Monetary Incentives in Italian Public Administration: A Stimulus for Employees? An Agent-Based Approach by Linda Ponta, Gian Carlo Cainarca, Silvano Cincotti

“…The paper, focusing on the context of Public Administration (PA), addresses the effects of monetary incentives in employees’ performance. In the Italian PA, the monetary incentives are distributed according to the D.L.150/09 (i.e., the monetary incentives are divided among the employees according to the employees’ performance) which is based on the rank order tournament. …”
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Incremental Explosive Analysis and Its Application to Performance-Based Assessment of Stiffened and Unstiffened Cylindrical Shells Subjected to Underwater Explosion by Masoud Biglarkhani, Keyvan Sadeghi

“…The explosive loading intensity is specified and scaled in several levels to force the structure through the entire range of its behavior. The results are plotted in terms of a damage measure (DM) versus selected intensity measure (IM). …”
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Transcriptomic analysis of Andrias davidianus meat and experimental validation for exploring its bioactive components as functional foods by Changge Guan, Zhenglin Tan, Shucheng Li, Yi Wang, Naoyuki Yamamoto, Chong Zhang, Songjun Wang, Junjie Chen, Xin-Hui Xing

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Effects of Additives and Sintering Time on the Microstructure of Ni-Zn Ferrite and Its Electrical and Magnetic Properties by Abdollah Hajalilou, Mansor Hashim, Halimah Mohamed Kamari

“…Moreover, the oxides increase the resistivity of the ferrite and decrease its zinc loss. Magnetic properties such as induction magnetization (BS) and saturation magnetization (MS) decreased in the presence of the additives while its coercivity (HC) increased. …”
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A Time-motion Comparison of Itemized Treatment Costs in First and Second In Vitro Fertilization Attempts: A United Kingdom Fertility Centre Experience by Christopher A. Jones, Olivia J. Carpinello, Dev Kumar, Louis G. Keith, Renju S. Raj, E. Scott Sills

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Burden of type 2 diabetes and its relationship with human development index in Asian countries: Global Burden of Disease Study in 2019 by Seyed Ahmadreza Alinaghian, Shokoufeh Hamidzadeh, Afsaneh Badrizadeh, Zaher Khazaei, Amirhossein Souri, Victoria Momenabadi, Elham Goodarzi

“…The purpose of this study is to investigate Burden of type 2 diabetes and its relationship with human development index in Asian countries. …”
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Global longitudinal strain and its dynamics after replacement of aortal valve in patients with severe aortic stenosis by N.V. Ponych, O.O. Nemchyna, O.J. Zharinov, O.A. Yepanchintseva, B.M. Todurov

“…The aim – to determine factors that may influence the global longitudinal strain (GLS) and its dynamics after replacement aortic valve (RAV) in patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS). …”
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Transcription Factor E2F-1 Is Upregulated in Human Gastric Cancer Tissues and Its Overexpression Suppresses Gastric Tumor Cell Proliferation by Qiang Xiao, Lei Li, Yubo Xie, Ning Tan, Changqing Wang, Junyi Xu, Keyi Xia, Kevin Gardner, Qingdi Q. Li

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Habitat suitability modeling for Posidonia oceanica distribution along a Mediterranean region (NW Italy) by Rachele Bordoni, Chiara Paoli, Monica Montefalcone, Alice Oprandi, Ilaria Rigo, Francesca Ruggeri, Paolo Vassallo

“…These findings are essential for the conservation of a vital marine ecosystem and for promoting prudent and effective land management, ultimately securing the legacy of P. oceanica in northwestern Italy.…”
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Synthesis of Activated Carbon Mesoporous from Coffee Waste and Its Application in Adsorption Zinc and Mercury Ions from Aqueous Solution by Liliana Giraldo, Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján

“…We obtain activated carbons with high portion of meso pores using coffee residues as precursor for the application of adsorption of large adsorbates. Because of its natural properties, the coffee residue exhibited a large pore size. …”
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Control of peritectic phase content and its effect on properties of CuSn20P1 alloy by semi-solid rheological forming by Hao Zhang, Yongkun Li, Rongfeng Zhou, Dingdong Huo, Yao Li, Lei Wang

“…CuSn20P1 alloy has a wide range of applications in aerospace, automobile and other fields, but the mismatch between strength and plasticity in conventional casting has greatly limited its application field. In the paper, a melt enclosed cooling slope channel (ECSC) was used to prepare CuSn20P1 alloy semi-solid slurry, and then the casting was prepared by rheo-squeeze casting (RSC) and liquid squeeze casting (LSC). …”
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Estimates of Combining Ability and Heterosis for Yield and Its Related Traits in Pearl Millet Inbred Lines under Downy Mildew Prevalent Areas of Senegal by Ghislain Kanfany, Amadou Fofana, Pangirayi Tongoona, Agyemang Danquah, Samuel Offei, Eric Danquah, Ndiaga Cisse

“…Pearl millet is an important cereal crop for smallholder farmers’ food security in West and Central Africa. However, its production has stagnated due to several factors such as the continuous use of local populations. …”
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First record of Opilo germanus Chevrolat, 1843 (Coleoptera: Cleridae) from Italy with remarks on its distribution in Europe by Erik Tihelka

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Spatiotemporal Variability of Channel Roughness and its Substantial Impacts on Flood Modeling Errors by Md Abdullah Al Mehedi, Shah Saki, Krutikkumar Patel, Chaopeng Shen, Sagy Cohen, Virginia Smith, Adnan Rajib, Emmanouil Anagnostou, Tadd Bindas, Kathryn Lawson

“…While alternative formulations exist, open‐channel n is typically regarded as temporally constant, determined from lookup tables or calibration, and its spatiotemporal variability was never examined holistically at large scales. …”
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Univex Interval-Valued Mapping with Differentiability and Its Application in Nonlinear Programming by Lifeng Li, Sanyang Liu, Jianke Zhang

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The Immunoexpression of Glucocorticoid Receptors in Breast Carcinomas, Lactational Change, and Normal Breast Epithelium and Its Possible Role in Mammary Carcinogenesis by Raja Alyusuf, Javed Fayyaz Wazir, Urmil Prabha Brahmi, Abdul Rahman Fakhro, Moiz Bakhiet

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Recognising the intricate relationship between uric acid and diabetes and its impact on ocular diseases by Soumya Ramani, Smriti Harish

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An Efficient Protocol for Deriving Liver Stem Cells from Neonatal Mice: Validating Its Differentiation Potential by Sugapriya Dhanasekaran, Devilakshmi Sithambaram, Kavitha Govarthanan, Bijesh Kumar Biswal, Rama S. Verma

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Global, regional, and national burden of heart failure and its underlying causes, 1990–2021: results from the global burden of disease study 2021 by Jun Ran, Ping Zhou, Jinxi Wang, Xuemei Zhao, Yan Huang, Qiong Zhou, Mei Zhai, Yuhui Zhang

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