The role of prokaryotic mercury methylators and demethylators in Canadian Arctic thermokarst lakes by Nicola Gambardella, Joana Costa, Beatriz Malcata Martins, Diogo Folhas, Ana Patrícia Ribeiro, Holger Hintelmann, João Canário, Catarina Magalhães

“…Microbial communities play a pivotal role in the formation of MMHg by facilitating Hg methylation and in the demethylation of MMHg, slowing the crossing of toxic threshold concentration in the environment. …”
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Occurrence and Hydrochemical Characteristics of Saline and Salty Springs in the Sichuan Basin of China by Juan Guo, Xun Zhou, Yuqi Zhang, Mingming Ta, Yuan Wang

“…The groundwater is continuously heated by geothermal heat flow. A conceptual model for the formation of the saline and salty springs is proposed that hypothesizes meteoric water infiltrates in the core of anticlines that occur in the carbonate rocks with fractures or in the fault zones. …”
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Hydrogeochemical signatures, genetic mechanisms, and sustainable utilization potential of Li-B-Sr enriched groundwater in a typical arid endorheic watershed on Tibetan Plateau by Yuqing Zhang, Yong Xiao, Jie Wang, Liwei Wang, Yongxing Zhang, Qichen Hao, Huizhu Chen, Zexue Qi, Huijun Yan, Jibin Han, Wenxu Hu

“…Consequently, only 15 % of groundwater sampled in alluvial fan meets drinking standards. …”
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Development of reporting guidance and core outcome sets for seamless, standardised evaluation of innovative surgical procedures and devices: a study protocol for content generation... by Natalie S Blencowe, Jane Blazeby, Kerry Avery, Sian Cousins, Rhiannon Macefield, Daisy Elliott, Jesmond Zahra, Nicholas Wilson, Robert Hinchliffe, Barry Main, Shelley Potter

“…Identified items/domains will be categorised using a conceptual framework and formatted into Delphi consensus survey questionnaire items.2. …”
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Administrative Procedural Law in Russia: Status, Problems and Prospects by V. E. Sevryugin

“…The general methodological basis was the method of materialistic dialectics and conceptual analysis of legal reality, allowing to consider and reveal the problems of categorical understanding of the administrative process and administrative procedural law in a complex, inseparable unity with other legal phenomena and categories. …”
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Reading the Visual Aspects of the Grotesque Body in the Iranian Cinema and Theater Posters (1390s) by Amir Hossein Pormehr Yabandeh, Mohsen Marasy

“…In the history of literature and art, as well as in cultural and social situations, classical laws, standards, and proportions have always contrasted with the grotesque, and any pre-determined conceptual frameworks are abandoned. This critical attitude develops in the formal space of the community, which is related to free emancipation and the formation of a new personality. …”
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The influence of childhood parenting style on self in the period of youth: analysis of chain mediation effect on DanQi by Han Xu, Li Li, Weidong Wang, Xueyu Lv, Jinhua Zhang, Liang Zhang, Kaiyi Huang, Jian Wang

“…We have hypothesized that positive parenting styles during childhood indirectly influence the development of self-concept in young adulthood by fostering elevated levels of DanQi—conceptualized as boldness or courage—throughout adolescence and into early adulthood.MethodsThis research employed a quantitative, cross-sectional design, utilizing a stratified random sampling technique to survey urban populations across six major regions of China. …”
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Developing and presenting a mathematical model for the purpose of organizational culture architecture based on creating alignment between the strategic reference points of organiza... by Elyas hasanzadeh Shweili, Mir Mehrdad peidaie, Ali reza Rezghi Rostami

“…The statistical population of the research includes 20 academic and organizational experts, and the sampling was done in a purposeful, judgmental and snowball manner, and the interviews continued until theoretical saturation was reached. …”
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