Role of white-tailed deer in geographic spread of the black-legged tick Ixodes scapularis : Analysis of a spatially nonlocal model by Stephen A. Gourley, Xiulan Lai, Junping Shi, Wendi Wang, Yanyu Xiao, Xingfu Zou

“…The model turns out to be a system of differential equations with a spatially non-local term accounting for the phenomenon that a questing female adult tick that attaches to a deer at one location may later drop to the ground, fully fed, at another location having been transported by the deer. …”
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Evaluation of the Repeatability and the Reproducibility of AL-Scan Measurements Obtained by Residents by Mehmet Kola, Hikmet Duran, Adem Turk, Suleyman Mollamehmetoglu, Ahmet Kalkisim, Hidayet Erdol

“…Both performed ocular biometry and IOL power measurements using AL-Scan, three times on each of 128 eyes, independently of one another. Corneal keratometry readings, horizontal iris width, central corneal thickness, anterior chamber depth, pupil size, and axial length values measured by both residents were recorded together with IOL power values calculated on the basis of four different IOL calculation formulas (SRK/T, Holladay, and HofferQ). …”
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CONTRACTUALISTIC MEASUREMENTS OF THE GENDER: POSSIBILITIES AND BORDERS by D. V. Usov

“…The purpose of the study is critical reconstruction of gender issues within the framework of modern political philosophy and political anthropology, in-depth reflection of the phenomena of justice, identity, human dignity in the aspect of their gender measurements and the search for the answer to the fundamental question for leading gender discourses: is freedom and justice, in fact, possible only together with stresses, a feeling of one’s sense-rooted belonging to one or another community? Theoretical basis. The supplement of the phenomenological and transcendental methodology by the method of contractualism directs the study of the topic specified in the article’s title into a new direction, and reflects its essential measurements and aspects. …”
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DGFEG: Dynamic Gate Fusion and Edge Graph Perception Network for Remote Sensing Change Detection by Shengning Zhou, Genji Yuan, Zhen Hua, Jinjiang Li

“…Numerous networks combining CNN and transformer architectures have emerged, yet effectively balancing local detail and global context features remains a topic of ongoing discussion. …”
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Green Synthesis of Antibacterial CuO Nanoparticles Based on the Synergy Between <i>Cornu aspersum</i> Snail Mucus and Ascorbic Acid by Maria Todorova, Angelina Kosateva, Ventsislava Petrova, Bogdan Ranguelov, Stela Atanasova-Vladimirova, Georgi Avdeev, Ivanka Stoycheva, Emiliya Pisareva, Anna Tomova, Lyudmila Velkova, Aleksandar Dolashki, Pavlina Dolashka

“…This was confirmed by scanning electron microscopy combined with energy-dispersive spectroscopy (SEM/EDS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Another important advantage of CuONPs obtained by the new method with two reducing agents is the stronger inhibitory effect on the bacterial growth of some Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial strains, compared to CuONPs-Muc prepared with only one reducing agent, i.e., a fraction of mucus with an MW > 20 kDa.…”
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Successful Treatment of Rhabdomyolysis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury with Haemoadsorption and Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy by Wun Fung Hui, Kam Lun Hon, Kin Shing Lun, Karen Ka Yan Leung, Wing Lum Cheung, Alexander K. C. Leung

“…A haemoadsorption column was therefore added post-CRRT filter, which brought down the CK level from 264,500 IU/L to 97,436 IU/L after 8 hours of therapy. Another 4-year-old boy with epilepsy and cerebral palsy who was admitted for gastroenteritis with dehydration developed acute kidney injury and rhabdomyolysis with a peak CK level of 946,060 IU/L. …”
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PHONOTACTIC AND PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM IN KEMPO AND S>H KOLANG SUBDIALECTS by Salahuddin Salahuddin, Daru Winarti

“…This study also found three non-pulmonic consonant phonemes in the two subdialects: bilabial /?…”
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Traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) exposure, lung function, airway inflammation and expiratory microbiota: A randomized crossover study by Rongrong Xu, Yanping Zhang, Tingting Wu, Hao Liu, Jianhao Peng, Zhanshan Wang, Te Ba, Baorong Zhang, Zhigang Li, Yongjie Wei

“…TRAP including NO2 and CO in the road were about 1.5 times higher than that in the park except for PMs, and total VOCs also showed higher concentrations. …”
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The Hottest Neptunes Orbit Metal-rich Stars by Shreyas Vissapragada, Aida Behmard

