APPLE VARIETAL POOL AND BREEDING FOR THE BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF FRUIT by E. N. Sedov, M. A. Makarkina, Z. M. Serova

“…Contents of soluble dry matter, total sugar, titratable acids, pectin, ascorbic acid, and P-active substances have been studied. …”
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DOES MODERN SCHOOL NEED A TEACHER-RESEARCHER? by T. A. Strokova

“…Self-assessment of young teachers, concerning their research activities, has been conducted; it included a cluster of research activities that constitute its subject matter. The point for the need to abandon the narrow,  focused specialization in high school training of pre-service teachers and enhance their methodological preparation has been developed. …”
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Should Medications Be Prescribed to Patients in Generic Form? Dental Practitioners’ Perspective by Saudamini G More, Tejal Patil, Tanvi Shetty, Monika Bhanushali, Hitesh Sawant

“…A custom-made 25-item (close- and open-ended questions) questionnaire tool was used after validation from 10 subject matter experts. The questions asked were related to demography, knowledge, awareness, and preference of generic drugs. …”
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Smoke or no Smoke? Questions of Perspective in North and South by Mary Debrabant

“…The emphasis is on opportunity and a certain exultation in the harnessing of inanimate matter. The novelist underplays the more sinister aspect of Milton’s environmental features and manufacturers are not explicitly held accountable for industrial waste. …”
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Percolation analysis for constructing a robust modular topology based on a binary-dynamics model by Shinya Toyonaga, Daichi Kominami, Masayuki Murata

“…After the point, the internal structure of modules may matter more. We additionally investigate an applicable range of our proposed method.…”
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Recovering Uniform Coverage in a 3D Survey: Case Study from Onshore Southern India by K. Shukla, P. Jaiswal, C. S. Singh

“…In general, issues related to offset-limit, shot-density, and grid-spacing are a matter of continual optimization in 3D surveys.…”
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«BRAIN DRAIN» FROM RUSSIA AS A POLITICAL-MANAGEMENT PROBLEM by M. V. Kharkevich

“…Political science develops through discussion on key problems of its subject matter: political power, legitimacy, justice, political regimes, etc. …”
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Porphyric encephalopathy in a 15-year-old girl: A case report by Saihari S Dukkipati, Jordan Terschluse, Drew Thodeson, Angela Beavers, Melissa Muff-Luett, Claire Ives, Sookyong Koh

“…Brain magnetic resonance imaging scans showed diffuse, bilateral cortical and subcortical gray and white matter signal abnormalities. Electroencephalography showed background slowing and disorganization. …”
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The Optimal Licensing Contract in a Differentiated Stackelberg Model by Xianpei Hong, Lijun Yang, Huaige Zhang, Dan Zhao

“…Secondly, this paper shows that the innovator is always better off in case of two-part tariff licensing than fixed-fee licensing no matter what the innovation size is. Thirdly, the innovator always prefers to license its nondrastic innovation by means of a two-part tariff instead of licensing by means of a royalty; however, with a drastic innovation, the optimal licensing strategy can be either a two-part tariff or a royalty, depending upon the differentiation of the goods.…”
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Spread of Ants in Forest Areas in The Island of Saparua Province Of Mollucas by Fransina Latumahina

“…The highest ant species richness found in lane 10 is 4.7, so it is assumed that several factors play an essential role in the spread of ants in the Tuhaha State Forest namely soil pH between 6.5 - 6.8, availability of organic matter, suitable air temperature between 250 o C - 27 0 C and vegetation cover.…”
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Government Low-Carbon Regulations Based on Supply Chain Members’ Behavior and Consumers’ Channel Preference in a Dual-Channel Supply Chain by Bingquan Liu, Xuran Chang, Boyang Nie, Yue Wang, Lingqi Meng

