The Potential of Sitka Spruce Bark as an Alternative to Peat Casing for Mushroom (<i>Agaricus bisporus</i>) Production by Gabrielle Young, Helen Grogan, Eoghan Corbett, Brian W. McGuinness, Michael T. Gaffney, Saoirse Tracy, Olaf Schmidt, Lael Walsh

“…White button mushrooms are an important crop globally, and due to the role of peat in current cultivation practices, the industry is under increasing pressure to find suitable alternatives. …”
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Effect of Mg interlayer on the microstructure and mechanical performance of resistance rivet welded 2 mm Al and ultra-high strength steel by Luyao Kong, Sizhe Niu, Ming Lou, Zixuan Chen, Yunwu Ma, Yongbing Li, Haiyang Lei

“…Tensile-shear tests reveal that joints with an Mg interlayer predominantly exhibit a button pull-out fracture (BPF) mode, while joints without the Mg interlayer demonstrate the mixed failure modes, including interfacial fracture and BPF. …”
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Exploring the Impact of Homophily Attitude, Physical, and Social Attractiveness on Purchase Intentions by Honya Ghasemi, Ramin Bashir Khodaparasti, Hooshmand Bagheri Garbollagh

“…Social media users can communicate their attitudes and ideas about a brand’s products or the actions of other users by simply pressing the “like” or “dislike” button or by posting a favorable or unfavorable comment on a post. …”
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Digital circuit for switch contact bounce analysis by A. A. Ivaniuk, D. O. Mozhejko

“…The results of experimental studies of the behavior of electrical contacts of various buttons and switches are presented. It is shown that various electric switches have random and unique characteristics, which can be used to solve the problems of random numbers generating, identifying of digital devices and user’s authentication. …”
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Potential of hospital corneal retrieval program in tertiary care center by Ujwala Weladi, Snehal Bonde Chaurasia

“…Corneas were retrieved from 42 patients, resulting in 84 corneal buttons and a retrieval rate of 0.70% of total deaths, while the potential corneal retrieval rate was 60.92%. …”
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US Medical Schools’ 2024 Commencements and Antisemitism: Addressing Unprofessional Behavior by Steven Roth, Hedy S. Wald

“…Materials and Methods: Based on publicly available videotaped commencements, we assessed the number of students in the graduating classes wearing non-school-provided regalia, carrying signs, wearing protest buttons, or engaging in verbal protests related to the Israel–terror groups conflict that were either openly antisemitic or potentially offensive or insensitive. …”
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(Women Writing) The Modernist Line by Cristanne Miller

“…., Marianne Moore, and to a lesser extent Gertrude Stein, since she rejected the poetic line altogether in Tender Buttons. The crucial moves away from Whitman’s nineteenth-century aesthetic had to do with the line as seen, as independent of syntax and meter, as restructuring the possibilities of rhyme, and as a unit in tension with other aspects of form, narrative, and voice in a poem. …”
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Left Main Coronary Stenosis as a Consequence of Bentall Operation: Percutaneous Treatment by Manrico Balbi, Flavio Scarano, Gian Paolo Bezante

“…Gelatin-resorcin-formaldehyde glue was used to reinforce the aortic coronary buttons and to facilitate hemostasis. Five months after surgery, the patient experienced rapidly worsening effort angina. …”
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Sensor and Dynamic Pricing Aware Vertical Transportation in Smart Buildings by Hyunkyoung Choi, Kyungwoon Cho, Hyokyung Bahn

“…In particular, indoor sensors recognize elevator passengers before they press the elevator call buttons, and smart meters inform the dynamically changing price of the electricity to ECS. …”
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Realization of Wireless-Controlled Gear Shifter for Shaft-Driven Bicycle Gearbox by Hsiung-Cheng Lin, Elangovan Chelliah

“…Secondly, a remote controller module with information organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and shift operation buttons was developed. Both modules use independent batteries and a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) interface to communicate with each other for wireless shifting control. …”
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Reduced Sensitivity of Older Adults to Affective Mismatches by Yang Jiang, Victoria Vagnini, Jessica Clark, Qin Zhang

