Fronts de terres, géographie des relations urbaines et rurales par le biais des terres excavées en Île-de-France by Marie-Laure Garnier, Patrick Moquay

“…The financial windfall from the removal and storage of these soils is countered by problems of social and environmental acceptance in the receiving areas. …”
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Flow Characteristics Study of Wind Turbine Blade with Vortex Generators by Hao Hu, Xin-kai Li, Bo Gu

“…In the paper, three cases of VGs installation are designed; they are scattered in different chordwise position at the blade root, and then they are calculated, respectively, with CFD method. …”
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Aerosol Effects on the Atmosphere: Types, Mechanisms and Future Perspectives by Wang Yuanjie

“…Aerosols directly affect the Earth’s energy balance by scattering and absorbing solar radiation and indirectly affect climate and precipitation patterns by acting as cloud condensation nuclei, altering cloud formation and microphysical properties. …”
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MONITORING FRUIT LANDRACES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC, TRACING THEIR ORIGIN AND POTENTIAL FOR THEIR CONSERVATION by V. Holubec, F. Paprstein, L. Dokoupil, M. Posolda, V. Rezrncek

“…Landraces of cultivated plants originated from the beginning of agriculture through selection from wild ecotypes and cultivated by farmers in their domestic region were investigated with the goal to conserve fragments of still existing fruit landraces, including restoration of variable countryside with scattered and roadside trees, wind-breaking and snow-catching functions including fruit consumption. …”
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Planar ESPAR Array Design with Nonsymmetrical Pattern by Means of Finite-Element Method, Domain Decomposition, and Spherical Wave Expansion by Jesús García, Juan F. Izquierdo, Jesús Rubio, Miguel A. González, Juan Zapata

“…A global generalized scattering matrix (GSM) in terms of spherical modes is obtained analytically from the GSM of the isolated patches by using rotation and translation properties of spherical waves. …”
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Symmetry-governed dynamics of magnetic skyrmions under field pulses by Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Bruno Barton-Singer, Pavel F. Bessarab, Nikolai S. Kiselev

“…Skyrmions with varied dynamics offer avenues for exploring phenomena like skyrmion-skyrmion scattering that might be crucial for future applications.…”
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Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation—Where Do We Currently Stand? by Brandon E. Ferrell, Jason Thomas, John P. Skendelas, Mayuko Uehara, Tadahisa Sugiura

“…However, successful implementation of eCPR can be technically challenging and resource intensive and has been countered with ethical challenges beyond the scope of conventional in-hospital ECMO care. …”
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Asymptotic expansion of small analytic solutions to the quadratic nonlinear Schrödinger equations in two-dimensional spaces by Nakao Hayashi, Pavel I. Naumkin

“…We prove that if the initial data φ satisfy some analyticity and smallness conditions in a suitable norm, then the solution of the above Cauchy problem has the asymptotic representation in the neighborhood of the scattering states.…”
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Boerhaave Syndrome, Pneumothorax, and Chylothorax in a Critically Ill Patient with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex by Mohsin Ijaz, Arsalan Rafiq, Sindhaghatta Venkatram, Gilda Diaz-Fuentes

“…Chylothorax is a rare complication of TSC with few scattered reports mostly in female patients. Patients with TSC are usually managed by multispecialists and it is important to be aware of the rare pulmonary manifestations of this disease. …”
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The Polymerization of MMA and ST to Prepare Material with Gradient Refractive Index in Electric Field by Yao Huang, Daming Wu, Dongyun Ren, Qingyun Meng, Xiaojun Di

“…Light scattering material with gradient refractive index was prepared under the electrical field by taking methyl methacrylate (MMA) monomer as the matrix with the addition of a little preheated styrene (ST) and peroxidation benzoin formyl (BPO). …”
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Study of the Propagation Characteristics of Terahertz Waves in a Collisional and Inhomogeneous Dusty Plasma with a Ceramic Substrate and Oblique Angle of Incidence by Qingwen Rao, Guanjun Xu, Pengfei Wang, Zhengqi Zheng

