Measuring the Efficiency and Productivity of Cement Companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Malmquist Productivity Index in Gray Environment by Farjam Kayedppour, Shadi Sayadmanesh, Yasamin Salmani, Zahra Sadeghi

“…Findings: The results of this study provide a suitable framework for using uncertain information (grey) to replace definite information and thus allow more realistic results to be estimated about the performance of companies. Originality/Value: This study uses the Malmquist-Grey Productivity Index to provide a framework for comparing productivity changes over time. …”
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Stem Cells: A Historical Review about Biological, Religious, and Ethical Issues by Ioannis Alexandros Charitos, Andrea Ballini, Stefania Cantore, Mariarosaria Boccellino, Marina Di Domenico, Elisa Borsani, Riccardo Nocini, Michele Di Cosola, Luigi Santacroce, Lucrezia Bottalico

“…So, in addition to the origin of stem cells, there are currently some social bioethical (such as political and legislative issues) and religious dilemmas. …”
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Determination of Volatile Organic Compounds in Selected Strains of Cyanobacteria by Ivan Milovanović, Aleksandra Mišan, Jelica Simeunović, Dajana Kovač, Dubravka Jambrec, Anamarija Mandić

“…In this work, we investigated selected cyanobacterial strains of Spirulina, Anabaena, and Nostoc genera originating from Serbia, with the aim of determining the chemical profile of volatile organic compounds produced by these organisms. …”
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Sleeve Gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Alter the Gut-Brain Communication by L. A. Ballsmider, A. C. Vaughn, M. David, A. Hajnal, P. M. Di Lorenzo, K. Czaja

“…The retrograde tracer fast blue (FB) was injected into the stomach to label vagal neurons originating from nodose ganglion (NG) and dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus (DMV). …”
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Canadian Occupational Performance Measure Supported by Talking Mats: An Evaluation of the Clinical Utility by Vita Hagelskjær, Mette Krohn, Pia Susanne Christensen, Jeanette Reffstrup Christensen

“…Some clients with cognitive and communicative impairments after a brain injury are unable to participate in the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) without support. The study originates from an assumption that some of these clients are able to participate independently in the COPM interview by using a visual material. …”
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Serious issues with cryo-EM structures of human prothrombinase by James A. Huntington, Alexandre Faille, Fatma Isik Ustok

“…As is the norm in structural biology, the original paper was reviewed without access to the coordinates and maps, and it was therefore not possible for referees to assess the validity of the structures or their interpretations. …”
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Initial adjustment of underwater profiles after nourishment in a mild wave climate: a case study near Klaipėda, the Baltic Sea by Ilona Šakurova, Vitalijus Kondrat, Eglė Baltranaitė, Vita Gardauskė, Loreta Kelpšaitė-Rimkienė, Tarmo Soomere, Kevin E. Parnell

“…The analysis confirms that even very mild wave conditions can substantially relocate large volumes of deposited sand in shallow water, both offshore and onshore, from its original location during the initial adjustment phase following nourishment.…”
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Face Emotion Processing Impairments in Semantic Dementia, Behavioural-Variant Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease Are Mediated by Distinct Co... by Laurie A. Miller, Sharpley Hsieh, Suncica Lah, Sharon Savage, John R. Hodges, Olivier Piguet

“…These analyses revealed that language impairments explained the original poor scores obtained by the SD patients on the Ekman 60 and Emotion Selection tasks, which involve verbal labels. …”
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Bruxism and familiar functioning in school-age children between 5 and 11 years by Ana Lury Morales, Clotilde de la Caridad Mora Pérez, Ivelise Álvarez Rosa, Moraima Orbea González, Jeny Fernández Martínez, Jorge A. Rodriguez López

“…<strong>Background:</strong> Bruxism, a common negative habit in children, is often linked with emotional conflicts, anxiety, stress, or frustration, which could be originated in the familiar environment. <strong>Objective:</strong> To characterize the familiar environment of children between 5 and 11 years suffering from bruxism. …”
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The coordination complex formed by oxalic acid and chromate and the mechanism for enhanced photoreduction of Cr(Ⅵ) under visible-light irradiation by GUAN Yingying, WANG Hao, GE Xiaoming, DENG Likai, DENG Bin, MU Yi*, ZOU Jianping*

“…Oxalic acid, which mainly originates from root exudation and plant residue decomposition, is one of the most widely existiug carboxylic acids, and has a dramatic impact on the reduction of chromate in natural waters. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Spontaneous and Stimulus-Evoked Calcium Transients in Proliferating and Differentiating Human Midbrain-Derived Stem Cells by Torben Johansen, Christina Krabbe, Sissel Ida Schmidt, Alberto Martínez Serrano, Morten Meyer

