CHANGES IN SHEEP TRANSHUMANCE IN ROMANIA. A CASE-STUDY FROM MĂRGINIMEA SIBIULUI – SOUTHERN CARPATHIANS by SHIGERU SHIRASAKA, KAZUKO URUSHIBARA–YOSHINO

“…After the revolution in 1989, individual sheep holders continued to operate in the same fashion. It is possible, though, to infer that the number of sheep taken to the mountains top for summer pasturing became smaller. …”
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Novel Approach to Handling Microfiber-Rich Dye Effluent for Sustainable Water Conservation by R. Dharmaraj, Alagar Karthick, G. K. Arunvivek, S. Gopikumar, V. Mohanavel, M. Ravichandran, Murugesan Bharani

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Investigation of the Physical Properties of Different Ion Species at Hadron Therapy; A Comprehensive Study by Ahmad Esmaili Torshabi

“…This refers to the physical properties of commonly available hadrons versus photons and electrons in colliding with patient body atoms which is our main challenge in this study, in a comparative fashion. Materials and Methods: In this work, protons Caron- and Oxygen-Ions are considered as hadron beams while irradiating a given tumor located at soft tissue equivalent phantom to mimic the patient body using FLUKA simulation code. …”
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Scale Development on the Effect of Social Media Influencers on Purchase Intention by Murat Selim Selvi, Şermin Önem

“…SMIs are present on most digital media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, and build their sphere of influence by sharing their experiences on a wide range of specific topics such as fitness, fashion, beauty, DIY, vacation, entertainment, etc. with their followers. …”
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Engineered T Cells for the Adoptive Therapy of B-Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia by Philipp Koehler, Patrick Schmidt, Andreas A. Hombach, Michael Hallek, Hinrich Abken

“…Redirected T cells thereby target CLL cells in an MHC-unrestricted fashion, secret proinflammatory cytokines, and eliminate CD19+ leukaemia cells with high efficiency. …”
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Transient Occlusion of Bilateral Internal Iliac Arteries Facilitates Bloodless Operative Field in Subcapsular Prostatectomy by Takumi Takeuchi, Masayoshi Zaitsu, Koji Mikami, Shunsuke Yui, Yuta Takeshima, Naohiko Okamoto, Sadao Imao

“…While enucleation of prostatic adenoma is being performed, unneglectable bleeding can occur and surgeons need to rush to remove adenomas, often using fingers and in a blinded fashion. The blood supply to the prostatic capsule and adenoma can be reduced to a marked extent in subcapsular prostatectomy if the bilateral internal iliac arteries are transiently occluded. …”
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Age and gender differences in the recognition, use and perception of a selection of Anglicisms by Carlos Ponce Folgado

“…These eight terms were grouped into four categories: curvy and outfit for fashion; gadget and streaming for technology; bagel and detox for gastronomy; and finally, red flag and staff for society. …”
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On a New Epidemic Model with Asymptomatic and Dead-Infective Subpopulations with Feedback Controls Useful for Ebola Disease by M. De la Sen, A. Ibeas, S. Alonso-Quesada, R. Nistal

“…The periodic limit solution trajectories and equilibrium points are analyzed in a combined fashion in the sense that the endemic periodic solutions become, in particular, equilibrium points if the control gains converge to constant values and the control gain for culling the infective corpses is asymptotically zeroed.…”
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Why EU revenue matters: A case for an EU digital levy by Katerina Pantazatou

“…Whether Pillar One gets adopted or not, the potential introduction of an EU digital levy, ideally by way of an EU tax, could help overcoming several shortcomings of the present tax status quo and could result in an increase of the resources at the disposal of the EU in a fashion compatible with the imperatives of democratic legitimacy.…”
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Reimagined MPFL Reconstruction: Retinacular Fixation of the Doubled Hamstring Graft at the Patella and Suture Anchor-Based Femoral Fixation by Muhammed Ehsan Nazeer, Sagar Goel, Muhammed Nazeer, Gowrishankar Sreenivasan, Mohsin Nazeer Muhammed, Suzaan Shajil

