Using the Decision-Ade™ Segmentation Strategy to Better Understand Extension Audiences by Randall A. Cantrell, Laura Warner, Joy Rumble, Alexa Lamm

“… Decision-Ade™ is a tool Extension can use to better understand how residents with a range of household budgets feel about their utility bills. Analyzing households in terms of both income and utility bill “botheredness” creates a more comprehensive picture of that household’s utility use and its willingness to modify utility consumption relative to other households. …”
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«SCHOOL OF COMPETENCIES» AS A TECHNOLOGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’ ADDITIONAL COMPETENCIES AT CLASSICAL UNIVERSITY by V. Y. Stromov, Р. V. Sysoyev, V. V. Zavyalov

“…Nowadays many students feel the need to develop a number of additional competencies that will enable them to significantly expand their employment and professional opportunities after graduation. …”
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A Novel Multiband Miniature Planar Inverted F Antenna Design for Bluetooth and WLAN Applications by J. M. Jeevani W. Jayasinghe, Disala Uduwawala

“…Genetic algorithm optimization (GAO) is used to optimize the patch geometry, feed position, and shorting pin position simultaneously. …”
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Diversity Perceptions in the UK Retail Industry: A Case of Tesco by Walid Ahmed, Asim Majeed, Ayesha Asim

“…It can be argued that with exponential technological changes like the emergence of artificial intelligence, machine learning, the internet of things (IoT), etc. retailers around the world are facing continuous challenges in keeping their business model updated and relevant for sustainable business growth and profitability. …”
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Le interazioni umani-ambiente nell’applicazione di tecniche agricole sapientemente adattate al territorio: l’esempio dell’isola di Pantelleria by Virginie Deguillame

“…Although the changing global dynamics and evolving lifestyles that alter the island's landscape, the inhabitants of Pantelleria have demonstrated a remarkable resilience in maintaining traditional knowledge and related techniques, rooted in their agricultural heritage and deep attachment to the land. Geographical isolation, a bond with nature and social organization contribute to their identity, which evolves with the lifestyle choices of new generations.…”
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Management of Spittlebugs in Limpograss Pasture by Martin B. Adjei, Richard Sprenkel, Jim Selph

“…The adults also inject toxic saliva into leaf tissue while feeding, which causes streaking on the leaves. Tips of infested grass turn yellow, followed by browning and curling. …”
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Preliminary Interpretation of the Ground Magnetic Survey around Oguta Lake in Imo State, South Eastern Nigeria by FI Chinyem

“…The anomaly at the lake, was most prominent with magnetic readings of 28118 -29235 gamma and elevations of 17 -37 feet, all treading in the NE –SW direction. These anomalies, suggest that the lake has a tectonic origin. …”
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Kritikai politikai gazdaságtan vagy a politikai gazdaságtan kritikája? by Botond Szilágyi

“…Tanulmányomban arra teszek kísérletet, hogy a hagyományos marxizmus Moishe Postone által megfogalmazott kritikája és Postone alternatív Marx-olvasata alapján bíráljam ezt a vállalkozást. Ezek rövid ismertetése után azonosítom az Überhaupt elemzésében azt, ami a hagyományos marxizmus előfeltételezéseinek megőrzéséről árulkodik. …”
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Landscape, Geopolitics, and National Identity in the Norwegian Thrillers Occupied and Nobel by Saunders Robert A.

“…This article also discusses how these two series have adapted key geovisual elements of the what I deem the “near Nordic Noir” style to focus more explicitly on geopolitical questions, linking Occupied and Nobel to other geopolitically inflected series from Nordic Europe.…”
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Epigenetic Reprogramming of Muscle Progenitors: Inspiration for Clinical Therapies by Silvia Consalvi, Martina Sandoná, Valentina Saccone

“…Therapeutic interventions that promote tissue and organ regeneration have as primary objective the selective control of gene expression in adult stem cells. This requires a deep understanding of the epigenetic mechanisms controlling transcriptional programs in tissue progenitors. …”
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Capnography and the Bispectral Index—Their Role in Pediatric Sedation: A Brief Review by Maria Sammartino, Barbara Volpe, Fabio Sbaraglia, Rossella Garra, Alessandro D'Addessi

“…The use of the BIS index, however, needs further investigation due to a lack of evidence, especially in infants. …”
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Basal Cell Carcinoma in Type 2 Segmental Darier's Disease by Lynne Robertson, Maxwell B. Sauder

“…Clinical features of DD include greasy, warty papules and plaques on seborrheic areas, dystrophic nails, palmo-plantar pits, and papules on the dorsum of the hands and feet. Objective. We report a case of basal cell carcinoma developing in a patient with type 2 segmental DD. …”
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A Compact UWB Diversity Antenna by Hui Zhao, Fushun Zhang, Chunyang Wang, Jiangang Liang

“…Two semicircular slots, two rectangular slots, and one stub are introduced in the ground plane to adjust the impedance bandwidth of the antenna and improve the isolation between two feeding ports. The simulated and measured results show that impedance bandwidth of the proposed antenna can cover the whole UWB band with a good isolation of < −15 dB. …”
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ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF VIOLIN INTERPRETATION by Cătălina GUŢANU

“…During the performance of a musical piece, any musician – regardless of whether he/she is a pianist, violinist or vocal singer, uses a full and profound sound that beautifies the interpretation and gives it more musicality, more feeling, warmth and spirituality. In order to render the character of a musical piece during interpretation, it is not enough to possess only the dynamic and timbral source (though it is important, of course), but still it is necessary to find a high quality sound that would coincide with the style, character and content of that particular piece. …”
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‘Sentimental’: Since the Death of Little Nell by Dominic Rainsford

“…Dickens often situates and frames sentimental feeling critically within The Old Curiosity Shop, while not suggesting that it should or even can be transcended by the ‘simple fellows’ that we all ultimately are (in Dickens’s view), given the impossible problems with which life confronts us. …”
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An Ambrosia Beetle Xyleborus affinis Eichhoff, 1868 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) by Lanette Sobel, Andrea Lucky, Jiri Hulcr

“…Females lay eggs in the fungus-lined galleries and larvae feed exclusively on the fungi. Recent studies have shown that Xyleborus affinis can vector the fungus responsible for laurel wilt disease, which is lethal to numerous species of trees in the Lauraceae family. …”
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Comme une aiguille sur un sillon d’asphalte by Julien Glauser

“…This particular understanding of the urban environment is reflected in the still and moving images produced by the skateboarding community, which in turn feed the imaginary experience shared by skateboarders through their individual practice of the sport.…”
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Direct immunofluorescence for the diagnosis of legionellosis by David JM Haldane, Ruth Peppard, Robert K Sumarah

“…Despite these stricter criteria and other measures to reduce the possibility of reagent contamination, there was no statistically significant difference in the sensitivity or specificity of the DFA in the two years for sputa, deep specimens or overall. Of 37 sputum specimens from infected patients, 16 were positive on DFA. …”
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Sand Live Oak, Quercus geminata by Debbie Miller, Mack Thetford, Chris Verlinde, Gabriel Campbell, Ashlynn Smith

“…It is found in beach dunes, backdunes, sandhills, coastal areas, and inland areas with deep sandy soils. While this plant forms trees farther inland, it is commonly reduced to shrubs and sub-shrubs because of the extreme environmental conditions of the coast. …”
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Structural Monitoring of Metro Infrastructure during Shield Tunneling Construction by L. Ran, X. W. Ye, G. Ming, X. B. Dong

“…The ground surface will be subjected to uplift or subsidence due to the deep excavation and the extrusion and consolidation of the soils. …”
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