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An exploration of language identification techniques for the Dutch folktale database [PDF]
, 2012 The Dutch Folktale Database contains fairy tales, traditional legends, urban legends, and jokes written in a large variety and combination of languages including (Middle and 17th century) Dutch, Frisian and a number of Dutch dialects.
Hiemstra, Djoerd +4 more
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POWER: Performance Optimization With Evaluated Results for HEV Battery Selection via MCDM‐TOPSIS
Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The increasing transportation demands and environmental concerns in India necessitate the selection of optimal battery technologies for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). As the fifth‐largest car market globally, India faces rising vehicle demand, while the transportation sector remains a major contributor to air pollution.
Rinku Kumar Roy +5 more
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Seasonal Variability of Precipitating Systems in Four Radar Domains of Northeast Brazil
International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.This study analyzes the climatology and evaluates how the physical aspects of precipitating systems are influenced by the dry and wet seasons in Northeast Brazil, highlighting seasonal variations in the frequency, size, intensity, and duration of these systems in the regions of Natal, Maceió, Petrolina, and Salvador.
Amanda Carolina da Silva Queiroz +1 more
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Legends of Students’ “Clever Answers”: Criticism or Affirmation of the Educational System?
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2007 This paper represents an analysis of a group of urban legends from US universities, gathered from a number of web sites and in certain cases compared with corresponding analogies in Serbia. These legends concentrate around the motif of «clever answers»,
Jana Baćević
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Management of hypertension at the community level in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): towards a rational use of available resources [PDF]
, 2011 Hypertension is emerging in many developing nations as a leading cause of cardiovascular mortality, morbidity and disability in adults. In sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries it has specificities such as occurring in young and active adults, resulting in
Twagirumukiza, Marc, Van Bortel, Lucas
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International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.A transient ensemble of convection‐permitting climate simulations is used to compute bias‐corrected user‐relevant climate indices for Germany under recent and future climate conditions, both considering high spatial resolution and uncertainty estimations. For high temperature indices, a clear increase is observed, for example, for hot days and tropical
Joaquim G. Pinto +6 more
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Urban Legend Locations of Bandung City Photobook Design [PDF]
, 2019 The city of Bandung has night attractions related to urban legend. The object that has become an urban legend in the city of Bandung comes from famous myths and has meaning.
Galviratama, B. (Ben ) +1 more
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Attrition in Cochlear Implant Research: Sociodemographic, Audiologic, and Performance Variables
The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.In a retrospective review of attrition patterns for participants in a clinical research study, sociodemographic variables were not significantly different between those who elected to withdraw and those who completed the study. Those in the withdrawal group had poorer low‐frequency residual hearing, were less likely to be electric‐acoustic stimulation ...
Amanda D. Sloop +5 more
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Moderne Sagen (urban legends) zwischen Faktum und Fiktion [PDF]
, 2011 Man nennt sie ,modeme Sagen‘, ,Großstadtlegenden‘ oder ,sagenhafte Geschichten von heute‘, im Englischen heißen sie ,contemporary legends‘, ,urban belief tales‘, ,belief legends‘ ,modern migratory legends‘, ‚rumor legends‘, ‚urban myths‘ oder – das ist ...
Martínez, Matías
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An Exact Method for Reliable Shortest Path Problems With Correlation
Networks, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Shortest path problems often arise in contexts where travel times are uncertain. In these settings, reliable paths are often valued more than paths with lower expected travel times. This has led to several variants of reliable shortest path problems (RSPP) that handle travel time reliability differently. We propose an algorithmic framework for
Esteban Leiva +3 more
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