Prevalence of Internet-based Self-medical Diagnosis among Indian Nonmedical Undergraduate Students: An Observational Cross-sectional Survey by Jayati Pandey, Priya Nimish Deo, Revati Shailesh Deshmukh, Siddharth Shinde, Veera Bhosale

“…Increasing use of technology and readily available health-related information on the Internet is a major reason for this practice. Self-medical diagnosis can have some advantages as well as disadvantages. …”
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‘I roll my cigarette, and cycle to my club’: Playing with Stereotypes and Subverting Anti-Feminism in New Woman Writers’ Contributions to Punch by Katy Birch

“…This article will focus on two pieces, published in Punch just over a decade apart, by women who were committed to the cause of women’s rights: Rosaline Masson’s poem ‘The Reason Why’ (1898) and Evelyn Sharp’s short story ‘The Wreck of “The Ark”’ (1909). …”
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Quantification of land use threats to a flagship species and its meadow habitats within urban landscape by K. Krzosek, P. Nowicki

“…In contrast, afforestation targeted relatively well-preserved meadows, and was responsible for substantial habitat loss and was the predominant reason for the decline in butterfly numbers. The decline caused by succession was relatively slow, but the gravity of this threat is increased by the fact that it is widespread and affects virtually all meadows in the region. …”
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Damage Characteristics Caused by Deep-Hole Blasting near Normal Fault and Its Effects on Coal and Gas Outbursts by Kui Gao, Guodong Qiao, Zegong Liu, Wei Xia

“…Based on cases of coal and gas outbursts in the Didaoshenghe Coal Mine in Heilongjiang Province, China, an important reason for such incidents is considered to be the blasting areas of normal faults being disturbed by air-powered coal drilling.…”
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Customer Preference for Islamic Banks in Turkey: A Model of Planned Behavior Theory by Abdulmuttalip Pilatin, Önder Dilek

“…The fact that there are few studies investigating this situation in the literature is the main motivation for the research. For this reason, Theory of Planned Behaviour was used to reveal the factors that enabled the adoption of Islamic banking in Turkey. …”
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The symbolic language of Akhavaans poem, a place for promoting the force of expression and its influence on readersâ mind by محمد خاکپور

“…Following Nima, some of his disciples who, in reason of the entrance of artist’s ambiguity in the poetry and his depth and polysemy, had no interest in expressing their understanding and interpreting political and social questions with frankness, resort to symbolization that means going away from objectivity and getting close to subjectivity. …”
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From Healing the Whole Person: An Argument for Therapeutic Touch as a Complement to Traditional Medical Practice by Marlene B. Huff, Kimberly K. McClanahan, Hatim A. Omar

“…While anecdotal and traditional scientific evidence suggest that TT would be an advantageous addition for clinics and hospitals to include in their armamentarium of complementary interventions within the realm of traditional medicine, TT has not become widely available in the U.S. One reason for the lack of availability may be the dearth of conclusive scientific support for TT's efficacy and, therefore, its inclusion in clinic and hospital treatment planning would give it the appearance of legitimate practice, which it may not yet deserve. …”
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L’échéance des Jeux Olympiques de 2016 et les stratégies de restructuration du transport métropolitain de Rio de Janeiro by Antoine Beyer

“…The ambitious plan will rely on various unfinished projects, which were abandoned to a certain extent due to financing problems. But the primary reason for these unfinished projects is to be found in politicians’ inability to effect changes to the management of public transport, which is then left in the hands of the powerful bus company cartels. …”
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Switzerland cheese model to support the patient safety’s culture in a Cuban hospital by Rosa María Blanco Quintana, Yuliett Mora Pérez, Tania Solange Bosi de Souza Magnago, Liuva Mariela Navarro Martiatu, Zenia Tamara Sánchez García, Annia Lourdes Iglesias Armenteros

“…Some of the roles that people develop coincide in the other actors’ physical and mental space; these actions are in correspondence with different temporal spheres of life, as visualized in James Reason's Switzerland cheese model. This review purpose of systematizing the theoretical assumptions of the Switzerland cheese model for the patient safety culture support in hospitals. …”
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Attribution Analysis of Runoff Variation in the Yue River Watershed of the Qinling Mountains by Yiyi Hu, Yi He

