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Réécrire l'histoire : théâtre et révolution dans An tan révolisyon de Maryse Condé

Alternative Francophone, 2022
Cet article s’intéresse à la représentation de l’histoire dans le théâtre radicalement contestataire de Maryse Condé. Alors que l’histoire et la mémoire sont convoquées par le discours officiel pour glorifier les valeurs républicaines et la Révolution ...
Fély Catan
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Characterization of Particle Size Distributions and Water-Soluble Ions in Particulate Matter Measured at a Broiler Farm

Agriculture, 2023
The chemical composition and size distribution of particulate matter produced at broiler poultry houses is not well understood, so this is a novel study to understand the particulate size distributions at a poultry house as well as the ionic composition ...
Philip J. Silva, Tanner Cress, Ryan Drover, Cara Michael, Gregory Docekal, Pierce Larkin, Antonio Godoy, Devin A. Cavero, Crystal Sin, Janise Waites, Rezaul Mahmood, Martin Cohron, Kathleen L. Purvis-Roberts   +12 more
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Patterns of participation in summer programming among United States’ elementary children from low-income urban households: Results from the project SWEAT study

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2023
Food insecurity increases among marginalized children during the summer when school is out of session. Summer programming that offers access to healthy meals and snacks may reduce the risk.
Laura Hopkins, Heather Schier, Leah May, Miranda Westrick, Devin O'Piela, Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Laureen Smith, Carolyn Gunther   +7 more
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Thermodynamic Modeling and Experimental Investigation of Phosphoric Acid as a Polyelectrolyte System: Comparative Assessment of Thermodynamic Models [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences
The thermodynamic behavior of phosphoric acid systems containing cadmium, calcium, and sulfate ions was investigated using the Pitzer and Debye–Hückel models over a phosphorus content ranging from 5% to 30% P2O5 and a temperature range of 25°C to 80°C ...
Belkhair Raja, Khamar Lhachmi, Baali Fatima Ezzahra, Kadiri M. Saddik   +3 more
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Transcriptome analysis uncovers Arabidopsis F-BOX STRESS INDUCED 1 as a regulator of jasmonic acid and abscisic acid stress gene expression

BMC Genomics, 2017
Background The ubiquitin 26S proteasome system (UPS) selectively degrades cellular proteins, which results in physiological changes to eukaryotic cells.
Lauren E. Gonzalez, Kristen Keller, Karen X. Chan, Megan M. Gessel, Bryan C. Thines   +4 more
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown on Air Pollution in 20 Major Cities around the World

Atmosphere, 2020
In order to fight against the spread of COVID-19, the most hard-hit countries in the spring of 2020 implemented different lockdown strategies. To assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on air quality worldwide, Air Quality Index (AQI) data ...
Franck Fu, Kathleen L. Purvis-Roberts, Branwen Williams   +2 more
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How Well Can We Infer Selection Benefits and Mutation Rates from Allele Frequencies?

Entropy, 2023
Experimentalists observe allele frequency distributions and try to infer mutation rates and selection coefficients. How easy is this? We calculate limits to their ability in the context of the Wright-Fisher model by first finding the maximal amount of ...
Jonathan Soriano, Sarah Marzen
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Altruistic Atheists

Secularism and Nonreligion
How and why do individuals who do not believe in God, and were raised by nonbelieving parents, and grew up in majority nonbelieving societies engage in prosocial, altruistic behavior?
Phil Zuckerman, Sophie Myers
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Labor Market Discrimination: Vietnamese Immigrants

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, 2012
Vietnamese and East European immigrants face similar obstacles in the US labor market. This provides for an interesting test of racial discrimination in the labor market. Does it make any difference if an immigrant is Asian or White?
Linus Yamane
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Clarifying the quantum mechanical origin of the covalent chemical bond

Nature Communications, 2020
The origin of the covalent H–H bond is understood to be driven by kinetic energy lowering. Here the authors show this is not the case for bonds between heavier elements likely due to the presence of core electrons, and that constructive quantum ...
Daniel S. Levine, Martin Head-Gordon
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