A Primer on Exporting to Suriname by Christina D. Storz, Timothy G. Taylor, Gary F. Fairchild

“…These guides provide a great deal of information useful to individuals interested in developing export markets either through direct exports or through direct foreign investment. …”
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A Primer on Exporting to the Dominican Republic by Christina D. Storz, Timothy G. Taylor, Gary F. Fairchild

“…These guides provide a great deal of information useful to individuals interested in developing export markets either through direct exports or through direct foreign investment. …”
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Design and Construction of Hybrid Music Recommendation System Integrating Music Gene by Xuelin Zhao

“…In addition, while adopting the optimal individual retention strategy, this study makes the eigenvalues of the input matrix IX all fall within the unit circle or unit circumference and makes the maximum fitness value of the individuals in the population equal to the global optimal fitness value. …”
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A Primer on Exporting to the Dominican Republic by Christina D. Storz, Timothy G. Taylor, Gary F. Fairchild

“…These guides provide a great deal of information useful to individuals interested in developing export markets either through direct exports or through direct foreign investment. …”
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A Primer on Exporting to Barbados by Christina D. Storz, Timothy G. Taylor, Gary F. Fairchild

“…These guides provide a great deal of information useful to individuals interested in developing exports markets either through direct exports or through direct foreign investment. …”
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Analysis of Equation of State for Carbon Nanotubes by Jeewan Chandra, Pooja Kapri Bhatt, Kuldeep Kholiya

“…Compression behavior of carbon nanotube bundles and individual carbon nanotubes within the bundle has been studied by using the Suzuki, Shanker, and usual Tait formulations. …”
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Operationalization of the Decentralized Policy Framework in Uganda: An Examination of the Key Milestones and Challenges. by Mugavu, George, Mucunguzi, Abel

“…This is attributed to a well streamlined governance structure with connected checks and balances in case of any breach of the rules of procedure of implementation on providing services by a particular individual or individuals working or acting in a particular local government office. …”
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Refeeding Syndrome: A Literature Review by L. U. R. Khan, J. Ahmed, S. Khan, J. MacFie

“…RFS can occur in any individual but more commonly occurs in at-risk populations. …”
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Molecular Identification and Susceptibility Pattern of Clinical Nocardia Species: Emergence of Nocardia crassostreae as an Agent of Invasive Nocardiosis by Saad J Taj-Aldeen, Anand Deshmukh, Sanjay Doiphode, Atqah Abdul Wahab, Mona Allangawi, Ahmed AlMuzrkchi, Corné H Klaassen, Jacques F Meis

“…BACKGROUND: Nocardia species are rare, opportunistic organisms that cause disease in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised individuals.…”
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Self-Identified Employment Challenges for Young Adults with a Cleft Lip and Palate: A Qualitative Exploration by Haslina Rani, Hasherah Mohd Ibrahim, Nurshazwanie Amira Mohamed Noor Shafie, Suziyani Mohamed, Azianura Hani Shaari, Murshida Marizan Nor, Tuti Ningseh Mohd-Dom

“…As individuals with a cleft lip and palate (CLP) transition into adulthood, they face unique employment challenges related to income, job stability, and fewer career options. …”
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Analysis of Surprisingly Popular Voting for Opinion Aggregation on Social Networks by Yu Yamashita, Yuko Sakurai, Satoshi Oyama, Masaki Onishi, Atsuyuki Morishima

“…We analyzed the effect of respondents’ referring to connected individuals on SP voting performance when they predict other respondents’ opinions. …”
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Estimation of thyroid gland volume using ultrasonography and its relation to anthropometric measurements in a population of northern part of West Bengal by Suchismita Ghosh, Anushree Das, Alipta Bhattacharya, Ratnadeep Poddar, Anirban Sadhu

“…Further correlations need to be searched with other demographic parameters like iodine consumption, ethnicity, and socio-economic status of an individual.…”
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Risk Factors for Microvascular Complications of Diabetes in a High-Risk Middle East Population by Sohaila Cheema, Patrick Maisonneuve, Mahmoud Zirie, Amin Jayyousi, Hekmat Alrouh, Amit Abraham, Sura Al-Samraye, Ziyad Mahfoud, Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Janahi, Buthaina Ibrahim, Albert B. Lowenfels, Ravinder Mamtani

