Insight into influence of degradation metabolism of Firmicutes on the microstructure of anthracite coal by Yuewu Wang, Bingjun Liu, Sheng Xue, Yang Yang, Jian Chen, Jingbei Zhang, Chunshan Zheng, Tianyao Zhou

“…Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR) experiments revealed that biodegradation stimulated by nitrogen source reduced the aromaticity of coal by 59.62% and enhanced the hydroxyl functional group content by 1.822 times. …”
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Vocational teacher training in Russia at the present stage: Conceptual aspect by В. A. Fedorov, P. F. Kubrushko, V. V. Dubitskiy, A. V. Feoktistov

“…The third component outlines the expected state indicated by the necessary conditions for the implementation of conceptual principles of vocational teacher training and concerning the selection of teaching content, building the structure of the system of vocational teacher training system supported with relevant management tools.Practical significance. …”
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High-resolution spatiotemporal measurement of air and environmental noise pollution in Sub-Saharan African cities: Pathways to Equitable Health Cities Study protocol for Accra, Gha... by Michael Brauer, Majid Ezzati, Sierra N Clark, Abosede S Alli, Jill Baumgartner, Mireille B Toledano, Allison F Hughes, James Nimo, Josephine Bedford Moses, Solomon Terkpertey, Jose Vallarino, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Ernest Agyemang, Ricky Nathvani, Emily Muller, James Bennett, Jiayuan Wang, Andrew Beddows, Frank Kelly, Benjamin Barratt, Sean Beevers, Raphael E Arku

“…Our design uses a combination of fixed (year-long, n=10) and rotating (week-long, n =~130) sites, selected to represent a range of land uses and source influences (eg, background, road traffic, commercial, industrial and residential areas, and various neighbourhood socioeconomic classes). …”
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Cascaded Directional Coupler-Based Triplexer Working on Spectroscopically Relevant Wavelengths for Multiple Gas Detection by Ajmal Thottoli, Gabriele Biagi, Artem S. Vorobev, Antonella D’Orazio, Giovanni Magno, Liam O’Faolain

“…The device is designed to combine the wavelengths of 1530 nm, 1653.7 nm, and 2003 nm for use in spectroscopy systems targeting the detection of ammonia, methane, and carbon dioxide gases, respectively. The triplexer’s functions focus on enhancing the coupling efficiency and selectivity, while facilitating the on-chip integration of diode lasers. …”
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Reconstruction of U.S. Regional-Scale Soybean SIF Based on MODIS Data and BP Neural Network by YAO Jianen, LIU Haiqiu, YANG Man, FENG Jinying, CHEN Xiu, ZHANG Peipei

“…Through the activation functions in the BP neural network, it enhanced the understanding of the complex nonlinear relationships between the original SIF data and these MODIS products. …”
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BICYCLE TRAFFIC IN THE CITIES by Elżbieta MACIOSZEK, Irena JURDANA

“…This article presents the characteristics of the bicycle infrastructure and services offered in selected cities in the world and Poland, as well as the issues of bicycle counters as sources of data on bicycle traffic volume, along with an exemplary analysis of this type of data.…”
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A Glimpse of the New Redshift Frontier through AS1063 by Vasily Kokorev, Hakim Atek, John Chisholm, Ryan Endsley, Iryna Chemerynska, Julian B. Muñoz, Lukas J. Furtak, Richard Pan, Danielle Berg, Seiji Fujimoto, Pascal A. Oesch, Andrea Weibel, Angela Adamo, Jeremy Blaizot, Rychard Bouwens, Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky, Gourav Khullar, Damien Korber, Ilias Goovaerts, Michelle Jecmen, Ivo Labbé, Floriane Leclercq, Rui Marques-Chaves, Charlotte Mason, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Rohan Naidu, Priyamvada Natarajan, Erica Nelson, Joki Rosdahl, Alberto Saldana-Lopez, Daniel Schaerer, Maxime Trebitsch, Marta Volonteri, Adi Zitrin

“…We report the discovery of two galaxy candidates at redshifts between 15.7 < z < 16.4 in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations from the GLIMPSE survey. These robust sources were identified using a combination of Lyman break selection and photometric redshift estimates. …”
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Health-Related Messages About Herbs, Spices, and Other Botanicals Appearing in Print Issues and Websites of Legacy Media: Content Analysis and Evaluation by Ann Gaba, Richard Bennett

“…Therefore, legacy media may be considered a credible source of information to readers about these topics.…”
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Nature-based solutions for urban climate resilience: implementation, contribution, and effectiveness by Gemechis B Mosisa, Bobe Bedadi, Gemedo Dalle, Nega Tassie

