Mortality Clustering in the Family. Fast Life History Trajectories and the Intergenerational Transfer of Infant Death in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Antwerp, Belgium by Robyn Donrovich, Paul Puschmann, Koen Matthijs

“…The results on the age of the mother at birth, her marital status, as well as the living environment suggest that at least part of the intergenerational transfer in infant mortality can be explained on the basis of life history theory: women who grew up in a high-risk family tended to reproduce earlier and faster, and often raised their children without a partner. In this way they unconsciously created riskier conditions for the raising of their own infants: the mothers had little life experience, limited resources, and often no assistance from a partner. …”
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Tourism Destination Competitiveness: an application model for the south of Portugal versus the Mediterranean region of Spain: COMPETITIVTOUR by Fernando Perna, Maria João Custódio, Vanessa Oliveira

“…COMPETITIVTOUR’s objective is to create and apply a territorial assessment model, adapted to the common specificities of these regions, aiming to assist in guiding the complex task of destination competiveness management, with inputs from 25 official producers of information from Portugal and Spain. …”
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Bank collapse-landslide failure mechanism of typical reverse rock bank slope in Three Gorges Reservoir area by Yang LI, Hailin ZHAO, Bolin HUANG, Honglin LI, Kaikai XU

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Mediation in criminal proceedings: novelties of legislation and prospects for its improvement by T. H. Fomina

“…In the general sense, mediation contributes to the humanization of criminal policy against the offender, creates conditions for ensuring the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of the victim and real compensation for the damage caused to them, accelerates the criminal process. …”
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Spontaneous Loculated Pneumomediastinum in a COVID-19-Infected Patient by Sirous Jafari, Zahra Jahani, Reihane Alikhani, SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi, Malihe Hasannezhad, Faeze Salahshour, Ali Asadollahi-Amin

“…While we are still learning about COVID-19 affecting people, older persons and persons with underlying diseases such as high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes mellitus (DM) appear to develop serious illness and more complications often than others. In this report, we presented a patient with spontaneous pneumomediastinum after COVID-19. …”
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Safety and Effectiveness of a Perturbation-based Neuromuscular Training Program on Dynamic Balance in Adolescent Females: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Alison Bulow, Judith E Anderson, Jeff R S Leiter, Peter B MacDonald, Jason D Peeler

“…Preventative and pre-operative rehabilitation neuromuscular (NM) exercise programs are often recommended to improve knee function and reduce injury rates. …”
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Numerical Study of the Influence of Cavity on Immiscible Liquid Transport in Varied-Wettability Fractures by Zhi Dou, Zhifang Zhou, Yefei Tan, Yanzhang Zhou

“…Field evidence indicates that cavities often occur in fractured rocks, especially in a Karst region. …”
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Clinical Decision Making of Nurses Working in Hospital Settings by Ida Torunn Bjørk, Glenys A. Hamilton

“…Most nurses reported the use of quasi-rational models during CDM thereby supporting the tenet that cognition most often includes properties of both analysis and intuition. …”
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DATA AGAINST MYTHS: EVIDENCE FROM THE SURVEY OF PHD STUDENTS IN LEADING RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES by I. A. Gruzdev, E. A. Terent'ev

“…The article presents the results ofsociological survey of PhD students and expert interviews with the heads ofPhD programs at the Universities, which participate in the Russian Academic Excellence Program. …”
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Optimizing Customized Transit Service considering Stochastic Bus Arrival Time by Qian Sun, Steven Chien, Dawei Hu, Xiqiong Chen

“…The introduction of customized bus (CB) service intends to expand and elevate existing transit service, which offers an efficient and sustainable alternative to serve commuters. …”
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Analysis of the sexual dimorphism of metric variables of the cranial base: Archaeo-anthropological and forensic implications by Alexandra Boucherie

“…Taking into account the specific features of immature and adult sexual dimorphism, predictive models were built up that yielded, respectively, up to 76-83% and 73-86% accuracy. This research thus offers a new method of sexual diagnosis which is better suited to fragmentary adult remains, and thereby contributes to the discussion about the need to set up a standardized analytical framework for future developments in sexing methods.…”
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Joint Residence-Workplace Location Choice Model Based on Household Decision Behavior by Pengpeng Jiao, Tuo Sun, Jin Guo, Yangwei Li

“…Residence location and workplace are the two most important urban land-use types, and there exist strong interdependences between them. Existing researches often assume that one choice dimension is correlated to the other. …”
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A Research Synthesis of Therapeutic Interventions for Whiplash-Associated Disorder (WAD): Part 4 – Noninvasive Interventions for Chronic WAD by Robert W Teasell, J Andrew McClure, David Walton, Jason Pretty, Katherine Salter, Matthew Meyer, Keith Sequeira, Barry Death

“…While many treatments have been advocated for patients with WAD, scientific evidence supporting their effectiveness is often lacking. A systematic review was conducted to evaluate the strength of evidence for various WAD therapies. …”
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Measurement and influencing factors of urban waterfront street vitality from the perspectives of behavior and perception by Xiang Ji, Yao Fu, Jiaxuan Shi, Haixiao Liu

“…This work aids in developing more effective and user-centric design strategies for waterfront streets, offering practical guidance for their revitalization and redevelopment.…”
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Network Design Mode of In-Seam Gas Extraction Parameters Using Mathematical Modelling—Take Tangan Colliery as an Example by Tong-qiang Xia, Ke Gao, Hong-yun Ren, Jiao-fei He, Zi-long Li

“…Through the platform, on- and off-line interactions between service centre (scientific workers) and design objects (enterprises or individuals), such as data transmission, material review, scheme design and reviews, and so on. …”
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Forecasting Dissolved Organic Carbon Levels Utilizing Metaheuristic Optimization with Artificial Intelligence Techniques by Peng He, Chengjun Ma

“…It serves as a crucial indicator of water pollution, offering insights into the presence of both natural and man-made organic pollutants. …”
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Problematic issues of Criminal and Criminal Procedural Legislation in Applying Coercive Medical Measures by D. V. Turenko

“…Based on the results, the author of the article made some conclusions about the application of coercive medical measures: establishing the fact of committing a criminal offense by a specific person; after a forensic psychiatric examination to determine that such a person is mentally ill and according to its results cannot be sane; such a person is socially dangerous to society and must be isolated for the period of involuntary treatment. …”
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Tigers, Terrain, and Human Settlement Influence the Occupancy of Leopards (Panthera pardus) in Southwestern Tarai, Nepal by Laxmi Raj Joshi, Rabin Bahadur K. C., Madhu Chetri, Morten Odden, Olivier Devineau, Ajay Karki, Bhagawan Raj Dahal, Naresh Subedi

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Mariage, littérature courtoise, et structure du désir au XIIème siècle by Cristina Álvares

“…Courtly songs and romances are thought of as attempts of building new models for the relationship between men and women and a new ethics of the sexual difference.In short I say that the variety of ethical and esthetical choices explored by medieval romances concerning the connexions between desire, marriage, and sublimation strongly challenges the thesis of  Denis de Rougemont about the adulterous tendency of Western love and the Manichaean background of fin’amors, arguing that the views on sexuality offered by Gratien corroborate the Incarnation-tinged love ethics of marital romances.…”
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Leonardo Bruni en Castilla: el «Libro de belo gótico» de Fernán Álvarez de Toledo by Juan Miguel Valero Moreno

“…Per la prima volta, viene offerta un'edizione critica dei prologhi del traduttore e di Bruni, assieme a un'analisi che evidenzia le conseguenze ecdotiche e interpretative dell'esame della sua tradizione testuale. …”
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