L’impact des institutions internationales à Bruxelles : une approche multicritères by Eric Corijn, Cathy Macharis, Theo Jans, Michel Huysseune

“…The assessment of the impact of international institutions in Brussels has until now been carried out in terms of macroeconometric cost-benefit analysis, mostly in monetary terms. We propose an alternative multi-criteria analysis with a spatial scope. …”
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A Longitudinal Perspective on Digital Skills for Everyday Life: Measurement and Empirical Evidence by Kiran Kappeler

“…Studies focusing on digital skills, their antecedents, and consequences have mostly relied on self-reported, one-time measurements. …”
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Unstructured Adiabatic Quantum Optimization: Optimality with Limitations by Arthur Braida, Shantanav Chakraborty, Alapan Chaudhuri, Joseph Cunningham, Rutvij Menavlikar, Leonardo Novo, Jérémie Roland

“…In this work, we investigate whether such general statements can be made for adiabatic quantum optimization, as provable results regarding its performance are mostly unknown. Although a lower bound of $\Omega(2^{n/2})$ has existed in such a setting for over a decade, a purely adiabatic algorithm with this running time has been absent. …”
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Uterocutaneous Fistula after a C-Section in a Patient with Second Trimester Fetal Demise and Chorioamnionitis by Déborah Wernly, Valérie Besse, Daniela Huber

“…Uterocutaneous fistulae are very rare entities with only about 120 cases reported in the literature. They are mostly described after a C-section or other pelvic surgery. …”
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The Art of the Portrait in the Religious Painting of Wallachia and Moldavia in the 15th – 17th centuries by Valentin Sava

“…The votive portrait of the founder did no necessarily reproduce the individual features of the portrayed person, not even in the last period, when the artistic and technical evolutions could initiate tendencies to a desacralization of the religious themes. …”
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The Ecological Impact of Urban Expansion in Oasis Environments: A combined Cartographic and Landscape Analysis by Assoule Dechaicha, Walid Arab, Djamel Alkama

“…Current patterns of urban expansion are mostly considered as impulsive, leading to numerous negative consequences for our biosphere. …”
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TESS Light Curves of Cataclysmic Variables. VI. Intermediate Polars by Albert Bruch

“…In about half of them—mostly confirmed IPs, but also some candidates—variations caused by the white dwarf (WD) rotation are detected allowing the determination of precise periods. …”
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The theme of a Domed Rotunda in Ani School of Armenian Architecture during the Bagratids' Era: Interpretation of the Classical Image by Armen Kazaryan

“…That evidence could be analyzed through interpretations of the Classical images and architectural shapes realized by the builders of churches of Ani and surrounding monasteries mostly of the late-10th – early-11th centuries.</p><p>The main goal of the study is a demonstration of the evolution of the architectural image of centrally-planned churches created in Ani, on the ways of the interest of the theme of rotunda. …”
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Identifying and Prioritization the Factors Affective the Development of Industrial Clusters With Knowledge-based Companies by Javadj Mir, Hassan Dehghan dehnavi, Mozhde Rabbani

“…In order to analyze the data, the Fuzzy Hierarchy Analysis Model (FAHP) was used, and finally, the findings of the research showed that the most was the development of industrial clusters with a knowledge-based approach. …”
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Understanding Streaming Instabilities in the Limit of High Cosmic-Ray Current Density by Emily Lichko, Damiano Caprioli, Benedikt Schroer, Siddhartha Gupta

“…We also find that electron-scale modes, despite being the fastest growing, mostly lead to moderate electron heating and do not affect the late evolution or saturation of the instability.…”
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Topological surface states of semimetal TaSb2 by Ji-Eun Lee, Yu Liu, Jinwoong Hwang, Choongyu Hwang, Cedomir Petrovic, Se Young Park, Hyejin Ryu, Sung-Kwan Mo

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A new pan-chelydrid turtle, Tavachelydra stevensoni gen. et sp. nov., from the lower Paleocene (early Danian, Puercan) Corral Bluffs Study Area in the Denver Basin, Colorado by Tyler R. Lyson, Holger Petermann, Salvador Bastien, Natalie Toth, Evan Tamez-Galvan, Sadie M. Sherman, Walter G. Joyce

