Spatiotemporal Distribution and Population Structure of Monokalliapseudes schubarti (Tanaidacea: Kalliapseudidae) in an Estuary in Southern Brazil by Felipe Freitas-Júnior, Martin Lindsey Christoffersen, Joafrâncio Pereira de Araújo, Joaquim Olinto Branco

“…Habitat disturbance and high organic matter may represent factors controlling the distribution of populations of M. schubarti. For this reason, the species may be used to monitor anthropic effects in estuarine areas.…”
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Size Effect on Recycled Concrete Strength and Its Prediction Model Using Standard Neutrosophic Number by X. Peng, Q. W. Yang, F. J. Qin

“…Thirdly, a standard neutrosophic number is proposed and used in modelling the size effect law more reasonably. According to the experimental results, it was found that the compressive and tensile strengths of recycled concrete both have obvious size effects. …”
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Perspectives on content and delivery of the ABLE 1.0 intervention programme by Kristina Tomra Nielsen, Marie Bangsgaard Bang, Marc Sampedro Pilegaard, Vita Hagelskjær, Eva Ejlersen Wæhrens

“…Analyses revealed six categories related to content and delivery; ‘Overall perception of the programme’; ‘Potential for implementation’; ‘Evaluation, goal setting and clarification of reasons for ADL task performance problems’; ‘Intervention: compensatory solutions’; ‘Format and duration’ and ‘Preconditions for delivery’.Conclusions and significance The findings provided valuable information used for further development of the ABLE programme.…”
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Model Studies of Metallurgical Processes Based on the Example of Blowing Steel with Argon by T. Merder, J. Pieprzyca, R. Wende, J. Witek, M. Saternus

“…Identification of these mechanisms in industrial conditions is difficult and often impossible for fundamental reasons. A frequently used research tool in such cases are water physical models of metallurgical reactors used in steel production. …”
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ANALYSIS EXPOSURE INDEX AS AN OPTIMIZATION EFFORT ON EXAMINATION CHEST POSTERIOR ANTERIOR by Muhammad Irsal, Firdha Adlia Syuhada, Yolanda Pangestu Ananda, Andre Galih Pratama Putra, Muhammad Rizky Syahputera, Syahputera Wibowo, Rizky Kahar

“…Background: Radiographers are responsible for producing image quality which can provide accurate diagnostic information by considering the lowest possible radiation dose according to the As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) principle. Participation between radiographers and medical physicists is needed in optimizing efforts to control the selection of exposure factors by the required clinical radiographic examination. …”
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Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from the Uteri Horn, Mouth, and Rectum of Bitches Suffering from Pyometra: Virulence Factors, Antimicrobial Susceptibilities, and Clonal Relations... by Juliana M. A. Agostinho, Andressa de Souza, Ruben P. Schocken-Iturrino, Lívia G. Beraldo, Clarissa A. Borges, Fernando A. Ávila, José M. Marin

“…Using the genotypic methods some isolates from uteri, pus, and saliva of the same bitch proved to have identical DNA profiles which is a reason for concern due to the close relationship between household pets and humans.…”
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Spray Dried Extract of Phormidium valderianum as a Promising Source of Natural Antioxidant by Dipan Chatterjee, Paramita Bhattacharjee, Gour Gopal Satpati, Ruma Pal

“…Microencapsulation conditions that provided the best combination of phytochemical properties such as antioxidant activity, phenolic content, and reducing power with reasonable powder yield were an inlet temperature of 130°C and wall material composition as maltodextrin: gum arabic = 70 : 30. …”
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Perturbation Theory-Based Whole-Core Eigenvalue Sensitivity and Uncertainty (SU) Analysis via a 2D/1D Transport Code by Ji Ma, Chen Hao, Lixun Liu, Yuekai Zhou

“…Based on the home-developed 3D high-fidelity neutron transport code HNET, the perturbation theory was used to directly calculate the sensitivity coefficient of keff to the multigroup cross sections, and a reasonable relative covariance matrix with a specific energy group structure was generated directly from the evaluated covariance data by using the transforming method. …”
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Vehicle-Mounted SRM DITC Strategy Based on Optimal Switching Angle TSF by Hongyao Wang, Jingbo Wu, Chengwei Xie, Zhijun Guo

“…Firstly, an improved cosine TSF is designed to reasonably distribute the total reference torque among the phases, stabilizing the synthesized torque of SRM during the commutation interval. …”
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Research on transient energy suppression strategy of intrinsically safe output power supply for mine by Changna GUO

