Measuring self-control in a wild songbird using a spatial discounting task by Ella McCallum, Rachael C. Shaw

“…This study demonstrates for the first time that a bird is capable of self-control in a spatial context and provides suggestions for how future researchers may robustly quantify individual differences in self-control in the wild.…”
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An End-To-End Speech Recognition Model for the North Shaanxi Dialect: Design and Evaluation by Yi Qin, Feifan Yu

“…The next step will involve researching how to improve the performance of dialect speech recognition by integrating external language models and extracting pronunciation features of different dialects, thereby achieving better recognition results.…”
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BIOSYNTHESIS OF NANOPARTICLES FROM PLANT EXTRACTS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN MEDICAL TREATMENTS AND DRUG DELIVERY: A REVIEW by N. A. Jdayea, E. E. Al-Abodi

“…This article reviews the latest studies on the biosynthesis of metal nanoparticles using plant extracts. Researchers use extracts of various plant parts (roots, stems, leaves, fruits, fruit peels, seeds) to produce nanoparticles of many metals, the most important being silver, gold, and oxides of some metals such as iron oxide and other metal oxides. …”
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Defense scheme for the world state based attack in Ethereum by Zhen GAO, Dongbin ZHANG, Xiao TIAN

“…Ethereum is taken as the representative platform of the second generation of blockchain system.Ethereum can support development of different distributed applications by running smart contracts.Local database is used to store the account state (named world state) for efficient validation of transactions, and the state root is stored in the block header to guarantee the integrity of the state.However, some researches revealed that the local database could be easily tempered with, and attackers can issue illegal transactions based on the modified account state to obtain illegitimate benefits.This world-state based security problem was introduced, and the preconditions for attack were analyzed.Compared with the two common security threats under the PoW (proof of work) consensus, it was found that when the attacker controls the same mining computing power, the world-state based attack brought higher risk, and the success rate approached 100%.In order to deal with this threat, a practical scheme for attack detection and defense was proposed accordingly.The secondary verification and data recovery process were added to the Ethereum source code.The feasibility and complexity of the proposed scheme was evaluated with single-machine multi-threading experiments.The proposed scheme improves Ethereum’s tolerance to malicious tampering of account state, and is applicable to other blockchain platforms applying local database for transaction validation, such as Hyperledger Fabric.In addition, the time and computational overhead brought by the proposed scheme are not prominent, so it has good applicability and induces acceptable impact on the performance of original system.…”
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Sensitivity of global solar irradiance to transposition models: Assessing risks associated with model discrepancies by Yasser F. Nassar, Hala J. El-Khozondar, Mohamed M. Khaleel, Abdussalam A. Ahmed, Abdulgader H. Alsharif, Monaem Elmnifi, Mark Amoah Nyasapoh

“…The results matched satisfactorily with other researchers’ outputs without exceeding 3.5 % of error. …”
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Consumers’ Awareness on Organic Food: Case of Urban Sri Lanka by S.H. Pushpa Malkanthi, S.D. Dilini Rathnachandra, W.A. Ruwani N. Weerasinghe

“…The findings of the study play an important role in promoting the organic food market and are essential for food marketing planners, researchers, and policymakers to enhance the organic food industry in the country in the future.…”
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« Ce n’est pas ce que j’ai vu, ce n’est pas ce que j’ai pensé»  by Lindsey Dodd

“…At various moments of their adult lives, each experienced a disruptive form of dissociation with their (personal) history as lived and experienced in comparison with (national) History as researched and recounted. All three invested in healing this wound, in private and public ways. …”
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SAR Radiometric Cross-Calibration Based on Multiple Pseudoinvariant Calibration Sites With Extensive Backscattering Coefficient Range by Yongsheng Zhou, Xiang Chen, Qiang Yin, Fei Ma, Fan Zhang

“…Such stable ground targets, named pseudoinvariant calibration sites (PICSs), have been extensively researched for optical sensors, but there has been comparatively less focus on SAR sensors. …”
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Experimental Study on Flexural Behavior of Prestressed Concrete Beams Reinforced by CFRP under Chloride Environment by Yunyan Liu, Yingfang Fan

