Geology and climate drive alpine plant compositional variation among peaks in the Cascade Range of Washington. by Erik W Ertsgaard, Nicholas L Gjording, Jonathan D Bakker, Joseph A Kleinkopf, David E Giblin

“…A unique result was a distinct plant community in peaks with ultramafic geologic parent material formed in the Paleozoic Era, which has an extreme geochemistry that we found to form evolutionarily distinct lineages compared to all other peaks. …”
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Decoupling Strategy and Modular Design for Loosely Coupled Organizations by Jing Zhang, Fengyan Li, Xiangmin Zhang

“…Under the technological innovation network, loosely coupled organizations featured by weak connections and relative independence have formed through the dynamic division of labor and knowledge sharing of enterprises. …”
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Antibacterial Effects of the Novel Blue Laser and Erbium Chromium Laser on Enterococcus Faecalis in Root Canal Dentin with Different Thicknesses by Seyedeh Sareh Hendi, Erfan Ahmadyani, Mohammad Yousef Alikhani, Maryam Farhadian, Alireza Mirzaei

“…Dentin slices with thicknesses of 300, 500, and 1,000 microns were prepared; and after the biofilm formation, they were randomly divided into four groups: group A : Er, Cr:YSGG laser radiation; group B: 445 nm diode laser radiation; group C : laser radiation in three cycles; and control group D: 5 samples of each thickness were selected as a positive control group. …”
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Vegetable Brassicas and Related Crucifers by Aleš Lebeda

“…They have very broad utilization in human activities as fresh and processed food, fodder and forage of animals, condiments and ornamental plants. …”
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L’université de Strasbourg de 1919 à 1939 : s’ouvrir à l’international mais ignorer l’Allemagne by Françoise Olivier-Utard

“…Contacts were sought with all the countries except Germany, which was systematically banished until WW II. Foreign students came from Central Europe and Middle East countries. …”
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Cognitive Impairment in Opium Use Disorder by Hossein Sanjari Moghaddam, Behrang Shadloo, Helen Shahkhah, Abbas Tafakhori, Maryam Haghshomar, Shakila Meshkat, Vajiheh Aghamollaii

“…Thirty outpatients with OUD and 20 healthy controls (HCs) were assessed using a neuropsychological battery consisted of Auditory Verbal Learning Test-Revised (AVLT-R), Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised (BVMT-R), Digit Forward and Backward Tests (DFT and DBT), and WAIS-R Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST). …”
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Photo trouvée, image perdue by Morad Montazami

“…À partir de la rencontre fortuite avec un corpus iconographique inattendu et problématique – une collection de photographies familiales – notre propos se veut d’abord une réflexion sur  la méthode critique à adopter en vue de l’analyse. …”
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The Greenhouse Effect: Using Student-Generated Agricultural Data to Warm Up Students for Data-Based Decision Making by Shonda Kuiper, Abhishek Chakraborty, Tyler George, Lisa W. Kay, Lawrence M. Lesser, Ginger Rowell, Dennis Pearl, Scott Crawford, Anna Olsen

“…While student and instructor responses indicated they liked the activity in both formats, the PreTest and PostTest results showed evidence of a higher gain in knowledge with the website version. …”
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Singing and Sounding the Sacred – the Function of Religious Songs and Hymns in the Public Sphere by Elsabé C. Kloppers

“…Religious singing in public spaces forms bridges between personal faith, the church, and public Christianity, while at the same time also forming bridges to a pluralist, secular, and post-secular society. …”
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Editorial by Pieter Vanhuysse, Antony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche, Maria Lenk

“…Gál, Róbert I. / Vanhuysse, Pieter / Vargha, Lili (forthcoming/2018): Pro-elderly welfare states within child-oriented societies. …”
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„W filmie to nigdy nie wiadomo...” – Teresy Roszkowskiej bitwy o kadr by Joanna Stacewicz-Podlipska

