Deadwood Diversity of Boreal and Sub-boreal Old-growth Forests in Southern Finland by Isabella De Meo, Roberta Pastorelli, Francesko Vitali, Alessandro Paletto

“…In order to carry on management strategies aimed at maintaining deadwood diversity in old-growth forests, it is fundamental to identify simply and readily measurable indicators. …”
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Periodic splay Fréedericksz transitions in a ferroelectric nematic by Bijaya Basnet, Sathyanarayana Paladugu, Oleksandr Kurochkin, Oleksandr Buluy, Natalie Aryasova, Vassili G. Nazarenko, Sergij V. Shiyanovskii, Oleg D. Lavrentovich

“…Abstract Electric field-induced splay of molecular orientation, called the Fréedericksz transition, is a fundamental electro-optic phenomenon in nonpolar nematic liquid crystals. …”
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Campo numérico na educação infantil: o trabalho com crianças de 3 a 5 anos by Alice Regina Hunhoff, Janaina Damasco Umbelino

“…Aqui apresentamos algumas discussões sobre a prática pedagógica para trabalhar com o campo numérico nessa faixa etária, de modo que sejam criadas as bases para a formação do pensamento matemático das crianças, possibilitando a apropriação de conceitos científicos da Aritmética no Ensino Fundamental. Para isso, buscamos nos fundamentos da Teoria Histórico-Cultural, em autores como Vigotski, Mukhina, Elkonin e Moura, as orientações sobre como organizar a prática pedagógica. …”
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Treatment of Thoracolumbar Spinal Infections through Anterolateral Approaches Using Expandable Titanium Mesh Cage for Spine Reconstruction by Tarantino Roberto, Marruzzo Daniele, Cappelletti Martina, De Giacomo Tiziano, Delfini Roberto

“…Surgery, along with the antibiotic treatment, allows for eradication of the causes of the pathology by the reclamation of the affected region. Surgery is also fundamental in helping to recover vital functions and in restoring as much as possible the correct curvature of the rachises. …”
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Unchain My Heart: Integrins at the Basis of iPSC Cardiomyocyte Differentiation by Rosaria Santoro, Gianluca Lorenzo Perrucci, Aoife Gowran, Giulio Pompilio

“…The cellular response to the extracellular matrix (ECM) microenvironment mediated by integrin adhesion is of fundamental importance, in both developmental and pathological processes. …”
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Providing a Coherence Strategy for Six Sigma and Capability Maturity Model of Software by Shaban Elahi, Jalil Mousavi

“…While the organizations formally reduce redundant development and engineering costs, the fundamental nature of the software in a product or service on the evaluation is a development process. …”
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Theoretical Trade-Off Between Fairness and Efficiency in the Cooperative Driving Problem for CAVs at On-Ramps by Zimin He, Huaxin Pei, Yuqing Guo, Danya Yao, Li Li

“…First, we note that enhancing traffic efficiency usually leads to unfairness, but we propose solutions to balance both aspects. Using the fundamental relation in traffic flow theory, we illustrate the existence of the trade-off at congested on-ramps. …”
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Two Sides of the Same Coin: TFIIH Complexes in Transcription and DNA Repair by Alexander Zhovmer, Valentyn Oksenych, Frédéric Coin

“…These data highlight the dynamic composition of a fundamental cellular factor that adapts its subunit composition to the cell needs.…”
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Clinical impact of 24-hour pH-metry in esophageal and stomach diseases diagnostics and pharmacological drugs efficacy testing by A. S. Trukhmanov, Olga A. Storonova, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Conclusion. 24-hour pH-metry is a fundamental diagnostic method for acid-related diseases. …”
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Opportunities to Increase the Efficiency of Universities’ Research and Innovation Activities: Scientometric Evaluation of Researchers' Work under External Information Constraints by Elvir Akhmetshin, Sergey Makushkin, Ilyоs Abdullayev, Alexey Yumashev, Artemiy Kozachek, Rustem Shichiyakh, Denis Shakhov

“…This imposes additional functions connected not only with fundamental and applied research, which is the traditional type of research work of universities, but also with the inclusion of universities' research activities into the unified innovation process of the creation and practical application of new knowledge to obtain new goods or services with new properties. …”
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Coordination of care in health systems for users with diabetes and hypertension: a scoping review by Virgílio Luiz Marques de Macedo, Naira Pereira de Sousa, Ana Cristina dos Santos, Walterlânia Santos, Marina Morato Stival, Tânia Cristina Morais Santa Barbara Rehem

