Food manipulation and processing in wild western gorillas of Central African Republic: implications for studying behavioural variability by Shelly Masi, Ellen JM Meulman, Françoise Aubaile, Sabrina Krief, Angelique Todd, Emanuelle Pouydebat

“…In this regard, relative to other great apes, gorillas are interesting because, like humans, they possess an elongated thumb that enables precision grips and finer manipulative actions, particularly important for bimanual coordination. Such manipulative abilities may induce fine-grain inter-individual variability in food-manipulation techniques and, when such techniques are socially transmitted, greater cultural diversity. …”
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Dominant Discourses About What It Means to Be “Good” at Mathematics: How High-Achieving Young Women Negotiate Tensions Within Their Evolving STEM Identities by Terrie Galanti, Nancy Holincheck

“…Cultural beliefs about what it means to be “good” at mathematics profoundly impact students’ perceptions of their abilities and how they come to see themselves in STEM. …”
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Factors Motivating Generation Z in the Workplace: Managerial Challenges and Insights by Camelia Surugiu, Marius-Răzvan Surugiu, Cătălin Grădinaru, Ana-Maria Grigore

“…Gen Z is generally not teamwork-oriented and prefers working alone to demonstrate their abilities and achieve greater efficiency. Gen Z switches jobs frequently and shows low loyalty to organizations, often prioritizing personal preferences over long-term commitment. …”
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NEWLY DISCOVERED MASSIVE GLACIAL BOULDER IN NORTHWESTERN POLAND: IMPLICATIONS AND PROSPECTS FOR SUSTAINABLE REGIONAL GROWTH by Maria GÓRSKA-ZABIELSKA

“…The aim is to recognise the importance and role of geodiscovery as part of a wider sustainable local development strategy to benefit residents and tourists alike. The research was conducted on a massive erratic boulder discovered in February 2024, in NW Poland. …”
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A machine learning technique for optimizing load demand prediction within air conditioning systems utilizing GRU/IASO model by Meng He, Hui Wang, Myo Thwin

“…GRU is a recurrent neural network that has the ability to comprehend intricate temporal relationships within the input data. …”
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Transmembrane Amino Acid Transporters in Shaping the Metabolic Profile of Breast Cancer Cell Lines: The Focus on Molecular Biological Subtype by Elena I. Dyachenko, Lyudmila V. Bel’skaya

“…A distinctive feature of luminal subtypes of breast cancer from TNBC is the ability to perform gluconeogenesis. Breast cancers with a positive expression of the HER2 receptor, in contrast to TNBC and luminal A subtype, have a distinctive active synthesis and consumption of fatty acids. …”
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Three-Dimensional Teaching Method for Art Design Major from the Perspective of “Internet Economy” by Xike Zhang

“…The order of influence degree is innovation ability > design expression > design thinking. Based on the realization of Internet theory, this paper studies the three-dimensional teaching method of art design specialty, so as to provide a theoretical basis for the application and research of Internet in other fields.…”
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Nonlinear Behavior Study of Reinforced Concrete Coupling Beams Subjected to the Effect of Wind Loading by Sarah Bashour, Bassam Hwaija, Fadwa Issa

“…For seismic design of such buildings, performance-based design has been commonly used in regions with strong earthquakes for its ability to achieve economical and safe design, however the use of performance-based wind design (PBWD), which permits nonlinear response of ductile elements at specific locations under wind loads is still hindered due to the lack of information regarding the performance of these elements. …”
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Intragovernmental governance in South Africa - An analysis of recent jurisprudence by Andreas SJ Karsten, Marjoné van der Bank

“…In the South African local government domain, municipalities’ ability to execute legislative and executive powers is vested in municipal councils (section 151(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996). …”
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION OF EMPLOYEES WORLDWIDE VS. ROMANIA by Alina Mihaela FRĂTICĂ-DRAGOMIR (GUȘE)

