Broiler farming and antibiotic use through an agency theory lens. A case study from West Bengal, India. by Mathew Hennessey, Indranil Samanta, Guillaume Fournié, Matthew Quaife, Meenakshi Gautham, Haidaruliman Paleja, Kumaravel Papaiyan, Ripan Biswas, Pablo Alarcon

“…Contract farming in West Bengal exists within a series of inter-dependent relationships, many of which contain information asymmetry and can be subject to opportunism. Positioning contract companies as principals seeking labour from agents, we see how out-sourcing of production to distal farms led to antibiotics being used as a risk mitigation strategy. …”
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Prospects of the vacuum aspiration biopsy in terms of making the diagnoosis of malignant neoplasms of the mammary glands in patients categorised 3 and 4 according to BIRADS scale by S. S. Skurikhin, I. A. Bolotin, O. L. Chagunava, A. B. Guslev

“…Invasive diagnostics of tissue material from tumors subject to VAB was previously performed in 5 patients. …”
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Health-related Quality of Life in Patients with Achondroplasia after Global Limb-lengthening Surgery: A Case Series by Ignacio Ginebreda, Maximiliano Ibáñez, Nicole Canu, Carolina Echavarria, Joana Lebre, Miriam Pérez

“…(3) What major complications are observed with global limb lengthening? Subjects and Methods: This retrospective case series reviewed patients with achondroplasia who underwent global (tibial, femoral, and humeral) elongation between 1986 and 2012 at our institution. …”
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Neurological Disease-Affected Patients, including Multiple Sclerosis, Are Poor Responders to BKPyV, a Human Polyomavirus by Ilaria Bononi, Elisa Mazzoni, Silvia Pietrobon, Maria Rosa Iaquinta, Andrea Caselli, Elena Torreggiani, Maura Pugliatti, Ilaria Casetta, Massimiliano Castellazzi, Enrico Granieri, Fernanda Martini, Mauro Tognon

“…Control sera were from healthy subjects (HS). Samples were analyzed for IgG antibodies against BKPyV with an indirect ELISA with synthetic peptides mimicking the viral capsid protein 1 (VP1) antigens. …”
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ANALYSIS OF AIR QUALITY IN TELEORMAN BY MEANS OF BIOMONITORS-LICHENS by Cernat POPA

“…After the expiration of the exposure period, the samples were collected and sealed, later dried and processed to be subjected to a chemical analysis. Following the results obtained, we concluded that these bioindicators present an increased effectiveness in indicating the degree of pollution, indicating the values of the pollutants very precisely, recording very small differences between the values determined with the help of bioindicators and those determined conventionally. …”
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The Effect of Strength Training on the Quality of Life and Cognitive Functions of Elderly People by Ernesta Klimavičiūtė, Sandra Naujalė, Lina Mickevičienė, Erika Krasinskė, Margarita Drozdova – Statkevičienė, Vida Janina Česnaitienė

“…The short version of the World Health Organization (WHO 100) Quality of Life Questionnaire was used to assess quality of life, the subjects’ physical abilities were evaluated using the Fullerton Test set, and ANAM4 cognitive function tests were used to assess cognitive functions   Results: When comparing restricted blood flow, concentric training and control groups, the results of the functional test evaluation were improved statistically significantly: standing and walking, standing up from a chair (p<.001). …”
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Water balance analysis of hydrological processes in cyclic irrigation: A case study of the Imbanuma irrigation area in Chiba, Japan by Fumi Okura, Asuka Kamei, Tasuku Kato

“…Study region: Flat, low-lying paddy fields subjected to cyclic irrigation in Chiba, Japan.Study focus: This study investigated hydrological processes in flat, low-lying paddy fields with cyclic irrigation. …”
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Effect of shot peening intensities on surface integrity of DD6 single crystal superalloy by GAI Pengtao, WU Yunhua, CAO Ziwen, WEI Dasheng, FU Xuesong

“…Notably，the alloy attains its peak residual compressive stress of approximately –821.2 MPa on the surface when subjected to a blasting intensity of 0.2 mmA.…”
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The Therapeutic Effect of Nordic Walking on Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Study by Agata Wróblewska, Agata Gajos, Urszula Smyczyńska, Andrzej Bogucki

“…In the present study, the question is whether NW is an effective therapeutic intervention in FoG. Methods. Twenty PD subjects trained NW for 12 weeks, with a frequency of twice per week. …”
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Stan biologiczny populacji ludzkich a przemiany środowiska społeczno-ekonomicznego by Anna Siniarska, Napoleon Wolański

