Redbay Ambrosia Beetle Xyleborus glabratus Eichhoff (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) by Rajinder Mann, Jiri Hulcr, Jorge E. Peña, Lukasz Stelinski

“…They are considered a “very high risk” invasive disease pest complex having potential equal to that of Dutch elm disease or chestnut blight. …”
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Gender inventorship equity in patent prosecution by W. Michael Schuster, Jordana Goodman

“…Moreover, small entities—patent applicants with typically smaller budgets—are either more than or equally likely to exhibit gender parity when compared to larger firms. …”
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The Special Archive in Moscow by Sigitas Jegelevičius

“…It is stressed that the holdings of Polish origin are equally important for the researchers of Lithuanian history as the German ones. …”
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Developmental Principles: Fact or Fiction by A. J. Durston

“…While still at school, most of us are deeply impressed by the underlying principles that so beautifully explain why the chemical elements are ordered as they are in the periodic table, and may wonder, with the theoretician Brian Goodwin, “whether there might be equally powerful principles that account for the awe-inspiring diversity of body forms in the living realm”. …”
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An English Teaching Pronunciation Detection and Recognition Algorithm Based on Cluster Analysis and Improved SSD by Dongxiao Peng

“…Meanwhile, it integrates multiscale features to realize multilayer multiplexing and equalization of features, so as to improve the detection effect of small target sound. …”
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Application of the calculation method for calculating an economically justified land tax by A. V. Ilin

“…It is concluded that in case of disagreement of an organization or an individual with the amount of tax base, its revision is carried out within the framework of tax relations using the principle of economic feasibility and equality of taxation and calculation method developed by economic science to protect taxpayer’s rights.…”
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Hard-Wired Dopant Networks and the Prediction of High Transition Temperatures in Ceramic Superconductors by J. C. Phillips

“…I review the multiple successes of the discrete hard-wired dopant network model ZZIP, and comment on the equally numerous failures of continuum models, in describing and predicting the properties of ceramic superconductors. …”
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Novel MCDM Methods and Similarity Measures for Extended Fuzzy Parameterized Possibility Fuzzy Soft Information with Their Applications by Ghous Ali

“…Complicated uncertainties arising in the multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) problems that show distinct possible satisfaction of the subjects to favorable and equally unfavorable parameters with varying preferences require reliable decision-making under comprehensive mathematical tools. …”
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Grass Carp, the White Amur: Ctenopharyngodon idella Cuvier and Valenciennes (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae: Squaliobarbinae) by Emma N.I. Weeks, Jeffrey E. Hill

“…Concerns of escape and reproduction, and the potential impacts that colonization of the fish could have on native flora and fauna led to research that developed a non-reproductive fish, which was equally effective in controlling hydrilla. In the warm waters of Florida, with abundant food, grass carp grow quickly at around 2 lbs/month or 0.91 kg/month and may achieve weights of 97 lbs (44 kg). …”
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DOSAGE COMPENSATION: REGULATION OF SEX CHROMOSOME GENE EXPRESSION by E. V. Dementyeva

“…It has also been found that not only equal levels of X-linked gene expression between sexes but also the transcription balance between the X chromosome and autosomes is important. …”
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Défendre le corps des femmes. Libre pensée et féminisme aux États-Unis (1820-1920) by Auréliane Narvaez

“…Exploring the lives and ideas of such freethinkers as Frances Wright, Ernestine Rose, Juliet Stillman Severance, Lois Waisbrooker, or Voltairine de Cleyre illuminates the existence of a feminism which ties male domination to the power of religious apparatuses and defends emancipation as well as equal rights by arguing against the essentialization of women.…”
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Narratives about the communication, limits and hierarchies in children with separated parents by Luz Elena Pinzón Sanabria, Gabriela Vanegas Pérez

