Training under pressure mirrors competition: technical-tactical insights from high-level male padel players by Rafael Conde-Ripoll, Adrián Escudero-Tena, Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez, Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez, Eduardo Navarro Jimenez, Álvaro Bustamante-Sánchez

“…IntroductionThis study aimed to analyse the differences between pressure training and official competition matches in high-level male padel players from Finland, focusing on the proportion of points won by serving and returning players, the frequency of break points and golden points, and the effectiveness of the last shot.MethodsA total of 4,417 points from 38 matches played during the 2022 and 2023 seasons were analyzed.ResultsThe results revealed no significant association between match type (pressure training vs. competition) and the distribution of winners, forced errors, or unforced errors (p = 0.867). …”
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The effects of wind farm wakes on freezing sea spray in the mid-Atlantic offshore wind energy areas by D. Rosencrans, D. Rosencrans, J. K. Lundquist, J. K. Lundquist, J. K. Lundquist, M. Optis, M. Optis, N. Bodini

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Pekić's paradoxology and Serbian identity by Stanojević Dobrivoje Ž.

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Breed differences in olfactory performance of dogs by Attila Salamon, Ádám Miklósi, László Róbert Zsiros, Tímea Kovács, Enikő Kubinyi, Attila Andics, Márta Gácsi

“…Here, using the Natural Detection Task (NDT) that does not require training, we assessed the effect of several potential factors on the performance of a large sample of dogs (N = 527/tested, 484/analysed). …”
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L’Enlèvement d’Hélène : restauration d’une majolique d’Urbino by Elodie Dehaut

“…In the same time, a technical and scientific study examines the use of Golden® Acrylics Fluids Colors associated with three different varnishes by aqueous dispersion.…”
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Influence of Visual Quality and Cultural Background on Consumer Apple Preferences: An Eye-Tracking Study with Chinese and Hungarian Consumers by Xu Cao, Zsuzsanna Horváth-Mezőfi, Zoltán Sasvár, Gergő Szabó, Attila Gere, Géza Hitka, Dalma Radványi

“…These results provide useful information for marketing plans, quality assurance, and comprehending customer behavior in the fresh produce sector.…”
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Spontaneous Emission of an Excited Atom in a Dusty Unmagnetized Plasma Medium by Naser Alinejad, Noushin Pishbin

“…The transverse contribution to the decay rate is normally associated with spontaneous emission. The rate of spontaneous emission can be obtained by Fermi’s golden rule. …”
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Performing the Spirit: Theatre, the Occult, and the Ceremony of Isis by Dennis Denisoff

“…Stead and Ada Goodrich Freer, focused on performance in large part for strategic purposes intended to assist in the popularization of spiritualism and other psychical phenomena. …”
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Determining ULF Wave Contributions to Geomagnetically Induced Currents: The Important Role of Sampling Rate by Michael D. Hartinger, Xueling Shi, Craig J. Rodger, Ikuko Fujii, E. Joshua Rigler, Karl Kappler, Jürgen Matzka, Jeffrey J. Love, Joseph B. H. Baker, Daniel H. Mac Manus, Michael Dalzell, Tanja Petersen

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Yellow wattle (Acacia) - Three versions - English, Spanish, Indonesian by Ian Campbell, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo

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Optical Observations of Sputtered Au-nanostructures and Characterizations by Sabah Jameel Mezher, Mohammed O. Dawood, Bahjat B. Kadhim

“…Analyzing the UV-VIS spectra of the precipitated structures using Tauc's paradigm revealed the optical energy gap (non-zero Eg in the range of 2.36 to 2.38 eV) that is associated with the nanostructure's semiconducting properties. …”
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The Potential for High-Priority Care Based on Pain Through Facial Expression Detection with Patients Experiencing Chest Pain by Hsiang Kao, Rita Wiryasaputra, Yo-Yun Liao, Yu-Tse Tsan, Wei-Min Chu, Yi-Hsuan Chen, Tzu-Chieh Lin, Chao-Tung Yang

“…Emotional stress, an indirect indicator associated with CVD, can often manifest through facial expressions. …”
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Effect of Cowpea and Pumpkin Powders on the Physicofunctional Properties, Total Phenolic Content, Antioxidant Activity, and Consumer Acceptability of Soup by Nyarai Mungofa, Daniso Beswa

“…It produced an attractive golden brown soup with increased swelling power (SP) and viscosity to assist in swallowing. …”
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About Normative Sanctities and Dissident Spiritualities by María Luisa Solís Zepeda

“…These spiritual anomalies that germinated since that century grew exponentially towards the 20th century, so much that today religious practices and spiritualities in Mexico often seem to be made "à la carte", some even associated with criminal lifestyles. These lines expose the challenges faced by a semiotician, especially one inclined towards structural semiotics, in analyzing religious manifestations and emphasize some methodological and interdisciplinary problems.…”
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Story and Recall in First-Person Shooters by Dan Pinchbeck

“…Specifically, evidence is presented that it appears to demonstrate that games with highly visible, detailed stories may assist players in recalling and ordering their experiences. …”
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MAP-ping Queerness? Street Art in Philadelphia by Lara Cox

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Eudora Welty: Sensing the Particular, Revealing the Universal in Her Southern World  by Pearl McHaney

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« Ici, pas de politique » by Alfredo Mignini

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La Saveur des Alpes : Les Britanniques d’hier et d’aujourd’hui en Haute-Savoie by Christine Geoffroy

“…The Golden Age of mountaineering in the Alps is most often remembered in terms of conquest and physical exploit, and associated with the somewhat arrogant appropriation of the alpine mountain range as a would-be favourite British "playground".This paper proposes a reading of the writings of two British alpinists of the time, Leslie Stephen and Alfred Wills, showing that the motive for their presence in the mountain was not only a sportive one but derived from a special link that they had formed with the alpine scenery. …”
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Love and anger in Amazonia and in academia: a disciple’s account of Joanna Overing’s oeuvre and teachings by Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin

“…Regarding the latter, I focus especially on her brilliant writing on how contingent associations of Western anthropologists’ analytical terms hinder proper understanding of others’ political philosophies and ways of life; I attend as well to her attention to the centrality of moral understandings in social life, and to her participation in debates about Amazonian engagements with alterity, consanguinity, and conviviality.…”
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