Posthuman Communication Design in South Africa by Katarzyna Chmela-Jones, Johannes Cronje, Bruce Snaddon

“…This article builds upon a review of existing literature to engage in a dialogue where the shared attributes discernible in both Posthumanism and design practice are explored. …”
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Case studies in open access publishing. Number one. The Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon): an open access journal using an un-paid, volunteer-bas... by Bo-Christer Bjoerk, Ziga Turk

“…It has also started to publish special issues, since this helps to attract submissions, and also helps in sharing the work-load of review management. …”
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Examining Self-Esteem and Socialization Levels of The Students Aged 9-14 Participating in Recreational Activities by Murat Erdoğdu, Muhsin Çınar

“…The population of the study is comprised of 87.814 students attending 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades in public schools in Meram and Selçuklu districts of Konya province in the 2016-2017 academic year. …”
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Üniversite Kampüslerinde Öğrenci Yaşantısının Kalitesi: GTÜ Çayırova Kampüsü Örneği by Tayfun Salihoğlu, Fatma Karasümen Açıkgöz

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Demographic and clinical impact on preoperative BREAST-Q ePROM completion and baseline outcomes in women undergoing breast cancer surgery: a quantitative descriptive study at a Dan... by Karin Piil, Volker Jürgen Schmidt, Stine Thestrup Hansen, Lone Bak Hansen, Anna Mejldal, Julie Hougaard Prüsse, Lotte Gebhard Ørsted

“…Body mass index (BMI) was negatively associated with sexual well-being, with a 0.75-point decline per additional BMI point (ba=−0.75, (-1.12; −0.37), p<0.001).Conclusions The present study demonstrates a positive attitude towards completing BREAST-Q as ePROMs among women diagnosed with breast cancer in the investigated region in Denmark. …”
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DEVELOPING READING MATERIAL BASED-ON LOCAL CULTURE FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN KABUPATEN REJANG LEBONG by Leni Agustina, Alamsyah Harahap

“…Nowadays, the developing and appreciating material based on student’s local culture is very attractive. The objectives of this research are to know the existing folktales in students’ book, to identify local folktales that suitable to be included in the English students’ book and to know how to include the local folktales in the English students’ book for ninth grade of Junior High School in Rejang Lebong. …”
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Exceptionally Unusual Case of a Self-Inflicted Suicidal Cut Throat Injury by Mezhuneituo Raleng, Anant Prakash Pore, Temsula Alinger

“…Here we present a 43-year-old man who was brought with a self-inflicted cut throat injury; 18 hours after the suicidal attempt. On examination a deep 12 cm cut at the level of the hyoid bone exposing the posterior pharyngeal wall was seen. …”
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The Impact of Regional Integration in GVCs on Subsidy Allocation Among Manufacturing Firms in Russia by Юрий Вячеславович Симачёв, Анна Андреевна Федюнина, Игорь Михайлович Драпкин

“… While global demand for industrial policy-making continues to rise, increasing attention is being given to how these policies are shaped by participation in global value chains (GVCs), both in developed and developing countries. …”
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Local-Global and Multi-Scale (LG-MS) Mixer Architecture for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting by Zhennan Peng, Boyong Gao, Ziqi Xia, Jie Liu

“…To capture a more comprehensive effective information within the components, we then utilize a customized patch-based triple attention local-global information extractor that models both temporal feature information and variable dependencies, alongside an MLP-based feature interaction iterator facilitating interactions among multi-scale information to guide macro-level predictions. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variation of Water Use Efficiency and Its Responses to Climate Change in the Yellow River Basin from 1982 to 2018 by Jie Li, Fen Qin, Yingping Wang, Xiuyan Zhao, Mengxiao Yu, Songjia Chen, Jun Jiang, Linhua Wang, Junhua Yan

