Microbial lipase production optimization, characterization and application in coconut oil modification by Khoramnia, Anahita

“…The use of fungi for the production of commercially important products has increased rapidly over the past half century. Two lipolytic filamentous fungal strains, Geotrichum candidum ATCC 34614 and G. candidum local isolate were investigated in the case of lipase production in both SmF and SSF. …”
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The learning society: Six approaches / Sociedade da Aprendizagem: Seis Abordagens / Société cognitive: six approches by Daniel Schugurensky

“…ABSTRACT: This paper examines the literature on the learning society during the last half-century. The first part discusses some conceptual issues and provides a brief historical overview. …”
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Systematic assessments of tidal wetlands loss and degradation in Shanghai, China: From the perspectives of area, composition and quality by Shiwei Lin, Xiuzhen Li, Bin Yang, Yuxi Ma, Can Jiang, Liming Xue, Jiangjing Wang, Zhongzheng Yan

“…However, they have been seriously damaged due to human activities over the past half century. Previous studies often used area-based statistic measures to track tidal wetlands loss while neglected to extract other important information such as changes in the composition of tidal wetlands, transformation between salt marsh and tidal flat as well as the quality of them. …”
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The learning society: Six approaches / Sociedade da Aprendizagem: Seis Abordagens / Société cognitive: six approches by Daniel Schugurensky

“…ABSTRACT: This paper examines the literature on the learning society during the last half-century. The first part discusses some conceptual issues and provides a brief historical overview. …”
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Evidence of changes in sedimentation rate and sediment fabric in a low-oxygen setting: Santa Monica Basin, CA by N. Kemnitz, W. M. Berelson, D. E. Hammond, L. Morine, M. Figueroa, T. W. Lyons, S. Scharf, N. Rollins, E. Petsios, S. Lemieux, T. Treude

“…Based on core top data collected during the past half century, sedimentary dynamics within SMB have changed minimally during the last 40 years. …”
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Planting dates zoning of safflower varieties in Esfahan province by T. Yasari, J. Khoshhal, M.R. Shahsavari

“…Sci.,10(2):200-206.Montazeri, M.(2005), An analysis of tempo-spatial variation of temperature in Iran during the last half century, Isfahan, Iran, Isfah. Univ. (PhD. thesis).Nickabadi, S., Solemani, A., Dehdashti, S.M. and Yazdanibakhsh, M.(2008), Effect of sowing dates on yield and yield components of spring safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) in Isfahan Region, Pakistan Journal of Biological Science, 11:1953-1956.Omidi, A.H. and Sharifmogdas, M.R. (2010), Evaluation of Iranian safflower cultivars reaction to different sowing dates and plant densities. …”
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Comillas, paisaje cultural by Ramón Rodríguez Llera

“…The territory of Comillas takes shape in a space, own of the historical villa and its next periphery, that would be one more of the characteristic ones of the region if it had not known in a relatively brief time, hardly half century, an intense occupation, cultural and artistic talking exceptional, in such a way that the transformations of the landscape of the villa happened in the three last decades of the nineteen century and first years of the twenty not only modified but also determined Comillas until the present time, whose cultural memory is link in a very special way to the facts of that moment of its past. …”
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Essays on macroeconomics and household heterogeneity by Gross, I

“…</p> <p>The assumption of a single "representative" household has been a mainstay of macroeconomic research over the past half-century. However recent work suggests that not only is there a considerable degree of heterogeneity among households, but that these differences have a significant impact on a range of macroeconomic issues such as the e?…”

Mosè Ricci. Habitat 5.0. L’Architettura del lungo presente by Alberto De Capua

“…Is it possible that they have remained so indifferent to the great environmental, economic and social changes of the last half century?». Mosè Ricci, with great style and awareness of the changes that our society is determining, questions the fact that architecture, in the years of the «deepest technological renewal in history» struggles to adapt, often proposing the «same aspirations and expectations». …”
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Planning with self‑organised initiatives by Igor Tempels Moreno Pessôa

“… Over the last half century, the Global South has faced a strong rise in the rate of urbanisation. …”
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A multi-disciplinary analysis of the exceptional flood event of July 2021 in central Europe – Part 1: Event description and analysis by S. Mohr, S. Mohr, U. Ehret, U. Ehret, M. Kunz, M. Kunz, P. Ludwig, P. Ludwig, A. Caldas-Alvarez, J. E. Daniell, J. E. Daniell, F. Ehmele, H. Feldmann, M. J. Franca, C. Gattke, M. Hundhausen, P. Knippertz, K. Küpfer, K. Küpfer, B. Mühr, J. G. Pinto, J. G. Pinto, J. Quinting, A. M. Schäfer, A. M. Schäfer, M. Scheibel, F. Seidel, C. Wisotzky, C. Wisotzky

“…<p>The July 2021 flood in central Europe was one of the five costliest disasters in Europe in the last half century, with an estimated total damage of EUR 32 billion. …”
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Guest Editorial: On the Potential Role of Psi in an Expanded Science of the Physical, Experiential and Spiritual by Charles Tart

“…So my first thought of what to talk about in my lecture time was that in the half-century+ I’ve worked in parapsychology, I've seen a lot of promising, initial developments that didn't really get followed up adequately, so perhaps I could devote my hour to discussing methodological problems and promising leads that had slipped between the cracks? …”
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Clasificación de las fracturas toracolumbares: comparación entre las clasificaciones de AO y Vaccaro Classificação das fraturas toracolombares: comparação entre as classificações d... by Pedro Luis Bazán, Alvaro Enrique Borri, Piscinis Ulises Torres, Juan Sebastián Cosentino, Martin Honorio Games