“…In this paper, the propagation properties of a terahertz (THz) wave in a collisional and inhomogeneous dusty plasma with a ceramic substrate and oblique angle of incidence are studied using the scattering matrix method. The influence of the various corresponding parameters, such as the frequency of the THz wave, angle of incidence, electron density, radius and density of the dust particles, and the collision frequency, on the absorbance and transmittance is calculated. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book Dissection of ISIL: Essence, Organizational Structure, Inductions and Results by S. Motahareh Hosseyni, Razieh Mousavyfar, Fatemeh Eidi

“…This book discusses the intellectual and ideological essence of ISIL, its history and formation, its organizational structure, its inducts and tactics, its media inducts, its army and militia, its economy and finance, why this group arose and collapsed, and the chances and threats of ISIL for Iranian foreign policy and proposes for countering with this group. In this paper we will introduce and describe the book, then after formal critique, in part of the analysis of the context of the book, we will criticize the parts of the book and will say that the essential problem of this book is the absence of theory. …”
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Extension Programs in Northeastern Florida Help Growers Produce Quality Strawberries by Improving Water and Nutrient Management by Robert Hochmuth, David Dinkins, Michael Sweat, Eric Simonne

“… The Florida strawberry industry is primarily located in the Plant City area with approximately 6,000 acres. There is scattered acreage in other parts of the state including Bradford County and the surrounding area of northeastern Florida. …”
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Design of Four-Plate Parallel Dynamic Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer Coupler for Mobile Robot Wireless-Charging Applications by Hongguk Bae, Sangwook Park

“…A detailed theoretical design of an electric resonance-based coupler for dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) at the mobile robot level is presented. The scattering matrix of the coupler was derived by transforming and multiplying transmission matrices for each circuit network in a practical equivalent circuit that accounted for loss resistance. …”
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Green Synthesis of Highly Luminescent Carbon Quantum Dots from Lemon Juice by Bui Thi Hoan, Phuong Dinh Tam, Vuong-Hung Pham

“…The obtained C-dots were characterized by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometry, dynamic light scattering, ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry, and photoluminescent spectrophotometry. …”
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Hvordan sikre mer pensjon til sliterne? by Axel West Pedersen

“…Siden de mest utsatte yrkesgruppene samtidig har lave livsinntekter, er det grunn til å frykte at pensjonsreformen vil bidra til økt ulikhet i alderdommen. Kommentaren støtter denne problembeskrivelsen, men reiser spørsmål ved de forslag til løsninger som artikkelforfatterne skisserer i artikkelens siste del.…”
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A Critical Review on the Book The Rise of the Creative Genre in Iran by Maryam Sharifnasab

“…Nevertheless, the content of the book is full of useful but scattered data. The authors' opinions on the subject, etc, have been reorganized and made more useful for the audience in this field.…”
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Intercomparison of Numerical Inversion Algorithms for Particle Size Determination of Polystyrene Suspensions Using Spectral Turbidimetry by Benjamin Glasse, Norbert Riefler, Udo Fritsching

“…., particle diameter) of polystyrene suspensions in the range x=0.03–3 µm was validated via dynamic light scattering and differential centrifugal sedimentation and compared to the retrieved particle size distribution from the inverted turbidimetry measurements.…”
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Characterization of Follicular Lymphoma in the Small Intestine Using Double-Balloon Endoscopy by Manzurul Chowdhury, Masaki Endo, Toshimi Chiba, Norihiko Kudara, Shuhei Oana, Kunihiko Sato, Risaburo Akasaka, Kazumitsu Tomita, Saori Fujiwara, Tomomi Mizutani, Tamotsu Sugai, Yasuhiro Takikawa, Kazuyuki Suzuki

“…Double-balloon endoscopy revealed multiple nodular lesions and elevated white patches, multiple polypoid lesions, and scattered white polypoid and nodular lesions in the duodenum and small intestine. …”
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Investigation on the Band Gap and Negative Properties of Concentric Ring Acoustic Metamaterial by Meng Chen, Dan Meng, Heng Jiang, Yuren Wang

“…For the single-oscillator, dual-oscillator, and triple-oscillator models investigated here, the dipolar resonances of the scatterer always induce negative effective mass density, preventing waves from propagating in the structure, thus forming the band gap. …”
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