A decepção de Tinker Bell e a luta das classificações: o artesanato, o Governo Federal e o Sebrae by Maria Salete de Souza Nery

“…We outline the role and the power of the State in defining the legitimate meanings that regulate coordinated ac- tions of differenta agencies and also of the individuals who are considered craftsmen. …”
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LazyAct: Lazy actor with dynamic state skip based on constrained MDP. by Hongjie Zhang, Zhenyu Chen, Hourui Deng, Chaosheng Feng

“…Specifically, each decision made by an agent requires a complete neural network computation, leading to a linear increase in computational cost with the number of interactions and agents. …”
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Implementation of a Cost and Variation Reduction Program for Hemostasis Products at a Large Academic Medical Center: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective by Shah T, Brethauer S, Danker III WA, Doshi I, O'Hara M, Silber A, Vasileff WK

“…Tejen Shah,1 Stacy Brethauer,1 Walter A Danker III,2 Ishita Doshi,2 Matthew O’Hara,3 Abigail Silber,3 William K Vasileff4 1Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA; 2Ethicon, Inc., Raritan, NJ, USA; 3Trinity Life Sciences, Waltham, MA, USA; 4Department of Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine Research Institute, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USACorrespondence: Stacy Brethauer, Email Stacy.Brethauer@osumc.eduGoal: Cost-saving initiatives targeting surgical supplies management have become increasingly common to address rising healthcare costs. …”
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Forfeiture to the State: Using Grammar to Interpret Section 35 of the Criminal Procedure Act by Terrence R Carney

“… Section 35(1)(a) of South Africa's Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 allows a court of law to declare items forfeited to the state if they were used as weapons or instruments in aid of committing an offence. …”
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Spatial distribution of rotavirus in calves in the state of São Paulo, Brazil: 2006 to 2010 by Heloisa Pinto de Godoy, Ingrid Bortolin Affonso Lux Hoppe

“…Rotavirus is the major causative agent of diarrhea in animals and humans; it causes economic burden and negatively impacts public health. …”
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Incremental Healthcare Costs and Outpatient Antifungal Treatment of Patients with Aspergillosis in the United States by Emily Durden, Donna McMorrow, Paul Juneau, Robert Fowler, Paresh Chaudhari, David Horn

“…**Objectives:** To evaluate the total and outpatient economic burden of aspergillosis, and to describe the outpatient antifungal treatment of aspergillosis within a large, commercially-insured population in the United States. **Methods:** Adults with at least one medical claim with an aspergillosis diagnosis (International Classification of Disease 9th Revision Clinical Modification [ICD-9-CM] code 117.3 or 484.6) between 07/01/04-03/01/11 were identified from the MarketScan Research Databases. …”
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Composite microbial agent improves cotton yield and resource use efficiency under mild salt stress by optimizing plant resource allocation by Xiao Zhao, Panpan Guo, Xiong Wu, Meng Zhu, Shaozhong Kang, Taisheng Du, Jian Kang, Jinliang Chen, Ling Tong, Risheng Ding, Wanli Xu, Guangmu Tang

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Shared Bacterial and Viral Respiratory Agents in Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis), Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries), and Goats (Capra hircus) in Montana by David S. Miller, Glen C. Weiser, Keith Aune, Brent Roeder, Mark Atkinson, Neil Anderson, Thomas J. Roffe, Kim A. Keating, Phillip L. Chapman, Cleon Kimberling, Jack Rhyan, P. Ryan Clarke

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Effect on Multipotency and Phenotypic Transition of Unrestricted Somatic Stem Cells from Human Umbilical Cord Blood after Treatment with Epigenetic Agents by Foued Ghanjati, Simeon Santourlidis

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Mediação social e agroecologia: trajetórias e desafios dos agentes do Núcleo Missões da Rede Ecovida de Agroecologia by Cristina Bremm, Everton Lazzaretti Picolotto

