Editorial by Michael Rose, Jonathan M. Hoffmann

“…Since the girl’s child would not exist if it had not been born at that time, it could not blame its mother for its bad start in life, as long as it has a life worth living. …”
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Interplanting Secondary Crops into Existing Strawberry Fields. by John R. Duval, E. A. Golden, Alicia Whidden

“…This practice allows for establishment of the secondary crop while the harvesting of strawberries continues. An early start on secondary crops allows producers to take advantage of a marketing window when few other regions are producing. …”
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Conducting a SWOT Analysis for Financing Through Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) by Sina Sarvi, Mahdi Nouri, Mohammad Hosin Gavam

“…The reason of failure for most of the newly started businesses (called startups) in their early stages is known to be the lack of cash resources. …”
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Re-engineering change in higher education by David Allen, N. Fifield

“…This paper adopts a case study approach to determine the applicability of BPR to HEIs. The research started from a broad research question: How does organisational culture in HEIs impact on the implementation of BPR programmes? …”
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Smart tags based on the batteryless backscatter technology:applications and challenges by Ying GUO, Gongpu WANG, Zonghui LI, Ruisi HE, Zhangdui ZHONG

“…Since the radio frequency identification (RFID) technology was put forward,it has been widely used in the transportation,logistics,industry and business due to its convenience and high efficiency.As a carrier for storing recognizable data,the RFID tags play a crucial role in the Internet of things (IoT).More and more functions and modules are embedded in the RFID tags and developed into smart tags in different application fields.Recently,wireless batteryless smart tags have arisen and grown rapidly with the development of the IoT and various emerging backscatter technologies.Wireless batteryless smart tags use the passive backscatter technology to harvest the energy and transmit information through radio frequency signals.Starting from the RFID technology,the history of the RFID and smart tags was introduced briefly,the differences between traditional smart tags and emerging wireless smart tags were compared,the advantages of wireless batteryless smart tags were concluded,several specific applications of it in different fields were listed,and the open challenges were analyzed.…”
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How the approach to the Epoch of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is changing in the Lithuanian Historiography today? by Vytautas Jarutis

“…After reestablishing independence in 1990, Lithuanian historians refused the heritage of Soviet historiography, started integrating the Western theoretical discourse and have created a unique model of the development of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the European civilization, proposed by Edvardas Gudavičius. …”
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Changes on Perception of Ethnic Identity after the End of Mass Migration. The Basques in the United States by Óscar Álvarez Gila

“…Using the example of Basque immigrants in the USA, we will try to analyze a) the evolution of their ethnic and national identities, b) the elements (including economic, social, cultural and religious aspects) that composed them and the way they changed after the new American-born generations started ruling the ethnic institutions, and c) the emergence of a new "diasporic" identity in which the relationship with the Old Country in Europe is redefined.…”
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STUDY ON THE ACTIVE VIBRATION SUPPRESSION METHOD OF HYDROSTATIC SLIDE OF MACHINE TOOL BASED ON MR DAMPER by ZHANG ZhongKui, GAO Feng, LI Yan, YAN YangYang

“…The dynamic behaviors of the hydrostatic slide is changed instantaneously and abruptly during the start-stop, acceleration and deceleration, so magnetorheological（MR） damper is used to suppress tangential vibration of hydrostatic slide. …”
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Valeur, fonction et médiation dans les espaces naturels sensibles : une patrimonialisation inachevée de la nature. Exemples dans les Pays de la Loire by Celine Barthon, Céline Chadenas, Arnaud de Lajartre, Antoine Pancher

“…The following article proposes an assessment of the use of the « Espaces Naturels Sensibles » (Sensitive Natural Areas) or ENS programme within the five “départements” (counties) of the region “Pays de la Loire”. We started from the observation of an unequal and diversified use of the programme among counties. …”
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Influence of mechanical activation and heat treatment on magnetic properties of nanostructured mixture Ni85.8Fe10.6Cu2.2W1.4 by Vasić M.M., Kalezić-Glišović A.S., Milinčić R., Radović Lj., Minić D.M., Maričić A.M., Minić D.M.

