Investigating the Structural Relationships of the Tendency to Addiction to Mobile Phone-Based Social Networks in Students, Based on Early Maladaptive Schemas Mediated by Alexithymi... by Pouria Moghimy, Forough Esrafilian, Hojjatollah Farahani

“…Based on research findings, variable of maladaptive schemas was able to predict the tendency to addiction to social networks in a positive and significant manner. However, there was no significant relationship between Alexithymia and the propensity to develop an addiction to social media. …”
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Ingestion of melamine cleaning sponges-derived microplastic fibers affects the survival and reproduction of Daphnia magna by Huimin Li, Wenwen Song, Songfeng Wang, Yanhua Wang, Yunfeng Ma, Yu Su, Rong Ji

“…Although the lethality of melamine MPFs to neonates was not observed upon a short-term exposure (24 h), such effect was detected when the animals were exposed for a longer period (21 d) and showed a concentration-dependent manner. The MPFs tended to aggregate in the gut of D. magna, leading to a slow elimination compared to polystyrene microspheres. …”
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Analysis and Review of the Newspapers Neday-e Iran and Neday-e Irani, the First Successful Experience of Women Journalism in Shiraz by ziba ghafory

“…The objective of this investigation is to determine the manner in which the “Neday-e Iran” and “Neday-e Irani” periodicals analyzed political and social matters in Iran during the years 1947 to 1952.The political and social issues of the 1940s and 1950s have been critically examined by the newspapers Neday-e Iran and Neday-e Irani, which were published in Shiraz by Mrs. …”
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Climate and soil factors drive the functional and phylogenetic assembly of Qinghai-Tibetan grassland communities via multiple paths by Xiaomei Kang, Yanjun Liu, Xinyang Wu, Lijie Duan, Jiachang Jiang, Aoran Zhang, Wei Qi

“…Despite their significance, the manner in which these structures change along environmental gradients has not been explored extensively. …”
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Game-Theoretic Camera Selection Using Inference Tree Method for a Wireless Visual Sensor Network by Yeong-Jae Choi, Go-Wun Jeong, Yong-Ho Seo, Hyun S. Yang

“…Those challenges can be addressed by reducing the amount of data transmission among the sensors and by activating, in a timely manner, only a desirable camera subset for given targets. …”
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From information to knowledge: charting and measuring changes in students' knowledge of a curriculum topic by Ross J Todd

“…However, students seemed more oriented to gathering facts and knowing a set of facts, and accumulating these in an additive manner, rather than building complex, integrated and abstract knowledge representations.…”
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Protective Effects of Celastrol on Diabetic Liver Injury via TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB Signaling Pathway in Type 2 Diabetic Rats by Li-ping Han, Chun-jun Li, Bei Sun, Yun Xie, Yue Guan, Ze-jun Ma, Li-ming Chen

“…The expressions of TLR4, MyD88, NF-κB, and downstream inflammatory factors IL-1β and TNFα in the hepatic tissue of treated rats were downregulated in a dose-dependent manner. We firstly found that celastrol treatment could delay the progression of diabetic liver disease in type 2 diabetic rats via inhibition of TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB signaling cascade pathways and its downstream inflammatory effectors.…”
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Synthesis of shared aperture thinned interleaved arrays with elements in concentric rings by Zhigang GU, Longjun LI, Jikuan HU

“…Among planar array antennas, concentric ring array (CRA) antennas have received considerable interest since it is symmetric and provides invariant beam pattern for 360° azimuthal coverage.In case of limited antenna aperture, there is great value to thinned interleaved CRA with low peak side lobe levels and a narrow main beam.The application of the cubic interpolation and density-weighting method in shared aperture array design was demonstrated by the low peak side lobe level synthesis of CRA.By adopting the Fourier-Bessel transform the relationship between the element’s excitation and array pattern, thinned interleaved problems were formulated as time-frequency synthesis problems.On the basis of the density-weighting method, element excitations of interleaved sub-array were carefully selected in an odd-even manner, which ensured the pattern matching of the generated sub-array.The iterative FFT algo rithm was adopted to thin the concentric ring array.Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve a favorable thinned and interleaved concentric ring array design with matched power patterns and low peak sidelobe levels.The problem of thinned and interleaved concentric ring arrays is solved, and the design of multi-function shared aperture thinned interleaved arrays with elements in concentric rings is realized.…”
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Fortis-lenis distinction of fricatives and plosives in Welsh – Phonetically distinctive factors by Michał Baran

