Contrastive analysis of politeness strategies in refusal speech acts: A study of Sundanese and Batak language by Rossy Halimatun Rosyidah

“…A total of ten informants participated in this research, consisting of five native Toba Batak speakers and five native Sundanese speakers who were around fifty years old. …”
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Extrusion-Based Printing of Myoblast-Loaded Fibrin Microthreads to Induce Myogenesis by Hanson S. Lee, Bryanna L. Samolyk, George D. Pins

“…Large skeletal muscle injuries such as volumetric muscle loss (VML) disrupt native tissue structures, including biophysical and biochemical signaling cues that promote the regeneration of functional skeletal muscle. …”
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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. …”
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An Appearance Invariant Gait Recognition Technique Using Dynamic Gait Features by Hajra Masood, Humera Farooq

“…Additionally, we develop a multiappearance-based gait dataset that captures the effects of South Asian Native Clothing (SACV-Gait dataset). We evaluated our work on CASIA-B, OUISIR-B, TUM-IITKGP, and SACV-Gait datasets and achieved an accuracy of 98%, 100%, 97.1%, and 98.8%, respectively.…”
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Ecological Risk Assessment for Invasive Wildlife in Florida by Venetia Briggs-Gonzalez, Kyle Allen, Rebecca G. Harvey, Frank J. Mazzotti

“… Global trade and travel transport plants and animals from native ranges to new ecosystems. About 10 to 20% of nonnative (exotic, alien) species that arrive in new locales become invasive, meaning they are likely to harm the environment, economy, or public health. …”
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Register in Czech: Designing an MDA-based experimental study by Anna Marklová, Olga Buchmüller, Christoph Demian, Roland Meyer, Luka Szucsich

“…The results of our study offer insight into how native speakers evaluate situations of language use on the scales of preparedness, subjectivity, and interactivity. …”
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A Foreign Speech Accent in a Case of Conversion Disorder by Jo Verhoeven, Peter Mariën, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Hugo D’Haenen, Peter De Deyn

“…Objective: The aim of this paper is to report the psychiatric, neuroradiological and linguistic characteristics in a native speaker of Dutch who developed speech symptoms which strongly resemble Foreign Accent Syndrome. …”
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Strategy for Foreign Students’ Professional and Language Competence Development by E. S. Ionkina, O. S. Kharlamov

“…Entering the pre-university courses, pre-graduate students have some skills in self-directed scientific research, but they cannot write in a non-native language, read professional literature, create their own scientific text and formalize a statement and present it. …”
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Florida's Introduced Birds: Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) by Steve A. Johnson, Gay Donaldson-Fortier

“…Johnson and Gay Donaldson-Fortier, introduces the Eurasian Collared-Dove — species description, similar species, native range and habitats, mode of introduction, introduced range and habitats, ecological impacts, impacts to people and pets, and solutions. …”
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A Natural History of the Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) by Elise V. Pearlstine, Juan Sebastian Ortiz

“…Pearlstine and Juan Sebastian Ortiz, describes this non-native gallinaceous bird from the Indian subcontinent — background, description, similar species, habits, habitat, food, nesting and reproduction, potential ecological impacts, and legal aspects. …”
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Biology and Control of Coast Cockspur in Sugarcane by Dennis Calvin Odero, Ron Rice, Les Baucum

“…Coast cockspur is a relative of barnyardgrass that is native to North America. In South Florida, coast cockspur typically begins to infest sugarcane during the onset of rainfall in late spring. …”
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Biology and Control of Coast Cockspur in Sugarcane by Dennis Calvin Odero, Ron Rice, Les Baucum

“…Coast cockspur is a relative of barnyardgrass that is native to North America. In South Florida, coast cockspur typically begins to infest sugarcane during the onset of rainfall in late spring. …”
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Florida's Introduced Birds: Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) by Steve A. Johnson, Gay Donaldson-Fortier

“…Johnson and Gay Donaldson-Fortier, introduces the Eurasian Collared-Dove — species description, similar species, native range and habitats, mode of introduction, introduced range and habitats, ecological impacts, impacts to people and pets, and solutions. …”
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Lithotripsy of Pancreatic Stones in a Patient with Cystic Fibrosis: Successful Treatment of Abdominal Pain by AA Weiss, JM Greig, S Fache

“…This article reports the case of an 18-year-old native Indian woman with cystic fibrosis who was experiencing pain related to pancreatitis, complicated by pancreatic duct stricture and lithiasis. …”
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A Natural History of the Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) by Elise V. Pearlstine, Juan Sebastian Ortiz

“…Pearlstine and Juan Sebastian Ortiz, describes this non-native gallinaceous bird from the Indian subcontinent — background, description, similar species, habits, habitat, food, nesting and reproduction, potential ecological impacts, and legal aspects. …”
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Iatrogenic Obturator Hip Dislocation with Intrapelvic Migration by Shachar Kenan, Spencer Stein, Robert Trasolini, Daniel Kiridly, Bruce A. Seideman

“…Obturator hip dislocations are rare, typically resulting from high-energy trauma in native hips. These types of dislocations are treated with closed reduction under sedation. …”
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Uncovering Diversity within the Glomeromycota: Novel Clades, Family Distributions, and Land Use Sensitivity by Camille S. Delavaux, Alexis Aellen, Sidney L. Stürmer, Silmar Primieri, Ursel M. E. Schütte, Devin M. Drown, Robert J. Ramos, Thomas W. Crowther, James D. Bever

“…We survey sites representing native and human‐altered ecosystems across the American continents—in Alaska, Kansas, and Brazil—to shed light on these gaps. …”
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Advances in the Development and Application of Human Organoids: Techniques, Applications, and Future Perspectives by Zhangcheng Zhu, Yiwen Cheng, Xia Liu, Wenwen Ding, Jiaming Liu, Zongxin Ling, Lingbin Wu

“…These microstructures are invaluable for biomedical research due to their ability to closely mimic the complexity of native tissues while retaining human genetic material. …”
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Impact of Coastal Squeeze Induced by Erosion and Land Reclamation on Salt Marsh Wetlands by Guangzhi Zhang, Jiali Gu, Hao Hu, Maoming Sun, Jie Shao, Weiliang Dong, Liang Liang, Jian Zeng

“…Sediment retention engineering and native vegetation restoration efforts can gradually facilitate the recovery of salt marshes. …”
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The Role of Imaging in Patient Selection, Preoperative Planning, and Postoperative Monitoring in Human Upper Extremity Allotransplantation by Eira S. Roth, David G. Buck, Vijay S. Gorantla, Joseph E. Losee, Daniel E. Foust, Cynthia A. Britton

“…Within the screening phase, musculoskeletal exclusion criterion included severe shoulder arthropathy, poor native bone integrity, and marked muscular atrophy. …”
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