“…The best result were achieved for mechanical activation during 120 min and thermal treatment at temperatures close to the Curie temperature (693K), enhancing the mass magnetization of the starting powder mixture by about 57%. The microstructural changes, which include the structural relaxation, decrease in free volume, density of dislocation and microstrain, improve structural characteristics of material, enabling better mobility of walls of magnetic domains and their better orientation in applied magnetic field and consequently enabling better mass magnetization of the material. …”
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Walter Xaver z Dietrichsteina na kavalírské cestě (1683–1688) a jeho boj proti předurčené budoucnosti by Lenka Maršálková

“… Grand tour of Walter Xaver Count of Dietrichstein (1664–1738) seems to be at first sight quite typical but after closer examination, it can not be considered as one of many. By the time he started his journey, Walter Xaver was already the ordained clergyman and his parents supposed that after having completed a demanding educational program, a great spiritual career awaits him. …”
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A Pediatric Case of Cowden Syndrome with Graves’ Disease by Cláudia Patraquim, Vera Fernandes, Sofia Martins, Ana Antunes, Olinda Marques, José Luís Carvalho, Jorge Correia-Pinto, Carla Meireles, Ana Margarida Ferreira

“…On examination, he had macrocephaly, coarse facies, slight prognathism, facial trichilemmomas, abdominal keratoses, leg hemangioma, and a diffusely enlarged thyroid gland. He started antithyroid drug (ATD) therapy with methimazole and, after a 2-year treatment period without achieving a remission status, a total thyroidectomy was performed. …”
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Dora Pejačević and Music Salons in Continental Croatia as Hubs of Cultural Networking by Vjera Katalinić

“…It also presents a series of speculations on further possible places of such events and suggests some starting points for future investigations.…”
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Recurrent Pneumonia and a Normal Heart: Late Complication after Repair of Hemianomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage—A Cautionary Tale by Maryanne Caruana, Victor Grech, Jane Somerville

“…Dyspnoea and recurrent chest infections started 7 months after surgery when he was seen by a respiratory physician without cardiac followup. …”
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Capturing the transition from marine to land-terminating glacier from the 126-year retreat history of Nordenskiöldbreen, Svalbard by Jan Kavan, Petra Luláková, Jakub Małecki, Mateusz Czesław Strzelecki

“…We show that this discrepancy between air temperature and retreat rate marks the transition from marine-terminating towards a land-terminating glacier, as the glacier's bedrock topography started to play an essential role in the glacier margin geometry, ice flow and retreat dynamics.…”
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Optimization of Cathechin Extraction for Development of Liquid Hand Soap Made From Gambier by Daimon Syukri, Rini Rini, Adhitya Jessica

“… This study has aimed to determine the potential use of catechins derived from gambier as an anti-microbial raw material in the manufacture of hand washing liquid soap. The study started from the purification process of catechins from gambier and continued with the addition of gambier to the soap formula looking for hand washing. …”
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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

“…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. Always remember that the food products you handle MUST be safe to consume when they leave your care; your job depends on it. …”
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Gestational Choriocarcinoma Presenting with Lacrimal Gland Metastasis: A First Reported Case by Naushad A. B. Ahamed, Khalid Sait, Nisreen Anfnan, Khader Farwan, S. H. M. Nizamuddin, Saleh S. Baeesa

“…Based on her modified WHO risk factors scoring she was started on chemotherapy and whole brain radiotherapy, which resulted in a complete response. …”
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Ghostly intrusion on a frightful Halloween night: a case report of dual valve endocarditis by Margarida Castro, Mariana Tinoco, Rafael Martins, Mário Jorge Amorim, Luísa Pinheiro, Marina Fernandes, Filipa Cardoso, Filipa Almeida, Paulo Pinho, João Português, António Lourenço

“…Initial blood cultures detected meticillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus, and antibiotic therapy was started. Transesophageal echocardiography revealed extensive valve destruction of both mitral and tricuspid valves, namely a mitral valve with large vegetation resembling a ghostly figure, causing severe mitral regurgitation. …”
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Les théories de la gouvernance. Pluralité de discours et enjeux éthiques by Alain Létourneau

“…Considering it might be too soon to produce at this time a typology of governance theories or a too strict conceptualisation of the notion, we aim here instead at identifying the different ways in which this term is used in a plurality of discourses and how it probably goes with a plurality of meanings. We are at the starting point of field studies on governance practices; it seems more interesting now to focus on how the concept actually works in practice, instead of trying to build a unifying model from the theoretical point of view. …”
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