Optimizing Ordering Policies for Imperfect Inventory Systems Integrating Trade Credit and Carbon Emission by Sahil Bhardwaj, Sudhir Kumar Chauhan, Mandeep Mittal, Leopoldo Eduardo Cárdenas-Barrón, Riju Chaudhary

“…This paper explores the continuous difficulty of keeping a regular supply of high-quality products in the dynamic market of today, where the possibility of providing faulty goods never disappears. This study aims primarily to minimise the predicted total cost by means of a derivative-based technique and to identify the ideal order quantity. …”
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Patient-reported outcomes of esthetics, function and oral hygiene with single dental implants 10–15 years after placement: a cross-sectional study by Viveca Wallin Bengtsson, Christel Lindahl, Sven Scholander

“…The PES/WES in the present study was 14.6 (standard deviation [SD] ± 1.9), and 3/45 (6.7%) of the single dental implants never reached clinical acceptability.  Conclusions: Patients reported high satisfaction with both the function and the esthetics of single dental implants. …”
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Medical Jousting: Going for the kill! by Dr.Fuad Ahmed Khan Niazi

“…Never speak untruth which might be pleasant.” (Anonymous) …”
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Horsing Around: Carnivalesque Humor and the Aesthetics of Dehierarchization in Mister Ed by Stefan L. Brandt

“…Conceived in this manner, Mister Ed challenges what Jacques Derrida has termed “the possibility of the impossible,” namely the notion that animals can never be endowed with a sense of subjectivity. In the comedic, fictional realm of the show, the “impossible” becomes a subversive reality. …”
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Community awareness, perceptions, and behavior regarding antibiotic consumption in an urban area of Pondicherry by C. Niranjhanadevi, P. Stalin

“…Among them, more than 70% of participants were aware that antibiotics are used for killing germs but almost all said that antibiotics are often needed for cold and flu illnesses. 83.2% opined that they should take antibiotics to prevent getting a serious illness. 42.3% of the study participants never completed a full course of antibiotic treatment after feeling better with a few doses. …”
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki at 65 – A Reflection by Norimatsu Satoko

“…And having fewer, or even none, of those surviving people will in no way diminish the significance of our actions, our shared memories, and our knowledge, to be inherited by future generations, so that never again will nuclear weapons be used, in combat or in experiments.…”
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Current Use of Gait Belt in Hospitals of Certain Areas in China by LUO Mi, YUE Guang, MU Keli

“…The results showed that most participants had never heard about gait belt (64.0%). The awareness of gait belt was significantly associated with the professions of the participants (<italic>P</italic>=0.038). …”
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Improving Breast Cancer Outcomes among Women in China: Practices, Knowledge, and Attitudes Related to Breast Cancer Screening by Tsu-Yin Wu, Yi-Lan Liu, Scott Chung

“…Among study participants, 75% of the women never had a mammogram and the top three barriers reported were low priority, feeling OK, and lack of awareness/knowledge toward breast cancer screening. …”
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Driving Risk Analysis Based on Driving Experience at Hook-Turn Intersection Using the Emerging Virtual Reality Technology by Taeho Oh, Yanping Xu, Zhibin Li, Inhi Kim

“…Australia allows people from 44 nations to convert their home country driver’s license to an Australian driver’s license without a driving test. Visitors who have never heard of the hook-turn experience difficulty driving following the new traffic rule. …”
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Chaotic and Quasi-periodic Regimes in the Covid-19 Mortality Data by Ekrem Aydıner, Erkan Yılmaz

“…It is accepted that even if there are vaccines developed against the virus, it will never be possible to predict very complex spread dynamics and reach a spread pattern due to new variants and other parameters. …”
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Cluster Analysis of Daily Cycling Flow Profiles during COVID-19 Lockdown in the UK by Matthew Burke, Dilum Dissanayake, Margaret Bell

