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Land, power and conflict in Afghanistan: seeking to understand complexity

open access: yesRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2013
This paper explores the diverse links between land and power under conditions of conflict in Afghanistan, taking into account the complexities of Afghan society.
Adam Pain
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From biorhetorics to zoorhetorics

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2009
The present article aims to introduce the field of “Zoorhetorics”, as a particular case of Biorhetorics, earlier introduced by the author in the academic world.
Stephen Pain
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Observational Evidence of the Accelerated Expansion of the Universe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The discovery of cosmic acceleration is one of the most important developments in modern cosmology. The observation, thirteen years ago, that type Ia supernovae appear dimmer that they would have been in a decelerating universe followed by a series of ...
Astier, Pierre, Pain, Reynald
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Formation à l’élaboration du rapport d’intervention : quelques réflexions sur la méthode pédagogique

open access: yesCeROArt : Conservation, Exposition, Restauration d'Objets d'Art, 2011
After providing them with some theoretical references, training professionals in writing treatment reports can be better achieved by putting them in the position of the reader of the report instead of the writer.
Silvia Païn
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Synthetic exposure with a CMOS camera for multiple exposure speckle imaging of blood flow

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Speckle contrast imaging is an established technique to obtain relative blood flow maps over wide fields of view. A major improvement of the method relies on the acquisition of raw speckle images at different exposure times but requires simultaneous ...
M. Chammas, F. Pain
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Exploring the significance of domestic investment for foreign direct investment in China: a city-network approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper uses a network approach and a negative binomial regression model (NBRM) to shed light on the association between Domestic Investment (DI) and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in interlinking Chinese cities in a space of flows.
Pain, Kathy, Shia, Shuai, Wall, Ronald
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Advances in instrumentation for nuclear astrophysics

open access: yesAIP Advances, 2014
The study of the nuclear physics properties which govern energy generation and nucleosynthesis in the astrophysical phenomena we observe in the universe is crucial to understanding how these objects behave and how the chemical history of the universe ...
S. D. Pain
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Sex adjusted standardized prevalence ratios for celiac disease and other autoimmune diseases in patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS): A systematic review and meta-analysis

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
Standardised sex-adjusted prevalence ratios (SSPRs) have not been published for any autoimmune diseases (ADs) in patients with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), who are predominantly young females.
Haider Mannan, Clare M. Pain
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Benford's law and complex atomic spectra

open access: yes, 2008
We found that in transition arrays of complex atomic spectra, the strengths of electric-dipolar lines obey Benford's law, which means that their significant digits follow a logarithmic distribution favoring the smallest values. This indicates that atomic
Pain, Jean-Christophe
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The effect of some environmental factors on rapid mass movement in the Hunua Ranges, New Zealand [PDF]

open access: yes, 1969
This paper describes some of the relationships between rapid mass movement and environmental factors in the Hunua Ranges. Extreme climatic events appear to be important in triggering mass movement, while vegetation has a marked effect on mass movement ...
Pain, C.F.
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