Investigating the influence of urban green spaces on urban heat island mitigation – taking four districts in Shijiazhuang as an example by Nan Zhang, Qiuning Ding, Haitao Wang

“…The data were collected using the equal-scale city blocks performed by the OpenStreetMap urban network and ECOSTRESS remote sensing images at different times (morning, noon and evening). …”
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Wood Chip Incorporation in Almond Orchard Planting Berms Increased Gravimetric Water Content, Soil CO2 Efflux, and Fine Root Length Density by Hana You, Paul Martinez, Mae Culumber, Brent Holtz, Astrid Volder

“…Plum WCs were incorporated into the orchard soil 6 months before planting and three blocks were established with paired treatment and control (no WC) plots. …”
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Pyriproxyfen, villain or good guy? A brief review by Andressa Pereira Cabral, Fabrício Pereira dos Santos Maia, D’Angelo Carlo Magliano, Jones Bernardes Graceli, Paula Soares, Eduardo Andrés Rios Morris, Leandro Miranda-Alves

“…ABSTRACT Pyriproxyfen (PPF) acts as a juvenile growth regulator, interfering with normal metamorphosis and blocking the development of insects into adulthood. …”
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Electronic health record and primary care physician self-reported quality of care: a multilevel study in China by Wenhua Wang, Mengyao Li, Katya Loban, Jinnan Zhang, Xiaolin Wei, Rebecca Mitchel

“…Background Health information technology is one of the building blocks of a high-performing health system. However, the evidence regarding the influence of an electronic health record (EHR) on the quality of care remains mixed, especially in low- and middle-income countries. …”
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PROBLEMS OF DIPLOMACY IN THE PROCESS OF EURASIAN INTEGRATION by A. A. Durdyyeva

“…One of the stumbling blocks is the problem of choosing the model of the future Eurasian diplomacy. …”
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Approach to the organization of decision support in the formulation of innovative regional development strategies applying adaptive-simulation model by L. Chernyakhovskaya, M. Nizamutdinov, V. Oreshnikov, A. Atnabaeva

“…The result of the study is a theoretical justification for the development of problem-oriented DSS, including a description of the interrelated stages, determining the main design features of this toolkit.As a part of the study, a conceptual scheme of implementation of the decision support system in the field of management of regional innovative development has been proposed, the key functional blocks of the proposed tools have been described, the place of existing tools in the structure of the regional development management system has been determined, the possibilities of its use in the formation of forecast-planned assessments of regional development, as well as the evaluation of the effectiveness of alternative management actions, have been shown.In our opinion, the proposed tools will expand the possibilities of applying the management theory and decision support methods, intelligent information technology, economic and mathematical methods, modern computer simulation technologies for strategic planning of socio-economic systems of macro- and meso-level. …”
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Additional Education for Children with Special Needs and Disabilities in the Russian Federation: National Monitoring Concept by Z. V. Puzanova, M. A. Simonova, V. M. Filippov, T. I. Larina

“…The article presents the project of the toolkit for the national monitoring of entities engaged in additional educational activities for children with special needs and disabilities, which includes eight blocks: organizational structure of entities engaged in implementing additional educational programs for children in each constituent territory of the Russian Federation; implementation of additional educational programs for children with special needs and disabilities in entities with various subordination and organizational structures; material and technical support; staffing and professional training for specialists engaged in implementing additional educational programs for children with special needs and disabilities; information on ongoing additional educational programs for children with special needs and disabilities; typical obstacles which arise in the course of activities organized by entities engaged in implementing additional educational programs for children with special needs and disabilities; information resources and the system of inter-agency interaction in the course of the implementation of additional educational programs for children, including those with special needs and disabilities; financing of entities engaged in implementing additional educational programs for children. …”
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Geranylgeranyl Transferase-I Knockout Inhibits Oxidative Injury of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells and Attenuates Diabetes-Accelerated Atherosclerosis by Guo-Ping Chen, Jian Yang, Guo-Feng Qian, Wei-Wei Xu, Xiao-Qin Zhang

“…In conclusion, GGTase-I knockout efficiently blocked diabetes-accelerated atherosclerosis, and this protective effect must be related to the inhibition of VSMC proliferation. …”
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Seroprevalence and Risk Factors of African Horse Sickness in Three Agroecological Zones of Cameroon by Mohamed M. F. Ndebé, Mohamed M. M. Mouiche, Frédéric Moffo, Rodrigue N. S. Poueme, Julius Awah-Ndukum

“…Horse sera were subjected to the ELISA blocking test for the determination of antibodies against African horse sickness virus, and positive samples were submitted to capture ELISA to determine the presence of antigens. …”
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Alcohol, alcoholism and related consequences by M. V. Mayevskaya

“…Opioid receptors are involved in development of alcohol-induced dependency. Nalmefene, blocking these receptors, reduces supporting effect of alcohol which ceases to deliver expected pleasure.Conclusion. …”
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Follow-Up of Advanced Parkinson’s Disease Patients after Clinical or Surgical Emergencies: A Practical Approach by Hélio A. G. Teive, Matheus Gomes Ferreira, Carlos Henrique F. Camargo, Renato P. Munhoz

