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Plunder, Restitution, and International Law. The Russian Federal Law on Cultural Valuables Displaced to the USSR as a Result of the Second World War and Located on the Territory of the Russian Federation purports to establish the legal basis for the Russian state to hold permanent title to the vast majority of the cult...
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Integral representations of equally positive integer-indexed harmonic sums at infinity. We identify a partition-theoretic generalization of Riemann zeta function and the equally positive integer-indexed harmonic sums at infinity, to obtain the generating function and the integral representations of the latter. The spec...
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Individual and local level factors and antenatal care use in Colombia: a multilevel analysis. This paper examined the association between individual and local level factors and the number of antenatal care visits completed by women in Colombia using data from the 2010 Colombian Demographic and Health Survey and multile...
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Seed dispersal by phyllostomid bats in two contrasting vegetation types in a Mesoamerican reserve. Frugivorous bats respond differently to changes in the landscape, depending on their morphological and ecological characteristics, so only some species cross deforested areas and disperse seeds in these environments. In t...
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Host specificity tests reveals new host of a global biological control agent Psyllaephagus bliteus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). Glycaspis brimblecombei (Hemiptera: Aphalaridae) is an invasive, sap-sucking eucalypt pest in various parts of the world. Psyllacphagus Wilms (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) was first released as a bi...
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Definition of the Hercynian Unconformity in eastern Saudi Arabia using chemostratigraphy in conjunction with biostratigraphy, sedimentology and lithostratigraphy. The following chemostratigraphy study was conducted on Paleozoic sediments encountered in 14 wells in eastern Saudi Arabia. A total of 1500 samples were anal...
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Low-Complexity Equalization of MIMO-OSDM. Orthogonal signal-division multiplexing (OSDM) is an attractive alternative to conventional orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) due to its enhanced ability in peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction. Combining OSDM with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) s...
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Effects of various maillard reaction products on in vitro starch hydrolysis and blood glucose responses in mice. This study investigated the effects of Maillard reaction products (MRPs) on in vitro starch hydrolysis, and in vivo blood glucose responses in mice. Four MRPs of various dextrose equivalents were prepared by...
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Macrozoobenthic communities of underwater landscapes in the shallow-water zone of southern Lake Baikal. Species composition and distribution of macrozoobenthos have been studied in the shallow water zone (0-20 m) of Southern Lake Baikal (Bolshiye Koty Bay). The amount of taxa recorded reached up to 244 species distribu...
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Hydrate-Based Gas Storage Application Using Simulated Seawater in the Presence of a Co-Promoter: Morphology Investigation. The hydrate morphology pattern plays a critical role in the reactor design for hydratebased gas storage/separation technology. This work investigated the morphology of mixed methane- THF hydrate fo...
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Application of sulfate reduction for the biological conversion of anglesite (PbSO4) to galena (PbS). In a bench scale trial biological sulfate reduction was applied to convert anglesite (PbSO4) to galena (PbS). Anglesite is a main constituent in waste fractions such as lead paste from spent car batteries or residues fr...
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Ethnic quotas and ethnic representation worldwide. This article makes theoretical and empirical contributions towards understanding the form and function of ethnic quotas that are applied in various countries around the world. It advances a classification scheme for sorting through the broad variation in these electora...
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What parents should know while their child is on MDT: Insights from a qualitative study in Eastern India. In order to provide high quality leprosy services to children affected by leprosy, it is necessary to actively engage parents. A qualitative study was undertaken as part of routine monitoring of field activities in...
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Tuberculin skin test reactions by time of reading among Dutch travellers. SETTING: Five travel and TB control clinics in The Netherlands.OBJECTIVE: To assess the variation of skin test reactions between different days of reading.DESIGN: Cohort study of non-BCG-vaccinated travellers. Mantoux skin test data were analysed...
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The Two Enslavements of Rufina: Slavery and International Relations on the Southern Border of Nineteenth-Century Brazil. As the Atlantic slave trade came to an end in Brazil in the 1850s, a new form of trafficking began across the borders of Brazil and its neighboring countries. Free persons mainly women and children l...
