Investigating a hybrid mixed population leads to recognizing a new species of Arctostaphylos (Ericaceae) by Tito Abbo, Morgan A. Stickrod, Alexander Krohn, V. Thomas Parker, Michael C. Vasey, William Waycott, Amy Litt

“…While investigating the potential for Arctostaphylos species to hybridize in the mixed populations of Point Sal and Burton Mesa in Santa Barbara County, California, we discovered that Arctostaphylos from the Nipomo Mesa (San Luis Obispo County), formerly considered a northern population of A. rudis, are genetically and morphologically distinct. We name this new taxon A. nipumu after the ytt (Northern Chumash language) word for the Nipomo Mesa region. …”
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Information Entropy-Based Hybrid Models Improve the Accuracy of Reference Evapotranspiration Forecast by Anzhen Qin, Zhilong Fan, Liuzeng Zhang

“…Before the construction of hybrid models, each single model’s weight was determined based on two weight determination methods, namely, the variance reciprocal and information entropy weighting methods. …”
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Analysis of the Misconceptions Taking Accounting Education Students About Accounting Education: Example of TRB 1 Region by Özcan Demir, Meltem Gül, Zülküf Narlıkaya

“…With the results obtained from the study, it is expected that the difficulties experienced by the students in accounting courses and the misconceptions they have acquired will be identified and will help to eliminate the mistakes that will be experienced in the name of accounting in the future. It is extremely important to eliminate these misconceptions in order to have a positive impact on the department that students choose as a profession, which will affect their future lives. …”
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Experience in implementing the European Union’s regional investment policy to attract foreign direct investments by L. S. Nevyantseva, N. Yu. Vlasova

“…In more detail the trends in the investment policy of those countries that recorded a sharp growth or a sharp decline in FDI have been highlighted, namely, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Poland and Ireland. …”
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A Statistical Modeling and Optimization for Cr(VI) Adsorption from Aqueous Media via Teff Straw-Based Activated Carbon: Isotherm, Kinetics, and Thermodynamic Studies by Surafel Mustefa Beyan, Sundramurthy Venkatesa Prabhu, Temesgen Abeto Ambio, C. Gomadurai

“…A central composite approach-based RSM analysis was undertaken for statistical modeling and optimization for maximized Cr(VI) removal with respect to four important factors, namely, initial concentration of Cr(VI), the dosage of TSAC, pH, and adsorption time. …”
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Die Macht der Folkmusik: City Branding, musikalische Imaginationen und tourismusinduziertes placemaking in Yulin, Chengdu (China) by Shuyue Chen

“…In den 1980er Jahren errichtet war Yulin ein typisches Stadtviertel, das repräsentativ für Chengdus Arbeiter:innenwohnungen der 1980er und 90er Jahre stand. Obwohl sein Name unter Einheimischen gut bekannt ist, wurde Yulin aufgrund eines Folklieds schlagartig einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit des Landes ausgesetzt. …”
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Evaluating AI-generated responses from different chatbots to soil science-related questions by Javad Khanifar

“…Nevertheless, these chatbots had significantly higher answering accuracy than Gemini 1.5 Pro and cost-efficient LLMs, namely Gemini 1.5 Flash and GPT-4o mini (p < 0.05). …”
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Assessment of retention characteristics of different attachments following new modifications (an in vitro study) by Mahabad Mahmud Saleh, Dhia Aldori

“…Methods: In this study three types of commonly used extracoronal castable attachments were selected, namely (1) Preci-verttix standard, CEKA attachment, (2) Preci-sagix mini size, CEKA attachment, (3) OT- cap normal, Rhein 83. …”
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Investigation on the influencing mechanism and quantitative evaluation of stirred heat effect in high-speed mechanical seals by Xuezhong Ma, Xiaoxin Xiao

“…Firstly, in terms of cooling flow, the cold fluid flow from sealed chamber into sealing gap is impeded by the high-speed shear effect of rotor outer sidewall, and a larger vortex namely a flow dead zone is generated at the spiral groove root due to the turbulent flow regime, which significantly impede the cooling level of fluid film and sealing end faces. …”
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АНТРОПОЛОГІЧНІ ЗАСАДИ ЛЮДИНОВИМІРНОСТІ СПОРТУ ЯК РЕАЛІЗАЦІЇ РОДОВОЇ СУТНОСТІ ЛЮДИНИ by V. Ye. Bilogur

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Administrative Liability for Violating the Rules of Stopping, Parking, Vehicle Parking by O. Yu. Salmanova, A. T. Komziuk