“…Shared risk factors for multiplicity and for individual complications included family history, severity and duration of diabetes, and hypertension, but some risk factors were specific for individual microvascular complications. …”
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Assessing the Association between Leptin and Bone Mineral Density in HIV-Infected Men by Madhu N. Rao, Morris Schambelan, Viva W. Tai, Donald I. Abrams, Hootan Khatami, Peter J. Havel, Giorgos Sakkas, Kathleen Mulligan

“…HIV-infected individuals are at risk for decreased bone mineral density (BMD). …”
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Bifidobacterium adolescentis-derived nicotinic acid improves host skeletal muscle mitochondrial function to ameliorate sarcopenia by Zeng Zhang, Quan Guo, Zhihan Yang, Yukai Sun, Shuaiming Jiang, Yangli He, Jiahe Li, Jiachao Zhang

“…In this study, shotgun metagenomics revealed that Bifidobacterium adolescentis is notably depleted in individuals with sarcopenia, correlating with reduced muscle mass and function. …”
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Analysis of Polymorphisms in the Lactotransferrin Gene Promoter and Dental Caries by João Armando Brancher, Giovana Daniela Pecharki, Andrea Duarte Doetzer, Kamilla Gabriella dos Santos Medeiros, Carlos Alberto Cordeiro Júnior, Vanessa Santos Sotomaior, Peter Bauer, Paula Cristina Trevilatto

“…LTF gene-putative promoter region (+39 to −1143) of the selected 50 individuals was analyzed by high-resolution melting technique. …”
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Choice between helping vs not helping: level of mastery in the task by Claudio Carpio, Linda Pacheco-León, Maricela Chaparro, Jamillet Carranza, Raúl Narayanam-Rodríguez, Virginia Pacheco

“…However, it has been found that the presence of these variables is not enough to guarantee that individuals help. It has been considered that the behavioral capacity to perform effectively in a task (i.e. domain level) is a dispositional variable that can facilitate or impede the choice of individuals to work under shared contingencies. …”
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Rare and common single nucleotide variants in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus by Elisabet Svenungsson, Iva Gunnarsson, Lars Rönnblom, Ingrid E Lundberg, Andreas Jönsen, Niklas Hagberg, Leonid Padyukov, Marie Wahren-Herlenius, Christopher Sjöwall, Solbritt Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Sule Yavuz, Øyvind Molberg, Dag Leonard, Andrei Alexsson, Maija-Leena Eloranta, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Johanna K Sandling, Gunnel Nordmark, Roland Jonsson, Roald Omdal, Christine Bengtsson, Anders A Bengtsson, Pascal Pucholt, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Sergey V Kozyrev, Peter Söderkvist, Johanna Dahlqvist, Jonas Carlsson Almlöf, Daniel Eriksson, Ahmed Sayadi, Åsa Karlsson, Gerli Rosengren Pielberg, Anna Lobell, Eva Murén, Kerstin M Ahlgren, Nils Landegren, Olle Kämpe, Fabiana HG Farias, Argyri Mathioudaki, Jennifer Meadows, Jessika Nordin

“…We therefore investigated the occurrence of rare deleterious variants in patients with childhood-onset SLE (cSLE) and adult-onset SLE (aSLE) and compared the frequency of these variants with their individual SLE polygenic risk score (PRS).Materials and methods Targeted sequencing of 1832 gene regions, including coding regions of 31 genes associated with monogenic SLE, was performed in 958 patients with SLE and 1026 healthy individuals. …”
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Impact of solid fuel use on asthma prognosis and consistent peak expiratory flow changes: Evidence from China by Yuexi Chen, Shuojia Xie, Xirong Chen, Xiaowen Zhong, Linhang Yang, Weitong Lin, Junfeng Huang, Ruchong Chen

“…The survival analysis demonstrated that, when contrasted with non-asthmatic individuals using cleaner fuel, the risk of all-cause mortality was 1.63 times higher (95 % CI = 1.33, 2.00, p < 0.001) in asthmatic individuals regularly using solid fuels. …”
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The Feasibility and Acceptability of an HIV Web- Based Screening Program in Iran by Roya Sahebi, Hossein Dehghanian, Alireza Mirahmadizadeh, Leyla Sahebi, Reza Yousefi Farkhad, Simin Khayatzadeh-Safaie, Nazila Sattari, Leila Jahangiry, Hamid Sharifi

“…This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a web-based HIV screening program for identifying individuals with high-risk HIV behaviors in Iran.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using an educational website where individuals could anonymously complete a risk assessment questionnaire. …”
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