Boreal waterways: An Early Cretaceous plesiosaur from Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic and its palaeobiogeography by Lene L. Delsett, Adam S. Smith, Stephen Ingrams, Simon Schneider

“…A plesiosaur specimen collected from Ellesmere Island (Nunavut, Arctic Canada) by Danish geologist Johannes Troelsen in 1952 is described for the first time. The plesiosaur is late Berriasian to early Valanginian in age based on palynostratigraphy. …”
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Title of Lithuanian Ruler Vytautas: When did Vytautas Start to Title Himself as the Grand Duke? by Loreta Skurvydaitė

“…The relationships with the Orden represent only a very narrow channel with the outside world. At that time the international language was Latin. It was a high-rank diplomatic language. …”
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Effect of Adsorption Characteristics of Rhodamine 6G Dye Solution in Fe3O4 Magnetic Nanoparticles on Fluorescence Quantum Yield by Suwaphit Phoemphoonthanyakit, Panpailin Seeharaj, Pattareeya Damrongsak, Kitsakorn Locharoenrat

“…The highest efficiency of dye removal was obtained at 10 mg/L Fe3O4, and the adsorption capacity was about 150 mg/g, together with a reduced treatment time of 30 min, owing to active adsorption of Fe3O4. …”
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Sonoelectrochemical Synthesis of Antibacterial Active Silver Nanoparticles in Rhamnolipid Solution by Mariana Shepida, Orest Kuntyi, Martyn Sozanskyi, Yuriy Sukhatskiy

“…The curves practically do not change in time, which indicate the stability of anodic and cathodic processes during prolonged sonoelectrochemical synthesis. …”
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Evaluation of the efficacy of papaya seed-based natural adsorbent for synthetic textile wastewater treatment by Bhattacharya Debleena, Lodariya Mital, Addis Ermias, Arunachalam Kantha D., Mayani Suranjana V., Nikam Rahul J.

“…The effects of several parameters such as pH, contact time, adsorbent dose, adsorbent-adsorbate temperature, and starting dye amount or concentration were examined to optimize the adsorption conditions. …”
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Communicative practices of young people in social networks by S. A. Grishaeva, K. V. Klyuvaev

“…Modern young people more and more often spend their time on social media, which they use for place for friendly chat, or place to spend leisure time, or place for buying things, or space for professional growth, or one of many other reasons. …”
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An update on active and passive surveillance for African swine fever in the Dominican Republic by Rachel A. Schambow, Nianet Carrasquillo, Silvia Kreindel, Andres M. Perez

“…The cumulative incidence for each region was calculated, and the reproductive ratio (R0) was estimated using doubling time and time-dependent methods. ASF continues to be distributed throughout the Dominican Republic with lower cumulative incidence in central regions and R0 around 1. …”
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Designing a Neural Observer to Estimate the State Variables of the Dynamical System of a Specific Class of Leukaemia by Yousef Farshidi, Reza Ghasemi, Aminin Sharafian Ardekani

“…The weights of both layers are considered variables, depending on time. In order to adjust the neural network weights, the error back propagation learning algorithm was implemented. …”
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An Extendable Gaussian Mixture Model for Lane-Based Queue Length Estimation Based on License Plate Recognition Data by Chaofeng Tan, Hao Wu, Keshuang Tang, Chaopeng Tan

“…First, the LPR data were processed to obtain the departure times and time headway of vehicles. Then, the two-dimensional Gaussian distributions of queued vehicles and nonqueued vehicles were fitted, and the expectation-maximization algorithm was adopted to solve the distribution parameters. …”
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Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) and Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA): The Difference Between a Honeymoon and a Holiday by Livia M. R. Marcon, Carmine G. Fanelli, Riccardo Calafiore

