Did Home-Based Exams during COVID-19 Affect Student Ranking? A Case from a Business School by Leiv Opstad, Ivar Pettersen

“…Conclusion – Home-based exams without any control mechanisms appear to result in different student rankings. This knowledge may be useful for employers looking to hire applicants who graduated during the COVID-19 pandemic…”
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Employees pro-enviromental behavior of hotels in Tangerang and Jakarta during pandemic Covid-19 by Yohana F. Cahya Palupi Meilani, Rudy Pramono

“…Results achieved in this research shows a positive influence of top management commitment, active environmental leadership, and motivation towards employees’ pro enviromental behavior, however passive environmental leadership does not appear to negatively impact employees’ pro enviromental behavior. …”
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Espaces virtuels et pré-expérience de l’espace géographique by Jérémie Valentin, Fanny Georges, Yasmine Boumenir, Birgitta Dresp-Langley

“…Whether developing a route or finding a place, the paper map and tourist guide disappear in favor of Virtual Earth and mobile phones.In this context transfer usage, virtual representations of space appear, along with the use of GPS, providing a skewed perception of space. …”
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Gapless topological behaviors in a long-range quantum spin chain by Sheng Yang, Hai-Qing Lin, Xue-Jia Yu

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Turing instabilities and pattern formation in a benthic nutrient-microorganism system by Martin Baurmann, Wolfgang Ebenhöh, Ulrike Feudel

“…A detailed study regarding the effect of non-homogeneous (depth dependent) forcing by bioirrigation shows that different patterns can appear in different depths.…”
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A Low Cost Carbon Nanofiber Based Spiral Inductor: Inference and Implementation by John Wiselin, Sreeja Balakrishnapillai Suseela, Bycil Viswambaran Jalaja, Sherin Dhas Sahayadas Padma Ramani, Rajesh Prasad, Sheeba Devaraj, Suhaila Shahul, Sowmya Swaminathan

“…This paper investigates the possibilities of using carbon fiber as an inductor material by analyzing its inductive properties. …”
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Disturbances in Body-Based Mental and Motor Imagery in Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa – A Systematic Review of Experimental Studies by Akansha M. Naraindas, Sarah M. Cooney

“…Imagining one’s body is crucial for how we perceive our appearance (i.e. imagining how we might appear to others), for imagining movement (motor imagery), navigation, and self-recognition. …”
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The Arctic zone of the Republic of Karelia: Search for ways of Development by Valery P. Zhuravel

“…Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the state and modernisation of the White Sea – Baltic Canal, the development of the building materials industry based on construction stone deposits, as well as the creation and development of mineral and raw materials centres of the East Karelian copper-gold-molybdenum ore zone. The activities on the formation of a cluster of deep wood processing enterprises, the development of the fisheries cluster, cultural, historical and ecological tourism and the development of international cooperation are analysed. …”
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Bifurcation Study of Thin Plate with an All-Over Breathing Crack by Lihua Chen, Jian Xue, Zhijie Zhang, Wei Zhang

“…It is found that complex nonlinear dynamic behaviors, such as quasi-periodic motion, bifurcation, and chaotic motion, appear in the breathing crack plate.…”
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Delayed Diagnosis of Congenital Hypothyroidism in a Child with Trisomy 21 and Biotinidase Deficiency and Successful Use of Levothyroxine Sodium Oral Solution by Matthew M. Feldt

“…Endocrine disorders are more common and appear earlier in people with trisomy 21 (T21) than in the general population, with thyroid dysfunction being the most common, including both congenital and acquired hypothyroidism. …”
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IT Usage and Innovation Performance of SMEs in China: A New Perspective by Shilei Hu, Xiaohong Wang

“…IT usage width and IT usage frequency appear to be important predictors of the innovation performance of SMEs, whereas there are substantial differences in the influencing mechanism of IT usage width and IT usage frequency on the innovation performance of SMEs.…”
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Biometallic ions and derivatives: a new direction for cancer immunotherapy by Lin Zhao, Yajun Gui, Jing Cai, Xiangying Deng

“…Biometallic ions (e.g. zinc, copper, magnesium, manganese, etc.) can assist in enhancing the efficacy of immunotherapy through the activation of immune cells, enhancement of tumor antigen presentation, and improvement of the tumor microenvironment. …”
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Role of plasticity-induced crack closure in fatigue crack growth by Jesús Toribio, Viktor Kharin

“…Despite the absence of closure, load-deformation curves appear bent, which raises doubts about the trustworthiness of closure assessment from the compliance variation. …”
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Study on Cleaning Effect of Different Water Flows on the Pulsed Cavitating Jet Nozzle by Chengting Liu, Gang Liu, Zuoxiu Yan

“…The research results showed that flushing effects in the nozzle without cavitation were far below those with cavitation; when the flow rate increased to over 2.7 m3/h, cavitation began to appear in the chamber. When Q = 7.2 m3/h, the velocity fluctuation amplitude was about 17.25 m and pressure fluctuation occurred for 86 times (maximum) within 1 s. …”
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Climate change and the single cell by Derek T. A. Lamport

“…This cycle involves Ca2+ channels, auxin efflux “PIN” proteins, and an auxin-activated proton pump that dissociates AGP-Ca2+ on demand. While the apparent simplicity of this system satisfies Occam’s razor, its proposed role as a global growth oscillator demands in-depth examination. …”
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Pale Damsel Bug Nabis capsiformis Germar (Insecta: Hemiptera: Nabidae) by Karol L. Krey, Justin M. Renkema

“…At first glance, they appear like a cross between a mantis and an assassin bug. …”
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A Novel 5G LTE Antenna Design for Portable Devices by Wei-Chiang Jhang, Jwo-Shiun Sun

“…The antenna occupies only 65 × 13 × 0.4 mm3, and the antenna is combined with a 200 × 260 mm2 copper plate to simulated system ground plane. In the low band, a direct-fed right-side arm and a coupled-fed arm implemented can excite a 1/4 λ fundamental resonant mode at 0.85 and 0.76 GHz to cover 0.698–0.96 GHz and upper 3/4 λ and 5/4 λ resonant modes are controlled by L-shaped element at 2.34, 2.69, 3.4, and 4.0 GHz to cover 1.71–2.69 GHz and 3.2–4.2 GHz. …”
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Clinical observations of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer living in the Tambov region by P. G. Berezin, V. V. Milovanov, A. A. Ivannikov, V. A. Kuleshkov, K. M. Nyushko

“…Administration of 1st-line treatment regimens stabilizes the disease in the majority of pancreatic cancer patients; in some cases, the disease becomes aggressive, distant metastases appear, most oſten in bones, lymph nodes, and internal organs, as demonstrated by three clinical observations presented in this article. …”
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HRM: An Intelligent Helmet Recognition Model in Complex Scenes by Panbo He, Chunxue Wu, Rami Yared, Yuanhao Ma

“…This paper presents an intelligent helmet recognition model in complex scenes based on YOLOv5. …”
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THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYRIA (“GENEVA-2”): DIFFICULTIES OF INTER-SYRIAN TALKS AND ROLE OF FOREIGN PLAYERS by M. S. Khodynskaya-Golenischeva

“…The paper examines the role that Russia must play in order for the Conference to succeed, as well as that of Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Representative of the UN on Syria.The material presented is particularly relevant in the framework of the revival of the political process around Syria, especially in terms of the intensifying efforts to organize the International Conference with the purpose of finding a comprehensive political settlement to the crisis in Syria through the full implementation of the Geneva Communiqué (30 June, 2012).…”
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