Semi-Automated Classification of Side-Scan Sonar Data for Mapping <i>Sabellaria spinulosa</i> Reefs in the Brown Bank, Dutch Continental Shelf by Timo Constantin Gaida, Bas Binnerts, Oscar Bos

“…The maps indicate (1) on the large-scale a preference of <i>Sabellaria spinulosa</i> for settlement to the east of the deepest part of the swale and (2) on the small-scale a preference for the troughs towards the stoss side of the megaripples. …”
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ANALYSIS OF RELIABILITY OF NONRECTORABLE REDUNDANT POWER SYSTEMS TAKING INTO ACCOUNT COMMON FAILURES by V. A. Anischenko, A. N. Ivanova, E. L. Mislo

“…There is built the scale of preference of systems according to criterion of  average time maximum of no-failure operation, depending on portion of common failures. …”
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Exploring students’ attitudes towards their own English accent: Insights from SMA Negeri 1 Stabat by Fika Emylia Effendi, Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, Rusdi Noor Rosa

“…The majority of students express a preference for the American accent, a choice shaped by the global dominance of American media, the Indonesian education system’s focus on American English, and the perceived career benefits tied to American English proficiency. …”
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A Spatial-Temporal Self-Attention Network (STSAN) for Location Prediction by Shuang Wang, AnLiang Li, Shuai Xie, WenZhu Li, BoWei Wang, Shuai Yao, Muhammad Asif

“…In STSAN, we design a trajectory attention module to learn users’ dynamic trajectory representation, which includes three modules: location attention, which captures the location sequential transitions with self-attention; spatial attention, which captures user’s preference for geographic location; and temporal attention, which captures the user temporal activity preference. …”
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Motivations of Retailers Accepting Cryptocurrency Payments and Their Implications on Retail Customer Experience by Muhammed Ali Yetgin, Kasım Yılmaz, Volkan Temizkan

“…Some consumers do not prefer payments with crypto currencies either because of low technology usage level or lack of trust to the system. …”
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Communicating with Extension Clients about Water by Alexa J. Lamm, Phillip S. Stokes, Caroline G. Roper

“…By understanding public opinion and topics of interest surrounding water quantity and quality, as well as Florida residents’ preferred communication methods, Extension faculty will be able to communicate more effectively with clients about water. …”
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Walking coral: Complex phototactic mobility in the free-living coral Cycloseris cyclolites. by Brett M Lewis, David J Suggett, Peter J Prentis, Luke D Nothdurft

“…Not all corals are attached to the substrate; some taxa are solitary and free-living, allowing them to migrate into preferred habitats. However, the lifestyle of these mobile corals, including how they move and navigate for migration, remains largely obscure. …”
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Pulmonary Artery Pseudoaneurysm: A Rare Cause of Fatal Massive Hemoptysis by Himaja Koneru, Sreeja Biswas Roy, Monirul Islam, Hesham Abdelrazek, Debabrata Bandyopadhyay, Nikhil Madan, Pradnya D. Patil, Tanmay S. Panchabhai

“…Computed tomography angiography is the preferred diagnostic modality for PAPA; typical imaging patterns include focal outpouchings of contrast adjacent to a branch of the PA following the same contrast density as the PA in all phases of the study. …”
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3D-EAUS and MRI in the Activity of Anal Fistulas in Crohn’s Disease by Maria Eleonora Alabiso, Francesca Iasiello, Gianluca Pellino, Aniello Iacomino, Luca Roberto, Antonio Pinto, Gabriele Riegler, Francesco Selvaggi, Alfonso Reginelli

“…Both 3D-EAUS and MRI have a crucial role in the evaluation and detection of CD perianal fistulas. 3D-EAUS was preferable to MRI in the detection of intersphincteric fistulas; conversely, in the evaluation of suprasphincteric and extrasphincteric fistulas the MRI was preferable to 3D-EAUS.…”
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Segmental Spinal Anaesthesia for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Situs Inversus Patient: A Case Report by Richa Chandra, Gaurav Misra, Navneeta Bisht, Gopal Dutta, Sumit Khandelwal

“…This case report can be used as a reference for the preferred use of SS instead of GA in such cases.…”
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Codon Usage is Influenced by Compositional Constraints in Genes Associated with Dementia by Taha Alqahtani, Rekha Khandia, Nidhi Puranik, Ali M. Alqahtani, Yahia Alghazwani, Saad Ali Alshehri, Kumarappan Chidambaram, Mohammad Amjad Kamal, Mohammad Amjad Kamal, Mohammad Amjad Kamal, Mohammad Amjad Kamal

