The Effect of Morphological Characteristic of Coarse Aggregates Measured with Fractal Dimension on Asphalt Mixture’s High-Temperature Performance by Hainian Wang, Yin Bu, Yanzhe Wang, Xu Yang, Zhanping You

“…Good linear correlations between the fractal dimension and high-temperature indexes were obtained for all three types of mixtures. Moreover, the results also indicated that higher coarse aggregate angularity leads to stronger high-temperature shear resistance of asphalt mixtures.…”
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Conformity of Islamic Banks with AAOIFI Standards for General Presentation and Disclosure in Turkey and Bahrain by Yusuf Avşar, Ozan Özdemir

“…Due to the average compliance level achieved by Islamic banks (using the unweighted disclosure index) in Turkey (54.6%), and since all banks in Turkey apply international financial reporting standards and international accounting standards, it is found that there is a relation between AAOIFI and International Accounting Standards Board standards even though they are different. …”
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Study of morphology with assessment of expression of proliferation marker Ki67 antigen and P53 protein in lesions of gall bladder by Ojasvi Ramesh, Mamta Gupta, Sanjay Kaushik, Seema Acharya, Brijesh Thakur, Aparna Bhardwaj

“…Ki67 index also showed the same trend in all cases. Conclusions: p53 and ki-67 expression increases in inflammation, and further increment occurs in premalignant and malignant lesions of the gall bladder epithelium and can be used as a marker of aggression of histopathological lesions. …”
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ANALYZING GREEN SITE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN MALAYSIA: TRENDS AND INSIGHTS by Khoo Terh Jing, Chin Yee Ha, Mohd Wira Mohd Shafiei, Radzi Ismail

“…Five contractors were randomly selected from the construction sites in Malaysia using the convenience sampling method. These respondents, all at the management level, were well-positioned to provide insights. …”
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ESG efficiency analysis in the IT industry: a DEA-based approach by O. N. Arunkumar, D. Divya, Chandan

“…Higher ESG scores demonstrate commitment towards responsible business practices and indicate higher market value for companies, which are valid for all sectors, including IT. However, existing literature reveals that IT sector companies pay less attention to planning their operations to make them more sustainable. …”
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Physician modified endograft to treat a symptomatic juxta-renal aortic aneurysm: report of the first case at our center by Henrique Guedes da Rocha, Luís Loureiro, Sérgio Teixeira, Carolina Vaz, Rui Machado

“…A six-month follow-up CTA confirmed the AAA's exclusion, with maintained patency of all visceral vessels and no evidence of endoleak. …”
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"Ouro verde" - "Dádiva divina" - "A definição de família": Perceções e atitudes dos visitantes domésticos do olivoturismo em relação ao património olivícola na Grécia by Maria Kouri, Marios Kondakis

“…Foram realizadas entrevistas qualitativas com uma amostra aleatória de 55 visitantes de OT predominantemente domésticos, entre fevereiro e abril de 2023, como parte do projeto europeu Olive4All. Os resultados indicam que os visitantes domésticos do OT tem níveis elevados de escolaridade e possuem uma consciência substancial sobre o significado multifacetado do património olivícola. …”
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Community awareness, perceptions, and behavior regarding antibiotic consumption in an urban area of Pondicherry by C. Niranjhanadevi, P. Stalin

“…Among them, more than 70% of participants were aware that antibiotics are used for killing germs but almost all said that antibiotics are often needed for cold and flu illnesses. 83.2% opined that they should take antibiotics to prevent getting a serious illness. 42.3% of the study participants never completed a full course of antibiotic treatment after feeling better with a few doses. …”
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PAUL FEYERABEND ON THE SCIENTIFIC WORLDVIEW: TOWARDS QUESTIONING THE SCIENTIFIC UNIFORMITY by N. I. Petrunok

“…As Feyerabend diagnosed faults of relativism, instrumentalism, and realism – all of them are threatened by the same menace of being invalid to response the world “at face value” – we have to deal somehow with topics denounced by him. …”
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a Patient with a Dual Chamber Pacemaker by Lynne Martina Millar, Andrew George Robinson, Maurice Thomas O'Flaherty, Niall Eames, Nicola Johnston, Gary Heyburn

