Italian Literary Representations of China by Iside Carbone

“…Literary materials from medieval and modern times are analysed and compared with an emphasis on the constructive role of narrative in the synaesthetic experience of realities around us. …”
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Nursery Irrigation System Checklist by Tom Yeager

“…Irrigation must be intensively managed to achieve optimal production times for plants of superior quality. There must be a balance between excessive and inadequate irrigation. …”
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Un saltuarius dévot de Jupiter Optimus Maximus dans le Mâconnais by Monique Dondin-Payre, Hélène Chew

“…Criciro was an employee of the Prisciacenses, a community whose traces in different records have been followed from Gallo-Roman times to the present day.…”
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Nursery Irrigation System Checklist by Tom Yeager

“…Irrigation must be intensively managed to achieve optimal production times for plants of superior quality. There must be a balance between excessive and inadequate irrigation. …”
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A razão ética e poética nos poemas de Ana Martins Marques by Anélia Montechiari Pietrani

“…Reading her poems, especially her metapoems, and thearchitecture of her texts make us situate the new Brazilian poetry at the presentof the twenty-first century, to reflect on the role, value and place of poetry incontemporary times, as power and search of meanings at which the ethical andthe poetic reason converge.…”
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Ant Control in the Apiary by William H. Kern, Jr

“…We can divide the ants into two pest groups, with the understanding that some can cause both problems at times. …”
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Interpreting Pesticide Label Wording by Frederick M. Fishel

“…In Florida, pest control is a year-round consideration and many times a pesticide will be chosen as part of the management plan for the problem. …”
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Playing It Safe with Play Equipment by Donna Davis

“…“Raising my rough-and-tumble children at times took superhuman energy, patience, and constant supervision. …”
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Determinants of infants and young children feeding practices among mothers living in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study by Fatimah Alsada, Tunny Sebastian, Zainab Alzayer, Hawraa Alabbas, Narjis Alhaddad, Hawraa Abu Shahin, Atheer Alghamdi, Haya F. Alhmly, Malek J. Baassiri, Bedour Alkhalifa, Antonina N. Mutoro, Wesam A. Alyahya

“…Multiparous mothers and those with higher education were more likely to breastfeed than high school graduates (OR = 2.3, p = 0.02; OR = 4.4, p = 0.015, respectively). Timely breastfeeding initiation within the first hour was more common in term infants than preterm infants (OR = 5.3; p = 0.033), and infants born through normal delivery were four times more likely to initiate breastfeeding early (OR = 4.0; p < 0.001). …”
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Allelopathic Properties of the Species Comprising Communities of Invasive <i>Impatiens</i> spp. and Antioxidant System of Invaders’ Populations by Eugenija Kupcinskiene, Ruta Budreviciute, Vaida Jasionyte, Laura Simanaviciute, Lina Jociene, Edvina Krokaite-Kudakiene, Tomas Rekasius, Vitas Marozas

“…The differences between the populations in the content of phenolic compounds, DPPH and ABTS radical scavenging activity were 2.3, 2.2 and 2.7 times for <i>I. glandulifera</i> and 2.6, 5.2 and 2.7 times for <i>I. parviflora</i>. …”
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Age-related features of some plasminogen activation system components content and activity in the blood of benign and malignant uterine body tumors by I. V. Kaplieva, G. V. Zhukova, V. R. Zakharchenko, E. M. Frantsiyants, E. V. Verenikina, Yu. A. Pogorelova, P. S. Kachesova, Yu. Yu. Kozel, N. A. Maximova, M. G. Ilchenko, E. I. Agarkova, A. S. Egorova

“…And in patients with LM and UCEC of postmenopausal age an increase in u-PA blood level as well as elevation of u-PA activity (up to 3.9 times, p &lt; 0.01–0.05) were noted. There was an increase in the calculated t-PA index (activity per unit mass) by 1.4–2.8 times (p &lt; 0.05) in the most patients. …”
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Risky Behaviors among HIV-Positive Female Sex Workers in Northern Karnataka, India by Apoorva Jadhav, Parinita Bhattacharjee, T. Raghavendra, James Blanchard, Stephen Moses, Shajy Isac, Shiva S. Halli

