Bolder together: conformity drives behavioral plasticity in eastern gartersnakes by Morgan Skinner, Gokulan Nagabaskaran, Tom Gantert, Noam Miller

“…Snakes explored a novel open arena either alone or in a pair. Pairs were assigned based on the data from the solo trials, such that each snake was paired once with a bolder and once with a less bold partner. …”
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Estimación de la Resistencia a la Tracción en Suelos Reforzados con Fibras Sintéticas by Johannes Enrique Briceño Balza, Rebeca Carolina Barreto Aldana, Yusleiny Lorena Guerrero Dávila

“…Conociendo esto se plantea para mejorar la resistencia a la tracción reforzar el suelo con fibras sintéticas, micro y macrofibras, incorporándolas en porcentajes en peso de suelo (0.50, 1.00, 1.50 y 2.00 %), evaluando a través del ensayo de tracción indirecta el comportamiento del suelo areno limoso natural y reforzado. Al comparar los resultados en estas dos condiciones, se concluyó que la resistencia a la tracción aumenta cuando el porcentaje de macrofibra es superior al 1.50 % en un 3.69 %, mientras que al 2.00 % aumenta la en un 24.00 % con respecto al suelo patrón.  …”
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WIZJE ŚW. PERPETUY W ŚWIETLE WCZESNOCHRZEŚCIJAŃSKIEGO TEKSTU PASSIO SANCTARUM PERPETUAE ET FELICITATIS. PRZYCZYNEK DO BADAŃ HAGIOLOGICZNYCH by Maria Piechocka-Kłos

“…W drugiej i trzeciej wizji, Perpetua widzi  swojego zmarłego brata Dinokratesa, zaś w ostatniej toczy zwycięską walkę na arenie z szatanem w postaci Egipcjanina.  Opisane w utworze dzieje św. …”
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Effect of Several Solvents on the Chemical Compound, Antioxidant Activity, and Cytotoxicity Levels of Acacia decurrens Willd. Gum Extract by Ramadhany Ayu Purnama, Sigit Sunarta, Hilda Ismail

“…Furthermore, bioactivity in the form of antioxidant activity was analyzed with the 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazil (DPPH) method, while the cytotoxicity level was assessed using the brine shrimp lethality assay (BSLT). The GC-MS analysis showed that the n-hexane-soluble fraction contained alkane, alkene, aldehyde, ester, and aromatics, while the ethanol-soluble fraction contained monosaccharide and fat group compounds. …”
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Optimal configuration strategy of energy storage considering flexible response of high energy-consuming industrial and mining loads in independent microgrid by Cuomu Yixi, Xiaoming Liu, Yu Li, Jingming Tan, Zhihong Liu, Basang Danzeng, Lei Wang

“…Firstly, considering the production process of extracting lithium from salt lakes brine and the electricity consumption characteristics of major energy-consuming equipment, a mathematical model is developed to quantify the flexibility adjustment potential of lithium mining loads under production behavior constraints. …”
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Pentecostal Reinventions of the Passover: Contextual Reflections on the End of Year Night Worship Festivals in Uganda by Alexander Paul Isiko, Enock Kisekka

“… Pentecostal scholarship in and about Africa is a vibrant arena in world Christianity, with an upswing in the proliferation of scholarly works on Pentecostal Churches and its centrality in the political and social fabric of African societies. …”
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Density of states, black holes and the Emergent String Conjecture by Alek Bedroya, Rashmish K. Mishra, Max Wiesner

“…Furthermore we show that the tension of any weakly coupled p-brane with p ≥ 1 is bounded from below by Λ p+1. …”
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Six events that shaped antibody approvals in oncology by Suman Paul, Suman Paul, Shibin Zhou, Shibin Zhou

“…While only a few antibodies were approved in the immediate years that followed the rituximab approval, the last decade saw a wave of antibody-drug approvals in the oncology arena. In the last three years, the EMA and FDA greenlighted eighteen antibodies, the majority of them designed in the formats of antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) and bispecific antibodies (BsAb). …”
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LEAN PROCESS IMPROVEMENT IN HEALTHCARE: A STUDY USING VALUE STREAM MAPPING, THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS AND SIMULATION by Hazal Akbal, Nuri Özgür Doğan

“…This study aim is to examine the hospitalization process of the internal medicine department of an education and research hospital using value stream mapping (VSM), theory of constraints (TOC) and simulation (using Arena software). Initially, current and future patient flows were mapped using VSM. …”
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The Forerunner of the Government Reform of Peter the Great by N. V. Shevtsov

