Fusarium Wilt (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum) of Watermelon by Pamela Roberts, Nicholas Dufault, Robert Hochmuth, Gary Vallad, Mathews Paret

“…The fungus can be seedborne and has great longevity in the soil, allowing infested soil to also serve as a source of infection. …”
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The story of Jesus and the blind man: a speech act reading of John 9 by Hisayasu Ito

“… From text: Since the enigmatic nature of John’s Gospel has attracted a great deal of attention from many scholars, numerous studies of this Gospel have been produced. …”
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Massive Acquired Renal Cysts Presenting with Bowel Obstruction-Like Symptoms by Chutikarn Teparak, Weeratian Tawanwongsri

“…Acquired cystic kidney disease (ACKD) is rarely massive in size. The great majority is asymptomatic and incidentally found on imaging studies for unrelated causes. …”
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EDSM:secure and efficient scalar multiplication algorithm on Edwards curves by ZHANG Bao-hua1, YIN Xin-chun2, ZHANG Hai-ling2

“…Investigate the secure and efficient algorithm for scalar multiplication on Edwards curves.First,several new addition and doubling formulas were proposed.Analysis shows that our new formulas are more efficient than existed formulas.Then a new scalar multiplication algorithm was forwarded,called EDSM algorithm.Finally,our EDSM algo-rithm with the improved Montgomery method and other existed secure and efficient algorithms were compared.Experi-mental results show that our EDSM（scalar multiplication on Edwards curve） algorithm make great improvements in as-pects of efficiency and security.…”
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Frequency of Anemia in the Patients of a Family Health Team in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil by Tatiana Lachi, Cássia Barbosa Reis

“…It is responsible for a great reduction in quality of life of affected people. …”
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The Ethics of Rationing of Critical Care Services: Should Technology Assessment Play a Role? by Eric L. Bloomfield

“…The costs of health care continue to increase rapidly and steeply in the United States. One area of great expense is that of intensive care units (ICUs). …”
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Study on Prediction of Sluice Settlement Based on Improved GM (1,1) Model by LI Xuede, ZHOU Mingming, ZHAO Jinlei, LIU Yang, JIANG Wenzhi, WANG Guizhi

“…In the settlement monitoring,the amount of initial monitoring data is little with great changes.It can effectively enhance the correlation of the data series and improve the accuracy of the model through pre-processing the data and modeling with GM prediction model.In view of the single value of weight coefficient in the traditional GM prediction model,this paper selects the optimal weight coefficient for the establishment of the GM prediction model by introducing superimposed weight coefficients and changing the initial value.The results show that the improved GM prediction model with high accuracy can accurately predict the actual measured value.…”
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The Dickens Universe: Gazing at the Heavens by Dominic RAINSFORD

“…Pecksniff, through the benevolent star that shines in Hard Times and brief remarks on arguments for and against life on other planets, culminates in, and gives extra meaning to, Dickens’s greatest work of stargazing, Great Expectations.…”
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Rapid Prototyping in Orthopaedic Surgery: A User's Guide by Mark Frame, James S. Huntley

“…Here we outline the history of rapid prototyping and furthermore a process using open-source software to produce a high fidelity physical model from CT data. This greatly mitigates the expense associated with the technique, allowing surgeons to produce precise models for preoperative planning and procedure rehearsal. …”
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Do-It-Yourself Insect Pest Traps by Steven Arthurs, Adrian Hunsberger

“…Traps to capture insects vary greatly, depending on the target, location, and purpose. …”
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SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF MODERN RELIGIOUS TERRORISM by N. Grigoriev, E. Rodyukov

“…Religious terrorism - one of the most early in human history directions of terrorism, that already during very great while is used in opposing different by the nature and organizations of socio-political forces, including religiously-fanatic groupments of different scale and orientation, political and ethnic elites, social and political associations, separate states. …”
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Élections de 2020 aux États-Unis : des enjeux cartographiques renouvelés by Christine Zumello

“…The maps of results at the state level as well as the county level, in particular for swing states, show a nuanced picture which stands witness to the great complexity of the electoral fabric. A brief historical overview of gerrymandering – or map manipulation on racial and partisan grounds – helps understand the results of the congressional elections. …”
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Iron for Florida Turfgrasses by Travis W. Shaddox, J. Bryan Unruh

“…Understanding the dynamics of Fe both in the plant and in the soil could greatly enhance your nutrient management programs. …”
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An Improved Collocation Approach of Euler Polynomials Connected with Bernoulli Ones for Solving Predator-Prey Models with Time Lag by Behrooz Basirat, Hamid Reza Elahi

“…The main characteristic of this approach is that it reduces the predator-prey model to a system of algebraic equations, which greatly simplifies the problem. For these models, the explicit formula determining the stability and the direction is given. …”
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Of Exile in America: The Immigrant Experience in “American Land” (2006) and “The Ghost of Tom Joad” (1995) by Bruce Springsteen by Khaled Chouana

“…In “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” Springsteen suggests that ordinary people undergo a metaphorical exile that has led John Steinbeck’s protagonist Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1939) to express his anger against the injustice of the Great Depression.…”
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Human genetic engineering and social justice in South Africa: Moltmann and human dignity by M. Kotzé

“… The realities of social injustice in the present South African context, with its great and growing gap between rich and poor and unequal distribution of wealth and resources, are also acutely visible in the health-care sector. …”
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Research on packet convergence sublayer classification algorithm for WiMAX system by ZHANG Qing-bo1, HE Jia-ming1, ZHU Yan3

“…The mapping relation between the higher-layer protocol data and connection was analyzed in WiMAX system.And a packet convergence sublayer classification algorithm based on non-collision hashing and address-blocking XOR look-up was proposed,thus realized the quick look-up and classification of higher-layer protocol data.The complexity and the increase renewal function of algorithm was analyzed quantitatively.The simulation results show that the classifi-cation algorithm satisfies QoS（quality of service） requests with the performances of delay and memory,moreover time-liness is also enhanced greatly.…”
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THE RATIONALE APPROACHES TO THE ASSESSMENT OF WORK PERFORMANCE OF THE STAFF OF THE ORGANIZATION by A. Mitrofanovа

“…Therefore, the question of choosing a method of performance appraisal of employees is of great scientific and practical interest. It is this scientific problem addressed in this article. …”
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Multi-cell multi-user downlink beam forming design considering transceiver impairment by Can-feng XIA, Shi-wen HE, Yong-ming HUANG, Hai-ming WANG, Lv-xi YANG

“…Multi-cell multi-user downlink beamforming schemes considering transceiver impairments were developed,with the objective of minimizing the maximum mean square error (MSE) and the sum of MSE of all users.The optimiza-tion problem was transformed into a second-order cone programming(SOCP) standard form,and a hierarchical iterative algorithm was developed to solve the original problem.Compared with the traditional beamforming methods developed for ideal transceivers,numerical results show that our proposed optimization algorithms greatly reduce the impact of im-pairments and improve the system performance.…”
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Uncommon Diseases in Pediatric Age: Commemoration in Cienfuegos of an Essential Event for Cuban Public Health by Jan O´neil González Ramos, Belkis González Aguiar

“…Medicine has developed greatly in the last 50 years. The advances of the last five decades have taken place at the fundamental levels of science and have shown the general outburst of scientific knowledge throughout the world. …”
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