Crisis Social de Chile en 2019: Revisión de dos Hipótesis como Principales Causas by Sergio Zuniga-Jara

“…Varios rankings internacionales mostraban a Chile como una de las economías más sólidas de la región, con un ingreso per cápita sobresaliente en América Latina, con una inflación controlada. …”
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White Garden Snail, Theba pisana (Mueller) (Gastropoda: Helicidae) by Jane E. Deisler, Lionel A. Stange

“…Theba pisana is capable of explosive reproductive rates where it has been introduced, and can be found in densities of up to 3000 snails per tree (Mead 1971) after periods of less than 5 years (Chace 1915, Orcutt 1919). …”
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DETERMINATION OF ACCOUNTING MANIPULATIONS IN THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS USING ACCRUAL BASED INVESTMENT RATIOS by Dragan Gabrić

“…Furthermore, a model of impact has been obtained, which indicates that accrual based investment ratio Earnings Per Share (EPS) has a significant impact on the determination of the accounting manipulations in the financial statements. …”
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Factors Affecting Risky Alcohol Consumption, Smoking Addiction in Forced Syrian Migrants by Dilara Demircan, Meltem Guler

“…In this context, daily stressors, general anxiety, per- ception of general health, perception of social support, intergroup contact and acculturation were examined as predictors cigarette addiction or risky alcohol consumption. …”
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StreetSurfaceVis: a dataset of crowdsourced street-level imagery annotated by road surface type and quality by Alexandra Kapp, Edith Hoffmann, Esther Weigmann, Helena Mihaljević

“…As the frequency distribution of road surface types and qualities is highly imbalanced, we propose a sampling strategy incorporating various external label prediction resources to ensure sufficient images per class while reducing manual annotation. More precisely, we estimate the impact of (1) enriching the image data with OpenStreetMap tags, (2) iterative training and application of a custom surface type classification model, (3) amplifying underrepresented classes through prompt-based classification with GPT-4o and (4) similarity search using image embeddings. …”
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Explaining the Factors Related to the Improvement of Organizational Capabilities with an Organizational Learning Approach by Parisa Saadati, Mahmoud Ghorbani, Saeid khayatmoghadam

“…The research tool's validity was further evaluated through face validity, as per experts' evaluations. Additionally, factor analysis was conducted. …”
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High Performance GPU-Based Fourier Volume Rendering by Marwan Abdellah, Ayman Eldeib, Amr Sharawi

“…Due to the rapid evolution of its underlying architecture, the graphics processing unit (GPU) became an attractive competent platform that can deliver giant computational raw power compared to the central processing unit (CPU) on a per-dollar-basis. The introduction of the compute unified device architecture (CUDA) technology enables embarrassingly-parallel algorithms to run efficiently on CUDA-capable GPU architectures. …”
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Enterovesical Fistula: A Rare Complication of Urethral Catheterization by Amr Hawary, Laurence Clarke, Alasdair Taylor, Peter Duffy

“…She presented with a short history of fecaluria, pneumaturia, and passage of urine per rectum. On laparotomy she was found to have an inflated catheter balloon that has eroded through the bladder wall into the lumen of a terminal ileal segment. …”
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Finite Element Modeling and Analysis of Nonlinear Impact and Frictional Motion Responses Including Fluid—Structure Coupling Effects by Yong Zhao

“…Using these models 3D nonlinear time history dynamic analyses are performed per the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) criteria. …”
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The impact of fuel incentive and improved cook stove on firewood collection in refugees camps in Tanzania: A quasi-experimental research design by Tukae Mbegalo

“…Results indicated that combining ICS with solid fuel reduced the number of firewood collection trips by nearly one per week, representing a 44% decrease. This reduction alleviates the labour-intensive burden on refugees, suggesting potential economic, health, and environmental benefits.…”
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Sampling and Analytical Method for Alpha-Dicarbonyl Flavoring Compounds via Derivatization with o-Phenylenediamine and Analysis Using GC-NPD by Stephanie M. Pendergrass, Jeffrey A. Cooper

