The Impact of Private Standards on Corporate Social Responsibility Compliance and Rural Workers’ Motivation in Developing Countries: A Study of Mango Farms in Pakistan by Honglei Tang, Zeeshan Rasool, Ahmad Imran Khan, Anum Afzal Khan, Mohsin Ali Khan, Ghulam Ahmad Azaz

“…Private standards ensure compliance with these codes of conduct. This study draws on interviews and a questionnaire survey with certified mango producers and farm workers in Pakistan. …”
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Protection of personal data of the employee by S. M. Gusarov, K. Yu. Melnyk

“…The article draws attention to the fact that today, in the conditions of a developed information environment, the wide spread and use of various information technologies and systems, the maintenance of automated databases, on the one hand, significantly simplifies the provision and use of information, on the other hand, the risk of illegal interference in personal data increases and family life of a person and misuse of his personal data. …”
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Dual burden of TB and mental ill-health: Prevalence and associated factors of anxiety and depression among TB patients in Gujarat by Ajay Chauhan, Apurvakumar Pandya, Deepti Bhatt, Vibha Salaliya, Rutu Trivedi, Dixit Kapadia, Prachi Shukla, Amar Shah, Siddharth Chaudhary, Chandrashekhar Joshi, Vivekanand Pandey

“…However, due to limited research in Gujarat, we cannot draw definitive conclusions or develop targeted mental health interventions for this population. …”
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Study on Competitive Adsorption and Displacing Properties of CO2 Enhanced Shale Gas Recovery: Advances and Challenges by Shuyang Liu, Baojiang Sun, Jianchun Xu, Hangyu Li, Xiaopu Wang

“…CO2 enhanced shale gas recovery (CO2-ESGR) draws worldwide attentions in recent years with having significant environmental benefit of CO2 geological storage and economic benefit of shale gas production. …”
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The Nomadic Military Burial with a Bronze Cauldron from the Necropolis of Perevolochan 1 in the Southern Urals by Sergey V. Demidenko, Sergey V. Sirotin

“…Separate items of horse equipment found in the burial allow us to draw analogies with the Scythian complexes of the Dnieper, Don, Kuban and Ciscaucasia regions, as well as to specify the date of the burial within the last decades of the 4th – early 3rd centuries BC. …”
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: A Pilot Study on HIV and Quality of Life and a Suggested Cure for HIV and AIDS by Søren Ventegodt, Trine Flensborg-Madsen, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Mohammed Morad, Joav Merrick

“…A holistic HIV/AIDS cure improving the QOL draws on hidden resources in the person and is thus affordable for everybody. …”
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Tarred with the same brush: An initial inquiry into courtesy stigma and problem gambling by Matthew D. Sanscartier, Jason D. Edgerton, Derek Chadee, Lance W. Roberts

“…Introduction: This study explores the relative intensity of courtesy stigma around problem gambling to other stigmatized conditions, and the ways in which courtesy stigma (or fear thereof) impacts problem gambling. Method: We draw on data from a government-commissioned national survey in a southern Caribbean country (n = 1,008). …”
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The negative impact of missing primary teeth with the importance of space maintainer among children attending the college of dentistry, hawler medical university in Erbil: Iraq. by Hozan Farid Tawfiq, Alaa Mahmud Mustafa

“…Conclusions: The study draws attention to the fact that space maintainers are used in pediatric dentistry as a part of preventive orthodontics. the most common type of space maintainer was band and loop in the age group 6-12 years. …”
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Évaluer l’utilité, l’utilisabilité et l’acceptabilité d’un Learning Lab by Elsa Paukovics, Laura Molteni, Eric Sanchez

“…Dans this paper, we present and discuss the components of the evaluation module in relation to scientific models and empirical work carried out by four partner universities. The lessons we draw from our work are the need to develop an evaluation method that is unobtrusive (embedded in activities and supportive of learning), systematic (allowing for longitudinal follow-up of participants) and scalable (both generic and specific by adapting to activities).…”
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The Effect of Gender Inequality in Education on Rural Poverty in Kamuganguzi Sub-County Kabale District. by Niwamanya, Obed

“…The researcher used the descriptive research design as appropriate for the study because the study was concerned with finding answers to a key question about the topic under study, Both quantitative and qualitative data· were collected and this enabled the researcher to draw valid and dependable conclusions and recommendations of the study. …”
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The Impact of Urbanization on Lives of People in Uganda: A Case Study of Kampala City. by Byonanebye, Bright

“…After the comprehensive literature survey, the results of various studies were correlated systematically for further analyses to reveal the findings and draw conclusions. The findings depict that urbanized societies, in which a majority of the people live crowded together in towns and cities, represent a new and fundamental step in man's social evolution. …”
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Design and Fabrication of a Motorized Honey Extractor. by Hasahya, Caxton Joel

