(De)Humanising People in Discussions around Race and Religion by Lea Skewes

“…In her talk she offered examples from her interview data about how religion and race intersect in Denmark, especially in the educational system where discourses contrasting religiosity and secularity govern. Professor Lene Kühle from the Department of the Study of Religion at the School of Culture and Society offered a talk entitled Is the regulation of religious individuals and communities in Denmark discriminatory or racist? …”
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Bridging the gap: multi-granularity representation learning for text-based vehicle retrieval by Xue Bo, Junjie Liu, Di Yang, Wentao Ma

“…Finally, a multi-granularity contrastive learning approach is implemented to ensure comprehensive semantic coverage, ranging from coarse to fine levels. …”
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Case Report: Combination of focal vibration therapy and botulinum toxin injections to treat equinus gait in a child with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy by Christophe Boulay, Christophe Boulay, Christophe Boulay, Jacques-Olivier Coq, Morgan Sangeux, Morgan Sangeux, Guillaume Authier, Guillaume Authier, Alexis Ulian, Alexis Ulian, Maud Pradines, Maud Pradines, Marjolaine Baude, Marjolaine Baude, Béatrice Desnous, Jean-Luc Jouve, Jean-Luc Jouve, Bernard Parratte, Emilie Peltier, Sébastien Pesenti, Jean-Michel Gracies, Jean-Michel Gracies

“…The child was treated with a two-month program of alternating dorsiflexor and plantar flexor focal vibration therapy (FVT) and botulinum neurotoxin A (BoNT-A) injections into plantar flexors, alongside conventional physiotherapy.Results and discussionClinical evaluations during the two-month program showed (i) improved walking speed (ii) decreased ankle dorsiflexor paresis and ankle plantar flexor overactivity, especially spastic co-contraction and spasticity, (iii) improved passive extensibility in plantar flexors, and (iv) reduced pain. …”
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Alli kausay: rituales políticos para la reinvención de la comunidad by Alejandro Recio Sastre, Ángel Abraham Azogue Guaraca

“…El presente artículo pretende ofrecer contrastes y potenciales puntos de encuentro entre conceptos de la cultura andina y los dispositivos de control poblacional desde una perspectiva genealógica. …”
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Herald Patch as the Only Evidence of Pityriasis Rosea: Clinical, Laboratory and Pathogenetic Features by Francesco Drago, Astrid Herzum, Serena Varesano, Gaetano Serviddio, Francesco Broccolo, Giulia Ciccarese

“…This rare variant of PR might be considered an abortive form of the exanthem that occurs when the HHV-6/7 reactivation from latency is contrasted by a more robust immunological response than in classic PR.…”
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Los conflictos en la reflexión oriental by Francisco Benavente Meléndez de Arvas

“…El cambio, dicho en abstracto, se percibe peligroso en un hemisferio y como parte de la misma vida en el otro.En este contexto, “pensar la guerra” debe sufrir o sufre los mismos contrastes. De descubrir sus peculiaridades va este trabajo de análisis.En nuestros días, los chinos, por ejemplo, siguen sintiendo internamente el orden del universo de raíz milenaria, budista, confucionista. …”
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High-cycle tensile-tensile fatigue performance of niobium alloy: Conventional vs wire-arc additive manufacturing by Gazi Tanvir, Md Abdul Karim, Namjung Kim, Yongho Jeon, Duck Bong Kim

“…Notably, the crack propagation regions in WAAM-NbZr1 exhibited contrasting behaviors under different loading conditions. …”
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Heart-Derived Stem Cells in Miniature Swine with Coronary Microembolization: Novel Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Model to Assess the Efficacy of Cell-Based Therapy by Gen Suzuki, Rebeccah F. Young, Merced M. Leiker, Takayuki Suzuki

“…CDCs injected into infarcted and remodeled remote myocardium (global infusion) increased regional function and global function contrasting no change in untreated animals. CDCs reduced infarct volume and stimulated Ki67 and pHH3 positive myocytes in infarct and remote regions. …”
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Scale-Consistent and Temporally Ensembled Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Object Detection by Lunfeng Guo, Yizhe Zhang, Jiayin Liu, Huajie Liu, Yunwang Li

“…Additionally, we integrate Intra-Class Feature Consistency (ICFC), which employs contrastive learning to align feature representations within each class, further enhancing adaptation. …”
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RGB-T Object Detection With Failure Scenarios by Qingwang Wang, Yuxuan Sun, Yongke Chi, Tao Shen

“…To further address the issue of redundant information in existing RGB-T object detection models, a redundant information suppression module is introduced, minimizing cross-modal redundant information based on mutual information and contrastive loss. Finally, a kernel similarity-aware illumination module (KSIM) is introduced to dynamically adjust the weighting of RGB and thermal features by incorporating both illumination intensity and the similarity between modalities. …”
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A large-eddy simulation study of water tunnel interference effects for a marine propeller in crashback mode of operation by Thomas Bahati Kroll, Krishnan Mahesh

