A Study of Selected Pre-Colonial Political Entities in the Niger- Benue Confluence Region of Nigeria by Hadizat Audu Salihu

“…The region is well known for its abundant natural resources such as navigable inland waterways, mountains and fertile soil. …”
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Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphisms Predispose to Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and Severity of the Disease in Polish Population by Agnieszka Kempińska-Podhorecka, Ewa Wunsch, Tomasz Jarowicz, Joanna Raszeja-Wyszomirska, Beata Loniewska, Mariusz Kaczmarczyk, Małgorzata Milkiewicz, Piotr Milkiewicz

“…Our study showed, for the first time, that the analyzed polymorphisms of VRD may exert an effect on a natural history of PBC.…”
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Debris management after earthquake incidence in ancient City of Ray by L. Askarizadeh, A.R. Karbassi, M.B. Ghalibaf, J. Nouri

“…In this study, the past earthquake incidence in Ray was reviewed using hazards united states tool as a geographic information system-based natural hazard analysis tool. hazards united states tool was chosen to estimate the damage on structural and non-structural elements during various earthquake scenarios with magnitudes of 4.5, 6 and 7.5 on the Richter scale in Ray City. …”
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A Client-Centric Evaluation System to Evaluate Guest’s Satisfaction on Airbnb Using Machine Learning and NLP by Mohamed Chiny, Omar Bencharef, Moulay Youssef Hadi, Younes Chihab

“…However, the data collected do not give any information on the category to which the customer belongs to. So, we applied natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to the reviews in order to find clues that could help us segment them, and then we trained two regression models, multiple linear regression and support vector regression, in order to calculate the coefficients acting on each of the 6 elementary scores (precision, cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, and value) noted on Airbnb, taking into account the category of customers who evaluated the performance of their accommodation. …”
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An overview of the effects of water and moisture absorption on the performance of hemp fiber and its composites by Shahidul Islam, Md. Byzed Hasan

“…Abstract Researchers compare natural hemp fibers with synthetic fibers because of their distinct physical and mechanical properties, which have been well established over time. …”
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Improving the Oxidation Stability and Shelf-Life of Peanut Oil by Addition of Rosemary Extract Combined with Vitamin C and Ascorbyl Palmitate by Ying Wang, Hui Deng, Dachuan Huang, Xianghui Zeng

“…Rosemary extracts are natural antioxidants, which can be considered an alternative for synthetic antioxidants in the food industry. …”
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Similarity Index among Acacia mangium, Acacia auriculiformis, and its Hybrid Based on the Anatomical Properties of Root, Stem, and Leaf by Sri Sunarti, Visda Fitriana, Suharyanto Suharyanto

“…Crossing between Acacia mangium and Acacia auriculiformis will result Acacia hybrid whether naturally or artificially. Acacia hybrid, as its parents, was developed to support pulp and paper industries. …”
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Gregor Mendel: my time will come by Yu. M. Novikov

“…Obviously, Mendel’s personality developed due to his natural gift, love of knowledge and passion for studying. …”
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Geochemistry of Formation Water and Implications for Ultradeep Tight Sandstone of DK Gas Field in Kuqa Depression by Xiaobo Guo, Libin Zhao, Wei Han, Longfei Zhou, Zhilong Huang, Xiongwei Sun, Xuejun Yang, Tonghui Zhang, Chenglin Zhang

“…The Sr, H, and O isotopes reveal that the different types of formation water have good homology and are not affected by atmospheric precipitation, which is propitious to the preservation of natural gas.…”
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Progressive alignment and interwoven composition network for image stitching by Xiaoting Fan, Long Sun, Zhong Zhang, Tariq S. Durrani

“…Abstract As one of the fundamental tasks in computer graphics and image processing, image stitching aims to combine multiple images with overlapping regions to generate a high-quality naturalness panorama. Most deep learning based image stitching methods suffer from unsatisfactory performance, because they neglect the cooperation relationship and complementary information between reference image and target image. …”
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Potentially probiotic NPL 1334 strain of Enterococcus durans benefits rats with diet-induced hypercholesterolemia by Hannan Rashid, Haseeb Anwar, Fakhir Mehmood Baig, Imran Mukhtar, Tariq Muhammad, Arsalan Zaidi

