Measurement report: Analysis of aerosol optical depth variation at Zhongshan Station in Antarctica by L. Chen, L. Chen, L. Zhang, Y. She, Z. Zeng, Y. Zheng, B. Tian, W. Zhang, Z. Liu, H. Che, M. Ding

“…Backward trajectory analysis revealed that coarse particles from the ocean predominantly contributed to high AOD daily mean values, while fine particles on low-AOD days originated mainly from the air mass over the Antarctic Plateau.…”
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Emergence of mcr-8.1-bearing MDR-hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ST307 by Jie Sheng, Rory Cave, Mary M. Ter-Stepanyan, Siyu Lu, Yingxiong Wang, Taihang Liu, Hermine V. Mkrtchyan

“…All Armenian isolates carried the integrative and conjugative element ICEKp4, which bears the yersiniabactin locus, and shared a common evolutionary origin, diverging around 2005 (95% CI: 1999 to 2011). …”
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Designing a Model for Credit Risk Assessment of Customers for Guarantees Issued by the Export Guarantee Fund of Iran via Artificial Neural Network Model by Farshid Ahmadi Sartakhti, Kambiz Hojabr Kiani, Seyed Shamsoddin Hoseini, Abbas Memarnejad

“…Based on available statistics and official records within the Iranian entity, it can be observed that between the Iranian calendar years of 1387 and 1397, this fund issued guarantees totaling $6.7 billion, with the largest claim, exceeding $317 million, originating from the credit guarantees provided for the benefit of creditors. …”
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CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF CHICKPEA by S. Sots, I. Kustov, I. Butsenko, I. Solonytska

“….), one of the oldest cultivated plants, is grown in two main varieties: desi and kabuli. The origin of chickpea is associated with the regions of the so-called "Fertile Crescent," covering modern territories of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. …”
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Molecular characterization of ST15 carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated in a single patient by Yongjin Hu, Rong Tang, Shanshan Jin, Jiahao Guan, Xiaoxiao Meng, Zengpeijie Dan, Ruilan Wang, Hong-Yu Ou, Jian Lu

“…Furthermore, our findings suggest that the pathogens in this patient are likely to have a common ancestral origin.…”
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Breeding bird communities of the pine forests in the forest-steppe zone by A. Atemasov, T. Atemasova

“…Most of the park's forests are of artificial origin. Birds communities were studied in May 2023 in six forest types: pine forest less than 25 years old, pine forest 71-90 years old, pine forest 91-110 years old, pine forest over 110 years old, patches of oak stands and patches of birch stands. …”
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Knowledge Distillation in Object Detection for Resource-Constrained Edge Computing by Arief Setyanto, Theopilus Bayu Sasongko, Muhammad Ainul Fikri, Dhani Ariatmanto, I. Made Artha Agastya, Rakandhiya Daanii Rachmanto, Affan Ardana, In Kee Kim

“…YOLOv4 is a widely used OD model with a backbone for image feature extraction and a prediction layer. Originally, YOLOv4 was designed to use CSPDarkNet53 as its backbone, which requires significant computational power. …”
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Definiri ale metaforei – metaforismului – demetaforizării by Violeta Bercaru

“…Revenant à Tudor Vianu, ďaprès ce théoricien, l’idée de l’idéalisme moderne s’origine dans le concept de la métaphore-récipient, à travers la function cognitive-philosophique, les autres étant celle esthétique et unificatrice. …”
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Les réseaux d’alimentation en eau des pentes de la Croix-Rousse et de la presqu’île de Lyon by Jules Ramona

“…While the existence of this system is clearly attested on the slopes of the Croix-Rousse at least from the Claudian period, and from the Flavian period in the north and centre of the Presqu’île, the origin of its water sources, the technical conditions of its operation and the limits of its geographical scope remain speculative. …”
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Economic-productive analysis of a mixed cattle-bubaline model mixed model in the Northern region of Corrientes Province in Argentina by Pablo Maldonado-Vargas, Vanesa Guadalupe Mierke, Liliana Laura Pellerano, Guillermo Sebastián Grimaldi, Orlando Alberto Álvarez, Natalia Mercedes Vallejos, Margarita Rosa Itatí Romero, Francisco Daniel Romero, Alexis Sebastián Bandeo, Gonzalo Enrique Tuñón, José Luis Konrad

“…To achieve and offer the market a critical mass of cattle and buffalo meat that can reliably demonstrate the production processes carried out, the origin and quality of the product should be achieved by selling meat with more information on current demands. …”
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The Chinese State, Incomplete Proletarianization and Structures of Inequality in Two Epochs by Wu Jieh-min, Mark Selden

