The role of Airbnb creating a “new”-old city centre: facts, problems and controversies in Porto by Pedro Chamusca, José Rio Fernandes, Luís Carvalho, Thiago Mendes

“… Urban tourism growth, favoured by short term rental platforms like Airbnb, is changing the cities dramatically. …”
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Cattle Tail Lice by Phillip E. Kaufman, Philip G. Koehler, Jerry F. Butler

“…In other parts of the United States the short-nosed cattle louse is the major pest. While much information is available for the control of short-nosed cattle lice, only limited information is available specifically on control of the tail louse. …”
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A new skink of the genus Scincella Mittleman, 1950 (Squamata, Scincidae) from Son La Province, northwestern Vietnam by Anh Van Pham, Thomas Ziegler, Cuong The Pham, Thao Ngoc Hoang, Hanh Thi Ngo, Minh Duc Le

“…Scincella truongi sp. nov. is characterized by a combination of the following characters: size medium (SVL up to 59.4 mm); primary temporals 2; external ear opening without lobules; loreals two; supralabials seven or eight; infralabials six or seven; nuchals in three pairs; midbody scales in 28 rows; dorsal scales smooth, in six rows across the back; paravertebral scales 60–67, not widened; ventral scales in 60–70 rows; ten smooth lamellae beneath finger IV and 13–15 beneath toe IV; toes not reaching to fingers when limbs adpressed along body; dorsal surface of body and tail bronze brown with few black spots, a dark stripe running from nostril to eye and extending from posterior corner of eye along upper part of flank to the middle of the tail. …”
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Effects of Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation and Cognitive Training on Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Ka Yin Chu, King Hei King Cheng

“… Introduction: We aimed to systematically evaluate the most recent evidence regarding the potential short-term and long-term synergistic effects of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) and cognitive training (CT) on the memory of individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia and to explore the optimal treatment protocol. …”
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Investigating Low Latency Communications With Link-Layer Rate of NOMA Under Nakagami-<italic>m</italic> Fading Channel in Finite Blocklength Regime by Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Amjad, Muhammad Khalil Afzal, Muhammad Usman, Byung-Seo Kim

“…We use an effective capacity tool to find the reliability and latency of the two-user with short packet communications. We derive closed-form expressions for the achievable effective capacity of both near user and far user of downlink NOMA networks with short packet communications under Nakagami-m fading channel conditions. …”
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Klaagliedere 3:42: vergifnis of nie-vergifnis? by D. F. O'Kennedy

“… This article investigates the short prayer of Lamentations 3:42, the only text in the prayer literature that uses the particle al (no) together with the term jls (forgive). …”
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Multiscale Physics of Atomic Nuclei from First Principles by Z. H. Sun, A. Ekström, C. Forssén, G. Hagen, G. R. Jansen, T. Papenbrock

“…Here, we achieve this within a unified and nonperturbative quantum many-body framework that captures both short- and long-range correlations starting from modern nucleon-nucleon and three-nucleon forces from chiral effective field theory. …”
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CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIAN LISTED INDIGENOUS OIL AND GAS FIRMS by Abubakar Ajide ARIKEWUYO, Abdullahi Adio Babatunde, Yusuf Olamilekan Quadri

“…Therefore the study recommended that indigenous oil and gas firms in Nigeria should adopt a short term capital for short term financing to avoid the problem of over-capitalization, which will, in turn, lead to drop in the financial performance and a long term debt should be used to implement the capital projects to avoid the problem of over-trading by oil and gas firms in Nigeria because long term debt contribute less to financial performance. …”
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Three-dimensional ultrastructural analysis of human skin with the arrector pili muscle interacting with the hair follicle epithelium by Tomonobu Ezure, Kyoichi Matsuzaki, Hidetoshi Urakubo, Nobuhiko Ohno

“…Additionally, the dense nerve network running through and along arrector pili muscle fibers rarely penetrates the connective tissues between smooth muscle fibers and epithelial cells. Furthermore, in the observation area, no individual smooth muscle fibers formed adhesion structures with the epithelial cells of the hair follicle, ending in the dermal extracellular matrix near the epithelial cells. …”
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Improving Cow Fertility Through Fish Meal Supplementation by Charles R. Staples, Ricardo Mattos, Carlos S. Risco, William W. Thatcher

“… A goal on most dairy farms is to keep the interval between the time a cow calves and the time she becomes pregnant again as short as possible. Keeping this time interval short, however, is opposed by the high nutritional demands of lactation. …”
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PREDICTING STOCK PRICE DIRECTION OF EUROZONE BANKS: CAN DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES OUTPERFORM TRADITIONAL MODELS? by Bogdan Ionuț ANGHEL

“…This study compares the predictive performance of Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) with traditional models - Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) and Logistic Regression - in predicting the daily stock price direction of the ten largest Eurozone banks by market capitalization. …”
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Association between the low-density lipoprotein to high-density lipoprotein ratio and prognosis in critically ill intracerebral hemorrhage patients: a retrospective cohort study fr... by Yuchen Liu, Houxin Fu, Yue Wang, Yi Zhong, Rongting Zhang, Jingxuan Sun, Tianquan Yang, Yong Han, Yongjun Xiang, Bin Yuan, Ruxuan Zhou, Min Chen, Hangzhou Wang

“…Conclusion LHR was negatively associated with short-term mortality in critically ill ICH patients. …”
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Crafting the messages for environmental NGOs: how narrative medium and mode shape different engagement levels by Wenye Mao, Yuko Nishide

“…The results show that personalized narratives significantly affect short-term behavioral intention (information-related behavior and one-time donation). …”
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Effect of Cattle Manure and NPK Fertilizers on Growth and Yield of Potatoes (Solanum Tuberosum). by Ankunda, Olivia

“…Cattle manure gave the most height compared to NPK fertilizer and the control. There were more shoots formed on plants that were fertilized using cattle manure followed by NPK and lastly control. …”
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Ownership Succession: Plan Now for the Future of Your Land by Chris Demers

“…FOR-212, a 4-page fact sheet by Chris Demers, outlines 8 steps for forestland owners to set up a smooth transition between themselves and the future owners of their property. …”
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Christ's crucifixion as a medico-historical event by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…He was probably crucified on a short Tau-cross, and died within 6 hours (probably even within 3 hours). …”
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Bringing culture into the school Summary by Brandy Nothstine

“…In the United States, 25% of children are immigrants or come from immigrant families (Souto-Manning 2013). This makes it crucial for educators to learn how to have a positive and welcoming multicultural classroom environment. …”
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Environmental degradation and food security in Somalia by Bile Abdisalan Nor, Yusniliyana Yusof

“…Notably, while agricultural land expansion exhibits a negative effect in the short term, it emerges as a positive contributor to food security in the long term, highlighting its pivotal role in bolstering production capacity. …”
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