Stories that matter: a qualitative study of general practitioners’ reflections and experiences of exploring patients’ impactful life stories by Marianne Rønneberg, Bente Prytz Mjølstad, Lotte Hvas, Linn Okkenhaug Getz

“…Second, they attribute diverse purposes to engaging with these stories, from viewing them as instrumentally useful to recognizing their intrinsic value. …”
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A Dopamine Sensor Based on Pre-Concentration by Magnetic Nanoparticles by Mojtaba Bagherzadeh, Somayeh Ansari, Fariborz Riahi, Anahita Farahbakhsh

“…Subsequent to experimental and instrumental optimization, a calibration curve from 5.0×10-6 to 1.0×10-3 M DA with r2=0.999, DL = 7.6×10-7 M DA, and RSD = 4.6%, was obtained in the presence of 1.0×10-3 M AA. …”
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DÁDIVA E ARRANJOS PRODUTIVOS LOCAIS: uma abordagem ampliada da cooperação entre empresários by Elimar Pinheiro do Nascimento, Helena Araújo Costa

“…A cooperação nos APL não se reduz à racionalidade instrumental, há outros aspectos que os paradigmas hegemônicos nas ciências sociais, por vezes, escondem mais que revelam. …”
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An Innovative Methodological Approach for Monitoring and Chemical Characterization of Odors around Industrial Sites by A. Di Gilio, J. Palmisani, G. de Gennaro

“…Moreover, it allows to overcome the limitations of the conventional approaches related to the lack of instrumental sensitivity and to identify the chemical compounds contributing to the odor annoyance.…”
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Exploring the Impact of Irrigation on Chinaʼs Crop TFP: Insights From a Structural Break Analysis by Tiantian Zhou, Xingshuo Liu, Siying Jia, Yu Sheng

“…We employ a fixed‐effects instrumental variables (FE‐IV) regression model combined with a structural break analysis on provincial‐level data to establish the causal relationship between irrigation investments and TFP growth. …”
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Rodent Models of Developmental Ischemic Stroke for Translational Research: Strengths and Weaknesses by Mariangela Gennaro, Alessandro Mattiello, Tommaso Pizzorusso

“…Moreover, in vivo experiments are instrumental to investigate new therapeutic strategies and the best temporal window of intervention. …”
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Modeling of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: An Overview of In Vivo Murine and Human Xenograft Models by Pallavi Sontakke, Jenny Jaques, Edo Vellenga, Jan Jacob Schuringa

“…These models not only mimic CML but also have been instrumental in uncovering various fundamental mechanisms of CML disease progression and tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) resistance. …”
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Analyzing public policy effectiveness in enhancing accountability and transparency in service quality by Andi Rasyid Pananrangi, Imran ismail, Delly Mustafa, Askar Askar, A Rizal

“…The findings indicate that public policies are instrumental in setting minimum service standards, promoting accountability and transparency, empowering communities, enhancing the professionalism of service apparatus, integrating technology into services, and enforcing compliance through penalties for providers failing to meet standards. …”
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La Universidad y la investigación musical: de la teoría a la praxis by José Ignacio Palacios Sanz

“…Las investigaciones en el campo de la música y de la educación musical han logrado recuperar el pasado musical y relacionar la música con otras materias, en referente a la práctica instrumental, lectora, de la expresión artística, del currículo así como de lo que se relaciona directamente con el ser humano. …”
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Conversing with Readers in Aunt Judy’s Magazine: Building a Community of Young Middle-Class Philanthropists to Fight the ‘Grim Nurses’ by Matthew Dunleavy

“…The analysis of the correspondence pages of Aunt Judy’s Magazine reveals how the conversational tone of the fictional persona of ‘Aunt Judy’ helped build a trusting relationship with the child readers which was instrumental in recruiting them to fight the ‘Grim Nurses’.…”
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Passions, Travel, and Cultural Participation—Intergenerational Transmission of Middle-Class Lifestyles by Magdalena Bielińska

“…Middle-class parents proactively transmit values and practices to their children that are instrumental in maintaining their children’s social status. …”
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Digitization of BCIS bulletins and the ISC quest to verify pre-digital earthquakes by Di Giacomo, Domenico, Storchak, Dmitry A.

“…The association of instrumental measurements to a seismic event is fundamental to verify its occurrence and it facilitates, when possible, its hypocentre relocation. …”
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Inhabiting “no places”: Subjectivity and family abilities for confronting a socio-natural disaster in Chile by Luisa Rojas-Páez, José Sebastián Sandoval-Día

“…At the institutional level, the predominant perspective was one based on instrumental reasoning about inhabiting, which reduced this concept to the facilitation of survival and the mere topographical occupation of a physical-material space. …”
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Devlet Desteğinin Saldırgan Devlet Dışı Aktörler Üzerindeki Etkisi: ABD Desteği ve Naip Savaş Örneği Olarak Suriye İç Savaşı by Sinan DEMİRDÜZEN, Merve Suna ÖZEL ÖZCAN

“…We suggest that most effective and tangible foreign aid to violent non-state actors are steming from the instrumental foreign policies of states. We will also examine the surrogate warfare as a method that paves the wave to such foreign aids. …”
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Dissociative Experiences Scale: Psychometric Analysis in Puerto Rico and Contributions to the Discussion of the Factor Structure by Juan González-Rivera

“…Method: This research had an instrumental design. An availability sampling of 341 adult participants was used. …”
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Effects of Electrical Stimulation on Meat Quality of Lamb and Goat Meat by Omer Cetin, Enver Baris Bingol, Hilal Colak, Hamparsun Hampikyan

“…ES caused difference in instrumental colour (CIE 𝐿∗, 𝑎∗, 𝑏∗) values of lamb and goat meat compared with the control groups (𝑃<0.05) during aging period at 4°C. …”
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AMBIGUOUS JANUS OF MODERN DEMOCRACY by Volodymyr V. Khmil

“…The purpose of the research is to analyze ambiguous concept of democracy as a phenomenon of political and social formation based on political and instrumental approach. As a result, some deep fundamentals of human social existence and values as social life basis are blurred. …”
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Influence of Bicarbonates and Salt on the Physicochemical and Sensory Properties of Meatloaf by Tracy Jaico, Himanshu Prabhakar, Koushik Adhikari, Rakesh K. Singh, Anand Mohan

“…The results obtained showed that cooked ground beef without salt had the lowest cooked yield. Instrumental textural and sensory analysis revealed that bicarbonate-treated meatloaf samples exhibited significantly better sensory and textural properties than the control (p ≤0.05). …”
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Ochrona stabilności sektora bankowego jako ochrona wartości konstytucyjnych by Kamil Dąbrowski

“…The conducted considerations ultimately led the author to the conclusion that, although the protection of the stability of the banking sector is not a task directly expressed in the Constitution, it is a kind of instrumental value, the safety of which is in fact a kind of care over other constitutional values. …”
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Diagnosis of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders and Choice of Treatment Regimen in Constipation Patients by I. V. Maev, A. N. Kazyulin, Yu. A. Kucheryavy, S. V. Cheryomushkin, A. Yu. Goncharenko, А. V. Gilyuk

“…The current diagnostic algorithm in chronic constipation includes the disease identification according to Rome Criteria IV, red-flag symptom detection and instrumental laboratory examination. Functional constipation is notably often associated with anorectal abnormalities that bear a diagnostic value to elaborate an apt treatment strategy. …”
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