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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Identification of hypertension gene expression biomarkers based on the DeepGCFS algorithm. by Zongjin Li, Liqin Tian, Libing Bai, Zeyu Jia, Xiaoming Wu, Changxin Song

“…Gene expression data is an important source for obtaining hypertension biomarkers. However, this data has a small sample size and high feature dimensionality, posing challenges to biomarker identification. …”
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Attitude of patients and doctors of government health care system to the basic principles of medical ethics by E. P. Pukhova, O. Yu. Kutumova, D. O. Trufanov

“…Materials and methods. For the selection of respondents was used the representative sample based on gender and age of respondents (for the selection of patients), and by specialty of a medical workers (for doctors). …”
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Multi-Robot Cooperative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Algorithm Based on Sub-Graph Partitioning by Wan Xu, Yanliang Chen, Shijie Liu, Ao Nie, Rupeng Chen

“…In terms of localization accuracy, the proposed method achieves an improvement of approximately 32.8% over other open source algorithms.…”
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Morphological divergence driven by predation environment within and between species of Brachyrhaphis fishes. by Spencer J Ingley, Eric J Billman, Mark C Belk, Jerald B Johnson

“…Our findings are important because they provide evidence that the same source of selection can drive similar phenotypic divergence independently at multiple divergence levels.…”
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Speech etiquette situation of apology in classes of Russian as a foreign language (on the example of Asya Petrova's story «Sorry, Fool») by Zhanna K. Gaponova, Anastasiya A. Serogodskaya

“…Since reading as a kind of speech activity is connected with the cognitive function of the language, the proper selection of texts in the classes of Russian as a foreign language contributes to the application of the factual information contained in them in practice, as well as increasing linguocountryological competence of students. …”
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Comparative Analysis Research Methods of Political Discourse by Ya. Yu. Demkina

“…The use of discourse analysis to study political discourse reveals the functions of discourse, for example, manipulative, selective and combined functions related to political goals. …”
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Identification of multiple power quality disturbances in hybrid microgrid using deep stacked auto-encoder based bi-directional LSTM classifier by Ravi Kumar Jalli, Lipsa Priyadarshini, P.K. Dash, Ranjeeta Bisoi

“…Thus to design an effective PQD recognition system, this paper proposes a novel time-frequency analysis method based on adaptively fast complementary ensemble local mean decomposition (AFCELMD) technique that decomposes the multicomponent PQD signal into a series of demodulated product functions (PFs). Out of the several PFs the most sensitive one is selected adaptively and used for feature extraction and classification through a deep stacked auto-encoder (dSAE) hybridized with a time-recursive bi-directional long short term memory (BiLSTM) network classifier. …”
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Construction of a Multi-level Blue-Green Infrastructure Network in a Riverside City: A Case Study of Shaoxing by Meizi Zhou, Yong He, Zhi Qiu

“…To address this gap, this study proposes a framework for constructing a multi-level BGI network. We selected Shaoxing City, a typical riverside city in the Yangtze River Delta region of China, as the study area and integrated water-related ecosystem services into the identification of ecological sources. …”
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Bovine PMN responses to extracellular vesicles released by Besnoitia besnoiti tachyzoites and B. besnoiti-infected host cells by Gabriel Espinosa, Constanza Salinas-Varas, Lisbeth Rojas-Barón, Christian Preußer, Elke Pogge von Strandmann, Ulrich Gärtner, Iván Conejeros, Carlos Hermosilla, Anja Taubert

“…Therefore, we tested whether exposure of bovine PMN to EVs from different cellular sources affects classical PMN effector functions and cytokine/chemokine secretion. …”
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Comparison of enrichment methods for efficient nitrogen fixation on a biocathode by Rous, Axel, Santa-Catalina, Gaëlle, Desmond-Le Quémener, Elie, Trably, Eric, Bernet, Nicolas

“…The first enrichment step was specifically designed for the selection of N2-fixing bacteria from soil samples with organic C as electron and carbon source. …”
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NURSING CARE FOR THE COMFORT OF HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS by Pepa Dzhedzheva

“…Material and methods: the present study is based on the search, selection and critical review of scientific articles and other source documents related to the definition of the concept of comfort in healthcare; factors influencing the comfort of hospitalized patients; importance of comfort in the healing process and nursing care for its improvement. …”
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Spectral Properties of Suprathermal Protons Associated with Interplanetary Shocks from WIND/STICS Data by Johann Rubens Mejia-Ott, Brent M. Randol

“…“Suprathermal” designates energies above the bulk, “thermal” solar wind, including inner-source pickup ions, cometary ions, solar energetic particles, and suprathermal tail particles. …”
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Real-World Efficacy of Explainable Artificial Intelligence using the SAGE Framework and Scenario-Based Design by Eleanor Mill, Wolfgang Garn, Chris Turner

“…Using the principles of scenario-based design, it amalgamates two independent real-world sources to establish a realistic card fraud prediction scenario. …”
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A New Approach to the Zero Subject in English by E. J. Ibragimova, T. V. Shulzhenko, A. А. Shumkov

“…The examples illustrating the functional features of the searched subject in English interrogative sentence were selected by means of the method of continuous sampling from 7 corpora. …”
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The reliability of witness memories: a review of the factors influencing accuracy in the forensic context by João Miguel Alves Ferreira, Sergii Tukaiev

“… Witness memory plays a crucial role in many judicial processes, often being considered one of the main sources of evidence in criminal investigations. However, the reliability of memories reported by witnesses has been widely debated in the scientific literature [1][2][5]. …”
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Construction of an Ecological Security Structure in Fuzhou City of Jiangxi Provicne Based on an MCR Model by Chen Qun, Liu Pinghui, Zhu Chuanmin

“…A minimum cumulative resistance (MCR) model was constructed by selecting various land use factors, soil and water conservation function importance, and ecological sensitivity. …”
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Relationship between ecological spatial network and vegetation carbon use efficiency in the Yellow River Basin, China by Chenglong Xu, Xiang Chen, Qiang Yu, Buyanbaatar Avirmed, Jikai Zhao, Wei Liu, Weijie Sun

“…Subsequently, the interrelationship between topological metrics and vegetation CUE was analyzed, and optimization strategies were proposed based on the significance of the structure and function. The findings revealed that: (1) Vegetation CUE exhibited a spatially decreasing trend from the western to eastern regions, with spatial patterns correlated with vegetation types, temperature, and precipitation distribution; (2) The ecological spatial network demonstrated a denser configuration in the upper and middle reaches and a sparser and shorter pattern in the lower reaches, with seamless connectivity among all regions; (3) Significant correlations were observed between topological metrics and vegetation CUE, prompting the adoption of ecological construction and protection measures when functional importance is deficient, and enhancing the connectivity of ecological sources through the augmentation of ecological corridors when structural importance is lacking. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF SOIL DENSITY AND THE CHARACTER OF RADIOACTIVE 134Cs And 137Cs POLLUTION’S DISTRIBUTION ON in situ MEASUREMENTS by A. I. Zhukouski, O. M. Anshakou, A. O. Nichyparchuk, P. M. Marozik, S. A. Kuten

“…As a result of theoretical estimations, the relationship between the effective radius of contaminated site is determined as a function of soil density.Analysis of the influence of radial zones of the cylindrical gamma source on in situ gamma-spectrometer showed that the main contribution to the total count rate of the pulse-amplitude spectrum is made by the radial zone with radius of up to 40 cm from the center of the probe, regardless of the thickness of the contaminated layer in geometry «Probe is located on the soil surface». …”
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