Parametric Study of the Borehole Drilling in Jointed Rock Mass by Yanan Gao, Yudong Zhang, Zetian Zhang, Minghui Li, Yingfeng Sun, Donghao Lan, Feng Gao

“…It is one of the major dangers during the production because its reaction between the coal masses may induce the gas-coal outburst as well as it being an expositive matter. …”
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Characteristics and Outcomes of 79 Patients with an Insulinoma: A Nationwide Retrospective Study in Finland by Elina Peltola, Päivi Hannula, Heini Huhtala, Saara Metso, Ulla Kiviniemi, Martine Vornanen, Juhani Sand, Johanna Laukkarinen, Mirja Tiikkainen, Camilla Schalin-Jäntti, Johanna Arola, Jukka Sirén, Antti Piiroinen, Minna Soinio, Pirjo Nuutila, Mirva Söderström, Hanna Hämäläinen, Leena Moilanen, David Laaksonen, Elina Pirinen, Fia Sundelin, Tapani Ebeling, Pasi Salmela, Markus J. Mäkinen, Pia Jaatinen

“…The aim of this study was to clarify these aspects in a nationwide cohort of insulinoma patients diagnosed during three decades. Design and Methods. Retrospective analysis on all adult patients diagnosed with insulinoma in Finland during 1980–2010. …”
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Impact of patient–family physician language concordance on healthcare utilisation and mortality: a retrospective cohort study of home care recipients in Ontario, Canada by Claire Kendall, Sharon Johnston, Michael Reaume, Peter Tanuseputro, Michael Pugliese, Douglas Manuel, Denis Prud'homme, Manish Sood, Ricardo Batista, Ewa Sucha, Rhiannon Roberts, Emily Rhodes, Emily Seale, Lise Bjerre, Louise Bouchard

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Ecological risk assessment of future suitable areas for Piper kadsura under the background of climate change by Shimeng Li, Yuanxin Li, Mingli Hu, Mingli Hu, Yankun Li, Yankun Li, Mingrong Yang, Shi Wang, Shi Wang, Wei Yu, Wei Yu, Chunsong Cheng, Qiqing Cheng, Qiqing Cheng

“…The market demand of P. kadsura is huge, but its wild resources are scarce and artificial cultivation methods have not been established, which leads to a situation with strong contradiction and imbalance between supply and demand.MethodsIn this study, 303 sample of distribution data for P. kadsura in China were collected, 33 environmental variables related to terrain, climate and soil were analyzed and the suitable habitats of P. kadsura during various periods were predicted by MaxEnt model and ArcGIS software, aiming to provide a basis for scientific cultivation and effective utilization of resources.ResultsThe results indicated that precipitation and temperature were significant factors in the distribution of P. kadsura. …”
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Visual Mapping of Operating Theater Team Dynamics and Communication for Reflexive Feedback and Surgical Practice Optimization by Surya Surendran, MA, Candice Bonaconsa, MSc, Vrinda Nampoothiri, PharmD, Oluchi Mbamalu, PhD, Anu George, PGDip, Swetha Mallick, MCh, Sudheer OV, MCh, Alison Holmes, MD, Marc Mendelson, PhD, Sanjeev Singh, PhD, Gabriel Birgand, PhD, Esmita Charani, PhD

“…Effective operating theater (OT) communication and teamwork are essential to optimal surgical outcomes. We mapped the OT team dynamics and infection control practices using visual methods to guide reflexive feedback and optimize perioperative practices. …”
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La répartition des chimpanzés à Sebitoli (Parc National de Kibale, Ouganda): influence des facteurs naturels et anthropiques by Sarah Bortolamiol, Marianne Cohen, Milena Palibrk, Sabrina Krief

“…Most of crops are experiencing crop-raiding due to wild animals.We analysed GPS records and data collected during two years (February 2009 to February 2011) of chimpanzee habituation at Sebitoli using records of direct observations, vocalizations, and dungs. …”
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Multi-observatory Study of Young Stellar Energetic Flares (MORYSEF): No Evidence for Abnormally Strong Stellar Magnetic Fields after Powerful X-Ray Flares by Konstantin V. Getman, Oleg Kochukhov, Joe P. Ninan, Eric D. Feigelson, Vladimir S. Airapetian, Abygail R. Waggoner, L. Ilsedore Cleeves, Jan Forbrich, Sergio A. Dzib, Charles J. Law, Christian Rab, Daniel M. Krolikowski

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Sequencing Silicates in the Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph Debris Disk Catalog. I. Methodology for Unsupervised Clustering by Cicero X. Lu, Tushar Mittal, Christine H. Chen, Alexis Y. Li, Kadin Worthen, B. A. Sargent, Carey M. Lisse, G. C. Sloan, Dean C. Hines, Dan M. Watson, Isabel Rebollido, Bin B. Ren, Joel D. Green

