The impact of long-term exposure to NO2, O3, and their oxidative potential on adolescents’ mental health, and the protective role of school-based greenness by Jiajia Dang, Yaqi Wang, Ning Ma, Shan Cai, Jianhui Guo, Yunfei Liu, Haoyu Zhou, Xinyao Lian, Di Shi, Ziyue Chen, Yihang Zhang, Jiaxin Li, Tianyu Huang, Guangrong Zhu, Jing Li, Jun Ma, Yi Song

“…Greenness around schools, measured by the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), was examined for its potential effect modification on the association between NO2, O3, OX, and mental health. …”
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Regolith-Rich PEEK Composite Bricks: Steps Towards Space-Ready Lunar Construction Materials by Roberto Torre, Carlo Giovanni Ferro, Lorenzo Bono, Aidan Cowley

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What Resilience Skills Do Emergency Workers Need During a Widespread Phase of a Socio-Health Emergency? A Focus on the Role of Hardiness and Resilience by Valeria Giostra, Tiziana Maiorano, Monia Vagni

“…This study has the main objective of analyzing how the possible protective factors hardiness and resilience intervene in the relationship with emergency stress, secondary trauma, and burnout in a sample of 476 Italian Red Cross volunteers using an online transactional survey during the second phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Effect of Friction Coefficient on Relative Slippage of Fuel Cell Stack under Mechanical Impact Condition by Yongping Hou, Leiqi Wang, Jianwen Zhang, Dong Hao

“…The division layer of relative slippage is found and its vibration rule is discussed. It is observed that increasing the magnitude of impact vibration has most significant effect on the movement of the division layer, and the two variables are linearly related when impact acceleration is greater than 5 g. …”
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Impaired Urine Dilution Capability in HIV Stable Patients by Waldo H. Belloso, Mariana de Paz Sierra, Matilde Navarro, Marisa L. Sanchez, Ariel G. Perelsztein, Carlos G. Musso

“…Renal disease is a well-recognized complication among patients with HIV infection. Viral infection itself and the use of some antiretroviral drugs contribute to this condition. …”
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An updated overview on the bacterial PhoP/PhoQ two-component signal transduction system by Meiqin Mao, Li He, Qingpi Yan

“…In this review, we describe the PhoP/PhoQ system-induced signal composition and its feedback mechanism, and the abundance of PhoP phosphorylation in the activated state directly or indirectly controls the transcription and expression of related genes, regulating bacterial stability. …”
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La surveillance globale dans un monde post-Snowden by David Lyon

“…However, if there is a key issue raised by the Snowden revelations, it is the future of the internet. Information and its central conduits have become an unprecedented arena of political struggle, centred on surveillance and privacy. …”
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REVISIT OF BAKASI PENISULA NIGERIA CAMEROUN RESOURCE CONFLICT by ODE AGI OKO, AWUDU SHEKARAU MASA-IBI

“…The study also wishes to find out types of particular resources that was the bone in of contention and its economic values to the two border countries. …”
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Research on the Prediction of the Water Demand of Construction Engineering Based on the BP Neural Network by Hao Peng, Han Wu, Junwu Wang

“…The BP neural network optimized by PSO was used to obtain the predicted value of the output interval, which effectively solved the shortcomings of the BP neural network model, including its slow convergence speed and easy to fall into local optimum problems. …”
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Sistrunk Procedure on Malignant Thyroglossal Duct Cyst by Diani Kartini, Sonar S. Panigoro, Agnes S. Harahap

“…Malignant progression is a rare event that might occur in less than 1% of all cases. Because of its rarity, there are conflicting opinions regarding the management of the case. …”
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Image-Based Underwater Inspection System for Abrasion of Stilling Basin Slabs of Dam by Yonglong Li, Hua Zhang, Shuang Wang, Haoran Wang, Jialong Li

“…Finally, the UIS-1 system was evaluated in the field experiments of a dam in Sichuan, China, and its performance was discussed by comparison.…”
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Serum Symmetric Dimethylarginine as an Early Marker of Excretory Dysfunction in Canine Leishmaniosis (L. infantum) Induced Nephropathy by Esther Torrent, Marta Planellas, Laura Ordeix, Josep Pastor, Jaume Rodon, Laia Solano-Gallego

“…The aims of the study were to determine whether symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) was increased in dogs with leishmaniosis and to assess its relationship with creatinine concentration and urinary protein : creatinine ratio (UPC) to determine its utility as a marker of early excretory dysfunction. …”
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Prokaryotic diversity of the rhizosphere from Argentinean wine-producing regions by Andres Martin Toscani, Monica Oyuela Aguilar, Constanza Rey, Ramiro Eugenio Rocco Welsh, Alex Gobbi, Maria Florencia del Papa, Liliana Carmen Semorile, Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Mariano Pistorio

“… Argentina stands as the seventh-largest wine producer. Its broad geographical and climatic diversity contributes to the production of wines with distinctive regional characteristics. …”
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Sense of Balance in Indian Conceptualisation of Psychological Well-being by Joseph Jeyaraj Swaminathan, Giuseppe Crea, Zbigniew Formella

“…Similar to the Western concept of PWB, its Indian conceptualisation too, has a long history dating back to at least 3,000 years. …”
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Preservice Teachers’ Perception Levels Concerning Consumer Environmental Consciousness by Yurdal Dikmenli

“…The Consumer Environment Consciousness Scale (CESS) which was developed by the researcher, and contains 28 items, 20 of which are positive and 8 of which are negative, was used for data collection. …”
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Damage severity for cracked simply supported beams by Ehab Samir Mohamed Mohamed Soliman

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Ground Zero: A bibliometric analysis of L2 vocabulary research 1986-1990 by Paul Meara

“…The first is a detailed account of the 1990 research on its own terms. The second analysis places this work in a larger context by looking at research published in a five-year window covering 1986-1990. …”
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Observational study on Lifestyle Behaviours and Nutrition in individuals undergoing genetic counseling for breast or colorectal cancer risk by Lea Godino, Donatella Fabbro, Benedetta Bertonazzi, Daniela Turchetti

“…METHOD: A cross-sectional survey was performed through a self-administered questionnaire, including: the Italian validated Medi-Lite and the International Physical Activity validated questionnaires (to assess adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and Physical activity), items on cancer risk perception, lifestyle and surveillance. …”
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Numerical Approximation for Fractional Neutron Transport Equation by Zhengang Zhao, Yunying Zheng

“…Numerical examples show the combinations of forward Euler/two-stage, second-order ERK and WENO5 are unstable and the three-stage, third-order ERK method with generalized WENO5 is stable and can maintain sharp transitions for discontinuous problem, and its convergence reaches fifth order for smooth boundary condition.…”
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Investigation on Circadian Regulation of Four-Primary LED Display Differed in People by GA by Wenhui Li, Junying Li, Yating Feng, Yi Lin, Haoyang Liu, Ruoping Lian, Qinzhen Lin, Jingyi Cui, Zixin Huang, Yaling Chai, Ziquan Guo, Lili Zheng, Zhong Chen

“…Then, the genetic algorithm is adopted for performing the spectral optimization of four-primary LED display while many constraint conditions are set, such as CCT values (2700 K and 6500 K), CCT tolerance, and color distance (<italic>D</italic>_uv &lt; 0.01) in the CIE 1960 UCS color space. …”
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