Toward measurements of absolute membrane potential in Bacillus subtilis using fluorescence lifetime by Debjit Roy, Xavier Michalet, Evan W. Miller, Kiran Bharadwaj, Shimon Weiss

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Compassion and the perceived rarity of plants can increase plant appreciation by Pavol Prokop, Kristína Belzárová, Ivana Tomanová Čergeťová

“…In our study involving a sample of Slovak individuals, we explored whether plants evoke compassion similar to that for animals and non‐living objects, and whether the perceived rarity of plants influences participants' willingness to pay (WTP). Results showed that withered and water‐stressed plants elicited compassion responses comparable to those for abused animals, whereas non‐living objects (dilapidated buildings before reconstruction) received significantly lower compassion scores. …”
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Knowledge, Attitude, And Practices of The Educated Women of North India Toward Cervical Cancer by Ishita Miglani, Urvashi Gandhi, Poonam Laul

“…Girls and women aged 15 years and more studying in educational institutions or those who have completed their graduation were asked to fill out the questionnaire if willing to do so anonymously. 824 respondents filled out the online survey. 75% of the respondents had good knowledge about pap smear and HPV vaccination. …”
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The Clinical Investigation of Disparity of Utility Values Associated with Gallstone Disease: A Pilot Study by Chung-Te Hsu, Yi Liao, Jorn-Hon Liu, Tao-Hsin Tung

“…The overall mean utility value was 0.89±0.13 (95% CI: 0.87–0.91) indicating that study participants were willing to trade about 11% (95% CI: 9–13%) of their remaining life in return for being free of gallstone disease perpetually. …”
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Food Waste Behaviour and Awareness of Malaysian by Chooi Lin Phooi, Elisa Azura Azman, Roslan Ismail, Jasmin Arif Shah, Evelyn Shin Rou Koay

“…Bio-compost is believed to be the most effective method to manage food waste, and most of them were willing to have it at home. However, some of them are unwilling to have a compost pile at home because there is no time to take care of it.…”
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In-plane mixed-mode brittle fracture assessment of Harsin marble using HCSP specimen by Z. Moqadaszadeh, H. Salavati, M. Rashidi Moghaddam

“…The generalized criterion considers the influence of the first non-singular term of the Williams stress field as well as the conventional stress intensity factors (SIFs). …”
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The effect of political will, information technology, and the quality of financial reporting information on fraud prevention by Haliah, Hasnawiya Hasan, Syamsuddin, Fatmawati, Andi Ratna Sari Dewi, Muhammad Alief Fahdal Imran Oemar, Linda Arisanty Razak

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Gamification for teacher professional development: the case for narrative approaches by Francesca Pozzi, Donatella Persico

“…The main results are encouraging, as teachers’ reactions were positive in respect to the usefulness and effectiveness of the proposed approach and also in respect to their willingness to apply similar gamification strategies in their practice.…”
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Effectiveness of a pre-test/post-test model in HPV health education among undergraduate medical students by Xiaohui Yang, Qingjian Ye, Shujun Su, Yuebo Yang, Xiaomao Li

“…Results After the HPV health education intervention in the pre-test/post-test model, the post-class scores were significantly higher than the pre-class scores for different gender, years of study, clinical majors, different willingness of vaccine to receive the vaccine(p < 0.05). …”
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Trace Element Supplementation of Livestock in New Zealand: Meeting the Challenges of Free-Range Grazing Systems by Neville D. Grace, Scott O. Knowles

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A knowledge first virtue reliabilism of Christoph Kelp by A. M. Kardash

“…This article examines Christoph Kelp’s project of epistemology, which combines the approaches of Timothy Williamson’s knowledge-first approach and Ernest Sosa’s virtue reliabilism. …”
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Cost-effectiveness and budget impact analysis of peritoneal dialysis and haemodialysis in South Africa by Evelyn Thsehla, Micheal Kofi Boachie, Susan Goldstein

“…Conclusions In South Africa, PD is shown to be cost-effective at a willingness to pay threshold of less than R38 500. A PD-preferred policy that considers clinical appropriateness and patients’ values should be considered.…”
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“You are next in line”: Moving down the Line(s) with Ron Padgett by Olivier Brossard

“…“No ideas but in hinges,” poet Stephen Rodefer once quipped in his poem “Numberless Shadows,” playfully modifying William Carlos Williams’s famous line. This essay examines line breaks as poetic hinges in the work of Ron Padgett: they are flexible spaces where the parts of the poem turn and articulate, the lines poised between conflicting forces, between formal interruption and syntactical momentum. …”
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Radium, acier et cœurs vivants. Les marionnettes-automates de Monsieur de Pygmalion mis en scène par Charles Dullin (1923) by Laurette Burgholzer

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Environmental awareness and plastic use behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic by H. Herdiansyah, Nuraeni .

“…Meanwhile, knowledge about plastic use during the pandemic, knowledge of protecting the environment, attitudes toward plastic use, attitudes toward waste management, behavior toward plastic use, and behavior regarding processing plastic waste were significantly related to plastic use activities during the Covid-19 pandemic, with respective test values of 0.000 each. Willingness to pay was also significantly related to plastic use activities during the pandemic, with a test value of 0.007. …”
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Double trouble: two retrotransposons triggered a cascade of invasions in Drosophila species within the last 50 years by Almorò Scarpa, Riccardo Pianezza, Hannah R. Gellert, Anna Haider, Bernard Y. Kim, Eric C. Lai, Robert Kofler, Sarah Signor

“…We find that the donors of Shellder and Spoink are likely American Drosophila species from the willistoni, cardini, and repleta groups. Thus, the described cascade of TE invasions could only become feasible after D. melanogaster and D. simulans extended their distributions into the Americas 200 years ago, likely aided by human activity. …”
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Treatment Preferences of Physicians Treating Adult Patients with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in the United States and Canada: A Discrete Choice Experiment by Jeff Schein, Martin Cloutier, Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle, Maryaline Catillon, Yan Meng, Beatrice Libchaber, Fanny Jiang, Ann Childress

“…Preference weights for efficacy (improvement in ADHD symptoms) and safety [risks of adverse events (AEs)] attributes were estimated using a conditional logistic regression model, and were used to calculate the willingness to trade-off and relative importance of the attributes. …”
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Représentations de l'environnement et de l'agir dans l'environnement chez des élèves du primaire des Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada by Pauline Côté, Mireille Picard

“…We explored their representations of the environment as well as their willingness to act on the environment. Our study of social representations of the environment led us to the elaboration of a model of educational intervention that would meet the specificities of the insular population.…”
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A randomized controlled trial comparing immersive virtual reality games versus nitrous oxide for pain reduction in common outpatient procedures in pediatric surgery by Cordula Scherer, Ladina A. Lanz, Thoralf R. Liebs, Nadine Kaiser, Mirjam Zindel, Steffen M. Berger

“…Secondary outcomes are the fun and/or fear experienced during the intervention, the willingness to undergo the same procedure again (if necessary), and whether there is a time limit with the VR application compared to nitrous oxide. …”
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A Phenomenological Study of the Role of Store Mannequins on the Experienced Responses of Generation-Y Female Customers by Kobra Najafi, Kambiz Heidarzadeh Hanzaee, Mohsen Khounsiavash

“…The emotional dimension of attitude, the behavioral dimension of attitude, and the cognitive dimension of attitude include the sub-themes of attitudinal experiences and purchase intention willingness, positive word-of-mouth advertising willingness, store wandering willingness, willingness to pay more money, willingness to revisit the store are sub-themes of store mannequin reaction experiences.   …”
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