“…<br>OBJECTIVE: the classifications have changed in the last half century; the most used from the last decade is Classification AO. …”
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GRB 221009A: The BOAT by Eric Burns, Dmitry Svinkin, Edward Fenimore, D. Alexander Kann, José Feliciano Agüí Fernández, Dmitry Frederiks, Rachel Hamburg, Stephen Lesage, Yuri Temiraev, Anastasia Tsvetkova, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Michael S. Briggs, Sarah Dalessi, Rachel Dunwoody, Cori Fletcher, Adam Goldstein, C. Michelle Hui, Boyan A. Hristov, Daniel Kocevski, Alexandra L. Lysenko, Bagrat Mailyan, Joseph Mangan, Sheila McBreen, Judith Racusin, Anna Ridnaia, Oliver J. Roberts, Mikhail Ulanov, Peter Veres, Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, Joshua Wood

“…We investigate the veracity of this statement by comparing it with a half century of prompt gamma-ray burst observations. …”
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Tree canopy cover and natural regeneration into strictly-protected forest areas: the MaB reserve of Montedimezzo (Isernia,Italy). by Tessa Giannini, Andrea Cutini, Orazio Gugliotta, Maria Chiara Manetti

“…Aim of the paper is to analyze the spatial-temporal dynamics of tree species regeneration into mixed Turkey oak-common beech stands growing undisturbed since more than one half- century. The ability of first establishment and following growth of natural regeneration related to the ecological parameters, the structural features of standing crop and its development stages, are analyzed in detail. …”
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Designing a Structural-Interpretive Model of Organizational Factors for Effective Leadership Development by Yousef Rezaie, Abasali Hajkaremi, Seidreza Seidjavadin, Tehmores Hasangholipoor

“…While the issue of leadership has been extensively studied and researched over the last half century, little attention has been paid to the development of leadership. …”
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Roadmap on nonlinear optics–focus on Chinese research by Mengxin Ren, Jingjun Xu, Pengfei Lan, Peixiang Lu, Zhi-Yuan Li, Li-Hong Hong, Yulei Wang, Zhenxu Bai, Zhiwei Lv, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Bao-Sen Shi, Yong Zhang, Shining Zhu, Min Xiao, Satoshi Aya, Yan-qing Lu, Huixin Fan, Min Luo, Ning Ye, Zeyuan Sun, Wei-Tao Liu, Shiwei Wu, Qingyun Li, Hui Hu, Yuanlin Zheng, Xianfeng Chen, Xiaoyong Hu, Chuanshan Tian, Zixian Hu, Guixin Li, Yi Hu, Kun Huang, Heping Zeng, Zhen-Ze Li, Hong-Bo Sun, Lei Dong, Runfeng Li, Wenkai Yang, Kebin Shi

“…The system’s response (including electric polarization, current density, etc) is not proportional to the stimulus it receives. Over the past half century, nonlinear optics has grown from an individual frequency doubling experiment into a broad academic field. …”
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Toward a Coordinated Global Observing System for Seagrasses and Marine Macroalgae by J. Emmett Duffy, Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Joaquin Trinanes, Joaquin Trinanes, Joaquin Trinanes, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Rohani Ambo-Rappe, Christoffer Boström, Alejandro H. Buschmann, Jarrett Byrnes, Robert G. Coles, Joel Creed, Leanne C. Cullen-Unsworth, Guillermo Diaz-Pulido, Carlos M. Duarte, Graham J. Edgar, Miguel Fortes, Gustavo Goni, Chuanmin Hu, Xiaoping Huang, Catriona L. Hurd, Craig Johnson, Brenda Konar, Dorte Krause-Jensen, Dorte Krause-Jensen, Kira Krumhansl, Peter Macreadie, Helene Marsh, Len J. McKenzie, Nova Mieszkowska, Patricia Miloslavich, Patricia Miloslavich, Enrique Montes, Masahiro Nakaoka, Kjell Magnus Norderhaug, Lina M. Norlund, Robert J. Orth, Anchana Prathep, Nathan F. Putman, Jimena Samper-Villarreal, Ester A. Serrao, Frederick Short, Isabel Sousa Pinto, Peter Steinberg, Rick Stuart-Smith, Richard K. F. Unsworth, Mike van Keulen, Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek, Mengqiu Wang, Michelle Waycott, Lauren V. Weatherdon, Thomas Wernberg, Siti Maryam Yaakub

“…These socio-economically valuable services are threatened worldwide by human activities, with substantial areas of seagrass and macroalgal forests lost over the last half-century. Tracking the status and trends in marine macrophyte cover and quality is an emerging priority for ocean and coastal management, but doing so has been challenged by limited coordination across the numerous efforts to monitor macrophytes, which vary widely in goals, methodologies, scales, capacity, governance approaches, and data availability. …”
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Karl Pearson by Magnello, ME

“…</p> <p>This thesis arises, in part, from a desire to reassess the state of the historiography of Pearsonian statistics over the course of the last half century. Some of the earliest work on Pearson came from his former students who emphasised his achievements as a statistician usually from the perspective of the state of the discipline in their tune. …”

No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of this Veal by Edward Weisberg

“…As several writers have diligently documented, the decline in the quality of life for beef cattle over the last half-century has resulted from deplorable conditions better characterized as cruel confinement or concentration rather than living. …”
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