“…A total of 70.39% of the WUE exhibited an increasing trend, which is mainly attributed to the simultaneous increase in GPP and ET, and the rate of increasing GPP is higher than the rate of increasing ET. …”
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Advances in electrochemical sensors for naproxen detection: Mechanisms, performance factors, and emerging challenges by Seyed Saman Nemati, Gholamreza Dehghan, Jafar Soleymani, Abolghasem Jouyban

“…Electrochemical methods have attracted more attention due to their low cost, easy sample preparation, availability, sensitivity, and acceptable results. …”
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Conocimiento y uso de anticonceptivos entre los jóvenes mexicanos. El papel del género by Irene Casique

“…Con este análisis se pretende evidenciar el rol que desempeñan las diversas características sociodemográficas de los jóvenes en el conocimiento y uso de anticonceptivos, con partic cular atención en el papel que juega el género. En general se observan diferencias importantes entre los factores relacionados con el uso de anticonceptivos alguna vez y los factores asociados al uso del condón en las relaciones con la pareja actual. …”
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Interjú a közös nyomozó csoport alkalmazásának hazai gyakorlatáról, eddigi tapasztalatairól by Gábor Szalárdi

“… A jelentés áttekinti a nemzetközi szervezett bűnözés elleni közös nyomozócsoport kilátásait és eredményeit. …”
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Analyzing Gait Dynamics and Recovery Trajectory in Lower Extremity Fractures Using Linear Mixed Models and Gait Analysis Variables by Mostafa Rezapour, Rachel B. Seymour, Suman Medda, Stephen H. Sims, Madhav A. Karunakar, Nahir Habet, Metin Nafi Gurcan

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Experimental study and model prediction of the influence of different factors on the mechanical properties of saline clay by Hui Cheng, Lingkai Zhang, Chong Shi, Pei Pei Fan

“…Water content, dry density, or salt content chiefly affect cohesion by influencing electrostatic attraction, van der Waals forces, particle cementation, and valence bonds at particle contact points. (2) Compression tests reveal a linear positive correlation between the compression coefficient and water content, a negative correlation with dry density, and a stepwise linear correlation with salt content, peaking at 2%. …”
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A Logistic Trigonometric Generalized Class of Distribution Characteristics, Applications, and Simulations by Zafar Mahmood, Hazar A. Khogeer, Eslam Hussam Hafez, Md. Moyazzem Hossain

“…The importance of the proposed trigonometric generalizer, G class, and model is proved via two applications focused on survival and failure datasets whose results attested the distinct better fit, wider flexibility, and greater capability than existing and well-known competing models. …”
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Immune Aspects and Myometrial Actions of Progesterone and CRH in Labor by Nikolaos Vrachnis, Fotodotis M. Malamas, Stavros Sifakis, Panayiotis Tsikouras, Zoe Iliodromiti

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Improving mechanical properties and electrical conductivity of Al-Cu-Mg matrix composites by GNPs and sc additions by Li Yuan, Fengguo Liu, Chun Wu, Changsheng Lou

“…These improvements can be primarily ascribed to the addition of Sc, which facilitated the precipitation of solute atoms and enhanced the interfacial bonding between the GNPs and the matrix, as well as the remarkable heterogeneous layered microstructure induced by the incorporation of GNPs. …”
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Protective effect of adiponectin on oxidative stress-induced ovarian granulosa cell senescence in geese by Yan Zheng, Yunqiao Qiu, Ming Gao, Qianhui Wang, Lei Yu, Zhongzan Cao, Xinhong Luan

“…The RNA-seq results provided further evidence for the regulatory effect of ADPN on GC senescence. ADPN was shown to attenuate oxidative stress-induced GC senescence through the AGE (Advanced glycation end products)-RAGE (Receptor of advanced glycation end products) and NOD-like receptor pathways. …”
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Reduced Complexity Iterative Decoding of 3D-Product Block Codes Based on Genetic Algorithms by Abdeslam Ahmadi, Faissal El Bouanani, Hussain Ben-Azza, Youssef Benghabrit

“…Those features make the decoders based on genetic algorithms efficient and attractive.…”
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