A Primer on Exporting to the Dominican Republic by Christina D. Storz, Timothy G. Taylor, Gary F. Fairchild

“… Every year the U.S. Department of State publishes extensive Country Commercial Guides for a large number of countries. …”
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Bean Plataspid: Megacopta cribraria (Fabricius) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Plataspidae) by Ashley Poplin, Amanda Hodges

“…Also known as the kudzu bug, lablab bug, and globular stink bug, the bean plantaspid is native to Asia, where it is not an agricultural pest. But in the U. S., it is reported as a pest of soybean in Georgia and South Carolina. …”
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Weaving oral health provider perspectives to guide future dental therapy advocacy and implementation efforts by Amanda J. Llaneza, Amanda J. Llaneza, Kara A. Stone, Julie Seward

“…IntroductionAmerican Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities in the United States (U.S.) face greater oral healthcare inequities than other groups in the country. …”
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Stereotypes and social representations associated with pediatric surgeons among medical students, residents and physicians: a cross-sectional study by Coline Ducrot, Max Piffoux, Mathilde Payen, Sebastien Raux, Franck Rolland, Evan Gouy, Linh Nam Truong, Ariel Frajerman, Florent Vinchon, Nawale Hadouiri

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The Cytotoxicity Assessment of Grapefruit Peel Essential Oil and Its Effect on Frying Stability of Sunflower Oil by Ghania Kaanin-Boudraa, Fatiha Brahmi, Linda Grimaud, Mohamed Lamine Freidja, Ourdia-Nouara Kernou, Daniel Henrion, Samir Hadjal, Khodir Madani, Lila Boulekbache-Makhlouf

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A deep learning-based method for the intelligent identification of the quantity of coals flushed out during borehole hydraulic flushing by Xiaojun LI, Mingyang ZHAO, Miao LI

“…Moreover, the default detection head of YOLOv8n was replaced with the Dynamic Head module to strengthen the feature extraction in scale, space, and channel dimensions. The CIoU loss function was replaced with the SIoU loss function to accelerate the matching between prediction and ground truth boxes. …”
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HSRoadNet: Hard-Swish Activation Function and Improved Squeeze–Excitation Module Network for Road Extraction Using Satellite Remote Sensing Imagery by Xunqiang Gong, Yingjie Ma, Ailong Ma, Zhaoyang Hou, Meng Zhang, Yanfei Zhong

“…The mean intersection over union (MIoU) value of the proposed method was the suboptimum with a disparity of 0.2% from the optimal. …”
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Modified iris system: initial experience with a new technology for safety in hiatal surgery in pediatric patients by Joel Cazares, Eduardo De la Rosa-Bustamante, Jorge Colín-Garnica, Arturo Guillen-Cárdenas, Marbella Sepulveda-Valenzuela, Miguel Torres-Salas, Jorge Alberto Cantú-Reyes

“…Purpose: We present our initial experience with a modified IRIS U-kit system (MIUS) (Stryker, USA) for real-time esophageal visualization during Nissen fundoplication (NF) surgery in pediatric patients, aiming to enhance safety and reduce complications, especially in cases involving esophageal dysmotility and neurological impairments. …”
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Efecto de una intervención Act sobre la resistencia aeróbica y evitación experiencial en marchistas / Effect of an ACT Intervention on Aerobic Endurance and Experiential Avoidance... by María Clara Rodríguez-Salazar, Ángela Patricia Valero-Ballesteros

“…Non-parametric statistics were used for data analysis, by means of the Mann-Whitney U. The posttest results indicate a greater aerobic resistance in the 3000-meter test for the test group in comparison to the control group. …”
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“Earlyploid” - Tetraploid Annual Ryegrass by Ann R. Blount, Gordon M. Prine, Cheryl L. Mackowiak, Kevin E. Kenworthy, Jeffery C. Jones, Paul E. Reith

“…It offers excellent disease resistance and sufficient cold tolerance to be grown successfully in the southern annual ryegrass region of the U.S. This 1-page fact sheet was written by A.R. …”
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Odgovornost za štetu zbog nezakonitog rada lučke uprave by Vesna Skorupan Wolff

“…Lučka uprava je pravna osoba s ui g eneris koja ima javne ovlasti u zakonom propisanim poslovima državne uprave. …”
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Economic development and Environmental quality: The environmental Kuznets curve for water pollution by Ahmadreza Shahpouri, Hamed Biabi, Leili Abolhassani

“…The results do not  confirm the inverted U-shape of EKC curve for the developed countries with low income. …”
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Watersheds of Florida: Understanding a Watershed Approach to Water Management by Rao Mylavarapu, Kelley Hines, Thomas Obreza, Greg Means

“…This 7-page fact sheet provides information on watersheds and introduces the watershed approach and management concept as practiced in the U.S., with a focus on Florida watersheds in particular. …”
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Controlling Invasive Exotic Plants in North Florida Forests by Chris Demers, Patrick Minogue, Michael Andreu, Alan Long, Rick Williams

“… Of the more than 4,000 known plant species growing in Florida, approximately 30% are not native to Florida or the Southeast, and in the U.S., invasive exotic species cost an estimated $120 billion each year in damages. …”
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Transport Law : [selective bibliography] by Aleksandra Čar

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New Plants for Florida: Tropical Fruit by Alan H. Chambers, Jonathan H. Crane, Richard L. Jones, Mary Duryea, Berry J. Treat

“… Florida tropical fruit industry acreage has fluctuated during the past 70 years due to natural disasters, foreign competition and changes in the U.S. demographics. Today, there are about 16,000 acres in cultivation, with an economic impact of over $137 million annually. …”
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Raising Soil Organic Matter Content to Improve Water Holding Capacity by Jehangir H. Bhadha, Jay M. Capasso, Raju Khatiwada, Stewart Swanson, Christopher LaBorde

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Reward signals in the motor cortex: from biology to neurotechnology by Gerard Derosiere, Solaiman Shokur, Pierre Vassiliadis

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Choosing the Right Blackberry Cultivar in Subtropical Florida by Shinsuke Agehara, Syuan-You Lin, Zhanao Deng

“…In Florida, however, commercial blackberry production is limited primarily to small commercial U-pick operations. The main challenges include insufficient chill hours and poor fruit quality associated with the subtropical climate. …”
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Hydrilla leaf mining flies (unofficial common name) Hydrellia spp. (Insecta: Diptera: Ephydridae) by Emma Weeks, James Cuda

“…Hydrilla has invaded aquatic ecosystems in Florida and across the U.S. Larvae of Hydrellia spp. mine the leaves of hydrilla. …”
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