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Advanced Physics Research, EarlyView.A compositionally graded WO3‐x thin film was engineered through a controlled linear increase of oxygen flow during reactive magnetron sputtering. This deposition strategy yields a gradual transition from an oxygen‐deficient, conductive bottom layer to a more stoichiometric and crystalline surface layer, forming an intrinsic gradient homojunction.
Helen Caroline de Souza Barros +10 more
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Foreign Body: AIDS, Moral Panic, and Otherness in Via Appia (1989)
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen MediaIn 1989, Jochen Hick, a prolific German documentary filmmaker, chose Brazil as the setting for the feature film Via Appia, which follows a flight attendant who returns to Rio de Janeiro to find the man who transmitted the HIV virus to him.
Henrique Rodrigues Marques
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‘"Buzz Off!": The Killer Bee Movie as Modern Belief Narrative.’ [PDF]
, 2001 Looks at the sub-genre of the killer bee movies but through the lens of legend studies - specifically looking at these films as belief ...
Koven, Mikel
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Animal Research and One Health, EarlyView.Activo Liquid and Halquinol inhibit Salmonella and Escherichia coli in culture media. Activo Liquid exhibits bactericidal action, whereas HA is bacteriostatic, and their combination results in positive or indifferent interactions. This combination effectively inhibits E. coli throughout digestion simulation, thus reducing the required concentrations of
Alberto Gonçalves Evangelista +6 more
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City of God and Elite Squad: From Fatalistic Violence to Agency [PDF]
, 2014 Online resource, 14 pp., digital file.Brazilian favelas (slums)have become cityscapes of exclusion, with their precarious housing on unpaved pathways, overcrowded places stigmatized as shelter for the urban poor and for criminals. This paper analyzes how
Nunes, Vanessa
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the association between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings and firm performance, taking into account the role of firms' strategic investments in research and development (R&D) and advertising. Drawing on resource‐based view and signalling theory perspectives and employing the generalised method of moments ...
Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah +2 more
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Waiting for a Release: The Expectation in Virtual Gaming Communities
Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how virtual gaming communities influence and maintain player expectations before, during, and after a game's release. A mixed‐methods study was conducted, comprising a netnography followed by an experiment. First, a netnographic study was conducted over 12 months, tracking communities to understand player behavior and ...
Lucas Lopes Ferreira de Souza +4 more
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Changing Nigerian cultures: two films against witchcraft and an impossible dialogue [PDF]
, 2017 The prominent place of witchcraft in Nollywood films produced in the 1990s is widely acknowledged, and has prompted a number of comments from critics.
Ugochukwu, Françoise
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Optimal model‐based design of experiments for parameter precision: Supercritical extraction case
The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the process of chamomile oil extraction from flowers. A parameter‐distributed model consisting of a set of partial differential equations is used to describe the governing mass transfer phenomena in a cylindrical packed bed with solid chamomile particles under supercritical conditions using carbon dioxide as a solvent ...
Oliwer Sliczniuk, Pekka Oinas
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Revista Estudos Feministas, 2008 The myth of the Brazilian racial democracy still remains among the cinema and soap opera industry, even though it is greatly criticized by several sectors of the black population.
Joel Zito Araújo
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