PUERTO RICO : A NATIONAL HISTORY / by Meléndez Badillo, Jorell A., author 656083

“…This resulted in the proliferation of unsuccessful slave revolts and, in 1868, an insurrection that declared the Republic of Puerto Rico, which only lasted 48 hours. Puerto Rico's major regime change came in 1898 with the US occupation. …”
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Enhancement of photoacoustic imaging systems for biomedical applications by Sharma, Arunima

“…DL relies on supervised learning, i.e., the network gets trained on pre-defined dataset to solve practical problems on new data. In the last decade, there has been a surge in using DL al- gorithms for biomedical imaging. …”
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Evaluating the performance of agricultural tractor engine using cottonseed oil biodiesel by Adnan, Fattah Khalid, Muhamad, Mat Noor, Abdulrahman, Ribwar Kermanj, Badruddin, Irfan Anjum, Kamangar, Sarfaraz

“…The energy demand has been significantly increasing around the world in the last century. Conventional fossil fuels as one of the sources has been highly demanded due to its negative environmental effect. …”
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Gender systems in the Putin autocracy by Wood, Elizabeth A.

“…Over the last 23 years, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s autocracy has revealed a set of interlocking gender systems that have come to the fore particularly vividly since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. …”
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Identification of a humanized mouse model for functional testing of immune-mediated biomaterial foreign body response by Doloff, Joshua C, Ma, Minglin, Sadraei, Atieh, Tam, Hok Hei, Farah, Shady, Hollister-Lock, Jennifer, Vegas, Arturo J, Veiseh, Omid, Quiroz, Victor M, Rakoski, Amanda, Aresta-DaSilva, Stephanie, Bader, Andrew R, Griffin, Marissa, Weir, Gordon C, Brehm, Michael A, Shultz, Leonard D, Langer, Robert, Greiner, Dale L, Anderson, Daniel G

“…Foreign body giant cell formation, often unobserved in mice, was also prominent. Last, high-resolution microscopy coupled with multiplexed antibody capture digital profiling analysis supplied spatial resolution of rejection responses. …”
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Nipah: The history, and future, of one of the world’s most lethal viruses by Viveros, Alex Gabriel

“…Researchers have spent the last two decades studying the virus’ transmission in bats and how the virus spills over into humans. …”
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Experimental investigations on heat and mass transfer performances of a liquid desiccant cooling and dehumidification system by Ou, Xianhua, Cai, Wenjian, He, Xiongxiong, Zhai, Deqing

“…The last decades have witnessed the growth interest in Liquid Desiccant Dehumidification Systems (LDDS). …”
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Simulation of Organic Rankine Cycle - quasi-steady state vs dynamic approach for optimal economic performance by Pili, Roberto, Romagnoli, Alessandro, Jiménez-Arreola, Manuel, Spliethoff, Hartmut, Wieland, Christoph

“…Computer-based simulations of Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC) have been extensively used in the last two decades to predict the behaviour of existing plants or already in the design phase. …”
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Risk breeds risk aversion by He, Tai-Sen, Hong, Fuhai

“…In the first six rounds, subjects were randomly assigned to a high-, moderate-, or low-risk environment, which differed in the variances of the lotteries they were exposed to. In the last six rounds, subjects in all treatments made decisions on an identical set of lotteries. …”
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New circular polarization selective surface by Ren, Zhilin

“…In order to break the size bottleneck of miniaturization design by conventional antenna design method, a phase shifter coupled with microstrip line structure is added to further improve the bandwidth and thickness performance. At last, the AR bandwidth increases from 8.77% to 61.58%. …”
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A novel approach based on the elastoplastic fatigue damage and machine learning models for life prediction of aerospace alloy parts fabricated by additive manufacturing by Zhan, Zhixin, Li, Hua

“…Furthermore, the predicted data are compared with the experimental fatigue life, and the proposed novel method is verified. At last, the parametric studies are discussed to investigate the variation trend of predicted performance and fatigue life with the important parameters of ML models.…”
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Parental involvement in developmental disabilities across cultures by Gianluca Esposito

“…Method: According to PRISMA guidelines, we searched for articles indexed in EBSCOhost, PsycINFO, and PubMed published within the last decade for one culture (i.e., Mainland China, Taiwan, and Turkey), using the following keywords: family/parent involvement/engagement, developmental disability/disabilities, young child/children, EI/ECSE, and culture. …”
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Rechargeable aqueous aluminum-ion battery: progress and outlook by Jia, Bei-Er, Thang, Ai Qin, Yan, Chunshuang, Liu, Chuntai, Lv, Chade, Zhu, Qiang, Xu, Jianwei, Chen, Jian, Pan, Hongge, Yan, Qingyu

“…Extensive efforts are devoted to developing AAIBs in the last few years. Yet, it is still challenging to achieve stable electrodes with good electrochemical performance and electrolytes without side reactions. …”
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DSF-family quorum sensing signal-mediated intraspecies, interspecies, and inter-kingdom communication by He, Ya-Wen, Deng, Yinyue, Miao, Yansong, Chatterjee, Subhadeep, Tran, Tuan Minh, Tian, Jing, Lindow, Steven

“…The diffusible signal factor (DSF) family represents an intriguing type of QS signal with multiple roles found in diverse Gram-negative bacteria. Over the last decade, extensive progress has been made in understanding DSF-mediated communication among bacteria, fungi, insects, plants, and zebrafish. …”
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Arbitration : a new era of dispute resolution by Ang, Eng Kiat, Chong, Siew Ann, Tay, Eddie Liang Wee

“…The paper concludes that arbitration is fast gaining ground in the last three to four years in the area of dispute resolution. …”
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The impact of anxiety and challenge on quiet eye in tenpin bowling by Lim, Bernice Hui Ying

“…A critical part of the visual search process is the Quiet Eye (QE), defined as the last fixation at a target prior to initiation of movement (Vickers, 2007). …”
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Alfian Sa'at : negotiating the inauthenticity of Singapore's identity by Yee, Kenneth Shaoyong

“…The works that I will be analysing are “The Last Kampung”, “Void Deck”, and “Neighbours”. The third way that Alfian’s works evaluate the authenticity of Singapore’s identity is in the way the Singapore government has created reified icons and symbols to represent Singapore. …”
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Low-power non-binary SAR ADC with a two-mode comparator by Li, Jianni

“…To lower the power consumption, the method of applying a two-mode comparator was proposed, where the first few steps are completed in the comparator’s low accuracy mode, and the last few steps are completed in the high accuracy mode. …”
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The impingement boiling heat transfer of liquid nitrogen onto superheated tube array by Yonathan, Gayus

“…After all, conclusions and recommendation will be given in the last part to improve all factors and minimize error before the real experiments.…”
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Design, fabrication and characterization of integrated electronic devices based on wafer-scale 2D materials by Zhao, Guangchao

“…Then standard micro-fabrication process including electron beam lithography (EBL) and atomic layer deposition (ALD) will be carried out to complete the fabrication of MoS2 field effect transistors (FETs). At last, several tests such as output characteristic and transfer characteristic need to be run to characterize the direct current (DC) performance of the transistors. …”
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