Monster or Missing Link? The Mermaid and the Victorian Imagination by Béatrice Laurent

“…While the evolutionist hypothesis was gaining ground in the early decades of the nineteenth century and paleontology showed that species had existed and become extinct, many natural scientists were led to think that the fantastic animals which peopled classical mythologies maybe were not the fantasies of creative minds but lost species. In this context, mermaids that had been household names for ages were perceived as hybrid creatures, possibly even missing links between the aquatic and terrestrial forms of life. …”
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Multi-Item Multiperiodic Inventory Control Problem with Variable Demand and Discounts: A Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm by Seyed Mohsen Mousavi, S. T. A. Niaki, Ardeshir Bahreininejad, Siti Nurmaya Musa

“…Assuming the order quantity is more than the shortage quantity in each period, the shortage in combination of backorder and lost sale is considered. The orders are placed in batch sizes and the decision variables are assumed integer. …”
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Accelerating phase field simulations through a hybrid adaptive Fourier neural operator with U-net backbone by Christophe Bonneville, Nathan Bieberdorf, Arun Hegde, Mark Asta, Habib N. Najm, Laurent Capolungo, Cosmin Safta

“…U-AFNO employs U-Nets for extracting and reconstructing local features within the physical fields, and passes the latent space through a vision transformer (ViT) implemented in the Fourier space (AFNO). …”
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Orbital and adnexal sarcoidosis: Clinical presentations and management outcomes by Shebin Salim, Md Shahid Alam, Sonam Ahuja, Kirthi Koka, Marian Pauly, Subramanian Krishnakumar, Bipasha Mukherjee

“…Of those undergoing excisional biopsy, the lesion was located in the superonasal extraconal space in one and in the superotemporal lid in two. …”
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Multi‐objective multi‐period optimal site and size of distributed generation along with network reconfiguration by Ghulam Abbas, Zhi Wu, Aamir Ali

“…For better exploration and exploitation, the proposed algorithm integrating the constraint domination principle evolves the population from the feasible and infeasible search space with the help of a novel angle‐based density section. …”
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Teaching System Design of Art Design Major under the Background of Economic Management Mode Change by Jiaxin Zheng

“…In order to present good results, these materials usually occupy a large amount of storage space. Therefore, some existing information-based teaching platforms cannot meet the demand. …”
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On understanding of proof in English and American law by O. V. Tiaglo

“…Thirdly, this cluster had been shaped and develops further – in addition to natural space and time – in at least three dimensions: logical, legal, and rhetorical. …”
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Une reconstruction progressiste du passé : Renaissance et Risorgimento dans « Old Pictures in Florence » de Robert Browning by François Crampe

“…Browning does not regard the Florentine Golden Age as a lost perfection which should be recreated, but rather as outlining in its very shortcomings the promise of future progress. …”
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Kalmyks of the Salsky district in the context of national politics and ethno-social processes in the 1920s by Anton Viktorovich Averyanov

“…There was an integration of ethnic minorities into the emerging socio-economic and cultural space. A unique situation developed in the Salsky district, where the Don Cossacks-Kalmyks, due to changed political conditions, lost their status as a leading social group, which led to their marginalization and required the development of new state policy approaches to involve them in the economic development of the region. …”
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Le réseau hydraulique à Pompéi (Italie) de l’époque des Samnites à Auguste (fin ive-fin ier s. av. J.-C.) by Federico Giletti

“…The cisterns initially coexisted with these without significant changes, except for a gradual decline in the maintenance of the structures.On the other hand, a sharp interruption would seem to have occurred between the earthquakes in the 1960s AD and the subsequent reconstruction phases, a period in which many of the old reservoirs, which had long since lost their meaning and function, were probably definitively dismantled and converted into usable spaces.…”
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Enhancing coastal community participation in mangrove rehabilitation through structural equation modeling by I. Listiana, D. Ariyanto

“…Mangrove areas and various mangrove ecosystems have been lost in the past decades. The purpose of this study is to investigate community participation using structural equations modeling to enhance involvement in mangrove forest rehabilitation. …”
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Retroperitoneal Abscess Formation as a Result of Spilled Gallstones during Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: An Unusual Case Report by Grigoris Chatzimavroudis, Stefanos Atmatzidis, Basilis Papaziogas, Ioannis Galanis, Ioannis Koutelidakis, Triantafyllos Doulias, Petros Christopoulos, George Papadakis, Konstantinos Atmatzidis, John Makris

