What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940 by Theo Engelen

“…We ask whether the prevalence of May as the preferred marriage month was dimin­ishing when industrialization changed the course of workload over the year. …”
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Mesurer le niveau de stress d’enfants à leur domicile (Marseille) : Mise au point méthodologique by Valérie Niel-Bernard, Hélène Pagezy, Pierre Darlu

“…However, while pediatricians tend to use body surface (calculated from Gehan and George’s formulas), seldom applying the exact formula related to age, anthropobiogists mostly prefer to use BMI. A suitable standardization of the results is needed, particularly when the objective is to measure children’s stress under “normal” conditions, that is at their family home.…”
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Baptism of Fire: Modeling the Effects of Prescribed Fire on Lyme Disease by Emily Guo, Folashade B. Agusto

“…Furthermore, burning at high intensity is preferable to burning at low intensity whenever possible, although high-intensity burns may be unrealistic due to environmental factors. …”
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Stabilization and Synchronization of Uncertain Zhang System by Means of Robust Adaptive Control by J. Humberto Pérez-Cruz

“…Standard adaptive control is the preferred approach for stabilization and synchronization of chaotic systems when the structure of such systems is a priori known but the parameters are unknown. …”
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What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940 by Theo Engelen

“…We ask whether the prevalence of May as the preferred marriage month was dimin­ishing when industrialization changed the course of workload over the year. …”
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Participation in residential child care in Germany by Bernhard Babic, Liane Pluto

“…In actual practice, a speedy return to the family is the preferred choice, not least for cost reasons.…”

Towards Multitarget Testing in Molecular Microbiology by Deborah Steensels, Anne Vankeerberghen, Hans De Beenhouwer

“…Lessons learned from these experiences include the careful design of diagnostic assays, preferably multitargeted, the importance of investigating the incidence and epidemiology of infection in detail, the frequent participation in appropriate quality assurance schemes, and the importance of continuous attentiveness by investigators when confronted with inconsistent results. …”
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Choosing people: the role of social capital in information seeking behaviour by Catherine A. Johnson

“…It is an almost universal finding in studies investigating human information behaviour that people choose other people as their preferred source of information. An explanation for the use of people as information sources is that they are easier to approach than more formal sources and therefore are a "least effort" option. …”
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Users' information behaviour - a gender perspective by Jela Steinerová, Jaroslav Susol

“…</b> Results indicate that men prefer individual information seeking and women apply collaborative information use. …”
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Poverty, Dickens’s Oliver Twist, and J. R. McCulloch by Ayşe Çelikkol

“…Recognizing McCulloch’s and Dickens’s common epistemology alerts us to the ways in which the preference for the particular over the systemic shapes Oliver Twist. …”
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The Complex Dynamics of Bertrand-Stackelberg Pricing Models in a Risk-Averse Supply Chain by Junhai Ma, Qiuxiang Li

“…We study the effect of the price adjustment speed, the risk preference, and the uncertain demand on the stability of the risk-averse supply chain using bifurcation, power spectrum, attractor, and so forth. …”
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What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940 by Theo Engelen

“…We ask whether the prevalence of May as the preferred marriage month was dimin­ishing when industrialization changed the course of workload over the year. …”
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Anti-corruption Law and Systemic Corruption: The Role of Direct Responses by Kevin E. Davis

“…This article argues that there are sound reasons to believe that anti-corruption law can play an affirmative role in controlling systemic corruption, but the advantages and disadvantages of alternative legal responses are likely to vary depending on both the preferred evaluative criteria and the context. This analysis is based on the premise that corruption becomes systemic when it is widespread, persistent, subversive, structural, or normalized. …”
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Using Factor Decomposition Machine Learning Method to Music Recommendation by Dapeng Sun

“…On the other hand, we learn from item-based CF, which ensures that the candidate set covers user preference. Firstly, the user’s interest value is predicted by using dynamic interest model. …”
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Coupling Coordination of Water Governance and Tourism: Measurement and Prediction by Yuqing Geng, Mukasar Maimaituerxun, Han Zhang

“…This study analyzes the correlation mechanism of the water governance-tourism system, constructs the composite and aggregated evaluation system which consists of 5 dimensions and 15 indicators, uses information entropy weight technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution method to evaluate the development degrees of both water governance and tourism growth of the 11 regions in the Yangtze River Economic Zone, analyzes the two subsystems’ relation of coupling coordination temporally and spatially with the coupling coordination degree model, predicts degrees of coupling coordination of the regions for the next 4 years with gray system prediction model, and proposes specific and generalizable countermeasures. …”
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Sharp Curvature of Premolar Resulting in External Apical Root Resorption of the Neighbouring Molar by Özgür İlke Atasoy Ulusoy

“…External apical root resorption affecting single permanent tooth may be induced from the pressure exerted during the eruption of the adjacent tooth with unusual root morphology. The preferred approach for the management of such apical resorption cases includes long-term observation and no curative treatment.…”
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Marking Contrastive Topics in a Topic Shift Context: Contrastive Adverbs versus Emphatic Pronouns by Jorina Brysbaert, Karen Lahousse

“…Moreover, we show that the use of emphatic pronouns is affected by pragmatic constraints, which is not the case for contrastive adverbs: emphatic pronouns typically modify subjects with a clearly identifiable – preferably human – referent. Hence, in a more general way, this study provides evidence for the idea that both language-internal and language-external factors should be taken into account when analysing the “free” choice between two similar linguistic marking strategies.…”
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Design and Development of a Vertical Paddle Semi Automated Garri Frying Machine by C.P. Nwadinobi, J.C. Edeh, K.I. Mejeh

“…The cooking and drying performance of the developed machine accounted for throughput capacity of 20.66kg/hr and functional efficiency of 66%. In addition, a preferred final moisture content of 12.14%w.b. was achieved at 20rpm paddle speed and frying time of 23 minutes. …”
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Ecogeographical Amplitude and Habitat of Two Species of the Genus- <i>Terminalia</i> (Combretaceae) In the Central Niger Delta Areas in Rivers State by NL Edwin-Wosu, T Omara-Achong, BL Nyannanyo

“…Result shows that both species are successfully adapted to the area as mesophytes but are distinct in all aspect, thus have marked preference for and /or by displaying restricted occurrence in certain ecological habitat. …”
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A Criterion Based Rehabilitation Protocol for ACL Repair with Internal Brace Augmentation by Ahmer Irfan, Stewart Kerr, Graeme Hopper, William Wilson, Lynsay Wilson, Gordon Mackay

“…ACL reconstruction has been the preferred operative management of an ACL rupture for several decades; however, success rates are variable. …”
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