HBO’s Black Women Artist Biopics: The Josephine Baker Story and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge by Hélène Charlery

“…This paper analyses cable television HBO’s 1990s biopics based on the life stories of the African American dancer and singer Josephine Baker (The Josephine Baker Story, Brian Gibson, 1991) and the actress Dorothy Dandridge (Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Martha Coolidge, 1999), demonstrating that the films articulate the network’s commercial strategy, using the life stories of African American icons to tap into a niche market. While pointing at the artists’ personal struggles, the biopics enhance the narrative power of the female voices, and yet frame them within the controlling power of white male characters. …”
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Teach Aquaculture Curriculum: Chlorine--Friend or Foe? by Carlos V. Martinez, Cortney L. Ohs, Brian E. Myers, Elisa J. Livengood, Craig S. Kasper, Amber L. Garr, R. Leroy Creswell, Frank A. Chapman

“…In this activity for grades 5-12, students determine the amount of chlorine present in tap water and use two methods to remove chlorine from water. …”
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Hot water treatment in autonomous heat supply systems with several water intake points by A. L. Toropov

“…The delay in the start time of hot water supply from the moment the tap is opened and the fluctuation of hot water temperature when several water intake points are used at random at the same time. …”
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From Which to Why Not Religions in the Curriculum. A Troubled Pedagogy by Bekithemba Dube

“…The theoretical paper tapped into Bernstein’s notion of weak framing to point out the ambivalence of the religious curriculum in Zimbabwe. …”
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Diversité alimentaire et prééminence du riz dans les habitudes de consommation au Cameroun by Sariette Batibonak, Claudine Defo

“…Cameroon has a natural potential under tapped. Dozens of plant foods provide evidence of the importance of its resources. …”
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L’approvisionnement en eau de la ville de Meaux antique : fouille d’un tronçon d’aqueduc à Villenoy (Seine-et-Marne) et premier bilan by David Couturier, Olivier Bauchet, Gilles Fronteau

“…Bordered by a river, the ancient town of Meaux certainly tapped into this resource for its water supply. Nevertheless, the presence of wells shows that it was not enough. …”
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Secrecy Rate Adaptation Method of Sensor Nodes Based on Evolutionary Game by Shigen Shen, Longjun Huang, Angyan Tu, Hongjie Li, Risheng Han, Qiying Cao

“…By developing the classical wire-tap channel, an approach was proposed to compute the secrecy rate between a sensor node and its responsible cluster head in the clustered wireless sensor network. …”
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Wind Tunnel Analysis of the Aerodynamic Loads on Rolling Stock over Railway Embankments: The Effect of Shelter Windbreaks by Sergio Avila-Sanchez, Santiago Pindado, Oscar Lopez-Garcia, Angel Sanz-Andres

“…A set of two-dimensional wind tunnel tests are undertaken and results corresponding to pressure tap measurements over a section of a typical high-speed train are herein presented. …”
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Empedobacter brevis Meningitis in a Neonate: A Very Rare Case of Neonatal Meningitis and Literature Review by Deepak Sharma, Ankur Patel, Priyanka Soni, Pradeep Sharma, Basudev Gupta

“…The reservoir of these bacteria is soil, plants, water, food, hospital water sources, including incubators, sinks, faucets, tap water, hemodialysis systems, saline solutions, and other pharmaceutical solutions. …”
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How ideas matter in public policy: a review of concepts, mechanisms, and methods by Marij Swinkels

“…It then discusses where ideas come from and the dynamics and drivers of ideational change to shed light on the ideational mechanisms underpinning policy processes. Furthermore, it taps into different research methods that can be used to study ideas. …”
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TEXTURALISM by Andrei C. COZMA

“…A delimitation of a notion that includes such a diversity of compositional methods into a stylistic unity still tapped into by composers is achieved by analysing some particular characteristics of a few textural pieces and other attributes that are common to various other pieces. …”
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A Single Bangle Does Not Jingle: The Twinning Imperative of Ubuntu by Nokuthula Hlabangane

