Consejo médico en tabaquismo: una necesidad by María Magdalena Caro Mantilla

“…Motivar al paciente para que actúe a favor de un cambio en su estilo de vida es esencial en cualquier intervención médica. …”
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An Accelerated Homotopy Perturbation Method for Solving Nonlinear Two-Dimensional Volterra-Fredholm Integrodifferential Equations by F. A. Hendi, M. M. Al-Qarni

“…In this approach, we use a new formula called variational homotopy perturbation method (VHPM) and variational accelerated homotopy perturbation method (VAHPM). …”
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Business Development Strategy of Beverage Powder Company by M. Zaenal Mahasin, Hartoyo, Rokhani Hasbullah

“…The study concludes that there are priority strategies can be mapped into a new business model that should be applied rapidly. …”
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Insights into the contribution of multiple factors on Ixodes ricinus abundance across Europe spanning 20 years using different machine learning algorithms by Samantha Lansdell, Abin Zorto, Misaki Seto, Edessa Negera, Saeed Sharif, Sally Cutler

“…To assess which ML model was most suited to prediction of I. ricinus abundance, four performance metric values were calculated per model: Normalised Root Mean Square Error (NRMSE), Scatter Index (SI), Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) and R2, all of which describe the statistical relationship between predicted and actual I. ricinus abundance values. …”
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Citrus BMP Implementation in Florida's Gulf Citrus Production Area: Nutrients by Sanjay Shukla, Robert E. Rouse, S. S. Shukla, Edward A. Hanlon, Kenneth Portier, Thomas A. Obreza

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La gestión del conocimiento en cadenas hoteleras: una revisión by José Manoel Gonçalves Gândara, Carolina Sass de Haro, Maria Ángeles Rastrollo Horrillo, Tiago Savi Mondo

“…La gestión del conocimiento busca hacer con que la organización actúe de la forma más inteligente posible para asegurar su viabilidad y éxito, además de sacar el máximo de sus recursos y garantizar su constante renovación. …”
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Effect of Traditional Process Methods on the Physicochemical and Functional Properties of a Traditional Food Salt (Nikkih) Obtained from Waste Biomass Peels of Musa paradisiaca and... by Pride Ndasi Ngwasiri, Vivian Akah Adanmengwi, Wilson Agwanande Ambindei, Noumo Thierry Ngangmou, Dobgima John Fonmboh, Ngwa Martine Ngwabie, Martin Benoit Ngassoum, Ejoh Richard Aba

“…The physicochemical and functional properties of nikkih on yellow achu soup were evaluated using standard methods. …”
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Novel Distance Measures for Single-Valued Neutrosophic Fuzzy Sets and Their Applications to Multicriteria Group Decision-Making Problem by Yun Jin, Muhammad Kamran, Nadeem Salamat, Shouzhen Zeng, Riaz Hussain Khan

“…Single-valued neutrosophic sets are a hybrid of fuzzy sets that are used to represent uncertain, imprecise, partial, and inconsistent information in the actual world. …”
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Ranking Fuzzy Numbers with a Distance Method using Circumcenter of Centroids and an Index of Modality by P. Phani Bushan Rao, N. Ravi Shankar

“…This method ranks various types of fuzzy numbers which include normal, generalized trapezoidal, and triangular fuzzy numbers along with crisp numbers with the particularity that crisp numbers are to be considered particular cases of fuzzy numbers.…”
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Numerical Simulation of Combustion and Rotor-Stator Interaction in a Turbine Combustor by Dragos D. Isvoranu, Paul G. A. Cizmas

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Responsabilidad Patrimonial del Estado: contrapeso al poder exorbitante de la Administración pública mexicana by Guillermo Cambero Quezada

