 2015. …”
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2003 Handbook of Employment Regulations Affecting Florida Farm Employers and Workers: Portal to Portal Act of 1947 [Federal] by Leo C. Polopolus, Michael T. Olexa, Fritz Roka, Carol Fountain

“…In general, work starts at the work site unless otherwise provided by contract, custom, or practice. This Act is an Amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). …”
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Paysage, médiation paysagère et « bon état écologique » de la haute vallée de la Sèvre niortaise by Rémi Bercovitz

“…For me the landscape constitutes just such a framework and is thus envisaged as being a tool of mediation facilitating the emergence of a new “socio-territorial contract.” On the basis of this hypothesis, we present the methodological foundations of a procedure which, applied to the case of the Sevre Niortaise valley landscapes, relies on the construction and sharing of historical knowledge.…”
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Freedom of Parties to Choose the Title of Litigation: To Be True or Not True in Accepting the Litigation of Homologation by Ali Shamsi, Hassan Mohseni

“…The conflict is a pre se requisite of litigation but we see some cases by the subject of homologation a contract which has not yet a conflict and courts have not a similar jurisprudence in cases. …”
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Avaliando impactos econômicos do programa “Reflorestar” de pagamentos por serviços ambientais by Renato Nunes de Lima Seixas, Pablo Medeiros Jabor

“…These results suggest a substi-tution of temporary crops for preservation areas, which can be quickly reconverted at the end of the payments for environmental services contracts.…”
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EVALUATION OF TIMELY PASSING PROGRAM DEPARTMENT OF INDONESIAN LANGUAGE EDUCATION UNIVERSITAS INDRAPRASTA PGRI by Ade Siti Haryanti

“…From the initial number of 404 students who signed a thesis KRS contract and passed as many as 314 students, the remaining 90 students were still thesis drafting. …”
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Predicting Welding Deformation of Exposed Forged-and-welded Gear by the Integrated Computational Approach by Qu Tie, Xin Wen, Luo Wenze, Wang Chongyang, Hu Long, Huang Zhiquan, Deng Dean

“…The numerical simulation results show that the radial shrinkage of the large forged-and-welded gear is about 11 mm after welding, and the amount of contraction in the circumference direction is about 3 mm.…”
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An Architecture-Based Adaptation Framework for Soft Real-Time Applications by Xiaoan Bao, Na Zhang, Ning Gui, Jinyu Song

“…A real-time component runtime service is proposed here to maintain the global view, control the whole lifecycle of the components and keep existing real-time componentsˊ promised contracts in the face of run-time changes. This framework is designed to be easily extended with other constraint resolving policies as well as dependence descriptions languages and can be used to provide real-time computing services for cloud computing. …”
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Vertical Integration or Disintegration? A Bargaining Model of the Maquiladora's Case by Ikuho Kochi, Ramsés Jiménez Castañeda, Raúl Alberto Ponce Rodríguez

“…The above holds even if the domestic supplier participates in a bargaining game offering an efficient contract.…”
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Design and Analysis of Closed-Linked Eight-Link Foot Robot with Composite Hinges by Hao Zhang, Jianjun Qin, Xingjie Liu, Lei Jiang

“…Maintaining the characteristics of the closed-loop kinematic chain，the simplest eight-bar kinematic chain is obtained by local contraction of the general eight-bar kinematic chain，and the robot leg mechanism is designed based on one of the simplest eight-bar linkage mechanisms. …”
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What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940 by Theo Engelen

“…The analysis is based on the LINKS dataset which currently includes almost 2 million marriages that were contracted in seven Dutch provinces: Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Noord-Holland, Zeeland and Limburg. …”
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Weight of the Default Component of CDS Spreads: Avoiding Procyclicality in Credit Loss Provisioning Framework by Mariya Gubareva

“…A new CDS-based approach to estimate current expected credit loss is proposed for low default portfolios, containing credit exposures to corporate issuers covered by publicly traded CDS contracts. First, a fraction of CDS spread related to a pure default compensation for different CDS maturities is assessed. …”
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Cloud-Based Service for Fingerprint Image Matching by Ethar Abdul Wahhab Hachim

“… Fingerprint matching is one of the most important services that related to the issue of identifying individuals, as it can be used to verify the validity of contracts, documents or in other security fields such as criminal investigations. …”
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When red tape saves time: The Anti-corruption controls for the 2015 Universal Exposition by Simone Busetti, Bruno Dente

“…When a major corruption scandal emerged during the organisation of the 2015 Universal Exposition in Milan, the government set up a brand-new system of preliminary controls for the procurement of all Expo contracts. Controls can certainly be beneficial in many respects, but they inevitably complicate procedures and even produce delays and red tape. …”
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Stochastic model of economic cycles and its econometric application by Karmalita Viacheslav

“…An example of possible econometric applications of the model was considered using the current cyclic contraction in US incomes.…”
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Les deux piliers de la construction territoriale : coordination des acteurs et ressources territoriales by Hadjou Lamara

“…The logic of cooperation can be realized through the establishment of diverse governance systems, different from the traditional mode of regulation which is the market. Contracts, agreements, networks, and formal or informal cooperation are a range regulation models that are mobilized by the actors to transform their space in a dynamic territory. …”
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