“…We perform large-eddy simulation at $Re=561\,000$ and advance ratios $J=-0.50$ and $-0.82$ with the VPWT geometry included, contrasting to the unconfined (OW) case at those same $J$ and $Re=480\,000$. …”
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Angers/Iuliomagus, cité des Andécaves, et Le Mans/Vindinum, cité des Cénomans : deux capitales, deux modes de déploiement urbain by Pierre Chevet, Martin Pithon

“…While the first underwent from the 20s AD a massive urban restructuring arranged within an orthogonal street-grid covering 90 ha. and created in ten years, completely freed of topographical constraints, the second showed a more gradual development, with the laying out of the street-grid extending between 30 and 60-70 AD, with topographical adaptations and programmes to remodel the relief lasting throughout the 1st c. AD at least.These contrasting modes of development created very different urban landscapes. …”
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Dissecting the osmotic and oxidative stress responses in salt-tolerant and salt-sensitive wheat genotypes under saline conditions by Ulkar Ibrahimova, Javanshir Talai, Md. Mahadi Hasan, Irada Huseynova, Vaseem Raja, Anshu Rastogi, Hamideh Ghaffari, Marek Zivcak, Xinghong Yang, Marian Brestic

“…The current experiments were conducted on five wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes with contrasting salt tolerance capacities - Mirbashir 128, Gobustan, Gyzyl bughda, Fatima, and Zirva 80 under salinity stress caused by 150 mmol NaCl. …”
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Design and Validation of the Scientific-Research Skills Questionnaire for Basic Education Teachers by Gilber Chura-Quispe, Bianca Daisa Laura-De-La-Cruz, Patricia Rosa María Nué Caballero, Edith Cristina Salamanca Chura, Héctor Octavio Guido Torres Orihuela

“…In addition, it was found that there are moderate and significant differences in the skills of problematisation and research theorisation, research contrastation and scientific communication according to teaching levels in favour of secondary school teachers and in academic training with higher scores in teachers with a doctorate degree (p < 0.05; ɛ̂ > 0.25). …”
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Effects of IQW and IRW on Inflammation and Gut Microbiota in ETEC-Induced Diarrhea by Naiyuan Liu, Lingsi Zhou, Jun Fang, Hongmei Jiang, Gang Liu

“…IQW and IRW increased the abundance of Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, Clostridiales, Lachnospiraceae, and Alloprevotella; contrastingly, it decreased the abundance of Epsilonproteobacteria, Erysipelotrichales, Prevotellaceae, and Flavobacteriaceae compared to the ETEC group (P <0.05). …”
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A systematic review of progress test as longitudinal assessment in Saudi Arabia by Naseel Ahmed Moursy, Khaled Hamsho, Arwa Mohammad Gaber, Muhammad Faisal Ikram, Muhammad Raihan Sajid

“…Moreover, PT serves as both a summative and formative assessment, offering personalized learning experiences tailored to individual needs and pacing. Contrasting traditional assessments, PT promotes deep learning strategies and meaning-oriented approaches, fostering holistic understanding rather than rote memorization. …”
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Within-species variation in the gut microbiome of medaka (Oryzias latipes) is driven by the interaction of light intensity and genetic background by Evangelista, Charlotte, Kamenova, Stefaniya, Diaz Pauli, Beatriz, Sandkjenn, Joakim, Vøllestad, Leif Asbjørn, Edeline, Eric, Trosvik, Pål, de Muinck, Eric Jacques

“…In pond mesocosms, the two lineages were subjected to contrasting population density and light intensity (used as proxies of resource availability). …”
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Una aproximación cuantitativa para el estudio del exilio político argentino en México y Cataluña (1974-1983) by Silvina Jensen, Pablo Yankelevich

“…Éstas nuevas fuentes, con sus peculiaridades y limitaciones, permiten evidenciar los contrastes en los perfiles sociodemográficos de los argentinos que llegaron a México y Cataluña antes y después del golpe de Estado. …”
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The genetic architecture of resistance to flubendiamide insecticide in Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner). by Douglas Amado, Eva L Koch, Erick M G Cordeiro, Wellingson A Araújo, Antonio A F Garcia, David G Heckel, Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich, Henry L North, Alberto S Corrêa, Chris D Jiggins, Celso Omoto

“…Our findings revealed an oligogenic genetic architecture, contrasting previous reports of monogenic resistance associated with the ryanodine receptor. …”
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A permanência do Regionalismo na literatura brasileira contemporânea by André Tessaro Pelinser, Márcio Miranda Alves

“…Se observa que la diferencia entre el presente y el pasado reside en el énfasis dado por los escritores al contexto y al espacio regionales, en un primer momento orgullosos de las particularidades regionales, y en la contemporaneidad preocupados por la problematización de los contrastes culturales. Se concluye que la literatura brasileña contemporánea debe mucho a la tradición regionalista, sin que ello implique cuestionamientos de calidad estética, y que corresponde a la crítica investigar los temas y las formas de la narrativa como claves de interpretación de problemas históricos que perduran.…”
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