“…The results of the study reveal that despite the mediators making efforts to reformulate their work practice and make it more dialogic and participatory in the interaction with the ecological farming families, there are asymmetries of power between the agents due to the cultural and symbolic capitals, habitus and different social insertions in agriculture.…”
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Finite-Time Consensus with a Time-Varying Reference State and Switching Topology by Jian-Yong Wang, Zhen Tian, Xu Zhu, Naif D. Alotaibi

“…The proposed protocol ensures that the states of the agents are converged to a weighted-average consensus in finite time if the communication topology is a weighted directed graph with a spanning tree and each strongly connected component is detail-balanced. …”
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A Synthetic Voice for an Assistive Conversational Agent: A Survey to Discover Italian Preferences regarding Synthetic Voice’s Gender and Quality Level by Marialucia Cuciniello, Terry Amorese, Claudia Greco, Zoraida Callejas Carrión, Carl Vogel, Gennaro Cordasco, Anna Esposito

“…To collect data regarding each voice, randomly audited by participants, the shortened version of the Virtual Agent Voice Acceptance Questionnaire (VAVAQ) was exploited. …”
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Evaluation of Giomer Using Eighth Generation Bonding Agent and Resin-Modified Glass Ionomer Cement Restoration in Non-Carious Cervical Lesions by Rajvi Bheda, Sanjyot Mulay, Anita Sanap Tandale

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Increasing fish production through adoption of improved technologies in Ogun State, Nigeria by Ashley-Dejo Samuel Segun, Oyetunji Opeyemi Temitope, Sule Shakiru Okanlawon, Durojaiye Fadilat Abiola, Ojetayo Asaje Teslim, Ojinni Temitope Ruth

“…The study also found that high production costs were the most significant constraint to the adoption of improved technologies, followed by inadequate contact with extension agents and non-availability of input. The study conclude that the adoption of improved fish production technologies could increase fish production in Ogun State, Nigeria, but there is a need for interventions to address the constraints hindering the adoption of improved fisheries technologies in the study area.…”
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES CLIMATE CHANGE: AN EXPOSITION OF HERDSMEN TERRORISM IN TIVLAND OF BENUE STATE by GABRIEL T. TYUNGU, PETER MEMGA KERTYO

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Healthcare waste management practices in rural state hospitals, Ampara, Sri Lanka by Kulanga Warnakulahewa, Inoka Suraweera, Prasanga Serasinghe

“…Objectives: To assess healthcare waste management practices and state of related healthcare waste management facilities in rural state hospitals in the Regional Director of Health Services (RDHS) Area, Ampara Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in all secondary and primary level state hospitals (n=26) in the health region, Ampara. …”
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Oral microbiocenosis state under different approaches of replacing dental crown defects by Ye.A. Sardykov, O.V. Ishchenko, O.O. Fastovets

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Synthesis of N-Methylmorpholinium Derivatives Possessing a 1,3,4-Oxadiazole Core as Feasible Antibacterial Agents against Plant Bacterial Diseases by Xinxin Tuo, Jie Yang, Yedong Zhang, Peiyi Wang

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RETRACTED: Efficacy of Vanadyl Sulfate and Selenium Tetrachloride as Anti-Diabetic Agents against Hyperglycemia and Oxidative Stress Induced by Diabetes Mellitus in Male Rats by Fawziah A. Al-Salmi, Reham Z. Hamza

“…The data clearly show that both VOSO₄ and selenium tetrachloride inhibit pancreatic and DNA injury and improve the oxidative state in male rats, suggesting that the use of VOSO₄ with selenium tetrachloride is a promising synergistic potential ameliorative agent in the diabetic animal model.…”
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Program Evaluation Challenges for Early-Career Extension Professionals: What Can You Do to Reduce the Stress? by John M. Diaz, Laura A. Sanagorski Warner

“…The strategies outlined in this article are grounded in the experiences of Extension professionals in three states (Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania) and center on providing solutions to the challenges that newer Extension professionals felt were the most important to address, in order to provide a manageable framework for agents to use. …”
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