Learning together: facing the challenges of sustainability transitions by engaging uncertainty tolerance and post-normal science by Michelle D. Lazarus, Silvio Funtowicz

“…Herein, we describe the sources of uncertainty related to sustainable transitions, the role that post-normal science can play in addressing these uncertainties, and describe strategies to support societies’ collective capacity for developing uncertainty tolerance to better engage with the processes required for a sustainable future.…”
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Clinical applications and research progress of totally implantable venous access ports: a literature review by Xiao-Min Huang, Xia Li, Jie Deng, Jiong Chen, Liang Qian

“…This technology has been introduced into clinical practice in China, with successful results. …”
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‘Over-hopefulness and getting-on-ness’: Ruskin, Nature, and America by Sara Atwood

“…[rising] eminently out of the contrast of the beautiful past with the frightful and monotonous present . . . . …”
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Association of sildenafil use with age-related macular degeneration: a retrospective cohort study by Nicola Jaime Adderley, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Anuradhaa Subramanian, Alastair K Denniston, Wen Hwa Lee, Ji Eun Diana Han, Jesse Coker

“…The study found no significant difference in AMD incidence between the sildenafil users and the non-users, with an adjusted hazard ratio (HR) of 0.99 (95% CI 0.84 to 1.16), after accounting for confounders such as age, ethnicity, Townsend deprivation quintile, body mass index category, and diagnosis of hypertension and type 2 diabetes.Conclusion The study results indicated no significant association between sildenafil use and AMD prevention in UK men with erectile dysfunction, suggesting sildenafil’s protective effect on AMD is likely insignificant.…”
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Driving Style Recognition under Connected Circumstance Using a Supervised Hierarchical Bayesian Model by Depeng Chen, Zhijun Chen, Yishi Zhang, Xu Qu, Mingyang Zhang, Chaozhong Wu

“…Firstly, a novel method is established for driving behavioral encoding and raw driving data mining. Then, the Labeled Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LLDA) is proposed to understand the latent driving styles from individual driving with driving behaviors. …”
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Application of chromato-mass spectrometry to determine the acid composition of transformer oil by M. N. Lyutikova, S. M. Korobeynikov, A. V. Ridel

“…The structure of some compounds identified in oil is given. It has been established that during oil aging, among the acid compounds, the following are predominantly formed: HMA (60–95 %) > PC (3–16 %) > LMA (1–6 %). …”
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Opiliões (Arachnida: Opiliones) em remanescente florestal no município de Plácido de Castro, AC by Rodrigo Souza Santos

“…Todos os opiliões registrados nesse levantamento foram capturados pelo método de “procura livre noturna”, sendo os gêneros Geaya e Cynorta, bem como a espécie P. quadripunctatus, registrados pela primeira vez no estado do Acre.…”
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Health-Related Quality of Life and Quality of Sexual Life in Obese Subjects by Eleonora Poggiogalle, Luca Di Lazzaro, Alessandro Pinto, Silvia Migliaccio, Andrea Lenzi, Lorenzo M. Donini

“…As defined by the World Health Organization, sexual health is “a state of physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being in relation to sexuality.” The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between sexual life in obese subjects and quality of life, psychological status, and disability. …”
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Multimodal ultrasound assessment of the injection therapy in lateral epicondylitis: a retrospective observational study by Chengfeng Chu, Mingmin Xu, Jichao Hu

“…This study examined 73 patients suffering from tennis elbow using a multimodal ultrasound approach and investigated the correlation between pertinent indicators and clinical scores. …”
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A Patient with Milky Urine: Nonparasitic Chyluria and Silver Nitrate Sclerotherapy by M. Sivashankar, A. C. N. Nandasena

