Inventory and Potential of Natural Enemies ( Predators and Parasitoids ) as Pest Controller in Lemon Crops in Langkat, North Sumatera by Endi Kurniawan, Ameilia Zuliyanti Siregar

“…This study uses a purposive sampling method with 5 types, such as yellow sticky trap, red trap, black trap, blue ball trap, and net trap. Total insects identified on the lemon’s vegetation (Citrus lemon) consist of 10 Orders, 38 Families and 49 Genera, and 2308 individuals. …”
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Enhancing Classification Models With Sophisticated Counterfactual Images by Xiang Li, Ren Togo, Keisuke Maeda, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama

“…However, because these models have <italic>black boxes</italic>, these problems cannot be solved effectively. …”
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Development of a Web-Based Village Tourism Management Information System to Support Sustainable Tourism Destinations by Hennie Tuhuteru, Dessy Gloria Palyama, Junioverrill Gavriel Ferdinandus, Desya Y Metiary

“…System testing employed usability testing during the User Design phase and black-box testing during the Construction phase. …”
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Seasonal variations of blood aspartate aminotransferase and vitamin c on local breeds and cross breeds of sheep in konya central animal research institute by İbrahim Durmuş, Leyla Kalaycıoğlu

“…Fifty four sheep of Merino, Akkaraman, German Black Head (GBH) x Merino, GBHx Akkaraman, GBH x Ivesi, Hampshire Down (HS) x Merino, HSx Akkaraman, HS x Ivesi, Lincoln x Merino breed belonging Konya Central Animal Research Institute were used to determine the blood levels of activity of aspartate amino transferase (AST) and ascorbic acid during different seasons. …”
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Ecological Risk Assessment for Invasive Wildlife in Florida by Venetia Briggs-Gonzalez, Kyle Allen, Rebecca G. Harvey, Frank J. Mazzotti

“…While it is too late to prevent the invasion of Burmese pythons and Argentine black and white tegus, we can act to prevent other potentially destructive species from establishing. …”
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Violence and Memory in the Multiple Versions of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen by John K. Young

“…Subsequent printings have included more names—first Eric Garner then John Crawford, killed by a police officer while carrying a BB gun in an Ohio Walmart—and eventually sixteen more memorials, including Tamir Rice and Freddie Gray, with a fading stream of “In Memory” stretched across the remainder of the page, and with the recto reading, “because white men can’t / police their imagination / black men are dying.”This paper traces the post-publication variants in Citizen as an index of the book’s attempts to remake itself in response to new tragedies, and to portray white violence more broadly than in the “justice system” alone. …”
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Electrochemical Sensor Based on Carboxymethyl Cellulose-Coated Copper Nanoparticle Composite for Detection of Norfloxacin in Milk by LI Shengnan, HU Minkang, QIN Boyang, YANG Wen, FENG Jun, DU Haijun

“…A highly sensitive electrochemical sensor for the detection of norfloxacin (NFX) was constructed using CMC@Cu/CB composites, which were prepared from carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC)-coated copper nanoparticles (Cu NPs) and carbon black (CB). The structure and morphology of CMC@Cu/CB were characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (SPS), and X-ray diffraction (XRD). …”
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A Survey of Vehicle System and Energy Models by Lingyun Hua, Jian Tang, Guoming Zhu

“…Three types of vehicle energy consumption models are explored according to their interpretability: white-box, black-box, and grey-box models. Optimizing vehicle energy usage based upon a vehicle energy consumption model is reviewed from the aspects of eco-driving and eco-routing problems at the end of the paper. …”
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The Silurian Section of the Valle syncline (Sierra Norte de Sevilla UNESCO Global Geopark, Spain) as an International Standard for Graptolite Biostratigraphy by Juan Carlos Gutierrez-Marco, David Loydell, Petr Storch

“…In the core part of the Valle syncline, the El Pintado-1 section exhibits a condensed graptolite-rich Silurian black-shale facies ranging from the base of the Rhuddanian to the upper Ludfordian. …”
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Arterial Hypertension in Adolescents from Moa. Prevalence and Clinical Characterization by Alexander Torres Molina

