Acute Effects of a Simulated Karate Bout on Muscular Strength Asymmetries of the Lower Limbs in Elite Athletes of Different Age Categories by Eliza Gaweł, Miłosz Drozd, Adam Maszczyk, Adam Zając

“…This study aimed to assess the acute impact of a simulated kumite bout (WKF formula) on peak isometric strength performance of the dominant and non-dominant lower limbs in elite karate athletes of different age categories (U16, U18, Senior), in the context of inter-limb asymmetry. …”
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Research and development of intelligent bypass ring net cage and collaborative control technology of multi-source power supply system in flooded environment by Zhanhua Huang, Liang He

“…The minimum comprehensive operating cost of the multi-source power supply system optimized based on the improved non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm was 1,453 yuan. …”
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‘Empty signifier’: The concept of ‘populism’ in the contemporary mainstream political science by L. G. Fishman

“…The author examines this phenomenon within the framework of the dominant mainstream in political science. The latter imply the totality of approaches to conceptualization of the key modern social, economic, political and cultural issues. …”
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Ultrasonic Spectrum Analysis of Granite Damage Evolution Based on Dry-Coupled Ultrasonic Monitoring Technology by Yang Liu, Lan Qiao, Yuan Li, Guodong Ma, Andrei M. Golosov

“…In the stable crack growth stage, with the initiation of the crack, the dominant frequency of S-wave shows a significant stage transition compared with the global ultrasonic wave velocity and the first arrived amplitude, and the dominant frequency decreases by 6%. …”
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Characterization of Nanoscale Pores in Tight Gas Sandstones Using Complex Techniques: A Case Study of a Linxing Tight Gas Sandstone Reservoir by Chaohui Lyu, Liguo Zhong, Zhengfu Ning, Qing Wang, David R. Cole

“…Results show that tight gas sandstones are primarily comprised of residual interparticle and clay-dominated pores. Clay and quartz are two dominate minerals while pyrite occupies a nontrivial amount as well. …”
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Active restoration of post-mining forest benefits the activity density, but not the diversity of spider communities across the seasons in Ghana by Harriet Kinga, Frederick Gyasi Damptey, Danilo Harms, Rudy Jocqué, Arnaud Henrard, Klaus Birkhofer

“…The species Pardosa injucunda and Trochosa gentilis dominated the communities in the restored forest, but Africactenus monitor dominated the natural forest and Hogna gratiosa dominated communities in the gravel site. …”
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Analysis of Aerosol Type and Fine- and Coarse-mode Aerosol Direct Radiative Forcing over Regions in East and Southeast Asia Based on AERONET Version 3 Data by Jianyu Lin, Xinyong Shen, Lizhu Xing, Huizheng Che, B. N. Holben

“…., purely dust, dust-dominated, pollution-dominated, non-absorbing [NA], weakly absorbing [WA], moderately absorbing [MA] and strongly absorbing [SA]) in order to assess the spatial and temporal distributions of their constituents and the radiative effects of their fine- and coarse-mode particles. …”
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Distribution and environmental dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes in poultry farms and surrounding ecosystems by ShangMin Li, Kai Wang, DanPing Wang, HongZhi Wang, HuaXuan Zhao, JunHua Pu, KeHua Wang, ChunMei Li

“…At the phylum level, Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, and Bacteroidetes were dominant in cloacal samples, aerosol samples, and vegetable samples, while Proteobacteria Actinobacteriota and Acidobacteria dominated soil. …”
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Experimental Study on Mechanical Property and Pore Distribution of Limestone Specimens after Heat Treatment under Different Heating Conditions by Yujie Feng, Haijian Su, Qian Yin, Liyuan Yu, Yingchao Wang

“…However, pore distribution changes from small and medium pores dominating to large pore dominating and then to medium pore dominating. …”
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Spatial and depth distribution of salinity and nitrate in a depleted alluvial aquifer (Haouz plain, Morocco) by Hamza Sahraoui, Younes Fakir, Houssne Bouimouass, Sarah Tweed, Marc Leblanc, Rabia Benaddi, Abdelghani Chehbouni

“…The depletion has caused a shift in our alluvial aquifer from dominant very shallow groundwater (< 20 m) in the 1970s to dominant deep groundwater (> 40 m) currently. …”
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Evidence for microbially-mediated tradeoffs between growth and defense throughout coral evolution by Hannah E. Epstein, Tanya Brown, Ayọmikun O. Akinrinade, Ryan McMinds, F. Joseph Pollock, Dylan Sonett, Styles Smith, David G. Bourne, Carolina S. Carpenter, Rob Knight, Bette L. Willis, Mónica Medina, Joleah B. Lamb, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Jesse R. Zaneveld

“…Interpreting these data in their phylogenetic context, we show that microbial dominance predicts disease susceptibility, and traced this dominance-disease association to a single putatively beneficial symbiont genus, Endozoicomonas. …”
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Unveiling the Emission Mechanisms of Blazar PKS 1510−089. II. Jet−BLR Connection and Black Hole Mass Estimation by Alfredo Amador-Portes, Vahram Chavushyan, Víctor M. Patiño-Álvarez, José Ramón-Valdés

“…Based on the 219 spectra within the disk dominance regime, we estimated a mean black hole mass of M _BH  = 2.85 ± 0.37 × 10 ^8 M _⊙ .…”
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Comparative studies on physicochemical properties, volatile flavor substances and microbial community of Mianning ham at different altitudes by Qianhui Zeng, Lili Ji, Wei Wang, Jiamin Zhang, Ting Bai, Ling Gan, Lin Chen

“…At the phylum level, the dominant bacteria were Firmicutes and Proteobacteria, and the fungus was Basidiomycota. …”
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The concepts of Ludwik Fleck and their application to the eukaryotic cell cycle by Stephen Cooper

“…This is discussed and applied to ideas dominant in the understanding of the eukaryotic cell cycle. …”
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Does the COVID-19 XBB Omicron subvariant signal the beginning of the end of the pandemic? by Jinghao Nicholas Ngiam, Abdurrahmaan Al-Mubaarak, Sebastian Maurer-Stroh, Paul Anantharajah Tambyah

“…The XBB Omicron subvariant is rapidly becoming the dominant strain of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Singapore from October 2022 and is one of several variants circulating globally with the potential to dominate autumn/winter waves in different countries. …”
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Costello Syndrome. A case report by Yadelis Maldonado Martínez, Alexander Torres Molina, Diorgis Duran Lobaina

“…Its inheritance pattern is considered to be autosomal dominant, although most cases are sporadic, suggesting de novo dominant mutations. …”
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Stability Analysis of High Jointed Rock Slope with Steep Week Fracture Zone by HUANG Wenhong, ZHANG Jian, LI Longlong, PAN Bing, CHU Weijiang

“…The research results show that: the failure mode of the slope is controlled bythe steep weak fracture zone and the bedding dominant structural plane with low dip angle. Thestability of the natural slope is good, and the slope stability will be decreased by engineeringexcavation. …”
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Using FDFD Technique in Two-Dimensional TE Analysis for Modeling Clutter in Wall Penetrating Radar by David Insana, Carey M. Rappaport

“…Field interaction between clutter elements will dominate the received fields back-scattered from the scene. …”
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The Liberal Political Realism of Bernard Williams by Annamária Csornay

“…The success of the text is due to its influential critique of dominant liberal approaches – primarily that of John Rawls –, and in its distinct approach to the grounding of liberalism itself. …”
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The Rise of English and the Space for Modern Languages by M. Obaidul Hamid

“…As reported in this article, the global linguistic market is dominated by English which has also attracted new market players alongside the old, Anglophone market leaders. …”
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