Contaminants in the Urban Environment: Dioxins by Yun-Ya Yang, Gurpal S. Toor

“…Long-term exposure to dioxins can harm immune system, nervous system, endocrine system, and reproductive functions. This 7-page fact sheet discusses the sources, emission trends, and impacts of dioxins as well as the ways to minimize exposure to dioxins. …”
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Effect of Knowledge Sharing on Success of IT Outsourcing by فرج‌اله رهنورد, جلیل خاوندکار

“…By outsourcing, organizations can focus on core functions, decrease their operational costs and technology risk, and to use external sources to achieve the organizational objectives. …”
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Stilpón z Megár medzi sokratikou a helenizmom by Jaroslav Cepko

“… Ancient sources depict the so-called Megarian school in two seemingly contrasting ways: on the one hand, as eristic and dialectic, and on the other, as a continuation of the Socratic ethical orientation in philosophy. …”
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mdciao: Accessible Analysis and Visualization of Molecular Dynamics Simulation Data. by Guillermo Pérez-Hernández, Peter W Hildebrand

“…We present mdciao, an open-source command line tool and Python Application-Programming-Interface (API) for easy, one-shot analysis and representation of molecular dynamics (MD) simulation data. …”
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Path to Heritagization in Landscape Architecture: A Review of the Regeneration Design of Beijing Changchunyuan Park by Yufan ZHU

“…Undoubtedly, Changchunyuan Park adjacent to Changchun Temple is inherently bearing the same responsibility for cultural transmission. 2) Style and form selection: The traditional Beijing garden style is taken as the tone of “named composition” to regain the contemporary significance of traditional classic space. …”
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Simultaneous removal and optical determination of mercury ions by constructing fluorescent recombinant T. thermophila SB210 strains by Shu-Hui Zhao, Kai-Kang Hu, Jie Xiong, Jia-Wei Tu, Wei Miao

“…Removing and monitoring Hg2+ ions in the pollution sources based on microorganisms have the advantages of low cost and convenience. …”
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Dimeric natural product panepocyclinol A inhibits STAT3 via di-covalent modification by Li Li, Yuezhou Wang, Yiqiu Wang, Xiaoyang Li, Qihong Deng, Fei Gao, Wenhua Lian, Yunzhan Li, Fu Gui, Yanling Wei, Su-Jie Zhu, Cai-Hong Yun, Lei Zhang, Zhiyu Hu, Qingyan Xu, Xiaobing Wu, Lanfen Chen, Dawang Zhou, Jianming Zhang, Fei Xia, Xianming Deng

“…Homo- or heterodimeric compounds that affect dimeric protein function through interaction between monomeric moieties and protein subunits can serve as valuable sources of potent and selective drug candidates. …”
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Scots Pine Bark Extracts as Co-Hardeners of Epoxy Resins by Tomasz Szmechtyk

“…Extracts from natural waste like bark or leaves are great sources of phytochemicals, which contain functional groups (hydroxyl, carboxylic, vinyl, allyl) attractive in terms of polymer synthesis. …”
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The role of a tutor in teaching values by Anna Pekala

“…The role of education of moral values in preparing for future functioning in society and building correct interpersonal relations is emphasized. …”
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Direction of Arrival Estimation Based on the Multistage Nested Wiener Filter by Xiaodong He, Bin Tang

“…The computation of the proposed method is simple, and the number of detectable signal sources could exceed the number of antenna elements.…”
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Optimization of Adversarial Reprogramming for Transfer Learning on Closed Box Models by Alexander Bott, Moritz Siems, Alexander Puchta, Jurgen Fleischer

“…While it has been shown that this concept can work well in image classification, and a further modification has been developed to classify time series features, this work focuses primarily on the remaining key challenges such as the selection and comparison of appropriate loss functions, the optimisation of hyperparameters using Bayesian methods, and data labelling in the absence of ground truth. …”
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The BoRG-JWST Survey: Abundance and Mass-to-light Ratio of Luminous z = 7–9 Galaxies from Independent Sight Lines with NIRSpec by Sofía Rojas-Ruiz, Micaela Bagley, Guido Roberts-Borsani, Tommaso Treu, Steven L. Finkelstein, Takahiro Morishita, Nicha Leethochawalit, Charlotte Mason, Eduardo Bañados, Michele Trenti, Massimo Stiavelli, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Rachel S. Somerville, Christian Soto