“…Chyluria has become a rare clinical presentation in Sri Lanka, which may have a direct correlation with the low prevalence of lymphatic filariasis following the use of diethylcarbamazine and albendazole mass drug administration (MDA) for five rounds between 2002 and 2006. …”
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A Field Study of the Effect of Noise and Whole-Body Vibration Exposure on Heavy Equipment Drivers’ Auditory System Function by Seyyed Mohammad Javad Golhosseini, Mohsen Aliabadi, Rostam Golmohammadi, Maryam Farhadian, Mehdi Akbari

“…The DPOAE amplitude of the drivers in all three investigated scenarios showed significant changes (P<0.05); But in comparison between different scenarios, exposure to WBV and combined exposure to noise and WBV had a significant effect on the response of the auditory system of the participants in the study compared to the scenario without exposure (P<0.05). …”
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Research on HOV Lane Priority Dynamic Control under Connected Vehicle Environment by Guiliang Zhou, Lina Mao, Pengsen Hu, Feng Sun, Xu Bao

“…The optimization of high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane management can better improve the efficiency of road resources. This paper first summarized the current research on HOV lane implementation and analyzed and identifies the threshold of setting road HOV lane dynamic control under the connected vehicle environment. …”
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TURİZM İŞLETMELERİNDE İTİBAR YÖNETİMİ by Erkan Akgöz, Başak Solmaz

“…Bu çalışma, itibar yönetiminin turizm işletmelerine etkilerini belirlemek amacıyla hazırlanmıştır. Araştırmada T.C. …”
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Physical Literacy, According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in an Italian Preschool and Education for a Daily Movement Routine by Gaetano Raiola

“…Background and Objectives: The preschool context produces excessive sedentary behavior in children. The systematic fulfillment of structured physical activities during school time, namely a daily movement routine (DMR), can contribute to increasing the quantity of physical activity (PA) and to improving physical literacy (PL), reaching the WHO’s recommendations. …”
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Crop protection by RNA interference: a review of recent approaches, current state of developments and use as of 2013 by Kirsten Germing, Cecilia Andrea Díaz Navarrete, Andreas Schiermeyer, Udo Hommen, Luise Zühl, Sebastian Eilebrecht, Elke Eilebrecht

“…In total, RNAi applications for more than 30 different pest species were identified, most of which belonged to the insect orders Lepidoptera, Hemiptera and Coleoptera. …”
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Visualising “the vulnerable”: Understanding vulnerability to COVID-19 in relation to the South African COVID-19 Vulnerability Index (SA CVI) by Marnell Kirsten, Marina Joubert

“…It is found that these conditions have not been generated by the pandemic but have rather been exposed by it.   …”
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Binary and quaternary mixtures of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) differentially affect the immune response to influenza A virus infection by Christina M. Post, Carrie McDonough, B. Paige Lawrence

“…Immune suppression has been among the most consistent effects of exposure to PFAS. …”
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Combined Online-Discussion as a Tool for Formation of Future Engineers’ Reflexion under Conditions of Education Digitalization. by S. A. Mikheev

“…Taking into account the above mentioned methodological features, the teacher’s recommendations on the effective organization of the educational process in technical universities on the basis of the developed technology have been formulated. The correlation between the application of the developed technology and the improvement of the subjects’ reflexive skills by 19.67-32.79% was shown and a conclusion was made about its significant role in the formation of a holistic view of the students of technical universities about the discussion as a complex multidimensional category, in which an important role is played by building social interaction with opponents, understanding their position and reaching compromise solutions.…”
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Travmatik Dental Yaralanmalar Konusunda Hazırlanan Eğitici Broşürün Ebeveyn Bilgi Düzeyi ve Tutumu Üzerine Etkisinin Değerlendirilmesi by Ebru Delikan, Nazan Koçak

“…Diş yaralanmalarına müdahale edebileceklerini belirten ebeveynlerin oranı %39,4 oranındadır ancak bu oran eğitici broşür ile bilgilendirildikten sonra %71,2'ye yükselmiştir. …”
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UAV-assisted MEC systems: architecture, key technology, and future challenges by Tiankui ZHANG, Yu XU, Yuanwei LIU, Dingcheng YANG, Yuanhong REN

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