Human Flea Pulex irritans Linnaeus, 1758 (Insecta: Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) by Chad L. Cross, Estelle Martin, Lucas Brendel

“…The human flea is cosmopolitan (Mullen and Durden 2019, Gage 2005, Marquardt et al. 2000), but is found in highest abundance in areas where it can readily find mammalian hosts. …”
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Towards an (Even More) Natural Probabilistic Interpretation of Fuzzy Transforms (and of Fuzzy Modeling) by Irina Perfilieva, Vladik Kreinovich

“…Specifically, we show that the 2002 probabilistic interpretation of fuzzy modeling by Sánchez et al. can be modified into a natural probabilistic explanation of fuzzy transform formulas.…”
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Giant Primary Schwannoma of the Left Nasal Cavity and Ethmoid Sinus by Eugene Wong, Justin Kong, Lawrence Oh, Daniel Cox, Martin Forer

“…Schwannomas, in contrast, are rare lesions in this area (Minhas et al., 2013). We present a case of a 52-year-old female who presented with a 4-year progressive history of mucous hypersecretion, nasal obstruction, pain, and fullness. …”
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The complete mitochondrial genomes and phylogenetic analysis of two Chinese endemic cave fishes, Sinocyclocheilus guilinensis and S. huangtianensis (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) by Guojin Yao, You He, Chenhong Li

“…In this study, the complete mitogenomes of Sinocyclocheilus guilinensis Ji, 1985 and Sinocyclocheilus huangtianensis Zhu et al. 2011 are reported and characterized. Both genomes contain 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNAs, 2 rRNAs, and a non-coding control region, with lengths of 16,576 bp and 16,578 bp, respectively. …”
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Fuzzy Based Design for Third-Party Pipeline Failures in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria by GO Ariavie, RE Emetitiri, OE Ononeme, ID Olowu

“…Twelve factors earlier identified by Ariavie et al (2010), were further grouped into four, viz : violence, desperation, misconduct and agricultural categories to allow for a less tedious rule base development. …”
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Non-Archimedean Green’s functions and Zariski decompositions by Boucksom, Sébastien, Jonsson, Mattias

“…This answers a question by Burgos Gil et al. in the negative. Our examples are based on geometric constructions by Cutkosky and Lesieutre, and arise via base change from Green’s functions over a trivially valued field; this theory allows us to efficiently encode the Zariski decomposition of a pseudoeffective numerical class.…”
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Validation of the Story World Absorption Scale through annotation of online book reviews by Moniek M. Kuijpers, Massimo Lusetti, Piroska Lendvai, Simone Rebora

“…In this paper we present our attempt at validating a self-report instrument developed in the field of empirical literary studies to capture absorption experiences, namely the Story World Absorption Scale (SWAS, Kuijpers, et al. 2014). We used the SWAS as the foundation for a tag set, that targets mentions of absorption in online book reviews. …”
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Attractor States in Second Language Development by Ashley Beccia

“…., Amerstorfer, 2020; Evans & Larsen-Freeman, 2020; Syed et al., 2021; Gillies & Roger, 2022). The conceptual unpacking of attractor states can therefore be invaluable for SLD scholars seeking to enter the realm of CDST. …”
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The IMMIGRANTS ARE ANIMALS metaphor as a deliberate metaphor in British and Bosnian-Herzegovinian media by Mujagić Mersina, Berberović Sanja

“…Applying MIPVU (Steen et al., 2010) to the corpus of media articles about the European migrant crisis in the period from August 2015 until March 2016 in English and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, this paper analyzes the IMMIGRANTS ARE ANIMALS metaphor within the framework of the deliberate metaphor theory by considering the three dimensions of this metaphor, namely, the linguistic dimension of (in)directness, the conceptual parameter of conventionality, and the communicative dimension of (non)deliberateness. …”
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On the Asymptotic Behavior of the Maximum and Record Values of Multivariate Data Using the R-ordering principle by Mahmoud H. Harpy, Haroon M. Barakat

“…By using a sup-norm, sufficient conditions for the convergence of multivariate extremes and the potential limit types were fully identified by Barakat et al. (2020a). In this paper, we prove an intriguing result that by using the sup-norm, the weak convergence of multivariate extremes to the Fréchet type implies the convergence of those multivariate extremes in an arbitrary D-normto the same type-limit by using the same normalizing constants. …”
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The impact of providing a continuum of care in the throughcare and aftercare process by Caroline Chittleburgh