“…Then, the sectional strain, deformation, flexural stiffness, flexural capacity, ductility, and the cracking characteristics were researched. The test results demonstrate that the sectional strain of PC beams still follows the plane cross section assumption after a pure bending deformation considering of the initial cracks, chloride corrosion, and CFRP reinforcement. …”
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Continuous monitoring of temporal skills during long-term in-home training by cochlear implant users by Krzysztof R. Szymański, Krzysztof Gawryluk, Marek Brancewicz

“…This study highlights the benefits of continuous monitoring and remote data collection via smartphones, providing clinicians and researchers with a practical tool for long-term rehabilitation strategies.…”
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A mixed-methods systematic review of mental health activities among urban left-behind children in mainland China by Siyu Long, Siyu Long, Zainal Bin Madon, Noris Mohd Norowi, Mei Foong Ang

“…Although several interventions have been implemented to address these children’s mental health in urban areas, a gap remains in understanding the types of interventions, their effectiveness, and the factors that act as barriers or facilitators during the implementation process.MethodsA mixed methods systematic review informed by JBI methodology. Researchers conducted a comprehensive search of databases in both English and Chinese, covering the years 2005 to 2023. …”
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Concept and Features of Control over the Activities of Bar Self-Governance Bodies by P. S. Liutikov

“…These initiatives were intended to ensure a high level of professionalism and responsibility among lawyers, as well as to increase public trust in the legal system. The importance of researching this topic is highlighted for analyzing the effectiveness of existing control mechanisms and identifying possible ways to improve them, which, in turn, will contribute to strengthening the rule of law in Ukraine. …”
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Teaching Academic English Corpus Trough Word-formation by Irina B. Korotkina

“…Published as a book, Academic Vocabulary for Social Sciences is now available for teachers, students and researchers as a resource for study and self-study. …”
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Evaluation of cervical cytological abnormalities in correlation with clinical findings in Iraqi patients by Zainab Abbas Hassooni, Wafaa Redha Mohammed Al-Sabbagh, Taqi Mohammed Jwad Taher

“…Abstract Objective: Many articles study the efficiency of pap smears in detecting cervical disease and precancerous lesions; however, in Iraq, only few researches study the clinic-pathological correlation in pap smear results. …”
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Preparatory Switches of Auditory Spatial and Non-Spatial Attention Among Simultaneous Voices by Aureliu Lavric, Elisa Schmied

“…Can one shift attention among voices at a cocktail party during a silent pause? Researchers have required participants to attend to one of two simultaneous voices – cued by its gender or location. …”
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Parents’ Knowledge Level About New Food Fear and Food Allergies by Birsel Molu

“…Data were collected using a survey method, including a researcher-prepared data collection form and the 'Fear of New Food Scale.' …”
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ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF ENERGY FACILITIES IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN BY METHOD OF BUILDING COMPOSITE THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS by M. A. Mehdizadeh

“…This enables rendering a prompt decision on the measures minimizing unfavorable impact on the population and environment.Altering the point of topographical survey while synchronizing the scales, the researcher can place the designed project within any territory and analyze the necessary parameters for each variant.The author considers the presented in such a manner technique worth productive implementing while analyzing environmental impact of both operating and projected industrial facilities (industrial and agricultural enterprises, thermal and nuclear electric-power plants etc.).…”
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An analysis of crime reporting (and audience perceptions of it) in selected South African media by Daan du Plessis

“…Shoemaker (Syracuse University) and Dr Akiba Cohen (Tel Aviv University, Israel). Additional researchers participated in the study from the following countries: Australia, China, Chile, India, Israel, Germany, Jordan, Russia, South Africa and the United States. …”
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Soil health of bananas cultivated in Ribeira River Valley – the major producing region of Brazil by Cavalieri-Polizeli Karina Maria Vieira, da Silva Anderson Lucas, Cremonesi Marcus, Lima Juliana Domingues, Cipriano Patriciani Estela, Cherubin Maurício Roberto, Rozane Danilo Eduardo

“…Soil health receives the increased attention of researchers worldwide to evaluate the sustainability of agricultural land management. …”
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Ecological Grief and Anxiety: The Voice of Native American in Joy Harjo’s Selected Poems by Epata Puji Astuti, Tatang Iskarna

“…The lines and stanzas of each poem are analyzed using the theory of intrinsic elements and the five stages of grief by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. The researchers use a descriptive qualitative method and employ a psychological approach to reveal the speaker's suffering in the poem psychologically in which she feels grieved because of the loss of nature. …”
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