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Vascular Health in American Football Players: Cardiovascular Risk Increased in Division III Players by Deborah L. Feairheller, Kristin R. Aichele, Joyann E. Oakman, Michael P. Neal, Christina M. Cromwell, Jessica M. Lenzo, Avery N. Perez, Naomi L. Bye, Erica L. Santaniello, Jessica A. Hill, Rachel C. Evans, Karla A. Thiele, Lauren N. Chavis, Allyson K. Getty, Tia R. Wisdo, JoAnna M. McClelland, Kathleen Sturgeon, Pam Chlad

“…Football players had thicker carotid artery IMT (0.49 ± 0.06 mm versus 0.46 ± 0.07 mm) and larger brachial artery diameter during FMD (4.3±0.5 mm versus 3.7±0.6 mm), but no difference in percent FMD. …”
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Spike frequency adaptation in primate lateral prefrontal cortex neurons results from interplay between intrinsic properties and circuit dynamics by Nils A. Koch, Benjamin W. Corrigan, Michael Feyerabend, Roberto A. Gulli, Michelle S. Jimenez-Sosa, Mohamad Abbass, Julia K. Sunstrum, Sara Matovic, Megan Roussy, Rogelio Luna, Samuel A. Mestern, Borna Mahmoudian, Susheel Vijayraghavan, Hiroyuki Igarashi, Kartik S. Pradeepan, William J. Assis, J. Andrew Pruszynski, Shreejoy Tripathy, Jochen F. Staiger, Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos, Andreas Neef, Stefan Treue, Stefan Everling, Wataru Inoue, Anmar Khadra, Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo

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A Study on the Genotype × Environment Interaction in Promising Advanced Genotypes of Soybean using Graphical GGE-biplot Analysis by Bahram Masoudi, Amir Gholizadeh, Parastoo Majidian, Ebrahim Hezarjaribi, Nasrin Razmi, Farnaz Shariati

“…Extended Abstract Background: Oilseeds are among the most important sources of energy all over the world. Soybean (Glycine max L.) is an important crop and its oil has nutritional and high economic value. …”
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Analysis of the Effect of Social Capital on Brand Performance with the Mediating Role of Employees’ Brand Citizenship Behavior by Naser Seifollahi

“…AbstractOrganizational Social CapitalThe history of social capital goes back to classical economists like Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill and sociologists like Max Weber who used cultural factors to analyze economic phenomena. …”
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The establishment of blue-sky index: how to quantify the aerosol optical impacts on sky color by Sunan Shen, Jiandong Wang, Chao Liu, Jia Xing, Jiaping Wang, Jing Cai, Zeyuan Tian, Peng Wang, Guangjie Zheng, Yuzhi Jin, Chenggang Wang, Le Cao, Zhouyang Zhang, Bin Wang, Aijun Ding, Shuxiao Wang