“…This has become increasingly difficult in clinical practice as insertion of pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators is at an all time high. Here we outline a case where a 71-year-old male patient with a permanent pacemaker needed to have an MRI scan to ascertain the aetiology of his condition and help guide further management. …”
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Mechanical and Frictional Behavior of Jute-Textile-Reinforced Polymer Composites With Matrix Modification by Farhin Tabassum, M. R. Asekin, M. Salim Kaiser, S. Reaz Ahmed

“…Moreover, at the postprocessing temperature of 125°C, all the modified composite samples show their best performances in terms of hardness, strength, modulus, wear rate, and friction coefficient, which is eventually verified to be the optimum postprocessing temperature for the composites of the present type. …”
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Artemisia dracunculus essential oil: phytochemical study, pre-treatment and co-treatment effects on morphine withdrawal syndrome by Zahra Lorigooini, Fatemeh Heibati, Seyyed Matin Ahmadi, Sareh Mohammadi, Mahmoud Rafieian-Kopaei

“…The post-treated group received morphine for 3 days; on the fourth day, ten minutes before receiving naloxone, A. dracunculus essential oil with a dose of 75 mg/kg was injected. All groups received naloxone 2 hours after receiving the last dose of morphine; then, the morphine withdrawal symptoms were measured for 30 minutes. …”
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Stepping in Place While Voluntarily Turning Around Produces a Long-Lasting Posteffect Consisting in Inadvertent Turning While Stepping Eyes Closed by Stefania Sozzi, Marco Schieppati

“…The posteffect of voluntary turning shared all features of PKAR. Time decay of angular velocity, stepping cadence, head acceleration, and ratio of angular velocity after to angular velocity before were similar between both protocols. …”
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Water Quality Characteristics and Seasonal Changes in Wastewater Treatment in the Southern Hebei Region by Branch by Chao Qu, Weiyuan Cao, Kun Dong, Dunqiu Wang, Yi Yao

“…Following the upgrade, Plant T also steadily met the Level A standard. The effluent from all plants was relatively stable, primarily influenced by the influent characteristics and slightly influenced by temperature, but without having a noticeable impact on the effluent quality.…”
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Investigating Parkinson’s disease risk across farming activities using data mining and large-scale administrative health data by Pascal Petit, François Berger, Vincent Bonneterre, Nicolas Vuillerme

“…The lowest-risk group included all activities involving horses and small animals, as well as gardening, landscaping and reforestation companies (mean HRs: 0.48–0.81). …”
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Body Condition Scores and Evaluation of Feeding Habits of Dogs and Cats at a Low Cost Veterinary Clinic and a General Practice by Stephanie A. Sapowicz, Deborah E. Linder, Lisa M. Freeman

“…Veterinarians were the most common source of nutritional information, though lack of accurate nutrition knowledge was common among all participants. These findings support the need for enhanced communication about optimal BCS and nutrition regardless of socioeconomic status.…”
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Party Autonomy in The Regulation of Transfer of Title: Comparative Analysis by M. A. Oleynikov

“…However, such a manifestation of the party autonomy is not allowed in all legal systems and is not a generally accepted approach. …”
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The problem of “harm” in the theory of international relations by M. A. Gadzhiev

“…Political governance of biological aspects of the life of the population is directly related to the problem of physical harm in the sense that biopolitics, on the one hand, is aimed at maintaining the physical health of the population, on the other hand, politics is still at the core of biopolitics, so sometimes it can turn against all or part of its population as happened in Nazi Germany. …”
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Securitization of Energy Supply within the European Integration by Y. V. Borovsky, O. V. Shishkina

“…The literature review does not give a definitive and comprehensive answer to this question which is essential for all the history of the EEC and the EU. The authors of this study use an extensive documentary database available on the EU websites. …”
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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Sexually Transmitted Infections among Jimma University Students, Southwest Ethiopia by Rahel Tamrat, Tesfaye Kasa, Zewdineh Sahilemariam, Mulatu Gashaw

“…Having had sex after taking alcohol was significantly associated with STIs (P≤0.000). All N. gonorrhoeae isolates were found to be resistant to penicillin and tetracycline. …”
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