“…It is the process of choosing the most suitable candidate who corresponds to the knowledge, skills, abilities and requirements of the job. In the case study, we make critical assessments on how to select the person suitable for the given position and for the development of the organization or public institution. …”
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Investigating Multiphase Flow Phenomena in Fine-Grained Reservoir Rocks: Insights from Using Ethane Permeability Measurements over a Range of Pore Pressures by Eric Aidan Letham, Robert Marc Bustin

“…The ability to quantify effective permeability at the various fluid saturations and stress states experienced during production from shale oil and shale gas reservoirs is required for efficient exploitation of the resources, but to date experimental challenges prevent measurement of the effective permeability of these materials over a range of fluid saturations. …”
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Exploring pre-service English teachers’ perceptions and practices of critical thinking in Indonesian EFL classrooms by Ganang Kuswandaru, Willy Prasetya

“…Participants emphasized the need for incorporating critical thinking strategies into language teaching to enhance students’ cognitive abilities and facilitate deeper understanding. Nevertheless, the study also identified potential challenges, including the uneven distribution of critical thinking practices across the education system and the need for specialized teacher training to implement critical thinking instruction effectively. …”
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Logo Design Process and Method of Intellectual Property Big Data in the Digital Media Era by Xin Jia, Yan Dong, Bingxue Wang

“…Combined with digital media and big data technology, a logo image recognition and classification method is designed so that the trademark registration and screening stage can avoid the infringement design to the greatest extent, so as to put forward the design process and method to improve the innovation ability of logo design. …”
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Current Controversies in the Prediction, Diagnosis, and Management of Cerebral Vasospasm: Where Do We Stand? by Young Lee, Scott L. Zuckerman, J. Mocco

“…Evidence regarding the effect of age, smoking, and cocaine use on the incidence and outcome of vasospasm is reviewed. The abilities of different computed tomography grading schemes to predict vasospasm in the aftermath of subarachnoid hemorrhage are presented. …”
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Urban Road Change Detection using Morphological Processing by Ei Phyu Sin Win

“…In addition to significant, benefits of Google Earth Pro, this research demonstrates the ability to make good use of satellite imagery and to integrate it with outside experts to save money, save time, and provide accurate answers. …”
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Improved CLIP-ILP Model for Detecting Illegal Passenger Transport in Freight Trucks by Xuan Wu, Wenlin Pan

“…” The model was trained using this dataset, with an emphasis on leveraging the CLIP framework’s ability to understand and integrate visual and textual data. …”
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Siderophore-Producing Bacteria from a Sand Dune Ecosystem and the Effect of Sodium Benzoate on Siderophore Production by a Potential Isolate by Teja Gaonkar, Pramoda Kumar Nayak, Sandeep Garg, Saroj Bhosle

“…In this study, siderophore-producing bacteria from rhizosphere and nonrhizosphere areas of coastal sand dunes were isolated using a culture-dependent approach and were assigned to 8 different genera with the predominance of Bacillus sp. Studies on the ability of these isolates to grow on sodium benzoate revealed that a pigmented bacterial culture TMR2.13 identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa showed growth on mineral salts medium (MSM) with 2% of sodium benzoate and produced a yellowish fluorescent siderophore identified as pyoverdine. …”
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Superpixel guided spectral-spatial feature extraction and weighted feature fusion for hyperspectral image classification with limited training samples by Yao Li, Liyi Zhang, Lei Chen, Yunpeng Ma

“…The powerful feature learning ability of deep models can effectively improve classification accuracy. …”
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Facile Preparation of Phosphotungstic Acid-Impregnated Yeast Hybrid Microspheres and Their Photocatalytic Performance for Decolorization of Azo Dye by Lan Chen, Bo Bai

“…UV-Vis shows that the obtained samples have a good responding to UV light. The settling ability indicates that the hybrid microspheres possess an excellent suspension performance. …”
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The Creep Test Study and Macro-Detail Analysis of Argillaceous Red Sandstone in Different Water-Containing States by Shuntao Guo, Shujie Wen, Hongyu Guo, Helin Fu

“…After saturation, the internal pores of argillaceous red sandstone become larger, and the cementation ability decreases, resulting in the decrease of rock sample strength.…”
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