Latina Community College Presidents: Drawing from Cultural Intuition to Disrupt Leadership Norms in Higher Education by Cynthia Estrada, Eric R. Felix, Erin Nicole Reyes Vedar, Elizabeth Jimenez Perez

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Climate change influences on the potential geographic distribution of the invasive Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis by Mohammed Okely, Ze Chen, Eslam Adly, Mahmoud Kamal

“…Haemaphysalis longicornis originated mainly in eastern Asia and invaded many areas like Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific islands, and was recently introduced to eastern parts of the USA. …”
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Natural Hybridization Between <i>Quercus crassipes</i> and <i>Q. crassifolia</i> (Fagaceae) Is a Key Process to Ensure the Biodiversity of Their Associated Lichen Community by Leticia Valencia-Cuevas, Jennie Melhado-Carboney, Efraín Tovar-Sánchez

“…We conclude that genetic differences between host oaks promoted significantly different lichen communities and that hybrids may act as ecological islands, accumulating lichen species from both parental species and their own novel species. …”
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Design and Optimization of a Droop Controller to Fix the Frequency of a Microgrid System Using the Gray wolf Algorithm with Stability Analysis by Zhi Yuan, Ji Li

“…Switching between grid-connected and islanded mode, as well as connection and broadcast performance in distributed resources and loads have recently raised many concerns. …”
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Colloidal Spin Ice Cellular Automata for Logic Design by Vasileios P. Karkanis, Nikolaos I. Dourvas, Andrew Adamatzky, Panagiotis Dimitrakis, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis

“…This is why the researchers use mesoscopic systems with materials such as colloids or spheres of nanomagnets which are placed inside of islands in periodic lattices that generate frustration by design. …”
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Study on Impact of Turbine Location on Hydrodynamics in Tidal Farm by Hongqiang Zhang, Daming Li, Yanqing Li, Ting Yang, Shan Luo, Shunfa Tian, Shilong Bu

“…This work aims at investigating the impact of different tidal turbine locations on hydrodynamics in near-field and far-field flow; thus, three- and two-dimensional (3- & 2-D) models were exploited in combination and applied in a case study of Putuo-Hulu Islands’ tidal farm. We present a method for the simplification of tidal turbine which, based on the energy equation, determines turbine’s equivalent roughness by calculating resistance loss in flow passage. …”
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Yaws in Africa: Past, Present and Future by Ezekiel K. Vicar, Shirley V. Simpson, Gloria I. Mensah, Kennedy K. Addo, Eric S. Donkor

“…<b>Background:</b> Yaws is an infectious, neglected tropical disease that affects the skin of many children and adolescents who live in poor, rural, low-income communities in humid, tropical areas of Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Yaws is currently endemic in at least 15 countries, but adequate surveillance data are lacking. …”
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Investigation on the fracture toughness of a low-density δ-quenching and partitioning steel sheet by Z.L. Li, D.D. Cui, Y.S. Zhang, D. Chen, L. Gao, X.Q. Wang, X.W. Li

“…In contrast, higher annealing temperatures for the QP1280 sample bring about a lower fraction of austenite at the final microstructure and consequently a reduced microstructural uniformity, and there also exists a greater hardness difference between martensite/austenite islands and ferrite; therefore, a lower fracture toughness is obtained compared to the QP1180 sample. …”
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Diversity, Distribution, and Evolution of Bioluminescent Fungi by Brian A. Perry, Dennis E. Desjardin, Cassius V. Stevani

“…With the caveat that most regions of the world have not been extensively sampled for bioluminescent fungi, the areas with the most known species are Japan (36), South America (30), North America (27), Malesia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia (26), Europe (23), Central America (21), China (13), Africa (10), Australasia, Papua New Guinea, and New Caledonia (11), and the Pacific Islands (5). Recent studies have elucidated the biochemical and genetic pathways of fungal bioluminescence and suggest the phenomenon originated a single time early in the evolution of the Agaricales. …”
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Defensive Mechanisms of <i>Mikania micrantha</i> Likely Enhance Its Invasiveness as One of the World’s Worst Alien Species by David R. Clements, Hisashi Kato-Noguchi

