Technologie du fait maritime chez les Kalinago des Petites Antilles aux xvie et xviie siècles by Benoît Bérard, Jean-Yves Billard, Thierry L’Etang, Guillaume Lalubie, Costantino Nicolizas, Bruno Ramstein, Emma Slayton

“…This paper is based on extensive review of the data contained in those early Spanish, Dutch, English, and French sources and also on a review of the few direct archaeological evidences. …”
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Status and Causes of Soil Salinization of Irrigated Agricultural Lands in Southern Baja California, Mexico by Tsuneyoshi Endo, Sadahiro Yamamoto, Juan A. Larrinaga, Hideyasu Fujiyama, Toshimasa Honna

“…Low EC and high pH levels were observed in the profiles of sandy fields, because the salt composition of these soils can easily change when salts are leached by irrigation water that contains carbonates of sodium. On the other hand, high levels of salinity and sodicity were observed in the soils of clayey fields. …”
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Sustainable human resource management practices in organizational performance: The mediating impacts of knowledge management and work engagement by Shatha Abu-Mahfouz, Mutia Sobihah Abd Halim, Ayu Suriawaty Bahkia, Noryati Alias, Ph.D. in Management, Abdul Malek Tambi

“…ORIGINALITY AND VALUE: The research has provided proof of five variable relationships contained in the model. Firstly, organizational performance increased with sustainable HRM practices through knowledge management. …”
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Influence of the Culture Medium in Dose-Response Effect of the Chlorhexidine on Streptococcus mutans Biofilms by Vanessa Salvadego de Queiroz, Renzo Alberto Ccahuana-Vásquez, Alcides Fabiano Tedesco, Luzia Lyra, Jaime Aparecido Cury, Angélica Zaninelli Schreiber

“…S. mutans biofilm grew on glass slides of each media containing 1% sucrose. After 48 h of growth, biofilms of baseline 48 h were collected and the other groups were treated for 1 min, twice a day, for 3 days, with their respective treatments. …”
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Chemical Composition and Microbial Contaminants of Poha Beer: A Local Nonalcoholic Beverage in the Bolgatanga Municipality, Ghana by Julius T. Dongdem, James Abugri, Clement A. Asakedola

“…Therefore, Poha Beer processed and sold in the Bolgatanga Municipality is acidic and contains detrimental amounts of Cd2+ and bacterial pathogens which may render it unwholesome for human consumption.…”
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Shoot Organogenesis and Plant Regeneration from Leaf Explants of Lysionotus serratus D. Don by Qiansheng Li, Min Deng, Jie Zhang, Wei Zhao, Yigang Song, Quanjian Li, Qingjun Huang

“…Murashige and Skoog (MS) growth media containing 0.5 mg L−1 BA alone or with combination of 0.1 mg L−1  α-Naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) were the most effective for shoot proliferation. …”
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Lithium-Ion Battery State of Health Degradation Prediction Using Deep Learning Approaches by Talal Alharbi, Muhammad Umair, Abdulelah Alharbi

“…The NASA battery dataset, containing charging and discharging cycles, is used for model training and evaluation. …”
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In-situ backup virtual sensor application in building automation systems toward virtual sensing-enabled digital twins by Youngwoong Choi, Sungmin Yoon

“…This is because the real systems may contain unidentified practical uncertainties. Therefore, BVSs must be developed and managed with in-situ methods, that is, under real system environments. …”
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Efficient Preference Clustering via Random Fourier Features by Jingshu Liu, Li Wang, Jinglei Liu

“…Experiments on movie data sets containing 100 000 ratings, show that the proposed method is more effective in clustering accuracy than the Nyström and k-means, while also achieving better performance than these clustering approaches.…”
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Preventing Foodborne Illness: Yersiniosis by Christopher R. Pabst, Jaysankar De, Aswathy Sreedharan, Correy Jones, Keith R. Schneider

“…Outbreaks of yersiniosis have been associated with improperly pasteurized milk, ready-to-eat salad mix, oysters, and more commonly with consumption of undercooked meals containing pork. Yersiniosis incidents have been reported frequently in Northern Europe, Scandinavia, and Japan, and rarely in the United States. …”
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Experimental investigation of gas seepage characteristics in coal seams under gas-water-stress function by Zunguo Zhang, Chao Tang, Yi Chen, Yongqiang Chen, Honghu Zhang, Yifu Zhang

“…The findings indicate that, with increasing gas pressure, the permeability of coal specimens containing different levels of moisture varies distinctly. …”
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Data on Swiss public's acceptance and sustainability perceptions of food produced with chemical, digital and mechanical weed control measures and the influence of information sourc... by Jeanine Ammann, Nadja El Benni, Sandie Masson, Rita Saleh

