Big Five personality dimensions in ultramarathon runners: findings of the Ultrarunners Longitudinal TRAcking (ULTRA) Study by JAMES JASTIFER, Martin Hoffman

“…Ultrarunners are described as mentally tough, and have been shown in studies to be goal oriented, and intrinsically motivated. It is unknown how the personality traits of this group compare to the general population. 734 ultramarathon runners participated in this large longitudinal study. …”
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« Che l’uomo ritorni all’uomo » : la revue Latitudine et l’engagement des intellectuels napolitains d’après-guerre by Virginie Vallet

“…After twenty years of cultural obscurantism and empty rhetoric, a new concept of a culture inspired by humanism, with un ritorno dell’uomo all’uomo as a primordial value, oriented towards Europe and the world, is proposed to readers of Latitudine, the pioneering cultural review of the immediate post-war period, directed by Massimo Caprara, the first and only issue of which was published in Naples on January 1944. …”
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Size Dependent Compressive Strength of FIB Machined Single Crystal Manganese Pillars by Halil Yılmaz, Bülent Alkan, Hasan Feyzi Budak

“…As previously reported, the manganese pillars with undetermined orientation demonstrated a less pronounced size effect (-0.14) by the size effect exponent of BCC pillars.…”
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Simultaneous determination of ten nucleosides and bases in Ganoderma by micellar electrokinetic chromatography by Feiya Sheng, Songsong Wang, Xiao Luo, Jianbo Xiao, Linfeng Hu, Peng Li

“…Ganoderma (lingzhi) is a famous herbal medicine and edible supplement in oriental countries for a long history. In this study, a simple micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) method was established for the analysis of nucleosides and bases, the major bioactive components in Ganoderma for the first time. …”
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Optimal Control Strategies for Dengue and Malaria Co-Infection Disease Model by Muhammad Imran, Brett Allen McKinney, Azhar Iqbal Kashif Butt, Pasquale Palumbo, Saira Batool, Hassan Aftab

“…These findings emphasize the importance of integrated interventions in managing co-infection dynamics and highlight the vital role of prevention-oriented strategies.…”
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A Simple Flexible and Robust Control Strategy for Wind Energy Conversion Systems Connected to a Utility Grid by Armel Simo Fotso, Godpromesse Kenné, Rostand Marc Douanla

“…The control strategy integrates for the generator side an adaptive radial basis function (RBF) neurosliding mode controller associated with the rotor flux oriented vector control which is used to regulate the turbine rotation speed, rotor flux, and the DC bus voltage. …”
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Mechanical Behavior of Triaxial Geogrid Used for Reinforced Soil Structures by Jun Zhang, Wen-Zhao Cao, Yan-Jun Zhou

“…The unconfined tensile strength of biaxial geogrid and triaxial geogrid in different loading directions relative to the orientation of ribs was investigated. Then, more than 8 pullout tests were conducted on the triaxial geogrid specimens embedded in the compacted sand. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Serious Games in Health Professions by Francesco Ricciardi, Lucio Tommaso De Paolis

“…This type of training can be very useful for health professions because it improves learning outcomes creating a learner oriented approach and providing a stealth mode of teaching. …”
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Islam i polityka w Maroku na początku XX wieku. Naṣīḥat ahl al-islām Muḥammada Ibn Ǧaʿfara al-Kattānīego (1857–1927) by Marek M. Dziekan

“…So far, this work has not received much attention in Oriental studies, although it was a kind of guide for the Moroccan liberation movements that finally led to Morocco's independence in 1956.  …”
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A Critique on the Book United States of Socialism by Amir Abbasi Khoshkar

“…According to the author of the book, the identity-oriented socialism of Sanders supporters widens the social divide in American society. …”
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Analysis of the efficiency of financial and economic activities of russian football clubs by A. A. Aliev, O. V. Litvishko, A. I. Yusifova, A. A. Fateeva