“…As part of this scenario, most patients presented with delirium, often requiring treatment with dopamine receptor blocking agents and/or had dopaminergic treatment withdrawn. …”
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Conceptual model of reverse logistics management of health resorts by Serhii Voitovych, Liubov Lipych

“…The proposed conceptual model of reverse logistics management of health resorts contains factors, information and resources that form the entrance to the operating system; blocks of implementation, evaluation and transformation for reverse logistics management, which fill the operating management system; a list of effects of the implementation of reverse logistics management, which form the exit from the operating system. …”
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Serodiagnosis and Risk Factors Associated with Infectious Agents of Reproductive Diseases in Bovines of Chiquinquirá, District of Boyacá (Colombia) by Deisy J. Lancheros-Buitrago, Diana M. Bulla-Castañeda, Martin O. Pulido-Medellin, Henry A. López Buitrago, Adriana M. Díaz-Anaya, Diego J. Garcia-Corredor

“…Blood samples were taken and processed using the indirect ELISA technique (SYNBIOTICS®, SERELISA® BVD p80 Ab Mono Blocking, Ingezim R.12.NC.K, PRIMACHECK VPI-3®) and the MAT test for the diagnosis of bovine leptospirosis. …”
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Water Hyacinth, an Invasive Species in Africa: A Literature Review by Lubembe, Sharon Indasi, Okoth, Sharon, Turyasingura, Benson, Oyugi, Timothy, Ibarasa, Hillary, Moenga, Kelvin, Chavula, Petros, Tumushabe, Jennifer Turyatemba

“…The hyacinths further impact human activities by blocking waterways for fishing and destroying habitat for some fish to bread properly. …”
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Attention-Based Multi-Learning Approach for Speech Emotion Recognition With Dilated Convolution by Samuel, Kakuba, Alwin, Poulose

“…Therefore, we propose an attention-based multi-learning model (ABMD) that uses residual dilated causal convolution (RDCC) blocks and dilated convolution (DC) layers with multi-head attention. …”
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Targeting Inhibition of Accumulation and Function of Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells by Artemisinin via PI3K/AKT, mTOR, and MAPK Pathways Enhances Anti-PD-L1 Immunotherapy in Mela... by Mengqi Zhang, Lulu Wang, Wan Liu, Tian Wang, Francesco De Sanctis, Lifang Zhu, Guizhong Zhang, Jian Cheng, Qin Cao, Jingying Zhou, Aldo Tagliabue, Vincenzo Bronte, Dehong Yan, Xianchun Wan, Guang Yu

“…Here, we reported that ART blocks the accumulation and function of MDSCs by polarizing M2-like tumor-promoting phenotype towards M1-like antitumor one. …”
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Strength Prediction Model for Cohesive Soil–Rock Mixture with Rock Content by Yang Sun, Jianyong Xin, Junchao He, Junping Yu, Haibin Ding, Yifan Hu

“…For the sample with an <i>α</i> of 0°, shear failure was inhibited, and the rock blocks tended to break more easily, while the samples with an <i>α</i> of 30° and 60° exhibited fewer fragmentations. (2) P_BV significantly affected the shear behaviors of the cohesive SRM. …”
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Agronomic application effects of organic wastes on a squash crop production by Graciela Pellejero, Jonathan Menéndez, Julieta Palacios, Gabriela Aschkar, Francisco J. Garcia-Navarro, Juan M. Trujillo-Gonzalez, Juan L. Chacon-Vozmediano, Raimundo Jimenez-Ballesta

“…Purpose The objective of the study was to evaluate the application effects of different doses of onion residue mixed with bovine manure compost as an organic fertilizer on a hybrid Tetsukabuto squash crop cultivated in a field.Method The experimental design required randomly dividing blocks with three replicates. The experiments were designed with different dose combinations in experimental units (4 m wide x 8 m long deep). …”
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Identification of TUBB3 as an immunotherapy target in lung cancer by genome wide in vivo CRISPR screening by Dan Zhao, Ravindra Deshpande, Kerui Wu, Abhishek Tyagi, Sambad Sharma, Shih-Ying Wu, Fei Xing, Stacey O'Neill, Jimmy Ruiz, Feng Lyu, Kounosuke Watabe

“…Mechanistic studies revealed that blocking TUBB3 suppressed the expression of PD-L1 through the EMT-related SNAI1 gene. …”
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Feruloyl-amides as natural antimicrobials for crop and food protection by Denise Dozio, Sharmila Ghosh, Daniele Alessandro Consolini, Josè Luis Ermini Starna, Loris Pinto, Federico Baruzzi, Martina Letizia Contente, Andrea Pinto, Paolo Cortesi, Salvatore Princiotto, Andrea Kunova, Sabrina Dallavalle

“…Conclusions The obtained results evidenced that the effect of this class of compounds is mainly related to blocking fungal virulence mechanisms, mediated by a significant effect on appressorium maturation, rather than to mycelium growth inhibition. …”
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