Determining the Heterotic Groups of Selected Grain Maize (Zea mays L.) Inbred Lines using Morphological and Phenological Traits by Mahnaz Oroojloo, Sara Dezhsetan, Behzad Ahmadi, Mohammadreza Shiri, Ali Moghaddam

“…In this component, the largest positive coefficients belonged to 1000-kernel weight (0.723) and plant height (0.531) traits, and a negative factor coefficient belonged to the number of kernels per row (-0.755). …”
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Trends and factors associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes in Zimbabwe, 2005 - 2015 by T Chibura, H Twabi, K Maluleke, A Musekiwa

“…The multivariable model, belonging to the 35 - 49-year age group, was associated with almost a twofold increased odds of experiencing an adverse pregnancy outcome (adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 2.11, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.35 - 3.31, p=0.001). …”
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Une statue de togatus découverte dans l’agglomération antique de Briord (Ain) by Thomas Le Saint Quinio, Maria-Pia Darblade-Audoin

“…The latter was comprised of vestiges belonging to demolition phases, including the statue, some large limestone blocks and other, smaller fragments of lime. …”
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Exploring the assessment of post-cardiac valve surgery pulmonary complication risks through the integration of wearable continuous physiological and clinical data by Lixuan Li, Yuekong Hu, Zhicheng Yang, Zeruxin Luo, Jiachen Wang, Wenqing Wang, Xiaoli Liu, Yuqiang Wang, Yong Fan, Pengming Yu, Zhengbo Zhang

“…The significance of AUC differences between models was tested using the DeLong test to determine the optimal prognostic model comprehensively. …”
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Diagnosis and Numerical Simulation of Low-level Wind Shear over the Hengduan Mountains in Winter by Ren Juzhang, Yang Xue, Tao Yun, Fu Zhijia, Chen Yan, Zhong Yahan, Wang Man, Jin Yan

“…Cangyuan Washan Airport, located at Delong Mountain in the Hengduan Mountains, is prone to low level wind shear during takeoff and landing in winter, which is of great harm to aviation safety, and aviation departments attach great importance to it. …”
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Immune and genomic biomarkers of immunotherapy response in cancer of unknown primary by Madhu Singh, Linda Mileshkin, Penelope Schofield, Bo Gao, Gary Richardson, Andrew Pattison, Rodney J Hicks, Niko Thio, Mark Warren, Colin Wood, Stephen B Fox, Anna DeFazio, Andrew Fellowes, Christopher Steer, David Bowtell, Nicholas Wilcken, Tharani Sivakumaran, Atara Posner, Dariush Etemadmoghadam, Krista Fisher, Samantha Webb, Christos S Karapetis, Ian M Collins, Narayan Karanth, Owen W J Prall, Richard William Tothill

“…Among 110 CUPs with a latent primary or suspected TOO, 47% (52/110) belonged to ICI-responsive cancer types. More than half of the CUPs had at least one feature that may predict ICI response (high IR score, high TMB, ICI-responsive cancer type). …”
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The Development of Publications on Catheter-Related Bladder Discomfort: A Bibliometric Analysis by Jiang W, Chen X, Peng Y, Zhai W, Zhang X, Zhou Y, Zhou R

“…Wencai Jiang,1 Xuemeng Chen,1 Yanhua Peng,1 Wenhu Zhai,1 Xianjie Zhang,1 Yukai Zhou,1 Rui Zhou2 1Department of Anesthesiology, Deyang People’s Hospital, Deyang, 618000, People’s Republic of China; 2Shanghai Key Laboratory of Anesthesiology and Brain Functional Modulation, Clinical Research Center for Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Translational Research Institute of Brain and Brain-Like Intelligence, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Shanghai Fourth People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200434, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Rui Zhou, Shanghai Fourth People’s Hospital, No. 1279, Sanmen Road, Shanghai, 200434, People’s Republic of China, Email ruizhoukepler@126.comBackground: Catheter-related bladder discomfort (CRBD) is a risk factor that impacts postoperative recovery and still troubles patients and healthcare staff. …”
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Flowering Characteristics and Expression Patterns of Key Genes in Response to Photoperiod in Different <i>Chrysanthemum</i> Varieties by Qiuling Zhang, Xueru Li, Shuyu Cai, Junzhuo Li, Jiaying Wang, Yanfei Li, Silan Dai

“…It was found that three varieties (‘A44’, ‘C60’, and ‘183’) belonged to obligatory short-day varieties and four varieties (‘A20’, ‘C1’, ‘C27’, and ‘C31’) belonged to facultative short-day varieties. …”
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The Mechanism of Acupuncture Therapy for Migraine: A Systematic Review of Animal Studies on Rats by An Y, Zhang J, Ren Q, Liu J, Liu Z, Cao K

