Artificial Radionuclides Database in the Pacific Ocean: HAM Database by Michio Aoyama, Katsumi Hirose

“…This HAM database will allow us to use these radionuclides as significant chemical tracers for oceanographic study as well as the assessment of environmental affects of anthropogenic radionuclides for these 5 decades. …”
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Pandemic mitigation: Bringing it home by Tom Reichert

“…In the US, national, regional and even institutional plans for ameliorating the effects of pandemic influenza focus on stockpiling antiviral medications, early production and distribution of vaccine, mass and personal social distancing, and a number of personal hygiene activities. …”
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A Fuzzy Ecosystem Benchmarking for Crowdfunding in Transport Sector by Gargi Pant Shukla, Santosh Kumar, Mukesh Kumar, Ankit Kumar, Manoj Chhetri

“…The global crowdfunding (CF) market was valued at 10.2 billion US$ in 2018 and is expected to almost triple in size by 2025. …”
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Protecting Florida Panthers by Protecting Domestic Animals: Building a "Panther-Proof" Pen by Phillip D. Rodgers, Elizabeth F. Pienaar, Mark Lotz, Darrell Land

“…Florida panthers were listed as an endangered species in 1967 and have been federally protected by the US Endangered Species Act since 1973. For the most part, the role of panthers in the natural environment benefits people (they prey on burgeoning populations of white-tailed deer, raccoons, opossums, and feral hogs). …”
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Asymmetrical Neighborhood of the Empire and a Small Nation in the Far North: The Image of the Russian “Otherness” and Russian-Swedish/Norwegian Relations in the 19th — Early 20th C... by Konstantin S. Zaikov, Oksana V. Zaretskaya

“…Therefore, a detailed study of the transformation of images of Russia in Norway and Sweden allows us to take a new look at the history of relations between these countries, as well as to identify the domestic and foreign policy interests of Norwegian and Swedish societies associated with certain images of Russia. …”
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Biosorption of Cr(VI) from Aqueous Solutions Using Trametes Versicolor Polyporus Fungi by M. Venkata Subbaiah, S. Kalyani, G. Sankara Reddy, Veera M. Boddu, A. Krishnaiah

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Population Structure of Mycosphaerella graminicola and Location of Genes for Resistance to the Pathogen: Recent Advances in Argentina by María Rosa Simón, Cristina A. Cordo, Nadia S. Castillo, Paul C. Struik, Andreas Börner

“…The knowledge about the genetic variation of M. graminicola is very important because it could allow us to determine which genotypes predominate within a geographic area. …”
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Ways of forming the socio-psychological competence of sociology students in the course of training in higher education institutions by Ya. V. Chernikova, R. A. Ashurbekov

“…The existence of ways of forming the professional competence of a future specialist allows us to identify options for improving the socio-psychological competencies of sociology students in the process of training at higher education institutions. …”
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Embracing and Rejecting the Ruskinian Heritage in Wilde’s Aesthetic Theories by Carole Delhorme

“…The series of lectures Wilde gave in the US in 1882 testify to the influence of one of his mentors. …”
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Causes of Wars and Their Role in Social Evolution: Generalization of Modern Concepts

“…The general principles of social interaction and social evolution allow us to judge the conditions that increase and decrease the probability of new wars, as well as the regularities of the dynamics and termination of wars. …”
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Empire in the mirror of geopolitics by Aleksandr Aseev, Vasilii Shishkov

“…In general, the geopolitical interpretation of the Empire allows us to point to its specifics, but not as a state, but as a special type of policy, aimed at establishing dominance by the content, which is the concentration of political resources and the exclusive position of the state, forming the Imperial center. …”
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Anterior Segment Imaging in Combat Ocular Trauma by Denise S. Ryan, Rose K. Sia, Marcus Colyer, Richard D. Stutzman, Keith J. Wroblewski, Michael J. Mines, Kraig S. Bower

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Forecasting the Number of the Wounded after an Earthquake Disaster Based on the Continuous Interval Grey Discrete Verhulst Model by Jun Zhang, Tongyuan Wang, Jianpeng Chang, Yan Gou

“…In this paper, a continuous interval grey discrete Verhulst model based on kernels and measures (CGDVM-KM), different from the previous forecasting methods, can help us to efficiently predict the number of the wounded in a very short time, that is, an “S-shape” curve for the numbers of the sick and wounded. …”
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Delegitimizing, corruptive crises by Ángel R. Oquendo

“…Nor should one take a merely motivational approach, in the sense of U.S. psychologist David McClelland, rather than that of Habermas. …”
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Comparison of physical fitness level among different competition categories in women's basketball: A systematic review by Adriano Vretaros

“…Each indicator has a series of variables whose sum will allow us to understand the athlete's actual physical fitness status. …”
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Performance evaluation metric for statistical learning trading strategies by Jiawei He, Roman N. Makarov, Jake Tuero, Zilin Wang

“…Secondly, this metric enables us to construct profitable option trading strategies, which can also be used as an assessment tool to analyze models' prediction power. …”
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A new optimal control approach to uncertain Euler-Lagrange equations: $ H_\infty $ disturbance estimator and generalized $ H_2 $ tracking controller by Taewan Kim, Jung Hoon Kim

“…To put it another way, this developed approach allowed us to minimize not only the modeling error between the real Euler-Lagrange equations and their nominal models occurring from the IDC approach but also the maximum magnitude of the tracking error by solving some LMIs. …”
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Associations between oxidative balance scores and heart failure among americans: NHANES (2007–2018) by Xiaozhuo Xu, Xueli Wang, Xu Han

“…This study aimed to explore whether OBS is associated with heart failure in US adults. Methods A cross-sectional investigation was carried out using information from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007–2018. …”
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Occupational Therapy Research in Schools: A Mapping Review by Patrícia L. de Oliveira Borba, Beatriz P. Pereira, Joana R. B. de Souza, Roseli E. Lopes

“…Examining the existing scientific production invites us to reflect on whether the dominant focus in this field has responded to the contemporary problems of schools.…”
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Why Is Participation Low in Referendums? Lessons from Latin America by Eli Gavin Rau, Radha Sarkar, Susan C. Stokes

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