How to Design a Differential CMOS <italic>LC</italic> Oscillator by Asad A. Abidi, David Murphy

“…CMOS oscillators that produce high frequencies with good spectral purity or low jitter are almost always realized as differential LC oscillators. This article gives a comprehensive treatment of this circuit for the practitioner who must make design choices and tradeoffs, and for the newcomer who wants to learn to do so. …”
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School-Based 4-H Programming: Working with Partners Effectively by Vanessa Spero

“…Desiring to partner with a school-based site is beneficial, but not always easy to implement. Being professional in your collaboration, prepared in your assessment, and intentional about your needs are ways to increase the likelihood of a successful partnership. …”
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Authors, Users and Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity by James Meese, Claire Larsonneur

“…In current debates over copyright law, the author, the user, and the pirate are almost always invoked. Some in the creative industries call for more legal protection for the authors; activists and academics promote user rights and user-generated content; and online pirates openly challenge the strict enforcement of copyright law. …”
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Fisonomías de lo invisible: Raza y nación en la literatura decimonónica española (1808-1843) by David Félix Fernández Díaz

“…The semantic affinities and dependence that bind together both concepts have fluctuated in their form of expression but always maintaining a dual nature: both are unifying factors and both work as a principle of exclusion. …”
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A New Review of Old Novae by A. Pagnotta

“…Exciting new results are finally starting to shed some light on the secular behavior of post-nova systems, although as is often the case in astronomy, the observations are at times conflicting. As is always the case, we need more observations and better theoretical frameworks to truly understand the situation.…”
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“A Journey to Bilingualism” A Case Study of German-Turkish Bilingual Family by Serife Kalayci

“…The father took the responsibility of raising the children bilingually and read books in the target language as an extra activity apart from always communicating in German with them. All of the participants seem to be aware of their weaknesses and strengths in their language competence.…”
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Moral Responsibility and Confidence as Factors that Influence Teacher Involvement in Educational Change by Cecilio López

“…However, this experience does not always justify their role as curriculum-designers in either the eyes of their colleagues or in their own eyes, particularly when coerced into playing this or other roles. …”
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Everything can do the Kings and the Queens by Valery Iovenko

“…The author describes the history of English version of Jacob’s translation of Bible, which always was object emblematic for many generations of translators.…”
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Feature selection algorithm based on XGBoost by Zhanshan LI, Zhaogeng LIU

“…Feature selection in classification has always been an important but difficult problem.This kind of problem requires that feature selection algorithms can not only help classifiers to improve the classification accuracy,but also reduce the redundant features as much as possible.Therefore,in order to solve feature selection in the classification problems better,a new wrapped feature selection algorithm XGBSFS was proposed.The thought process of building trees in XGBoost was used for reference,and the importance of features from three importance metrics was measured to avoid the limitation of single importance metric.Then the improved sequential floating forward selection (ISFFS) was applied to search the feature subset so that it had high quality.Compared with the experimental results of eight datasets in UCI,the proposed algorithm has good performance.…”
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Une antinomie durkheimienne… et au-delà by Michel Lallement

“…For sociologists, time has always been an intellectual enigma. Lately, another concept – temporality – has been preferred in contemporary sociological research. …”
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Os estudos culturais na encruzilhada dos feminismos materiais e descoloniais by Claudia de Lima Costa

“…How to grasp the materiality of th e world without giving up the fact that our narratives/representations are always already constitutive of that world? I see echoes of what material feminists advocate vis - à - vis the thorny issue of the materiality of the world in the cosmopolitical proposals advanced by Latin American decolonial feminisms. …”
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Development potentials of foreign direct investments: Comparative international experiences by Antevski Miroslav

“…They are real and evident, but not always exploited. It is found out that the developed financial markets, good governance, developed institutions and the size of country have a great impact on the location choices of foreign investors. …”
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The obsidian mirror by Maria do Socorro Reis Amorin

“…The author James Norman is an American who has always lived in Mexico during the summer. He seems to love Mexican - Indian traditions and he is well acquainted with the pre-historic culture as it is shown in his book: "The Obsidian Mirror". …”
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Did Music Cause the End of the World? by J. Martin Daughtry

“…Throughout, human musicking is presented as always-already entangled with nonhuman entities and processes. …”
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The Hindu as Other: State, Law, and Land Relations in Contemporary Bangladesh by Shelley Feldman

“…Constructing religious difference as a national security threat, the Vested Property Act, whose legacy dates from the period of East Pakistan, marks Bangladeshi Hindus as citizens whose allegiance to the country is always suspect. This paper explores the social production of Hindu difference through legal claims to the right to private property. …”
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Current issues in English language education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Sultan Al-Hazmi

“…Perception of the need for English, however, has not always been matched by satisfactory educational outcomes. …”
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Motywy wyboru zawodu nauczyciela przez studentów uczelni artystycznych by Joanna M. Łukasik

“…Although students of art schools point out various reasons for choosing a teaching profession, they are always oriented towards lifelong development. It results from the unique type of education at music schools and close relationship between teachers and students there…”
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Combination therapy with leflunomide and genetic engineering biological agents by Nataliya Vladimirovna Chichasova, E L Nasonov, Natalia Vladimirovna Chichasova, E L Nasonov

“…However, MTX cannot be always used in real practice. The data given in the paper on the efficiency and safety of the coadministration of leflunomide and a GEBA in patients with active RA, which are based on the results of randomized studies and national registers, including the Russian one, point to the compatibility of the results of treatment with this and GEBA-MTX combinations.…”
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Dismantle the body, build new senses: An analysis of poetic works between Brazil and Argentina by Rafaela Scardino

“…The reflection proposed here seeks to establish a dialogue between the two mentioned poetry collections and the research of Donna Haraway (2022), Vinciane Despret (2018), as well as other authors, who point to horizons for a good living and a dignified dying, calling us to disarticulation, in a communication always unforeseen, yet rich in meanings.…”
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Gebed in die liturgie: 'n prakties-teologiese verkenning by Cas Wepener

“… For many worshippers, prayer in the worship service is not always appropriated positively. In this article, a practical theological exploration regarding prayer in the liturgy is undertaken. …”
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