“…We present new results on the rest-frame UV luminosity function (UVLF) and stellar mass-to-light ( M / L ) ratio of bright ( M _UV  ≲ −20 mag) spectroscopically confirmed galaxies at z  = 7–9 derived from the BoRG-JWST survey, a unique data set of NIRSpec prism follow-up of Hubble Space Telescope (HST)–selected sources from random-pointing imaging. …”
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Association of Trace Elements with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Women—A Case-Control Study by Tinkara Srnovršnik, Bojana Pinter, Milena Horvat, Janja Snoj Tratnik, Ingrid Falnoga, Darja Mazej, Ivan Verdenik, Irma Virant-Klun

“…<b>Results:</b> In women with PCOS, lower Mo levels in whole blood (<i>p</i> = 0.024) and serum (<i>p</i> = 0.011) and higher serum Cu levels (<i>p</i> = 0.026) were detected when compared to healthy controls. Results of this study show that amendments in Cu and Mo levels might be related to altered kidney and liver function and disrupted hormonal balance in PCOS women. …”
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Analysis of the Possibility of Using Energy Harvesters to Power Wearable Electronics in Clothing by Anna Dąbrowska, Agnieszka Greszta

“…., sensors and diodes) implemented to clothing indicate the possibility of using miniaturized EHs as a power source for such elements. Each of the discussed EH has both disadvantages and advantages. …”
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Evaluation of the coupling coordination effect of Hefei Rail transit station area based on supply and demand matching. by Wangyang Gui, Mengnan Cheng, Tong Zhang, Yifei Guo, Bin Xu

“…The coupling of supply and demand in the rail transit station area is an important driving force for ensuring the balanced development between the traffic functions and the place performance of the rail transit station area. …”
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Coherence in popularized medico-pharmaceutical reports: The case of EPAR summaries for the public by Aage Hill-Madsen

“…The summary for the public reports the gist of the specialized source text in a linguistic register suitable for a lay readership. …”
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Grown up in the face of values. The subjective dimension of shaping values in human life. by Rafał Bodarski

“…This enormous impact of our activity is analyzed in the article from the point of view of selected theories functioning both in psychology and in pedagogy.…”
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A Study of Directional Patterns of Ultrasonic Parametric Array by Denis Sergeevich RAKOV, Aleksandr S. RAKOV, Andrey N. KUDRYAVTSEV, Nikolay P. KRASNENKO, Yury A. CHURSIN, Maksim A. MURIN

“…The results of selecting and functional testing of unit elements are described in this paper. …”
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Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator Induces Neurological Side Effects Independent on Thrombolysis in Mechanical Animal Models of Focal Cerebral Infarction: A Systematic Review... by Mei-Xue Dong, Qing-Chuan Hu, Peng Shen, Jun-Xi Pan, You-Dong Wei, Yi-Yun Liu, Yi-Fei Ren, Zi-Hong Liang, Hai-Yang Wang, Li-Bo Zhao, Peng Xie

“…Subgroup analysis, meta-regression and sensitivity analysis were performed to explore sources of heterogeneity. Funnel plot, Trim and Fill method and Egger's test were obtained to detect publication bias.…”
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DUALZ—Deep UNCOVER-ALMA Legacy High-Z Survey by Seiji Fujimoto, Rachel Bezanson, Ivo Labbe, Gabriel Brammer, Sedona H. Price, Bingjie Wang, John R. Weaver, Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Pascal A. Oesch, Christina C. Williams, Pratika Dayal, Robert Feldmann, Jenny E. Greene, Joel Leja, Katherine E. Whitaker, Adi Zitrin, Sam E. Cutler, Lukas J. Furtak, Richard Pan, Iryna Chemerynska, Vasily Kokorev, Tim B. Miller, Hakim Atek, Pieter van Dokkum, Stéphanie Juneau, Susan Kassin, Gourav Khullar, Danilo Marchesini, Michael Maseda, Erica J. Nelson, David J. Setton, Renske Smit

“…We also detect a marginal dust emission from an X-ray-detected galaxy at z _spec = 10.07, suggesting an active coevolution of the central black hole and its host. …”
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