“…Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) is a chronic autoimmune disease in which destruction of the insulin-producing β-cells in the pancreatic islets requires regular lifelong insulin replacement therapy, the only lifesaving treatment available at this time. In young persons with a genetic predisposition, it usually manifests after being exposed to environmental triggers. …”
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Multiple Equilibrium Behaviors considering Human Exposure to Vehicular Emissions by Zhanbo Sun, Yu Tan, Rui Ma, Xia Yang, Jie Zhang

“…We assume that a portion of transportation users are environmental advocates and their route decisions are based on some composite cost functions comprise of a travel time component and an emission exposure component. …”
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Hydration Characteristics of Excess-sulfate Titanium Gypsum Slag Cement by Yong JIANG, Cheng LIU, Guomin WANG, Maojie WU, Yun JIANG

“…The results show that titanium gypsum can increase the water requirement of normal consistency and prolong the setting time, which has an adverse effect on the mechanical properties and water resistance. …”
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Iodine test to detect physical damage in chickpea seeds by Jose de Oliveira Cruz, Luís Carlos de Carvalho Júnior, Ricardo Carmona, Jônatas Barros dos Santos, Isabella Fuckner Artiaga

“…With the aim of developing a protocol for rapid iodine testing, the aim of this study was to determine the most suitable exposure time for chickpea seeds in iodine solution, and the most appropriate concentration for staining naturally or artificially damaged seeds. …”
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But I Trust My Teen: Parents' Attitudes and Response to a Parental Monitoring Intervention by Aaron Metzger, Christa Ice, Lesley Cottrell

“…In the intervention group, parents’ beliefs about the importance of trust and privacy were associated with a steeper decline in monitoring across time. Finally, parents’ attitudes about the normative nature of teen experimentation were associated with a quadratic parental monitoring time trend in the intervention but not the control group. …”
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East Asian expatriate football players and national team success: Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean players in Europe (2000–2024) by Le Luo, Yangke Tang, Xiaohan Li, Ge Sun, Enkai Guo, Hanbing Xu

“…Furthermore, the conditional process analysis revealed an indirect effect of expatriate player count on FIFA rankings, mediated by increased appearances and playing time, with the strongest influence observed in the Big Five leagues. …”
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Precision livestock farming in buffalo species: a sustainable approach for the future by Gianluca Neglia, Roberta Matera, Alessio Cotticelli, Angela Salzano, Roberta Cimmino, Giuseppe Campanile

“…It can be defined as “the continuous, automated, and real-time monitoring of production, reproduction, health, and welfare through the application of advanced information and communication technologies (ICT)”. …”
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Simulation-Based Multiobjective Optimization of Open-Pit Mine Haulage System: A Modified-NBI Method and Meta Modeling Approach by Milad Abolghasemian, Armin Ghane Kanafi, Maryam Daneshmand-Mehr

“…The suitable meta-model to maximize the total extraction rate and minimize the transport time of the haulage, two modified functions of nonlinear regression have been determined. …”
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Examining the Prospects of Consociational Power-Sharing as a Conflict Resolution Strategy in South Sudan by Israel Nyaburi Nyadera, Michael Otieno Kisaka

“… South Sudan has not escaped the world’s attention even after the signing of the infamous Revitalized Peace Agreement in September 2018 that for the 12th time brought the two antagonists –Kiir and Dr. Machar to the negotiation table since the conflict began in 2013. …”
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BENCHMARKING PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS IN BOTSWANA’S CONSTRUCTION SECTOR by Mogale SABONE, Richard ADDO-TENKORANG

“…Furthermore, the industry has been docked with many projects that are not delivered on time, go over budget, sub-standard quality or are just abandoned. …”
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Rapid Driving Style Recognition in Car-Following Using Machine Learning and Vehicle Trajectory Data by Qingwen Xue, Ke Wang, Jian John Lu, Yujie Liu

“…First, three rear-end collision surrogates, Inversed Time to Collision (ITTC), Time-Headway (THW), and Modified Margin to Collision (MMTC), are selected to evaluate the collision risk level of vehicle trajectory for each driver. …”
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