“…The conducted analysis showed that with a competent approach, in particular in the issues of popularization of the sport, the league and club brand, customer orientation and the use of the product exclusivity factor, qualified personnel, as well as investment and innovation activity, including in the issue of training sports personnel, the professional sports industry can be considered as an effective investment and advertising tool that can generate income both in monetary form and in the form of image and socially significant effect.…”
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Evaluation of the Primary Healthcare attributes in a municipality located in the countryside of São Paulo State – Brazil by Lislaine Aparecida Fracolli, Marianne Junko Muramatsu, Maria Fernanda Pereira Gomes, Fabiana Rodrigues Zequini Nabão

“…The Primary Healthcare can be qualified by the existence of four main attributes: access of the individual´s first contact with the healthcare system, longitudinality, integrality, coordination of care and three derivatives: family counseling, com- munity orientation and cultural competence. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the existence and the extent of the Primary Healthcare attributes (PH) in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in the municipality of Quatá-SP. …”
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Modulated Model Predictive Speed Controller for PMSM Drives Employing Voltage-Based Cost Function by Ahmed Aboelhassan, Shuo Wang, Giampaolo Buticchi, Vasyl Varvolik, Michael Galea, Serhiy Bozhko

“…Various electrical drive systems have widely implemented the classical cascaded field-oriented control (FOC) topology, including speed loop, current loop, and modulation. …”
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New Approach for Quality Function Deployment Based on Linguistic Distribution Assessments and CRITIC Method by Ling-Xiang Mao, Jing Lan, Anqi Chen, Hua Shi, Hu-Chen Liu

“…Quality function deployment (QFD) is a customer-oriented quality management tool used to maximize customer satisfaction by considering the correlations between customer requirements and engineering characteristics. …”
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Failure Process Simulation of Interlayered Rocks under Compression by Chi Yao, Sizhi Zeng, Jianhua Yang

“…A typical experiment on interlayered rocks in literature is simulated using the proposed model. Effects of the orientation of bedding planes with regard to the loading direction on the failure mechanism and strength anisotropy are emphasized. …”
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Modern features of organization’s management system in Germany on the example of BASF LLC by V. I. Ivanova, D. D. Mishchenko

“…The study concludes that BASF management structure contains features of insider management model (social orientation, focus on high-quality products, implementation and improvement of technological developments, use of modernized management methods, and highly qualified personnel).…”
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Individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis: An introduction – Narrative review by Ekta Rai, Vibhavari Naik, Aparna Williams, Mohan S. Kamath

“…IPD-MA can be performed as a single-stage process where data from all included studies is pooled and reanalysed or as a two-stage process where additionally the data from individual studies is re-analysed before being pooled. This review aims to orient clinicians about IPD-MA, including the process of performing it, comparing it with other types of meta-analyses and considering the potential barriers in conducting it.…”
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Investigation of Solar Hybrid Electric/Thermal System with Radiation Concentrator and Thermoelectric Generator by Edgar Arturo Chávez Urbiola, Yuri Vorobiev

“…A sun-tracking concentrator with a mosaic set of mirrors was used; its orientation towards the sun was achieved with two pairs of radiation sensors, a differential amplifier, and two servomotors. …”
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Dynamic mechanical response and deformation-induced co-axial nanocrystalline grains facilitating crack formation in magnesium-yttrium alloy by Shuang Yang, Fei Liu, Fei Chen, Yuan-Biao Tan, Hao Fu, Si-Yuan Wei, Song Xiang

“…Most grains have similar 〈1¯21¯0〉 orientations, with unique misorientation of 24°, 32°, 62°, 78° and 90° between adjacent grains, suggesting that these grains are primarily formed by interface transformation, which exhibits distinct differences from recrystallized grains. …”
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Multiplication of Negative Scenarios: the Approach Public Administrations Could Use at Drafting General Rules by Mirko Pečarič

“…Although the latter should be sine qua non for future legislation, legislators usually do not use it despite the legislation’s pro future orientation. The paper, based on Hume’s old “is-ought” problem (the impossibility to move from descriptive statements to prescriptive ones) and with the awareness that probability will not be used soon, offers a solution for the future legislation in the multiplication of (negative) scenarios, applied to different life questions. …”
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