General conclusions by Alfred Larm Teye

“…The dissertation innovatively adopts empirical methods that combine standard statistical analyses with more complex and recent econometric models. The contributions of the dissertation are presented in five main chapters. …”
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Development and field evaluation of a UWB-IMU navigated autonomous spraying robot for papaya greenhouses by Cong-Chuan Pham, Wei-Chih Lin

“…These results highlight the potential of this autonomous spraying system to enhance precision and automation in greenhouse pesticide application, promoting safer and more sustainable agricultural practices.…”
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Referencing the Public by Populist and Non-populist Parties in the Slovene Parliament by Darja Fišer, Tjaša Konovšek, Andrej Pančur

“…Special attention is given to situations where MPs mentioned the public, thus testing the hypothesis that populist MPs engage more with the public as a part of their populist political style. …”
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KNOWLEDGE ABOUT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND PERSONAL PRACTICES OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS by Letícia Aparecida Calderão Sposito, Paulo Henrique Guerra, Hassan Mohamed Elsangedy, Eduardo Kokubun

“…Of the five questions that assessed the knowledge of professionals, three had the highest prevalence of wrong answers, and professionals who have a more internal motivation to practice PA showed a significant association with reaching the minimum PA and eutrophic BMI recommendations. …”
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Big Data Analytics in Library Services With AI: Personalized Content Recommendations and Catalog Optimization by Pinjia Hu, Yichi Zhang

“…This paper presents an AI-driven framework designed to enhance user engagement and optimize catalog management in digital libraries. …”
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'Male and Female He Created Them': The Roman Catholic Church's Inconsistent Stance on Gender by Jiří Pavlík

“…The article then carries out a more general critique of the Roman Catholic discourse on gender, which plays a significant role in fuelling the contemporary culture wars. …”
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Thermodynamic uncertainty relation of a quantum mechanically coupled two-qubit system by Kwang Hyun Cho, Hyukjoon Kwon, Changbong Hyeon

“…Our findings from the study of the TQS form the basis for understanding the TUR of more general N-qubit systems.…”
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Flies use acetic acid to protect their offspring from parasitoids. by Kayla F Reddy, Aleksey Prok, Corinne M Stouthamer, Todd A Schlenke

“…Furthermore, fly mothers sense the presence of parasitoids in their environment and alter their oviposition behavior to lay eggs in more acetic acid-heavy food when wasps were present. …”
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WINTER WHEAT BREEDING IN ALTAY by V. A. Boradulina

“…Soft spring wheat is the main grain crop in Altay and it occupies more than 2 mln hectare. In 2015 the harvesting area of winter wheat was about 84000 ha, which was 4% less than that of spring wheat. …”
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Are Visual Peripheries Forever Young? by Kalina Burnat

“…The paper presents a concept of lifelong plasticity of peripheral vision. …”
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A Comparative Study of the Spatial Features of Chinese and Korean Academies: A Case Study of BaiLuDong Academy and Tosan Academy by Yirui Zhu, Kyung-Ran Choi

“…This paper presents a comparative study of the spatial characteristics of academies in China and Korea, focusing on BaiLuDong Academy in China and Tosan Academy in Korea. …”
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Top-Down and Bottom-Up Cues Based Moving Object Detection for Varied Background Video Sequences by Chirag I. Patel, Sanjay Garg, Tanish Zaveri, Asim Banerjee

“…Many bottom-up approaches and one combination of bottom-up and top-down approaches are proposed in the present paper. The proposed approaches seem more efficient due to inessential requirement of learning background model and due to being independent of previous video frames. …”
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From silence to sanction: comparative analysis of necrophilia laws in India and other countries by Hifajatali Sayyed, Jyotsana Singh

“…Necrophilia, a deeply stigmatized and seldom-discussed crime, presents unique challenges for legislators and legal practitioners. …”
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Epigenetics and genetic determinism Epigenética e determinismo genético by Hernán A. Burbano

“…Epigenetics is the framework that allows the avoidance of gene-centrism and permits the emergence of a more holistic standpoint where determination and novelty can coexist, as shown with examples taken from developmental biology and macromolecules folding. …”
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Medial Vowel Temporal Acoustics in Arabic and Japanese Polysyllabic Words by Yahya Aldholmi

“…The durational ratio of short-to-long vowel presents a new pattern that contrasts with that reported in earlier research. …”
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Talking Back to Virginia Woolf in Her Own Words: Gendered, Racial, and Literary Passing as Forms of Counter-Interpellation in Kabe Wilson’s “Dreadlock Hoax” by Valérie Favre

“…On 19 May 2014, British multimedia artist Kabe Wilson presented the result of a five-year-long creative endeavour, as he displayed for the first time his literary and artistic recycling of A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf’s landmark 1929 feminist essay. …”
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Characterizing Subjective Noisiness in Hospital Lobbies by Chiung Yao CHEN

“…Levels variations were better correlated, more continual noise may actually be perceived as noisier. …”
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On the optimal control of single-stage hybrid manufacturing systems via novel and different variants of particle swarm optimization algorithm by M. Senthil Arumugam, M. V. C. Rao

“…The results clearly demonstrate that the proposed PSO approaches not only improve the quality but also are more efficient in converging to the optimal value faster.…”
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FAT or FiTT: Are Anvil Clouds or the Tropopause Temperature Invariant? by Jacob T. Seeley, Nadir Jeevanjee, David M. Romps

“…In full‐complexity radiative‐convective equilibrium simulations, the spread in anvil temperature is smaller by about a factor of 2, but the tropopause temperature remains more invariant than the anvil temperature by an order of magnitude. …”
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Microbial Community Responses to Alternate Wetting and Drying in the System of Rice Intensification by Ismaila Yakubu, Eunsol Yeon, Hyun Gi Kong

“…Continuous flooding in rice production presents significant challenges, such as increased labor intensity and soil degradation. …”
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