Democracy and its Boundaries: Can there be such a thing as a bona fide intergenerational social contract? by Armando Marques Guedes

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It’s about time! Teachers’ perspectives on supportive and hindering contextual conditions for implementing innovations in schools by Mareike Ehlert, Marie Adloff, Elmar Souvignier

“…To investigate which context factors are implicitly salient for teachers, we conducted interviews with N = 43 elementary school teachers who gave recommendations for designing effective teacher professional development for implementing a reading innovation into their school. …”
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Analysis of Postural Control in Patients Diagnosed with Unilateral Knee Osteoarthrosis and Its Relationship with the Risk of Falls by Robson Emiliano José de Freitas, Jaqueline Gleice Aparecida de Freitas, Carolina Pereira Vieira, Daniela Cristina Endres, Fábio Martins Inacio, Fernanda Grazielle da Silva Azevedo Nora

“…The G2 group was made up of 20 elderly with an average age of 71.09 years, considered active, who do not have a diagnosis of osteoarthritis in the knee joint and practice physical activity. …”
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An Optical Model for Translucent Volume Rendering and Its Implementation Using the Preintegrated Shear-Warp Algorithm by Bin Li, Lianfang Tian, Shanxing Ou

“…In order to efficiently and effectively reconstruct 3D medical images and clearly display the detailed information of inner structures and the inner hidden interfaces between different media, an Improved Volume Rendering Optical Model (IVROM) for medical translucent volume rendering and its implementation using the preintegrated Shear-Warp Volume Rendering algorithm are proposed in this paper, which can be readily applied on a commodity PC. …”
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Cloud and IoT based smart agent-driven simulation of human gait for detecting muscles disorder by Sina Saadati, Abdolah Sepahvand, Mohammadreza Razzazi

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Use of approved cefazolin based intramammary dry goat treatment and its effects on the milk microbiota by Delower Hossain, Filippo Biscarini, Valentina Monistero, Paola Cremonesi, Bianca Castiglioni, Anoar Jamai Masroure, Alessandro Marinoni, Sara Fusar Poli, Matteo Mezzetti, Maria Filippa Addis, Valerio Bronzo, Erminio Trevisi, Paolo Moroni

“…Pooled milk samples were collected at dry-off (T1; 52 samples), colostrum (T2; 46 samples), and 5–10 days in milk (T3; 55 samples) for bacteriological analysis, somatic cell count (SCC), and 16 S rRNA gene sequencing. …”
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Breast myopathy co-occurrence and its impact on carcass and meat quality attributes in broiler chickens by Míriam Muñoz-Lapeira, Maria Font-i-Furnols, Albert Brun, Anna Jofré, Marcos Botella, Cristina Zomeño

“…The partial least squares discriminant analysis could not differentiate between single, multiple myopathies and CO (accuracy = 42.6 %), but showed 80.63 % balanced accuracy for WB-SM, 74.26 % for SM and 74.61 % for CO. …”
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Sealless Production Ultracentrifuge and Its Magnetically Self-Bearing Openable Motors for Purification in Viral Nanotechnology by Emanuel J. Hubmann, Daniel Steinert, Thomas Nussbaumer, Johann W. Kolar

“…This prevents PUCFs from widespread use in industry for viral vector production. This article proposes a novel PUCF type with rotational speed potential towards 100 krpm with a hermetically enclosed process chamber without any rotary seals, i.e. a sealless production ultracentrifuge (SL-PUCF) omitting contamination risk. …”
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Distribution Law of In Situ Stress and Its Engineering Application in Gateroad Maintenance: A Case Study by Guangchao Zhang, You Li, Guangzhe Tao, Miao Chen, Ruihua Xu, Hanqing Guo, Devkota Bidit, Guanglei Zhou, Zhi Qu, Hao Zuo

