Impacts of Abnormal Heating of Tibetan Plateau on Rossby Wave Activity and Hazards Related to Snow and Ice in South China by Yuyue Fan, Guoping Li, Huiguo Lu

“…The results show that (1) anomalous heating of the TP helps to form and sustain the Siberian blocking high, which is important for persistent southward flow of dry and cold Siberian air; (2) TP heating helps the moisture flux move more north and strengthens the southerly wind above 850 hPa; (3) there are two Rossby wave trains at 500 hPa and the layers above it (at about 20∘N–40∘N). …”
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Time-Resolved X-Ray Spectroscopy from the Atomic Orbital Ground State Up by Daniel Jost, Eder G. Lomeli, Ta Tang, Joshua J. Kas, John J. Rehr, Wei-Sheng Lee, Hong-Chen Jiang, Brian Moritz, Thomas P. Devereaux

“…Now, new x-ray facilities are opening the door to the study of pump-probe x-ray spectroscopy—specifically, time-resolved x-ray absorption (trXAS) and time-resolved resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (trRIXS). In this paper, we will present simulations of each of these spectroscopies using a time-domain full atomic multiplet, charge-transfer Hamiltonian adapted to study the properties of a generalized cluster model including a central transition-metal ion caged by ligand atoms in a planar geometry. …”
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Rebel Attentiveness by Connie Etter

“…Cycling as rebel movement resists settler colonial architecture and practices that aim to separate Palestinians from their homes, land, roads, and each other. It counters settler colonial logics that see land through the lens of ownership and property by approaching land as a meaning-making process. …”
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Postcolonial/Decolonial Critique and the Theory of International Relations by Aziz Elmuradov

“…Postcolonial/decolonial approaches foster critical engagement with Eurocentric narratives in social sciences, countering teleological or linear representations of modernity. …”
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Território e circulação na economia digital: os prazos de entrega do comércio eletrônico no Brasil by Igor Venceslau

“…Based on the theoretical framework developed by Milton Santos, the results showed marked inequality in the circulation of goods purchased over the Internet, expressing aspects of the Brazilian socio-spatial formation and the country's regionalization, presenting greater territorial fluidity in the Core Region and portions of the Central-West, and in scattered points in the Northeast and Amazon, a manifestation of the selectivity of the technical-scientific-informational milieu. …”
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Is Truth to Post-Truth what Modernism Is to Postmodernism? Heidegger, the Humanities, and the Demise of Common-Sense by Klaus Benesch

“…Even if the challenges for rational public discourse are real, they should not be countered by philosophy but by concerted, serious interventions in the political arena. …”
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Um panorama da literatura sobre a internacionalização das religiões ayahuasqueiras brasileiras by Glauber Loures Assis, Beatriz Caiuby Labate

“…Nevertheless, the theme is rarely explored and the information is widely scattered. This article proposes a critical review of the academic literature on the internationalization of these groups, including articles, master’s theses and doctoral dissertations in various languages, published or not, as well as texts on the legal aspects. …”
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Alginate Nanoparticles Containing Cuminum cyminum and Zataria multiflora Essential Oils with Promising Anticancer and Antibacterial Effects by Mahmoud Osanloo, Razieh Ranjbar, Elham Zarenezhad

“…The nanoparticles were comprehensively characterized using techniques such as gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), dynamic light scattering (DLS), zetasizer, attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy (UV-Vis). …”
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Stories of strength: a systematic review of the use of narratives in character education of children by Mohamad Alppy Valdez, Anneke de Graaf, Sandy Barasa, Enny Das

“…Unfortunately, empirical studies on the effectiveness of narrative methods for teaching character education to children is scattered across different disciplines. This review aimed to comprehensively describe the published studies, and identify the main elements used for children’s character education in the narratives. …”
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Cell Internalization of Magnetic Nanoparticles Using Transfection Agents by Karin Montet-Abou, Xavier Montet, Ralph Weissleder, Lee Josephson

“…Here we employed three assays for selecting Feridex/TFA mixtures to minimize nanoparticle precipitation and surface adsorption: (1) an assay for precipitation or stability (light scattering), (2) an assay for labeled cells (percentage of cells retained by a magnetic filter), and (3) an antidextran-based assay for nanoparticle internalization. …”
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Biblical Leadership Spirituality in Developing the Quality of Catholic Education by Florensius Sutami, Fransiskus Gregorius Nyaming, Subandri Simbolon, Angga Satya Bhakti, Yusi Kurniati

