The impact of physical exercise on adolescents’ mobile phone dependency: the serial mediating role of self-esteem and depression by Jingtao Wu, Yanhong Shao, Wanli Zang

“…Mediation analysis revealed that self-esteem and depression significantly mediated the relationship between physical exercise and mobile phone dependency, with a total indirect effect of −0.116 (95% CI = [−0.239, −0.140]), accounting for 100% of the total effect. …”
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Is Our Food Safe from Pesticides? by Frederick M. Fishel

“…Growers of the food supply have adopted the use of integrated pest management (IPM) because it is no longer possible to rely solely on chemical pesticides to prevent unacceptable crop losses. …”
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Inotodiol induces hepatocellular carcinoma apoptosis by activation of MAPK/ERK pathway. by Yushuang Xing, Di Jia, Xinping Zhu, Jialu Yang, Zhipeng Gao, Nana Meng, Haohao Xu, Mengxiao Wang, Shijun Chang, Mingqian Zhao, Shanbo Zhang, Zichen Mu, Qiang Tang, Weiming Zhao

“…Chemicals and chemotherapeutic agents have been experiencing problems such as side effects and drug resistance in the treatment of HCC, which cannot meet the needs of clinical treatment. …”
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Path Planning Optimization of Smart Vehicle With Fast Converging Distance-Dependent PSO Algorithm by Muhammad Haris, Haewoon Nam

“…This methodology not only accelerates convergence but also maintains a balance between exploration and exploitation. The effectiveness of the DSI-PSO algorithm is tested using thirteen distinct unimodal and multimodal benchmark functions, serving as rigorous test cases. …”
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In search of values. Reading The Hunger Games in an African context by W. Domeris

“…The hero of the trilogy, Katniss Everdeen, experiences the pull of the Empire’s values of honour and empire, and yet finds space to push back against its more brutal aspects. In the space-between, like the Jesus of the Gospels, she creates an empathetic and altruistic zone that fosters the dignity of voiceless servants and people such as Rue, a vulnerable teenager. …”
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Hoşgörü Eğilim Ölçeği Yetişkin Formu: Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması by Hüseyin Çalışkan, Merve Çavuş

“…Öncelikle madde havuzunda yer alan 30 maddeye ilişkin beşli Likert tarzında bir ön form yapılandırılmıştır. …”
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US Foreign Policy on Transitional Justice and Democratization in Tunisia: Pacted Transition or Democracy Reduction? by Oussema Othmeni

“…The United States of America (US) committed nearly $1.4 billion in foreign assistance to Tunisia in support of its democratic transition and transitional justice process between 2011 and 2020. This paper seeks to identify and assess the ideational frameworks guiding the distribution of US assistance, and influencing US foreign policy behavior, throughout the democratization and transitional justice period in Tunisia. …”
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Speaker verification method based on cross-domain attentive feature fusion by Zhen YANG, Tianlang WANG, Haiyan GUO, Tingting WANG

“…Aiming at the problem that the lack of structure information among speech signal sample in the front-end acoustic features of speaker verification system, a speaker verification method based on cross-domain attentive feature fusion was proposed.Firstly, a feature extraction method based on the graph signal processing (GSP) was proposed to extract the structural information of speech signals, each sample point in a speech signal frame was regarded as a graph node to construct the speech graph signal and the graph frequency information of the speech signal was extracted through the graph Fourier transform and filter banks.Then, an attentive feature fusion network with the residual neural network and the squeeze-and- excitation block was proposed to fuse the features in the traditional time-frequency domain and those in the graph frequency domain to promote the speaker verification system performance.Finally, the experiment was carried out on the VoxCeleb, SITW, and CN-Celeb datasets.The experimental results show that the proposed method performs better than the baseline ECAPA-TDNN model in terms of equal error rate (EER) and minimum detection cost function (min-DCF).…”
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New Record of the Egg-larval Parasitoid, Chelonus formosanus Sonan of Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) in the Philippines by Orlando Adona Calcetas, Ravindra Chandra Joshi, Ankita Gupta, Avinjikkattu Parambil Ranjith, Mary Ann Madrid, Joash Fameronag