“…Decydującym czynnikiem było tu głębokie, artystyczne porozumienie z reżyserem, które udało się osiągnąć Roszkowskiej jedynie z Józefem Lejtesem, Aleksandrem Fordem oraz Jerzym Zarzyckim. Ich wyczulenie na plastyczną stronę filmu i „malarskość” kadru oraz fachowe przygotowanie z zakresu historii sztuki pozwoliły na partnerski dialog i stworzenie trzech zgranych, twórczych tandemów. …”
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Emprendimiento por oportunidad en el contexto del cambio de la matriz productiva: una estrategia innovadora- Ecuador by Azucena Maribel Maya-Carrillo, Carla Paulina Cevallos- Recalde, Jorge Geovanny Raura-Ruiz, Magda Francisca Cejas-Martínez

“…Para el estudio se ha realizado una revisión de literatura de diferentes fuentes, que permitieron analizar el emprendimiento por oportunidad y la innovación con el fin de profundizar en la temática estableciendo de esta forma las bases teóricas que permitieron sustentar la comprensión del tema desarrollado. …”
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The histopathologic evaluation of local effects of ozone therapy on the healing of experimental calvarial defects of rats by Tolga Bayar, Ebru Deniz Karslı

“…Conclusions The present study concludes that ozone has a positive effect on new bone formation in the early stages; however, it showed no statistically significant effect on soft tissue healing. …”
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Inequalities for a Unified Integral Operator for Strongly α,m-Convex Function and Related Results in Fractional Calculus by Chahn Yong Jung, Ghulam Farid, Kahkashan Mahreen, Soo Hak Shim

“…A new definition of function, namely, strongly α,m-convex function is applied in different forms and an extended Mittag-Leffler function is utilized to get the required results. …”
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The hard sphere view of the outer core by George Helffrich

“…The variants explored here are the Carnahan-Starling hard sphere model, the Mansoori-Carnahan-Starling-Leland extension to hard sphere mixtures, the transition metal hard sphere liquid, and the Lennard-Jones hard sphere liquid with attractive forces. With an empirical addition of a temperature dependence to the liquid’s hard sphere diameter, all of the variants explored can replicate wavespeeds in most of the radius range of the outer core. …”
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Numerical study of fracture arrest on snow cover by B. M. Chiaia, B. Frigo

“…Assuming that the weak layer is almost collapsed, we simulate the efficiency of artificial voids in the slab to arrest fracture propagation, into the framework of Dynamical Fracture Mechanics. We put forward here a new philosophy for the use of artificial discontinuities (void) into the snowpack able to perform as crack arresters  distributed along the snow slope area: the target is to split a large avalanche slab into smaller slabs, causing small avalanches to propagate with less catastrophic effects.…”
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Influencing Holistic Health Policy by Erica Bell

“…Without a model of policy-making that positions policy decision-makers as capable of being informed by specific forms of evidence that speak to policy contexts, it is difficult for research to begin to shape health policy. …”
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Sankce vůči českým královským městům roku 1547 v kontextu habsburské politiky první poloviny 16. století („Gentský ortel“ v politické propagandě stavovského odboje)... by Petr Vorel

“…However, having occupied the town with military force, Charles V seized all of the municipal property and handed down a harsh verdict with long-term consequences. …”
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Os benefícios da prática regular de atividade física no processo de envelhecimento by Arestides Pereira da Silva Júnior, Marília Velardi

“…Foi constatado que os principais benefícios da prática regular de atividade física para o idoso são relativos à: prevenção de doenças; manutenção ou melhoria da capacidade funcional e das capacidades físicas; melhora dos níveis de aptidão física; auxílio no controle do peso corporal; auxílio no desenvolvimento e manutenção dos ossos, músculos e articulações saudáveis; manutenção da força muscular e do equilíbrio, dando-lhes mobilidade e reduzindo as quedas; proporciona maior socialização; promove o bem-estar psicológico e a autoestima, além de outros de ordem subjetiva. …”
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Multi-spatial urban function modeling: A multi-modal deep network approach for transfer and multi-task learning by Zhaoya Gong, Chenglong Wang, Bin Liu, Binbo Li, Wei Tu, Yuting Chen, Zhicheng Deng, Pengjun Zhao

“…First, spaces of urban places, urban forms, urban flows, and urban locations are conceptualized from the interactions between land use and transportation systems and represented by multi-source heterogeneous spatial features. …”
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