“…Participants were recruited through a professional panel provider and quotas were used for age, gender and language region. The final sample contained 485 respondents. In the first part of the survey, respondents provided basic sociodemographic information. …”
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Toxicity of Single and Mixed Contaminants in Seawater Measured with Acute Toxicity Bioassays by A.R. Fernandez-Alba, L. Piedra, M. Mezcua, M.D. Hernando

“…In the case of mixtures, synergistic toxic responses were seen for a clear majority of the cases (>60%). Mixtures containing methyl-tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) exhibit accelerated processes that result in a change in concentration required to produce a toxic effect; for example, in the case of mixtures containing MTBE and Diuron and Dichlofluanid.…”
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Advanced strawberry farming: effect of UV light and fruiting characteristics on resource efficiency in Vertical Indoor Farming by Sabine Wittmann, Ivonne Jüttner, Inga Mewis, Nadja Förster, Senthold Asseng, Heike Mempel

“…However, the total energy demand of a container VIF is high, with 4.4-6.4 kWh m-2 d-1. Additional UVA radiation did not significantly alter the Ever-bearing cultivar’s performance. …”
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Typology jihatul ka’bah on qibla direction of Mosques in Semarang by Ahmad Izzuddin

“…The development of celestial science in perfecting worship also contributed to the implementation of integration between religious science and science contained in the concept of jihatul ka'bah. Including improving the measurement of the Qibla direction in Indonesian society which in the last year was quite widespread, especially in Semarang, Central Java. …”
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Investigation of the Impact of Combustion Chamber Geometry on Engine Combustion and Emission Performance Under Various Fuel Injection Timings With Biodiesel Blending by Dongge Wang, Guangyuan Bao, Chao He, Jiaqiang Li, Yanlin Chen, Longqing Zhao, Haisheng Yu

“…The research results show that the TCD combustion system can effectively improve the combustion and emission performance of diesel engines, provide data support for the development of diesel engine combustion systems and the combustion of oxygen‐containing fuels in plateau environments, and provide an important reference for energy conservation and emission reduction.…”
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الخدمات والرعایة الصحیة للحجاج فى الوثائق الرسمیة للادارة المصریة فى القرنین التاسع عشر والعشرین المیلادیین : دراسة تاریخیة وثائقیة... by د. عصام أحمد عیسوى

“…This study provides a description of a number of sites providing servicesand health care in Egypt at the end of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ADthrough the official documents of the Egyptian government contained in a numberof bureaus, ministries, interests, and bodies, with the clarification and explanationof their budgets, and the material and logistical needs required of Funds, andequipment, to provide these Services for the pilgrims of God’s Sacred Houseevery year, and this study deals with the documentation of health servicesprovided to pilgrims in that period that witnessed many multiple politicalfluctuations, including the beginning of the English occupation of Egypt in 1882AD, and the decline of Ottoman influence on Egypt, and on the Hijaz that cameunder the influence of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after its establishment in1932 AD, these events that affected the ways and mechanisms for providingthese services and health care for Egyptian pilgrims, as well as for pilgrimscrossing through the land, and Egyptian sea routes, which is in addition toprevious studies and works That dealt with the topic from different angles, also,this study touched on some of the literature that dealt with this topic, whichprovided the Arab Library with false, or sometimes unconfirmed, information onthe extent of the Egyptian administration's interest in providing these healthservices, which this study sought to answer in a way Scientific through what wasmentioned in the Egyptian official documents.On the other hand - this study sought to reveal the terms anddocumentary terms that were used officially in this health, administrative,financial, marine, and other terms used during the nineteenth and early twentiethcentury, and which were known and used by official officials in blogging Records,and official records produced during that period.…”
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CRALBP is a Highly Prevalent Autoantigen for Human Autoimmune Uveitis by Cornelia A. Deeg, Albert J. Raith, Barbara Amann, John W. Crabb, Stephan R. Thurau, Stefanie M. Hauck, Marius Ueffing, Gerhild Wildner, Manfred Stangassinger

“…Thirty out of 56 tested uveitis patient's sera contained autoantibodies reactive against CRALBP, compared to only four out of 23 normal control subjects. …”
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Proposal to use LHC general-purpose detectors in “beam-dump” measurements for long-lived particles by Bhaskar Dutta, Doojin Kim, Hyunyong Kim

“…Collisions of high-energy protons result in jets containing a number of energetic hadrons and electromagnetic objects that are essentially “dumped” to hadronic and electromagnetic calorimeters, respectively, and induce the production of secondary hadrons, electrons, and photons in calorimetric showers. …”
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Escherichia coli stress response systems and their reaction to terahertz radiation by S. E. Peltek, E. V. Demidova, V. M. Popik, T. N. Goryachkovskaya

“…Transformed E. coli cells containing biosensors can be used to visualize their reactions to terahertz radiation based on the intensity of GFP fluorescence. …”
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