Designing a general employee management model with an emphasis on performance management by Maryam Nasiri, Ameneh Firozabadi, Sanjar Slajagheh, Mahdi Mohamad Bagheri

“…The research collection tool is a semi-structured interview and a researcher-made questionnaire. …”
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Electrospun Gelatin/β-TCP Composite Nanofibers Enhance Osteogenic Differentiation of BMSCs and In Vivo Bone Formation by Activating Ca2+-Sensing Receptor Signaling by Xuehui Zhang, Song Meng, Ying Huang, Mingming Xu, Ying He, Hong Lin, Jianmin Han, Yuan Chai, Yan Wei, Xuliang Deng

“…Electron microscopy showed that the composite β-TCP nanofibers had a nonwoven structure with a porous network and a rough surface. …”
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Determinants of Rotavirus Vaccine Acceptance in an Area of Southern Italy with Low Vaccination Coverage: A Case-Control Study by the Health Belief Model Questionnaire by Davide Anzà, Massimiliano Esposito, Giorgio Bertolazzi, Alessandra Fallucca, Carlo Genovese, Gabriele Maniscalco, Andrea D. Praticò, Tiziana Scarpaci, Ermanno Vitale, Vincenzo Restivo

“…Data were collected from parents using a structured questionnaire that assessed socio-demographic factors, vaccine knowledge, and attitudes based on the Health Belief Model (HBM). …”
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Toward the Development of Large-Scale Word Embedding for Low-Resourced Language by Shahzad Nazir, Muhammad Asif, Shahbaz Ahmad Sahi, Shahbaz Ahmad, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi, Muhammad Haris Aziz

“…There exist some approaches for word embedding that consider co-occurrence and word frequency, such as Matrix Factorization, skip-gram, hierarchical-structure regularizer, and noise contrastive estimation. …”
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Removal of Di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate from groundwater by sodium persulfate activated by hollow micron zero-valent iron: Reaction mechanism and degradation path by Chunyang Gao, Bing Wang, Jingjing Zhao, Jvfeng Li, Xianyuan Du, Jin Zheng, Quanwei Song, Jiacai Xie

“…The results showed that H-mZVI possessed a spherical hollow structure with a particle size of approximately 1 μm. …”
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Inhibitors of Fatty Acid Synthesis Induce PPARα-Regulated Fatty Acid β-Oxidative Genes: Synergistic Roles of L-FABP and Glucose by Huan Huang, Avery L. McIntosh, Gregory G. Martin, Anca D. Petrescu, Kerstin K. Landrock, Danilo Landrock, Ann B. Kier, Friedhelm Schroeder

“…Binding of TOFA and C75-CoA significantly altered L-FABP secondary structure. High (20 mM) but not physiological (6 mM) glucose conferred on both TOFA and C75 the ability to induce PPARα transcription of the fatty acid β-oxidative enzymes CPT1A, CPT2, and ACOX1 in cultured primary hepatocytes from wild-type (WT) mice. …”
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Decision Support Systems adoption in pesticide management [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Efi Vasileiou, Aurora García-Gallego, Jotham Jea Akaka, Mark Ramsden, Jean-Christian Tisserand, Nikolaos Georgantzis

“…Our study focuses on examining the influence of behavioural, socioeconomic and farm specific characteristics on DSS adoption. Using two structural equation models, we investigate how these factors influence the willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to adopt. …”
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The Association of Health Literacy with High-Quality Home Blood Pressure Monitoring for Hypertensive Patients in Outpatient Settings by Sau Nga Fu, Man Chi Dao, Carlos King Ho Wong, Bernard Man Yung Cheung

“…High-quality HBPM could be achieved by the structured educational intervention. The quality and amount of evidence on this topic are limited. …”
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Preferential flow in soils is key to the development of nebkhas in water limited regions by Weicheng Luo, Wenzhi Zhao, Ning An, Chengpeng Sun, Hong Zhou

“…Our results showed that soil properties such as clay and silt content, organic carbon content, total porosity, and soil crust thickness increased with nebkha development stages (BD < SN < LN), indicating that soils in LN had better soil structure and physicochemical properties than those in BD. …”
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Design and Optimization of Power Harrow Soil Crushing Components for Coastal Saline–Alkali Land by Nan Xu, Zhenbo Xin, Jin Yuan, Zenghui Gao, Yu Tian, Chao Xia, Xuemei Liu, Dongwei Wang

