Aquaculture applications of the Family Blenniidae by Jesse Von Linden, Joshua T. Patterson, Cortney L. Ohs, Matt DiMaggio

“…The Blenniidae family is particularly common in the reef keeping community not only for their active nature, but also for their substrate cleaning and algae eating abilities.  …”
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A Nonisolated Single-Switch Coupled Inductor-Based DC-DC Converter with High Voltage Gain for Renewable Power Generation Systems by Hafez Nouhi, Vahid Talavat, Mohammad Farhadi-Kangarlu

“…Continuous input current with low ripple, common ground between output and input ports, low voltage stress across semiconductors, low number of components, high voltage gain, and high efficiency are the main advantages of the proposed converter. …”
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Double layer federated security learning architecture for artificial intelligence of things by ZHENG Chengbo, YAN Haonan, FU Caili, ZHANG Dong, LI Hui, WANG Bin

“…The experimental results show that the architecture achieves detection accuracy of over 85% for four common poisoning attacks, greatly improving the security of the system and achieving decentralized security aggregation with gradient privacy protection within linear time complexity.…”
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Serum Hepcidin Level as a Marker of Iron Status in Children with Cystic Fibrosis by Monika Kałużna-Czyż, Urszula Grzybowska-Chlebowczyk, Halina Woś, Sabina Więcek

“…Introduction. Iron deficiency is common in patients with cystic fibrosis. Conventional iron status markers are often abnormal in patients with CF, reflecting inflammation and/or infection, rather than actual iron stores. …”
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PLANT GENE PROMOTERS RESPONSIVE TO PATHOGEN INVASION by O. G. Smirnova, A. V. Kochetov

“…The transcription levels of genes involved in the defense mechanisms commonly increase in response to pathogen invasion. …”
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Intersexual relationships in mandrills: dominance, sexual conflict and the influence of social integration by Nikolaos Smit

“…The conflict of evolutionary interests between the sexes is commonly imprinted in social dynamics and physical asymmetries between the sexes. …”
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Compilation of Smart Cities Attributes and Quantitative Identification of Mismatch in Rankings by Osama A. Marzouk

“…A third objective of this study considers analyzing assigned ranks and utilizing a normalized score (limited to a maximum of unity) derived from the raw scores given in six ranking studies (out of the seven considered, with one ranking study excluded as it does not give raw numerical scores) to the six cities that commonly appear in all of them. This part shows with details the existence of mismatch not just in a one-time ranking, but also in a year-to-year trend, where a city appears to be improving according to one evaluator while appears to be degrading according to another evaluator. …”
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Improved Real-Time Traffic Obstacle Detection and Classification Method Applied in Intelligent and Connected Vehicles in Mixed Traffic Environment by Luyao Du, Xiongjie Chen, Zhonghui Pei, Donghua Zhang, Bo Liu, Wei Chen

“…Mixed traffic is a common phenomenon in urban environment. For the mixed traffic situation, the detection of traffic obstacles, including motor vehicle, non-motor vehicle, and pedestrian, is an essential task for intelligent and connected vehicles (ICVs). …”
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Enhanced Duration of Truffle Sauce Preservation due to Addition of Linoleic Acid by Bruno Tirillini, Filippo Maggi, Roberto Venanzoni, Paola Angelini

“…Food products based on truffles such as truffle sauces are commonly sterilized by autoclaving. With the aim of reducing sterilization durations and temperatures and therefore minimizing the formation of new molecules while maintaining sterile conditions, natural molecules with bacteriostatic action can be added. …”
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Designing Management Methods in Elementary School by Creating Enthusiasm to Promote Learning in Students by Samaneh Hoseinpoorian Chabok

“…Purpose: This research seeks to reach common patterns that cause students happiness by introducing schools' open and closed spaces components with Iran and a broad range of traditional and modern school samples, analyzing and expressing them as design criteria. …”
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Export of Russian Higher Education Services: Tools and Current Results by A. M. Pogorelskaya, L. V. Deriglazova

“…Literature analysis indicates growing research interest in educational export, but there is no common methodology for assessing its effectiveness. …”
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Mikhail Gorbachev's First Visit to Britain: 30 Years on by K. V. Shlykov

“…Gorbachev's speech on "new political thinking" and "a common European home", expressions first used during the visit to Uk, rang hollow to London, however Thatcher had the impression that she could deal with the Soviet politician in future. …”
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Orthostatic Hypotension in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease and Atypical Parkinsonism by Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Johan Lökk

“…Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is one of the commonly occurring nonmotor symptoms in patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (IPD) and atypical parkinsonism (AP). …”
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METHODOLOGY OF COST RECORDING AND ACCOUNTING IN DAIRY COOPERATIVES by Marzena Ganc, Mirosław Wasilewski

“…The Euclideanand urban distance method was used to determine a typical object with n = 88 dairy cooperatives – the following set of variables was defined, which are common to all cooperatives and reflect the sizeand specificity of cooperative units on the milk market in Poland. …”
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THE IMPLICATIONS OF TERRORISM ON FOOD PRICES IN NIGERIA by LILIAN NNENNE AKHANOLU, HEZEKIAH AMAMIZO OGUNNUBI

“…This whole development has led to a decline in food production which has further resulted in the sharp rise in the prices of food which has made lives difficult for the common man. In view of these occurrences , this paper examines the implications of terrorism on the recent prices of food and our empirical results shows that terrorism has a negative effect on the prices of food in the country .The study adopted the descriptive analysis of secondary data to examine the effects of terrorism on food prices in the nation .The study will examine the topic in detail and based on this ,the following policy recommendations will be put forward which includes government providing securities for farmers by using the non-biased military to silent the insurgents, adopt a registration data of herders with government which will capture all operating herders in Nigerian states for easy tracking of any misbehavior, provide employment for our jobless youths who had become instruments in the hands of terrorist promoters, and  above all, Nigerian government should adopt State police for a better protection of our rural areas and communities. …”
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Incidence, Associated Factors, and Outcome of Delirium among Patients Admitted to ICUs in Oman by Rasha Khamis Al-Hoodar, Eilean Rathinasamy Lazarus, Omar Al Omari, Omar Al Zaabi

“…Conclusion. Delirium is common among ICU patients and it is associated with negative consequences. …”
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Mental health functioning among men who use the Internet specifically to find partners for unprotected sex by Hugh Klein

“…Data collection was conducted via telephone interviews between January 2008 and May 2009. Depression is more common among men in this population than in the adult male population-at-large. …”
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A Novel Hyper-Heuristic Algorithm with Soft and Hard Constraints for Causal Discovery Using a Linear Structural Equation Model by Yinglong Dang, Xiaoguang Gao, Zidong Wang

“…Acyclic directed graphs (DAGs) are the most commonly used tool in causal modeling because of their excellent interpretability and structural properties. …”
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An Insight into Potential Pharmacotherapeutic Agents for Painful Diabetic Neuropathy by Zunaira Qureshi, Murtaza Najabat Ali, Minahil Khalid

“…Diabetes is the 4th most common disease affecting the world’s population. It is accompanied by many complications that deteriorate the quality of life. …”
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Experimental Evaluation of Bond Strength between Setting Retarder Added Concrete and Normal Concrete by Jin-Su Son, Chiwon Song, Won-Jong Chin, Young-Jin Kim, Jin-Young Lee

“…As a result, chipping treatment, which is commonly applied to increase the bond strength between old and new concrete, did not show significant increase of bond strength. …”
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