“…A handful of close-in planets with masses between those of Neptune and Saturn have now been discovered, and their puzzling properties have inspired a number of interesting theories on the formation and evolution of desert-dwellers. …”
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Safety-Critical Oracles for Metamorphic Testing of Deep Learning LiDAR Point Cloud Object Detectors by Simon Speth, Maximilian Trien, Dominik Kufer, Alexander Pretschner

“…To ensure this traceability, we derive seven traceable metamorphic transformations from defects identified through interviews with industry experts. Another challenge is prioritizing failures by safety criticality, as not all failing test cases, as evaluated by current intersection over union (IoU)-based metamorphic oracles, pose the same safety risk. …”
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INFLUENCING FACTORS OF E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES ADOPTION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Edin Osmanbegović, Zijad Lugavić

“…One side represents government with their view of e-government implementation, and at another side are citizens’, NGO’s and private sector as users of e-government services with their needs and views of e-government services. …”
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Personal glucose meter-based portable method for creatine kinase assay by Jinhwan Lee, Yejin Oh, Hyoyong Kim, Sangmo Lee, Hyun Gyu Park

“…HK then phosphorylates glucose into glucose-6-phosphate by converting the produced ATP back to ADP, which could enter another cycle of the CER to further phosphorylate glucose in a sample. …”
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The Impact of Cognitive Anxiety and the Rating of Pain on Care Processes in a Vigilance Task: The Important Part Played by Age by Luis Pinel, Miguel A. Perez-Nieto, Marta Redondo, Luis Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Leticia L. Mateos

“…There was also a positive and significant correlation with age and another negative and significant correlation with cognitive anxiety regarding the overall performance times during the undertaking of the experimental task. …”
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Beyond communication - research as communicating: making user and audience studies matter - paper 2 by Brenda Dervin, CarrieLynn Reinhard, Fei C. Shen

“…Some serious and fundamental attacks; (3) a call to focus on the special problematics of the social sciences: agency, structure, power and the good; (4) eschewing scientific recipes and scholarly creeds and bringing back the joys of adventuring and muddling; (5) the paradox of communicatingfreedom is another word for nothing left to lose. <br><b>Conclusion.…”
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A systematic review of Streptococcus Mutans and Veillonellae species interactions in dental caries progression: Positive or Negative impact? [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2... by Faizul Hasan, Prawati Nuraini, Ariadna Adisattya Djais, Ervina Restiwulan Winoto, Tantiana Tantiana, Rini Devijanti Ridwan, Juni Handajani, Rajesh Ramasamy, Silvia Anitasari, Hendrik Setia Budi

“…Some studies indicate that Veillonellae spp. can inhibit the acid production by S. mutans, potentially reducing the cariogenic process. Another aspect is the competition for substrates. …”
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STATE DILEMMAS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD ORDER by I. N. Timofeev

“…Nevertheless there is another approach, locating actorhood in the state, which forms the world order. …”
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Artificial intelligence in dentistry—A review by Hao Ding, Jiamin Wu, Wuyuan Zhao, Jukka P. Matinlinna, Jukka P. Matinlinna, Michael F. Burrow, James K. H. Tsoi

“…Evidence-based dentistry (EBD) is regarded as the gold standard for decision making by dental professionals, while AI machine learning (ML) models learn from human expertise. ML can be seen as another valuable tool to assist dental professionals in multiple stages of clinical cases. …”
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Intra-specific diversity and adaptation modify regime shifts dynamics under environmental change by Thomas Imbert, Jean-Christophe Poggiale, Mathias Gauduchon

“…Investigating the influence of higher diversity levels, such as diversity at a community level, should be another step towards anticipating changes in ecosystems and communities.…”
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Increasing Trust in Banking and Developing Insurance System for Bank Deposits in Russia by I. V. Dmitriev

“…To number of such problems are carried: insufficient volume of an insurance covering; concentration of deposits mainly in the large banks which are on the one hand, carriers of system risk, with another, - in which capitals participates the state, having thus subsidiary responsibility; limited set of functions of Agency and some other. …”
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H. G. Wells’s and E. M. Forster’s Transformative Arts: Theoretical Divergences and Formal Connections by Laurent Mellet

“…In both his essays and novels, Forster regularly considered what is now referred to as intermediality, for instance through his defence of musical forms of ‘rhythm’ and pictorial forms of ‘pattern’ in literature in Aspects of the Novel. …”
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