“…The result shows that the government can achieve higher profits by taking incentive or punitive measures for centralized decision-making supply chain no matter they invest in emissions reduction or not. …”
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Antitumoral and Anti-inflammatory Roles of Somatostatin and Its Analogs in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Argyrios Periferakis, Georgios Tsigas, Aristodemos-Theodoros Periferakis, Ioana Anca Badarau, Andreea-Elena Scheau, Mircea Tampa, Simona Roxana Georgescu, Andreea Cristiana Didilescu, Cristian Scheau, Constantin Caruntu

“…A complete evaluation of the efficacy of somatostatin and SSAs is still the matter of intense debate, and, if deemed useful, these substances may play a beneficial role in the management of HCC patients.…”
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Motor Control and Neural Plasticity through Interhemispheric Interactions by Naoyuki Takeuchi, Yutaka Oouchida, Shin-Ichi Izumi

“…The corpus callosum, which is the largest white matter structure in the human brain, connects the 2 cerebral hemispheres. …”
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An Intelligent Method to Identify Effective Factors in Customers' Dissatisfaction in the Insurance Industry using Ensemble Learning by Kamran Balani, Hossein Sadr, Ahmad Edalatpanah, Mahnaz Manteghipour, Mojdeh Nazari

“…Given the competitive market of the insurance industry, customer retention is one of the most important goals of insurance brokers. As a matter of fact, attracting a new customer as well as establishing a relationship with the insurer and gaining his trust requires a lot of money. …”
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Corn and Soybeans in a Strip Intercropping System: Crop Growth Rates, Radiation Interception, and Grain Yield Components by Diego Verdelli, Horacio A. Acciaresi, Eduardo S. Leguizamón

“…As a result, more dry matter was partitioned to grain and also an increased number of ears per plant were generated. …”
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Trend Analysis and Comprehensive Evaluation of Green Production Principal Component of Thermal Power Unit Based on ANP-MEEM Model by Zhongfu Tan, Qingkun Tan, Liwei Ju, Shenbo Yang, Huangfu Cheng, Jiale Ma

“…This paper takes the green development of electric power as the research direction, the thermal power unit is the green source control point of electricity, and the green production of the thermal power unit is the research target; based on the actual research data and the actual data, the comprehensive evaluation of the green production of a thermal power generating unit in a city is carried out by means of ANP, matter-element extension model, and principal component analysis. …”
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Harmonization of the Long-term PM2.5 Carbon Data from the CSN Sites in New York State by Hesham Hassan, James Schwab, Jie Zhang

“…But it is challenging because the measurement of the carbonaceous fraction of PM2.5 (particulate matter with a diameter less than or equal to 2.5 µm) underwent several changes both in samplers and analysis protocols. …”
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Exploring special economic zone governance: a comparative study of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Kyrgyzstan by N. Saulius, A. Konysbek

“…Effective governmental regulations on this matter are crucial for creating a favorable infrastructure and reducing administrative barriers for investors. …”
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Study on Effects of External Water Amount on Organic Intercalation of Montmorillonite and Its Mechanism by Limei Wu, Yongbin Wang, Lu Yang, Qing Wang, Changwei Xu

“…Water has significant effects on the organification process of MMT, which is associated with the adsorption of organic matter onto MMT with different water contents. In this study, the influence of external water content on the organic intercalation of MMT and its mechanism are discussed from both experimental and simulation results. …”
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Statistical Evaluations of the Reproducibility and Reliability of 3-Tesla High Resolution Magnetization Transfer Brain Images: A Pilot Study on Healthy Subjects by Kelly H. Zou, Hongyan Du, Shawn Sidharthan, Lisa M. DeTora, Yunmei Chen, Ann B. Ragin, Robert R. Edelman, Ying Wu

“…Repeated measures were taken for 12 brain regions of interest (ROIs): genu, splenium, and the left and right hemispheres of the hippocampus, caudate, putamen, thalamus, and cerebral white matter. Spearman's correlation coefficient, coefficient of variation, and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) were computed. …”
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