Food manipulation and processing in wild western gorillas of Central African Republic: implications for studying behavioural variability by Shelly Masi, Ellen JM Meulman, Françoise Aubaile, Sabrina Krief, Angelique Todd, Emanuelle Pouydebat

“…Results indicate that food features (e.g. size, shape, extraction requirements) affect individual food-manipulation strategies (e.g. number of fingers involved, hand preference, use of mouth), as well as the requirement of various functional strategies (e.g. grip types, postural sequences, repositioning behavior) during unimanual and bimanual processing. …”
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From Fitness Tracking to Augmented Shopping Experience: Perceptions and Use of Mobile Payment among Runners Using Wearable Devices by Özlem Özdinç

“…Mobile payment was among the top three preferred methods of payments; however, only 4% were using their wearable device for that purpose. …”
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Ageing in the right place—usability of a web-based housing counselling service by Frida Nordeström, Marianne Granbom, Susanne Iwarsson, Magnus Zingmark

“…The participants disagreed regarding the preferred mode of delivery, which indicates a need for selectable options. …”
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A disproportionality analysis of FDA adverse event reporting system events for misoprostol by Li Yang, Wenting Xu

“…After analyzing 17,427,762 adverse event reports, a total of 2032 adverse events reports related to misoprostol were identified, involving 23 system organ classes and 30 preferred terms. The most common AEs were foetal exposure during delivery(n = 201), uterine tachysystole(n = 95), uterine rupture (n = 95), and heart rate decreased (n = 93). …”
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Economic Potentials and Use Dynamics of Sorghum Food System in Ethiopia: Its Implications to Resolve Food Deficit by Teshome Sirany, Esubalew Tadele, Haimanot Aregahegn, Dagnachew Wale

“…It is a gluten-free crop, has high nutritive value, and is preferred by healthy consumers. It is among the top five cereal crops worldwide in both production and acreage. …”
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Environmental stewardship: A systematic scoping review. by Lynette J McLeod, Jane C Kitson, Zack Dorner, Natasha A Tassell-Matamua, Philip Stahlmann-Brown, Taciano L Milfont, Donald W Hine

“…In this paper, we review the environmental science literature to map the types of practical actions that are identified as 'environmental stewardship' using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines for scoping reviews. …”
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Missional insights on socio-political realities, religious vulnerability, and the choice of Barabbas by Ignatius W. Ferreira

“…Furthermore, we explore how this vulnerability manifested in the decision to prefer Barabbas, a figure representing worldly resistance, over Jesus Christ, the embodiment of divine grace. …”
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Power Improved Generalized Heronian Mean Operators Utilizing Hamacher Operations with Picture Fuzzy Information by Baolin Li, Lihua Yang

“…In multiple attribute decision-making (MADM), to better denote complicated preference information of decision-makers (DMs), picture fuzzy set (PFS) as an expansion of intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) has become a powerful tool in the recent years. …”
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A comparative study of perceptions and experiences of online Chinese language learners in China and the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic by Wang Yanlin, Zhan Hong, Liu Shijuan

“…Pearson chi-squared tests found that, significantly, students in the US preferred to take Chinese courses in-person. Pearson’s chi-squared tests on categories formed from the three open-ended questions highlighted the importance of four factors influencing the success of students’ online classes: technology, emotion and motivation, learning productivity, and teaching presence. …”
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Robust optimization of stabilizing piles for landslides composed of soil–rock mixtures by Yang Yu, Songlin Liu, Qing Lü

“…The design method and procedure are illustrated using a real colluvial landslide case study, out of which the most preferred design considering the safety, cost, and design robustness is obtained. …”
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Soil nutrient availability affects tundra plant community composition and plant–vole interactions by Nicole Williamson, Matthew Suchocki, Laura Gough

“…We examined how four levels of long-term (16 years) nutrient addition in moist acidic tundra affected plant community structure and the abundance of Eriophorum vaginatum, the preferred forage for tundra voles (Microtus oeconomus). …”
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Assessment of the Effectiveness of Biophysical Soil and Water Conservation Structures: A Case Study of Offa Woreda, Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia by Elias Bojago, Marisennayya Senapathy, Innocent Ngare, Tsegeye Bojago Dado

“…Those who knew how to conserve soil and water, causes of degradation, and sensitive areas of their own plots of land in the study area received preference. The lack of capital, a short stretch of land, and various socioeconomic and physical conditions impeded the use of soil and water conservation systems. …”
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The Moderating Influence of Project Scope on Leadership Skills, Stakeholder Management, and Execution of Fibre Optic Infrastructure by James Konya Akhwaba

“…With demand for huge amounts of data and increased voice traffic, optical fibre is globally preferred technology to transmit high-speed broadband. …”
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Postpartum intrauterine contraceptive device – What influences its use? A qualitative study from Bengaluru urban district, India by Anissa Mary Thomas Thattil, Naveen Ramesh, Sobin Sunny, Sagnik Chakraborty, Sukesh Gerard, Francis Joseph Scaria, Archana Siddaiah

“…The attitude toward and use of PPIUCD was found to be the result of an interplay between the following: educational status, religion, misconceptions, fear of side-effects, poor reproductive autonomy, male child preference, increased client involvement, increasing women empowerment, and knowledgeable healthcare providers. …”
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How salient are sarcastic questions? by Efrat Levant, Nicole Katzir

“…A large-scale corpus research was conducted throughout three distinct corpora of American-English to determine how these interrogative constructions use salience to encode sarcasm, and how salience contributes to the preference of their sarcastic meaning over the literal one. …”
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First-Principles Study on Stability and Magnetism of NimAln (m=1–3, n=1–9) Clusters by Xiao Zhang, Bao-Xing Li, Zhi-wei Ma, Jiao-jiao Gu

“…We found some new ground-state structures which had not been found before. These mixed species prefer to adopt three-dimensional (3D) structures starting from four atoms. …”
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Adaptation of health systems to climate change-related infectious disease outbreaks in the ASEAN: Protocol for a scoping review of national and regional policies. by Adriana Viola Miranda, Bony Wiem Lestari, Annisa Indrarini, Fadilah F Arsy, Saut Sagala, Mizan Bustanul Fuadi Bisri, Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno

“…The reporting of this scoping review follows the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR).…”
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Inducing and Assessing Acute Mental Stress in Controlled Conditions: Topical Review and Guidelines for Effective Experimental Protocols by Matteo Raggi, Lee J. Moore, Luca Mesin

“…When developing either a new device or algorithm, tests in controlled environments are preferred, because of the supervision of possible confounding factors while running the experiments. …”
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Motives and features of cross-platform self-presentation of Russian students by M. I. Krishtal, A. V. Shchekoturov

“…The main conclusion of this study is that social media users prefer different forms of self-presentations. The authors found that the nature of self-presentation is related both to the motives for using social networks and their technological capabilities. …”
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Smart Materials in Pediatric Dentistry by Sourabh Ramesh Joshi, Sneh Thacker, Viddyasagar Prabhakar Mopagar, Neeta Surendra Padmawar, Chaitra Krishnagouda Patil, Gowri Swaminatham Pendyala

“…Methods: This review was carried out in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses. …”
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