To Push or To Clip: That is the Question by Stephen H. Futch, James H. Graham, Larry W. Duncan

“…Duncan, reviews and evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of two methods of removing diseased or unproductive trees -- pushing the tree down and removing the entire tree and root systems, or clipping the tree off above the soil line. …”
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LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS FOR THE BELARUSIAN CORPUS WITH THE APPLICATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES by Yu. S. Hetsevich, I. V. Reentovich

“…The dictionary was enriched with new words for the further using it in the systems of Belarusian speech synthesis.…”
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A Class of Approximate Damped Oscillatory Solutions to Compound KdV-Burgers-Type Equation with Nonlinear Terms of Any Order: Preliminary Results by Yan Zhao, Weiguo Zhang

“…By the theory and method of planar dynamical systems, existence conditions and number of bounded traveling wave solutions including damped oscillatory solutions are obtained. …”
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Experimental Investigations of the Seismic Performance of a Base-Isolated Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) through Shaking Table Tests by Gia Toai Truong, Seung-Jae Lee, Ji-Eon Lee, Kyoung-Kyu Choi

“…The first series consists of UPS specimens supported by snip single-corner rectangular pins, and the second series consists of UPS specimens supported by isolator systems. The UPS specimens in the second series significantly reduced the fundamental frequency, peak acceleration, and amplification factors but increased the damping ratio and displacement compared with those of the UPS specimens in the first series. …”
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Le community manager à l’épreuve de la capitalisation des connaissances et des mémoires techniques by Bruno Chaudet

“…Organizational knowledge is distributed in socio-technical systems. So, we’ll discuss the concept of technical memory to see how technical objects participate in capitalization of knowledge and therefore the community management practices.…”
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Hawala e Daigou: riciclaggio di denaro e patto d’onore tra Nigeria e Cina by Massimo Bonino

“…The interesting fact is that the arsenal available to the police and the judicial authorities in the matter of combating money laundering could, however, prove almost inhibited in front of a mechanism so rudimentary as to be - paradoxically - much more efficient than more refined or technologically advanced money transfer systems. …”
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Polymeric Gas-Separation Membranes for Petroleum Refining by Yousef Alqaheem, Abdulaziz Alomair, Mari Vinoba, Andrés Pérez

“…The interest on these systems is increasing because of the simplicity of concept and low-energy consumption. …”
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The Crohn’s Disease Activity Index, Its Derivatives and the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire: A Review of Instruments to Assess in Crohn’s Disease by Eric M Yoshida

“…The most recent instrument to assess Crohn’s disease, the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire, which assesses patients in the domains of bowel, systemic, emotional and social function, is also discussed.…”
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Make or buy in the hotel marketing department: transaction costs, financial and relational performance by Tomás F. Espino-Rodríguez, Manuel Rodríguez Díaz

“…These results lead to the conclusion that it is necessary to create new systems and procedures in sales and ma…”
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Outbreak of white piedra in a flock of Extremeña blue hens by García Alfredo, Barraso Carmen

“…Infected birds had white crusts on the comb, and most affected animals showed white or light brown nodules that were loosely attached to the tip of feathers, but no systemic disease signs were observed. The diagnosis of Trichosporon jirovecii was made by morphological identification, and it was confirmed by sequencing amplification product of the PCR using universal primers of the internal transcribed spacer region.…”
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Application of a naive Bayesians classifiers in assessing the supplier by Mijailović Snežana, Ilić Đorđe

“…The paper considers the class of interactive knowledge based systems whose main purpose of making proposals and assisting customers in making decisions. …”
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Le tarif d’achat photovoltaïque comme outil d’innovation territoriale : l’exemple des Fermes de Figeac by Béatrice Cointe

“…From 2008 to 2012, the rural cooperative “Fermes de Figeac”, situated in the Southwest of France, carried out a mutualised photovoltaic project that consisted in the installation of photovoltaic systems on about a hundred rooftops. The aim of this project was not only to seize the opportunity provided by feed-in tariffs when they were at their highest level, but also to do so in a mutualized, territorial way. …”
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Le retour au travail dans un contexte de barrières linguistiques : Une étude comparative des politiques et des pratiques d’indemnisation des victimes de lésion professionnelle au Q... by Stephanie Premji, Momtaz Begum, Alex Medley, Ellen MacEachen, Daniel Côté, Ron Saunders

“…The question of how workers’ compensation systems should account for language barriers is of increasing importance given Canada’s growing linguistic diversity. …”
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Topical Glucocorticoid Use and the Risk of Posttransplant Diabetes by Simon Bøtker, Henrik Birn, Lara Aygen Øzbay

“…Systemically administered glucocorticoids constitute an essential part of the immunosuppressive regimen for transplant recipients, yet their known risks of causing hyperglycemia or posttransplant diabetes require close monitoring and minimisation of use, when possible, to prevent detrimental effects on patient morbidity and graft survival. …”
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Evaluative Meaning and Cohesion: The Structuring Function of Evaluative Meaning in Scientific Writing by Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb

“…We present a diachronic study of evaluative meaning in scientific writing, focusing on evaluative expressions that possibly serve the interpersonal as well as the textual metafunction in terms of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). These are expressions such as importantly or obviously used in sentence-initial position to evaluate what follows but which also establish a cohesive link with the adjacent discourse. …”
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Monte Carlo Calculation of Fragment Distributions in Nuclear Reactions by A. Deppman, E. Andrade-II, P. C. R. Rossi, F. Garcia, J. R. Maiorino

“…The fragments produced in nuclear reactions for accelarator driven systems (ADS) operation form elements that can have effects on the structure of the reactor. …”
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A Comprehensive Review and Update on the Pathogenesis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Qingdong Guan

“…In this review, we have systemically reviewed the pathogenesis of IBD and highlighted recent advances in host genetic factors, gut microbiota, and environmental factors and, especially, in abnormal innate and adaptive immune responses and their interactions, which may hold the keys to identify novel predictive or prognostic biomarkers and develop new therapies.…”
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Phytophthora Identification and Sampling in Citrus Nurseries by Jamie D. Burrow, Diane B. Bright, Tim D. Riley, James H. Graham

“… Phytophthora species are important soil-borne, fungus-like pathogens that attack the root systems, trunk, and fruit of citrus trees at any age. …”
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Stability Constants of Mixed Ligand Complexes of Transition Metal(II) Ions with N-(2-Hydroxy-1-naphthylidene)-2,6-diisopropylaniline as Primary Ligand and N-(2-Hydroxybenzylidene)-... by A. K. Mapari, K. V. Mangaonkar

“…The logarithms of the values of stability constants for binary (M-Y) and for ternary (M-X-Y) systems were calculated.…”
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Emulsion Cross-Linking Technique for Human Fibroblast Encapsulation by Watcharaphong Chaemsawang, Weerapong Prasongchean, Konstantinos I. Papadopoulos, Suchada Sukrong, W. John Kao, Phanphen Wattanaarsakit

“…Microencapsulation with biodegradable polymers has potential application in drug and cell delivery systems and is currently used in probiotic delivery. …”
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