Is grip strength linked to body composition and cardiovascular risk markers in primary schoolchildren? Cross-sectional data from three African countries by Juerg Utzinger, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Honorati Masanja, Uwe Pühse, Bassirou Bonfoh, Ivan Müller, Cheryl Walter, Rosa Du Randt, Stefanie Gall, Siphesihle Nqweniso, Peter Steinmann, Markus Gerber, Fredros O Okumu, Serge Ayekoé, Jean T Coulibaly, Dao Daouda, Bomey Clément Gba, Benal Kouassi, Sylvain G Traoré, Marceline F Finda, Elihaika G Minja, Getrud J Mollel, Johanna Beckmann, Christin Lang, Kurt Z Long

“…No consistent association was found between HGS and cardiovascular risk markers.Conclusions HGS assessment is popular due to its simplicity, feasibility, practical utility and high reliability of measurements. …”
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Effects of taurine on growth performance, body composition and physiological responses of western white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei broodstock by Vahid Morshedi, Mahmoud Nafisi Bahabadi, Mansour Torfi Mozanzadeh, Amin Oujifard, Naser Agh, Khalegh Maneii, Ahmad Qasemi, Nehzat Bakhshi, Hadi Ebrahimi, Rezvan Tamadoni, Shirin Hamedi, Reza Bagherpour, Fatemeh Solimani

“…Introduction: The white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei has become a popular species for aquaculture worldwide due to its euryhaline nature and commercial importance. …”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…Lacking the economic resources for such a luxury of patriarchal imagination, black nationalist practice most frequently resorts to more figurative embodiments of the gigantic feminine in art, poetry, song, and dance.Gaines’s gigantic female who voices and embodies black American epochal and epical history, Miss Jane Pittman, is cast as novel and film (1974) at the height of the black nationalist moment, when metaphorical she/males emblematizing the masculine heroism of black nation-building are proliferating all over the place in black popular culture. This paper analyzes Miss Jane Pittman in this historical context of the black nationalist gigantic female icon. …”
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Presenting the Model of Effective Factors on Smart Governance in the Country by Ghaem Gheiravani, Mohammad Montazeri, Shams Sadat Zahedi

“…The results of the analysis showed that the appropriate foundation scenarios in the field of citizenship education and raising awareness, popular participation and citizenship and private sector participation, making arrangements to increase the budget in the field of smartness, and municipal support of the smart government have the most adaptive value in the future of smart urban governance of the city of Rasht. …”
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Accurate space-based NO_<i>x</i> emission estimates with the flux divergence approach require fine-scale model information on local oxidation chemistry and profile shapes by F. Cifuentes, F. Cifuentes, H. Eskes, E. Dammers, E. Dammers, C. Bryan, F. Boersma, F. Boersma

“…<p>The flux divergence approach (FDA) is a popular technique for deriving <span class="inline-formula">NO_<i>x</i></span> emission estimates from tropospheric <span class="inline-formula">NO₂</span> columns measured by the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) satellite sensor. …”
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Citizen science platforms can effectively support early detection of invasive alien species according to species traits by Pablo González‐Moreno, Ana A. Anđelković, Tim Adriaens, Christophe Botella, Jakovos Demetriou, Rita Bastos, Sandro Bertolino, Celia López‐Cañizares, Franz Essl, Živa Fišer, Milka Glavendekić, Marc Herremans, Philip E. Hulme, Viola Jani, Dimitra Katsada, Periklis Kleitou, Nicola La Porta, Katharina Lapin, Marta López‐Darias, Vanessa Lozano, Angeliki F. Martinou, Damiano Oldoni, Esra Per, Stephanie Rorke, Helen E. Roy, Karl‐Manfred Schweinzer, Kristijn Swinnen, Elena Tricarico, Joana R. Vicente, Maarten de Groot, Michael J. O. Pocock

“…Citizen science platforms for opportunistic recording of species are increasingly popular, and there is potential to harvest their data for early detection of IAS, but this has not been tested. …”
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Systematic review and meta-analysis to examine intrapartum interventions, and maternal and neonatal outcomes following immersion in water during labour and waterbirth by Priscilla J Hall, Claire Feeley, Ethel Burns, Jennifer Vanderlaan

“…Objectives Water immersion during labour using a birth pool to achieve relaxation and pain relief during the first and possibly part of the second stage of labour is an increasingly popular care option in several countries. It is used particularly by healthy women who experience a straightforward pregnancy, labour spontaneously at term gestation and plan to give birth in a midwifery led care setting. …”
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Insights into microbiota community dynamics and flavor development mechanism during golden pomfret (Trachinotus ovatus) fermentation based on single-molecule real-time sequencing a... by Yueqi Wang, Qian Chen, Huan Xiang, Dongxiao Sun-Waterhouse, Shengjun Chen, Yongqiang Zhao, Laihao Li, Yanyan Wu

“…Popular fermented golden pomfret (Trachinotus ovatus) is prepared via spontaneous fermentation; however, the mechanisms underlying the regulation of its flavor development remain unclear. …”
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Fálétí’s Philosophical Sensibility by Adeshina Afolayan

“…While Fágúnwà could not resist the influence of Christianity, and especially the allegorical motif of the journey in which humans encounter spiritual challenges (which John Bunyan’s Pilgrim Progress made popular), Fálétí is fundamentally a cultural connoisseur; a writer with a most intimate and dynamic understanding of the Yorùbá condition, especially in its conjunction with the political and sociocultural contexts of contemporary Nigeria. …”
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The sport and Lithuanian national identity by Ingvaras Butautas, Rasa Čepaitienė

