The Impact of Country of Origin Effect and Consumer Ethnocentrism on Purchase Intention of Foreign Brand Recreational Materials Used in Sports Activities: An Empirical Research by Murat Arslandere, Yusuf Er

“…The results revealed that consumer ethnocentrism negatively influences attitude towards the foreign brand, country of origin effect positively influences attitude towards the foreign brand, and finally attitude towards the foreign brand has a strong and positive effect on the purchase intention of foreign brand products. …”
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Characterization and analysis on the hemispherical point temperature uncertainty problem of mold flux with volatiles by Wang Z., Ren M.-M., Zhao J.-X., Zhang Z.-K., Wang H., Hu A.-L., Cui Y.-R.

“…In hemisphere point temperature (Thp) measurement of continuous casting mold flux, the evaporation of volatiles under high temperature will have a strong impact on the results. Based on the comprehensive analysis of hemisphere point method and its influencing factors, the corresponding volatile-containing mold flux and non-volatile mold flux were selected to get Thp with different heating rates. …”
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Holocellulose from a Winemaking By-Product to Develop a Biopolymeric System for Bacterial Immobilization: Adsorption of Ochratoxin A in Wine Model Solutions (Box–Behnken Design) by Verónica Carrasco-Sánchez, V. Felipe Laurie, Marcelo Muñoz-Vera, Ricardo Ignacio Castro

“…A physicochemical analysis of the system revealed strong bacterial immobilization and stability. The efficiency of the complex in adsorbing ochratoxin A (OTA) from wine model solutions was assessed using a Box–Behnken design under various pH, time, and concentration conditions. …”
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Seasonal changes in the reproductive cycle and condition index of the surf clam Mactra stultorum (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia by Derbali Abdelkarim

“…The reproduction of M. stultorum was strongly influenced by fluctuations in the seawater temperature, as reflected through the temporal variation in the gonadal cycle, condition index (CI) and tissue weight rate (TiWR). …”
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Advanced Computing Approach for Modeling and Prediction COVID-19 Pandemic by Sami A. Morsi, Mohammad Eid Alzahrani

“…Therefore, there is a strong motivation for modeling and predicting COVID-19 to control the number of cases of the disease. …”
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Structure elucidation, immunomodulatory activity, antitumor activity and its molecular mechanism of a novel polysaccharide from Boletus reticulatus Schaeff by Siyuan Su, Xiang Ding, Yiling Hou, Binbin Liu, Zhouhe Du, Junfeng Liu

“…Bioactivity assays indicated that BRS-X displayed a strong proliferative activity in T cells and B cells and promoted the secretion of immunoglobulin G (IgG), IgE, IgD and IgM. …”
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Investigating cooked rice textural properties by instrumental measurements by Keyu Tao, Wenwen Yu, Sangeeta Prakash, Robert G. Gilbert

“…Swelling power and breakdown viscosity correlated with all panelist sensory attributes, but no other correlations with gelatinization properties were observed. There was a strong correlation between hardness and stickiness measured by texture profile analysis (TPA) and by panelists, suggesting that TPA can be used to measure hardness and stickiness of cooked rice. …”
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Efficacy of Larimichthys crocea TASOR protein-derived peptide FAM286 against Staphylococcus aureus by Ritian Jin, Guanglei Wei, Rong Lin, Wenfeng Lin, Jude Juventus Aweya, Duo Liang, Wuyin Weng, Shen Yang

“…In this study, a novel peptide, designated as FAM286, was identified from TASOR protein of Larimichthys crocea, which had a strong antimicrobial activity against S. aureus with a minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) of 3.9 μg/mL and completed bacteria killing by treatment for 1.5 h. …”
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Universal slip detection of robotic hand with tactile sensing by Chuangri Zhao, Yang Yu, Zeqi Ye, Ziyang Tian, Yifan Zhang, Ling-Li Zeng

“…By combining frequency with time domain features, the network achieves a computation time of only 1.26 ms and an average accuracy of over 97% on both the validation and test datasets, demonstrating strong generalization capabilities. Furthermore, we validated the proposed USDConvNet-DG in real-time grasp force adjustment in real-world scenarios, showing that it can effectively improve the stability and reliability of robotic manipulation.…”
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COMPARATIVE CLIMATIC CHARACTERISTICS BETWEEN THE WINTER OF 2011–2012 AND THE WINTER OF 1953–1954 IN THE SOUTH OF ROMANIA by ION MARINICĂ, ANDREEA FLORIANA MARINICĂ, OCTAVIA BOGDAN

