Antecedents of marketing climate change adaption construction materials: Evidence from Ghana by Kwame Obiri Yeboah, Nicholas Oppong Mensah, Isaac Tandoh, Nana Jesse Telfa Roberts, Kwame Asare Duffour

“… Purpose: Climate Change affects all countries in the world. It impacts negatively on the living conditions of humankind, especially livelihood, temperature change, rainfall regime, and rise in tidal waves. …”
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Profiles of Early Expressive Phonological Skills-Brazilian Portuguese (PEEPS-BP): a diagnostic accuracy study by Simone Nicolini de Simoni, Denis Altieri de Oliveira Moraes, Karina Carlesso Pagliarin, Márcia Keske-Soares

“…Children were administered the PEEPS-BP - Expanded List and responses to each item/stimulus were analyzed based on the following categories: spontaneous naming, repetition, and not naming the item at all. Criterion validity was established using Student’s T-test to compare the scores obtained by clinical and control group participants on the instrument. …”
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Antimicrobials susceptibility and β—lactamase activity of staphylococci isolated from dairy cows with mastitis by H. Hüseyin Hadimli, Mehmet Ateş, Leyia Güler, Kürşat Kav, Taner Öncel

“…Of coagulase positive strains, 36 (46.1 %) which all were identified, as S. aureus and 12 (48 %) of the coagulase negative strains (S epidermidis 10 and S. sımulans 2) were found to have β-lactamase activity Antibiotic susceptibility tests revealed that 105 (98.1 %} of 107 staphylococci strains were found susceptible to either enroflaxacin or danofloxacin or amoxicillin+clavuculanic acid. …”
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An Innovation Capability Development Process for Firms in Developing Countries: A Theoretical Conceptual Model by Gezahegn Tesfaye, Daniel Kitaw

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Prevalence, risk factors and health-seeking behavior of menstrual disorders among women in India: a review of two-decade evidence by Puja Das, Suresh Jungari

“…Results Results show that the prevalence of any menstrual disorders ranges from 3% to 87%. Among all menstrual disorders, Dysmenorrhea was reported to be high (46% to 76%) among women, followed by premenstrual symptoms (PMS) (40% to 71%), while PCOS (3% to 14.14%) was less. …”
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Emergency Trajectory Structure for UAVs by Maëva Ongale-Obeyi, Damien Goubinat, Daniel Delahaye, Pierre-Loïc Garoche

“…The aim is to lighten pilots’ workload, offering quick and effective solutions. However, almost all flight optimizers proposed in the literature still need to be completed when it comes to resolving emergency contexts, which presents a significant disadvantage to the advancement of scientific research. …”
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Knowledge of clear aligner therapy in orthodontics among dental practitioners in Benin city, Nigeria by Otaren NJ

“…Majority of the respondents believe that clear aligners cannot correct all types of malocclusion. Conclusion: This study carried out among dental practitioners in a Nigerian population showed that majority of them know about clear aligners, and most of them got the information from friends. …”
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SOCIAL AND PEDAGOGICAL FORECASTING IN THE PROCESS OF CHILDREN’S SOCIALIZATION by Antonina L. Leutina

“…The content-analysis of results of the researches published in scientific and pedagogical journals during 2006–2013, has shown that in modern educational practice while implementing the measures on children socialization, projective technologies of forecasting of the future of pupils are used precious little or are not used at all. The socio-constructive approach reducing many risks of pedagogical activity is given; as an effective toolkit of prospects determination of social and personal development of the child. …”
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A Comparative Study: The Use of Collagen Implant versus Mitomycin-C in Combined Trabeculotomy and Trabeculectomy for Treatment of Primary Congenital Glaucoma by Alaa Abdel Sadek Singab, Osama Ali Mohammed, Mohammed Iqbal Hafez Saleem, Mortada Ahmed Abozaid

“…Thirty-four eyes of twenty-one patients with primary congenital glaucoma were included in this study. All patients were subjected to preoperative evaluation including complete anterior segment examination under general anesthesia. …”
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Histopathological Profile of Cholecystectomy Specimens at a Tertiary Care Center: A Retrospective Study by Udita Bajaj, Dimple Kalsi, Preeti Bajaj, Sheela Chikhalikar

“…Special stains were done if required for confirmation. All the slides were analyzed and reported by a trained histopathologist. …”
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Is Tonsillolith a Protective Factor Against Covid-19 ? by Sevcihan Günen Yılmaz, Gamze Coşan Ata