“…The NDVI reflecting underlying surface change has been increasing since 1990, which is an important reason for the runoff decrease.…”
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Floor Disturbance and Failure Characteristics of Super-Large Mining Height Working Face by Cunjin Lu, Jinpeng Xu, Hui Zhao, Heng Zhang, Yian Zhang, Mingyue Chen

“…When compared with the calculation results of the statistical analysis formulas, the floor failure depth of the working face with a super large mining height obtained from field measurement and numerical simulation is smaller. The reason for the smaller failure zone of the floor of the super large mining height working face is that the falling roof inhibits the pressure relief of the floor, the large mining height reduces the advance pressure, and the shear stress of the floor decreases. …”
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Search for Anomalous Quartic ZZγγ Couplings in Photon-Photon Collisions by M. Köksal, V. Arı, A. Senol

“…The direct study of these couplings provides a significant opportunity to test the validity of the SM and the existence of new physics beyond the SM up to the high energy scale. For this reason, we investigate the potential of the processes γγ→ZZ, e-γ→e-γ⁎γ→e-ZZ,  and e+e-→e+γ⁎γ⁎e-→e+ZZe- to examine the anomalous quartic couplings of ZZγγ vertex at the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) with center-of-mass energy 3 TeV. …”
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Palace commandant V. N. Voeikov and the Duma-military opposition: confrontation during the First World War by M. A. Knyazev

“…The hyperbolized view of the role and influence of the general at court, his inclusion in the list of «irresponsible influences» became the reason for the declaration of «war» to the palace commandant by public and military forces. …”
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An Adaptive Maximum Power Output Sustaining System for a Photovoltaic Power Plant Based on a Robust Predictive Control Approach by I. Elzein, Yu. N. Petrenko

“…In targeting the maximum power, it is by far known that the photovoltaic arrays have to operate at the maximum power point despite unpredicted weather changes. For this reason the controllers of all photovoltaic power electronic converters employ some method for maximum power point tracking. …”
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Projet MAMIA (Manompana mikajy ny ala) : étude, gestion et conservation des forêts de Manompana. Actions, bilan et perspectives by Ségolène Beaucent, Marc Fayolle

“…Dislike traditional forest harvestings, business oriented forest harvestings, focusing on high value wood species such as ebony and rosewood, are more likely the main reason of deforestation issue. In order to get the inhabitants more concerned and involved in sustainable control of their forest resources, a “community advisory council” was put in place then operated. …”
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Exploring special economic zone governance: a comparative study of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Kyrgyzstan by N. Saulius, A. Konysbek

“…The results reveal that the low level of proper incentives for investors or factors of state regulations and public administration could be the reason for the functioning of only one SEZ in Kyrgyzstan. …”
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Stock Dynamics of Female Red King Crab in a Small Bay of the Barents Sea in Relation to Environmental Factors by Alexander G. Dvoretsky, Vladimir G. Dvoretsky

“…However, the effects of climatic conditions on the abundance, biomass, and mean weight of female red king crabs, <i>Paralithodes camtschaticus</i>, from the introduced population (Barents Sea) have not yet been studied. For this reason, we analyzed long-term fluctuations in stock indices and the average weight of an individual crab in a small bay of the Barents Sea and related these parameters to the dynamics of temperature conditions (temperature in January–December, mean yearly temperature, and temperature anomaly) in the sea. …”
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Biomass-Derived Adsorbents for Dye and Heavy Metal Removal from Wastewater by Kashir Ali, Muhammad Ussama Javaid, Zaman Ali, Muhammad Junaid Zaghum

“…Biomass is considered an ecological burden and a reason for the reduction in the earth’s carrying capacity. …”
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Effect of Fragmentation on Pore Structures and Fractal Characteristics of Intact Coal and Deformed Coal Based on Experiments by Mingjie Li, Shouqing Lu, Chengfeng Wang, Jie Liu, Jiang Shi, Taibiao Bei

“…Finally, combined with the coupling effect of fragmentation and tectonism on pores, the reason of deformed coal with high crushing degree in fields of outburst was explained. …”
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Histopathological studies upon effects of zeranol on the reproductive system in male merino lambs by M. Kemal ÇİFTÇİ, Metin Münir KIRAN

“…<p> lt may be concluded that zeranal induced changes in the testes was reversible, whereas changes in epididymides, prostat, bulbourethral and vesiculer gland were irreversible. For this reason, zeranal implanted lambs should not be used for breeding purpose.…”
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