How Can Clients Improve the Quality of Transport Infrastructure Projects? The Role of Knowledge Management and Incentives by Abukar Warsame, Lena Borg, Hans Lind

“…We argue that given the right conditions all procurement methods can give good results, and given the wrong conditions, all of them can lead to low quality. …”
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Spatial Differentiation and Influencing Factors of Second-Hand Housing Prices: A Case Study of Binhu New District, Hefei City, Anhui Province, China by Song Xu, Zhen Zhang

“…The decoration status and floor are global scale variables, and their spatial heterogeneity is weak. (3) The number of bedrooms, orientation, decoration status, floor, and building structure all positively affect house prices, while area, house age, the distance to the nearest subway station, and the distance to the nearest school negatively affect house prices. …”
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Security in the Realm of Social Justice: From Processes to the Emergence A Critical Look at Justice and National Security by Salman Sadeghizadeh, Abdulamir Nabavi

“…In fact, the concept of national security could serve the sustainable security so long as it succeeds to create and insure justice in all societal fields along with boosting the social capital by which the convenience of individuals and social groups is reachable. …”
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Environmental Detoxification of Benzimidazole Fungicide Fuberidazole via Microbial Action in Liquid Cultures by Jehad S. Al-Hawadi, Khuram Shahzad Ahmad, Mahwash Mahar Gul, Ghulam Abbas Ashraf, Mohammad Altaf

“…Mitigation of the environment from hazardous pesticides is clamant for all living things. The behavior of the fungicide Fuberidazole was investigated toward biodegradation. …”
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Inevitable Choice for Survival: The Last Ottoman Grand Strategy by Murat TOMAN, Fikrettin YAVUZ

“…In history no exceptions all states had guiding strategy to grow, exist or survive within the international environment. …”
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Crop wild relatives of Kaliningrad Province recommended for in situ conservation by L. Yu. Shipilina

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Global Synthesis Method for the Optimization of Multifeed EBG Antennas by Julien Drouet, Marc Thevenot, Régis Chantalat, Cyrille Menudier, Majed Koubeissi, Thierry Monédière, Bernard Jecko

“…The method determines the optimum sets of input waves and input impedances for the feed ports in order to perform simultaneously the radiation pattern and the impedance matching of all the radiating probes that form the array feed. …”
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Pathogenetic, Clinical, and Prognostic Features of Adult t(4;11)(q21;q23)/MLL-AF4 Positive B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia by F. Marchesi, K. Girardi, G. Avvisati

“…Translocation t(4;11)(q21;q23) leading to formation of MLL-AF4 fusion gene is found in about 10% of newly diagnosed B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in adult patients. Patients expressing this chromosomal aberration present typical biological, immunophenotypic, and clinical features. …”
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The impact of self-employment on the economic integration of immigrants: Evidence from Germany by Jan Brzozowski, Anke Lasek

“…This result indirectly shows that the business economy of immigrants is associated with a high risk of failure and not all self-employed individuals succeed in advancing in economic terms in a host country. …”
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A Rare Case of Sudden Death in a Patient with Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Secondary to Cardiac Rupture by Tarun Dalia, Bashar S. Amr, Ankit Agrawal, Archana Gautam, Venkata Rakesh Sethapati, Jared Kvapil

“…Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM), also known as broken heart syndrome or stress-induced cardiomyopathy, is a rare condition with an estimated incidence of 0.02% of all hospitalizations in United States and 2% of all acute coronary syndrome presentations. …”
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Minisatellite Isolation and Minisatellite Molecular Marker Development in <i>Citrus limon</i> (L.) Osbeck by Oleg S. Alexandrov, Dmitry V. Romanov

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A soft switching non‐isolated bidirectional DC–DC converter with improved voltage conversion ratio and minimum number of switches by Nasrin Asadi Madiseh, Ehsan Adib

“…Also, the auxiliary circuit provides soft switching conditions for all the semiconductor elements, regardless of the power flow direction and without any extra voltage stress. …”
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Is Loop Ileostomy in Patients with Cecal Bascule a Viable Option? by Tushar Shetty, Tommy Ivanics, Hassan Nasser, Amalia Stefanou

“…We present a 28-year-old male with cerebral palsy, functionally dependent in all activities of daily living, who had undergone a loop ileostomy for cecal bascule. …”
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A new EJG section entitled “Geographic Insights in Brief” by Panos Manetos, Alexandros Bartzokas-Tsiompras, Kostis C. Koutsopoulos

“…This section will accept two kinds of papers: First, papers announcing new ideas, breakthroughs and innovations in all Geographical areas that need to be immediately communicate to all geographers. …”
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A retrospective analysis of patients undergoing keratoplasty in a tertiary care center by Nikhat Iqbal Tamboli, Rajesh S Joshi, Murtaza Hussain, Shilpa, Bilal Husain, Nikhil Nivritti Darade

“…Study Parameters: Indications, surgical procedures, and outcomes of all surgeries collected and studied. Main Outcomes: Graft survival and visual acuity. …”
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The impact of utilizing ultra-high performance fiber-reinforced concrete in beam-column joints with different patterns of transverse reinforcement by Ayman Abdo, Heba A. Mohamed, Talaat Ryad, Sayed Ahmed

“…For certain specimens, UHPC, UHPFRC with 1% steel fiber, and UHPFRC with 2% steel fiber are poured into all BCJs, and others are poured into the critical zone only. …”
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A Cooperative Intermodal Transportation Network Flow Control Method Based on Model Predictive Control by Yuankai Huang, Qicai Zhou, Xiaolei Xiong, Jiong Zhao

“…The method takes real-time information from all ITCP layers as input and generates flow control decisions for containers. …”
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tRNA Modification and Genetic Code Variations in Animal Mitochondria by Kimitsuna Watanabe, Shin-ichi Yokobori

“…They are UGA (termination codon in the universal genetic code changes to Trp codon in all animal mitochondria), AUA (Ile to Met in most metazoan mitochondria), AAA (Lys to Asn in echinoderm and some platyhelminth mitochondria), AGA/AGG (Arg to Ser in most invertebrate, Arg to Gly in tunicate, and Arg to termination in vertebrate mitochondria), and UAA (termination to Tyr in a planaria and a nematode mitochondria, but conclusive evidence is lacking in this case). …”
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An Intermediate Value Theorem for the Arboricities by Avapa Chantasartrassmee, Narong Punnim

“…We consider the corresponding extremal problem on vertex arboricity and obtain min(a,rn) in all situations and max(a,rn) for all n≥2r+2.…”
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Impact of Taxpayer Compliance on Revenue Collection: A Case of Mbeya City, Tanzania by Beny Mwenda, Lewis Charles

“…The majority of respondents, according to the statistics, believe that taxpayers file returns on time, pay all taxes owed by the deadline, and accurately record their income. …”
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