“…The T. stevensoni material was mostly found in laminated fine-grained deposits, suggesting this taxon inhabited ponded-water environments. …”
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Effect of Composting on Dissolved Organic Matter in Animal Manure and Its Binding with Cu by Fengsong Zhang, Yanxia Li, Xiong Xiong, Ming Yang, Wei Li

“…The purpose of this research was to evaluate the evolution of DOM from pig and cattle manures during composting through excitation-emission matrix (EEM) fluorescence spectroscopy and the binding ability of DOM toward copper (Cu) ions with the aid of fluorescence quenching titration. …”
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CRISPR-Cas Loci of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Strains with Different Genetic Determinants by N. P. Peretolchina, V. T. Klimov, E. A. Voskresenskaya, G. I. Kokorina, E. A. Bogumilchik, A. L. Trukhachev, S. V. Igumnova, Y. P. Dzhioev, V. I. Zlobin

“…Results. 86% of strains includes three CRISPR-loci: YP1, YP2, and YP3. Length of locus YP3 mostly depends on presence of virulence determinants in strains of Y. pseudotuberculosis serotype O:1b. …”
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An updated insight into the Sialotranscriptome of Triatoma infestans: developmental stage and geographic variations. by Alexandra Schwarz, Nora Medrano-Mercado, Günter A Schaub, Claudio J Struchiner, M Dolores Bargues, Michael Z Levy, José M C Ribeiro

“…<h4>Main findings/significance</h4>Over five thousand CDS, mostly full length or near full length, were publicly deposited on GenBank. …”
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Soviet Party Authorities in Restructuring the Kuzbass Coal Industry in 1941–1945: Historiographic Aspect by Aleksei G. Chupin

“…However, these works were mostly applied research because the country needed to mobilize its entire resource base, and all coal mining studies had a practical aim. …”
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Gut microbiota signatures of the three Mexican primate species, including hybrid populations. by Diego Zubillaga-Martín, Brenda Solórzano-García, Alfredo Yanez-Montalvo, Arit de León-Lorenzana, Luisa I Falcón, Ella Vázquez-Domínguez

“…Diversity of the gut microbiota has proven to be related with host physiology, health and behavior, influencing host ecology and evolution. Gut microbial community relationships often recapitulate primate phylogeny, suggesting phylosymbiotic associations. …”
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CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERPRETATION OF THE EROSIVE BEHAVIOR ON THE HILLS OF GUABIRABA, RECIFE – PE, NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL: SEDIMENTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SUPERFICIAL STRUTCTURE OF T... by Danielle Gomes da Silva, Antonio Carlos de Barros Corrêa, Alexandre de Oliveira Souza, Jefferson Santos, Renata Cavalcante Lamas, Pedro Ricardo da Cunha Nóbrega

“…The hills of the district of Guabiraba, Recife - PE, show evidences of recent geomorphic disequilibrium as a consequence of an unbalanced erosive budget, mostly attributed to changes in land use. This paper seeks to provide a diagnostic for the recent erosive behavior within this environmental unit of the Municipality of Recife, which overlies the Barreiras Formation sediments, based on the application of a morphostratigraphical approach combined to the sedimentological analysis of recent correlative deposits. …”
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RAREFAN: A webservice to identify REPINs and RAYTs in bacterial genomes by Fortmann-Grote, Carsten, Irmer, Julia von, Bertels, Frederic

“…REPIN-RAYT systems are mostly vertically inherited and have persisted in individual bacterial lineages for millions of years. …”
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Nécropoles multipolaires et élaboration d’un nouveau modèle socio-politique au premier âge du Fer : réflexions à partir des sites du Camp de l’Église Sud à Flaujac-Poujols (Lot) et... by Antoine Dumas

“…These varying numerical dynamics can be related to differences relative to the morpho-stylistic evolution of the material goods. Indeed, the social units with the highest number of deceased still being buried in the two necropolises during the final chronological phase (625-550 BC) correspond to the groups of tombs where the materials change in the most drastic manner, either with the adoption of completely new ceramic shapes, abandoning all types of decoration, or including new forms of funerary material culture, including bronze or iron torcs, bracelets or pins. …”
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