Un-quaring San Francisco in Milk and Test by Clayton Dillard

“…Milk conceals difference through its spatial depiction of an emerging gay civil rights, where not only “gay” but also a coherent social space for queer people comes to be synonymous with whiteness. Accordingly, the largely gay white male population of the Castro District becomes a monolithic emblem of queer history in the city, and restricts access to the queer histories of the Tenderloin and Mission districts, among others. …”
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Twospotted Spider Mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Arachnida: Acari: Tetranychidae) by Thomas R. Fasulo, Harold A. Denmark

“… The twospotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch, has been controversial in its taxonomic placement. About 60 synonyms included under this species have compounded the controversy. …”
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D’une eau-problème à une eau-ressource : bascule dans nos rapports aux eaux usées traitées by Anne-Laure Collard

“…For a long time, this pathogen-charged water was synonymous with a health problem, but now this water is seen as a resource to be valorised, and the challenge is to reintroduce it into a society that has rejected it. …”
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Gamalnorsk *mǫð f. ‘slåtteeng’ i norske stadnamn by Samuele Mascetti

“…The eventual disappearance of *mǫð could be due to competition from more common synonyms as engjar f. pl. and ey f. ‘meadow next to a body of water’. …”
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Twospotted Spider Mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Arachnida: Acari: Tetranychidae) by Thomas R. Fasulo, Harold A. Denmark

“… The twospotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch, has been controversial in its taxonomic placement. About 60 synonyms included under this species have compounded the controversy. …”
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Changement de topique et prise en charge énonciative : le rôle de toujours est-il que by Véronique Lenepveu

“…Then, a search of English synonyms in translations of litterary texts (French/English; English/French) of the 19th and the 20th century confirms the analysis. …”
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From margins to mainstream: decolonizing science and promoting diversity for the future of STEM by Roksana Khalid, Isaiah J. Ting

“…Entrenched attitudes, often rooted in implicit biases, sustain the notion that scientific excellence is synonymous with famous Western names, further marginalizing diverse contributions. …”
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“If only you could see me now”: Autoportrait et théâtralité dans les lettres de Sylvia Plath à sa mère by Laure DE NERVAUX-GAVOTY

“…This multiplication of the autobiographical mode and of the figures of the self seems to result from an ambivalent attitude to self-representation: while the latter is perceived as synonymous with psychic integrity, it is also deeply feared because, freezing the subject, it could prove fatal. …”
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Proposals for consideration at IMC12 to modify provisions related solely to fungi in Chapter F of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants by Tom W. May, David L. Hawksworth

“…The topics addressed relate to: fungi whose morph-names have the same epithet; the listing of synonyms under entries for protected names in the Code Appendices; the processes of protection and rejection; the use of DNA sequences as nomenclatural types; the use of genomes as nomenclatural types; and the designation of fungi known only from DNA sequences. …”
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Autoantibodies and Liver Disease: Uses and Abuses by Marilyn V Zeman, Gideon M Hirschfield

“…Their presence is occasionally considered to be synonymous with autoimmune liver disease – a misinterpretation of their clinical significance. …”
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Hip-hop from dancers’ viewpoint: Dance, lifestyle, and/or subculture? by Snežana Damjanović, Boris Popović, Ivana M. Milovanović, Tijana Šćepanović

“…Dancers consider hip-hop to be not only an art form but much more, hip-hop is synonymous with a lifestyle and a “way of looking at the world” for dancers. …”
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Indonesian tertiary EFL students’ problems in paraphrasing journal articles: a narrative inquiry by Qonita Irfayani, Chubbi Millatina Rokhuma

“…The findings presented that the four students perceived limited vocabulary, lack of awareness regarding the criteria for effective paraphrasing and the proper stages of paraphrasing, struggle to find the appropriate synonyms, and lack of grammar mastery. Furthermore, it was discovered that there were several strategies adopted by the students to overcome the problem of paraphrasing journal articles such as changing active to passive voice, eliminating unnecessary words, utilizing paraphrasing tools, and consulting with others. …”
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The First Maritime Charters of the Petrine Epoch: Translations and Adaptation by Irina Voznesenskaya, Georgiy Molkov

“…Even when the Dutch word was borrowed into the Russian language at the end of the 17th century to translate it, a synonymous term of non-Dutch origin could be used in the charter. …”
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Cloning, recombinant expression, and characterization of a Rhipicephalus microplus carboxylesterase. [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 not approved] by Michel Labuschagne

“…Background The Rhipicephalus microplus carboxylesterase (CBE) is involved in synthetic pyrethroid (SP) hydrolysis and historic evidence suggests that a non-synonymous mutation (Asp374Asn) in CBE is associated with increased resistance towards SP-based acaricides. …”
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VACCIMEL, an allogeneic melanoma vaccine, efficiently triggers T cell immune responses against neoantigens and alloantigens, as well as against tumor-associated antigens by Ibel Carri, Ibel Carri, Erika Schwab, Juan Carlos Trivino, Erika M. von Euw, Morten Nielsen, Morten Nielsen, José Mordoh, María Marcela Barrio

“…VACCIMEL variants were called by comparing the vaccine and the patient’s exomes, and non-synonymous coding variants were used to predict T cell epitopes. …”
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Polyphasic taxonomy of Aspergillus section Sparsi by J. Varga, J.C. Frisvad, R.A. Samson

“…The recently described A. quitensis and A. ecuadorensis are synonyms of A. amazonicus based on both molecular and physiological data. …”
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Ash Whitefly, Siphoninus phillyreae (Haliday) (Insecta: Homoptera: Aleyrodidae: Aleyrodinae) by Ru Nguyen, Avas B. Hamon

“… Ash whitefly, Siphoninus phillyreae, was described as Aleyrodes phillyreae by Haliday (1835), on Phillyrea latifolia collected in Dublin, Ireland. It has several synonyms listed in Mound and Halsey (1978). In the United States, S. phillyreae was first collected in Los Angeles County, California in 1988, and has since spread to Kern, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Stanislaus, Tulare and Ventura counties. …”
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Aerial Wanderings and Mountain Territorialities: Geographical Reflections on Cross-Country Paragliding by Camille Girault

“…Moreover, the conflict between the sport’s recreational and contemplative dimensions and its performance and competitive dimensions, combined with the intangible factors (air conditions, rules governing airspace) that constrain pilots’ liberty of movement, mean that paragliding is not quite as synonymous with freedom as one might think. Finally, the way in which pilots appropriate the areas over which they fly results in cross-country paragliding producing its own territorialities. …”
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La sátira de costumbres como artefacto ideológico. En torno a un opúsculo de 1808 by Claude Morange

“…This reminds us, if we ever needed being reminded, that in 1808, patriotic uprising was not always synonymous with political revolution.…”
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‘How the guineas shone as they came pouring out of the dark leather mouths!’: Shades of Gold in George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) by Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou

“…In this novella, gold is not merely the main dramatic thread that connects the parallel stories of Silas, Eppie and the Cass family, it also echoes mythical and Biblical narratives, such as the Book of Job, thereby lending itself to multiple interpretations: gold is, in turn, synonymous with a transgressive passion, an impure light or tainted matter which, as such, enables Silas’s successive transmutation, transformation and transfiguration, thereby partaking of the hero’s complex alchemical initiation and spiritual quest. …”
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