“…Furthermore, the project includes stating design specifications, developing conceptual designs, sizing machine components, and detailing the design of the selected concept with working drawings. Chapter two entails the literature review of extraction techniques and honey extractor designs. …”
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Cross‐ethnicity face anti‐spoofing recognition challenge: A review by Ajian Liu, Xuan Li, Jun Wan, Yanyan Liang, Sergio Escalera, Hugo Jair Escalante, Meysam Madadi, Yi Jin, Zhuoyuan Wu, Xiaogang Yu, Zichang Tan, Qi Yuan, Ruikun Yang, Benjia Zhou, Guodong Guo, Stan Z. Li

“…We analyse the top‐ranked solutions and draw conclusions derived from the competition. Besides, we outline future work directions.…”
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Numerical Analysis on the Storage of Nuclear Waste in Gas-Saturated Deep Coal Seam by Teng Teng, Yuming Wang, Xiaoyan Zhu, Xiangyang Zhang, Sihai Yi, Guowei Fan, Bin Liu

“…The numerical simulation is implemented and solved then to draw the following conclusions as the nuclear waste chamber heats up the surrounding coal seam firstly in the initial storage stage of 400 years and then be heated by the far-field reservoir. …”
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Enterococcus and Eggerthella species are enriched in the gut microbiomes of COVID-19 cases in Uganda by Carolina Agudelo, David Patrick Kateete, Emmanuel Nasinghe, Rogers Kamulegeya, Christopher Lubega, Monica Mbabazi, Noah Baker, Kathryn Y. Lin, Chang C. Liu, Arthur Shem Kasambula, Edgar Kigozi, Kevin Komakech, John Mukisa, Kassim Mulumba, Patricia Mwachan, Brenda Sharon Nakalanda, Gloria Patricia Nalubega, Julius Nsubuga, Diana Sitenda, Henry Ssenfuka, Giana T. Cirolia, Jeshua T. Gustafson, Ruohong Wang, Moses Luutu Nsubuga, Fahim Yiga, Sarah A. Stanley, Bernard Ssentalo Bagaya, Alison Elliott, Moses Joloba, Ashley R. Wolf

“…Given the impact of geography and cultural traditions on microbiome composition, it is important to investigate the microbiome globally and not draw broad conclusions from homogenous populations. …”
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Acceptance commitment therapy (ACT) for psychological distress associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): protocol for a feasibility trial of the ACTforIBD programme by Richard Gearry, Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Andrew McCombie, Peter Gibson, Simon Knowles, Lisa Olive, Antonina Mikocka-Walus, Subhadra Evans, Leanne Raven, Daniel Romano, Eric O, Madeleine Dober, Leesa van Niekerk, Susan Chesterman

“…The ACTforIBD programme, specifically designed for people with IBD and comorbid psychological distress, draws on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), which promotes acceptance of situations that cannot be solved such as persistent physical symptoms. …”
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To Hemoadsorb or Not to Hemoadsorb—Do We Have the Answer Yet? An Updated Meta-Analysis on the Use of CytoSorb in Sepsis and Septic Shock by Carmen Orban, Angelica Bratu, Mihaela Agapie, Tudor Borjog, Mugurel Jafal, Romina-Marina Sima, Oana Clementina Dumitrașcu, Mihai Popescu

“…The addition of CytoSorb to CRRT may be associated with decreased survival as compared to CRRT alone, but future studies are needed to draw a definitive conclusion.…”
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Applying evidence-based cross-disciplinary concepts helps to explain the heterogeneity in pain, function, and biological measures in individuals with knee pain with/at risk of oste... by Angela M. Mickle, Jared J. Tanner, Udell Holmes, III, Ahmed Rashid, Olivier Barolette, Brittany Addison, Nicola Sambuco, Cynthia Garvan, Song Lai, Christoph Seubert, Siegfried Schmidt, Roland Staud, Jeffrey C. Edberg, David Redden, Burel R. Goodin, Catherine C. Price, Roger B. Fillingim, Kimberly T. Sibille

“…Kellgren–Lawrence scores were determined from knee radiographs, the clinical composite from fasting blood draws, and brain age from MRI data. Results:. One hundred seventy-three individuals participated in the study. …”
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Novel Perspectives for Sensory Analysis Applied to Piperaceae and Aromatic Herbs: A Pilot Study by Isabella Taglieri, Alessandro Tonacci, Guido Flamini, Pierina Díaz-Guerrero, Roberta Ascrizzi, Lorenzo Bachi, Giorgia Procissi, Lucia Billeci, Francesca Venturi

“…Future investigations should aim to increase the number of volunteers evaluated with such an approach to draw more stable conclusions and attempting a customization of product preferences based on both implicit and explicit sensory responses.…”
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Impact of water transfer on socioeconomic drought in China: A new approach based on production and consumption by Junlin Qu, Changhai Qin, Jiaxuan Chang, Yong Zhao, Hao Wang, Fan He

“…By importing products and services, the affluent east (Beijing, Tianjin, Shandong, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Zhejiang) indirectly draw a large amount of water from the backward central and western regions (Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Guangxi). …”
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