“…<i>Mikania micrantha</i> Kunth is native to tropical America and has invaded tropical and subtropical Asia and numerous Pacific Islands. It forms dense thickets and reduces native species diversity and populations in its introduced range. …”
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Identification of multiple power quality disturbances in hybrid microgrid using deep stacked auto-encoder based bi-directional LSTM classifier by Ravi Kumar Jalli, Lipsa Priyadarshini, P.K. Dash, Ranjeeta Bisoi

“…The proposed BILSTM classifier captures the temporal features and their long term dependencies from the processed PF data samples and detects single and simultaneously occurring twenty complex power quality disturbances in the grid connected mode and five PQDs during uncertain PV insolence variation and load and capacitor switching during islanded mode of microgrid operation with significant accuracy of 99.90%.…”
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Ability of Different Measures of Adiposity to Identify High Metabolic Risk in Adolescents by Carla Moreira, Rute Santos, Susana Vale, Paula C. Santos, Sandra Abreu, Ana I. Marques, Luísa Soares-Miranda, Jorge Mota

“…A cross-sectional school-based study was conducted on 517 adolescents aged 15–18, from the Azorean Islands, Portugal. We measured fasting glucose, insulin, total cholesterol (TC), HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides, and systolic blood pressure. …”
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Methylation Status of Vitamin D Receptor Gene Promoter in Benign and Malignant Adrenal Tumors by Catia Pilon, Andrea Rebellato, Riccardo Urbanet, Vincenza Guzzardo, Rocco Cappellesso, Hironobu Sasano, Ambrogio Fassina, Francesco Fallo

“…Downregulation of VDR gene expression may result from epigenetics events, that is, methylation of cytosine nucleotide of CpG islands in VDR gene promoter. We analyzed methylation of CpG sites in the VDR gene promoter in normal adrenals and adrenocortical tumor samples. …”
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Good governance strategy in maintaining the national interest of state defense: a study in the North Natuna sea region by Theo L Sambuaga, Amarulla Octavian, Asep Adang Supriyadi, I. Gede Sumertha

“…Good governance comprises the central government's coordination and collaboration with the local government of Riau Islands Province, where the North Natuna Sea is located, and how well this local government meets its population's requirements in accordance with central government policies. …”
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Three-Dimensional Seismic Response Analysis of Zhubi Reef in the South China Sea by Xin Bao, Jingbo Liu, Shutao Li, Fei Wang

“…Reef islands are valuable terrestrial resources for ocean exploitation and utilization but face the serious threat of earthquake disasters. …”
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A Hybrid Renewable Sources Implementation for a DC Microgrid with Flatness-Nonlinear Control to Achieve Efficient Energy Management Strategy by Furqan A. Abbas, Adel A.Obed, Ammar Alhasiri, Salam J. Yaqoob

“…In this paper, we propose a standard-islanded DC microgrid with photovoltaic (PV) and fuel cell (FC) primary sources and a supercapacitor (SC) storage unit. …”
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The problems of genetic support of dividing the black kite (Milvus migrans) into subspecies by N. G. Andreyenkova, I. J. Starikov, M. Wink, I. V. Karyakin, O. V. Andreyenkov, I. F. Zhimulev

“…The black kite is widespread in Eurasia, Africa, Australia and adjacent islands. Palearctic kites migrate to Africa, India and China in winter, but kites of Africa and Australia are partly sedentary and partly seasonal migrants. …”
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Impairments of Visuospatial Attention in Children with Unilateral Spastic Cerebral Palsy by Gaétan Ickx, Samar M. Hatem, Inmaculada Riquelme, Kathleen M. Friel, Camille Henne, Rodrigo Araneda, Andrew M. Gordon, Yannick Bleyenheuft

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Scale-dependent responses to environmental fluctuations in tropical tree species’ crown temperatures by Shannon L. J. Bayliss, Eben N. Broadbent, Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Susan Cordell, Stephanie Pau

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Spillable Semisolid Contents of Cystic Ameloblastoma Habour Tumour Cells by Mark C. Nwoga

“…Microscopic examination of the semisolid cavity contents demonstrated plexiform infiltrative tumors, islands, neoplastic cystic linings, stromal stellate cells, and inflammatory cells in 50% of the semisolid cystic content (blood clots, gelatinous, and cheesy materials). …”
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