Proposed Relationships Between Climate, Biological Soil Crusts, Human Health, and in Arid Ecosystems by Marieke L. Ramsey, Daniel R. Kollath, Anita J. Antoninka, Bridget M. Barker

“…These communities are composed of lichens, bryophytes, cyanobacteria, fungi, liverworts, and other microorganisms. …”
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An Energy and Latency Aware WSN MAC Protocol for Bidirectional Traffic in Data Collection by Ji-Yeon Min, Sang-Hwa Chung, Yuvin Ha

“…However, with the independence of each node's wake-up point, the receiver node's idle listening duration of XY-MAC is always longer than that of B-MAC+. …”
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Cryoglobulinaemia in Egyptian Patients with Extrahepatic Cutaneous Manifestations of Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection by Doaa Salah Hegab, Mohammed Abd El Rahman Sweilam

“…Twelve patients (10.169%) were positive for serum cryoglobulins (2 with pruritus, 4 with vasculitic lesions, 3 with livedo reticularis, one with oral lichen, one with chronic urticaria, and another with Schamberg’s disease). …”
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Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism Secondary to Thrombophilic Disorder: A Case Report by Satbir Kaur Malik, Vineetha Naga Lakshmi Giduturi, Sindhuri Goud Nimmala, Vijayashree Gokhale

“…The most common inherited thrombophilias—such as Factor V Leiden mutation, prothrombin G20210A mutation and deficiencies in protein C, protein S and antithrombin III—are a group of genetic conditions that predispose individuals to thrombotic events by influencing various factors involved in the coagulation cascade. …”
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Looking, pointing, and talking together: How dyads of differential expertise coordinate attention during conversation. by Lucas Haraped, Stefan E Huber, Walter F Bischof, Alan Kingstone

“…., one person leads and one follows) when dyads are assigned conversational roles (e.g., speaker and listener). And while such studies have focused on the coupling of gaze, there is also evidence that people use their hands to coordinate attention. …”
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Promoting English movie as a means of enhancing EFL learners’ cultural competence by Dwi Suny Wardhany

“…., speaking, vocabulary, reading, and listening through learning activities done during and after watching and analyzing English movies. …”
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Intensional profiles and different kinds of human minds. “Case studies” about Hungarian imperative-like sentence types by Gábor Alberti, Judit Kleiber, Zsuzsanna Schnell, Veronika Szabó

“…In this context, the listener’s task is to calculate the speaker’s intentions (and hidden motives) on the basis of the mismatches that this comparison reveals. …”
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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AS A TOOL FOR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANAGEMENT OF BUILT FACILITIES by Edoghogho OGBEIFUN

“… Effective operation of functional built facilities required for the performance of the core functions of an organization demands the contextual use of the principle of listening to the voice of customers, through performance assessment, leading to performance improvement. …”
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Enabling LTE and WiFi Coexisting in 5 GHz for Efficient Spectrum Utilization by Hongyu Sun, Zhiyi Fang, Qun Liu, Zheng Lu, Ting Zhu

“…To avoid the channel access conflicts, current LTE Unlicensed (LTE-U) technology introduces the duty cycle of LTE, while License-Assisted Access (LAA) technology introduces Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) mechanism. While these two technologies improve the spectrum utilization by using time division access schema, we believe that more efficient spectrum utilization can be achieved by enabling simultaneous transmissions from LTE and WiFi. …”
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Cultivating Well-being, Community Cohesion, and Sense of Purpose through African Contemplative Practices by Lucy Draper-Clarke, Caryn Green

“…Participants identified how the synchronized movements, vocalization, and multisensory listening enabled experiences of self-transcendence, connection, and social cohesion, eliciting emotions of peacefulness, harmony, and joy. …”
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Immunosuppression Induced by Chronic Inflammation and the Progression to Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Yujuan Sun, Nan Liu, Xiaobing Guan, Hongru Wu, Zheng Sun, Hui Zeng

“…The progression from premalignant lesions—oral leukoplakia (OLK) and oral lichen planus (OLP)—to OSCC involves complex inflammatory processes that have not been elucidated. …”
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Effect of 1-month laughter yoga training on verbal working memory in visually impaired schoolchildren by Anchal Sharma, Moradhvaj Singh

“…Data were collected using the listening span test, involving pre- and posttests for these children. …”
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Temporal Coding of Periodicity Pitch in the Auditory System: An Overview by Peter Cariani

“…Features in such distributions correspond closely with pitches that are heard by human listeners. The most common all-order interval present in the auditory nerve array almost invariably corresponds to the pitch frequency, whereas the relative fraction of pitchrelated intervals amongst all others qualitatively corresponds to the strength of the pitch. …”
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Development and Prospects of National Intelligent System for Testing General Language Competencies Deployed Through Neural Network Solutions by E. M. Bazanova, A. V. Gorizontova, N. N. Gribova, T. M. Chikake, A. V. Samosyuk

“…ISTOK is an adaptive testing system deployed through neural network solutions and providing assessment of receptive and productive language skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing) by using artificial intelligence and/or neurolinguistic models. …”
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THE NUREMBERG TRIAL AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW: AN APPRAISAL by ANDREW BUYENGUM JACKSON, GAMBO NELSON

“…The Versailles Treaty of 1919 which would have brought nation-states to order failed as the result of retribution from the great powers. Closely, the Lieber code of 1863, customary international law, and Briand Kellog pact of 1928 provided a very good playground for international peace and order and it was on this basis that the Nuremberg trial took its shape fostered by Henry Dunant’s book; A Memory of Solferino in 1864. …”
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Analysis of Heavy Metals Concentration in Soil and Litchens from Various Localities of Hosur Road, Bangalore, India by Abida Begum, M. Ramaiah, Harikrishna, Irfanulla Khan, K. Veena

“…Heavy metal accumulation in few prominent lichens of some localities was analysed. Cr and Pb were maximum in Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) …”
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From Bengal to Java: Raffles’ Landrente in Indonesian Agrarian System by Harto Juwono

“…Originating during the British ruled Java from 1811 to 1816, British Lieutenant Governor-General Thomas Stamford Raffles introduced the concept of landrente for a tax on land. …”
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Evaluation of the Back-in-Action test Battery In Uninjured High School American Football Players by Marcel Rohde, Alina Ruhlemann, Andre Busch, Ulrich Grunwald, Marcus Jaeger, Constantin Mayer

“…Despite significantly greater power measurements, scores of balance and agility were poorer compared to the reference group, especially for linemen. These data may serve as sport and position specific reference for high school American football players, instead of using the non-specific reference group data…”
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Does music counteract mental fatigue? A systematic review. by Cong Ding, Soh Kim Geok, He Sun, Samsilah Roslan, Shudian Cao, Yue Zhao

“…Mentally fatigued individuals could apply personal preference music to counteract subsequent motor control performance decrements or simultaneously listen to it to counteract endurance performance decrements. …”
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Factors Associated with Access to the Saudi Primary Healthcare in Light of Vision 2030 by Salah Alshagrawi, Ahmed Nasser Al-luhaym

“…As for the factors affecting access to primary healthcare in doctor-patient communication, the most notable factors include the provision of respectful treatment by the doctor toward patients, attentive listening to patients’ concerns and questions, and clear explanation of treatment plans and outcomes. …”
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