“…Even though the phonological features such as [spread glottis] or [voice] may be used both for distinguishing between the series of plosives and fricatives, the phonetic features responsible for the distinction are likely to differ due to the different phonetic nature of the manner of articulation and the position of fricatives and plosives (Honeybone 2005: 333–334). …”
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BRITISH COLONIAL CONQUEST AND POPULATION MOVEMENT IN NORTHERN NIGERIA 1897– 1903 by Umar Zubairu, Mohammed Auwalu, Adamu Babayo Usman

“… The panic and fear planted by the British forces in the minds of the people of Northern Nigeria during the conquest and the amount of destruction that took place led to large – scale movements of people. The destructive manner in which towns and villages were shelled and lives were brutally killed, using sophisticated weapons put the innocent population in most unsettled conditions. …”
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Resilient business strategies in the German hospitality industry and its viability by Tonia Ruppenthal, Jana Rückert-John

“…The business strategies are resilient, as operational managers responded to the crisis in a situation- and organisation-specific manner and implemented transformative business activities. …”
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CooperSense: A Cooperative and Selective Picture Forwarding Framework Based on Tree Fusion by Huihui Chen, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu

“…In order to save the network cost and improve the transmitting efficiency, pictures will be preselected by mobile clients and then uploaded to the server in an opportunistic manner. In this paper, CooperSense, a multitask MCP framework for cooperative and selective picture forwarding, was designed. …”
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Methylglyoxal Impairs Insulin Secretion of Pancreatic β-Cells through Increased Production of ROS and Mitochondrial Dysfunction Mediated by Upregulation of UCP2 and MAPKs by Jinshuang Bo, Shiya Xie, Yi Guo, Chunli Zhang, Yanming Guan, Chunmei Li, Jianxin Lu, Qing H. Meng

“…Our study demonstrates that MG impaired insulin secretion by MIN6 or ISN-1 cells in a dose-dependent manner. It increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) production and apoptosis rate in MIN6 or ISN-1 cells and inhibited mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) and ATP production. …”
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An examination of anger levels of the individuals doing extreme sport by Fahri Akcakoyun, Merve Ceylan, Vedat Mutlu

“…This study has been conducted in order to identify the trait angerand the manner of expressing anger of extreme sport participants. …”
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Beyond Conflicts and Borders: Reconciliation and Latinotopia by Karin Ikas

“…How and to what extent Latinotopia can eventually be perceived as a discursive site for reconciliation in the Third Millennium is the question this paper aims to answer by integrating socio-political, historical and literary works in an interdisciplinary manner and by suggesting considering Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s figure of the “rhizome” as an illustrative concept to capture Latinotopia theoretically and practically in further studies.…”
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Societal Opposition to Tourism-Related Development in the Hautes-Pyrénées: a Missed Opportunity for Territorial Innovation? by Sylvie Clarimont, Vincent Vlès

“…In the Pyrenees, the decentralised manner in which planning permission is awarded to projects might give the impression that the expansion of ski resorts is now more attuned to the concerns of local people, with potential conflicts handled more effectively than they were in the past. …”
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Protective Effect of Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cell Secretome against Hepatocyte Apoptosis Induced by Liver Ischemia-Reperfusion with Partial Hepatectomy Injury by Zhihui Jiao, Yajun Ma, Yue Wang, Tao Liu, Qianzhen Zhang, Xiaoning Liu, Chenxi Piao, Boyang Liu, Hongbin Wang

“…Our findings indicate that ADSCs exert therapeutic effects in a paracrine manner through their secretome, which can be a viable alternative to cell-based regenerative therapies.…”
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Linguistic and rhetorical analysis of Abdul Hossein Zarrinkoob's writing style in the "notes" of his works by Elahe Azarbayjani, Amir Hossein Madani

“…One of the research methods that Zarrīnkūb uses in most of his works is "note writing," a method which has enabled the author to provide further explanations about the main text as well as presenting extra information about documentations and sources. In this manner, Zarrīnkūb has owned specific style in most of his works to the extent that a significant part of the final pages of his works is dedicated to "notes." …”
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Discrete Simulation of Vibratory Roller Compaction of Field Rockfills by Yang Li, Chengxue She

“…In addition, the segregation of field rockfills was replicated in a practical manner. Then, a new model of the vibratory roller was presented, in which the frame inertia was considered. …”
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Single-cell bilayer design of a terahertz six-channel metasurface for simultaneous holographic and grayscale images by Zhiqiang Du, Chunhui Zhu, Zhengyong Song

“…However, some of these designs are implemented in a manner of interleaved subarrays that complicates the design and makes them difficult to achieve integration. …”
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