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Wheat landraces as sources of high grain quality and nutritional properties by V. P. Shamanin, I. V. Pototskaya, S. A. Esse, M. S. Gladkih, S. S. Shepelev, E. V. Zuev, N. A. Vinichenko, H. Koksel, A. I. Morgounov

“…A positive relationship between the concentrations of Mg, Mn, Fe, and Zn was found in the grain of wheat landraces.Conclusion. …”
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Validation of Analytical Method for Aeromonas hydrophila Identification using Analytical Profile Index (API) 20E KIT Method by Diah Artati, Mohammad Oman, Supriyanto Supriyanto, Dede Sukarta, Adam Robisalmi

“…The use of phenotypic KIT methods (API 20E) has been applied as a targeted and efficient identification support in targeting better bacterial identification accuracy but often provides unequal results. …”
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Big data analysis and changes in customer preferences in post-pandemic global tourism by N. A. Zamyatina

“…Nevertheless, big data analysis implemented by various companies reflects a dramatic change in consumer priorities of the post-pandemic period and captures the demand for authenticity, variety, increased concern for physical and mental health, intangible luxury, and, in general, understanding that traveling is beginning to be perceived as one of essentials of healthy lifestyle. …”
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Perilipin 2 Impacts Acute Kidney Injury via Regulation of PPARα by Sujuan Xu, Edward Lee, Zhaoxing Sun, Xiaoyan Wang, Ting Ren, Zhouping Zou, Jifu Jin, Jie Li, Jian Zhang, Yingxiang Li, Qiang Yang, Yang Zhang, Man Guo, Yi Fang, Xiaoqiang Ding

“…Some evidence has also demonstrated the association between Plin2 expression and renal tumors. However, the underlying mechanism of Plin2 in I/R-induced acute kidney injury (AKI) remains elusive. …”
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Patterns of Antibiotic Resistance in Enterobacteriaceae Isolates from Broiler Chicken in the West Region of Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Study by Jude Fonbah Leinyuy, Innocent Mbulli Ali, Ousenu Karimo, Christopher B. Tume

“…Plasmid-borne genes for extended-spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL) and resistance to Quinolones (PMQR) and Aminoglycosides were detected by standard endpoint polymerase chain reaction (PCR). …”
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An Improved Clustering Method for Detection System of Public Security Events Based on Genetic Algorithm and Semisupervised Learning by Heng Wang, Zhenzhen Zhao, Zhiwei Guo, Zhenfeng Wang, Guangyin Xu

“…In this paper, a detecting system for public security events is designed, which carries out clustering operation to cluster relevant text data, in order to benefit relevant departments by evaluation and handling. …”
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USTAVNI SISTEM KRALJEVINE SRBIJE UOČI VELIKOG RATA: LOKALNA (SAMO)UPRAVA by Marko Stanković

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Preliminary report on human remains from Tell Masaikh and Tell Ashara. Season 2008 by Jacek Tomczyk

“…We have been excavated 82 human skeletons (58 individuals from Tell Masikh, and 24 from Tell Ashara).…”
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ADDED VALUES OF SOCIAL CRM: THE EXAMINATION OF CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE by Amila Pilav-Velic, Anes Hrnjić, Ljubica Milanović Glavan, Azra Hanić

“…This paper aims to investigate the characteristics and benefits of using Social Cutomer Relationship Management (or abbreviated SCRM) for developing relations that many customers nowadays perceive as the most valuable component of the business offer. …”
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The Effectiveness of Myo-Inositol and D-Chiro Inositol Treatment in Type 2 Diabetes by Basilio Pintaudi, Giacoma Di Vieste, Matteo Bonomo

“…Inositol has been used as a supplement in treating several pathologies such as PCOS, metabolic syndrome, and gestational diabetes. …”
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Revascularization of Transplanted Pancreatic Islets and Role of the Transplantation Site by Andrew R. Pepper, Boris Gala-Lopez, Oliver Ziff, A. M. James Shapiro

“…As a result, in some cases a significant quantity of the beta cell mass transplanted dies acutely following the infusion into the portal vein, the most clinically used site of engraftment. …”
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