ASSESSMENT OF BRACKET BOND FAILURE DURING FIXED ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT BASED ON A QUESTIONNAIRE DISTRIBUTED TO ORTHODONTISTS by Manuela Nardin, Mihaela Ionescu, Diana-Elena Vlăduțu, Anne-Marie Rauten, Luminița Dăguci, Cristina Teodora Preoteasa, Alexandra Done, Veronica Mercuț

“…The questionnaire was completed by 113 orthodontists from different geographical areas of Romania. The majority of orthodontists reported 2 or 3 detached brackets at each orthodontic treatment (29.20% and 24.78%, respectively). …”
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InsectChange: Comment by Gaume, Laurence, Desquilbet, Marion

“…We argue that the disparate and non-standardised units of measurement of insect density among studies may have detrimental consequences for users, as was the case for van Klink et al. (2020a, 2022) who log10(x+1)-transformed these heterogeneous data, compromising the comparison of temporal trends between datasets and the estimation of the overall trend. We show that geographical coordinates assigned by InsectChange to insect sampling areas are inadequate for the analysis of the local influence of agriculture, urbanisation and climate on insect change for 68% of the datasets. …”
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Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction Followed by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry and Multivariate Profiling of Rare Earth Elements in Coffee by Aleksandra Savić, Jelena Mutić, Milica Lučić, Jelena Vesković, Andrijana Miletić, Antonije Onjia

“…This study indicated that the determination of coffee’s geographical origin was not possible due to the diverse types, blends, and additives. …”
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Sex-specific prevalence, inequality and associated predictors of hypertension, diabetes, and comorbidity among Bangladeshi adults: results from a nationwide cross-sectional demogra... by Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Raisul Akram, Nausad Ali, Marufa Sultana, Nurnabi Sheikh

“…Several socioeconomic and demographic factors such as age, sex, education, geographic location, administrative division, employment status, education and wealth index were considered as major explanatory variables. …”
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Seasonal Variation in Home Range Sizes and Daily Distance to Ephemeral Surface Water for African Savannah Elephant (Loxodonta africana) in Eastern Okavango Panhandle, Northern Bots... by Anastacia A. Makati, Anna Songhurst, Emily Bennitt, Gaseitsiwe S. Masunga, Graham McCulloch, Amanda Stronza, Tiroyaone A. Matsika, Frank D. Eckardt

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Analysis of strawberry genetic collection (Fragaria L.) for Rca2 and Rpfl genes with molecular markers by I. V. Luk’yanchuk, A. S. Lyzhin, I. I. Kozlova

“…The objects of study were the wild species of the genus Fragaria L. and strawberry varieties (Fragaria x ananassa Duch.) of different ecological and geographic origin. To assess allelic state Rca2 anthracnose resistance gene the dominant SCAR marker STS-Rca2_240 was used, was linked to the resistance gene Rca2 with a genetic distance of 2.8 cM. …”
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Affective-sexual and gender diversity in Spanish education: a systematic literature review by Delfín Ortega-Sánchez, Esther Sanz de la Cal, Jaime Ibáñez Quintana, Eduardo Encabo-Fernández

“…IntroductionThe aim of this present work is to systematically compile, map, and review the scientific literature concerning education on affective-sexual and gender diversity, produced within the Spanish geographical context over the past decade (2013–2023). …”
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Assessment of ecological resilience and its response mechanism to land spatial structure conflicts in China’s Southeast Coastal Areas by Yuemin Fan, Guoen Wei

“…The spatial mismatch between ER and SCCI is the primary clustering type of their geographical association. However, the proportion of cities exhibiting this mismatch is gradually decreasing, primarily concentrated in coastal urban agglomerations and southeastern hilly regions. …”
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Results of testing soybean accessions at the Far East Experiment Station of VIR in 1990-2017 by I. V. Seferova, P. P. Bulakh

“…The testing was carried out at the Far East Experiment Station of VIR and involved 570 soybean accessions of various geographic origin. The work was performed according to VIR’s methodological guidelines.Results. …”
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Every little helps: exploring meat and animal product consumption in the Tesco 1.0 dataset by Rakefet Cohen Ben-Arye, Christopher Bryant, Katharina Hofmann