“…Rarely an abscess formation due to spilled and lost gallstones may occur in the retroperitoneal space. …”
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Combining extraction and cultivation methods for soil seed bank analysis increases number of captured species and their similarity to above-ground vegetation by Petr Plohák, Hana Švehláková, Barbara Stalmachová, Miroslava Goňo, Tomáš Dvorský

“…Very low similarity between the species of the soil seed bank from cultivation and extraction method is probably caused by the highly variable distribution of seeds in the soil in time and space.…”
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Juozas Jurginis in 1961 was criticized by Moscow by Arūnas Vyšniauskas

“…The communist ideologists' old fears had not been without reason, as a new reality showed schoolbook evolution in the post-Soviet space. Various collisions and significant historian conflicts started on this front. …”
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Two-Year Outcomes of Visian Implantable Collamer Lens with a Central Hole for Correcting High Myopia by Zhipeng Yan, Huamao Miao, Feng Zhao, Xiaoying Wang, Xun Chen, Meiyan Li, Xingtao Zhou

“…Reduction of anterior chamber space after surgery did not induce intraocular pressure increase during the 2-year follow-up.…”
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Marine Shale Gas Occurrence and Its Influencing Factors: A Case Study from the Wufeng-Longmaxi Formation, Northwestern Guizhou, China by Taotao Cao, Hu Liu, Anyang Pan, Mo Deng, Qinggu Cao, Ye Yu, Yanran Huang, Zhenghui Xiao

“…CH4, derived from oil cracking, is the main component of shale gas, but its proportion is lower than that in Fuling and Weiyuan areas, probably due to the weak preservation condition. Desorption gas and lost gas determined by in situ desorption test are 0.42–1.54 cm3/g and 1.9–7.14 cm3/g, respectively, and Langmuir volume (VL) from isothermal adsorption experiment is 1.63–4.78 cm3/g. …”
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THE PUBLIC SPHERE OF POLITICS: THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIMENSION IN CONTEMPORARY COMMUNICATIVE THEORY by O. A. Tretyak

“…According to Jürgen Habermas, a contradiction between the system and the life-world signifies a need for a concept that would describe the projective space of a relaxed and undistorted human communicative activity. …”
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History and Habitability of the LP 890-9 Planetary System by Rory Barnes, Laura N. R. do Amaral, Jessica Birky, Ludmila Carone, Peter Driscoll, Joseph R. Livesey, David Graham, Juliette Becker, Kaiming Cui, Martin Schlecker, Rodolfo Garcia, Megan Gialluca, Arthur Adams, MD Redyan Ahmed, Paul Bonney, Wynter Broussard, Chetan Chawla, Mario Damasso, William C. Danchi, Russell Deitrick, Elsa Ducrot, Emeline F. Fromont, Brandt A. L. Gaches, Sakshi Gupta, Michelle L. Hill, James A. G. Jackman, Estelle M. Janin, Mikołaj Karawacki, Matheus Daniel Koren, Roberto La Greca, Michaela Leung, Arturo Miranda-Rosete, Michael Kent A. Olohoy, Cecelia Ngo, Daria Paul, Chandan Kumar Sahu, Debajyoti Basu Sarkar, Mohammad Afzal Shadab, Edward W. Schwieterman, Melissa Sedler, Katie Texeira, Allona Vazan, Karen N. Delgado Vega, Rohit Vijayakumar, Jonathan T. Wojack

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Low-cost phone-based LiDAR scanning technology provides sub-centimeter accuracy when measuring the main dimensions of motor-manual tree felling cuts by Stelian Alexandru Borz, Andrea Rosario Proto

“…Commonly, it requires a sequence of cuts and may cause higher volume losses compared to mechanized tree felling. The wood lost depends also on the tree size, but accurate quantifications and their dependencies are difficult to establish since there is a limited ability to manually measure key dimensions and assimilate the tree bottom to parametric geometric features. …”
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The Art and life of Alàgbà Fálétí – A Pic torial, Art and Artifacts Exhibition in Honor of Alàgbà Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí (1921- 2017) curated by Akinsola Adejuwon and Seyi Ogunjobi... by Akinsola Adejuwon

“…Alàgbà Fálétí’s childhood coincided with the period when the British Colonial Government had taken over administration of entire geographical space known as Nigeria. In spite of introduction of foreign culture and customs into Nigeria by the Europeans, Yorùbá culture remained resilient. …”
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