Food safety traceability readiness of cabbage and eggplant farmers by Melodee Marciana E. de Castro, Jewel Joana S. Cabardo

“…A growing global concern on food safety has much more been emphasized at the time of the pandemic. This includes the internal control system (ICS) for conventional safe farming, which has proven its ability to control pesticide residue within the safe and sustainable maximum limits for cabbage and eggplant compliant with the most stringent regulations implemented globally. …”
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Hydrogel and Organic Amendments to Increase Water Retention in Anthroposols for Land Reclamation by Valerie S. Miller, M. Anne Naeth

“…Hydrogel application method impacted the initial water retention, but over time, the effect was limited. Water retention in lakebed sediment showed little difference relative to no amendment addition and had lowest increases relative to other substrates. …”
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Conflict Consulting Clinic as a Method of Practical Training of Humanities Students by A. I. Strebkov, A. N. Sunami

“…This stems both from the interdisciplinary subject field of conflict management, which combines the fundamental and applied components, as well as the needs of the labor market and the students themselves. At the same time, being in the circle of social sciences and humanities, conflict management faces the traditional challenges for this industry, associated with the most relevant forms of organizing students’ practical work. …”
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Assessment of the institutional trust level of students in modern Russian society in the context of global cultural and digital transformations by M. A. Tanina, V. V. Bondarenko, V. A. Yudina, O. A. Zyablikova

“…One of the key factors influencing the political development and stability of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as RF, Russia) is trust of citizens in political and social institutions. At the same time, youth is part of the Russian society with which the strategic prospects for progress of the country and vectors of socio-economic transformations are connected. …”
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Effects and Mechanisms of Silibinin on Influenza A/H1N1 Pathogenesis in a Mouse Model by Mohsen Keshavarz, Mohsen Ghorbani, Forough Shamsizadeh, Haideh Namdari, Vahid Salimi, Farhad Rezaei

“…For this, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluids were collected from the thoracic cavity 5 days after the intervention, and viral quantification was performed using TaqMan Real-time PCR. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to evaluate IFN‐γ and IL-10 levels in serum and BAL samples. …”
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DIGITALIZATION: IMPROVING THE LITERACY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS THROUGH MULTIMODAL TEXTS by Lilis Afifah, Sri Prameswari Indriwardhani, Sawitri Retnantiti, Rizman Usman

“…In contrast to technological developments, teaching materials for Arbeit am Text courses studied by students at Universitas Negeri Malang (UM) are still conventional and have not received sufficient attention for a long time. On the other hand, the course that focuses on German reading skills has an important goal, namely, to improve student literacy. …”
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Air Pollution Variation During COVID-19 Pandemic Using Satellite and On-site Measurement Data in Six Provinces in Iran by Maryam Zare Shahne, Amirhossein Noori, Mehdi Alizade Attar

“…In the present study, the temporal variation of Sentinel-5P TROPOMI-derived air pollutants (NO2 and SO2,) and MODIS-derived AOD were examined by using satellite missions in six air pollution’ hotspots provinces, including Isfahan, Tabriz, Mashhad, Tehran, Ahvaz, and Guilan in Iran for contemporaneous time periods before (as a baseline period), and during the epidemic, including the first wave lockdown period of the COVID-19 outbreak, from the 22nd of February, 2019, to the 22nd of February, 2021. …”
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The Statistical Detecting of Sulfur Hexafluoride and Nitrous Oxide Effect on Seasonal Rainfalls in Iran During Recent Decade by Yosef Ghavidel Rahimi, Maysam Tolabi Nejad, Manochehr Farajzadeh

“…In this research the data set of some climatologic elements, related to the cold seasons of previous year, were used to forecast the next year precipitations in Kermanshah and Nouje Hamedan synoptic stations. Therefore, time series of seven climatologic elements including mean temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, mixing ratio, vapor pressure, dew point temperature and sea level pressure were entered to the artificial neural networks as input, while next year precipitation was considered as the output of network. …”
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A Novel Cellular Handset Design for an Enhanced Antenna Performance and a Reduced SAR in the Human Head by Salah I. Al-Mously, Marai M. Abousetta

“…This new handset design is modeled and simulated using a finite difference time-domain (FDTD)-based platform SEMCAD. The proposed handset is based on a current commercially available bar-phone type with a curvature shape, keypad positioned above the screen, and top-mounted antenna. …”
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Mimetic Gravity: A Review of Recent Developments and Applications to Cosmology and Astrophysics by Lorenzo Sebastiani, Sunny Vagnozzi, Ratbay Myrzakulov

