Economic Assessment of Brazilian Public Ports: Value-Based Management by Erivelto Fioresi de Sousa, Francisco José Kliemann, Rafael Fontoura Andriotti, Rodrigo Rech Campagnolo

“…Thus, this study aims to investigate the economic and financial results of Brazilian public ports by evaluating their ability to generate economic value. Therefore, we assessed the port authorities with traditional financial indicators as well as with Economic Value Added (EVA) indicators, aiming to assess companies’ ability to create wealth for ports’ capital investors. …”
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Intergenerational Justice in Public Finance: A Canadian case study by Paul Kershaw

“…Public finance data in 2016 are analysed compared to 1976 in light of three constructs: the elderly/non-elderly ratio of social spending change, intergenerational reciprocity, and ability to pay. Findings include that (i) governments increased per capita spending for seniors 4.2 times faster than for those under the age of 45; (ii) public finance requires younger Canadians to contribute 22%-62% more in income taxes for the elderly now by comparison with 1976; and (iii) the contemporary ageing population has a greater ability to pay than cohorts immediately before and after them.…”
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Herbicide Resistant Weeds by Curtis R. Rainbolt, Brent A. Sellers, Jason A. Ferrell, Greg E. MacDonald

“…Poor or incomplete control may also be due to the ability of a weed to tolerate a particular herbicide. …”
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The Deceleration Index - Is it the Missing Link in Rehabilitation? by Chris Wolfe, Phil Page, Michael Voight, Connor Norman, Peter Draovitch

“…The ability to decelerate is a key component of any successful rehabilitation program, yet it is often overlooked in favor of more traditional forms of rehabilitation and training. …”
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Herbicide Resistant Weeds by Curtis R. Rainbolt, Brent A. Sellers, Jason A. Ferrell, Greg E. MacDonald

“…Poor or incomplete control may also be due to the ability of a weed to tolerate a particular herbicide. …”
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Antagonism of Endophytic Bacteria and the Consortium Against Culvularia oryzae Bugnic by Zurai Resti, Martinius Martinius, Yenny Liswarni

“…For Studying the ability of endophytic bacteria consortium using six endophytic bacteria consortia and control with three replications. …”
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Comparison of chewing activity in patients requiring complete denture with two different occlusions by Jiyar Amin Ali, Rizgar Mohammed Ameen Hasan

“…The purpose of this study is to clinically compare patient's chewing ability between lingualized occlusion complete denture and bilaterally balanced occlusion complete dentures. …”
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Does the 2D Frontal Plane Projection Angle Predict Frontal Plane Knee Moments during Stepping, Landing, and Change of Direction Tasks? by Rachel K Straub, Christopher M Powers

“…However, the predictive ability of the FPPA was weak to moderate.…”
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Porcine sperm bind to an oviduct glycan coupled to glass surfaces as a model of sperm interaction with the oviduct by Sandra Soto-Heras, Larissa J. Volz, Nicolai Bovin, David J. Miller

“…The glycan-IVF method produced a percentage of fertilized oocytes comparable to that of conventional IVF (75.1 vs. 72.0%). Finally, the ability of the suLeX-coverslip to maintain sperm fertilizing ability over time was assessed. …”
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ehealth literacy and health literacy among immigrants and their descendants compared with women of Danish origin: a cross-sectional study using a multidimensional approach among pr... by Claus Thorn Ekstrøm, Richard H Osborne, Sarah Fredsted Villadsen, Hajer Hadi, Israa Ismail, Lars Kayser

“…The mean ability to engage with digital services was 3.20 (SD 0.44) for women of Danish origin. …”
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Causes and Prevention of Emitter Plugging In Microirrigation Systems by D. Z. Haman

“… Microirrigation systems have gained popularity in horticultural crop cultivation due to their ability to deliver water and nutrients directly to the plant's root zone. …”
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Causes and Prevention of Emitter Plugging In Microirrigation Systems by D. Z. Haman

“… Microirrigation systems have gained popularity in horticultural crop cultivation due to their ability to deliver water and nutrients directly to the plant's root zone. …”
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Verbal paired associates learning lateralizes left hippocampal sclerosis in temporal lobe epilepsy by Andy Sitoh, David Weintrob, Jacqueline F. I. Anderson, Angela R. Jackman, Marie F. O'Shea, Graeme D. Jackson, Piero Perucca, Chris Tailby

“…Our results suggest that the ability to learn unrelated pairs of words provides another useful marker of left‐sided hippocampal compromise in epilepsy. …”
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GIOS ONLINE PLATFORM AS A TOOL FOR OVERCOMING LEARNING LOSSES IN MATHEMATICS by Daryna V. Vasylieva, Tetiana L. Hodovaniuk

“…Among the characteristics are: the integrity of the course, elements of gamification, the availability of theoretical material in several forms (videos, schemes, examples of solved tasks), the ability to view it several times and return at any time, the availability of training tasks, tasks of different levels and formats (including non-standard ones), the ability to review the covered materials to analyze errors, the ability to improve results by solving similar tasks. …”
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THE USING OF DIGITAL TOOLS IN THE PROJECT ACTIVITIES OF STUDENTS OF PEDAGOGICAL SPECIALTIES OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS by Liudmyla Nezhyva, Svitlana Palamar, Nataliia Semenii

“…The use of digital resources is aimed at forming subject-methodical competence, as well as improving studentsʼ digital literacy, and the ability to work in a team, make decisions effectively, and distribute responsibilities among group members. …”
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Implementation of Differentiated Learning in Improving Problem-solving Skills in Collaborative Projects Based on Science and Technology by Desy Aprima, Sasmita Sari

“…Through this approach, each student can receive learning that is appropriate to their ability level, allowing them to actively participate in collaborative science and technology projects. …”
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Correlations Between Preseason Functional Test Scores and Game Performance in Female Collegiate Volleyball Players by Jason Brumitt, Christopher Patterson, Robert Dudley, Eric Sorenson, Tyler Cuddeford, Heidi Cooke, Linda Froemming

“…FT are frequently administered by coaches or sports medicine professionals to evaluate athletic ability, to predict performance, to identify athletes at risk for injury, or to evaluate an athlete's ability to return to sport after injury. …”
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A Secure Image Steganography Using Shark Smell Optimization and Edge Detection Technique by Omar Y. Abdulhammed, Pshtiwan J. Karim, Dashne R. Arif, Twana S. Ali, Avin O. Abdalrahman, Arkan A. Saffer

“…The stegangraphic system supply premium secrecy and ability of conserving the mystery information from gaining stalked or cracked. …”
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THE EFFECT OF USING “EDMODO AND QUIPPER SCHOOL” IN BLENDED LEARNING METHOD TOWARDS STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMAN 1 BENGKULU TENGAH by Dian Permatasari

“…There was a significant difference on students’ general writing ability. There were significant differences on students’ writing ability in the aspects of content and language use. …”
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Bank Credit and Loan Repayment Rates during COVID-19 in Kabale District, Uganda by Byamuma Dicky, moses Agaba, Eton Marus

“…This means that there is evidence that the distribution of mean scores for each of the three variables is not the same depending on the borrower's ability to repay. The study concluded that labor productivity growth decreased and therefore, income decreased, investment decreased and affected the borrower's ability to repay loans during the COVID-19 pandemic in Lyamujungu SACCO.…”
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