Recessive transition of rural residential land use from the perspective of value co-creation: A case study of Yiwu City, Zhejiang by ZHANG Cong, LONG Hualou, FENG Dedong

“…[Objective] This study aims to reveal the the theoretical logic and implementation path of recessive rural residential land use transition from the perspective of value co-creation, providing references for promoting rural residential land redevelopment. …”
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Farmed fish welfare in Egypt: Surveying current practices and future directions for tilapia culture by Charlotte Flores, Christopher Bryant, Mohamed Bakr, Wasseem Emam

“…However, they were significantly less willing and able to intervene on this factor compared to other factors such as changing feeding practices, minimising handling, and carrying out veterinary checks.In addition, we found evidence of better production outcomes for farmers that had received welfare training, with significantly fewer of them reporting high mortality rates and significantly lower reported frequency of poor growth. …”
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Care burden and quality of life among family caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in China: the mediating roles of social support and coping styles by Fang Liu, Rui Zhang, Cui Cui, Hengyu Zhou

“…Self-designed demographic data questionnaire, the WHO’s Quality of Life Questionnaire, the Zarit Burden Interview, the Social Support Rating Scale, and the Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire were used for conducting the investigation. …”
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Brain local structural connectomes and the subtypes of the medial temporal lobe parcellations by Zhensheng Li, Jie Ma, Hongmin Bai, Bingmei Deng, Jian Lin, Weimin Wang

“…These connectivity matrices of these connectomes were classified into major subtypes undergoing hierarchical clustering.Results(1) In the local brain connectomes, the overall network features exhibited a low characteristic path length paired with moderate to high global efficiency, suggesting the effectiveness of the local brain connectome construction. …”
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SVFRH: A Growth Stage-Based Compartmental Model for Predicting the Disease Incident in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) by Athira P. Shaji, S. Hemalatha

“…The next-generation matrix method is then applied to calculate the basic reproduction number <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\left ({{ R_{0} }}\right)$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. …”
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Optimizing Photovoltaic Array Performance Under Partial Shading Using a Golden Ratio-Based Configuration: A Comparative Analysis of 16 Configurational Variants by Sakthivel Ganesan, Prince Winston David, Hariharasudhan Thangaraj, Devakirubakaran Samithas, Praveen Kumar Balachandran, Muhammad Ammirrul Atiqi Mohd Zainuri

“…In this work, we propose a new array configuration for a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$4\times 4$ </tex-math></inline-formula> solar PV array under different partial shading environments. …”
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Heart of the Story: Connecting Digital Storytelling to Sociology of Emotions by Kabakcı Gökçe Zeybek

“…This paper is based upon a paper delivered at the ‘Create, Act, Change’: The 5th International Digital Storytelling Conference in May 2013, in Ankara, Turkey http://www.digitalstorytelling2013.hacettepe.edu.tr/documents/program_web.pdf. …”
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Wczesnoszkolna edukacja matematyczna. Perspektywa holistyczna by Alina Kalinowska-Iżykowska

“…The need to adapt mathematical education to students’ cognitive levels, work in small groups or openness to beauty, as well as fascinating examples of mathematical descriptions of phenomena in nature are basic needs of early classes math education. They also develop competencies relevant to the holistic approach to education, enabling the building of coherent mathematical knowledge in the minds of students and their understanding of the mathematical nature of the world. …”
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Hippocrates: facts and fiction by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…The textual tradition and the composition of the socalled Corpus Hippocraticum, the collection of medical works written mainly in the 5th and 4th centuries BC (of which possibly only about five can be ascribed to Hippocrates himself) are discussed. …”
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La Sante Nan Lavi Granmoun: Gid Pou Manje Storaj by Jennifer Hillan

“…Pou ede-w achte kantite manje, men yon gid storaj pou manje ki ka gate. Pwen: Mete fwi avèk legim ( ekspete patat) nan tiwa frjide-a, epi kite temperati frijide-a sou 40 degre. …”
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Pakiet edukacyjny „Gramy w piktogramy” – pomysł na wspieranie edukacji matematycznej dzieci i jego wykorzystanie w praktyce szkolnej by Mirosław Dąbrowski, Małgorzata Żytko