“…Within this framework, it is possible to provide a unified geometrical explanation for dark matter, the late-time acceleration, and inflation, making it a very attractive theory. …”
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FMCW-based contactless heart rate monitoring by Zhanjun Hao, Yifei Gao, Yangyang Tang, Yue Wang, Kai Fan, Fenfang Li

“…Traditional methods for heart rate monitoring typically require close physical contact, which limits the continuity and convenience of monitoring. To achieve real-time, non-contact heartbeat monitoring, researchers have introduced millimeter-wave radar technology. …”
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Colonial Diplomatic Relations and the Development of Pearling Industry in the Netherlands Indies, 1894-1899 by Rangga Ardia Rasyid

“…This influence was especially pronounced during the time of James Clark and his Celebes Trading Company (CTC) consortium (1905-1918), which operated primarily in the Aru Islands of the southeastern Moluccas. …”
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Suffering from Loneliness Indicates Significant Mortality Risk of Older People by Reijo S. Tilvis, Venla Laitala, Pirkko E. Routasalo, Kaisu H. Pitkälä

“…Excess mortality (HR=1.38, 95% CI=1.21-1.57) of lonely people increased over time. After controlling for age and gender, the mortality risk of the lonely individuals was 1.33 (95% CI=1.17-1.51) and after further controlling for subjective health 1.17 (CI=1.02-1.33). …”
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Effects of female sexual chemosignals on mucosal immunity in BALB/c and C57BL/6 male mice by G. V. Kontsevaya, E. A. Litvinova, M. P. Moshkin

“…Application of both female urine and LPS increased total white blood cell count and protein concentration in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in BALB/c, but not in C57BL/6 male mice, suggesting an important role of Th2 pathway in lung mucosal immune response. At the same time, urine application provoked a significantly lower plasma corticosterone elevation than LPS. …”
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Mechanisms of foreign language learning anxiety and enhancement strategies among Chinese tertiary students: a grounded theory approach by Junxia Gao, Yanpeng Zuo

“…Intense academic competition raises students’ self-expectations, exacerbates time management difficulties, and further intensifies their anxiety. …”
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Incidental Eosinophilic Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma in Renal Allograft by Abdullah Alharbi, Maram S. Al Turki, Noura Aloudah, Khaled O. Alsaad

“…The graft was nonfunctional at the time of presentation. Abdominal ultrasound and computed tomography scan demonstrated 1.8 cm well-defined, round enhancing lesion, confined to the renal allograft and suspicious for malignancy. …”
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Flight-Test Evaluation of Kinematic Precise Point Positioning of Small UAVs by Jason N. Gross, Ryan M. Watson, Stéphane D’Urso, Yu Gu

“…This is a significant result for the UAV flight testing community because an important and relevant benefit of the PPP technique over traditional Differential GPS (DGPS) techniques, such as Real-Time Kinematic (RTK), is that there is no requirement for maintaining a short baseline separation to a differential GNSS reference station. …”
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Poor Employment Conditions and Immigrant Health in Europe by Matthew D. Matsaganis, Maria Petraki, Dionysis Balourdos

“…The role of employment conditions in health is examined by employing indicators of temporary, part-time, and self-employment. Driven by theory and empirical analysis, we also investigate the effects of additional variables, including long-term unemployment. …”
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A Novel Biosorbent, Water-Hyacinth, Uptaking Methylene Blue from Aqueous Solution: Kinetics and Equilibrium Studies by Md. Nasir Uddin, Md. Tariqul Islam, Sreejon Das

“…The effect of process parameters such as pH, adsorbent dosage, concentrations and contact time, and ionic strength were studied. Adsorption of MB onto H-WH was found highly pH dependent and ionic strength shows negative impact on MB removal. …”
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Effect of Plantago major L. seed mucilage on physicochemical, rheological, textural and sensory properties of non-fat yogurt by Mojtaba Yousefi, Elham Khanniri, Nasim Khorshidian

“…Fortified yogurts with different concentrations of PSM exhibited lower whey loss compared to plain yogurts, while storage time had an adverse effect. The apparent viscosity and dynamic moduli (Gʹ, Gʺ) of samples enhanced with increasing levels of PSM and they were higher in yogurts containing PSM. …”
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