“…FSWs who are currently cohabiting are more likely to consistently use condoms with repeat clients and are 3.22 times more likely to do so if they have felt stigma associated with being HIV-positive. …”
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A Meta-Analysis for Association of Maternal Smoking with Childhood Refractive Error and Amblyopia by Li Li, Ya Qi, Wei Shi, Yuan Wang, Wen Liu, Man Hu

“…However, children whose mother smoked during pregnancy were 1.47 (95% CI: 1.12–1.93) times and 1.43 (95% CI: 1.23-1.66) times more likely to suffer from amblyopia and hyperopia, respectively, compared with children whose mother did not smoke, and the difference was significant. …”
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Musician’s dystonia: a perspective on the strongest evidence towards new prevention and mitigation treatments by Joy Grifoni, Joy Grifoni, Valeria Crispiatico, Anna Castagna, Rosa Maria Converti, Marina Ramella, Angelo Quartarone, Teresa L’Abbate, Teresa L’Abbate, Karolina Armonaite, Karolina Armonaite, Luca Paulon, Luca Paulon, Francescaroberta Panuccio, Franca Tecchio

“…Theoretically, MD is explored as a result of impaired sensorimotor interplay across different brain circuits, supported by the most frequently cited scientific evidence—each referenced dozens of times in Scopus. Practically, MD is a significant issue as it occurs over 60 times more frequently in musicians compared to other professions, underscoring the influence of individual training as well as environmental, social, and emotional factors. …”
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Systematic and Empirical Study of the Dependence of Polyphenol Recovery from Apricot Pomace on Temperature and Solvent Concentration Levels by Dina Cheaib, Nada El Darra, Hiba N. Rajha, Richard G. Maroun, Nicolas Louka

“…Results show that the mean augmentation of 1% ethanol in the range [0–12%] enhances by three times the extraction of polyphenols compared to the same augmentation in the range [0–50%]. …”
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Promoting in-situ stability of hydroxide exchange membranes by thermally conductive network for durable water electrolysis by Wei Wang, Ruixiang Guo, Aodi Zheng, Xiaorui Jin, Xiongjie Jia, Zhiwei Ren, Yangkai Han, Lifeng Zhang, Yeming Zhai, Xiaofen Liu, Haoran Jiang, Yun Zhao, Kai-Ge Zhou, Meiling Wu, Zhongyi Jiang

“…Thus, the thermally conductive HEM exhibits negligible degradation after 20,000 start/stop cycles and reduces the degradation rate by 6 times compared to the pure polymeric HEM in a water electrolyzer. …”
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Instability Process of Crack Propagation and Tunnel Failure Affected by Cross-Sectional Geometry of an Underground Tunnel by Xianjie Hao, Shaohua Wang, Duoxiang Jin, Bo Ren, Xiangyang Zhang, Kailong Qiu, Yingjie Fan

“…The results indicated that, when the vertical stress is 4.94 MPa, the length and depth of the cracks generated in the rock surrounding the horseshoe tunnel are about eight times that around a circular tunnel. The position where the circumferential displacement of the horseshoe tunnel begins to be stable is about two, to two and a half, times that around a circular tunnel. …”
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Cerebellar Cathodal Transcranial Direct Stimulation and Performance on a Verb Generation Task: A Replication Study by K. Spielmann, R. van der Vliet, W. M. E. van de Sandt-Koenderman, M. A. Frens, G. M. Ribbers, R. W. Selles, S. van Vugt, J. N. van der Geest, P. Holland

“…Results showed that the improvement in participants’ verbal response times on a verb generation task was facilitated immediately after cathodal c-tDCS, compared to anodal or sham c-tDCS. …”
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Altered cortical network dynamics during observing and preparing action in patients with corticobasal syndrome by Marius Krösche, Christian J. Hartmann, Markus Butz, Alfons Schnitzler, Jan Hirschmann

“…This alteration may represent a neural correlate of disrupted visuo-motor mapping in CBS. The altered timing of beta suppression to the Go cue suggests deficits in learning the task's temporal structure rather than in movement initiation itself.…”
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Effect of plasma beta on the nonlinear evolution of m/n = 2/1 double tearing mode in high Lundquist number regime by Dingzong Zhang, Zhaoqing Wu, Jun Ma, Wenfeng Guo, Yanqing Huang, Hongbo Liu

“…Under certain conditions, this threshold can reach as high as $1.0 \times {10^{ - 5}}$ , which is much higher than the typical value of around ${10^{ - 7}}$ . …”
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