“…The highest percentage of patients with prehypertension and high blood pressure was seen in people over 19 years of age, men, and black skin color.…”
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Evaluation of strawberry cultivars as sources of high winter hardiness and productivity by M. I. Zubkova, S. D. Knyazev, Z. E. Ozherelieva

“…According to a set of indicators ‘Tsaritsa’ is promising for large-scale cultivation in the Central Black Earth Region of Russia.…”
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Racial/Ethnic inequality &amp; contemporary disparities in mortgage lending. by Meghan M O'Neil, Vincent J Roscigno

“…Specifically, mortgage originations, while generally less likely in high minority concentrated areas, appear to be more likely for Black/Hispanic borrowers in areas that have been becoming increasingly minority concentrated. …”
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Long-Term Rainfall Information Forecast by Utilizing Constrained Amount of Observation through Artificial Neural Network Approach by Muhammed E. Akiner

“…A case study was presented for Turkey’s Düzce and Bolu neighboring territories located on the Black Sea’s southern coast. This study’s primary aim is to create an ANN model unique in the field to generate satisfactory results even with limited data. …”
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Color Stability and Surface Roughness of Different Composite Resins after Using Different Polishing Systems. by Hisham Z. Abdullah, Bassam K. Amin

“… Background and objectives: To evaluate and compare the color stability and surface roughness of different composite resins after using different polishing systems and then submitting to accelerating artificial aging (AAA) and staining by black tea. Method: Twenty disk-shaped specimens (were compacted into the custom-made cylindrical plastic mold that had an internal diameter of 10 mm and a depth of 2 mm) were prepared for each composite resin type (3M Z350, Tokoyama Palfique, and Shofu Beautifil II) for a total of 60 specimens, each composite group was divided into two subgroups according to the polishing system (n=10) (Shofu super-snap polishing disks and Eve Diacomp Plus Twist wheel). …”
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Functionalized Activated Carbon Derived from Biomass for Photocatalysis Applications Perspective by Samira Bagheri, Nurhidayatullaili Muhd Julkapli, Sharifah Bee Abd Hamid

“…Therefore, proper attention has been given to develop supported semiconductor catalysts and certain matrixes of carbon materials such as carbon nanotubes, carbon microspheres, carbon nanofibers, carbon black, and activated carbons have been recently considered and reported. …”
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From the Reindeer Path to the Highway and Back – Understanding the Movements of Khanty Reindeer Herders in Western Siberia by Stephan Dudeck

“…The first perspective allows only for a functionalist classification and the second allows the researcher to be taken in by the black and white pictures of moral evaluations that render the complexity of everyday life invisible. …”
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Influence of Synthesis pH on Textural Properties of Carbon Xerogels as Supports for Pt/CXs Catalysts for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells by C. Alegre, M. E. Gálvez, D. Sebastián, R. Moliner, M. J. Lázaro

“…Catalysts were also synthesized over a commercial carbon black (Vulcan-XC-72R) for comparison purposes. Characterization techniques included nitrogen physisorption, scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction. …”
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Prevalence and risk factors of teat end hyperkeratosis in cows from the Urals region of Russia by A.S. Barkova, V.V. Verkhoturov

“…The research of the state of udder teats in cows during lactation has been conducted in the farms of the Ural region containing Holsteinized black-motley cows with different levels of milk productivity. …”
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Splenic infarction following torsion of wandering spleen involving pancreatic tail successfully managed in resource limited setting: a case report by Abel Gashaw Wubie, Berhanu Yirga, Martha H. Goedert

“…Case presentation A 40-year-old Black female patient of Amhara ethnicity, from Ethiopia, presented with dull, aching abdominal pain and episodes of vomiting. …”
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Doğu Akdeniz’de Soğuk Savaş Dönemi Sovyet Faaliyetleri: Pyadyy Eskadra [Beşinci Filo] ve Türk Boğazları by İsmail KÖSE

“…Despite aircraft carrier passage has been prohibited by Montreux, Turkey permitted Soviet aircraft carriers’ one way north-south passages which were built in the Black Sea shipyards and named with different classes. …”
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