“…This radiological study aims to investigate the potential effect of tonsilloliths on Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).Material and Methods: This study, which has a cross-sectional retrospective design, was carried out by evaluating the digital panoramic radiographs taken before the pandemic period of the patient group (n=402) who had COVID -19, who applied to the Akdeniz University Faculty of Dentistry Oral, Dental and Maxillofacial radiology clinic, and the control group (n:400) who did not have COVID -19, in terms of the presence of tonsilloliths. All Statistical analyzes were performed with SPSS version 22.0 and P <0.05 was considered to indicate statistical significance. …”
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Quality of Commercial Coffees: Heavy Metal and Ash Contents by Mariana Teixeira Pigozzi, Flávia Regina Passos, Fabrícia Queiroz Mendes

“…In the infusions of roasted ground coffee, the Cd, Cu, Cr, and Ni contents were below the detection limit of the equipment. Zn was found in all infusions and Pb was only detected in seven coffee infusion samples. …”
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Frequency Resource Sharing and Allocation Scheme Based on Coalition Formation Game in Hybrid D2D-Cellular Network by Qing Ou, Rongqing Zhang, Xi Luan, Yuxin Cheng, Jun Wu, Jianjun Wu

“…Specifically, we formulate the resource allocation problem as a coalition formation game with transferable utility, in which all users have the incentive to cooperate with some others and form a competitive group to maximize the probability of obtaining their favorite spectrum resources. …”
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Effects of Curcumin on The Changes in Some Acute Phase Proteins in Aflatoxin B1 Applied Rats by Ercan Keskin, Deniz Uluışık, Durmuş Hatipoğlu

“…At the end of the study, nitric oxide, amyloid-A, haptoglobin and ceruloplasmin were determined in blood samples taken from all animals. In this study, nitric oxide, amyloid-A, haptoglobin and ceruloplasmin levels with aflatoxin B1 administration were found to be significantly higher than the control group (p lt;0.05). …”
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Social role performance and self-identity among breast cancer patients in Lagos, Nigeria by Samuel Ojima Adejoh, Deborah Tolulope Esan, Adeola Adejayan

“…Results and Discussion: A total of 15 women with breast cancer, between 30 and 60 years of age (M = 42.3), participated in this study. All the respondents were married, had children and were working before the cancer diagnosis. …”
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Nonthermal heavy dark matter from a first-order phase transition by Gian F. Giudice, Hyun Min Lee, Alex Pomarol, Bibhushan Shakya

“…Using our improved results, we find that scalar, fermion, and vector dark matter are all viable across a large range of mass scales, from O $$ \mathcal{O} $$ (10) TeV to a few orders of magnitude below the Planck scale, and the corresponding phase transitions can be probed with current and future gravitational wave experiments.…”
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Study of Demarcation Line Depth in Transepithelial versus Epithelium-Off Accelerated Cross-Linking (AXL) in Keratoconus by Yehia Salah, Kholoud Omar, Ahmed Sherif, Sarah Azzam

“…In the epithelium-off AXL technique, the demarcation line was well defined in all cases with a mean depth of 219 ± 27.3 μm. There was a statistically significant difference in corneal demarcation line depth between transepithelial and epithelium-off techniques (P = 0.008 and P < 0.05). …”
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Forecasting Carbon Emissions with Dynamic Model Averaging Approach: Time-Varying Evidence from China by Siqi Xu, Yifeng Zhang, Xiaodan Chen

“…The empirical results show that, firstly, the explanatory power of each nonenergy predictor changes significantly with time and no predictor has a stable positive/negative impact on China’s carbon emissions throughout the whole sample period. Secondly, all these predictors present a distinct predictive ability for carbon emission in China. …”
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The The Influence of Perceived Convenience and Service Quality on Customer Loyalty (A Study at the Brilink Agent Bio Energy 2 Sidoarjo) by Devi Putri Pratama, Budi Prabowo

“…The population used in this research was all customers of the BRILink Bio Energi 2 Sidoarjo Agent. …”
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A left-to-right bias in number-space mapping across ages and cultures by Elena Eccher, Mathilde Josserand, Serge Caparos, Esther Boissin, Marco Buiatti, Manuela Piazza, Giorgio Vallortigara

“…On the other hand, in a numerosity comparison task, all groups performed better when small numerosities were presented in the left hemispace. …”
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