“…Conclusion E. durans can be a natural therapeutic alternative to manage diet-induced hypercholesterolemia and may eventually enhance anti-cholesterolemic therapies.…”
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Assessment of Enzymatic Browning and Evaluation of Antibrowning Methods on Dates by Mariam Al-Amrani, Ahmed Al-Alawi, Insaaf Al-Marhobi

“…The color changes from the natural accepted golden color to unfavorable dark brown color during storage. …”
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Nanoprocessing of Industrial Rejects for Controlling Operational Energy of Buildings by Sandeep Tembhurkar, Priyanka Nayar, Naumanuddin Azad, Rahul Ralegaonkar, Mangesh Madurwar

“…To reduce the concern, pozzolanic investigation of industrial waste is necessary, which can address the issue of uncontrolled extraction of natural resources, emission, disposal, and pollution globally.…”
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Audio2DiffuGesture: Generating a diverse co-speech gesture based on a diffusion model by Hongze Yao, Yingting Xu, Weitao WU, Huabin He, Wen Ren, Zhiming Cai

“…People use a combination of language and gestures to convey intentions, making the generation of natural co-speech gestures a challenging task. In audio-driven gesture generation, relying solely on features extracted from raw audio waveforms limits the model's ability to fully learn the joint distribution between audio and gestures. …”
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Analysis of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Decisions in Amasya Province within the Framework of EIA Regulation and Examination of its Relationship with Economic Indicators by Nusret Çoban, Ayla Bilgin

“…In order to prevent environmental pollution and to utilize natural resources more efficiently, environmentally friendly policies have been developed in our country in accordance with international developments. …”
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Effect of climate on thermal response in cows of different racial groups in lower tropic by Raúl Andrés Molina-Benavides, Sandra Milena Perilla-Duque, Rómulo Campos-Gaona, Hugo Sánchez-Guerrero, Juan Camilo Rivera-Palacio, Luis Armando Muñoz-Borja, Daniel Ricardo Jiménez-Rodas

“…The introduction of remote devices, and the use of a large amount of data for the analysis of physiological indicators, avoid modifying natural animal behavior and emerges as an important diagnostic and management strategy in the livestock farm, helping in the studies of heat stress, physiological adaptation and, prevalence to hemotropic diseases, which reduce the productivity of the systems. …”
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Polymer Gels Based on PAMAM Dendrimers Functionalized with Caffeic Acid for Wound-Healing Applications by Ricardo I. Castro, Wendy Donoso, Franko Restovic, Oscar Forero-Doria, Luis Guzman

“…However, the use of this natural product is affected by its bioavailability and half-life. …”
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Searching for the Minimal Seesaw Models at the LHC and Beyond by Arindam Das

“…The existence of the tiny neutrino mass and the flavor mixing can be naturally explained by type I Seesaw model which is probably the simplest extension of the Standard Model (SM) using Majorana type SM gauge singlet heavy Right Handed Neutrinos (RHNs). …”
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THE PGR NETWORKS IN FRANCE: COLLABORATION OF USERS AND THE GENETIC RESOURCE CENTRE ON SMALL GRAIN CEREALS by A. Didier, L. Bardy, E. Boulat, J. Koenig, A. Lapierre, F. Exbrayat, J. Bordes, F. Balfourier

“…In recent years, new users, such as scientists and farmers, have discovered diverse sources of interest for screening and exploiting natural diversity conserved in PGR collections.In the case of the French cereals PGR Network, a share of the responsibility, based on the knowledge and ability of network members, has been decided in order to better promote the use of PGR. …”
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The Low Friction Coefficient and High Wear Resistance UHMWPE: The Effect of Pores on Properties of Artificial Joint Materials by Chunmin Yang, Junhua Zhang, Honglin Yue, Xueqin Kang

“…However, the yield strength in the tensile and compression test was closer to that of the natural cartilage. The friction coefficient and wear loss of porous UHMWPE were higher than that of solid UHMWPE in dry conditions, but these values of porous UHMWPE were lower than that of solid UHMWPE in the calf serum lubrication condition. …”
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