“…Initially, the ranges of key structural and motion parameters are determined, such as the angle of the harrow blade cutting edge, the thickness of the of the harrow blade cutting edge, and the ratio of the circumferential speed to the forward speed. …”
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Formulation, Characterization, Antibacterial Activity, Antioxidant Activity, and Safety Evaluation of <i>Camphora longepaniculata</i> Essential Oil Nanoemulsions Through High-Press... by Yue Yan, Changhe Wei, Xin Liu, Xin Zhao, Shanmei Zhao, Shuai Tong, Guoyou Ren, Qin Wei

“…CLNEs disrupted the structure of bacterial cells and impaired the permeability of cell membranes, resulting in the leakage of bacterial intracellular contents. …”
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The beneficial effects of Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum Gaertn.) on diet-induced obesity in mice are related to the modulation of gut microbiota composition by Yiming Zhou, Haoyu Lu, Shen Zhao, Beibei Yan, Hong Wang, Xiaoli Zhou, Ying Xiao

“…Otherwise, principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) showed that intestinal bacterial structure of FGF were separated apparently from other groups. …”
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More Efficient and Reliable: Identifying RRab Stars with Blazhko Effect by Deep Convolutional Neural Network by Nan Jiang, Tianrui Sun, Siyuan Pan, Lingzhi Wang, Xue Li, Bin Sheng, Xiaofeng Wang

“…Furthermore, we find that BL modulation could be primarily characterized by variations in light-curve structure.…”
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2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid in the Gas and Crystal Phases and Its Intercalation in Montmorillonite—An Experimental and Theoretical Study by Claro Ignacio Sainz-Díaz, Nelly L. Jorge, Jorge M. Romero, André Grand, Alfonso Hernández-Laguna

“…The most stable conformer shows a dimer by means of hydrogen bonds between the carboxylic groups of both molecules, which agrees with the experimental results. The crystal structure of 2,4-D was also calculated with 3D periodical boundary conditions at the DFT level. …”
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Changes in Microbial Safety and Quality of High-Pressure Processed Camel Milk by Tareq M. Osaili, Dinesh Kumar Dhanasekaran, Fayeza Hasan, Reyad S. Obaid, Anas A. Al-Nabulsi, Amin N. Olaimat, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Nadia Alkalbani, Mutamed Ayyash, Gafar Babatunde Bamigbade, Richard Holley, Adan Shahzadi Cheema, Wael Ahmad Bani Odeh, Khalid Abdulla Mohd, Ayesha Khalid Haji Kamal

“…HPP treatment, even at extended holding times, did not significantly alter either the proteolytic activity or casein micelle structure in camel milk. This study highlights HPP as a promising non-thermal technique for enhancing the microbiological safety of camel milk.…”
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Current state of dermatovenereological medical organizations’ equipment for dermascopy by Alexey A. Kubanov, Margarita R. Rakhmatulina, Arfenya E. Karamova, Elena Yu. Novoselova, Olga G. Artamonova

“…The data obtained were structured, standardized and brought to a general form. …”
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Enhancing the efficacy of low doses of N-acetyl-L-cysteine in mitigating CCl4-induced hepatotoxicity in animal model using physical cold plasma by Masume Farhadi, Farshad Sohbatzadeh, Akbar Hajizadeh Moghaddam, Yasaman Firouzjaei, Cheng Cheng

“…The plasma-treated NAC (PTN) structural changes were investigated through FTIR and LCMS/MS analysis. …”
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Experimental study on the synergistic effect of coir fiber and lime to improve soil performance by Lihua LI, Wen LIU, Yuxia BAI, Cuiying WANG, Shuangqin LI

“…Lime fills up pores by reacting with the soil to form gelled substances, while fibers form a three-dimensional network structure providing growth areas for hydration products, thereby synergistically reinforcing the soil. …”
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Assessing carbon emissions of facility agriculture involving photovoltaic greenhouses – insights from table grapes cultivation by Yichun Li, Shuyue Li, Yaru Luo, Xuecai Wang, Hengcheng Zhang, Yuquan W. Zhang, Shiren Song

“…Furthermore, this study suggests that for the broader facility agriculture, using low carbon structure materials would serve as the level to reduce carbon footprints.…”
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Climate and Soil Properties Drive the Distribution of Minor and Trace Elements in Forest Soils of the Winter Olympic Core Area by Xiaochang Wu, Huayong Zhang, Zhongyu Wang, Wang Tian, Zhao Liu

“…The concentrations of Se and Cu were higher in the A layer than the C layer. The piecewise structural equation modeling (piecewiseSEM) results visualized a direct and negative effect on B, Fe, V, Cr and Ni concentrations due to soil temperature, while the concentrations of Se is mainly influenced by soil temperature and soil properties.…”
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