After a Hand Was Lent: Sporadically Experiencing Multisensory Interference During the Rubber Hand Illusion Does Not Shield Against Disembodiment by Julia Eck, David Dignath, Andreas Kalckert, Roland Pfister

“…In analogy to this, we investigated whether experiencing occasional visuo-motor mismatches during the induction phase of the moving rubber hand illusion (intermittent condition) would result in slower disembodiment as compared to a regular induction phase where motor and visual signals always match (continuous condition). However, we did not find an effect of reinforcement schedule on disembodiment. …”
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Abdominal Wall Desmoid during Pregnancy: Diagnostic Challenges by Johnny Awwad, Nadine Hammoud, Chantal Farra, Farah Fares, George Abi Saad, Ghina Ghazeeri

“…Due to the diagnostic limitations of imaging techniques, desmoids should always be considered when the following manifestations are observed in combination: progressive growth of a solitary abdominal wall mass during pregnancy and well-delineated smooth tumor margins demonstrated by imaging techniques. …”
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Experimental Demonstration of Special-Shaped 32-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Constellations for Visible Light Communications by Xinyue Guo, Shuangshuang Li, Yang Guo

“…Experimental results show that the bit error rate performance is finally decided by the value of PAPR in the VLC system due to the serious nonlinearity of the LED, where the Circular (4, 11, 17) scheme always performs best under the 7% preforward error correction threshold of 3.8 × 10−3 with 62.5Mb/s transmission data rate and 1-meter transmission distance.…”
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Study on the Durability of Concrete under an Underwater Coupling Environment by Chunhua You, Gen He

“…The durability of the concrete structure under the coupling effect of underwater corrosion particles has always been one of the hot issues at home and abroad. …”
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Multilingualism in Lithuanian Children’s Folklore by Anglickienė Laimutė, Macijauskaitė-Bonda Jurgita

“…Multilingualism and multiculturalism have always been phenomena present in folklore. Since the last decades of the 20th century, due to changes in lifestyle influenced by factors such as globalization, intense migration, development of social media, and information technologies, manifestations of multilingualism and multiculturalism have become even more noticeable and, in consequence, are becoming an important feature of contemporary folkloric creation. …”
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Presenting and Solving a Three-layer Supply Chain Model to Maximize Quality and Minimize the Estimated Delivery Time by Elham Nazemi, Mahdi Yousefi Nejad Attari, Mahdi Ghaffari

“…Besides, it is undeniable that service provision and product transportation from a chain layer to the next one do not take the same amount of time because due to different reasons such as transportation challenges, there would always be the possibility that transportation doesn’t go as planned.  …”
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Nonsurgical Treatment of a Massive Substance Loss by Pasquale Fino, Fioramonti Paolo, Diego Massera, Vittoria Amorosi, Maria Giuseppina Onesti

“…In most of the lesions of such size and position, there is always a need for surgery. But in this case, considering the young age and the regenerative capacity of the patient, a quick and targeted antibiotic therapy was chosen, combined with debridement and worked with collagenase ointment.…”
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User satisfaction with the nursing care quality by Erika Marcela León Revelo, Alexandra Patricia Abata Erazo, Julio Rodrigo Morillo Cano

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> more than half of the patients expressed feeling restless when they are not attended to quickly; 54.3% rate the care provided by the nursing staff as good; 37% answered that they almost always use language in simple terms. More than half of those surveyed believed that the treatment received was good and 47.4% expressed that the nursing staff should improve regarding the treatment.…”
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Primary Headache Attributed to External Compression or Traction to the Head: A Narrative Review by Ole Hensel, Torsten Kraya

“…Apart from avoiding the trigger, which is not always possible, effective therapies have not been established. …”
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Indirect evidence of an early mating advantage in wild cooperatively breeding male banded mongooses by Graham Birch, Michael A. Cant, Hazel J. Nichols, Magali Meniri, Robert Businge, Francis Mwanguhya, Jonathan D. Blount