“…In a bid to account for resilience against the unyielding odds integral to the notion of the “survival of the fittest”, this paper posits ubuntu and the ethos of interconnection as the bedrock of said resilience. The paper taps into the lived ethos of abantu to argue that decolonisation as a reflection of the lifeways central to the cosmic rhythm is not far off even within the patriarchal, western-centric, colonial Africa. …”
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Single‐ended 2 ch. × 3.4 Gbit/s dual‐mode near‐ground transmitter IO driver in 45 nm CMOS process by E. Kim, T. Oh

“…The measured eye shows 17.8% vertically and 19.5% horizontally with finite impulse response (FIR) tap control for 15.75″ FR4 channel. The proto‐type 2 channel single‐ended driver has been implemented in 45 nm CMOS process and occupies 0.022 mm2 chip area.…”
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Inquiry into the Conceptual Dimensions of Project Portfolio Management by Pedro Bruno de Souza, Jorge Carneiro, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello

“…By building from a review of the scant literature on project portfolio management , conversations with expert scholars on project management, interpretations provided by managers, and theoretical reflection by the authors of this study, it was possible to identify main aspects that seem to tap how the degree of “accomplishment” of project portfolio ma nagement can be conceptually defined and operationally measured.…”
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Partial-norm-constrained sparse recovery algorithm and its application on single carrier underwater-acoustic-data telemetry by Feiyun WU, Kunde YANG, Feng TONG

“…To solve the problem of single carrier underwater-acoustic-data telemetry,compressive sensing (CS) provides competitive performance of compression and recovery with low energy consumption.The primary objective of CS is to minimize the l₀norm,which is an NP hard problem.Hence,the common methods were transferred to minimize l₁norm.However,l₁norm minimization provided a limited accuracy.A partial-norm-constraint (PNC) based sparse signal recovery method was derived,which adopted PNC as a zero attraction in a Lagrange method,to distribute the soft threshold for the non-zero taps.The proposed method is used for at-sea data telemetry.Combining with DCT,the proposed method improves the recovery accuracy.…”
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Livin’ Da Dream? Playing Black, Illusions of Meritocracy, and Narrative Constraints in Sports Video Game Story Modes by Michael Fuchs

“…Focusing on African American athletes, the stories tap into the utopianism of sports and suggest that anyone, irrespective of skin color, can make it in America. …”
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Children’s language in applied linguistic research by Liptakova Ludmila

“…Knowledge of children’s language is also relevant to educational linguistics, which taps into linguistic research findings to advance language teaching.…”
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Nordic Noir from Within and Beyond by Hansen Kim Toft

“…The three largest contemporary commercial players on the Nordic market – Viaplay, HBO, and Netflix – have been able to, in very different ways, tap into the ideology of banal Nordism and the geopolitical unity of the Nordic region, and they have done so by producing and acquiring content that has deep associations with one of the Nordic region's main international brands: Scandinavian crime fiction and Nordic Noir.…”
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Comparison of analgesic efficacy of ultrasound-guided external oblique intercostal plane block and subcostal transversus abdominis plane block in patients undergoing upper abdomina... by Shruti Shrey, Chandni Sinha, Abhyuday Kumar, Ajeet Kumar, Amarjeet Kumar, Sreehari Nambiar

“…We compared the postoperative analgesic efficacy of unilateral EOI block with conventional unilateral subcostal transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block. Methods: Fifty American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) I/II patients scheduled for upper abdominal surgery via subcostal incision were randomly assigned to receive either EOI block (Group E) or subcostal TAP block (Group T) with 25 mL of 0.2% ropivacaine. …”
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Polynomial estimation method for PN sequence based on reliability accumulation by Song CHEN, Kai-zhi HUANG, Hua ZHAO

“…The issues of insufficient efficiency and poor error-tolerance of current high-order polynomial estimation me-thods under error conditions were studied.By combining the iterative berlekamp-massey(BM)algorithm in GF(2)and the improved Chase algorithm,a novel algorithm based on reliability accumulation was proposed.The sequence soft infor-mation was mapped to sequence reliability as the input information of BM algorithm,and the corresponding output relia-bility of estimated polynomial was accumulated as the rule of correct polynomial.In order to improve the estimation pre-cision,the candidate reliability-accumulated polynomial set were reduced by the characteristics of primitive polynomial in GF(2).The simulation results show that the proposed method is irrelevant with the tapped number of ator poly-nomial,and has a good estimation performance to estimate 17-order polynomials when the sequence BER is 18%.…”
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