Exploring Relationships among Social Norms, Aesthetics, and HOA Regulations and Water Conservation by Amanda D. Ali, Laura A. Sanagorski Warner

“… In the United States, landscape irrigation often consumes 50% or more of residential water used, and aesthetics may take preference over water-conserving elements in the landscape. …”
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Novel Meandered Line EBG Filters with Significant Size Reduction Using Sine Tapering by S. M. Shakil Hassan, Kalyan Kumar Halder, Md. Nurunnabi Mollah

“…This method deduces mellifluous coefficients that improves the performance with reasonable stopband width, preferable insertion loss level, and much-minimized passband ripples compared to similar designs with other tapering methods (e.g., binomial distribution, Chebyshev distribution, and conventional cosine tapering). …”
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Exploring Relationships among Social Norms, Aesthetics, and HOA Regulations and Water Conservation by Amanda D. Ali, Laura A. Sanagorski Warner

“… In the United States, landscape irrigation often consumes 50% or more of residential water used, and aesthetics may take preference over water-conserving elements in the landscape. …”
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‘Dolls in Agony’: Vernon Lee in Southern Spain by Leire Barrera-Medrano

“…The overloaded decoration of the churches and the preference for representations of bleeding Christs were, in Lee’s eyes, ‘obscene’ and ‘excessive’. …”
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Fordyce Angiokeratoma: Comparison of Cryotherapy and Electrocauterization Treatments by Necmi Bayraktar

“…Bleeding and wound infection are other parameters that may decrease patient comfort. Patients would prefer treatment methods with less or no pain and shorter recovery periods, healthcare providers, and insurance. …”
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Critical appraisal of systematic reviews and meta-analyses by Kapil D. Soni

“…In addition, it discusses the importance of rigorous data extraction, synthesis methods and evaluation of publication bias. Tools like Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA), Measurement Tools to Assess Systematic Reviews, version 2 and Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) can facilitate appraisal and help translate findings into clinical practice. …”
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Seed Production and Seed Sources of Organic Vegetables by Jennifer Bonina, Daniel J. Cantliffe

“… The organic vegetable industry is flourishing due to consumers preference for organically grown produce over traditionally produced vegetables. …”
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Recent Developments on Operator-Difference Schemes for Solving Nonlocal BVPs for the Wave Equation by Mehmet Emir Koksal

“…Although one of the second-order difference scheme is less preferable than the other one according to CPU (central processing unit) time consideration, it has superiority when the accuracy weighs more importance.…”
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Toxorhynchites rutilus Coquillett, 1896 (Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae) by Abdullah A. Alomar, Barry W. Alto

“…Larvae of Toxorhynchites are aquatic predators and prey upon aquatic invertebrates with preference under some circumstances for larvae of other mosquitoes, a characteristic that can contribute to the use of Toxorhynchites mosquitoes as potential biological controls against container-inhabiting mosquitoes (Focks 2007). …”
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Vibrational Spectroscopic Study of the Cocrystal Products Formed by Cinchona Alkaloids with 5-Nitrobarbituric Acid by Harry G. Brittain

“…These properties serve to demonstrate the utility of 5-nitrobarbituric acid as a preferred reagent for chemical microscopy, since the differing range of hydrate and structural types would serve to easily differentiate the cinchona alkaloids from each other, even when different compounds contained the same absolute configurations at their dissymmetric centers.…”
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Vision of objects happens faster and earlier for location than for identity by Christian H. Poth, Werner X. Schneider

“…Together, these findings reveal an intrinsic preference of the human visual system for the perceptual processing of space as opposed to visual features such as categorical identity.…”
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Ripeness Levels and Their Relations with the Success of the Negotiation Method: CPP-NPA, TTP, IRA by Emrah KAYA

“…At this point, one of the preferred tools is the negotiation method. A similar process takes place in low-intensity conflicts between states and terrorist organizations. …”
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2009 H1N1 Influenza by Seth J. Sullivan, MD; Robert M. Jacobson, MD; Walter R. Dowdle, PhD; and Gregory A. Poland

“…Recent studies and articles were preferred.…”
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Design and Implementation of a Digital Environmental Monitoring System. by Nuwagaba, Alfred

“…Given that GSM based technology is widely spread across the world, has quality channeling and signaling, this makes it a preferred option for use in this project in comparison to other wireless technologies. …”
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Effect of Irradiation on Quality of Vacuum-Packed Spicy Beef Chops by Liming Zhao, Yin Zhang, Siya Guo, Wei Xiong, Hu Xia, Wenlong Liu, Zhongli Pan, Chandrasekar Venkitasamy

“…The results showed that lightness, drip loss, and off-odor of SBJ increased, while the hardness, chewiness, gumminess, color preference, and taste of SBJ decreased with the increase in irradiation dose. …”
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Periodic cooking of eggs by Emilia Di Lorenzo, Francesca Romano, Lidia Ciriaco, Nunzia Iaccarino, Luana Izzo, Antonio Randazzo, Pellegrino Musto, Ernesto Di Maio

“…Separation or a compromise temperature to the detriment of food safety or taste preference are the options. In the present article, we find that it is possible to cook albumen and yolk at two temperatures without separation by using periodic boundary conditions in the energy transport problem. …”
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Operative Outcomes for Cervical Myelopathy and Radiculopathy by J. G. Galbraith, J. S. Butler, A. M. Dolan, J. M. O'Byrne

“…Conservative management, such as physical therapy, cervical immobilisation, or anti-inflammatory medications, is the preferred and often only required intervention. Surgical intervention is reserved for those patients who have intractable pain or progressive neurological symptoms. …”
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Microwave-Promoted Synthesis of Sulfonated Metallophthalocyanines and Aggregation in Different Solvents by Zhenhua Cheng, Na Cui, Shengjuan Jiang, Hongxiao Zhang, Lijun Zhu, Daohong Xia

“…Compared to the conventional method of synthesis in terms of reaction time and yields, the microwave-promoted synthesis is preferred with high product yield and short reaction time. …”
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How satisfied am I with mobile wallets? Exploring the nexus between MSQual, hedonism, and satisfaction by Asad Ahmad, Dag Øivind Madsen, Swati Garg

“…In India, mobile wallets have rapidly gained popularity, emerging as a preferred payment method among internet users. This trend has driven a substantial rise in mobile wallet transactions over the past 4–5 years. …”
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BREEDING ASSESSMENT OF HETEROPLOID CROSSES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRIPLOID APPLE VARIETIES by E. N. Sedov, G. A. Sedysheva, Z. M. Serova, N. G. Gorbacheva, S. A. Melnik

“…The cause is the different degrees of autogamy in parental tetraploid forms: when nonemasculated flowers are pollinated, highly autogamous forms are preferably pollinated with their own pollen. When larger number of triploid plants is required in crosses 4x × 2x flowers of these forms should be emasculated.The production and biological characteristics of eight apple varieties with stable fruit-bearing and highly marketable fruit, are given in this paper.…”
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