“…Males can attempt to monopolise access to these females, but distractions and sneaky rivals mean extra copulations cannot always be blocked. By mating first, males can obtain a headstart in sperm competition, but this may be negated by sperm storage and cryptic female choice mechanisms. …”
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Dimension Estimation Using Weighted Correlation Dimension Method by Yuanhong Liu, Zhiwei Yu, Ming Zeng, Shun Wang

“…Among all the dimension estimation methods, correlation dimension (CD) method is one of the most popular ones, which always assumes that the effect of every point on the intrinsic dimension estimation is identical. …”
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Contracts Adjustment under Bilateral Information Updating in a Supply Chain by Xinhui Wang, Yingsheng Su, Zihan Zhou, Yiling Fang

“…Secondly, for a certain level of information accuracy of the production cost and market demand, the retailer is always better off with information updating, but the manufacturer may be worse off with information updating when facing a bad market outlook. …”
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Is It Possible to Observe Society in Its Totality? Niklas Luhmann as Perseus and Medusa as Society by A. Yu. Antonovskiy

“…This circumstance gives rise to the paradox of self-applicability or self-reference in their social specification, since generalizing statements about society, if they claim to be universal in description, are always applicable to the statements themselves. It is substantiated that the paradoxes of self- applicability and self-reference, without receiving their resolution, are never- theless performatively realized both in social reality itself and in its theoretical representation, and ensure the function of the social system — reflection of the system and the possibility of comparing one’s own observation resources with the methods of observation of adjacent communication systems. …”
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À quel corps appartient cette voix ? Quelle voix est parlée par ce corps ? La disjonction de la voix et du corps comme fondement de la performance dans les spectacles Spectacular,... by Charlotte Bouteille-Meister

“…And finally how can one represent and confront death, this moment when the rhythm of the performance slows down and the story comes to a halt that signifies the ultimate separation of body and voice – whilst knowing that death will always undermine the brilliant playfulness of every performance by Forced Entertainment?…”
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Our journey with François Gros by Butler-Browne, Gillian, Mouly, Vincent

“…This common scientific career was made possible thanks to the precious and always benevolent support of François Gros.…”
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Evaluation of Non-Timber forest Products (NTFPs) In Bronze Casting Enterprise at Egun Street, Benin City, Edo state by C Kalu, EN Aigbobo

“…The patronage levels of bronze users were always (34.51%), sometimes and once a while accounted for 45.22 and 20.24% respectively. …”
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Advanced Role of Neutrophils in Common Respiratory Diseases by Jinping Liu, Zhiqiang Pang, Guoqiang Wang, Xuewa Guan, Keyong Fang, Ziyan Wang, Fang Wang

“…Respiratory diseases, always being a threat towards the health of people all over the world, are most tightly associated with immune system. …”
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Stump Appendicitis: An Uncompleted Surgery, a Rare but Important Entity with Potential Problems by J. A. A. Awe, A. M. Soliman, R. W. Gourdie

“…Surgical treatment is easy but recognition of this important entity but potentially dangerous condition should always be borne in mind in order to avoid delay in its diagnosis and treatment.…”
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The New Anti-Terrorism Act of the Philippines and Its Conflict with the International Human Rights System by Nader Naseri Naseri Pilehdaraq, Hooriyeh Hosseini Akbarnezhad

“…Terrorism has always been a threat to the lives and security of the Filipino people. …”
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Analysis of Students' Reading Difficulties of SDN Bangsa Negara East Oku in Thematic Learning by Sri Enggar Kencana Dewi, Sukron Hidayat, Ratih Purnama Pertiwi, Nur Hasanah

“…The problem of reading difficulties in SDN Bangsa Negara is also related to the lack of supporting facilities for learning, the inaccessibility of learning, material problems, motivation problems, concentration problems, learning problems when the children are not ready for the learning process or refuse to learn, so the teacher's efforts in this regard are by providing additional hours and use of varied and interesting media, paying attention to student development, motivating students who have reading difficulty in class to learn, always training and trying to learn to read for students who are still lacking fluency.…”
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