Modified Modal Pushover Design for Asymmetric-Plan RC Shear-Wall Structures by Mohammad Sadegh Birzhandi, Daniyal Mirzakhani

“…An appropriate hysteretic model (PIVOT model) is selected for the first-mode nonlinear SDOF system so that it estimates the peak and time history displacement response of the roof accurately. Three 8-storey buildings are designed for two different distributions of reinforcement areas to assess their effects on NRHA demands of each story. …”
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Greening Business through Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services by Godfrey, Barigye, Siraje, Kaaya

“…With most citizens getting exposed to the stark geopolitical and cross-cultural imbalances, actors have emerged on the scene seeking local knowledge and technical skills of environmental care. …”
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Good-Quality mHealth Apps for Endometriosis Care: Systematic Search by Diksha Sirohi, Cecilia HM Ng, Niranjan Bidargaddi, Helen Slater, Melissa Parker, M Louise Hull, Rebecca O'Hara

“…MethodsPRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) 2020 guidelines informed the search of mHealth apps on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. The search terms included “endometriosis,” “adenomyosis,” and “pelvic pain.” mHealth apps were eligible if they were (1) related to the search terms, (2) were in the English language, and (3) were available free of cost. …”
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The Exordium of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí’s Poetry by Adedotun Ogundeji

“…The narratives tell interesting stories, some of which are adapted from the Ifá corpus and other stories collected from his father, co-hunters and other sources. …”
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Species Diversity, Biomass Production and Carbon Sequestration Potential in the Protected Area of Uttarakhand, India by Geetanjali Upadhyay, Lalit M. Tewari, Ashish Tewari, Naveen Chandra Pandey, Sheetal Koranga, Zishan Ahmad Wani, Geeta Tewari, Ravi K. Chaturvedi

“…Ecosystem functioning and management are primarily concerned with addressing climate change and biodiversity loss, which are closely linked to carbon stock and species diversity. This research aimed to quantify forest understory (shrub and herb) diversity, tree biomass and carbon sequestration in the Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary. …”
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DNA Methylation and Chromatin Remodeling: The Blueprint of Cancer Epigenetics by Dipanjan Bhattacharjee, Smita Shenoy, Kurady Laxminarayana Bairy

“…Further, we have attempted to take stock of the new epigenetic drugs that have emerged onto the market as well as those in the pipeline that offer hope in mankind’s fight against cancer.…”
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ML Prediction of Global Ionospheric TEC Maps by Lei Liu, Y. Jade Morton, Yunxiang Liu

“…Abstract This paper applies the convolutional long short‐term memory (convLSTM)‐based machine learning models to forecast global ionospheric total electron content (TEC) maps with up to 24 hr of lead time at a 1‐hr interval. …”
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Viscous Damper Optimization in Low-Rise Adjacent Buildings Exposed to Earthquakes by Considering the Soil-Structure Interaction by Ahmed Ali Abdulqader Farhad, Ersin Aydın

“…Within this study, an adjacent building model 5-5 story is examined. The optimum damping coefficients are compared, and their effectiveness is demonstrated using the first periods of both adjacent building models. …”
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Good Worker Health and Hygiene Practices: Evaluation and Importance in GAPs and GMPs by Melissa Holmes-Pearce, Mark Ritenour, Amy Simonne, Jeff Brecht, Steve Sargent, Keith Schneider

“…Therefore, it is now more important than ever that everyone involved in handling food uses recommended sanitation practices. Regardless if one works in the field, a packinghouse, a warehouse, on the loading dock, at a grocery store, or in a restaurant, good practices that assure food safety start at home and continue into the workplace. …”
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FACTORS AFFECTING CARBON EMISSION DISCLOSURE: GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AS A MODERATING VARIABLE by Jaenudin Jaenudin, Endang Ruhiyat, Sugiyanto Sugiyanto

“…The sample in this study consists of non-financial companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2020 to 2022, using a purposive sampling method. …”
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The impact of cardiac complications on COVID-19 outcomes by Yu. V. Rudenko, V. I. Mazur

