Vida Saludable: Presión sanguínea alta by Leigh Ann Martin, Linda B. Bobroff

“…In brief it explains what high blood pressure is, what hypertension can cause, risks, how it affects the arteries, and the importance of regular blood pressure check-ups. Published by the UF Department of Family Youth and Community Sciences, November 2009. …”
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Pecan Cultivars for North Florida by Peter C. Andersen

“…Pecan recommendations for Florida have been updated to include new information about cultivar performance. Check out this revised 13-page fact sheet to select the best cultivars for yield, performance, resistance to disease, and resistance to limb breakage. …”
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Skin microbiome differences in pancreatic adenocarcinoma, other cancers, and healthy controls: a pilot study by Taylor Davis, Katherine T. Decker, Dana Hosseini, Gayle Jameson, Erkut Borazanci

“…While recent studies have explored the microbiome’s role in various types of cancer compared to healthy patients, this pilot study is the first to investigate differences in the skin microbiome composition among pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients, individuals with other cancers, and cancer-free controls.MethodsThe study characterizes the skin microbiome’s potential associations with cancer status by analyzing skin swabs from the forehead and cheek of 58 participants using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), differential abundance analysis, and machine learning techniques.ResultsThe study results indicated that the cancer group displayed a significantly higher mean alpha diversity compared to the control group. …”
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Chronic lower back pain among occupational workers: effect of relaxation technique on quality of working life, pain and disability level with nurse-led intervention by Nabila ELSayed Sabola, Kamal Wifaq, Musaad M. Alruwaili, Rasha Kamal Mohamed Sweelam, Sabah Hassan El-Amrosy, Amal Yousef Abdelwahed

“…Setting The study took place at a yarn and textile factory in Kafr El-Sheikh City, Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, Egypt. Sample A purposive sample of 100 industrial workers with persistent LBP was chosen. …”
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The Impact of Liberalized Concealed Carry Laws on State Homicide Rates by K. Alexander Adams

“…The analysis uses multivariate regression with state and time-fixed effects and applies a general-to-specific procedure to select control variables. Robustness checks, including a generalized synthetic control model, confirm the findings. …”
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Native Pitcherplants of Florida by Megan E. Brown, Debbie L. Miller

“…http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/uw378   Check out the Facebook album!  …”
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Leafminer Parasitoid Opius dissitus Muesebeck (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae) by Jian Li, Dakshina Seal, Gary Leibee

“…Leafminers are usually the larvae of insects that feed or mine inside plant leaves, and Opius dissitus is a wasp endoparasite that keeps the population of Liriomyza leafminers in check. This 2-page fact sheet was written by Jian Li, Dakshina Seal, and Gary Leibee, and published by the UF Department of Entomology and Nematology, October 2011. …”
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Native Pitcherplants of Florida by Megan E. Brown, Debbie L. Miller

“…http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/uw378   Check out the Facebook album!  …”
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Leafminer Parasitoid Opius dissitus Muesebeck (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae) by Jian Li, Dakshina Seal, Gary Leibee

“…Leafminers are usually the larvae of insects that feed or mine inside plant leaves, and Opius dissitus is a wasp endoparasite that keeps the population of Liriomyza leafminers in check. This 2-page fact sheet was written by Jian Li, Dakshina Seal, and Gary Leibee, and published by the UF Department of Entomology and Nematology, October 2011. …”
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Healthy Living: Diabetes Warning Signs by Linda B. Bobroff

“…Review the list of warning signs below and check any that you have experienced. This revised 2-page fact sheet was written by Linda B. …”
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Cypress looper Anacamptodes pergracilis (Hulst) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Geometridae) by Wayne N. Dixon

“…Currently, cypress looper populations are at low levels, even in the Fisheating Creek (Glades County) area, a perennial generator of significant cypress looper defoliation over the past 20 years. …”
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Healthy Living: Diabetes Warning Signs by Linda B. Bobroff

“…Review the list of warning signs below and check any that you have experienced. This revised 2-page fact sheet was written by Linda B. …”
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Water Quality and the Effectiveness of Pesticides by Frederick M. Fishel

“…Rather, the applicator will check if the correct pesticide was chosen for the job, if the pest was misidentified, if application equipment was properly calibrated, or if there was pesticide resistance. …”
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INFLUENTIAL PARAMETERS DURING PRESSURE RELIEF EXPOSED IN WORKING CHAMBER OF HYDRAULIC CYLINDER PRESS by MILUTIN ŽIVKOVIĆ

“…This paper provide practical guidance for the design and calculation of important design parameters usually embedded devices - hydraulic command check valves (HCCV) (nominal size, pressure and decompression time) and the possibility of determining performance requirements using, from literature, the expressions and the nomograms. …”
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Cypress looper Anacamptodes pergracilis (Hulst) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Geometridae) by Wayne N. Dixon

“…Currently, cypress looper populations are at low levels, even in the Fisheating Creek (Glades County) area, a perennial generator of significant cypress looper defoliation over the past 20 years. …”
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Phytophthora Management in Citrus Nurseries by Megan M. Dewdney, Jamie D. Burrow

“… Check out the new fact sheet about Phytopthora Management in Citrus Nurseries. …”
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Impact of eye movements and facial expressions on social performance during a collaborative problem-solving task by Kana Miyamoto, Hiroki Tanaka, Jennifer Hamet Bagnou, Céline Clavel, Elise Prigent, Amine Benamara, Christine Le Scanff, Jean-Claude Martin, Satoshi Nakamura

“…Our facial expression analysis showed that the lower the intensity of expression is in inner brow raiser, the cheek raiser, and the lip corner puller, the lower is the social performance.…”
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Que révèlent « parcelles préférées » et « coins de paradis » sur les caractères d’un produit ? by Lydie Menadier

“…We will present finally some results obtained on three PDO cheese areas of production in central part of France, especially on relations between farmers and landscapes.…”
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THE NIGERIAN OIL RESOURCEAND SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND: AN INTERROGATION by Joshua DANJUMA

“…Findings reveal poor political institutions, corruption and lack of accountability, weak executive control of oil resource governance with apparent inadequate checks and balances, and the resultant conflicts and clashes of interests, manipulations, and inflation of oil contracts with favouritism in allocating oil blocs to cronies.Therefore, this articleshades in a newlight by interrogating the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund to ensure optimal benefits of oil wealth to all citizenry; it submits that measures must be adopted in building political institutions, reforming the Niger Delta Development Commission; diversification, building a welfare state, equitable distribution of oil wealth and the imposition of direct tax. …”
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Towards autonomous robotic THz-based in vivo skin sensing: the PicoBot by Anubhav Dogra, Dominic Jones, Arturo Ignacio Hernandez Serrano, Shruti Chakraborty, Jacob Joshua Young, Benjamin George Page, Joseph Hardwicke, Pietro Valdastri, Emma Pickwell-MacPherson

“…We show THz results for skin measurements of volunteers with healthy and dry skin conditions on various parts of the body such as the volar forearm, forehead, cheeks, and hands. The tests conducted validate the preclinical feasibility of the concept along with the robustness and advantages of using the PicoBot, compared to a manual measurement setup.…”
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