“…In opposition to the rest of Europe, basketball truly is the most popular sport in Lithuania, yet till now, nobody has tried to analyze the historical and socio-cultural reasons for such a phenomenon in a more thorough way.  …”
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A Universal Break in Energy Functions of Three Hyperactive Repeating Fast Radio Bursts by Q. Wu, F. Y. Wang, Z. Y. Zhao, P. Wang, H. Xu, Y. K. Zhang, D. J. Zhou, J. R. Niu, W. Y. Wang, S. X. Yi, Z. Q. Hua, S. B. Zhang, J. L. Han, W. W. Zhu, K. J. Lee, D. Li, X. F. Wu, Z. G. Dai, B. Zhang

“…All magnetar-powered FRB models require some triggering mechanisms, among which the most popular is the cracking of the crust of a neutron star, which is called a starquake. …”
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The pattern of elementary teachers' insight in online education, using foundational data theory by reyhaneh bazrafshan delijan, Mohammad Ghafari Mejlej, seyyed javad mortazavi amiri

“…At this point, the concept of gamification learning has become popular. Gamification applies game thinking and mechanics to non-game areas to drive user interaction and usage. …”
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Do-It-Yourself Devices for Training CPR in Laypeople: A Scoping Review by Tina van Duijn

“…A systematic search of 14 academic databases and popular media archives, with additional hand searches, identified academic reports and resources describing DIY compression device construction and/ or implementation. …”
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Unveiling microbial communities with EasyAmplicon: A user‐centric guide to perform amplicon sequencing data analysis by Salsabeel Yousuf, Hao Luo, Meiyin Zeng, Lei Chen, Tengfei Ma, Xiaofang Li, Maosheng Zheng, Xin Zhou, Liang Chen, Jiao Xi, Hongye Lu, Huiluo Cao, Xiaoya Ma, Bian Bian, Pengfan Zhang, Jiqiu Wu, Renyou Gan, Baolei Jia, Linyang Sun, Zhicheng Ju, Yunyun Gao, Waqar Afzal Malik, Chuang Ma, Hujie Lyu, Yahui Li, Huiyu Hou, Yuanping Zhou, Defeng Bai, Yao Wang, Haifei Yang, Jiani Xun, Shengda Du, Tianyuan Zhang, Xiulin Wan, Kai Peng, Shanshan Xu, Tao Wen, Tong Chen, Yong‐Xin Liu

“…To address this challenge, in 2023 we developed EasyAmplicon, a comprehensive, user‐friendly pipeline that integrates popular tools such as USEARCH and VSEARCH, offering a streamlined workflow from raw data to results. …”
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Presenting the model of social entrepreneurship in the development of rural tourism in the target villages of Gilan province by Fatemeh Doozandeh Ziabari, hamed fallah tafti, Mir Mohammad Asadi, Mahdi Basouli

“…Social entrepreneurship in tourism, referred to here as tourism social entrepreneurship, is positioned as a market-oriented approach to address various social problems through tourism entrepreneurship.Extended Abstract                                           IntroductionTourism entrepreneurship is a popular research topic due to its ability to combine different topics such as technological innovation, economic geography, and cultural change. …”
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Dramatic and Cinematic Potentials of the Fifth Dome in Nizami's Haft Peykar by Heydar Ali Dahmarde, Hojat Raeisi

“…Exciting sequences, paired with a captivating storyline and sophisticated special effects, could culminate in an artistic and popular film. This adaptation would not only transport audiences into a poetic realm but also remain true to the poet's original vision of crafting a meaningful story replete with vivid imagery. …”
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INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION by Vasily Ivanov, Yulia Ziyatdinova

“…A number of international nonBprofit nonBgovernmental engineering education organizations aim at unitingthe faculty and administrators of engineering universities and the representativesof industry in order to develop joint solutions and improve thequality of engineering education worldBwide. The most popular of these organizations are Internationale Gesellschaft für Ingenieurpädagogik IGIP, Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs (SEFI), Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and etc.ASEE is one of the organizations implementing global scale activities. …”
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Evaluation of the needs assessment process of the training courses for the staff of the general sports and youth departments by Shahin Hayati, Haleh Fazel, Lora Chapari

“…Sports organizations such as the General Directorate of Sports and Youth and its subordinate sports boards in each province are involved and supervised as government and service organizations in the field of popular and championship sports development. The complexity of these organizations has increased in recent years, and despite the rules and organizational procedures that are frequently changing, the employees of sports organizations must be constantly trained. …”
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Identifying the factors affecting the growth of the employees of the country's property and documents registration organization by Najmeh Ahmadi, Kolsoum Nami, Nader Ghourchian, Parivash Jafari

“…At the heart of this action is change; achieving organizational efficiency with an emphasis on humanity and popular principles. In other words, organizational growth focuses on human behavior. …”
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Investigating causal relationships between entrepreneurial education and sustainable employment generation in Islamic Azad Universities in Tehran by Sana Abdulali, Mohammad Naghi Imani GelepordesariI, Asghar Sharifi

“…Theoretical Framework Entrepreneurship education For years, the subject of entrepreneurship in developed countries has attracted the attention of scientists, officials and people, and it has become one of the most popular academic fields. The importance of using entrepreneurship has reached the point where some recognize it as one of the effective factors of production, such as working capital (apart from human power) and introduce it as an economic engine (Suryaman et al, 2023). …”
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