“…The first two warm winter months, which had lasted until January the 24th 2012, were followed by truewinter weather between January 25 and February 15, when temperatures dropped below -20°C, associated with heavy snowfalls, snowstorms and strong winds (70–80 km/h) that blew and drifted the snow with disastrous effects for Romania’s south-east counties, in particular. …”
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Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia in HIV — Investigate or Just Treat? by Steven Kesten

“…However, early bronchoscopy should strongly he considered when the chest radiograph is not typical of P carinii infection or if there is failure to respond after a predefined period.…”
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Mosquito Larvicidal Constituents from the Ethanol Extract of Inula racemosa Hook. f. Roots against Aedes albopictus by Qing He, Xin Chao Liu, Rui Qi Sun, Zhi Wei Deng, Shu Shan Du, Zhi Long Liu

“…Compounds 1 and 2 exhibited strong larvicidal activity against the early fourth-instar larvae of A. albopictus with LC50 values of 21.86 μg/mL and 18.65 μg/mL, respectively, while the ethanol extract had a LC50 value of 25.23 μg/mL. …”
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Uterine Cavity Abnormalities in Patients with Endometriosis in Alexandria: A Diagnostic Test Accuracy Study by Eman Aly Abd El Fattah

“…Endometriosis is strongly associated with infertility. Endometrial polyps are prevalent in infertile women and they have similar pathological characteristics to endometriosis, suggesting a possible association. …”
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Discourse Markers as Cues for Topic Shift Interpretation: Experimental Evidence from Spanish by Mercedes Villalobos Cardozo, Ludivine Crible, Liesbeth Degand

“…An analysis of the content of the utterances presented in our stimuli allowed us to create a set of strong and weak strategies for topic (dis)continuity that seem to help speakers with the topic interpretation task.…”
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How do monomorphic bacteria evolve? The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and the awkward population genetics of extreme clonality by Stritt, Christoph, Gagneux, Sebastien

“…Population genetic methods allowing to infer mutation, recombination, genetic drift, and natural selection make strong assumptions that are difficult to reconcile with clonal reproduction and fully linked genomes consisting mainly of coding regions. …”
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Les codes graphiques contemporains de l’occitan by Alain Viaut

“…It is confronted, in these two cases, with debates on linguistic identity. In this strong cultural context, the question of the graphic code took on a particular relief while referring for some of its features to the situation of Occitan in general.…”
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The Role of the Gastrointestinal Microbiota in Parkinson’s Disease by Maurizio Gabrielli, Lorenzo Zileri Dal Verme, Maria Assunta Zocco, Enrico Celestino Nista, Veronica Ojetti, Antonio Gasbarrini

“…Beyond its well-known neurological features, emerging evidence underscores the pivotal role of the gut–brain axis and gastrointestinal microbiota in PD pathogenesis. Dysbiosis has been strongly linked to PD and is associated with increased intestinal permeability, chronic inflammation, and the production of neurotoxic metabolites that may exacerbate neuronal damage. …”
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Global value chains and intra-BRICs trade in value-added by José Firmino de Sousa Filho, Gervásio Ferreira dos Santos, Luiz Carlos de Santana Ribeiro, Rodrigo Barbosa de Cerqueira, Larissa Lopes Lima

“…While India and China demonstrate strong vertical specialization, Brazil and Russia concentrate major component exports on domestic value-added. …”
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A Framework for a Capabilities-Based Approach to Copyright by Megha Jandhyala

“…Therefore, rather than making broad generalizations about whether or not copyright law is good or bad for human development, it concludes that aspects of copyright law can enhance human development in the presence of certain other factors (such as strong indigenous industries and institutions). Conversely, aspects of copyright law can have a significant negative impact on human capabilities in certain environments, such as a weak institutional environment, or a socio-economic environment that is fraught with inequality. …”
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MSF: An Efficient Mobile Phone Sensing Framework by Giuseppe Cardone, Andrea Cirri, Antonio Corradi, Luca Foschini, Dario Maio

“…Recent evolutions in smartphones, today provided with several sensors, have the strong processing capabilities needed to extract from raw sensed data sensor meaningful high-level views of the physical context around the user. …”
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