“…It has been concluded that administrative liability for violating the rules of stopping, parking, vehicle parking has many features that are applied to all its components – the grounds for which are violations of specific rules defined by many regulations, and the subject can be recognized not only the person who directly committed these violations, but also other persons who are named responsible by law; content, i.e. administrative penalties that can be applied without taking into account the general rules of their imposition; procedure for implementation, especially in cases of violating the rules of stopping, parking, vehicle parking recorded in the mode of photography (video). …”
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La poétique de la pierre dans l'œuvre de Thomas Hardy : du livre de pierre au livre de vie by Annie Escuret

“…Tess's tragedy is summed up by a series of stones (including the pillar of stone « Cross-in-Hand » on which is carved a human hand) and the same applies to Jude's fate (with the milestone on which he carves his name). Most characters are alienated by their education and their tragedy comes from the fact that their own time never comes ! …”
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Lifecycle Risk Assessment for Steel Cargo Vessel Sinkings: An Interpretive Structural Modeling and Fuzzy Bayesian Network Approach by Xiaodan Jiang, Haibin Xu, Yaming Zhu, Yingxia Gu, Shiyuan Zheng

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Modern View on Information Services Provided by Service Centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine by О. V. Dzhafarova, O. H. Kniaziuk

“…The analysis of doctrinal provisions allowed us to conclude about the multiplicity of information services and differences in the procedure for their provision, which necessitated the classification of these procedures in order to identify their fundamental features, namely: depending on the subject of provision; according to the method of providing information; depending on the need for payment; depending on the availability of the information service procedure; according to the definition of the range of consumers; depending on the possibility of refusing to provide this type of administrative services; according to the content of the information service. …”
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Mucormycosis Associated with Global Coronavirus Disease-19 Pandemic: A Study of Fungal Profile from a Tertiary Health-care Center by Snigdha Purohit, Kavita Mourya, Nazneen Pathan, Sunita Agarwal, Vithika Vyas, Aruna Vyas

“…Here, we focus on invasive fungal infections (IFA), namely mucormycosis, aspergillosis, and candidiasis. …”
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Essential characteristics of law as a phenomenon of social reality by Lutskyi R., Coughlan V., Tabachyn V.

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Impacts of data consistency levels in cloud-based NoSQL for data-intensive applications by Saulo Ferreira, Júlio Mendonça, Bruno Nogueira, Willy Tiengo, Ermeson Andrade

“…This work analyzes various data consistency settings for the widely used NoSQL DBMSs, namely MongoDB, Redis, and Cassandra. The analysis is based on real-world experiments in which DBMS nodes are deployed on cloud platforms in different locations, considering single and multiple region deployments. …”
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Machine learning based sucker rod pump fault diagnosis using motor power curve by Othman H. Ahmed, Samuel I. Tecle, Anatoliy A. Zyuzev, Vladimir P. Metelkov

“…To train the machine learning classifiers and evaluate their performance accuracy, a number of characteristics were used, obtained from motor power curves for six different pump operating states. Namely, operating coefficients were calculated, representing the ratio of the power integral at each of the four stages of the installation operating cycle to the power integral for the entire cycle. …”
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TMFN: a text-based multimodal fusion network with multi-scale feature extraction and unsupervised contrastive learning for multimodal sentiment analysis by Junsong Fu, Youjia Fu, Huixia Xue, Zihao Xu

“…To solve these problems, we propose a novel method named a text-based multimodal fusion network with multi-scale feature extraction and unsupervised contrastive learning (TMFN). …”
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ANALISIS KELAYAKAN USAHA BURUNG PUYUH PETELUR (Coturnix coturnix japonica) DI KELURAHAN TEBING TINGGI OKURA KECAMATAN RUMBAI PESISIR KOTA PEKANBARU by Boni Sanjaya, Amalia Amalia, Hamdan Yasid

“… This study aimed (1) to analyze the feasibility of livestock laying quail in Tebing Tinggi Okura Village, Rumbai Pesisir District, Pekanbaru city, namely in terms of the financial aspects of the investment criteria such as NPV (Net Present Value), Net B / CR (Net Benefit Cost Ratio), IRR (Internal Rate of Return) and PBP (Pay Back Period). (2) to analyze the feasibility of a laying quail farm in terms of aspects BEP (Break Event Point). (3) Knowing the problems faced by the businesses in the Tebing Tinggi Okura Village, Rumbai Pesisir District, Pekanbaru city. …”
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