Insect size responses to climate change vary across elevations according to seasonal timing. by César R Nufio, Monica M Sheffer, Julia M Smith, Michael T Troutman, Simran J Bawa, Ebony D Taylor, Sean D Schoville, Caroline M Williams, Lauren B Buckley

“…Interannual temperature variation accounts for the size shifts. The earliest season species may be able to take advantage of warmer conditions accelerating growth during early spring development, whereas warm temperatures may adversely impact later season species via mechanisms such as increased rates of energy use or thermal stress. …”
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The physical activity and sedentary behavior among pregnant women in Macao: A cross-sectional study. by Ka Chon Mok, Ming Liu, Xin Wang

“…<h4>Results</h4>The findings revealed that sedentary activities accounted for a relatively small proportion (7.8%) of the participants' total activity energy expenditure. …”
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Physical Exercise as a Diagnostic, Rehabilitation, and Preventive Tool: Influence on Neuroplasticity and Motor Recovery after Stroke by Caroline Pin-Barre, Jérôme Laurin

“…Stroke remains a leading cause of adult motor disabilities in the world and accounts for the greatest number of hospitalizations for neurological disease. …”
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Comprehensive Monitoring of Complex Industrial Processes with Multiple Characteristics by Chenxing Xu, Jiarula Yasenjiang, Pengfei Cui, Shengpeng Zhang, Xin Zhang

“…To address this problem, a hybrid fault detection model based on PCA-KPCA-ICA-KICA-BI (Bayesian inference) is proposed, taking into account the advantages of principal component analysis (PCA), kernel principal component analysis (KPCA), independent component analysis (ICA), and kernel independent component analysis (KICA) in terms of dimensionality reduction and feature extraction. …”
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The Megafauna3D Dataset: 3D Models of Late Pleistocene Megafauna Fossils From Uruguay by Luciano Varela, P. Sebastián Tambusso, Martín Batallés, Gabriela Costoya, Richard A. Fariña

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Vulnerability of the elderly with traumatic cervical injury by Yanmara Betharte Sotomayor, Delvis Serra Reyes

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions</strong>: population aging requires the development of specialized therapies, where the morphophysiological characteristics of this group are taken into account, which will allow better functional recovery and an adequate quality of life.…”
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About the Concept “Learning” in Russian-language Academic Discourse by M. A. Ivanova

“…Taking this requirement into account, the author concludes that the only possible equivalent of “learning” in Russian is “uchenie”, not “obuchenie”, while the phrase “the shift from teaching to learning” and the term “student-centred learning” should be translated as “sdvig / perekhod ot prepodavaniya k ucheniyu” and “studentotsentrirovannoe uchenie” respectively. …”
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Construction of Gender Identity in Political Discourse by E. D. Butsyk

“…Traditional androcentrism of political discourse may account for modifying the female speech style towards masculinity to achieve certain communicative aims.…”
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RETRACTED: Protecting the Rights of Minorities under International Law and Implications of COVID-19: An Overview of the Indian Context by Nehaluddin Ahmad

“…This paper offers an alternative account of why minority rights have international significance and more information on the value of an international, socially just process for the allocation of resources by states. …”
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Key Mechanisms of Risk Management in South Africa’s National Government Departments: The Public Sector Risk Management Framework and the King III Benchmark by Tankiso Moloi

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Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 12 in Cities: Best Practices by Ewa Jastrzębska

“… Although urban areas do not occupy much of the Earth’s surface, their inhabitants account for more than half of the global population. …”
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An Emerging Theory of School-Based Participatory Science by P. Sean Smith, Christine L. Goforth, Sarah J. Carrier, Meredith L. Hayes, Sarah E. Safley

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Lexicalisation of crop names in Bena, Hehe, and Sangu societies of Tanzania by Adriano Utenga, Amani Lusekelo

“…The theory of lexicalisation guided this study to account for the nativisation and coinage of crop names. …”
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Projet du parc linéaire de l’humedal Juan Amarillo, 2000-2018, Bogota, Colombie by Eduardo Samper Martinez

“…The aim is to restore these wetland areas and adapt them to the current urban situation as much as possible, taking into account the knowledge and good use of the natural elements.…”
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The Extent of Lymphadenectomy at the Time of Radical Cystectomy for Bladder Cancer and its Impact on Prognosis and Survival by David Y. Josephson, John P. Stein

“…An historical perspective of lymphadenectomy and an anatomic account of bladder lymphatic drainage are presented. …”
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Ist es notwendig polnische Nasalvokale zu untersuchen? by Molenda Aleksandra, Artur Tworek

“…A concrete communicative consonant situation in which the nasal vowels discussed in the article are realised should also be taken into account.…”
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The concept of vulnerability and its relation to equality in the context of human rights: cases from climate change, anti-discrimination and asylum by Monika Mayrhofer, Margit Ammer, Katrin Wladasch

“…The concept does not have equality-promoting connotations, emphasizes individual and group-specific deficit accounts, and often fails to grasp structural factors of discrimination and inequality.…”
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Of value orientations’ formation aspects of youth in the context of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs and the Russian Youth Union projects by G. R. Fatkullina

“…The article conclute that the Rosmolodezh and RUY projects are an important tool for the value orientations’ formation among young people and for such a successful value orientations’ formation it is necessary to take into account the specifics of the youth audience, as well as to use innovative methods of working with it.…”
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Models of civil servants’ digital competence: approaches to formation and evaluation by N. S. Gegedyush, E. V. Maslennikova, V. A. Osipov

“…The authors substantiate proposals regarding the formation of a model of digital competence, namely, the need to take into account the division of requirements into basic and professional ones, the reflection of differentiation into categories and groups of civil service positions.…”
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Estimation du sexe fœtal à partir de l’ilium by Pascal Adalian, Sandrine Boutin-Forzano, Marie-Dominique Piercecchi-Marti, Yann Ardagna, Michel Signoli, Ferenc Kosa, Georges Leonetti, Olivier Dutour

“…During this research, we tested the different methods proposed for fetal iliac bones and adapted some others used particularly in the case of adults.For this reason, we set up and validated a protocol of taking photographs, as well as a measurement technique developed for numeric pictures with the help of a software program, Adobe Photoshop 6‚.During this study, we selected certain parameters, principally the ones taken on the great sciatic notch, which showed a strong correlation with sex, and we established a logistic regression for estimating the probability of belonging to one sex or the other.The weak percentage of sexual differentiation obtained by this formula led us to take into account age: we organised our sample in different age groups and established a formula that permits correct sex determination in more than 85% of cases (in our sample) for fetuses that are less than 24 gestational weeks old.…”
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