Challenges and strategies in meeting urban tree canopy targets: A scenario discovery analysis to guide urban forest planning in new developments by Raymundo Marcos Martinez, Natthanij Soonsawad, Mariana Dias Baptista, Stephen Cook, Guy Barnett, Joseph Chee, Tim Field, Tim Muster

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Oriental Cockroach, Blatta orientalis Linnaeus (Insecta: Blattaria: Blattidae:) by Kim McCanless

“…It is also sometimes referred to as the "black beetle" or a "water bug" because of its dark black appearance and tendency to harbor in damp locations. …”
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Oriental Cockroach, Blatta orientalis Linnaeus (Insecta: Blattaria: Blattidae:) by Kim McCanless

“…It is also sometimes referred to as the "black beetle" or a "water bug" because of its dark black appearance and tendency to harbor in damp locations. …”
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LANGUAGE STYLE OF HUMOR ON STAND-UP COMEDY VIDEO by Merry Rullyanti, Nurdianto Nurdianto

“…Chris Rock owns famous joke material that is affected by the black comedy pioneers like Richard Pryor and Redd. …”
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As quitandadeiras de Minas Gerais: memórias brancas e memórias negras by Javier Alejandro Lifschitz, Juliana Bonomo

“…In this article, we analyze narratives of memory about homemade pastries (quitandas) and the women who make them (quitandeiras) in the state of Minas Gerais, in three historical moments: as practices of African origin, which during the eighteenth and nineteenth century was reproduced in the colonies by black slave women selling food on the streets, carrying their trays; as practices of Portuguese origin, held within farms domestic black slaves under the supervision of white mistresses of Portuguese origin and, finally, as current policy of cultural heritage. …”
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W.E.B Du Bois and the Place of African American Youth in Histories of Environmental Thought. by Katie Taylor

“…I finish by offering a case study of my research on the children’s magazine of W.E.B Du Bois, The Brownies’ Book and its representations of Black children’s relationships to the outdoors and nature.…”
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Reading Isaiah 58 in conversation with I.J. Mosala: an African liberationist approach by N. Mtshiselwa

“… This paper sets out to draw on, and simultaneously depart from Mosala’s Black biblical hermeneutic of liberation in order to navigate liberating possibilities that Isaiah 58 could offer to the oppressed Black people in Southern Africa. …”
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Accounting for racial bias and social determinants of health in a model of hypertension control by Yang Hu, Nicholas Cordella, Rebecca G. Mishuris, Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

“…To mitigate model bias and elucidate differences in predictive variables, two separate models were trained for Black and White patients. Black patients face a 4.7 $$\times$$ × higher False Positive Rate (FPR) and a 0.58 $$\times$$ × lower False Negative Rate (FNR) compared to White patients. …”
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Ultrastructural studies distinguish skin diversities among Galápagos iguanas by Manuel Scimeca, Rita Bonfiglio, Giuliano Colosimo, Eleonora Candi, Glenn P. Gerber, Gregory A. Lewbart, Alessandro Mauriello, Gerry Melino, Christian Sevilla, Yufang Shi, Ying Wang, Gabriele Gentile

“…Morphometric evaluations highlighted interspecific differences in the stratum corneum thickness, particularly between black- and non-black-colored (irrespectively if yellowish or pink) skin. …”
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Intermittent Sprinkler Irrigation for Establishment of Bare Root Strawberry Transplants by E. A. Golden, John R. Duval, Earl E. Albregts, C. M. Howard

“… Bare rooted strawberry transplants set in black polyethylene mulched beds are established by irrigating continuously for approximately 8 hours daily with overhead sprinklers for 10 to 14 days. …”
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Connecting quasi-normal modes with causality in Lovelock theories of gravity by Avijit Chowdhury, Akash K. Mishra, Sumanta Chakraborty

“…The eikonal correspondence between the quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of asymptotically flat static spherically symmetric black holes and the properties of unstable null circular geodesics is studied in the case of higher dimensional Lovelock black holes (BHs). …”
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The revelation of God: How and to whom does God reveals God self to? by H. Mdingi

“…African indigenous knowledge as episteme and Black liberation theology as a paradigm have something to teach outside Western dualism about the revelation of God not being linear in form. …”
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Determining Near Point of Convergence: Exploring a Component of the Vestibular/Ocular Motor Screen Comparing Varied Target Sizes by John D Heick, Curt Bay

“…The NPCs derived from both the 12-point and 14-point font targets were smaller than NPCs from the tip of the black pen and the 9-point font device (*p*<0.01). …”
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