“…Eighteen, right-handed, younger (mean age 22) and 15 older (mean age 68) subjects pressed buttons to indicate pleasantness of target words. …”
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Bringing Motor Imagery BCI systems outside of the laboratory into daily activities by Sonal Santosh Baberwal, Shirley Coyle

“…Furthermore, integrating soft robotics as intuitive control interfaces for performing daily activities, such as pressing spray buttons, exemplifies potential for seamless human-machine interaction. …”
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Expression of HGF and c-Met Proteins in Human Keratoconus Corneas by Jingjing You, Li Wen, Athena Roufas, Chris Hodge, Gerard Sutton, Michele C. Madigan

“…In this initial study, we investigated late-stage KC and control corneas for the expression of HGF and its receptor mesenchymal-epithelial transition factor (c-Met/Met). KC buttons (~8 mm diameter) (n=10) and whole control corneas (n=6) were fixed in 10% formalin or 2% paraformaldehyde, paraffin embedded and sectioned. …”
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Immersive Haptic Technology to Support English Language Learning Based on Metacognitive Strategies by Adriana Guanuche, Wilman Paucar, William Oñate, Gustavo Caiza

“…The following steps should be considered for the app design: (1) the creation of a classroom with characteristics similar to a real classroom and different buttons to navigate through the scenarios; (2) the creation of a virtual environment where text, images, examples, and audio are added according to the grammatical topic; (3) the creation of a dynamic environment for assessment in which multiple choice questions are interacted with, followed by automatic grading with direct feedback. …”
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Demystifying early childhood computational thinking: An umbrella review to upgrade the field by Weipeng Yang, Jiahong Su, Hui Li

“…The Bee‐Bot and various LEGO kits were prevalent among CT learning tools, with interfaces ranging from physical buttons to hybrid systems. Efficacy was noted in tangible activities like unplugged applications and robotics in enhancing concrete understanding and competencies in coding, CT, and spatial skills. …”
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Development of a Cost-Effective Plasma Thawer: A Potential Game-Changer in Blood Transfusion Technology by Shamrez Shahid, Muhammad Danish Mujib Mujib, Ahmad Zahid Rao, Muhammad Abul Hasan, Saad Ahmed Qazi

“…The regulation of temperature and control of motors were coordinated through an Arduino microcontroller and relays which allowed users to set temperature limits through push buttons. Our device was able to thaw frozen plasma, accurately maintaining water temperature between 37-40°C. …”
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Multiband Planar Inverted-F Antenna with Independent Operating Bands Control for Mobile Handset Applications by Mustapha El Halaoui, Abdelmoumen Kaabal, Hassan Asselman, Saida Ahyoud, Adel Asselman

“…The proposed PIFA is studied in the free space and in the presence of other mobile phone components such as the battery, LCD (liquid crystal display), camera, microphone, speaker, buttons, and a plastic housing. The distribution of specific absorption rate for both European and American standards for each operating band and at various distances between the antenna and the human head is also studied.…”
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Comprehensive analysis of the 5-HTTLPR allelic polymorphism effect on behavioral and neurophysiological indicators of executive control in people from different ethnic groups in Si... by A. N. Savostyanov, D. V. Bazovkina, S. A. Lashin, S. S. Tamozhnikov, A. E. Saprygin, T. N. Astakhova, U. N. Kavai-ool, N. V. Borisova, A. G. Karpova

“…In the SSP experiment, a subject should either press one of several buttons quickly after the appearance of the target stimuli or suppress the already started movement if an inhibitory signal follows the target stimulus. …”
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Addressing the “Black Hole” of Low Back Pain Care With Clinical Decision Support: User-Centered Design and Initial Usability Study by Robert S Rudin, Patricia M Herman, Robert Vining

“…User input led to key refinements in the design, such as organizing the input questions by microdiagnosis, adding a patient summary screen that persists during data input and when reviewing output, adding more information buttons and graphics to input questions, and providing traceability by highlighting the input items used by the clinical logic to suggest a working diagnosis. …”
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