“…Nucleotide A also experienced the highest mutational force, and GC-ending codons were preferred over AT-ending codons. A high bias toward GC-ending codons enhances the gene expression level, evidenced by the positive association between CAI- and GC-ending codons. …”
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A universal and wide-range cytosine base editor via domain-inlaid and fidelity-optimized CRISPR-FrCas9 by Lan Hu, Jing Han, Hao-Da Wang, Zhou-Hua Cheng, Chang-Ce Lv, Dong-Feng Liu, Han-Qing Yu

“…Abstract CRISPR-based base editor (BE) offer diverse editing options for genetic engineering of microorganisms, but its application is limited by protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) sequences, context preference, editing window, and off-target effects. …”
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Consolidation Behavior and Compression Prediction Model of Coastal Cement Soil Modified by Nanoclay by Wenjie Yu, Na Li, Mengdan Dai, Dongliang An, Biao Qian, Wei Wang, Ping Jiang

“…CCS with a cement content of 18% is preferred. (2) The improvement effect on the compression of the sample is better with a nanoclay content of 4% and 8%, but poor with a content of 2%. …”
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A Method for Trust Quantification in Cloud Computing Environments by Xiaohui Li, Jingsha He, Bin Zhao, Jing Fang, Yixuan Zhang, Hongxing Liang

“…In this paper, we propose a method for trust quantification based on fuzzy comprehensive evaluation theory for cloud computing to protect user data through trust quantification of cloud services after we introduce trust ontology for cloud services and define user preference trust values. By enhancing the existing trust concept based on dynamic requirements, we introduce some cloud service attributes to study layered service representation for trust preference and then apply the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation theory to perform trust quantification. …”
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Ferrichrome, a fungal-type siderophore, confers high ammonium tolerance to fission yeast by Po-Chang Chiu, Yuri Nakamura, Shinichi Nishimura, Toshitsugu Tabuchi, Yoko Yashiroda, Go Hirai, Akihisa Matsuyama, Minoru Yoshida

“…Herein we show that ferrichrome induces adaptive growth of fission yeast on high ammonium media. Ammonium is a preferred nitrogen source as it suppresses uptake and catabolism of less preferred nitrogen sources such as leucine through a mechanism called nitrogen catabolite repression (NCR). …”
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Small-to-Medium-Scale Sensory Evaluation of Horticultural Crops—Sensory Testing Methods by Sean Michael Campbell, Charles A. Sims

“… This new 7-page publication of the Environmental Horticulture Department is fourth in a series designed to assist small-to-medium-sized producers in the sensory evaluation of their horticultural crops, summarizing the discrimination and preference sensory testing methods available, with the guidelines outlined in this publication taken from the 2nd edition of Sensory Evaluation Of Food: Principles And Practices (Lawless and Heymann 2010). …”
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E-shop – the Innovative Way of Sale and Communication by Zdenka Šrámekova, Lucia Vilhanová

“…Today's consumer is very demanding and increasingly prefers shopping from the comfort of his home. Therefore, individual businesses are trying to meet this trend and in addition to traditional forms of marketing they are also offering online purchasing options. …”
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Enterramientos aristocráticos y redes eclesiásticas en Navarra by Fermín Miranda García

“…This study aims to analyse the testamentary dispositions of the urban oligarchies of Navarre, and especially those of Pamplona, to reflect on their behaviour when it came to choosing burial sites. Their preference for the cathedral, the parish churches and the churches of the urban convents, their interest in maintaining family traditions or establishing new criteria; the desire, in short, to signify in some way their social, juridic and economic prestige when it came to perpetuating their memory through burial spaces.…”
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Factors associated with decreased anal sphincter tone and the accuracy of forced anal examinations to detect individuals having receptive anal intercourse: an observational study by John A Schneider, Alan G Nyitray, Derek Smith, Michael W Ross, Elizabeth Y Chiao, Timothy J Ridolfi, Bridgett Brzezinski, B R Simon Rosser, Aniruddha Hazra, Jenna Nitkowski, Sandrine Sanos, Ever Mkonyi, Lucy Mgopa

“…Compared with individuals having always/mostly insertive anal intercourse, individuals having always/mostly receptive anal intercourse were associated with decreased RT, but not ST, while those equally preferring both insertive and receptive anal intercourse were not associated with decreased RT or ST.Conclusion Decreased sphincter tone is uncommon among SGM who prefer receptive anal intercourse. …”
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Clavate Tortoise Beetle, Plagiometriona clavata (Fabricius) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) by Robert E. Woodruff

“…Woodruff, describes this common tortoise-shaped beetle which prefers host plants in the family Solanaceae. Includes sections on synonymy, distribution, description, hosts and biology, and selected references. …”
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