Environmental risk assessment of concrete construction projects in developing countries based on Analytical Hierarchy Process method by Saman Solaimanian

“…By integrating expert judgment and stakeholder input through pairwise comparisons, the AHP analysis identified air pollution (39%), specifically dust generation, as the most critical risk, followed by water pollution (27.4%), resource depletion (12.5%), solid waste generation (16.3%), and habitat destruction (4.8%). …”
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Positive Discipline: Behavioral Management Skills for Parents and Teachers Part 3—Fostering the Parent–Child and Teacher–Student Relationship to Build Responsibility by Victor Harris, Whitney Fung, Sarah Ellis, Alison Schmeer

“…The general goal of healthy parenting and teaching is to produce children and students who can think critically, make good decisions, and become independent, accountable, responsible, and contributing members of society. …”
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Managing Landscape Irrigation to Avoid Soil and Nutrient Losses by George Hochmuth, Laurie Trenholm, Don Rainey, Esen Momol, Claire Lewis, Brian Niemann

“… Proper irrigation management is critical to conserve and protect water resources and to properly manage nutrients in the home landscape. …”
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"The City as Muse": A Context-Oriented Meta-Historical Reading of Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt by Ibrahim A. Odugbemi

“… A number of scholarly and critical arguments have explored the poetics of nonfiction, otherwise called life writing, as a sub-genre of prose literature. …”
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From Villainess to Gilead’s Nemesis: The (Un)easy Rehabilitation of Aunt Lydia by Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk

“…It focuses on the overlap between the transformation of her character and the shift from the original novel’s criticism of second wave feminism towards the sequel’s embrace of the fourth wave. …”
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Die Bybel is steeds in diskussie: 'n dekade later by F. B. Doubell

“…Today criticism is divided between those who accept both the divine and the human aspects of Scripture and those who reject them. …”
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A case report: Endobronchial ultrasound guided biopsy of radiographically normal size thoracic lymph nodes supporting diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis by Jee Young You, Manuel L. Ribeiro Neto

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Nyege Nyege Music Festival in Uganda: A Growing Leisure Activity with a Moral Dilemma by Amos, Ochieng, Brenda, Bonabaana, Francis Akena, Adyanga

“…Despite its growing popularity, the festival has received sharp criticisms in the national media and other public forums across the country. …”
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La figure de la comparaison chez Flaubert by Nathalie Petibon

“…We will show the pregnant and nodal character of the image comparison in Flaubert’s stylistics, by observing in succession: the nature of the personal relationship the writer had with this figure, the way it functions in the work and, finally, the critical reception of Flaubert’s comparisons. The evidence shows that, for Flaubert, comparisons constitute both an ironic perspective and a poetic frame.…”
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Multi-omics analysis reveals the sensitivity of immunotherapy for unresectable non-small cell lung cancer by Rui Wu, Kunchen Wei, Xingshuai Huang, Yinge Zhou, Xiao Feng, Xin Dong, Hao Tang

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Enhancing epidemic preparedness: a data-driven system for managing respiratory infections by Moslem Sarani, Katayoun Jahangiri, Manoochehr Karami, Mohammadreza Honarvar

“…Abstract Background Effective epidemic preparedness is critical for minimizing the health and societal impacts of viral respiratory infections. …”
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Signatures of lower respiratory tract microbiome in children with severe community-acquired pneumonia using shotgun metagenomic sequencing by Ting-Yu Yen, Ching Hsu, Ni-Chung Lee, Chao-Szu Wu, Hsin Wang, Kuan-Yi Lee, Chia-Ray Lin, Chun-Yi Lu, Mo-Li Tsai, Tzu-Yu Liu, Che Lin, Chien-Yu Chen, Luan-Yin Chang, Feipei Lai, Li-Min Huang

“…The children were divided into two groups. Critical cases were patients with respiratory failure requiring endotracheal ventilator support, and severe cases did not require intubation. …”
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POPIA does indeed apply to health research: A response to Bronstein and Nyachowe by D W Thaldar

“…Bronstein and Nyachowe recently argued that the conditions for the lawful processing of personal information, as provided in the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA), do not apply to health research in South Africa. This article critically analyses the authors’ interpretation of section 3(2)(b) of POPIA and challenges two of its aspects. …”
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Building occupancy type classification and uncertainty estimation using machine learning and open data by Tom Narock, J. Michael Johnson, Justin Singh-Mohudpur, Arash Modaresi Rad

“…Federal and local agencies have identified a need to create building databases to help ensure that critical infrastructure and residential buildings are accounted for in disaster preparedness and to aid the decision-making processes in subsequent recovery efforts. …”
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A case study on risk analysis of machine breakdown using the FMEA method by Fithri Prima, Hasan Alizar, Wisnel, Sultan Fauzi Kesogihan R.

“…These critical factors are prioritized for intervention. …”
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Mechanism of methanol and formaldehyde emissions from methanol-fueled engines by Fangjie Liu, Hengrui Guo, Xinguo Zheng, Haizhao Li, Xin Wang

“…The concentration of formaldehyde reaches the maximum at the critical temperature. At flow velocities of 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24 m/s, the critical temperature is 812, 823.4, 830, 845.5 and 850 K, respectively. …”
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A global open-source dataset of monthly irrigated and rainfed cropped areas (MIRCA-OS) for the 21st century by Endalkachew Abebe Kebede, Kevin Ong’are Oluoch, Stefan Siebert, Piyush Mehta, Sarah Hartman, Jonas Jägermeyr, Deepak Ray, Tariq Ali, Kate A. Brauman, Qinyu Deng, Wei Xie, Kyle Frankel Davis

“…Abstract Crop production is among the most extensive human activities on the planet – with critical importance for global food security, land use, environmental burden, and climate. …”
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Revisión crítica de la literatura sobre el análisis financiero de las empresas by Salvador Aníval Ochoa Ramírez, Juan Alfonso Toscano Moctezuma

“…The objective of the present article is to critically revise the most relevant bibliography, fundamentally, of empirical character related to the study of the financial analysis of accounting statements of companies using what's commonly known as "financial ratios".…”
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Building Impactful Extension Programs by Understanding How People Change by Laura A. Warner, Sebastian Galindo-Gonzalez, Michael S. Gutter

“… Extension is reported to be one of the world’s most successful change agencies, and the ability to encourage behavior change remains critical to its success. This 7-page fact sheet describes an approach to understanding how Extension audiences move through the process of change as a means of delivering meaningful programming at the most appropriate level.  …”
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Le bizarre ordinaire by Régine Borderie

“…It studies the figures of variegation and its stakes: it contributes to the representation of reality or life, to its criticism on a comic mode, and to the expression of a pessimistic vision of existence.…”
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