Female budgerigars prefer males with foraging skills that differ from their own by Yuqi Zou, Zitan Song, Jiani Chen, Yuehua Sun, Michael Griesser

“…Females preferred males with foraging skills that differed from their own, independent of the skill type and the number of times males solved the foraging puzzle. These findings show that foraging skills can influence social preferences, including in a mate choice context, and support intraspecific diversity in foraging skills.…”
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The Brécy depocenter as part of a new northern Massif Central Carboniferous–Permian Basin (France) by Beccaletto, Laurent, Bourquin, Sylvie

“…The Brécy area was part of a larger late Variscan basin during the latest Carboniferous–early Permian times in the northern Massif Central region.…”
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Analysis of Different PWM Techniques for Enhanced Ultrahigh Gain Z-Network Topology by Vadthya Jagan, Bhavadish Chary Maheshwaram, Mallesh Usirikapally, Praveen Kumar Balachandran, B. Nagi Reddy, Sankeerthana Mettu, C. Dhanamjayulu, G. Arunkumar, K. C. Saranya, Baseem Khan

“…In these modern times, the Z-source inverters (ZSIs) have become a revolutionary invention ever since the year 2002. …”
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Effect of various natural feed on the growth and survival of Tinfoil barb larvae as local fisheries (Barbonymus schwanenfeldii) by Melanie Kavinta, Afriani Sari, Djamani Rianjuanda

“…Feeding was carried out ad libitum 4 times a day. The ANOVA result showed that feeding different natural feed to the Tinfoil barb larvae for 28 days significantly (P<0.05) effect on length rate and growth rate, but had no discernible impact on specific growth rate or survival (P>0.05). …”
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iStent® Trabecular Microbypass Stent: An Update by Arthur Fernandes Resende, Neal Sanjay Patel, Michael Waisbourd, L. Jay Katz

“…A new class of procedures termed minimally invasive glaucoma surgeries (MIGS) aim to fill this void by offering an alternative method of IOP reduction associated with markedly reduced complication rates and shorter recovery times. The iStent, a trabecular microbypass stent, is a MIGS device that has quickly gained popularity. …”
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Experimental Study of Moisture Content Effect on Geotechnical Properties of Solidified Municipal Sludge by Yijun Chen, Xingxing He, Ping Wang, Yong Wan, Xun Tan

“…But after the drying-saturated process, the permeability coefficient of MMS can be increased up to 4 times, mainly due to the formation of a considerable number of microconnected pores and microcracks in the process of drying. …”
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Evaluation of Machine Learning and Ensemble Learning Models for Classification Using Delivery Data by İrem Karakaya

“…The proposed framework offers a scalable solution for real-time predictive modeling and logistics optimization.…”
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Anxiety, Beliefs and Covid-19 in Two Periods of the Pandemic in Brazil: A comparative study by Geovanna Santana de Souza Turri, Renata Elly Barbosa Fonte, Luiz Guilherme Lima-Silva, Andre Faro

“…Finally, it is important to understand people’s beliefs about the coronavirus at diff erent times of the pandemic because it is a favorable period for the emergence and/or intensification of mental disorders. …”
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Characteristics of primary biliary cirrhosis in British Columbia's First Nations population by Laura Arbour, Rosemarie Rupps, Leigh Field, Paul Ross, Anders Erikson, Harvey Henderson, Warren Hill, Eric M Yoshida

“…The review suggested that the rate of referral for transplantation was eight times higher for those of First Nations descent compared with those of other descent (P=0.0001), and a disproportionate number of the First Nations cases lived on Vancouver Island (48% of cases versus 18% expected, P<0.05). …”
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Stability, Bifurcation, and Chaos Control of Two-Sided Market Competition by Jianli Xiao, Hanli Xiao, Xinchang Zhang, Xiang You