“…The separated father does not participate in the pattern of authority, he is not either part of the hierarchical organization, generating that the equal position in the hierarchy is occupied by the mother and the new partner.The members of the family have not elaborated the separation yet, as a consequence, to the difficulties to elaborate the divorce on the part of the children, a relational and emotional tension is added with the new spouses of the parents.…”
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L’héritage d’Alfred Kiyana et l’énigme des paquets cérémoniels meskwaki by Emmanuel Désveaux

“…At the beginning of the 20th century, Alfred Kiyana entrusted the anthropologist Michelson with the liturgical text related to a so-called sacred bundle. He equally sold him the bundle itself which found its way into the reserves of the ethnographical museum of Berlin, presently located in Dahlem. …”
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Micronutrients Considerations for Warm-Season Grass Systems in Florida by Jane C. Griffin, Joao Mauricio Buen Vendramini, Diane L. Rowland, Maria Lucia Silveira

“…Micronutrients are essential elements that are required in smaller quantities than macronutrients but are equally as important for proper plant growth and performance. …”
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Naxi Cosmology of Mt Yulong Sacred Sites with Caveats for Conservation by Jan Salick, Robbie Hart, Li Siyu

“…Others argued conceptually that “conservation” prioritizes people while traditional Naxi cosmology stresses equality and brotherhood between people and nature. …”
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Fractional Metric Dimension of Generalized Sunlet Networks by Muhammad Javaid, Hassan Zafar, Ebenezer Bonyah

“…A real-valued function Φ from VN to 0,1 is called a local resolving function (LRF) if the sum of all the labels of the elements of each LRN set remains greater or equal to 1. Thus, the local fractional metric dimension (LFMD) of a connected network N is dimlfN=minΦ:Φ is minimal LRF of N. …”
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Nanostructured ZnO, TiO2, and Composite ZnO/TiO2 Films for Application in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Myrsini Giannouli

“…It was observed that composite cells with ZnO/TiO2 ratio equal to 90/10 have comparable efficiency to single-semiconductor cells and have the advantage of higher stability. …”
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Asteroids: Assessing Catastrophic Risks by Graciela Chichilnisky, Peter Eisenberger

“…We establish why expected value is insensitive to catastrophic risks see the study by Chichilnisky (1996), and use another criterion to evaluate risk based on axioms for choice under uncertainty that update the classic Von Neumann theory and require equal treatment for rare and frequent events. Optimizing according to the new criterion is shown to be equivalent to optimizing expected utility with a restriction on the worst outcome in the case of a catastrophe. …”
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#CHOOSETOCHALLENGE: COVID-19, COMMUNITY RESEARCH, AND THE CANAANITE WOMAN by M. Ibita, M.S. Ibita

“…This characterisation makes her a vital example and companion for the Alliance women leaders in achieving their prioritised SDGs (1 - No Poverty; 3 - Health and Well-being [in relation with the Environment]; 4 - Quality Education, and 16 - Justice, Peace and Strong Institutions seen from the lens of UNSDG 5 - Gender Equality) during the pandemic and beyond. …”
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A Commentary on “Effective Dose of Epidural Hydromorphone for Analgesia Following Caesarean Section in Using Modified Dixon Sequential Method” [Response to Letter] by Liu QQ, Mao M, Lin NH, Xu CY, Li Q, Jiang CS, Feng SW, Yuan HM

“…Qiao-Qiao Liu,1,* Mao Mao,1,* Ning-Hua Lin,2,* Chen-Yang Xu,1,* Qian Li,1 Chang-Shuo Jiang,1 Shan-Wu Feng,1 Hong-Mei Yuan1 1Department of Anesthesiology, Women’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Women and Children’s Healthcare Hospital, Nanjing, 210004, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Anesthesiology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, 210008, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Shan-Wu Feng; Hong-Mei Yuan, Department of Anesthesiology, Women’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Women and Children’s Healthcare Hospital, No. 123, Tianfei Lane, Mochou Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China, Email Shanwufeng666@163.com; yuanhm667@126.com…”
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