“…For instance, of the 26 qualitative sample publications selected for this systematic review, almost 54 % employed only secondary data sources, and eight publications lacked clear and specified data analysis techniques. …”
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HEARING CORRECTION METHOD BASED ON PSYCHOACOUSTICALLY MOTIVATED FREQUENCY TRANSPOSITION IN A SPEECH SIGNAL by M. I. Porhun, M. I. Vashkevich

“…For frequency transposition, source and target frequency bands are selected. The width of the source frequency band is fixed, while the width of the target band is adaptive. …”
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Tracing the Image of Turks in Travel Writing through Translation by Seda Taş İlmek

“…Therefore, the analysis suggests that the translator, as an intercultural agent, seemed to claim his position as an author-translator in the translation process while particularly illustrating the function of gatekeeping and the use of translation for selecting and highlighting the representation of mental pictures of a certain culture and period.…”
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Designing and implementing a Web-based real time routing service for crisis management (a case study for district 11 of Tehran) by javad sadidi, seyed hassan hosseini sajedi

“…According to the obtained results, the path’s length and traffic’s volume variables have the most important role in target function formation (travel cost) therefore the specific path will be selected as the optimal path, with the minimized distance between the destination and the traffic volume. …”
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Voluntary (NGO) Sector’s Involvement in Health Promotion for Older Population in Europe by Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz

“…Method: The research is based on narrative literature review as well as interviews and consultations with informers (practitioners and experts) in selected European countries. Results: Voluntary/NGO sector increases its role as a complimentary or alternative source of health promotion for older people in Europe. …”
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The ‘crisis’ of fat body in the neoliberal era: the case of obesity in Turkey by Seda Keklik, Neriman Berna Güler

“…Qualitative data, systematically selected from academic and institutional sources, are used to examine the structural roots of obesity in capitalist social relations, focusing on how individuals function as both labour and consumers. …”
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Biomodification of Ostrich Meat Properties with Collagenase: Optimization of Technological Parameters by Kolodyaznaya V., Shestopalova I., Kiprushkina E., Rogozina E., Golovinskaia O.

“…Ostrich meat is an advantageous source of functional food products due to its high content of native protein, selenium, magnesium, phosphorus, and group B vitamins and low contents of cholesterol. …”
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Cultural Models of the Body Parts Hand and Hair in Hungarian Archaic Prayers by Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

“…The corpus of the study is Erdélyi’s collection of 321 archaic prayers (2013 [1976]), from which all representations of ‘hand’ and ‘hair’ are selected and conceptually analysed. The results show that 1) the figurative functions of the two body parts partly correspond to metaphors which are also found in secular Hungarian (e.g. hand for help, hand for care, hand for action); however, in the archaic prayers, they often take form in specific meanings (hand for help to get into heaven, hand for providence, hand for control); 2) their figurative uses strongly rely on cultural schemas which are attached to people and events. …”
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The <i>Wang</i>–<i>Buwang</i> Sequence and Positive Forgetting in Early Confucian Texts by Gad C. Isay

“…Rather than signifying total erasure, for the purposes of the mnemic process, <i>wang</i> functions as a selective and creative mode, aiding cognitive refinement by withdrawing content considered secondary or extraneous. …”
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Effects of intercropping potato with maize on soil and crop by WEI Changhui, LIU Yajun, YE Xiuxiang, LI Yue, MA Kun

“…The crop yields in the intercropping system obviously have the correlationship between the crop species and species characteristics.It is concluded that rational intercropping contribute to increase soil bacteria population, enrich soil microbial community structure and enhance the ability of microbial community function diversity and the ability of carbon source utilization. …”
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Specific modes of exercise to improve rotator cuff-related shoulder pain: systematic review and meta-analysis by Dianxuan Wu, Dianxuan Wu, Dianxuan Wu, Zhicheng Wen, Zhicheng Wen, Zhicheng Wen, Haolin Ke, Haolin Ke, Haolin Ke, Jiexin Zhang, Jiexin Zhang, Jiexin Zhang, Shaozi Zhong, Shaozi Zhong, Shaozi Zhong, Jiachen Teng, Jiachen Teng, Jiachen Teng, Lan Xu, Lan Xu, Jintao Li, Jintao Li, Jintao Li, Yan Shao, Yan Shao, Yan Shao, Yan Shao, Chun Zeng, Chun Zeng, Chun Zeng, Chun Zeng

“…Study selection followed pre-set inclusion/exclusion criteria. …”
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Optimizing maize germination forecasts with random forest and data fusion techniques by Lili Wu, Yuqing Xing, Kaiwen Yang, Wenqiang Li, Guangyue Ren, Debang Zhang, Huiping Fan

“…Traditional methods for detecting seed germination rates often involve lengthy experiments that result in damaged seeds. This study selected the Zheng Dan-958 maize variety to predict germination rates using multi-source information fusion and a random forest (RF) algorithm. …”
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