“…According to the experimental verification and comparison, the reasons for the failure of the transient energy experiment of the output intrinsically safe power supply are analyzed, and it is verified that the protection time, the reaction speed of semiconductor chip, the short-circuit instantaneous voltage and current value in the over-voltage and over-current protection circuit are the key parameters affecting the transient energy; based on the actual design, the protection process is analyzed, the method of reducing transient energy by TVS tube is excluded, and the influence of inductor on transient energy before and after the power supply overvoltage and over-current protection circuit is studied, which provides a reference for the design of the output intrinsically safe power supply for mining.…”
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Sustainable collection development towards greener future: Earthsavers by Tayfun Güven, Bahar Akarsu, Eray Sudaşdemir, Elçin Emekdar, Hatice Acikgöz-Tufan, Umut Kivanc Sahin, Senem Kursun Bahadir

“…Sources of the Earth have been decreasing day by day due to many natural and human-induced reasons such as global warming, waste disposal, urbanization, deforestation, etc. …”
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Problems of Development of Social Partnership in the Field of Labor and Protection of Labor Rights of Employees by A. I. Rashidova, L. A. Rashidova

“…The article reveals the reasons for the insufficient effectiveness of social partnership in Russia and suggests ways to improve it, emphasizing the need to intensify the participation of all stakeholders in developing decent working conditions, reducing unemployment and poverty, and increasing the competitiveness of the economy. …”
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Diagnostics of accomplishing regional goals of the national project “Ecology” (on the example of the Vologda region) by E. N. Yakovleva, M. V. Andreeva, I. V. Krukova

“…Underestimation of the target values of the results of project activities is indicated as a significant reason for the proven high efficiency of applying financial resources in the implementation of regional projects. …”
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Theoretical and experimental study on cutting temperature in the presence of drilling fluid during ice-core drilling by Zhuo Chen, Pinlu Cao, Han Wang, He Yang, Qilei Yin

“…The model was validated by a series of experiments, which demonstrated reasonable agreement between the calculated data and experimental results, with a maximum error of <16%. …”
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Recommendations for dispensing magnesium products in pharmacy practice and primary health care by Piotr Merks, Urszula Religioni, Marta Jakubowska, Sainul Abideen Parakkal, Suhaj Abdulsalim, Agnieszka Neumann-Podczaska, Beata Chełstowska, Mazhuvanchery Kesavan Unnikrishnan, Alicja Szatko, Piotr Glinicki, Shabeer Ali Thorakkattil, Zbigniew Doniec, Regis Vaillancourt, Dagmara Hering

“…Considering the high frequency of patients using community pharmacy services, pharmacists present a group of medical professionals that can readily diagnose a potential magnesium deficiency in a relatively easy manner and can recommend supplementation in the diet or magnesium deficiency treatment with medicinal products when there are symptoms. For this reason, the objective of this article is to suggest procedures that can be used to identify patients particularly susceptible to magnesium deficiency. …”
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CXCL14 in prostate cancer: complex interactions in the tumor microenvironment and future prospects by Lei Tang, Xin Chen, Jianquan Hou, Xuedong Wei

“…Despite a foundational understanding of CXCL14 in prostate cancer, there remains a lack of comprehensive reviews summarizing the specific roles of this chemokine and systematically analyzing the reasons behind its complex effects. Therefore, this article aims to discuss the role of CXCL14 in the tumor microenvironment of prostate cancer and explore future research directions and potential applications.…”
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An Optimization Design Method of Express Delivery Service Based on Quantitative Kano Model and Fuzzy QFD Model by Hongmei Shan, Xinmeng Fan, Siyu Long, Xuejing Yang, Shuhan Yang

“…The results show that the framework could guide the express company to prioritize the enterprise service elements to maximize customer satisfaction and provide a reasonable budget allocation scheme to set the best resources match. …”
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The Impact of Religion on Moral Development in Kabale Diocese; A Case Study of Southern Division Kabale Municipality. by Musiimenta, Asia

“…In Uganda, it is believed that it is due to misguided religious principles that Joseph Kony waged a war against the government of Uganda. One of the reasons why many people regard religion as an obstacle to moral development is that religious attitudes are commonly thought to be socially conservative, for example, the views of the catholic church about contraception, Islamic views about the role of women and their access to education, or the centrality of caste to Hinduism. …”
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Pedagogical tolerance development in the process of teaching a foreign language by Natalia A. Gridneva, Maria S. Doskovskaya

“…Great importance and urgency of research are caused firstly by public need for tolerance which is reasonably regarded as a key to building harmonic and results oriented relationships between people (also in professional areas) and secondly by modern humanistic conception of education based on idea of careful and respectful attitude towards child’s identity in all of its socially acceptable manifestations. …”
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Investigations on the Hot Stamping of AW-7921-T4 Alloy Sheet by M. Kumar, N. G. Ross

“…Dynamic recovery is considered as usual reason for the formability improvement. However, examining the precipitation states of the as-received condition and after hot stamping using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), the dissolution of precipitates was also believed to contribute to this increase in formability. …”
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