“…The objective of our research is to find out the functional outcome of a new method of medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) reconstruction, which involves two key components: (1) patellar fixation is accomplished by suturing the two limbs of the looped doubled hamstring graft in a divergent fashion to the retinaculum at the medial border of the upper half of patella and (2) the placement of a suture anchor tied to the graft at the isometric point on the medial femur condyle. …”
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Semantic Image Synthesis via Class-Adaptive Cross-Attention by Tomaso Fontanini, Claudio Ferrari, Giuseppe Lisanti, Massimo Bertozzi, Andrea Prati

“…Our model inherits the versatility of SPADE, at the same time obtaining state-of-the-art generation quality improving FID score by 5.6%, 1.4% and 3.4% on CelebMask-HQ, Ade20k and DeepFashion datasets respectively, as well as improved global and local style transfer. …”
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Optimization of Internet of Things E-Commerce Logistics Cloud Service Platform Based on Mobile Communication by Jun Chen, Huan Wu, Xi Zhou, Maoguo Wu, Chenyang Zhao, Shiyan Xu

“…This paper moreover optimizes the e-commerce logistics system, so that it can combine with e-commerce to increase out the distribution of goods, the distribution tempo of e-commerce is doubled, and e-commerce can in a similar fashion develop rapidly.…”
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Online profiling of volunteers in public health emergencies: insights from COVID-19 in China by Hongzhou Shen, Qirui Chen, Changcheng Li

“…Results Four categories of volunteers could be identified: Public Affairs Pioneers (32.4%), Diary Record Lurkers (32.8%), Social Topic Sharers (20.9%), and Fashion and Entertainment Influencers (13.9%). Overall, volunteers were predominantly female, generally interested in entertainment, relatively satisfied with their volunteer work, and possessed a sense of social responsibility. …”
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Distribution of Neuroendocrine Cells in the Transition Zone of the Prostate by Yuki Kyoda, Koji Ichihara, Kohei Hashimoto, Ko Kobayashi, Fumimasa Fukuta, Naoya Masumori

“…NE cells may influence the initial growth of BPH in a paracrine fashion. Trial Registration. This study approved by our institutional review board was retrospectively registered (#272-14).…”
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Amylin: Localization, Effects on Cerebral Arteries and on Local Cerebral Blood Flow in the Cat by Lars Edvinsson, Peter J. Goadsby, Rolf Uddman

“…CGRP8-37 blocked the CGRP and amylin induced relaxations in a parallel fashion. In vivo studies of amylin, adrenomedullin, and CGRP showed a brisk reproducible increase in local cerebral blood flow as examined using laser Doppler flowmetry applied to the cerebral cortex of the a-chloralose�anesthetized cat. …”
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Brain state forecasting for precise brain stimulation: Current approaches and future perspectives by Matteo De Matola, Carlo Miniussi

“…Informing stimulation protocols with individual neuroimaging data could mitigate this issue, ensuring accurate targeting of structural brain areas and functional brain states in a subject-by-subject fashion. However, this process poses a set of theoretical and technical challenges. …”
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Interleukin-6 and interleukin-6 receptor secretion by chronic lymphatic leukaemia and normal B lymphocytes: effect of PMA and PWM by I. Drucker, A. Klajman, M. Revel, Y. Manor, S. Ben-Efraim, D. Novick

“…The results are consistent with the view that B-CLL cells produce spontaneously IL-6 which could act in an autocrine fashion to cause shedding of surface IL-6R and account for the correlation found between serum levels of sIL-6R and B-CLL lymphocyte numbers. …”
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Designing a Human Machine Interface for Quality Assurance in Car Manufacturing: An Attempt to Address the “Functionality versus User Experience Contradiction” in Professional Produ... by Nikolaj Borisov, Benjamin Weyers, Annette Kluge

“…The major conclusion is that smartphones as well as AR glasses show very high potential to increase performance in production if used in a well-designed fashion.…”
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Emergent Self‐Adaptation in an Integrated Photonic Neural Network for Backpropagation‐Free Learning by Alessio Lugnan, Samarth Aggarwal, Frank Brückerhoff‐Plückelmann, C. David Wright, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, Harish Bhaskaran, Peter Bienstman

“…Importantly, this is realized autonomously in an emergent fashion, without the need for an external controller setting weights and without explicit feedback of a global reward signal. …”
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Linking multiple-channel information seeking and lifestyle among Chinese older adults: A moderation and mediation analysis by Qingrui Li, Yifang Wu, Xinshu Zhao

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