“…Evaluation of the on-tube derivatization procedure indicated that it is unaffected by humidities ranging from 20% to 80% and that the derivatization procedure was quantitative for analyte concentrations ranging from 0.1 μg to approximately 500 μg per sample. Storage stability studies indicated that the derivatives were stable for 30 days when stored at both ambient and refrigerated temperatures. …”
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Dynamique de la neige de culture dans les Alpes Françaises by Pierre Spandre, Hugues François, Samuel Morin, Emmanuelle George-Marcelpoil

“…However, our analysis reveals a limited potential for snowmaking in the French Alps: since the 1960s, suitable conditions have decreased by several hours per year. Since the effects of climate change are expected to increase in the coming decades (all scenarios suggest an air temperature increase), ski resorts will have to produce snow in less ideal conditions, incurring greater costs as a result of decreased production efficiency.…”
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A Cross-Layer Location-Based Approach for Mobile-Controlled Connectivity by T. Inzerilli, Anna Maria Vegni, A. Neri, R. Cusani

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Game Theoretic Analysis of Carbon Emission Reduction and Sales Promotion in Dyadic Supply Chain in Presence of Consumers’ Low-Carbon Awareness by Liangjie Xia, Longfei He

“…We find the following. (1) In decentralized setting, the retailer will provide emission cutting allowance to the manufacturer only if their unit product profit margin is higher enough than the manufacturer’s, and the emission reduction level of per unit product is a monotonically increasing function with respect to the cost pooling proportion provided by the retailer; (2) the new side-payment contract can coordinate the dyadic supply chain successfully due to its integrating sales promotion effort and emission reduction input, which results in system pareto optimality under decentralized individual rationality but achieves a collective rationality effect in the centralized setting; (3) when without external force’s regulation, consumers’ low-carbon awareness is to enhance consumers’ utility and decrease profits of supply chain firms.…”
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Relationship between Musculoskeletal Disorders and Ergonomic Working Conditions in Nurses by Jovilė Džervė, Anelė Katinė

“…Fifty-one nurses, working a minimum of 40 hours per week in a patient care facility, participated in the study. …”
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An investigation into the extent of, and reason for, the theory-to-practice disparity in Montessori early childhood settings in South Africa by Susanne van Niekerk

“… This mixed methods study investigates the factors that affect the implementation of what is per­ceived to be “authentic” Montessori practice in South African Montessori preschools through the lived experience of eight teachers trained by Montessori Centre South Africa (MCSA). …”
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Ecological filters shape arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in the rhizosphere of secondary vegetation species in a temperate forest. by Yasmin Vázquez-Santos, Silvia Castillo-Argüero, Francisco Javier Espinosa-García, Noé Manuel Montaño, Yuriana Martínez-Orea, Laura V Hernández-Cuevas

“…We selected four sites at two altitudes, and we marked five individuals per plant species at each site. Soil rhizosphere samples were collected from each SV plant species, during the rainy and dry seasons. …”
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Application of Internet of Things Based on Big Data Ecosystem in Factory Energy Consumption Analysis Model by Ang Li, Chen Zhang, Lei Li

“…Compared with the three methods, the method in this paper increased by 37.9% year-on-year and reduced the power outage by 2.63 million households, which is equivalent to a corresponding reduction of 35 users per operation. The functional requirements of the IoT energy consumption analysis system in factories based on big data ecosystem are reflected in three aspects: energy consumption monitoring and management, power control and management, and energy consumption supervision and analysis. …”
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Evaluation of Blockchain Technology for Supply Chains using an Integrated Fuzzy Cognitive Map-QFD Methodology by Emre Alptekin, Ayça Maden

“…The results of this study show that the top priorities for blockchain characteristics in a supply chain are smart contract functionality, privacy, transaction per second, tokenization, security, permissioned network, scalability, cost, modularity, and licensing, in order of importance.…”
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Rheumatoid arthritis disease activity index-5: Utility in busy clinical settings by Harpreet Singh, Vikram Singh Tanwar, Gagandeep Sukhija, Rekha Mathur, Parminder Kaur

“…Methods: One hundred patients with active RA (as per ACR 1987 criteria) were assessed for disease activity using DAS28, CDAI, and RADAI-5. …”
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