“…We locate the discussion in relation to theories of original accumulation, proletarianization, wage stagnation, and low consumption in the emerging capitalist world economy of which China has been a part since the 1970s.2 We hope to add to that discussion by exploring a range of structures that have produced incomplete proletarianization and inequality during two periods of socialist transition (1950s to 1970) and capitalist transition (1970s to present).Following three decades during which China experienced the world’s most rapid growth, and in which billionaires emerged at a record rate in 2010, hundreds of millions of urban laborers, particularly the more than one hundred million migrant laborers, continue to receive not only a low but even a relatively declining share of the gross domestic product, leaving many at subsistence levels, with meager welfare benefits and bereft of basic citizenship rights.3 We use the term “laborers” to highlight the conditions of the laboring poor—rural migrant workers (nongmingong), farmers, the urban underclass, recently joined by redundant state-owned enterprise workers—examining their situation in relative as well as absolute terms. …”
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„O pecunia totius mali regina, fraudis et doli amica...“ Peníze v kultuře středověku by Tomáš Krejčík

“…Sometimes a loan was disguised as a gift, to which the debtor responded with a gift that was worth more than the sum originally loaned. Other ways of getting round the ban involved a variety of sham purchases and sales. …”
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Mpox Preparedness and Response 2024: Position Statement of The Disaster Management Experts Club by Heetaf Aloqaily, Rania Abdurhman Alnafea, Shahad Abdullah Alotaibi, Mohamad Bakir, Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah, Bandr Mzahim

“… • International collaboration: A proactive coalition can limit the dissemination of mpox, especially considering its zoonotic origins and cross-border transmission. Cooperative initiatives among public health organisations, government entities, and healthcare providers are essential to the establishment of a comprehensive database to monitor and analyse mpox cases across various regions.   …”
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ESG performance and dividend stability of the world’s largest enterprises by Agnieszka Matuszewska-Pierzynka, Urszula Mrzygłód, Aleksandra Pieloch-Babiarz

“…Managers should pay more attention to increasing the visibility of ESG initiatives from the perspective of risk, which they allow to avoid controversies in particular corporate sustainability dimensions. ORIGINALITY AND VALUE: The value added of this paper is that it investigates the relationship between ESG performance and payout policy, which was not thoroughly explored in previous studies, especially in the context of an enterprise’s controversial ESG activities. …”
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Preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy in severe male factor infertility: protocol for a multicenter randomised controlled trial by Li Wang, Li Jin, Yao Lu, Chen Zhang, He-Feng Huang, Yun Sun, Xian-hua Lin, Meng-xi Guo, Dan-dan Wu, Jian-lin Zhang, Cheng-liang Zhou, Chen-ming Xu, Song-chang Chen, Song-ying Zhang, Xiao-xi Sun, Yan-ting Wu

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Single-qubit anisotropy induced by micromagnet in Si-MOS quantum dot by Ning Chu, Xin Zhang, Rong-Long Ma, Zhen-Zhen Kong, Wei-Zhu Liao, Sheng-Kai Zhu, Chu Wang, Ao-Ran Li, Gui-Lei Wang, Gang Cao, Hai-Ou Li, Guo-Ping Guo

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Gender differences in efficiency of the telemedicine care of heart failure patients. The results from the TeleEduCare-HF study by Agata Bielecka-Dąbrowa, Dariusz Trzmielak, Agata Sakowicz, Kamil Janikowski, Maciej Banach

“…Results The study finally included 140 men with an average age of 66 years (SD: 56–71) and 163 women with an average age of 64 years (58–72). The ischemic origin of HF was present in 78% of men and 73% of women (p = 0.40), and 31% of men and 16% of women declared myocardial infarction in the past (p = 0.002). …”
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Process evaluation of Project Daire: a food environment intervention that impacted food knowledge, wellbeing and dietary habits of primary school children by Naomi Anderson, Sarah F. Brennan, Fiona Lavelle, Sarah E. Moore, Dilara Olgacher, Amy Junkin, Moira Dean, Michelle C. McKinley, Patrick McCole, Ruth F. Hunter, Laura Dunne, Niamh E. O’Connell, Chris T. Elliott, Danielle McCarthy, Jayne V. Woodside

“…Trial registrations The original trial referenced in this process evaluation is registered as follows: National Institute of Health (NIH) U.S. …”
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Theoretical and applied research on hydraulic slit-fracture joint roof control and pressure relief of hard roof in goaf roadway by Yongjiang ZHANG, Fei JI, Tongbin ZHAO, Ke YANG, Wenbin WU, Wangang JIANG

“…Through the abrasive jet ultra-high-pressure hydraulic slitting technology, the slots are preset in the hard top plate, which can play a guiding role for the hydraulic fracturing cracks to drag and expand, and increase the influence range of hydraulic fracturing cracks by opening up the original cracks in the rock body, forming a continuous weak surface in a hard roof to weaken the stress transmission of the roof, and the depth of the slits is positively correlated with the slit pressure and the sand mixing ratio. …”
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A review of literature of a functional, congenital intrathoracic kidney by Sahil Sabharwal, Brandyn Young, Sarat Sabharwal, Kristen Brandon, Sarah Assem

“…The embryologic kidneys originally lie close together in the sacral region. …”
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