“…Results: care coordination was defined by means of eight categories: information and communication, integration of care, improvement and quality, care management, care sharing, fundamental attribute, health professionals and health service users, with the results of the articles concentrating mainly on four categories, with information and communication standing out, followed by the category of care management and the category of care sharing, in parallel with improvement and quality. …”
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The critique and transcendence of universal values through the humanity’s common values: a theoretical investigation on Marx’s thought on personal freedom by Yun Wang, Wenyu Liu, Peng Li

“…The disparities in these notions of “personal freedom” reflect the fundamental distinctions between Marx’s “common values for all humanity” and Western “universal values”. …”
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Recurrent Herpetic Stromal Keratitis in Mice: A Model for Studying Human HSK by Patrick M. Stuart, Tammie L. Keadle

“…We will document both differences and similarities that derive from this fundamental difference in these models with an eye towards possible vaccines and therapies that demonstrate promise in treating HSK.…”
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Spatiotemporal control of translation in live zebrafish embryos via photoprotected mRNAs by Florian P. Weissenboeck, Melissa Pieper, Helena Schepers, Sophie Hötte, Nils Klöcker, Sabine Hüwel, Andreas van Impel, Stefan Schulte-Merker, Andrea Rentmeister

“…Abstract Translation of mRNA into protein is a fundamental process and tightly controlled during development. …”
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Evaluation of the Response of Posttensioned Steel Frames with Energy Dissipators Using Equivalent Single-Degree-of-Freedom Systems by J. Luz Rivera, Arturo López-Barraza, Sonia E. Ruiz, Alfredo Reyes-Salazar

“…Five multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOFS) PTSF and their corresponding ESDOFS are studied under the action of 30 seismic motions recorded in soft ground, scaled in terms of the spectral pseudoacceleration evaluated at the fundamental period of the structures. Several simple mathematical expressions are proposed. …”
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Quantification of solution annealing effects on microstructure and property in a laser powder bed fusion 316H stainless steel by Lin Gao, Srinivas Aditya Mantri, Xuan Zhang

“…This study, for the first time, quantifies the broad effect of nano oxide inclusions on dislocation recovery kinetics, on grain growth and recrystallization kinetics, and on tension strength and creep resistance. The fundamental differences between the LPBF and the conventional wrought materials are revealed. …”
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Super elastic and negative triboelectric polymer matrix for high performance mechanoluminescent platforms by Hong In Jeong, Hye Sung Jung, Milos Dubajic, Gunpyo Kim, Woo Hyeon Jeong, Hochan Song, Yongju Lee, Swarup Biswas, Hyeok Kim, Bo Ram Lee, Jae Woong Yoon, Samuel D. Stranks, Soon Moon Jeong, Jihoon Lee, Hyosung Choi

“…These findings offer fundamental insights to select the optimal polymer matrix based on systematic parameters for various smart wearable applications.…”
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Human mobility is well described by closed-form gravity-like models learned automatically from data by Oriol Cabanas-Tirapu, Lluís Danús, Esteban Moro, Marta Sales-Pardo, Roger Guimerà

“…These models work for different datasets and at different scales, suggesting that they may capture the fundamental universal features of human mobility.…”
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Absence of MCJ/DnaJC15 promotes brown adipose tissue thermogenesis by Beatriz Cicuéndez, Alfonso Mora, Juan Antonio López, Andrea Curtabbi, Javier Pérez-García, Begoña Porteiro, Daniel Jimenez-Blasco, Pedro Latorre-Muro, Paula Vo, Madison Jerome, Beatriz Gómez-Santos, Rafael Romero-Becerra, Magdalena Leiva, Elena Rodríguez, Marta León, Luis Leiva-Vega, Noemi Gómez-Lado, Jorge L. Torres, Lourdes Hernández-Cosido, Pablo Aguiar, Miguel Marcos, Martin Jastroch, Andreas Daiber, Patricia Aspichueta, Juan Pedro Bolaños, Jessica B. Spinelli, Pere Puigserver, José Antonio Enriquez, Jesús Vázquez, Cintia Folgueira, Guadalupe Sabio

“…MCJKO mice, even without UCP1, a fundamental thermogenic protein, exhibit elevated BAT thermogenesis. …”
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High Response Performance of a Tuned-Mass Damper for Vibration Suppression of Offshore Platform under Earthquake Loads by Qiong Wu, Xilu Zhao, Rencheng Zheng, Keisuke Minagawa

“…By further analyses of its high response characteristics, it was validated that the TMD reactions can commence within the first 3 s of earthquake excitation, while the fundamental natural frequency was consistently tuned for the TMD system dependent on the dynamic magnification factor. …”
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