“…Research in the area of throughcare and aftercare has highlighted major problems (Dixon and Stein, 2002; 2005; Stein, 2006; Elsley et al., 2007). In response to such findings, regulations and guidance were published, outlining responsibilities for supporting young people leaving care (Scottish Executive, 2004). …”

Ash Whitefly, Siphoninus phillyreae (Haliday) (Insecta: Homoptera: Aleyrodidae: Aleyrodinae) by Ru Nguyen, Avas B. Hamon

“…Heavy infestations caused leaf wilt, early leaf drop and smaller fruit (Bellows et al. 1990). If this whitefly is introduced into Florida we expect it to become a pest of ornamental plants and possibly other crops. …”
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What is the Meaning of an Automobile for the Consumer? How Brazilians and Americans Evaluate Cars, a Comparative Model by Breno Giovanni Adaid-Castro, Cláudio Vaz Torres, Thiago Gomes Nascimento

“…North Americans (N=461) and Brazilians (N=570) filled out the Portrait Values Questionnaire in its refined version, PVQ-R (Schwartz et al., 2012), the List of Values (Kahle & Kennedy, 1988) and the Judgment and Meaning Scale (Allen, 2000). …”
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Investigating the relationship between types of leisure activities and coping strategies among older Korean immigrants by Jungjoo LEE, Jaehyun KIM, Donghwa HU, Jooah LEE, Junhyoung KIM

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Edge coloring of small signed graphs by Robert Janczewski, Krzysztof Turowski, Bartłomiej Wróblewski

“…Three years later, Janczewski et al. introduced a notion of signed class 1, such that a graph G is of signed class 1 if and only if every signed graph (G, sigma) can be colored using Delta(G) colors. …”
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Rôle de l’expérience professionnelle dans le milieu des soins sur les performances et la motivation des étudiants en soins infirmiers dans un dispositif hybride by Margault Sacré, Marie-Christine Toczek, Florence Policard, Guillaume Serres, Catherine Paulet, Sabine Petit, Emmanuelle Neuville, Dominique Lafontaine

“…Blended learning in nursing education is currently hardly represented in the scientific literature (McCutcheon et al., 2015). However, the public of this education is unusual, especially since many of them already have a professional background in the healthcare environment. …”
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Controllability of Mild Solution of Nonlocal Conformable Fractional Differential Equations by Mohamed Hannabou, Mohamed Bouaouid, Khalid Hilal

“…In many research works Bouaouid et al. have proved the existence of mild solutions of an abstract class of nonlocal conformable fractional Cauchy problem of the form: dαxt/dtα=Axt+ft,xt,x0=x0+gx,t∈0,τ. …”
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Market value of R&D, patents, and CEO characteristics by Lipeng Wang, Thanos Verousis, Mengyu Zhang

“…Abstract The contribution of knowledge capital to firm value has increased significantly, from 25% in the 1970s to 45% in the 2010s (Belo et al. in Decomposing firm value J Financ Econ 143:619–639, 2022). …”
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Does insulin resistance contribute to the ‘unbrowning’ of brown adipose tissue? by Orien L. Tulp

“…Patients often experiment with any number of a broad assortment of dietary and exercise approaches to resolve their body weight and other issues with little success. Indeed, Laurberg et al. noted that small differences in thyroid function alone have been associated with up to 5 kg difference in body weight.1 Some patients may also experience symptoms of being overly sensitive to dietary carbohydrates, but even after careful monitoring of the types and amounts of carbohydrates consumed, may still often harbor lingering weight control issues but which fall well short of that required for a diagnosis of metabolic syndrome…”
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Estratégias dinâmicas de alocação ótima de ativos: evidências empíricas no mercado brasileiro by Hedmilton Mourão Cardoso, Claudio Henrique da Silveira Barbedo, José Valentim Machado Vicente

“…Este trabalho procura verificar, seguindo Herold et al. (2007), se as realocações dinâmicas entre as principais classes de ativos brasileiros são capazes de gerar ganhos em um período longo e de limitar perdas em períodos menores. …”
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