Making the most of grasslands and heathlands by Doyle McKey

“…Techniques and systems that have long been studied independently—soil burning in grassland and heathland agriculture throughout the world, historical plaggen cultivation in northern European heathlands, and raised-field agriculture in present-day Africa and New Guinea and pre-Columbian South America—appear on closer inspection to be variants on a common theme. Two syntheses by Roland Portères and François Sigaut in the 1970’s, published in French and little cited by authors writing in English, furnish the foundation for a conceptual framework that links these systems and suggests new research questions. …”
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A “Rash” Decision in Anesthetic Management: Benzyl Alcohol Allergy in the Perioperative Period by Michael Tripp, Matthew Ribeiro, Susanna Kmiecik, Ramon Go

“…Benzyl alcohol is among a few excipients found in common anesthetic agents known to cause hypersensitivity reactions in susceptible patients. …”
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Microbiological Study of Cast Posts before Cementation by Maricela Vallejo-Labrada, Juan Carlos Ojeda-Garces

“…This study identifies the most common microorganisms present in type III gold cast posts related to pulpal disease and evaluates the sterilization/disinfection method before cementation in the root canal. …”
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Comparative Study on Steady and Unsteady Flow in a Centrifugal Compressor Stage by Changhee Kim, Changmin Son

“…Steady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulation with the mixing-plane approach is the most common procedure to obtain the performance of a centrifugal compressor in an industrial development process. …”
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Ceftazidime-avibactam susceptibility against Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae by Arun Sachu, Alice David

“…Since CRE infections are very common, an economical and practical method for testing ceftazidime-avibactam susceptibility is needed in all the clinical microbiology laboratories as it is a last resort drug. …”
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An overview of downhill esophageal varices: a challenge for medical practice by Donghong Wang, Zhibin Ma

“…Objectives Unlike the commonly seen uphill esophageal varices in clinical practice, downhill esophageal varices are caused by obstruction of the superior vena cava and azygous venous system. …”
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Deep Learning in Cybersecurity: A Hybrid BERT–LSTM Network for SQL Injection Attack Detection by Yixian Liu, Yupeng Dai

“…Among these threats, SQL injection attacks stand out as a particularly common method of cyber attack. Traditional methods for detecting these attacks mainly rely on manually defined features, making these detection outcomes highly dependent on the precision of feature extraction. …”
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Effects of oral sarcopenia and malnutrition on the elderly by Chieh Chen, Da-Ming Liao

“…Anorexia nervosa, which refers to a decline in appetite or food intake, is common in this population because of the degradation of chewing and swallowing functions. …”
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An Indian Case Study on Mitochondrial Neurogastrointestinal Encephalomyopathy by Shabana Kareem, Reemy Sara Mathai

“…Subsequent clinical assessments confirmed MNGIE in the two younger siblings, while the youngest remained unaffected. Common symptoms across all three included ptosis, limited eye movements, generalized muscle atrophy, and the absence of tendon reflexes. …”
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Stress and anxiety in schools: a multilevel analysis of individual and class-level effects of achievement and competitiveness by Saskia Jasmin Becker, Moritz Börnert-Ringleb

“…Stress and anxiety are commonly experienced by students in schools. Both phenomena are mutually dependent and associated with various negative outcomes. …”
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Determining the variations of monthly wet and dry regimes using Angot index in Ardabil Province by Raoof Mostafazadeh, Roghayeh Asiabi-hir, Seyed Saied Nabavi

“…The results proved the suitability of the Angor index in determining wet and dry months and the comparison of the employed index with other common drought indices (e.g. Standardized Precipitation Index) and also different climatic zones of Iran needs further investigations.…”
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A Rare Case of Calcified Simple Mesenteric Cyst in a 70-Year-Old Woman by Alazar Berhe Aregawi, Alemwosen Teklehaimanot Alem

“…Mesenteric cysts are commonly found in the small intestine, up to 60% of cases, and occasionally in the colon. …”
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DOCUMENTARY PROTECTION OF INTERACTION OF EMPLOYERS, UNIVERSITIES AND AUTHORITIES WHILE TRAINING THE GRADUATES IN THE FIELD OF SOCIO-CULTURAL ACTIVITIES by Lyudmila I. Lazareva

“…The proposed solutions to problems of conjugation of documentary protection of training the highly qualified specialists in the field of socio-cultural activities discussed in the article will enhance practical work on updating the common approaches to creation of a unified conceptual apparatus describing the classification of professional activities.…”
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Successful Obliteration of a Pseudoaneurysm from Post-CEA Repair Secondary to a Pruitt-Inahara Shunt Using a Stent Graft by Vishal Dahya, Prasad Chalasani

“…CEA has become an increasingly more common vascular surgery performed in the United States. …”
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Enhanced High Performance Power Compensation Methodology by IPFC Using PIGBT-IDVR by Subramanian Arumugom, Marimuthu Rajaram

“…To overcome these issues and to achieve a higher speed, a new methodology called the Parallel IGBT-Based Interline Dynamic Voltage Restorer (PIGBT-IDVR) method has been proposed, which mainly spotlights the dynamic processing of energy reloads in common dc-linked energy storage with less adaptive transition. …”
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Fecal DNA Screening in Colorectal Cancer by Suzanne Richter

“…Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common type of cancer diagnosed in Canada, and is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in nonsmokers. …”
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Wear Resistance of Anodic Titanium Dioxide Films Produced on Ti-6Al-4V Alloy by María Laura Vera, Mario Roberto Rosenberger, Carlos Enrique Schvezov, Alicia Esther Ares

“…Ti-6Al-4V alloy with TiO2 coating is the most commonly selected material to construct an aortic heart valve. …”
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Vision-Threatening Behcet’s Disease: Severity of Ocular Involvement Predictors by Mohammed A. Hussein, Iman M. Eissa, Ahmed A. Dahab

“…To examine and spot systemic findings commonly associated with a serious form of ocular Behcet’s disease. …”
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Palatal assibilation before [w]? The case of Armenian, Saka, and Luwian by Hans Henrich Hock

“…I show that the developments in Saka and Armenican can be accounted for in terms of a crosslinguistic tendency for the high-vocalic labiovelar glide w, whether full segment w or nonsegmental offglide w, to assimilate to a following y or front vowel by becoming labiopalatal segmental ɥ or offglide ɥ, which following a common trend is unrounded to y or y and then palatalizes and assibilates the preceding stop. …”
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Majocchi’s Granuloma after Topical Corticosteroids Therapy by Fu-qiu Li, Sha Lv, Jian-xin Xia

“…The clinical manifestations of MG are many and varied, except the common presentations of erythema, papule and nodules, and Kaposi sarcoma-like and molluscum-like lesions have been reported in literatures (Kim et al. (2011), Bord et al. (2007), and Lillis et al. (2010)). …”
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