“…The tool was designed to support the development of mathematical skills of pupils at primary school level as well as to evoke the change to teachers’ attitude towards math teaching. The main research aim was increasing the level of maths comprehension and implementing the skills in practice by primary school pupils using Picto – innovative tool. …”
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Fear of COVID-19 and its Differential Effect on Attitudes and Intentions towards Online and Face-to-Face Counseling by Jae Hun Shin, Xyle Ku

“…A total of 526 adults participated in this study. The path analysis results indicated that attitude towards online and face-to-face counseling differentially mediated the relationship between COVID-19 fear and both counseling intentions, even when controlling for other covariates. …”
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ADMINISTRATION OF REWARD FOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE AS A PREDICTOR OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT by Azman Ismail, Anis Anisah Abdullah

“…A quantitative survey method was employed to collect data from employees at fire and rescue organizations in Malaysia. …”
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An unusual presentation of rhinosporidiosis in the lacrimal sac – A case report and a literature review by Raja Ayyakutti Muni, Harikrishnan Marappan, Najma Asim

“…Hence, we report an unusal presentation of rhinosporidiosis in lacrimal sac area in an adult male patient who presented with painless boggy swelling in lacrimal sac area with positive history of bath in pond and diagnosis was confirmed with histopathological examination. …”
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Mysticism: a way of unknowing by C. E. T. Kourie

“…Negative or apophatic mysticism is eliciting greater attention, both in the academy and in society in general and many of the misconceptions surrounding this concept are currently under scrutiny. …”
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Understanding Nitrogen Transformations and Cycling for Sweet Corn Production in Sandy Soils by Rishi Prasad, George Hochmuth

“…This 4-page fact sheet discusses major concerns which call for nitrogen management in sweet corn production, nitrogen budget preparation and interpretation, and important differences between farm-gate and soil system budgets. Written by Rishi Prasad and George Hochmuth, and published by the UF Department of Soil and Water Science, May 2015. …”
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ADMINISTRATION OF REWARD FOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE AS A PREDICTOR OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT by Azman Ismail, Anis Anisah Abdullah

“…A quantitative survey method was employed to collect data from employees at fire and rescue organizations in Malaysia. …”
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MAEMC-NET: a hybrid self-supervised learning method for predicting the malignancy of solitary pulmonary nodules from CT images by Tianhu Zhao, Tianhu Zhao, Yong Yue, Hang Sun, Jingxu Li, Yanhua Wen, Yudong Yao, Wei Qian, Yubao Guan, Shouliang Qi, Shouliang Qi

“…Contrastive momentum is used to link the encoder in axial-CT-patch path with the momentum encoder in coronal-CT-patch path. …”
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Automatic Segmentation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm From Computed Tomography Angiography Using a Patch-Based Dilated UNet Model by Merjulah Roby, Juan C. Restrepo, Haehwan Park, Satish C. Muluk, Mark K. Eskandari, Seungik Baek, Ender A. Finol

“…During the prediction phase, the deep learning architecture demonstrates exceptional speed, requiring <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$17~\pm ~0.02$ </tex-math></inline-formula> milliseconds per frame to generate the final segmented output. …”
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Modeling and Analysis of Rice Root Water Uptake under the Dual Stresses of Drought and Waterlogging by Jie Huang, Wei Dong, Luguang Liu, Tiesong Hu, Shaobin Pan, Xiaowei Yang, Jianan Qin

“…Then, we incorporated a water stress lag effect coefficient, <inline-formula><math display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>φ</mi><mfenced separators="|"><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>W</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>s</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></mfenced></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, that investigated the combined effect of historical drought and waterlogging stress events based on the assumption that the normalized influence weight of each past stress event decreases with an increase in the time interval before simulation as an exponential function of the decay rate. …”
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