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Insight into effects of pore diffusion on smoldering kinetics of coal using a 4-step chemical reaction model. Pore diffusion plays a crucial role in coal smoldering fires, however, its effects have been inadequately investigated. This paper aims to study influences of pore diffusion of oxygen (O-2) on chemical reaction...
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Further characterization of two sequiviruses infecting lettuce and development of specific RT-PCR primers. Lettuce mottle virus (LeMoV) and dandelion yellow mosaic virus (DaYMV) infect lettuce in South America and Europe, respectively. LeMoV and DaYMV possess isometric particles, occur at low concentrations in plants a...
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When War Helps Civil-military Relations: Prolonged Interstate Conflict and the Reduced Risk of Coups. Coups remain a widespread and consequential political phenomenon, but it remains unclear whether interstate conflict protects leaders from the risk of coups or increases this risk. We theorize that interstate conflicte...
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Anoxic metabolism and biochemical production in Pseudomonas putida F1 driven by a bioelectrochemical system. Background: Pseudomonas putida is a promising host for the bioproduction of chemicals, but its industrial applications are significantly limited by its obligate aerobic character. The aim of this paper is to emp...
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The nature of workplace mentoring relationships among faculty members in Christian higher education. Full-time faculty teaching in Christian higher education were surveyed about how they envision and practice mentoring among themselves. The study, a replication of a 1991 study by Sands, Parson, and Duane, examined who ...
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Community structure and species diversity of Pinus merkusii Jungh. & de Vriese forest along an altitudinal gradient in Eastern Himalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Pinus merkusii, the only pine species naturally distributed to the south of equator with a wide altitudinal range of 30-1800 m a.s.l., is under threat due to...
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A Literature Review on the Viral Advertising Narrative Structure. Viral advertising relies on consumers' transmitting the message to other consumers within their online social media. Viral advertising is controlled by consumers and is less under the control of advertisers and brands (Petrescu, 2014). Consumers receive ...
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Present Tense: Locating History in Boston's Museums of Science. Stories and artifacts from the history of science are difficult to find in many popular science museums in the United States. This essay makes a case for why such museums should include the history of science in their halls and how they might go about doin...
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Revised paleoenvironmental analysis of the Holocene portion of the Barbados sea-level record: Cobbler's Reef revisited. Sample elevations corrected for tectonic uplift and assessed relative to local modeled sea levels provide a new perspective on paleoenvironmental history at Cobbler's Reef, Barbados. Previously, C-14-...
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School shootings in the USA: Popular culture as risk, teen marginality, and violence against peers. This article offers a critical appraisal of the widespread argument that violent media content is to blame for deadly school violence. The departing premise of this study is that, because of its reliance on sophisticated...
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Competing perspectives on participatory arrangements: Explaining the attitudes of elected representatives. In this article, we investigate elected representatives' attitudes to citizen participation and the design of participatory arrangements. We distinguish between citizenship-oriented and governance-oriented attitud...
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Development of Information Functions and Indices for the GGUM-RANK Multidimensional Forced Choice IRT Model. This research derived information functions and proposed new scalar information indices to examine the quality of multidimensional forced choice (MFC) items based on the RANK model. We also explored how GGUM-RAN...
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Data mining on a transformer partial discharge data using the self-organizing map. Although experts all over the world have investigated methods for partial discharge (PD) detection and classification for over 50 years, until now there is still no universal method available for this purpose. Even in the future, it woul...
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Exact vibration modes of multiple-stepped beams with arbitrary steps and supports using elemental impedance method. A novel numerical method has been developed and applied to the prediction of vibration modes of general stepped beams with arbitrary steps and general elastic supports. Each beam section is modelled as an...
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Idoelogical ambiguity and split ticket voting. Recent research on congressional elections suggests that voters are more likely to split their votes in ideologically extreme districts. The authors suggest that in this type of context, uncertainty about candidate position rather than clarity explains the occurrence of ti...