“…Variability thus produced is subjected to selection because how a phenotype is formed determines its ability to survive and to produce offspring. …”
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Venezuela: Political Confrontation and the World Community by Z. W. Iwanowski, D. M. Rozental

“…The new political landscape has also affected the architecture of integration associations, which failed to develop a unified position toward the Bolivarian regime.Furthermore, in a current heightened state of international tensions Venezuela has turned into a theatre of international rivalry and conflict involving all the key subjects of world politics. The United States, China, Russia and the European Union compete for the energy resources of the country and pursue their own strategic interests. …”
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The Optimization Model for Reducing RON Loss in Gasoline Refining Process by Xuefei Lu, Xiaoyan Wang, Yifang Yang, Jianan Xue

“…The sulfur content and RON prediction model was constructed, which use evaluation functions such as MSE, R2, and RMSE to evaluate and sulfur content as the subject condition. We convert the problem into linear and nonlinear model variable optimization problems: the linear model is the variable selected by the SVR linear kernel function model and random forest; the nonlinear model is the combination of variables selected by the random forest model and random forest. …”
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Clinical study and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) of a Robot-Assisted Gait Training on children with neurological disorders: A quasi-experimental study by Simone GAZZELLINI, Martina ANDELLINI, Federica DE FALCO, Daniela CASASANTA, Giampietro CORDONE, Alessandra COLAZZA, Donatella LETTORI, Massimiliano RAPONI, Enrico CASTELLI, Maria Rosaria VINCI, Reparata Rosa DI PRINZIO, Maurizio PETRARCA, Matteo RITROVATO, Salvatore ZAFFINA

“…Population: We assessed 47 patients (mean age: 9.6 years, SD: 3.8 years; 23 females) with several neurologic diseases subjected to RAGT and patient-centered therapy (i.e., traditional therapy). …”
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Effectiveness of Four-Decontamination Techniques on Bacterial Growth on CPR Manikins after Use in a CPR Course

“…Setting: CPR class; microbiology laboratory. Subjects Forty-eight Actar 911™ CPR manikins (Armstrong Medical Industries, Lincolnshire, IL). …”
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مدى جاهزیة المکتبات العامة المصریة للتصدى للازمات و للکوارث by د. محمد سعید محمد سعید

“…The libraries under study were subjected to six types of crises: viruses,theft, deliberate sabotage, data spying, fire and electric diamonds.7. …”
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The state of police staffing in the Ukrainian SSR in the mid-1950s. by V. A. Grechenko

“…In 1955, the state of staffing became the subject of a special discussion at the Board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR. …”
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Modeling the significance of unified theory of acceptance and use of technology in predicting the intention and usage of eCNY by Yue Ma, Abdullah Al Mamun, Mohammad Masukujjaman, Roslan Ja’afar

“…The empirical analysis comprised 809 valid online questionnaires, and the examination was conducted through structural equation modeling employing the partial least squares technique, ultimately subjecting the conceptual model to a comprehensive assessment. …”
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Leptin/Adiponectin Ratios Using Either Total Or High-Molecular-Weight Adiponectin as Biomarkers of Systemic Insulin Sensitivity in Normoglycemic Women by Carolina Bravo, Luis Rodrigo Cataldo, José Galgani, Javier Parada, José Luis Santos

“…The discriminatory capacity of both ratios to classify insulin-resistant versus insulin-sensitive subjects was similar for HOMA-S (p=0.84), Matsuda-ISICOMP (p=0.43), or CSi (p=0.50). …”
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Hybridization of stochastic hydrological models and machine learning methods for improving rainfall-runoff modeling by Sianou Ezéckiel Houénafa, Olatunji Johnson, Erick K. Ronoh, Stephen E. Moore

“…They suggest that the hybridization approach could be particularly beneficial for runoff simulations in catchments subject to significant random fluctuations where point discharge simulation is challenging.…”
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Are YouTube™ and TikTok™ videos useful as educational tool for patients with cleft lip and palate? by José Dilson Alves de OLIVEIRA JÚNIOR, Anna Vitória Mendes Viana SILVA, Carina Cristina MONTALVANY-ANTONUCCI, Gabriele Andrade MAIA, Kamila Rodrigues Junqueira CARVALHO, Soraia MACARI

“…The following variables were analyzed: the source, distribution, and purpose of the videos, the general and audiovisual quality of the videos, and their main subject. The study’s covariates were cleft classification, dental treatment, pre-surgical orthopedic treatments, surgical and medical treatments. …”
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