“…Being an outstanding analyst and a strategic planner, Golytsin won his combats not on the bloody battlefields but in the course of fights on the diplomatic arena. During the reign of Sophia, when he had received ultimately unlimited power warrant, he mainly fostered all of his efforts to the implementation of the socio-economic changes and the rise of prestige of the Russian State. …”
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India’s Policies in Support of the New Space by I. V. Danilin, E. P. Shavlay

“…Just like in the Cold War, space has re-emerged as an arena of international rivalry. However, this time, the space industry sees new actors partaking in the race to the top, as the competition is not just between states; commercial players are increasingly taking the field. …”
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Targeted Sanctions: a Tool of Foreign Policy, Unfair Competition or Global Social Engineering? by L. L. Fituni

“…Arguably, among those asymmetric and hybrid measures, Western countries assign a key role to the pressure of international sanction upon competitor nations and uncooperative actors on the world arena. The article is devoted to a critical analysis of some common approaches to the study of the problems of «targeted» sanctions in the theory and practice of international relations and the use of sanctions as a means of achieving geostrategic objectives, including such ambitious ones as social constructivism and social engineering on national, regional and global scales. …”
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Prospering the ASEAN Community: How Micro-Region Becomes a Driving Force Prosperity in Indonesia’s Border Area? by Fitrisia Munir, Yanyan Mohammad Yani, Rendi Prayuda, Artha Yudilla, Dini Tiara Sasmi

“…This research strengthens the existing literature by discovering that the collaboration of sub-state actors between countries in the border region has played a big role in encouraging the border community to advance and compete in the international arena, and ASEAN has become an institution encouraging and guaranteeing equal development for people in the border areas.…”
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4d N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 from 6d D-type N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = (1, 0) by Jin Chen, Babak Haghighat, Shuwei Liu, Marcus Sperling

“…The simplest such 6d theory arises from D5 branes probing D-type singularities. Equivalently, this theory can be obtained from an F-theory compactification using −2- curves intersecting according to a D-type quiver. …”
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Permeation kinetics of nano-emulsified tarragon essential oil in fermented pickled cucumbers by FTIR, antioxidant capacity potentiometry, and antimicrobial properties by Mahdi Nikkhah, Abdollah Hematian Sourki, Askar Ghani

“…Oil-in-water nano-emulsions (100, 200, 400 and 800 mg L−1) were prepared by ultrasonic waves and were added to the brine/vinegar and cucumber mixture. The analysis of chemical compounds by gas chromatography showed that the main components of TEO were methyl chavicol, Z-β-ocimene, E-β-ocimene, limonene, and methyl eugenol. …”
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Exploring canyons beneath Devon Ice Cap for sub-glacial drainage using radar and thermodynamic modeling by Chris Pierce, Mark Skidmore, Lucas Beem, Don Blankenship, Ed Adams, Christopher Gerekos

“…The largest canyon connects a hypothesized brine network near the Devon Ice Cap summit with the marine-terminating Sverdrup outlet glacier. …”
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LA RESERVA DE MAR CHIQUITA: CONTROVERSIAS AMBIENTALES Y PROVISIÓN DE SERVICIOS ECOSISTÉMICOS by Victoria Noelia Cabral, María Laura Zulaica, Germán Oscar García

“…El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la incidencia de tres conflictos ambientales en la provisión de servicios ecosistémicos en la Reserva de Mar Chiquita, ubicada en la costa bonaerense: la aplicación de agroquímicos en cultivos, la extracción ilegal de arena y la urbanización hacia el interior de la reserva. …”
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Demografi Politik Kewargaan Daerah Pinggiran Kota Pangkalpinang by Rendy Rendy, Dini Wulansari, Berlian Zarina

“…Studi ini menghasilkan beberapa temuan yaitu adanya disparitas perubahan konteks lanskap sosial-politik daerah pinggiran yang berbeda dalam bentuk dan model intervensinya sehingga menyebabkan warganya semakin individualis dan kapitalis dan semangat komunalitas warganya semakin tergerus, terdapat konteks masyarakat yang ‘terbelah’ pada wilayah Beluluk dan Kace Timur dalam konteks semangat kewargaan daerah pinggiran yang menjadi arena transit ekonomi warga dan semangat kolektif warga. …”
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Evaluation and zoning of thermal and phenological conditions of grape cultivation in Hamadan province by akbar Shaemi- Barzoki, Nasrin Nikandish, abolfazl Baghbani- Arani, Samira Aligholi

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¿Convergencia o divergencia? Análisis econométrico del rol de la cultura en los patrones de compra by Elsa Nieves-Rodriguez, Myra-Mabel Perez-Rivera, Teresa Longobardi, Nora Picón, Carolina Arenas-Estrada

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