“…Possible mechanisms of cardiac damage are the high affinity of the SARS-CoV-2 adhesion protein to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptors, cytokine storm, ischemia, inflammation, and acute respiratory distress syndrome. …”
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Liquidity, Asset Price Volatility, and Monetary Policy Choices: Empirical Evidence from China by Qing Zhu, Shuyu Bai, Jia Wang

“…The results are as follows: firstly, it shows that the high or low volatility state of China’s stock market and real estate market can be clearly divided, and display the consistency with the trend of asset price volatility. …”
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Rapid expansion and specialization of the TAS2R bitter taste receptor family in amphibians. by Kathleen W Higgins, Akihiro Itoigawa, Yasuka Toda, Daniel Winston Bellott, Rachel Anderson, Roberto Márquez, Jing-Ke Weng

“…Large-scale phylogenomic analyses reveal that frogs and salamanders contain unusually high TAS2R gene content, in stark contrast to other vertebrate lineages. In most species, TAS2R genes are found in clusters; compared to other vertebrates, amphibians have additional clusters and more genes per cluster. …”
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Attracting investments through crowdfunding platforms as a method for agro-industrial enterprises to enter the international market by E. V. Nagovitsyna, D. S. Tusin

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La migración internacional y la distribución del ingreso en San Miguel Coatlán, Oaxaca by Renato Salas Alfaro

“…En esta investigación se evalúa una hipótesis que sostiene que en las comunidades rurales la reciente migración internacional ha inducido una mayor desigualdad en la distribución del ingreso (Stark, Taylor y Yitzhaki, 1986). Para analizar el efecto de las remesas internacionales sobre la distribución del ingreso en una muestra de 37% de los hogares en San Miguel Coatlán, Oaxaca, se ha utilizado la descomposición del coeficiente de Gini por fuentes de ingreso. …”
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‘I should like to see a woman smoking while she was nursing her baby’: The New Woman, Crossdressing, and Humour in Horace William Bleackley’s Une Culotte (1894) by Mariam Zarif

“…A case in point is the non-canonical New Woman novel, Une Culotte; or a New Woman, An Impossible Story of Modern Oxford (1894), by Horace William Bleackley. …”
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Impact of low-carbon economic policies on the corporate environmental responsibility model in China. by Hongya Liu, Haslindar Lbrahim, Meijing Song

“…Building upon previous research, this study utilizes data from the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges (2010-2020) and employs a Difference-in-Differences (DID) model to assess the effects of low-carbon economic policies introduced in 2016 on CER. …”
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Référence multimodale dans les narrations d’enfants : les gestes servent-ils à clarifier les expressions référentielles ambiguës ? by Corrado Bellifemine, Camille Dupret

“…We collected 16 narratives of French 7-9 year old children in two distinct interactional settings. 8 children produced narratives from a textless set of pictures visually shared with the observer, and 8 children recounted a story to their mother after watching a cartoon. The gestures associated to the mention of entities were analysed according to several parameters: the setting, the type of gesture, the form of the referring expression, the animacy of the referent, and the position on the referential chain. …”
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Comparative Study in Surah Yusuf According to Tafsir Al-Tabari and Tafsir Ibn Kathir by Shamsiah Daud, Mohd Yusri Yusuf, Amrina Rasyada Kamaruzaman

“…This matter is seen as important to be clarified because many stories circulating in the community are based on Israiliyyat compared to the stories stated in Surah Yusuf. …”
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Psychosis Crisis Associated with Thyrotoxicosis due to Graves’ Disease by Lilibet Urias-Uribe, Emmanuel Valdez-Solis, Claudia González-Milán, Claudia Ramírez-Rentería, Aldo Ferreira-Hermosillo

“…We present the case of a patient with previous psychiatric illness, acutely exacerbated by thyroid storm due to Graves’ disease, in whom treatment with antipsychotics induced catatonia. …”
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