Ill Effects of Smoking: Baseline Knowledge among School Children and Implementation of the “AntE Tobacco” Project by Salim Surani, Raghu Reddy, Amy E. Houlihan, Brenda Parrish, Gina L. Evans-Hudnall, Kalpalatha Guntupalli

“…Children in grades 1–3 were administered a 10-item questionnaire to ascertain their baseline knowledge about the ill effects of smoking, shown an educational cartoon video depicting the ill effects of tobacco, and given a story book based on the video. At the end of video, children were administered a questionnaire to determine short-term recall of the antitobacco educational objectives of the program. …”
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Development of Carbon Emission Disclosure Indicators in Indonesia and Analysis of Determining Factors by Septiani Fransisca, Bernadette Robiani, Inten Meutia, Yusnaini Yusnaini

“…The scope of the research is 225 companies sample listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The industry sectors that are the scope of the research are the energy sector, industrial sector, basic material sector, non-cyclical consumer sector, and transportation sector. …”
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Comparison of Atrial Fibrillation in the Young versus That in the Elderly: A Review by Rajiv Sankaranarayanan, Graeme Kirkwood, Katharine Dibb, Clifford J. Garratt

“…Traditional thinking suggests that the causal factors and pathogenesis of the condition in the young with structurally normal atria but electrophysiological “triggers” in the form of pulmonary vein ectopics leading to lone AF are in stark contrast to that in the elderly who have AF primarily due to an abnormal substrate consisting of fibrosed and dilated atria acting in concert with the pulmonary vein triggers. …”
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Challenges in Specifying and Predicting Space Weather by R. W. Schunk, L. Scherliess, V. Eccles, L. C. Gardner, J. J. Sojka, L. Zhu, X. Pi, A. J. Mannucci, A. Komjathy, C. Wang, G. Rosen

“…For this ensemble modeling study, we selected the quiet/storm period of 16 and 17 March 2013 (equinox, solar medium). …”
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Length and Weight Relationship, Condition Factor, and Morphometric Characteristics of Eleven Freshwater Fish Species in Koto Panjang Reservoir, Indonesia by Azrita Azrita, Hafrijal Syandri, Netti Aryani

“…These findings could have a significant impact on species stock assessments and help identify priority species for domestication.…”
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AAV-KLF7 Promotes Descending Propriospinal Neuron Axonal Plasticity after Spinal Cord Injury by Wen-Yuan Li, Ying Wang, Feng-Guo Zhai, Ping Sun, Yong-Xia Cheng, Ling-Xiao Deng, Zhen-Yu Wang

“…KLF7 and KLF7 target genes (NGF, TrkA, GAP43, and P0) were detectably increased in the injured spinal cord. …”
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IRAP-analysis for evaluating the genetic stability of endemic and endangered species of the Western Caucasus flora in the collection in vitro by I. I. Suprun, V. I. Malyarovskaya, I. V. Stepanov, L. S. Samarina

“…The results of the genotyping of regenerants were compared with data on stock in situ plants, which were the source of explants for in vitro conservation. …”
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Some Novel Concepts of Bipolar Picture Fuzzy Influence Graphs Models With Application Toward MADM by Waheed Ahmad Khan, Mahnoor Bushra, Trung Tuan Nguyen, Minh Hoan Pham, Hai van Pham

“…To demonstrate effectiveness of this study, we present a bipolar picture fuzzy influence graphs model to identify the brand’s store with the best shopping variety. Comparative study establishes the fact that our presented model based on BPPFIGs is more efficient and flexible than the other existing models in the literature.…”
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Revisiting the drivers of electricity consumption in designated Sub-Saharan African regions: Unraveling the role of education by Alfred Quarcoo, Isaac Adjei Mensah, Akoto Yaw Omari-Sasu, Clement Yenube Kunkuaboor, Emmanuel Nouwati