“…The arc structure within the mine is the main reason for the deflection of the stress direction. (3) The lateral pressure coefficients KH, Kh, and Kav show a nonlinear distribution with increased depth, and the three coefficients have a decreasing trend. …”
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A Case Report of Dextrocardia with Situs Inversus: A Rare Condition and Its Clinical Importance by Girma Deshimo, Haile Abebe, Getiye Damtew, Enguday Demeke, Seife Feleke

“…Clinically, the apical beat was heard in the right 5th intercostal space. After undergoing an electrocardiogram (ECG), echocardiogram, chest X-ray, and abdominal ultrasound, she was diagnosed with situs inversus totalis. …”
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Farmers’ knowledge and perception of finger millet blast disease and its control practices in western Kenya by Wilton Mbinda, Agnes Kavoo, Fredah Maina, Margaret Odeph, Cecilia Mweu, Naomi Nzilani, Mathew Ngugi

“…Here, we present a study that investigated the occurrence, impact, risk factors and farmers’ knowledge and perceptions of finger millet blast in Kenya. …”
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Simulation of IoT Smart Home Network with Decision Making Based on MajorDoMo Platform by U. A. Vishniakou, ChuYue Yu

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An Efficient Family of Optimal Eighth-Order Iterative Methods for Solving Nonlinear Equations and Its Dynamics by Anuradha Singh, J. P. Jaiswal

“…The prime objective of this paper is to design a new family of optimal eighth-order iterative methods by accelerating the order of convergence of the existing seventh-order method without using more evaluations for finding simple root of nonlinear equations. …”
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Caroli's Disease: Current Knowledge of Its Biliary Pathogenesis Obtained from an Orthologous Rat Model by Yasunori Sato, Xiang Shan Ren, Yasuni Nakanuma

“…The relevance of the findings of studies using PCK rats and/or the cholangiocyte cell line derived from them to the pathogenesis of human Caroli's disease is currently being analyzed. …”
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An Analysis Method for Time-, Frequency-, and Energy-Domain Characteristics of Downhole Microseismic Signals and Its Application by Xiao-xu Gao, Xiang-xu Pan, Guang-an Zhu

“…Based on SOS microseismic (MS) monitoring system of a certain mine, time-, frequency-, and energy-domain characteristics of MS signals are analyzed by comprehensively applying one-dimensional discrete Fourier transform (DFT) and one-dimensional discrete wavelet transform (DWT). …”
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Psychometric validation of the continuum beliefs of mental illness scale (CB-MIS) and its associations with stigma by Lina-Jolien Peter, Thomas McLaren, Samuel Tomczyk, Holger Muehlan, Silke Schmidt, Georg Schomerus

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Menopausal Hormone Therapy: Its Role in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases and the Risk of Breast Cancer in Women by Tam Thai Thanh Tran, Thu Minh Phung, Anh Thi Mai Do, Quynh Tran Mai Ly, Tin Hoang Nguyen

“…Objective: This review was conducted to explain how menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) benefits cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and how to control the risk of breast cancer. …”
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Pretreatment of Woven Jute FRP Composite and Its Use in Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Beams in Flexure by Tara Sen, H. N. Jagannatha Reddy

“…The study concludes that woven jute FRP is a suitable material which can be used for flexural upgradation of reinforced concrete beams.…”
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Microwave Irradiation Enhances the Germination Rate of Tartary Buckwheat and Content of Some Compounds in Its Sprouts by Wang Shunmin, Wang Jianfei, Guo Yubao

“…The exposure of seeds to 800 W for 30 s showed the lowest germination rate (approximately 10%), which decreased by 87% compared with the control (p<0.05). …”
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Temporal and Spatial Pattern of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Gansu Province and Its Environmental Factors Detection and Analysis by Haili Zhao, Jun Wang, Minghui Wu

“…As one of the major public health security issues, pulmonary tuberculosis had a global death rate of 1.6 million in 2021 alone, ranking 13th in the world, posing a great threat to society and families. …”
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