Pills, Power and Performativity: Negotiating Masculinity in the Emergence of Male Contraceptive Technology by Eleonore Lorijn

“…Specifically, I seek to understand how contraceptive technology might contribute to the emergence and transformation of different masculine identities, and whether these identities will function to enhance or denounce the technology's cultural feasibility and widespread assimilation. …”
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Unraveling interactions: Mechanisms shaping the transition of small and medium-sized ports to energy hubs by Negar Safara Nosar

“…Together, these mechanisms lead to varied interactions among similar technologies across different ports, demonstrating that SMP transitions depend heavily on place-specific material contingencies due to limited capacity. …”
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The Importance of Social Networks in the Process of Supporting Sustainable Development by MIHAELA IOANA GURĂU

“…Resilience as the ability of a system to annihilate disturbances and to reorganize itself in an attempt to preserve its functions and structure represents, when we talk about sustainability, the relationship between different types of urban hazards, implicitly ecological resilience, resilience of urban and regional economies or of institutions. …”
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Middle School Mathematics Teachers' Opinions about the Operational Usage of the Feedback by Hacı Ömer Beydoğan

“…The data of this study included in-service teachers’ responses to a semi-structured questionnaire, which created by the researchers. …”
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Innovative analysis to the time-fractional q-deformed tanh-Gordon equation via modified double Laplace transform method by Ali Khalid K., Mohamed Mohamed S., Alharbi Weam G., Maneea Marwa

“…We examine the existence and the uniqueness of the solution utilizing Schaefer’s fixed-point theorem. Different graphs in 2D and 3D are presented to clarify the effect of different parameters on the behavior of the solution, specially the fractional operator and the deformation parameter qq.…”
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Optoplasmonics of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Films by Chandra Mani Adhikari

“…Taking an example of the planar periodic arrangement of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) TD films, we semi-analytically calculated their dynamical conductivities and dielectric responses as a function of the incident photon frequency and the SWCNT’s radius using the many-particles Green’s function formalism within the Matsubara frequency technique. …”
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O pewnym ustalonym zagadnieniu przestrzennym termosprężystości by Witold NOWACKI

“…A steady-state three-dimensional thermo-elastic problem The object of this paper is to determine the temperature field T and the stress components (σij) in an elastic semi-space, assuming that the temperature in the region Γ of the plane bounding the semi-space is known and equal to T0(ξ, η), the region outside Γ being kept at T = 0. …”
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Challenges to creating primary care teams in a public sector health centre: a co-operative inquiry by Bob Mash, Pat Mayers, Hoffie Conradie, Abraham Orayn, Marjan Kuiper, Joey Marais, Bennie Cornelissen, Shaamelah Titus

“…The identification of doctors and CNPs with each other as part of a functioning team did not materialize. Effective management of the change process implied the need to ensure sufficient staff were available to allow all teams to function equally throughout the day, to be cognisant of the limitations of the building design, to introduce budgeting that supported semi-autonomous practice teams and to ensure that the staff were provided with ongoing opportunities for dialogue and communication. …”
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Methodological aspects of the use of dry components of chicken eggs for feeding children with phenylketonuria by S. T. Bykova, T. G. Kalinina, T. V. Bushueva, T. E. Borovik

“…The All-Russian Research Institute of Starch Products develops technologies for the production of low-protein starch-based products/semi-products enriched with functional ingredients and intended for therapeutic nutrition of patients with PKU. …”
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Resurgence in Liouville theory by Nathan Benjamin, Scott Collier, Alexander Maloney, Viraj Meruliya

“…For example, the three point correlation functions are given by the famous formula of Dorn-Otto-Zamolodchikov-Zamolodchikov (DOZZ). …”
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The limited contribution of local food policies in food resilience: The case of French Territorial Food Projects by Margaux Alarcon, Nathalie Corade

“…This concept highlights a system’s ability to maintain its functions despite disturbances, and scholars identify different types of resilience (robustness, recovery, reorientation). …”
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Flujo de agua subterránea y transporte en medios geológicos fracturados: una revisión by Marcos Adrián Ortega Guerrero

“…Fractures are discontinuities that occur in practically all types of rocks, consolidated and semi-consolidated sediments, in which it has interacted with the hydrological cycle at different scales of space and time. …”
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Comparative analysis of maxillary expansion techniques using orthodontic appliances by L. A. Kozhevnikova, G D. Dzhabrailova, S. M. Abdulkerimova, K. N. Kerimova, O. V. Pilshchikova, V. M. Slonova, A. А. Gevorkyan

“…The subject of the study of many authors were changes in the bone and dental system, as well as the duration of treatment results obtained due to the use of functional devices with different rates of action. The rate of expansion depends on the level of applied forces and the mode of activation of the device. …”
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On the Advection–Diffusion Process With Developing Eddies in Karst Conduits by Zhongxia Li, Yun Yang, Hongbin Zhan, Junwei Wan, Jianmei Cheng, Haibo Feng, Xianshuo Yang

“…This study evaluates the evolution of eddies in semi‐circular rough conduits under different hydrodynamic conditions and their effects on solute transport. …”
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Assessment of Measurement Distortions in GNSS Antenna Array Space-Time Processing by Thyagaraja Marathe, Saeed Daneshmand, Gérard Lachapelle

“…Effects of distortions on GNSS pseudorange errors and position errors are compared for blind, semi-distortionless, and distortionless beamforming methods. …”
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Promoting student participation skills through student organizations by Yayuk Hidayah, Cheong Su Fen, Anis Suryaningsih, Sukron Mazid

“…This is qualitative research with semi-structured interviews, observation, and literature studies as instruments to collect data from 24 informants from eight different campuses in the Special Region of Yogyakarta (D.I. …”
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Patrones constructivos de enfriamiento pasivo para mampostería cerámica de bajo costo by Marlyn Stephanny Narváez-Ortega, Jorge Sánchez-Molina, Carmen Xiomara Diaz-Fuentes

“…Thermal simulations are applied to analyze temperature distribution and heat flow profiles in 6 construction systems with passive cooling patterns in the form and function of the exterior surfaces. For the analysis, the models are exposed to the most extreme climatic conditions of a hot semi-arid climate taking as reference the periods of highest temperature and solar radiation in Cúcuta, Colombia to determine the thermal performance of the different configurations and evaluate the viability of the solutions. …”
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Approach to neurorehabilitation in Contact Improvisation: Mark Young, a case study by Sebastián Gómez-Lozano, Clare Kelly-Lahon, Fulgencio Villescas Vivancos, Kiko Francisco León Guzmán

“…It has been established that proprioception is a factor utilized in certain neurorehabilitation techniques for different population groups, such as the Bobath Concept or Kabat Method. …”
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Improving the Dynamics of an Electrical Drive Using a Modified Controller Structure Accompanied by Delayed Inputs by Konrad Urbanski, Dariusz Janiszewski

“…The set of weighted delays acts as a filter whose parameters are chosen using the quality function to test different configurations for optimal performance. …”
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Adze-plane, Skeparnon, Multipurpose Adze or Two-handled Adze? Practical Work with an Alleged Predecessor of the Woodworking Plane by Rüdiger Schwarz

“…The tool in question consists of an often semi-circular adze-blade attached to a two-handled shaft and seems to be suited both for chopping and for shaving wooden surfaces. …”
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