“…Catechists face difficulties in providing services due to the scattered location of their service stations. To continue serving under the most difficult circumstances, the catechists need a spiritual spirit to support their efforts in developing religious education in this global world.…”
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Metodologías para el desarrollo de Interfaces Visuales de Recuperación de Información: análisis y comparación by Víctor Herrero-Solana, Yusef Hassan

“…In the second section, visual classification algorithm, we shown the hierarchical, network, scattering and map representations. In the last section, visual transformation techniques, we present the distortion (Focus+Context) and non-distortion techniques. …”
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Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie by Iria Gonçalves

“…In 1439, the reduction of two-thirds in the abbey's cereal revenues was countered by the cultivation of target maize, a spring cereal that could replace wheat and barley. …”
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A Method for Adaptively Enhancing Foggy Low-Illumination Image by Lihua Bi, Wenjiao Zhang, Jinjuan Zhu, Canlin Li

“…Due to the influence of the foggy weather, the increase of dust particles in the air affects the atmospheric scattering, resulting in the image degradation in the foggy low-illumination environment, such as blurred content and low contrast. …”
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A Critique on the Book Economic Evaluation of Projects (Advanced subjects) by Fatemeh Mehrabani

“…The present book, due to various shortcomings such as lack of innovation, presentation of concepts in a scattered and out of order way and lack of a practical example that comprehensively covers the subject, lack of proper formulation of topics related to the advanced concept deals more with practical topics than advanced topics - and the inclusion of some general topics that have no place in advanced and specialized topics, failure to present the behavioral goals of each chapter, inconsistency of title and content from achieving explanation, description and proper description of the subject and purpose are other drawbacks of the present book. …”
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Compound electron acceleration at planetary foreshocks by Xiaofei Shi, Anton Artemyev, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Terry Liu, Lynn B. Wilson III

“…Here we use observations of electrons with energies up to 200 kiloelectron volts and a data-constrained model to reproduce the observed power-law electron spectrum and demonstrate that the acceleration by more than 4 orders of magnitude is a compound process including a complex, multi-step interaction between more commonly known mechanisms and resonant scattering by several distinct plasma wave modes. The proposed model of electron acceleration addresses a decades-long issue of the generation of energetic (and relativistic) electrons at planetary plasma shocks. …”
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Through a Lattice Darkly: Shedding Light on Electron-Phonon Coupling in the High Tc Cuprates by D. R. Garcia, A. Lanzara

“…We continue with recently published work connecting the phonon dispersion seen with inelastic X-ray scattering (IXS) to the location of the kink observed by ARPES near the nodal point. …”
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A range spread target detection algorithm based on polarimetric features and SVDD by Qiang LI, Yuanxin YAO, Xiangqi KONG

“…Multi-polarization range high resolution radar is an important mean for ground target detection.In the echo formed by it, the target occupies multiple range cells and becomes an extended target.The traditional spread target detection method relies on energy, and the detection performance decreases when the signal-to-clutter ratio decreases.A spread target detection algorithm based on polarization decomposition features was proposed, which improved the detection performance under low signal-to-clutter ratio by using the difference of polarization scattering characteristics between target and clutter.Specifically, 16 kinds of polarization decomposition features were extracted to form feature vectors as detection statistics, and then support vector data description (SVDD) was used to obtain the detection threshold.When training the detection threshold, the polarization decomposition features of clutter were extracted as training data.In order to ensure the false alarm probability, two penalty parameters were introduced into the objective function of SVDD.The experimental results show that the proposed method requires a signal-to-clutter ratio of about 12.6 dB in the case of Gobi background, false alarm probability of 10^-4 and detection probability of 90%, which is about 1.7 dB lower than the energy-based methods.…”
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Weeds Predominant in Potato Fields: A Case of Southern Division, Kabale Municipality, Kabale District, South Western Uganda. by Akankwasa, Lowland

“…Two fields of Irish potato scattered at different altitude or topographic conditions were ran-domly selected in each village. …”
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G. van den Brink & C. van der Kooi, Christelijke dogmatiek. Een inleiding by S. A. Strauss

“…Om hierdie boek van die twee professore van die Vrye Universiteit in Amsterdam deur te werk is louter vreugde. Hulle skryf ’n lekker lewendige, beeldryke Nederlands. …”
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