Construction and reality: Mario Bunge's scientific realism and the teaching of sciences through models by Maurício Pietrocola

“…Thus, we aim at minimizing the excesses contained in constructivist and realist theses, that is, the trend to view each human construction as an activity that does not have any links to the ontological dimension of the world, and to see all realism as a purge of human action.…”
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Vibrio cholerae as a predator: lessons from evolutionary principles by Stefan ePukatzki, Daniele eProvenzano

“…V. cholerae multiplies rapidly, secretes cholera toxin, and exits the human host in vast numbers during diarrheal purges. How V. cholerae rapidly reaches such high numbers during each purge is not clearly understood. …”
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Perspectives of College Students about the Risk of Eating Disorders by Yang Mengxue

“…Anorexia nervosa occurs in people who eat a lot of food and purge or deny themselves food at all. The aim of purging after eating is to eliminate the fear of gaining weight or digesting unwanted foods. …”
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‘Papa’ Jack and US Federal Interventions by Tarik Sabry

“…Various legal and bureaucratic implications of this multi-faceted purge within and beyond early modern sport, entertainment and film are also discussed.…”
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The Spanish inquisition: Factional struggles among the Yugoslav interbrigadistas by Stefan Gužvica

“…I will attempt to contextualize the struggles inside the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) within broader power dynamics of the Comintern during the Great Purge, in order to gain a better understanding of both the KPJ and the Comintern as a whole in this period. …”
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Dynamics of a sex-linked deleterious mutation in populations subject to sex reversal. by Markku Karhunen

“…As expected, even relatively low levels of sex reversal help to purge deleterious mutations. However, the population-dynamic consequences of this depend on the type of selection that operates on the population undergoing sex reversal. …”
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Persecución y re-significación de lo popular y femenino en el mercado de la salud en Chile y Argentina 1850‑1900 by Manuel Durán

“…Once the medical sector professionally organized, it initiated a purge of the "health market”, excluding folk practitioners, "meicas", and midwives. …”
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New Lesotho integrated curriculum: The missed but not lost opportunity for decoloniality of Religious Education by Rev. Dr. Rasebate Isaac Mokotso

“…It rejected any reforms to purge school religion from “religiousness.” Third, the recent introduced integrated curriculum contributed in bringing back Religious Education, at least to the equivalent position with other disciplines. …”
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Powerful Adversaries by Ladelle McWhorter

“…The main goal of the radical right is not to purge women and people of color from academia, but to prevent analysis and discussion that reveals the inadequacy of right-wing ontological commitments and neoliberal social theory.…”
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TECHNOLOGY AND MEASUREMENTS OF MAGNETORESISTANCE IN THIN-LAYERED FERROMAGNETIC STRUCTURES by Jakub Kisała, Karolina Czarnacka, Mateusz Gęca, Andrzej Kociubiński

“…The paper presents the technology for obtaining NiFe/Ti/NiFe layer structures in MEMS technology using magnetron purge with the assumption of being used as semi-magnetic sensors. …”
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The articulation of voices in two film projects about violence: The Act of Killing and Gzim Rewind by Lisbeth Frølunde, Mette Bjerregaard

“…This paper explores two experimental documentary films that present memories of acts of mass violence: The Act of Killing (Denmark, 2012, director Joshua Oppenheimer) about the Indonesian anti-Communist purge in the 1960s and Gzim Rewind (Sweden, 2011, director Knutte Wester) about the fate of a boy who fled from Kosovo in the 1990s. …”
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Rat tracking solutions in tropical cities by Tan, Jian Ting

“…Various measures mainly in the aspects of prevention and control are carried out to purge the survival of rats. However, the level of efficacy on the establishment of burrow networks might not always be of satisfactory due to the current limitations. …”
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Revolution and the whip of reaction: technicians of power and the dialectic of radicalisation by Mulholland, M

“…Central to the dynamic of revolution is the ‘purge’ of the technocracy of power. As governing structures are not easily transformed at a stroke, revolutions may be seen as punctuating long processes of struggle. …”

Testing for monotonicity under endogeneity an application to the reservation wage function by Gutknecht, D

“…The test statistic, which is built upon a second order U-process, introduces 'correction terms' based on control functions that purge the endogeneity. The test has a non-standard asymptotic distribution from which asymptotic critical values can directly be derived. …”

Investigating Early Response to Treatment in a Multi-Site Study for Adolescent Bulimia Nervosa by Brittany E. Matheson, Sasha Gorrell, Cara Bohon, W. Stewart Agras, Daniel Le Grange, Daniel Le Grange, James Lock

“…Change in binge eating, but not purging behaviors, was significantly related to abstinence at 12-month follow-up (AUC =.766, p < .01). …”
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In silico assessment of household level closed water cycles: Towards extreme decentralization by Arjen Van de Walle, Elena Torfs, Dorien Gaublomme, Korneel Rabaey

“…Next, the risk of contaminant accumulation within the circular system was assessed, showing a key limitation on decentralized system performance necessitating a system purge. Up to 59% of system rainwater usage was due to the replacement of this purge. …”
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Why does police reform appear to have been more successful in Georgia than in Kyrgyzstan or Russia? by Kornely Kakachia, Liam O’Shea

“…Reform has been relatively successful in Georgia because, after the Rose Revolution, the new government used its dominance of the state to fire a huge number of officers, purge the old leadership, and instigate a crackdown on police corruption and links with organised crime. …”
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Online MEMS-Based Specific Gravity Measurement for Lead-Acid Batteries by Yashwant Gulab Adhav, Dayaram Nimba Sonawane, Chetankumar Yashawant Patil

“…This proposed method is based on an air purge system integrating with a micro electro mechanical system sensor. …”
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La rebelión invertida del «culto Doctor D. José Fernández-Vega»: un caso de justicia al revés del primer franquismo by Mélanie Trédez-Lopez

“…The Doctor Fernandez-Vega’s personal experience and the national context allow to analyze the penal system in the early years of Franco’s regime, focused on a systematic purge.…”
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Determination of volatiles in beer using solid-phase microextraction in combination with gas chromatography/mass spektrometry by Jana KLEINOVÁ, Bořivoj KLEJDUS

“…Headspace solid phase microextraction and purge and trap analysis were used for the determination of volatiles in beer. …”
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