“…Benefitting from the popular uses of internet technologies, two-sided market has been playing an increasing prominent role in modern times. Users and developers can interact with each other through two-sided platforms. …”
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Dynamics and triggers of misinformation on vaccines. by Emanuele Brugnoli, Marco Delmastro

“…We first use the symbolic transfer entropy analysis of news production time-series to dynamically determine which category of sources, questionable or reliable, causally drives the agenda on vaccines. …”
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Mechanical Performance and Chloride Diffusivity of Cracked RC Specimens Exposed to Freeze-Thaw Cycles and Intermittent Immersion in Seawater by Bei Shen, Yinghua Ye, Bo Diao, Xiaoning Zheng

“…The effects of crack width on chloride ingress and mechanical behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) specimens were experimentally studied after exposure to 300 cycles of freeze-thaw and seawater immersion (75 times). Cracks were induced prior to exposure by an eccentric compression load which was sustained until the end of the exposure period. …”
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Study on Millimeter-Wave Vivaldi Rectenna and Arrays with High Conversion Efficiency by Guan-Nan Tan, Xue-Xia Yang, Huan Mei, Zhong-Liang Lu

“…The DC power obtained by the 1 × 2 rectenna arrays is about two times as much as that of the element. The conversion efficiencies of the arrays are very close to that of the element. …”
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Business processes in civil protection institutions and services in the context of TQM by Župljanin Slobodan, Karadža Mario, Balaban Mladenka

“…In order to be able to talk about advanced concepts of leading and managing a business organization as a whole in the modern age in which we live, it is necessary to keep up with the times, which means that the concept of quality should be advocated in the organization. …”
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Diagnostic classification in toxicologic pathology using attention-guided weak supervision and whole slide image features: a pilot study in rat livers by Philip Zehnder, Jeffrey Feng, Trung Nguyen, Philip Shen, Ruth Sullivan, Reina N. Fuji, Fangyao Hu

“…Even with advanced methods designed for digital histopathology, the domain of toxicologic pathology presents challenges in that histopathologic features may be at times complex, subtle, and/or rare. We propose an innovative weakly supervised learning method that leverages minimal annotations, a state-of-the-art self-supervised vision transformer for embedding extraction, and a novel guided attention mechanism that is better suited for heavily imbalanced datasets typical in toxicologic pathology. …”
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The influence of the local government on Serbia's economic development and its debt reduction by Aničić Jugoslav, Aničić Dušan, Jelić Miloje A., Gligorijević Jasmina

“…The local governments mainly conducted the economic policy development on their own because the development policy has not been conducted at the regional level, as in many developed countries. Modern times ask for a proactive approach on behalf of the local governments concerning the economic development, more influence on the republic authorities and entrepreneurial spirit development in business, with the aim of unemployment and public debt reduction.…”
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A Pharmacotherapy and ECT resistant OCD patient’s Cognitive Behavioral Therapy by Tacettin KURU, M. Hakan TÜRKÇAPAR

“…In the first 6 months of entering to clinic pharmacotherapy and 3 times a week in 20 ECT session was completed but he didn’t answer to these treatments. …”
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Choosing the Right Visual for Social Media: Comparing the Engagement of Stock Photos Versus Natural Photos by Anissa Zagonel, Lauri M. Baker, Jarred Shellhouse, Cheryl Boyer, Hikaru Peterson, Aly Morrison

“…However, because the difference between mean engagement rates for stock and natural photos was low, in times of need, a stock photo can produce better engagement than no photo at all. …”
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Sociocultural Determinants of the Utilization of Maternal Health Care Services in the Tallensi District in the Upper East Region of Ghana by Jonathan Mensah Dapaah, John Onzaberigu Nachinaab

“…However, most pregnant women do not receive the minimum number of antenatal care (ANC) services (at least 4 times during pregnancy) as recommended by the WHO. …”
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Assessing species interactions using integrated predator-prey models by Paquet, Matthieu, Barraquand, Frédéric

“…Their coverage probability, quantifying how many times credible intervals include zero, is also satisfactory. …”
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