Citrus BMP Implementation in Florida's Gulf Citrus Production Area: Water, Sediment, and Aquatic Weeds by Sanjay Shukla, Robert E. Rouse, S. S. Shukla, Edward A. Hanlon, Kenneth Portier, Thomas A. Obreza

“…Obreza, describes a survey conducted by the authors in cooperation with the Gulf Citrus Growers Association (GCGA) and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDCAS) to quantify the current level of Best Management Practice (BMP) implementation and to identify BMPs that might be adopted if a cost-share program was available. It discusses the findings regarding water, sediment, and aquatic weed BMPs. …”
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Advances and prospects of cell-penetrating peptides in tumor immunotherapy by Di Yang, Baorui Liu, Huizi Sha

“…This review delves into the crucial role that CPPs play in enhancing tumor immunotherapy, emphasizing their impact on various immunotherapy strategies, such as cytokine therapy, adoptive cell therapy, cancer vaccines, and immune checkpoint inhibitors. …”
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Intelligent Manipulator with Flexible Link and Joint: Modeling and Vibration Control by Minqiang Shao, Yuming Huang, Vadim V. Silberschmidt

“…In order to reduce the dimensions and maintain the precision of the model, an iterated improved reduction system (IIRS) method is adopted. Additionally, a LQR controller is designed based on the output function of the improved model. …”
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Multiscale Systemic Risk and Its Spillover Effects in the Cryptocurrency Market by Xu Zhang, Zhijing Ding

“…However, due to the existence of the cryptocurrency bubble, investors face more difficulties in risk portfolios. We adopt wavelet packet decomposition, nonlinear Granger causality test, risk spillover network, and STVAR model; retain the mature research of multiscale systemic risk based on time and frequency; and thus extend systemic risk to different regimes. …”
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Intelligent Analysis of Computer-Aided Garment Design CAD Based on Virtual Reality Model for Surplus Fabric Removal and Reuse without Segmentation of Cutting Pieces by Tanqiu Wang

“…The form of dividing the garment into multiple types of nonsegmented pieces is adopted so that each nonsegmented piece stands for a complete design element unit. …”
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Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging in Acute Coronary Syndromes by Takashi Kubo, Yasushi Ino, Takashi Tanimoto, Hironori Kitabata, Atsushi Tanaka, Takashi Akasaka

“…The clear and detailed images of OCT generate an intense interest in adopting this technique for both clinical and research purposes. …”
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Modelling of Creep and Stress Relaxation Test of a Polypropylene Microfibre by Using Fraction-Exponential Kernel by Andrea Sorzia

“…A tensile test until breakage and a creep and relaxation test on a polypropylene fibre are carried out and the resulting creep and stress relaxation curves are fit by a model adopting a fraction-exponential kernel in the viscoelastic operator. …”
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Effects of covid-19 and strategies employed by entrepreneurs in the Peruvian gastronomic sector during the pandemic by Karla Soria-Barreto, Gianni Romaní, Guillermo Peralta-Godoy, Rafael Flores-Goycochea, Eduardo Ruiz-Sevillano

“…Through questionnaires and in-depth interviews, the study examines response strategies these businesses adopted to mitigate pandemic consequences. The findings reveal a significant sales reduction as the pandemic’s primary effect, attributed to reduced customer traffic due to government-imposed quarantines. …”
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Sex/gender analysis in systematic reviews. Critical review and recommendations by Raúl Aguilera Eguía, Olga Patricia López Soto, Ángel Roco Videla, Brenda Herrera Serna, Héctor Fuentes Barria, Lorena Gerli Candia

“…Despite these obstacles, it is essential to adopt and standardize it, in order to guarantee accurate assessments and reliable results, as well as to promote more equitable and patient-oriented medicine.…”
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Distance-Based Formation Control for Quadrotors with Collision Avoidance via Lyapunov Barrier Functions by Jawhar Ghommam, Luis F. Luque-Vega, Maarouf Saad