“…According to recent figures, barely one-third of the whole population in Sub-Saharan Africa has access to electricity, making the region the poorest in the world in terms of access to electrical power today. This stands in stark contrast to the vast energy resources that could be utilized to provide the necessary energy. …”
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Typhoon Damage Assessment of Natural and Planted Mangroves in Bais Bay, Negros Oriental, Philippines by Myron Gavriel Baring, Pablina Cadiz

“…Results of the study indicate that future mangrove planting projects should aim to plant a diverse set of mangrove species while following the correct species zonation of the forest (i.e., storm-resilient Sonneratia alba and Avicennia marina in seaward zones and Rhizophora in midward zones) to increase resiliency, especially in areas vulnerable to typhoons. …”
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Carbon Sink Estimation of Mangrove Vegetation Using Remote Sensing in Segara Anakan, Cilacap by Zahra Safira Aulia, Rizqi Rizaldi Hidayat, Amron Amron

“…. • Estimated mangrove leaf biomass and carbon stock in mangrove can be known through the Leaf Area Index (LAI) value. • Each mangrove pixel can absorb the different carbon. • Increasing the diameter of the tree trunk shows the more CO2 absorbed by the tree. …”
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Semantic aware enhanced event causality identification by Xinfang Liu, Wenzhong Yang, Fuyuan Wei, Zhonghua Wu

“…We evaluate the effectiveness of HFEPA on both the EventStoryLine and Chinese News Causality datasets, and experimental results show that HFEPA significantly outperforms previous methods. …”
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Correlation between the Dissemination of Classic English Literary Works and Cultural Cognition in the New Media Era by Weiwei Guo

“…From the current point of view, “literary works,” as the spiritual food of contemporary people, are promoting social spirit. …”
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Chromosome 1 Sequence Analysis of C57BL/6J-Chr1KM Mouse Strain by Fuyi Xu, Tianzhu Chao, Yiyin Zhang, Shixian Hu, Yuxun Zhou, Hongyan Xu, Junhua Xiao, Kai Li

“…The Chinese Kunming (KM) mouse is a widely used outbred mouse stock in China. However, its genetic structure remains unclear. …”
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Exploring Narrative Ability in Greek-Speaking Children with High-Functioning ASD: Associations with Memory and Attention by Vasiliki Zarokanellou, Alexandros Gryparis, Katerina Papanikolaou

“…Finally, complex syntax and delayed vSTM were correlated with retelling total scores, indicating that language ability and verbal memory compensate for narrative competence in HF-ASD children. …”
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Towards a fully automated underwater census for fish assemblages in the Mediterranean Sea by Kilian Bürgi, Charles Bouveyron, Diane Lingrand, Benoit Derijard, Frédéric Precioso, Cécile Sabourault

“…Assessing underwater biodiversity is labour-intensive and costly, but is crucial for measuring the extent of the decline in local fish stock. In most cases, Underwater Visual Census (UVC) is the preferred method, however this can be costly in terms of human effort and is limited by meteorological and logistical factors. …”
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Reading from the Guts: of Text and Disgust by Solveig Dunkel

“…Faulkner is expectedly not the only example of literature deemed “disgusting:” according to Chuck Palahniuk himself, seventy-three people have fainted during public readings of this short story “Guts.” Despite the writer’s obvious delight in describing in vivid detail the fainting spells he witnessed, this specific number is difficult to corroborate. …”
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Musiktheorie und ›Satzlehre‹ im Kontext der Diskussion um Artistic Research by Robert Christoph Bauer

“…Thus, I first attempt to take stock of the current situation by presenting historical and current ‘double connections’ of the discipline of music theory – especially in its capacity as Satzlehre – to the artistic practice of composing as well as to music research. …”
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Presenting a neural network-based hybrid method for ADAS damper optimization in absorption of earthquake energy by Faezeh Nejati, Milad Jiyan

“…Thus, the seismic behaviour of each is addressed by modelling a 15-story steel structure with steel bracing in at least four reinforcement modes with ADAS damper. …”
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Uticaji refleksija i difrakcija talasa i modelovanog izvora i UHF davača pri lociranju parcijalnih pražnjenja u energetskom transformatoru by Đorđe Dukanac

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