An Adaptive Activity Cycling Technique for Energy Management in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) by Hayder Khudhair

“… Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of large number of small nodes that sense the surround environment and transmit the data to the central collection points. …”
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Can a Positive Allosteric Modulation of GABAergic Receptors Improve Motor Symptoms in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease? The Potential Role of Zolpidem in the Treatment of Parkinso... by Antonio Daniele, Francesco Panza, Antonio Greco, Giancarlo Logroscino, Davide Seripa

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Overtourism: The Impact of Tourism on Madeira’s Social and Economic Environment by Piotr Majdak, Jakub Mosz, António Manuel Martins de Almeida

“…Based on the results of the survey, key problem areas have been identified (including, for example, issues related to the sense of local identity, security or relations between tourists and residents). …”
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A comprehensive literature review of fuzzy differential equations with applications by Kamal Hossain Gazi, Aditi Biswas, Payal Singh, Mostafijur Rahaman, Suman Maity, Animesh Mahata, Sankar Prasad Mondal

“…Fuzzy logic is an effective mathematical tool for defining the sense of non-random uncertainty. Since fuzzy arithmetic differs from its counterparts, it would be more reliable if we use the differential equation to construct models involving uncertain decision parameters. …”
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A Conservative Weight Loss Intervention Relieves Bowel Symptoms in Morbidly Obese Subjects with Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Prospective Cohort Study by Martin Aasbrenn, Stian Lydersen, Per G. Farup

“…Improved bowel symptoms were associated with improved subjective well-being, sense of humour, and vitamin D and negatively associated with reduced body mass index. …”
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The contribution of forest coffee certification program to household income and resource conservation: Empirical evidences from Southwest Ethiopia by Diriba Abdeta, Alemayehu N. Ayana

“…The results also indicate that the certification program contributed to forest conservation by creating incentives that fostered a sense of ownership within the local community, particularly during the early stages of its implementation. …”
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Genetic control of yield components in green beans (<i>Phaseolus vulgaris</i> L.) by M. Contreras-Rojas, D. G.G. Guzmán, S. A. Salazar Mercado

“…Dominance effects (h2) for most characters suggested that the substantial contribution of dominance was not due to heterogeneity of loci in these characters. The narrow-sense heritability was moderate to low. The correlation coefficient r (Yr; Wr + Vr) indicated that dominant genes were responsible for the increased number of pods per plant and recessive genes for increased pod length and mean pod weight.Conclusions. …”
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Psychometric properties of the Stress Coping Scale Brief-COPE 28 in a Peruvian population by Neicer Joel Delgado-Requejo, Julio Cesar Castillo Ramos, Lourdes Carolina Cerda Sánchez

“…Background: The highly stressful events we are currently experiencing require great cognitive and emotional effort and affect the mental health of the population. In this sense, coping with stress provides evidence of how people use their resources to cope with or avoid stressful events, which requires validated and reliable instruments to measure accurately. …”
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Research of a modern communicative discourse of users of the Internet network within the reflexive activity and structural theory of communicative action of Jurgen Habermas by A. Gostev, O. Belous

“…A digital era with inevitability raises for us a question of need of definition of determination of the changes, resulting from informatization: processes of transformation of contents, organizational and technological bases and also valuable sense of social communications in virtual space within concepts of “open society”, “network society”, “digital society”. …”
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On a New Epidemic Model with Asymptomatic and Dead-Infective Subpopulations with Feedback Controls Useful for Ebola Disease by M. De la Sen, A. Ibeas, S. Alonso-Quesada, R. Nistal

“…The periodic limit solution trajectories and equilibrium points are analyzed in a combined fashion in the sense that the endemic periodic solutions become, in particular, equilibrium points if the control gains converge to constant values and the control gain for culling the infective corpses is asymptotically zeroed.…”
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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Neuronal Mechanisms in Temporal Coding: A Further Look at Neuronal Oscillations by Rémy Lestienne

