“An Intense Level of Self-regulation”: Technological Opportunities and Limitations of Online Intergroup Dialogue by Grant Jackson, Sarah Schiffecker, Oleksandra Poquet

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Barrancas de Barrujón (Toledo, España, 2019) by Íñigo Yvorra

“…This setting is special because of the reddish color-scheme of the astonishing scarp, which can reach 120 m, is in contrast with the water of the Tajo reservoir, creating a valuable landscape that can remind us vaguely of the Grand Canyon in Colorado. In 2010 this landscape was declared Natural Monument by the regional government of Castilla La Mancha. …”
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STUDY OF NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX IN Rb FOUR-LEVEL N-TYPE ATOMIC GAS MEDIUM by Huy Bang Nguyen, Nguyen Mai Anh Le, Thi Minh Phuong Le, Hai Quang Ho, Van Doai Le

“…The investigation of the real parts of the relative permittivity and relative permeability with intensity and frequency of the pump and signal laser fields allowed us to find the laser parameters for the appearance of the negative refractive index, which can be useful for experimental observations.…”
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Microplastic in the Soil Environment – Classification and Sources in Relation to Research Conducted in Poland by Monika Kisiel, Agnieszka Poniatowska, Anita Kaliszewicz

“… In less than a century, plastics have gained enormous popularity and it is now difficult for us to imagine our lives without them. They are very widely used in industry, agriculture, medicine and many others, mainly due to their stability and low production costs - which contribute to a steady increase in demand worldwide. …”
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Jeśli nie naiwność, to co? Próba rekonstrukcji idei dziecka u J.J. Rousseau by Małgorzata Kowalik-Olubińska

“…They also point at the ambiguity and complexity of the child’s nature, which allows us to question the obviousness and universalness of the idea of a child as a being that is innocent, immature, dependent and devoid of the ability to influence events. …”
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HIV and Menopause: A Systematic Review of the Effects of HIV Infection on Age at Menopause and the Effects of Menopause on Response to Antiretroviral Therapy by Kentaro Imai, Madeline Y. Sutton, Rennatus Mdodo, Carlos del Rio

“…More than half of persons living with HIV infection in the United States (U.S.) will be ≥50 years of age by 2020, including postmenopausal women. …”
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Long-Term Trends in Marriage Timing and the Impact of Migration, the Netherlands (1650-1899) by Charlotte Störmer, Corry Gellatly, Anita Boele, Tine De Moor

“…We make use of two new large historical datasets, namely an aggregation of Dutch genealogies and the transcribed marriage banns of Amsterdam. This allows us to understand the features and developments of marriage ages from a long-term perspective in what is known as one of the core-areas of the so-called European Marriage Pattern. …”
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Estimation of Crop Evapotranspiration Using Satellite Remote Sensing-Based Vegetation Index by Arturo Reyes-González, Jeppe Kjaersgaard, Todd Trooien, Christopher Hay, Laurent Ahiablame

“…These results are not new but give us confidence in the rest of our ETc results. Daily ETc maps helped to explain the variability of crop water use during the growing season. …”
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Quasi-biennial oscillation: laboratory experiments by Semin, Benoît, Pétrelis, François

“…We present the details of our experimental set-up, and we explain which improvements allowed us to obtain quantitative measurements during long times. …”
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An NoC Traffic Compiler for Efficient FPGA Implementation of Sparse Graph-Oriented Workloads by Nachiket Kapre, André Dehon

“…We perform load balancing, placement, fanout routing, and fine-grained synchronization to optimize our workloads for large networks up to 2025 parallel elements for BSP model and 25 parallel elements for Token Dataflow. This allows us to demonstrate speedups between 1.2× and 22× (3.5× mean), area reductions (number of Processing Elements) between 3× and 15× (9× mean) and dynamic energy savings between 2× and 3.5× (2.7× mean) over a range of real-world graph applications in the BSP compute model. …”
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Handgrip Strength as a Diagnostic Tool in Work-Related Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Disorders in Women by Deborah Alperovitch-Najenson, Eli Carmeli, Raymond Coleman, Haim Ring

“…Our findings encourage us to recommend hand dynamometer testing as a useful diagnostic tool to determine loss of handgrip strength.…”
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Synthetic graphs for link prediction benchmarking by Alexey Vlaskin, Eduardo G Altmann

“…A key contribution is the derivation of theoretical upper bounds for link prediction performance in our synthetic graphs, allowing us to estimate the predictability of the task and obtain an improved assessment of the performance of any method. …”
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The Evaluation of Uterine Sarcomas: Tertiary Center Experience by Onur Yavuz, Kadir Alper Mankan, Asli Akdoner, Sultan Ot, Hasan Bahadir Saatli

“…STUDY DESIGN: Between January 2001 and August 2023, 30 patients with uterine sarcomas (US) were included and analyzed in this cross-sectional study. …”
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Beneficial and Detrimental Effects of Soil-Structure Interaction on Probabilistic Seismic Hazard and Risk of Nuclear Power Plant by Shinyoung Kwag, BuSeog Ju, Wooyoung Jung

“…The risk fluctuation width is particularly noticeable in the site having a considerable change in seismic hazard information such as Los Angeles on the western site of the US. Such results can be expected to be utilized in a future study for investigating the pros and cons of the SSI effect associated with various failure modes in diverse conditions.…”
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Is Thymoglobulin or Rituximab the Cause of This Serum Sickness? A Case Report of Serum Sickness Dilemma and Literature Review by Amarpreet Sandhu, Antonia Harford, Pooja Singh, Eduardo Alas

“…We are reporting a patient who developed serum sickness after receiving Thymoglobulin and Rituximab that led us to consider Rituximab as one of the potential causes in this patient’s serum sickness. …”
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Vibrio parahaemolyticus: Exploring its Incidence in Malaysia and the Potential of Streptomyces sp. as an Anti-Vibrio Agent by Ke-Yan Loo, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Priyia Pusparajah, Sunny Hei Wong, Kok-Gan Chan, Learn-Han Lee, Vengadesh Letchumanan

“…Malaysia is one of the top seafood consumers and this places us at a higher risk of exposure to V. parahaemolyticus infections. …”
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Territoires méridionaux et îles australes : laboratoires du masculin dans les premiers romans d’aventures pour garçons victoriennes by Valentine Prévot

“…The repeated contacts with the space of the Other not only authorize a quest for the purification of masculinity, the conquest of territories and numerous experiences of hybridization, it also enables us to redefine the Same which eventually absorbs the Other when the British heroes inevitably go back to their island home. …”
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Problems of Commissioning of Technical Expert Examination of Documents by T. F. Bezsonna, L. S. Zubtsova

“…It is advisable to provide expert institutions with modern technical means that should allow us to conduct high-quality and full examination. …”
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FedEx and UPS Network Structure and Accessibility Analysis Based on Complex Network Theory by Changsong Zhao, Chunliang Xiu, Guanyi Yu

“…In conjunction with the division of US regions from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), this paper refers to FedEx and UPS as FEPS and analyzes its topological structure, complexity properties, and air cargo accessibility by using social network analysis (SNA) and accessibility evaluation methods. …”
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Clinical utility of combined contrast-enhanced ultrasound and intracavitary contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the percutaneous treatment of pyogenic liver abscess by Giampiero Francica

“…Conclusions: The combination of CEUS and IC-CEUS proved to be a powerful and safe tool for tailoring US-guided percutaneous treatments to patients with PLA.…”
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