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Narrative Understandings of Lives Lived in and out of Schools. Drawing on a narrative inquiry into the experiences of 19 youth who left school without graduating, I raise questions about stories of school, the institutional narrative of schooling. Through inquiring into the youths' stories, we identified six resonant t...
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Adaptive responses and cellular behaviour of biphenyl-degrading bacteria toward polychlorinated biphenyls. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are one of the most widely distributed classes of chlorinated chemicals in the environment. For cleanup of large areas of PCB-contaminated environments, bioremediation seems to be ...
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Inclusion of bioclimatic variables in genetic evaluations of dairy cattle. Results: The THI and DIN thresholds for milk yield losses was THI = 74 (-0.106kgd/THI) and DTV = 13 (-0.045 kg/d/DTV). The model that included THI and DTV as fixed effects, considering the two-day average, presented better fit (-21ogl Akaike inf...
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Subwavelength ultrasonic imaging via a harmonic resonant tunneling metalens. Resonant tunneling metalenses have excellent applications for subwavelength ultrasonic imaging in air. In this study, an acoustic metalens intended for underwater imaging was designed with first, second, and third resonant tunneling frequencie...
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Response to lowered nutrient discharges in the coastal waters around the island of Funen, Denmark. The Danish Action Plan for the Aquatic Environment of 1987 prescribes a 50% and 80% run-off reduction of nitrogen and phosphorus, respectively, to the aquatic environment. This is meant to reduce the seriously increasing ...
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Neutropenia restores virulence to an attenuated Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase-deficient Haemophilus ducreyi strain in the swine model of chancroid. Haemophilus ducreyi causes chancroid, a sexually transmitted cutaneous genital ulcer disease associated with increased heterosexual transmission of human immunodeficiency viru...
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Discard survival of coastal elasmobranchs in a small-scale fishery using acoustic telemetry and recapture data. Discard reduction is a cornerstone of the European Common Fisheries Policy. The discard ban policy, which aims to reduce fisheries discards, is particularly challenging for small-scale fisheries. Demonstratin...
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Resonance Maps for 3D Alfven Waves in a Compressed Dipole Field. Resonance Maps depict the possible locations and polarizations of resonant Alfven waves (Field Line Resonances - FLRs) for a given equilibrium and driving frequency. Previously the use of Resonance Maps has been developed for gaining insight into the beha...
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The Effect of Intermediate Ring Support on the Vibration Behavior of Functionally Graded Conical Shells. In this study, the free vibrational behavior of a thin-walled functionally graded conical shell with intermediate ring support is investigated. Theoretical formulations were established based on the first-order shea...
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POLITICAL-PARTY FORMATION IN CENTRAL-EUROPE, 1989-93. The political systems of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia are again based on traditional democratic institutions: representative bodies and political parties. One obvious conclusion is that the democratic evolution of party systems in Central Euro...
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New insights into transcriptional reprogramming during cellular stress. Cellular stress triggers reprogramming of transcription, which is required for the maintenance of homeostasis under adverse growth conditions. Stress-induced changes in transcription include induction of cyto-protective genes and repression of gene...
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ON THE STRUCTURE AND ACQUISITION OF TELICITY AND UNACCUSATIVITY IN VIETNAMESE. In this paper, we investigate Chinese L2 learners' knowledge of two grammatical constraints in Vietnamese: the first, a constraint on the aspectual interpretation of accomplishment predicates, the second pertaining to alternations in the pos...
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Growth stage affects cotton response to trifloxysulfuron. Field studies were conducted in 1999, 2000, and 2001 to evaluate cotton response to trifloxysulfuron applied postemergence over the top (POT) or postemergence-directed (PDIR) at various growth stages. Treatments included trifloxysulfuron at 3.8 or 7.5 g ai/ha pl...
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Towards controlled terminology for reporting germline cancer susceptibility variants: an ENIGMA report. The vocabulary currently used to describe genetic variants and their consequences reflects many years of studying and discovering monogenic disease with high penetrance. With the recent rapid expansion of genetic tes...
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