“…In this scheme, the leader is assigned the task of intercepting a target whose velocity is unknown, while the follower quadrotors are arranged to set up a predefined rigid formation pattern, ensuring simultaneously interagent collision avoidance and relative localization. The adopted strategy for the control design consists in decoupling the quadrotor dynamics in a cascaded structure to handle its underactuated property. …”
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THE PLACE OF RELIGION IN PEACE BUILDING: FOCUS ON PLATEAU STATE NIGERIA by TANKO SHAWULU PAUL, LEMON BLESSINGS EBENEZER, KAJAN EMMANUEL MINDAT

“…political feud/elite conspiracy theory was adopted. …”
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The Effect of Perceived Management Skills on Trust in Supervisors: The Mediating Role of Supervisor Support by İbrahim Yıkılmaz, Nida Palabıyık, Mustafa Altıntaş

“…The sample of the study, in which quantitative research design was adopted, consists of employees in small and medium-sized enterprises operating in Kırşehir. …”
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Déconstruction et bioconception des bateaux de plaisance : de nouveaux paradigmes pour l’industrie nautique française by Nicolas Bernard

“…For the past ten years or so, however, the nautical industry has expressed its desire to adopt the precepts of sustainable development, and has struggled to take into account the issue of pleasure boat breaking and recycling. …”
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Improved voltage transfer method for lithium battery string management chip by Kai‐Kai Wu, Hong‐Yi Wang, Chen Chen, Tao Tao, You‐You Fan, Hao Zhang, Yu‐Xin Liu

“…These measurements indicate that this circuit transfers each cell’s voltage reliably and adopt protection against abnormal conditions. Furthermore, analysis of 50 samples shows that the improved method can greatly eliminate the battery leakage. …”
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Unpacking the Entrepreneurship Education Conundrum: Lecturer Competency, Curriculum, and Pedagogy by Chux Gervase Iwu, Eugine Tafadzwa Maziriri, Lucky Sibanda, Tendai Makwara

“…Employing the Gioia methodology, this research adopted a qualitative inductive approach by collecting data from 14 participants actively engaged in entrepreneurship education and development across various South African universities. …”
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Why they persist? An analysis of dual class structures and the unification process in the U.S. and Brazil by Gabriela M. Engler Pinto

“…The unbundling of cash flow and voting rights has been severely criticized worldwide and yet, the dual class structure persists as an alternative widely adopted by firms. This paper aims to provide some explanations as to why this happens, particularly from a comparative perspective that analyzes the contexts of Brazil and the United States, two countries that take a rather different approach regarding corporate ownership structures. …”
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Colloidal cyst of the third ventricle. Case presentation by Ada Sánchez Lozano, María Octavina Rodríguez Roque, Joan O Rojas Fuentes

“…An appropriate practice was adopted due to the uncertain diagnosis in order to avoid neurological damage and death. …”
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Selected Topics on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research: Editorial Introduction to the Issue 14 of CSIMQ by Björn Johansson, Charles Møller

“…In this regard, several information system concepts must be reconsidered to adopt various opportunities offered by the new environment. …”
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Modified Step Variational Iteration Method for Solving Fractional Biochemical Reaction Model by R. Yulita Molliq, M. S. M. Noorani, R. R. Ahmad, A. K. Alomari

“…The MoSVIM uses general Lagrange multipliers for construction of the correction functional for the problems, and it runs by step approach, which is to divide the interval into subintervals with time step, and the solutions are obtained at each subinterval as well adopting a nonzero auxiliary parameter ℏ to control the convergence region of series' solutions. …”
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Improving Efficiency of Evaporated Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin Film Solar Cells by a Thin Ag Intermediate Layer between Absorber and Back Contact by Hongtao Cui, Chang-Yeh Lee, Wei Li, Xiaolei Liu, Xiaoming Wen, Xiaojing Hao

“…A 20 nm Ag coating on Mo back contact was adopted to improve the back contact of evaporated Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) solar cells. …”
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