Pest Identification Guide: Melon Thrips, Thrips palmi Karny by Jeffrey D. Cluever, Hugh A. Smith

“…This species is primarily a foliage feeder (except in pepper and eggplant, where flowers are more preferred). Feeding on the leaves results in yellowing followed by death of leaf. …”
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Comparison of Quadratic– and Median-Based Roughness Penalties for Penalized-Likelihood Sinogram Restoration in Computed Tomography

“…Since the quadratic penalty allows for derivation of an algorithm that is guaranteed to monotonically increase the penalized-likelihood objective function, we find it to be preferable to the median-based penalty.</p>…”
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Rhabdomyosarcoma of the Maxilla by Karel Mercken, Maarten Steyvers, Robert Hermans

“…Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the preferred diagnostic imaging tool, though its imaging characteristics are relatively non-specific and overlap with other soft tissue sarcomas. …”
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L’idée républicaine dans l’émigration antifasciste en exil by Éric Vial

“…The antifascist emigration of the interwar period, which forms part of the political class of the Italian Republic, may seem little concerned by the institutional issue, whether this emigration is seen as unanimous Republican or it is considered preferable to silence the possible differences. Yet the debate exists, even if it is rudimentary and often instrumentalized, as the reformist socialists were under the illusion that they could find support from monarchist liberals or even from the Crown. …”
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Individual determinants of extended working lives: A systematic review of the literature by Rodolfo Gutiérrez, Fermín López-Rodríguez, Aroa Tejero

“…The mismatch between structural and individual changes reinforces the interest of a precise knowledge of the influence of individual determinants on EWL. Based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses methodology (Page et al. 2021), this article provides a systematic review of literature with the objective of conceptualizing variants of EWL and systematizing empirical evidence of the influence of individual determinants on EWL. …”
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BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER – A NARRATIVE REVIEW by JOHN J. SÖDERHOLM

“…On a symptomatic level, BPD patients have a strong tendency toward remission (not meeting diagnostic criteria) over several years, however, functional impairments are often quite persistent. The preferred treatment is psychotherapeutic, with evidence of efficacy available for many different manualized therapies.…”
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MEDIA USE AND HAPPINESS IN SERBIA by LJubiša Bojić, Maja Pavlović

“…When looking at television use, individuals that prefer programs such as cartoons, culture, music, fashion, science, IT and sports are happier than others. …”
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Effect of (he using artificial sweeteners instead of sucrose level on the some quality characteristics of ice cream by Ahmet Güner

“…In conclusion, it was convicted that to compensate quality defects occuned at reducing ol sucrose content of ice cream, fat and non fat milk solids amount of ice cream should be increased, and also in the production ol low sucrose or sucrose free ice cream, aspartame could be preferred.…”
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Forward first: Joystick interactions of toddlers during digital play. by Kimberly A Ingraham, Heather A Feldner, Katherine M Steele

“…Children demonstrated a strong preference for moving the joystick forward first, regardless of the target direction. …”
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Brown Dog Tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus Latreille (Arachnida: Acari: Ixodidae) by Cynthia C. Lord

“…Although R. sanguineus will feed on a wide variety of mammals, dogs are the preferred host in the US and appear to be required to develop large infestations. …”
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2019–2020 Florida Citrus Production Guide: Plant Bugs, Chewing Insect Pests, Caribbean Fruit Fly, and Thrips by Xavier Martini, Lauren M. Diepenbrock

“…The insects listed in this section are generalist feeders for which citrus is not a preferred host. They are, therefore, only sporadic problems in Florida citrus. …”
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TOPSIS-based framework for evaluating employee cybersecurity risk by Katarina Kostelić

“…It integrates the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to the Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) with Saaty’s criteria weighting, enabling a comprehensive evaluation across five criteria: knowledge, compliance, risky behaviors, attitudes, and training. …”
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La réforme régionale en France : une occasion manquée ? by Élisabeth Bonnet-Pineau

“…The objective of making savings could only be achieved by reinforcing intercommunal units, and hence governmental responsibilities of other territorial collectivities have been planed down. Preference has been given to mergers, but the issue of scale has not been applied evenly. …”
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L’artificieuse alternative de Ford Madox Ford dans The Good Soldier by Catherine Pesso-Miquel

“…This article begins by analysing the various devices used by modernist and postmodernist novelists to break the frame of narrative illusion (devices often based on an either/or opposition), before showing that Ford boldly preferred the conjunction and, piling up aporetic contradictions and incompatibilities that operate at the level of plot, grammar, time scheme, and characterisation. …”
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Great Purple Hairstreak; Great Blue Hairstreak Atlides halesus (Cramer) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) by Don W. Hall

“… The great purple hairstreak, Atlides halesus (Cramer), is one of our most beautiful and fascinating southern butterflies. Although its preferred and most frequently used common name is great purple hairstreak (Miller 1992), it does not have any true purple coloring on it. …”
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Cooperation mechanism of multi-agent system driven by utility by Han-bing DENG, Xia ZHANG, Ji-ren LIU

“…In the cooperative mechanism, a utility value was used to generate a preferred order for agents under different cooperative patterns. …”
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Application of Surfactants in Commercial Crop Production for Water and Nutrient Management in Sandy Soil by Guodong Liu, Monica Ozores-Hampton, Gene McAvoy, Ben Hogue, Crystal A. Snodgrass

“…On these soils, water may simply pool on the surface or may move down preferred pathways, leaving large amounts of soil dry even when a large volume of water is applied. …”
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Characterization of stress-strain state in gas turbine engine compressor disc taking into account damage accumulation by Natalia V Boychenko, Ivan Ishtyryakov

“…The nonlinear stress intensity factors are preferred as fracture resistance parameters of materials and structures.…”
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Compressed sensing for electrocardiogram acquisition in wireless body sensor network: A comparative analysis by Junxin Chen, Jiazhu Xing, Leo Yu Zhang, Lin Qi

“…Drawn from a bulk of comparative experiments, the potential of compressed sensing in electrocardiogram acquisition is evaluated in different compression levels, while preferred sparsifying basis and reconstruction algorithm are also suggested. …”
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Polypragmasy at treatment of <i>H. pylori</i> infection in patients with concomitant diseases of other organs and systems. How to prevent side effects related to drug interactions? by S. G. Burkov, N. V. Shornikova

“…Authors believe, taking into account available data on drug interactions, that at patients with multiple morbidity pantoprazole is preferable to other antisecretory agents.…”
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