“…Whereas synchronization is a relatively well-defined concept, by contrast oscillation of a population of neurones in the CNS looks loosely defined, in the sense that both its frequency sharpness and the duration of the oscillatory episodes vary widely from case to case. …”
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Powassan Encephalitis: A Case Report from New York, USA by Danielle A. Bazer, Matthew Orwitz, Nicholas Koroneos, Olga Syritsyna, Elizabeth Wirkowski

“…Powassan is a positive-sense, single-stranded, enveloped RNA virus that is a tick-borne Flavivirus, transmitted by Ixodes species, with groundhogs being the usual mammalian host. …”
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TITO DORČIĆ AS A FORERUNNER OF THE IRONIC MODE by Dean Slavić

“…Typical such figures are the protagonists of Kafka’s and Beckett’s works, who lack even the most basic information regarding their own position – due to which the reader has the sense of looking down on scenes of bondage, frustration or absurdity. …”
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Contributions to the taxonomy of Dichotomius Hope, 1838 (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Dichotomiini): Description of a new subgenus and redefinition of Dichotomius sensu stricto spec... by Jorge Armando Arias-Buriticá, Fernando Zagury Vaz-de-Mello

“…., in its new, more restricted sense, is delimited to include approximately 73 species arranged into, 12 species groups, plus two incertae sedis species. …”
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Early-stage recovery of lithium from spent batteries via CO2-assisted leaching optimized by response surface methodology by Ksenija Milicevic Neumann, Muhammad Ans, Bernd Friedrich

“…This study addresses a cost-effective and environmentally friendly early-stage lithium recovery from the thermally conditioned black mass. In this sense, a thermally conditioned black mass is subjected to the carbonization process in a water solution to transform the water-insoluble Li phase into soluble lithium bicarbonate (LiHCO3) and carbonate (Li2CO3) facilitating its selective separation from other elements. …”
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Synaesthetic emergence: a scoping review of factors facilitating synaesthetic states in non-synaesthetes through arts engagement by Dominik Havsteen-Franklin, Valeria Perboni

“…Synaesthesia is defined as a multi-sensory phenomenon in which one sense can be triggered by another without external stimuli, for example seeing colours when hearing music. …”
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Seeking Culturally Safe Developmental Evaluation: Supporting the Shift in Services for Indigenous Children by Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, Pascale Geoffroy, Luz Luz Marina Hoyos

“…Research Design:  A case study approach was used to make sense of and describe the “how to” of the DE. Data Collection and Analysis: Multiple methods of data collection informed the case study, including observation, field notes, interviews, and participatory evaluation activities. …”
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PROJECT DESIGN OF LEARNING ACTIVITY CYCLE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ACTIVITY AND COMPETENCE APPROACH by E. O. Pokhomchikova

“…This cycle, which can be viewed as a scale illustrating the competence development, includes four levels: 1) informational (acquisition of data and knowledge), 2) activities (development of special skills), 3) creativity (development of general abilities and skills), and 4) value and sense (development of personal value system). The conception of developing education implies implementation of a complex of organizational forms of interaction between a teacher and trainees such as lections, seminars (webinars), practical training, self-directed work, presentations, online and offline forums, conferences (videoconferences), tutorials, master classes, consultations, project sessions, trainings, and Sunday schools. …”
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DVI NARCIZO INTERPRETACIJOS: ETIKA IR POETIKA PSICHOANALITINIAME KONTEKSTE by Leonarda Jekentaitė

“…The main objective of deconstruction is radical reinterpretation of reality, seeking to restore an uninterrupted continuity of sense as ethically coloured totality of personal consciousness. …”
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From Book to Playlist: How Open-Access Audio Archives are Renewing the Poetry Collection by Abigail Lang

“…This article considers exactly how they renew our sense of the poetry collection. While books provide authoritative collections assembled by a poet or an editor, open-access audio repositories with an archival concern preserve entire poetry readings in which poems are read in a different order than in print. …”
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