“…As lockdown restrictions eased, flow profiles began to revert back to the prepandemic norm but never fully returned to prepandemic levels. The adoption of working from home postpandemic will change commuting behavior. …”
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PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF FMDV ISOLATES RECOVERED IN POST-SOVIET STATES AND MONGOLIA IN 2016 by A. M. Timina, N. G. Zinyakov, A. V. Scherbakov, D. A. Lozovoy

“…The test results are indicative of the fact that FMD outbreaks in Armenia were caused by the virus belonging to A/G-VII genetic lineage that was widely spread in the Near East in 2015 and had been never reported in post-Soviet states before. The FMD outbreaks in the Zabaikalsky Krai in November -December 2016 were caused by the exotic for Russia FMD virus of O/Ind-2001d genetic lineage. …”
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Kissing the Church Bell or Ringing the Church Bell? (About a verse of the ode of “Tarsaeiyeh”) by Majid Mansouri

“…The main complexity of the verse in question is the reference that "kissing the church bell" has the ironic meaning of becoming an infidel and leaving the religion of Islam.The main problem in Khaqani's verse is that "kissing the church bell" does not occur in any of the old texts, and unlike kissing the crucifix, "kissing the church bell" was never widespread in Christianity; In addition to the various statements of the commentators of Khaqani's collection of poems, two detailed articles have exclusively dealt with this topic; the first article is about the proposal to correct "Kissing the church bell" to "Drinking the church bell" and the second defends the authenticity of the recording of "kissing the church bell" and rejects the first article. …”
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Exploring barriers to parent-adolescent sexual-risk communication among adolescents in Port Harcourt Nigeria: Adolescents' and parents' perspective. by Chidinma Joycelyn Okpalaku, Chigozirim Ogubuike

“…The mean age of the adolescents was 16.0 ± 1.1 years and 55% were males. 21% of the parents had never discussed sex with their adolescents. The barriers identified from the adolescents' perspective were parental factors (parents being too busy, judgmental, low knowledge), individual factors (discomfort to initiate communication, lack of trust), religious and cultural factors. …”
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The Canis tangle: a systematics overview and taxonomic recommendations by V. Dinets

“…Analysis of available data shows that Dog should be classified as a full species with four subspecies, since its origin from a common ancestor with modern Gray Wolf has likely predated its domestication (contrary to the most popular view), and interbreeding between Dog and Gray Wolf in the wild is limited. It is possible that never-domesticated Dog populations have survived in southeastern Asia until very recently, or even exist today.…”
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Cerebral Metastasis from a Previously Undiagnosed Appendiceal Adenocarcinoma by Antonio Biroli, Paolo Cipriano Cecchi, Susanne Pragal, Esther Hanspeter, Andreas Schwarz

“…To the best of our knowledge, such a case was never reported in the literature, and an appendiceal malignancy should be suspected in patients with brain metastasis from an undiagnosed primary tumor.…”
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Weisheit der Völker oder Weisheit auf der Gasse? Nationale Stereotype in polnischen und deutschen Sprichwörtern aus dem 18. und 19. Jahrhundert by Małgorzata Guławska-Gawkowska

“…A similar analysis of both works has never been conducted before. In this contrastive study was used the concept of the linguistic image of the world of the Polish ethnolinguistic school. …”
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Belief and Disbelief in the Space Between, 1914-1945 by Jean-Christophe MURAT

“…Hyde’s communism, however, never sat comfortably with the official line, despite the fact that he spent almost two decades tirelessly organising all sorts of Party-led campaigns, and about ten years working as news editor for the Daily Worker. …”
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Trajectory to professorship for third space practitioners: a learning developer perspective by Steve Briggs

“…However, up until around 12 months ago, I had never thought that I could realistically pursue a professorship. …”
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A Prospective Single-Arm Cohort Study of Immune-mediated Seizures/Epilepsy Without Encephalopathy (ISEWE) in Children from a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India by Basavanagowda Thanuja, Mahesh Kamate

“…On monthly oral steroids, number of ASMs could be reduced. Eight cases never had a relapse, while seven did have it. Relapses were more common if more than three ASMs were tried and less if steroids were started within 30 days. …”
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