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Abstract Counterfactuals have become an important area of interdisciplinary interest, especially in logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, psychology, decision theory, and even artificial intelligence....

Exploiting multiple near-field optical eigenmodes is an effective means of designing, engineering, and extending the functionalities of optical devices. However, the near-field optical eigenmodes of subwavelength plasmon...

Uncover the captivating world of 'Carbon Markets' a groundbreaking book that takes you on an exhilarating journey through the dynamic landscape of environmental sustainability. In a time when the world's attention is foc...

Digital Scholar: Learning in the Age of Internet" is your gateway to a dynamic world where education and research flourish in the digital landscape. In an era defined by limitless information and global connectivity, thi...

Water availability is one of the main limiting factors that control ecosystem functions and productivity in semiarid regions. Vegetation of these regions usually presents a patchy distribution where sparse plant cover is...

Progress towards gender equality in Europe has been very significant over the last century, however, there is still room for improvement in some of the key dimensions. The EU Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 calls for ...

In arid and semiarid areas, the interplant spaces are usually covered by physical and biological soil crusts. These crusts, though representing an almost negligible portion of the soil profile, have a number of crucial r...

"Some Lessons from the Italian Renaissance for the Pursuit of Social Justice" is a fascinating essay written by Diego Hidalgo-Oñate and Cristina Zari inviting us to immerse ourselves in an era of historical and cultural...

This book offers a study of Virginia Woolf’s essays from the perspective of rhetorical argumentation. It characterises her style as a modernist writer and essayist, showing how her prose, structured, elegant, and rich ...

We investigated the longitudinal predictors of reading and spelling of words and pseudowords with different syllabic structures in a shallow orthography. Participants were 47 Spanish-speaking children from kindergarten t...

The latest linguistic research has witnessed a strengthening of the analytical consideration of syntactic semantics, the introduction of functional-semantic approach to determining the specifics of the sentence, its nucl...

Software Product Line (SPL) developments include Variability Management (VA) as a core activity aiming at minimizing the inherent complexity in commonality and variability manipulation. Particularly, the (automated) anal...

Recent improvements in microbiology and molecular epidemiology were largely stimulated by whole- genome sequencing (WGS), which provides an unprecedented resolution in discriminating highly related genetic backgrounds. W...

Abstract Background Family abuse is a recurrent phenomenon within a select population of households. This form of abuse can include any physical or psychological harassment that occurs between family or household members...

Turnera sidoides (x=7) is one of the few well-studied South American autopolyploid complexes. Since polyploidy has played a prominent role within this complex, ongoing studies in T. sidoides focus on understanding the me...

Aim: Understanding the spatial ecology of animal movements is a critical element in conserving long-lived, highly mobile marine species. Analyzing networks developed from movements of six sea turtle species reveals marin...

Rapid flow-like landslides, particularly debris flows and debris avalanches, cause significant economic damage and many victims worldwide every year. They are usually extremely fast with the capability of travelling long...

The temporal dynamics in biological systems displays a wide range of behaviors, from periodic oscillations, as in rhythms, bursts, long-range (fractal) correlations, chaotic dynamics up to brown and white noise. Herein, ...

Abstract Feature information extraction is one of the key steps in prognostics and health management of rotating machinery. In the present study, an investigation about the feasibility of a methodology based on generaliz...

Starting from the fact that the rapid spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the implementation of social distancing strategies have dramatically affected all aspects of human lives at global, national, and micro levels, t...

In volleyball games, we define a rally as the succession of events observed since the ball is served until one of the two teams on the court scores the point. In this process, athletes evolve in response to physical and ...

A new material tetrakis-µ3- (methoxo)(methanol)-pentakis(acetylacetonate)(tricuprum (II), neodymium (III)) methanol (I) was synthesized as [Cu3Nd(AA)5(OCH3)4CH3OH] ∙ CH3OH,  where HAA = H3C–C(O)–CH2–C(O)–CH3....

Context. Hot cores are signposts of the protostellar activity of dense cores in star-forming regions. W43-MM1 is a young region that is very rich in terms of high-mass star formation, which is highlighted by the presence...

Adam Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society (first published in 1767) is a classic of the Scottish - and European - Enlightenment. Drawing on such diverse sources as classical authors and contemporary travel li...