“…Este artículo analiza las características principales del régi men responsabilidad patrimonial del Estado desde la teoría del interés general, teniendo como objetivo entender la función de la Administración pública dentro de un contexto de legalidad y Estado de derecho, evitando así las malas prácticas de la Administración pública, con la finalidad de que actúe dentro del marco del derecho.…”
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Clinical and Onychoscopy Patterns in Fingernail Onychomycosis—A Study by the International Dermoscopy Society Trichoscopy And Onychoscopy Task Force by Matilde Iorizzo, Bianca Maria Piraccini, Aurora Alessandrini, Francesca Bruni, Laura Vollono, Francesca Pampaloni, Nilton Gioia Di Chiacchio, Nilton Di Chiacchio, Juan Jimenez-Cahue, Chander Grover, Zoe Apalla, Asmahne Souissi, Awatef Kelati, Eirini Kyrmanidou, Elizabeth Lazaridou, Michela Starace

“…Cultures identified Trichophyton rubrum in 54 cases, T.  mentagrophytes var. interdigitalis in 20 cases, Aspergillus spp. in 8 cases, Candida spp. in 31 cases, and various other fungi in the remaining cases. …”
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Industrial versus Laboratory Clinker Processing Using Grinding Aids (Scale Effect) by Joseph Jean Assaad

“…Tests results have shown that the decrease in specific energy consumption (Ec) due to glycol or amine-based GA can be evaluated under laboratory conditions. However, such tests underestimate the actual performance that could be achieved in real-scale mills; the Ec reduction due to GA is around twofold higher when grinding is performed in real-scale mill. …”
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An Improved Filtering Method and Application of Landslide Deformation Monitoring by Xing Qi, Chao Hu, Ruliang Cao

“…The amplitude of the error-induced tangent angle warning value fluctuation can be reduced, which provides correct early warning. …”
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Genomic strategies to facilitate breeding for increased β-Glucan content in oat (Avena sativa L.) by Sumandeep Kaur Bazzer, Guilherme Oliveira, Jason D. Fiedler, Raja Sekhar Nandety, Jean-Luc Jannink, Melanie Caffe

“…The findings of this study can be useful to accelerate the genetic improvement of β-glucan content and other traits.…”
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Entre espaces domestiques et « espaces domestiqués » : « L’autonomisation intime » des étudiantes en Turquie by Tuğba Gökduman

“…I take inspiration from the researches of Suad Joseph (1997) who shows the fluidity of boundaries between what she defines as the governmental, non-governmental and domestic spaces, to explain the permeability of moral values from one space to another. The patriarchal “domestication” of women’s sexuality and of private spaces is not unanswered, thus the article analyzes the tactics of circumvention and so-called conformism. …”
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Targeted modulation of intestinal barrier and mucosal immune-related microbiota attenuates IgA nephropathy progression by Ran Zhang, Yuyan Tang, Xiangru Feng, Xiaoxuan Lu, Mengyao Zhao, Jiayang Jin, Xiaoguo Ji, Haidong He, Liming Zhao

“…However, it is unclear whether changes in the gut microbiota can cause IgAN or attenuate its progression. This study employed IgAN and human microbiota-associated (HMA)-IgAN models to investigate the impact of IgAN on gut microbiota alteration and the mechanisms by which gut microbiota might trigger IgAN. …”
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Problems, principles and prospects of international legal regulation of activities of private military and security companies by A. G. Volevodz

“…The current situation, which can be characterized by the processes of liberalization, globalization and reduction of defense budgets, resulted in a rapid growth of the number of private military and security companies (PMSС). …”
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Plastic Surgery: Under the Skin, Suture, Destructive Plasticity and Post-Cinematic Ontologies by Greg Hainge

“…Indeed, ultimately this article suggests that Under the Skin can be read as a commentary on the viewing subject required by (and forms of subjectivity produced by) post-cinematic media forms that at first seem to operate according to a different logic to the cinematic syntax of classical cinema, but which may in fact require us to reconsider some of our assumptions with regard to all forms of cinematic subjectivity produced in the relations between spectator and screen.…”
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Effect of the Change of Deposition Time on the Secondary Direction and Abnormal Shape of Grains Growth of SnO2 Thin Films by Jin Jeong

“…This is because as the deposition time becomes longer, the second growth and atypical shape occurs, leading to an increase of the thin films Rh value. This phenomenon indicates that the deposition time of thin films affects their carrier density and atypical overlapped or wrinkled flower form.…”
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