Chitin nanocrystal-reinforced chitin/collagen composite hydrogels for annulus fibrosus repair after discectomy by Mingzhi Liu, Zhiyong Cui, Derong Xu, Chenguang Liu, Chuanli Zhou

“…The Ch and Col components constitute the matrix of the hydrogel patch, while uniformly dispersed ChNCs act as a nanofiller, markedly improving the mechanical performance (compression strain: 95 %; compression modulus: 0.27 MPa) of the resulting Ch/Col@ChNCs hydrogel patch. …”
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“My team made me do it”: the differential influence of team amotivation on leaders’ destructive leadership behavior, from a gender perspective by Mats Reinhold, Britt-Inger Keisu, Robert Lundmark, Andreas Stenling, Susanne Tafvelin

“…The results show that male leaders are more prone to act destructively when they perceive a lack of team motivation. …”
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A Genetic Algorithm Based ESC Model to Handle the Unknown Initial Conditions of State of Charge for Lithium Ion Battery Cell by Kristijan Korez, Dušan Fister, Riko Šafarič

“…Additionally, our experiments have shown that all implemented models significantly outperformed the well-known ampere-hour coulomb counter integration method, which is prone to drift over time and the extended Kalman filter, that acted with bias.…”
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Méritos e limites da teoria da escolha racional como ferramenta de interpretação do comportamento social e político by Mauro Macedo Campos, Hugo Borsani, Nilo Lima de Azevedo

“…Assuming this premise of rationality, according to which actions aim to satisfy preferences and not act against them, the theory of rational choice presupposes that individuals are able to make associations between the known and available means and the ends intended by them. …”
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“Radical”: Marianne Moore and the Revision of Modernism by Aurore Clavier

“…From the editorial birth of Imagism to the preliminary pruning of The Waste Land, the dominant narratives of Modernism have often been built on foundational acts of crossing out, whether self-imposed, collective or allographic. …”
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Mesurer l’impact du travail sur la santé : du longitudinal, oui, mais lequel ? by Thomas Coutrot, Loup Wolff

“…But the effects of the professional and the personal factors act in a largely independent way.We then examine the respective merits of “standard” and “dynamic” models. …”
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Environmental Performance, Financial Constraints, and Tax Avoidance Practices: Insights from FTSE All-Share Companies by Probowo Erawan Sastroredjo, Marcel Ausloos, Polina Khrennikova

“…Through its initiative known as the Climate Change Act (2008), the Government of the United Kingdom encourages corporations to enhance their environmental performance with the significant aim of reducing targeted greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE MUKHTAR INSTITUTION IN CITY CENTERS IN TERMS OF PUBLIC ECONOMY IN TURKEY by Arzu Kızılkaya, Alparslan Uğur

“…The mukhtar institution, which is the closest point of the local government to the people and acts as a bridge between the people and the central-local government, has become an important unit. …”
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Types of Rest According to the Labor Legislation Applied by the Employees of the National Police of Ukraine by O. V. Veklіyk

“…While analyzing scientific literature, regulatory base and international legal acts the author has established and revealed the types of rest time of the employees of the National Police of Ukraine. …”
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Problems of Criminal and Legal Qualification of Domestic Violence by Yu. V. Orlov

“…The latter include the difficulties of unambiguous interpretation and legal assessment of the features of a socially dangerous act provided by the Art. 126-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, and the features of “systematic”, establishing socially dangerous consequences and causal relation and distinguishing domestic violence from related corpus delicti of criminal offenses. …”
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Understanding of Punishment in the Philosophical, Political and Legal Doctrines of Ancient China by Ye. S. Lohvynenko, I. A. Lohvynenko

“…The most dangerous were considered acts that threatened the ruler, less dangerous that threatened society. …”
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Validation of Simultaneous Quantitative Method of HIV Protease Inhibitors Atazanavir, Darunavir and Ritonavir in Human Plasma by UPLC-MS/MS by Tulsidas Mishra, Pranav S. Shrivastav

“…HIV protease inhibitors are used in the treatment of patients suffering from AIDS and they act at the final stage of viral replication by interfering with the HIV protease enzyme. …”
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La Veracitat períodistica com a garantia de seguretat a la Unió Europea by Gerard Gros Muñoz

“…És per això que en els darrers anys des de les institucions europees s’ha posat èmfasi a intentar abordar aquesta problemàtica a través de diferents mesures i l’aprovació de nova legislació que pot contribuir-hi, com la Digital Services Act. De la mateixa manera, en aquesta tasca també hi tenen importància altres actors, com els mitjans de comunicació i les xarxes socials, que han de vetllar perquè la informació que hi publiquin sigui verídica. …”
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Comparison of Vitamin-D binding protein levels in gingival crevicular fluid of pre- and postmenopausal women with and without chronic periodontitis: A clinico-biochemical study by Kaviya Balasubramaniyam, Sankar Lakshmi Sree, Kavitha Jayavel, V. Krishnan, Rajasekar Sundaram

“…Vitamin-D Binding Protein (DBP) is a multifunctional protein that acts as an acute phase reactant and plays a key role in bone metabolism. …”
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OVERCOMING THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES: PARABLE AS A MEANS OF INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE by Tetyana V. Danylova

“…Acquaintance with parables helps to extend the set of the world perception models and to change the positions of the communication process participants. Parables act as intermediaries between people of different cultures and mentalities. …”
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Calibration verification for stochastic agent-based disease spread models. by Maya Horii, Aidan Gould, Zachary Yun, Jaideep Ray, Cosmin Safta, Tarek Zohdi

“…In this work, we develop a stochastic agent-based disease spread model to act as a testing environment as we test two calibration methods using simulation-based calibration, which is a synthetic data calibration verification method. …”
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AXIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF MORAL AND LEGAL DECISION-MAKING by I. M. Hoian

“…Moral and legal decision-making is a social process that is connected with such a social essence of a person as rationality, which gives an opportunity to act axiologically. A person makes moral and legal decisions in a complex way, based on the unity of the moral, axiological and psychological aspects of his worldview, which are grounded on the system of reference values.…”
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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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Recalculating: The atlas of pragmatic parameters of developmental disorders by Anita Viszket, Alexandra Hoss, Eszter Kárpáti, Gábor Alberti

“…We apply ÂeALIS, the pragmasemantic system (Alberti, Kleiber, Schnell, & Szabó 2016) which offers a formal representation for linguistically encoded speech acts and for the beliefs, desires and intentions that are present in the minds of potential interlocutors. …”
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