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International norms for adult handgrip strength: A systematic review of data on 2.4 million adults aged 20 to 100+ years from 69 countries and regions by Grant R. Tomkinson, Justin J. Lang, Lukáš Rubín, Ryan McGrath, Bethany Gower, Terry Boyle, Marilyn G. Klug, Alexandra J. Mayhew, Henry T. Blake, Francisco B. Ortega, Cristina Cadenas-Sanchez, Costan G. Magnussen, Brooklyn J. Fraser, Tetsuhiro Kidokoro, Yang Liu, Kaare Christensen, Darryl P. Leong, Mette Aadahl, Edimansyah Abdin, Julian Alcazar, Aqeel Alenazi, Bader Alqahtani, Cledir De A. Amaral, Thatiana L.M. Amaral, Alex Andrade Fernandes, Peter Axelsson, Jennifer N. Baldwin, Karin Bammann, Aline R. Barbosa, Ameline Bardo, Inosha Bimali, Peter Bjerregaard, Martin Bobak, Colin A. Boreham, Klaus Bös, João Carlos Bouzas Marins, Joshua Burns, Nadezda Capkova, Lilia Castillo-Martínez, Liang-Kung Chen, Siu Ming Choi, Rebecca K.J. Choong, Susana C. Confortin, Cyrus Cooper, Jorge E. Correa-Bautista, Amandine Cournil, Grace Cruz, Eling D. de Bruin, José Antonio De Paz, Bruno De Souza Moreira, Luiz Antonio Dos Anjos, María Cristina Enríquez Reyna, Eduardo Ferriolli, Gillian Forrester, Elena Frolova, Abadi K. Gebre, Atef M. Ghaleb, Tiffany K. Gill, Yasuyuki Gondo, M. Cristina Gonzalez, Citlali Gonzalez Alvarez, Mary K. Hannah, Nicholas C. Harvey, Jean-Yves Hogrel, Marie-Theres Huemer, Toshiko Iidaka, Lewis A. Ingram, Dmitri A. Jdanov, Victoria L. Keevil, Wolfgang Kemmler, Rose Anne Kenny, Dae-Yeon Kim, Tracy L. Kivell, Ingirid G.H. Kjær, Alexander Kluttig, Rumi Kozakai, Danit Langer, Lisbeth A. Larsen, Wei-Ju Lee, David A. Leon, Eric Lichtenstein, Bertis B. Little, Roberto Alves Lourenço, Rahul Malhotra, Robert M. Malina, Kiyoaki Matsumoto, Tal Mazor-Karsenty, Marnee J. McKay, Sinéad McLoughlin, Abhishek L. Mensegere, Mostafa Mohammadian, Virgilio Garcia Moreira, Hiroshi Murayama, Anne Murray, Anita Liberalesso Neri, Claudia Niessner, Gabriel Núñez Othón, Gabriel Olveira, Suzanne G. Orchard, Andrezj Pajak, Chan Woong Park, Julie A. Pasco, Maria E. Peña Reyes, Leani Souza Máximo Pereira, Annette Peters, Eric Tsz-Chun Poon, Margareth C. Portela, Jedd Pratt, Robinson Ramírez-Vélez, Wendy Rodríguez-García, Joanne Ryan, Mauricio A. San-Martín, Francisco José Sánchez-Torralvo, Mahnaz Saremi, Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss, Satoshi Seino, Shamsul Azhar Shah, Marc Sim, Bjørn Heine Strand, Mythily Subramaniam, Charlotte Suetta, Sophia X. Sui, Jonas S. Sundarakumar, Koya Suzuki, Abdonas Tamosiunas, Maw Pin Tan, Yu Taniguchi, Barbara Thorand, Anna Turusheva, Anne Therese Tveter, Jonathan Wagner, Dao Wang, Stuart J. Warden, Julia Wearing, Shiou Liang Wee, Leo D. Westbury, Agnieszka Wiśniowska-Szurlej, Alexander Woll, Noriko Yoshimura, Ruby Yu

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Ensemble estimates of global wetland methane emissions over 2000–2020 by Z. Zhang, B. Poulter, J. R. Melton, W. J. Riley, G. H. Allen, D. J. Beerling, P. Bousquet, J. G. Canadell, E. Fluet-Chouinard, P. Ciais, N. Gedney, P. O. Hopcroft, A. Ito, R. B. Jackson, A. K. Jain, K. Jensen, F. Joos, T. Kleinen, S. H. Knox, S. H. Knox, T. Li, X. Li, X. Liu, K. McDonald, G. McNicol, P. A. Miller, J. Müller, P. K. Patra, P. K. Patra, C. Peng, S. Peng, Z. Qin, R. M. Riggs, M. Saunois, Q. Sun, H. Tian, X. Xu, Y. Yao, Y. Xi, W. Zhang, W. Zhang, Q. Zhu, Q. Zhu, Q. Zhuang

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New particle formation dynamics in the central Andes: contrasting urban and mountaintop environments by D. Aliaga, V. A. Sinclair, R. Krejci, R. Krejci, M. Andrade, M. Andrade, P. Artaxo, L. Blacutt, R. Cai, R. Cai, S. Carbone, Y. Gramlich, L. Heikkinen, L. Heikkinen, L. Heikkinen, D. Heslin-Rees, D. Heslin-Rees, W. Huang, W. Huang, V.-M. Kerminen, A. M. Koenig, A. M. Koenig, M. Kulmala, M. Kulmala, M. Kulmala, P. Laj, P. Laj, V. Mardoñez-Balderrama, V. Mardoñez-Balderrama, C. Mohr, C. Mohr, C. Mohr, I. Moreno, P. Paasonen, W. Scholz, K. Sellegri, L. Ticona, G. Uzu, F. Velarde, A. Wiedensohler, D. Worsnop, D. Worsnop, C. Wu, C. Wu, C. Wu, C. Xuemeng, Q. Zha, F. Bianchi

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Providing a paradigmatic model of return on investment in the training of employees in the petrochemical industry by Mehdi Farahani, Seyyed Ali Akbar Ahmadi, Mohammad Tamimi

“…In the first part, in order to design the model of return on investment in the training of petrochemical industry employees, the qualitative method of grounded theory was used according to Strauss and Corbin's point of view, using MaxQDA 20 software; and in the second part; the validation of the model, the indicators' expertise validation using the fuzzy Delphi method was discussed by coding in MATLAB environment. …”
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