Promoting Healthy Relationship Development in Teens, Part II: Three Key Qualities to Foster Better Relationships by Victor W. Harris, Gilon Marts, Muthusami Kumaran

“…Finding two socks that match (and don’t wear out) is much more likely to occur when the relationship is based upon a deep and enduring friendship. Asking the question, “Will this choice enhance or diminish my marital friendship?” …”
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Opening the Door to Nature: Accounting for People’s Constraints to Nature-based Recreation by Margaret E. Gullion, Taylor Stein

“…Results show that many people who do not participate in nature-based recreation feel constrained by their quality of time, not the quantity of time. …”
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Marc Richir és a fenomenológia új megalapozása by István Fazakas

“…Ugyanakkor Husserl fantáziafenomenológiájának egy sajátos értelmezését adja. A szövegben ezen értelmezés főbb pontjait vázolom fel a képzelet és a fantázia közti különbségre, az időiség problémájára, a „perceptív” fantáziára és az észlelés transzcendentális dedukciójára fektetvén a hangsúlyt. …”
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Fabrication and Characterization of a W-Band Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna-Coupled Niobium Microbolometer by M. Abdel-Rahman, M. Kamran Saleem, Najeeb Al-Khalli, Nacer Debbar, Majeed A. S. Alkanhal, Abdelrazik Sebak

“…The antenna resonant currents are fed to an Nb microbolometer by the means of a CPW feed. The ceramic DRA structure is manufactured using a novel fabrication process that enables patterning an SU-8–Alumina (Al2O3) nanopowder composite using conventional photolithography. …”
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Evaluation of Project P.A.T.H.S. in Hong Kong: Utilization of Student Weekly Diary by Daniel T. L. Shek, Rachel C. F. Sun, Ching Man Lam, Daniel W. M. Lung, Sui Chung Lo

“…After completion of the Tier 1 Program, Secondary 1 students in the participating schools were invited to write a reflective journal in the form of a weekly diary in order to reveal their perceptions and feelings regarding the Tier 1 Program and the related benefits. …”
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Clinical ethics radically reconsidered: bioethics, common morality, and the law by H. Tristam Engelhardt Jr

“…This chapter is drawn in part from a lecture, “Bioethics after Foundations: Feeling the Full Force of Secularization,” delivered at the Centro Evangelico di Cultura “Arturo Pascal” and the Consulta di Bioetica ONLUS, Turin, Italy, January 31, 2012. …”
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Snow removal cools a small dystrophic lake by H. A. Dugan, R. Ladwig, P. Schramm, N. R. Lottig

“…We conducted a whole lake experiment on a small, 8 m deep dystrophic bog lake in northern Wisconsin, where we removed all snowfall over two consecutive winters. …”
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Are Cows Comfortable in Modern Dairy Facilities? by Izabella Toledo

“…In addition, cows need to accomplish certain natural behavioral activities daily. …”
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Turing instabilities and pattern formation in a benthic nutrient-microorganism system by Martin Baurmann, Wolfgang Ebenhöh, Ulrike Feudel

“…We studied the dynamics of one population of microorganisms feeding on a nutrient in a simple model, taking into account that the considered bacteria can be in an active or in a dormant state. …”
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Optimization of Indium Recovery and Separation from LCD Waste by Solvent Extraction with Bis(2-ethylhexyl) Phosphate (D2EHPA) by Jiaxu Yang, Christian Ekberg, Teodora Retegan

“…Metal concentrations in the aqueous feed were based on the concentrations found in the leach liquor of LCD panel glass at 0.1 g/mL S/L ratio. …”
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Utilization of Artificial Intelligence for the automated recognition of fine arts. by Ruhua Chen, Mohammad Reza Ghavidel Aghdam, Mohammad Khishe

“…Fine art recognition, traditionally dependent on human expertise, is undergoing a significant transformation with the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep learning. This article introduces a novel AI-based approach for fine art recognition, utilizing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and advanced feature extraction techniques. …”
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Application and Development of an Environmentally Friendly Blast Hole Plug for Underground Coal Mines by Donghui Yang, Yixin Zhao, Zhangxuan Ning, Zhaoheng Lv, Huafeng Luo

“…Drilling and blasting technology is one of the main methods for pressure relief in deep mining. The traditional method for blasting hole blockage with clay stemming has many problems, which include a large volume of transportation, excess loading time, and high labor intensity. …”
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Vrye Weekblad and Post·Apartheid Mania by Keyan Tomaselli, Eric Louw

“…The article is not based on any empirical quantitative research. Rather, It should be seen as a critical analysis of comtemporary conjecture surrounding literature pertaining to this specific topic. …”
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Environmental Fault Diagnosis of Solar Panels Using Solar Thermal Images in Multiple Convolutional Neural Networks by Tamilselvi Selvaraj, Ramasubbu Rengaraj, GiriRajanbabu Venkatakrishnan, SoundhariyaGanesan Soundararajan, Karuppiah Natarajan, PraveenKumar Balachandran, PrinceWinston David, Shitharth Selvarajan

“…A timely and accurate diagnosis of environmental faults reduces the damage caused by faults on the panel. In recent years, deep learning precisely convolutional neural networks have achieved wonderful results in many applications. …”
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Lightweight and Efficient CSI-Based Human Activity Recognition via Bayesian Optimization-Guided Architecture Search and Structured Pruning by Sungkwan Youm, Sunghyun Go

“…This paper presents an integrated approach to developing lightweight, high-performance deep learning models for human activity recognition (HAR) using WiFi Channel State Information (CSI). …”
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France-Algérie : l’impact de l’histoire commune by Tahar Khalfoune

“…On either side of the Mediterranean, this colonial past still continues to feed memories, resentments, mistrust, conflicts ... but also the ties, the cordial relationships, the cooperation ... whereas everything would lead observers to believe that the traumas of colonization and of the war of Algeria would oppose these two countries definitively. …”
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Using expletives to enhance therapeutic outcomes: A case report by Nicholas B. Washmuth, Richard Stephens, Blake McAfee, Abby D. McAfee, Christopher G. Bise, Jerry Durham

“… # Results The patient reported that repeating a swear word was funny, distracted the patient, and made the patient feel more confident. The patient and physical therapist self-reported a strong therapeutic alliance…”
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Giant Bark Aphid, Longistigma caryae (Harris) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aphididae) by Harold A. Denmark

“… This bark-feeding aphid was first described by Harris (1841) as Aphis caryae from pignut hickory, Carya glabra (= porcina) (Mill.) …”
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Composition of Algal Oil and Its Potential as Biofuel by Pascal Schlagermann, Gerold Göttlicher, Robert Dillschneider, Rosa Rosello-Sastre, Clemens Posten

“…The existing microalgae growing industry mainly produces for the food and feed market. Energy efficiency is so far out of scope but needs to be taken into account if the product changes to biofuel. …”
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A Rapid Assessment of Microalgal Concentration Using Turbidity Measurement for Shellfish Hatchery Seed Production by Huiping Yang, Jayme C. Yee

“… The goal of this study was to develop a rapid assessment of microalgal concentration using a turbidity meter to serve commercial shellfish hatcheries for feeding shellfish larvae and broodstock. We used four commonly used algal species, Tetraselmis suecica, Isochrysis galbana, Chaetoceros calcitrans, and Chaetoceros gracilis, generating serial dilutions of each and measuring cell concentrations and turbidity of each sample. …”
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