Body size, richness, and abundance of Staphylinidae unaffected by landscape composition and cropping system in a push–pull maize system in Kenya by Nina Garcia Devine, Tim Luttermoser, Katja Poveda

“…Our results demonstrate that changes in land use and local management do not always lead to changes in the diversity and functional traits of predator communities.…”
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Perceptions associées à l'intégration sociale, à la capacité à réussir et au soutien à l'engagement académique d'étudiants de 1re année dans le cadre d’un programme d’allègement de... by Laurent Leduc, Céline Tonus, Pascal Detroz

“…We also observed a positive sense of the ability to succeed, not always associated with success, but often linked with improved performance. …”
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Cinacalcet Treatment of Primary Hyperparathyroidism by H. M. Rothe, O. Liangos, P. Biggar, A. Petermann, M. Ketteler

“…Although parathyroidectomy remains the only curative approach to most primary hyperparathyroidism cases, medical treatment with cinacalcet HCl has been proven to be a reasonable alternative for several patient subgroups. Cinacalcet almost always controls hypercalcemia and hypophosphatemia sufficiently. …”
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Place-pedagogies of water stress by Anna Wilson, Gillian Black, Leif Petersen, Liezl Dick, Sikhululekile Ncube, Tsitsi Mpofu-Mketwa, Amber Abrams, Kirsty Carden, Laurence Piper, Jen Dickie, Niall Hamilton-Smith, Guy Lamb

“…By analysing assemblages of images and accompanying texts produced through a PhotoVoice process undertaken by co-researchers in this settlement, we show how water’s presence as an always imminent absence has profound pedagogical impact. …”
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Determination of the mechanical properties of recycled brick aggregate concrete by multivariate regression analysis by Nikolina Karakaš Janjić, Tanja Kalman Šipoš, Mirta Benšić

“…During the review of the existing literature, a research gap was observed, where the modulus of elasticity was always expressed with dependence on compressive strength. …”
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FIRM’S CHARACTERISTICS AND EARNINGS MANAGEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM LISTED PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES IN NIGERIA by Muhammed BELLO, Leye Sherifdeen OYEDIRAN, Emmanuel Yinka ONIFADE

“…The study recommends that investors in listed pharmaceutical companies in Nigeria should always be on the lookout for the potential for more real activity earnings management before arriving at their investment decisions. …”
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Design and Development of a Bespoke Rotary Friction Welding Machine in Exploration of Joining Dissimilar Materials for Nuclear Applications by Michail Dellepiane, Laurie Da Silva, Athanasios Toumpis

“…However, access to expensive and complex industrial-grade friction welding machines is not always possible. This study explores the design process and functionality of a laboratory-scale friction welding setup following the fundamentals of large-scale machinery. …”
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Nonlinear Vibration Feature Recognition Method for Reciprocating Compressor Cylinder Based on VMD-Multifractal Spectrum by Fengxia Lyu, Caiqian Xie, Fengfeng Bie, Xinting Miao, Yifan Wu, Ying Zhang

“…Therefore, the identification of cylinder friction and abrasion fault modes has always been a hot and difficult problem in fault diagnosis of reciprocating compressors. …”
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Specifics of military leadership by Hatidža Beriša, Barišić Igor

“…Leadership exists as long as man himself, throughout history it has been instinctively understood and experienced almost as a natural phenomenon. There were always leaders and every activity of a group of people was led by someone. …”
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Transmedial presence of verbal texts in architecture and public space. Between informativity and emotivity by Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska

“…In addition, they are almost always multimodal, that is polysemiotic texts whose content becomes complemented with pictorial elements (paintings, sculptures), with written or oral language and, on occasion, with music. …”
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Allergy to Prolene Sutures in a Dural Graft for Chiari Decompression by Iahn Cajigas, S. Shelby Burks, Joanna Gernsback, Lauren Fine, Baharak Moshiree, Allan D. Levi

“…There have been no such cases associated with neurosurgical procedures. Diagnosis is nearly always delayed in spite of persistent symptomatology. …”
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Spatial Pattern Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Green Use Efficiency of Urban Construction Land in Jilin Province by Huisheng Yu, Ge Song, Tong Li, Yanjun Liu

“…The L-L concentration area is mainly distributed in the eastern region, but the degree of spatial concentration is small, the spatial structure characteristics of the two periods are different, and the spatial heterogeneity is large; (2) the internal factor decomposition shows the impact of pure technical efficiency on the comprehensive efficiency and the restriction ability is stronger than the scale efficiency, that is to say, the factors such as management and technology have a greater impact on the comprehensive efficiency; (3) the relative importance of external factors has always been ranked as socioeconomic factors, urban development factors, and natural science and technology factors. …”
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Umbrella-Review, Evaluation, Analysis and Communication Hub (U-REACH): a novel living umbrella review knowledge translation approach by Marco Solmi, David Moher, Samuele Cortese, Corentin J Gosling, Richard Delorme, Joaquim Radua

“…However, it is common for the results of multiple reviews on the same topic to be inconsistent, and it is widely recognised that the results of the reviews are not always effectively communicated to healthcare professionals and the lay public. …”
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Effects of vegetable commercialization on household food security: a generalized propensity score matching approach by Asfaw Shaka Gosa, Tebarek Lika Megento, Meskerem Abi Teka

“…The findings indicate that an increase in commercialization may not always lead to consistent increases across all indicators of food security and it has heterogeneous effects on households with different levels of commercialization. …”
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Foreign Aid as a Factor of Development of Economy of the Developing State: The Experience of Pakistan by N. V. Galistcheva

“…The article emphasizes that foreign aid has always been very significant in stimulating the development of the Pakistani economy due to the serious limitation of the volume of national capital since its independence. …”
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Demographics and Haematological Parameters in Patients with Type II Diabetes Mellitus in Uttar Pradesh – A Comparative study by Priyanka Singh, Pradakhshana Vijay, Shaleen Chandra, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Diksha Singh, Priya Devi

“…Introduction: Pathophysiology and clinical relevance of haematological parameters in various populations have always been a keen interest of research for haematologists. …”
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Development and psychometric verification of body existence diagnostics (BED) by Maksim YU. Lutsik, Anna V. Drongo

“…Because of this, it is not always possible to understand the phenomenology of the inner world fairly accurately and in an accessible way, because the main existential, expressed in the possibility of being physically in this world, is not taken into account. …”
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An analysis of urban governance based on providing an optimal model (Case study of Garmadreh city) by Naser Mohamadi, Hosin Mojtabazadeh, ali tavakolan

“…Proper urban management based on the right methods has always been a serious challenge for urban professionals and has been the subject of various discussions and studies over time. …”
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Impact of Time Delay in Perceptual Decision-Making: Neuronal Population Modeling Approach by Urszula Foryś, Natalia Z. Bielczyk, Katarzyna Piskała, Martyna Płomecka, Jan Poleszczuk

“…Analysis of proposed system reveals that there can be up to three positive steady states, with the one having the lowest neuronal activity being always locally stable in nondelayed case. We show, however, that this steady state becomes unstable above a critical delay value for which, in certain parameter ranges, a subcritical Hopf bifurcation occurs. …”
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Effect of building designation on parking characteristics, road performance, and zoning regulation by Don Gaspar Noesaku da Costa, Yulius P. K. Suni

“…Unfortunately, although this unintended situation may decrease traffic and road environmental quality, a similar situation always occurs. The initial field observation's result indicates that a change in building utilization may have influenced it. …”
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