“…Spontaneous cytosolic calcium transients and oscillations have been reported in various tissues of nonhuman and human origin but not in human midbrain-derived stem cells. …”
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Twoline Skiffia's Latency to Exit a Refuge and to Locate Food When Socialising With Invaders and Raising Temperatures by Abigail Santiago‐Arellano, Javier Alcocer, Erick de laBarrera, Morelia Camacho‐Cervantes

“…Among the main threats to biodiversity are invasive species and global warming, the later has allowed the establishment of invasive species from originally warmer climates outside their native range by reducing the barriers to their establishment and distribution. …”
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Quantitative Determination of Marker Compounds and Fingerprint Analysis of the Seeds of Vernonia anthelmintica by Zulipiya Maimaiti, Ablajan Turak, Qing Ling Ma, Geyu Liu, Haji Akbar Aisa

“…Based on variety and origin, the high-performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) method validated the chemical fingerprint results used to screen the in vitro antioxidant activity of V. anthelmintica. …”
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Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Sensitive Feature Transfer Learning and Local Maximum Margin Criterion under Variable Working Condition by Shiyuan Liu, Xiao Yu, Xu Qian, Fei Dong

“…Additionally, transferable sensitive feature selection by ReliefF and the sum of mean deviation (TSFSR) is proposed to reduce the redundant information of the original feature set, to select sensitive features for fault diagnosis, and to reduce the difference between the marginal distributions of the training and testing feature sets. …”
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Establishment and Characterization of a Human Small Cell Osteosarcoma Cancer Stem Cell Line: A New Possible In Vitro Model for Discovering Small Cell Osteosarcoma Biology by Gaia Palmini, Roberto Zonefrati, Cecilia Romagnoli, Alessandra Aldinucci, Carmelo Mavilia, Gigliola Leoncini, Alessandro Franchi, Rodolfo Capanna, Maria Luisa Brandi

“…Additionally, we have showed their neoplastic phenotype, since the original tumor bulk is a high grade osteosarcoma. This research demonstrates the existence of CSCs also in human primary SCO and highlights the establishment of this particular stabilized cancer stem cell line. …”
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Synthesis of Arginase Inhibitors: An Overview by Maria Cristina Molaro, Chiara Battisegola, Marica Erminia Schiano, Mariacristina Failla, Maria Grazia Rimoli, Loretta Lazzarato, Konstantin Chegaev, Federica Sodano

“…We will provide an overview of all classes of ARG inhibitors developed so far including compounds of synthetic, natural, and semisynthetic origin. For the first time, the synthesis protocol and optimized reaction conditions of each molecule, including those reported in patent applications, will be described. …”
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Test the Moderating and Mediating role of organizational culture in the relationship between servant leadership and employees performance (an analytical research of the views of a... by Mustafa Hatwan Rhima, Mohammed Abd Ahmed

“… This research aims to study the expected role of organizational culture between the servant leadership in its dimensions (support and support of employees, forgiveness, and originality) and the performance of workers in whether it is a moderating role that modifies the strength and direction of the relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable or just a mechanism to transfer the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable this is called the mediating role. …”
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GOLD POTENTIAL OF THE UPPER DEVONIAN BASAL CONGLOMERATES OF THE KANIN PENINSULA (NENETS AUTONOMOUS DISTRICT, RUSSIA) by M.A. Pavlova, D.A. Varlamov, S.M. Snigirevsky, D.V. Zarkhidze, S.V. Petrov, M.A. Rassomakhin

“…The composition of weakly rounded almandine-spessartine garnets indicates their metamorphic origin and allows us to relate the primary source of native gold in conglomerates (D3tk) with underlying metamorphosed Riphean strata or intrusive rocks in them. …”
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Cadmium Sulfide Nanoparticles Synthesized by Microwave Heating for Hybrid Solar Cell Applications by Claudia Martínez-Alonso, Carlos A. Rodríguez-Castañeda, Paola Moreno-Romero, C. Selene Coria-Monroy, Hailin Hu

“…The obtained CdS-n(TA) showed a random distribution of hexagonal particles and contained TA residues. The latter could originate the charge carrier recombination process and cause a low photovoltage (Voc, 0.3 V) in the hybrid solar cells formed by the inorganic particles and poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT). …”
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Leptospira and Inflammation by C. F. Gonçalves-de-Albuquerque, P. Burth, A. R. Silva, M. Younes-Ibrahim, H. C. Castro-Faria-Neto, M. V. Castro-Faria

“…Na/K-ATPase is a target for specific fatty acids of host origin and for bacterial components such as the glycolipoprotein fraction (GLP) that may lead to inflammasome activation. …”
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