“…Yuqiu An,1,2,&ast; Jing Zhang,1,2,&ast; Qiaosheng Ren,1,2 Jiaojiao Liu,1,2 Zhenhong Liu,1,2,&ast; Kegang Cao1,2,&ast; 1Department of Neurology, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, 100700, People’s Republic of China; 2Institute for Brain Disorders, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, 100700, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Kegang Cao; Zhenhong Liu, Email Kgdoctor@sina.com; lzhh0399@163.comBackground: Acupuncture has long been used for migraine treatment as it is convenient for use and has remarkable efficacy. …”
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The Hazard Content of Cadmium, Lead, and Other Trace Elements in Some Medicinal Herbs and Their Water Infusions by Fuad A. Ababneh

“…54 samples belonging to 23 herbal species (15 individuals and 8 mixtures) were analyzed for their contents of heavy metals in the raw materials and in their water infusions. …”
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A Review of Nesting Behavior in the Genus Entomognathus, With Notes on E. Memorialis Banks (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) by Richard C. Miller, Frank E. Kurczewski

“…(Entomognathus) brevis van der Linden has been studied in any detail, and almost nothing is known about the four U. S. species belonging to the subgenus Toncahua One of the purposes of the present paper is, therefore, to amalgamate information on the host preferences, nesting behaviors, life histories, and immature stages of the species of Entomognathus, based upon a review of the world literature. …”
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A study of young people’s attitudes towards the impact of the fashion industry on the environment by A. N. Timokhovich, Ts. S. Filenko, A. S. Lelyakova

“…As a result of the study, a high degree of awareness of young people about the negative impact of the fashion industry on the environment was revealed; the attitude of young people to the manifestations of the fashion industry was revealed; the willingness of young people to change their consumer practices in the fashion industry was determined; aspects of the behavior of young people associated with following eco-friendly principles (higher awareness when consuming industry goods fashion; more rare purchases of fashion industry products; rejection of genuine leather and fur in clothing; reduction of consumption of various goods; the purchase of goods in eco-friendly/recyclable packaging; focus on the purchase of eco-friendly products; the delivery of personal belongings for recycling; the use of second-hand goods); the positive attitude of young people to the types of activities that can be carried out by companies in the fashion industry aimed at solving environmental problems has been revealed.…”
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Places of Memory in the Red Vyborg of 1918 by Outi Fingerroos

“…The Karelian Isthmus belonged to Finland until 1939. The period between the World War I and the World War II was a time of rapid contextual change and ended the difficulties caused by modernisation aggravated in the year 1918. …”
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The effect of service quality and customer value on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty in Bank Sultra by Abdul Razak, Abdul hakim, Asraf Yunus

“…In connection with these findings, researchers suggest the need to build and maintain customer loyalty with a strategy to increase factors that are considered not optimal by customers, such as reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy, in addition to the need to maintain and develop a high sense of belonging to Bank Sultra customers by trying to emphasize to staff the importance of building emotional relationships with customers by greeting in a friendly manner, serving politely, interacting, and trying to understand the identity of the customer's background so that intimacy with customers is established.…”
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Fluency and complexity as coupled growers in speaking English at secondary school – A case study of a good, average, and poor language learner by Katarzyna Joanna Rokoszewska

“… One of the main assumptions of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) is that internally complex language subsystems develop non-linearly while entering different kinds of supportive, competitive, conditional, or dual relationships which are characterised by trade-offs caused by learners’ restricted cognitive processing, especially in foreign language speech. The present paper belongs to a short series of articles which examines various aspects of the development of L2 English speech at secondary school on basis of the same longitudinal, exploratory, and corpus-based case study. …”
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Porous Silicon Formation by Electrochemical Etching by Оrest Kuntyi, Galyna Zozulya, Mariana Shepida

“…After all, in the “procession” the method of obtaining PSi ⟶ pore geometry and architecture of PSi ⟶ functional properties of PSi, the decisive role belongs to the first participant. Among the most used methods, electrochemical etching is the most suitable for the controllability of the processes of nucleation and growth of pores since it can be controlled using the value of the current density, and the results are easily reproduced. …”
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The Nobility in Bohemia and in the Habsburg Monarchy within the Legal and Social Context of the 19th Century by Marie Macková

“…On the other hand, usually nothing would prevent them from participating in a modern business. Not everybody belonging to this social layer, however, had both the necessary ability and/or the desire to do so. …”
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I santi degli altri. Devozione, mutamento e rituali tra i singalesi cattolici a Messina by Giovanni Cordova

“…In the last years they have been progressively institutionalized their religious belonging through stable connections (although subject to continuous negotiation) with Messina’s Catholic diocese. …”
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The Inconsistency of the Algorithms of Jaro–Winkler and Needleman–Wunsch Applied to DNA Chain Similarity Results by Boris Melnikov

“…In this paper, we consider the distance matrices for the two mentioned algorithms, calculated for the mitochondrial DNA of 32 species of monkeys belonging to different genera. For them, 4960 triangles are formed in both matrices, and we calculate the values of the rank correlation between these sequences. …”
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A contribution to the study of the urbanization of today's old core of Zemun during the 18th century by Mićović Nela

“…An analysis of archival materials and cartographic plans confirmed that the tablet belonged to a house in Glavna Ulica (Main Street) (today's number 15), where, according to the Zemun Magistrate's censuses, Johannes Radmacher lived from 1773 to 1787. …”
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