“…The data is aggregated most granularly at the level of monthly purchase of 11 broad food categories in 4833 lower super output areas (LSOA—the smallest geographic area). We represented the consumption of meat and animal products graphically for each month of the year and for each of 33 London boroughs. …”
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Satisfaction with a daily supportive text messaging program aimed at promoting psychological well-being of educators: Outcomes from implementation of the Wellness4Teachers by Belinda Agyapong, Pamela Brett-MacLean, Raquel da Luz Dias, Yifeng Wei, Vincent Israel Opoku Agyapong

“…With the addition of enhanced personalization features suggested by the educators, the program may help to effectively supplement support for teachers’ psychological well-being while offsetting challenges associated with time constraints and geographical location.…”
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Land use transition and its driving mechanisms in China’s human-elephant conflict areas by WANG Yuan, WANG Yahui, YANG Aoxi, FAN Hui, XIE Fei

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In the Plots of Neoliberalism: the Impact of AirBnb on Hotel Industry and the Real Estate Market in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Rita de Cássia Ariza da Cruz, Cristina Pereira de Araujo, Luciano Muniz Abreu

“…The results show that, given the significant geographical differences between the cities analyzed, AirBnb has produced a specific topology in each of them. …”
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An indoor positioning method based on bluetooth array/PDR fusion using the SVD-EKF by Chenhui Li, Jie Zhen, Jianxin Wu

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Oral health surveys of traditional peoples and communities in Brazil: a scope review by Maria Letícia Barbosa Raymundo, Elza Cristina Farias de Araújo, Rênnis Oliveira da Silva, Edson Hilan Gomes de Lucena, Yuri Wanderley Cavalcanti, Armando Cabral de Lira Neto, Lucas Xavier Bezerra de Menezes

“…Design Scoping review according to the Scoping Review extension for the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.Data sources MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase and Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences were searched up until June 2023.Eligibility criteria Studies involving individuals from indigenous groups, quilombolas, riverside communities and Romani communities, all included in TPC in Brazil, were included without any age restrictions.Data extraction and synthesis Data were extracted by two independent reviewers, and studies were categorised considering the author and year of publication, the traditional group, study type, geographical location, age group, sample size, data collection method and the main oral health condition assessed.Results After the searches, 39 studies were included in the review, and 2 studies were manually added. …”
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Xylaria iriomotensis sp. nov. from termite nests and notes on X. angulosa by Izumi Okane, Huei-Mei Hsieh, Yu-Ming Ju, Chun-Ru Lin, Chun-Yun Huang, I-Ching Kuan

“…Conclusion Xylaria iriomotensis has the teleomorph known only in culture, remaining to be rediscovered in its natural habitat where the stromatal morphology may be somewhat varied. The geographic distribution of X. angulosa, previously known only in Indonesia, has been expanded to Taiwan and India. …”
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Epidemiology and management of atopic dermatitis in England: an observational cohort study protocol by Simon de Lusignan, Carsten Flohr, John Dennis, Helen Alexander, Conor Broderick, Andrew McGovern, Claire Feeney

“…We will stratify findings by age, national Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), ethnicity, urban-rural environment and geographic location; and explore independent associations of these features with AD in multivariable models.In the management theme, we will explore healthcare utilisation and treatment in people with AD. …”
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Climate change risk trap: low-carbon spatial restructuring and disaster risk in petroleum-based economies by Viktor Rözer, Sara Mehryar, Mohammad M M Alsahli

“…In contrast, little is known about the interaction between the two risks on smaller geographical scales. This paper investigates the interactions between physical and transition risks on the sub-national level for petroleum-based economies. …”
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Assessing the Logistics Efficiency of Baltic Region Seaports Through DEA-BCC and Spatial Analysis by Vilma Locaitienė, Kristina Čižiūnienė

“…Recognizing the sensitivity of the weight matrix in previous studies, this paper introduced an enhanced two-factor weighting matrix that incorporated geographical distance and the port connectivity index, calculated by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). …”
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Sustainability and livestock: a doable combination by Antonella Chiariotti

“…None- theless, the under-representation of certain strategies, geographic regions, the calculation’s robustness, and long-term studies are the main limitations in providing an accurate quantitative estimation of the respective mitigation potential under diverse animal production systems. …”
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