The significance of cultural context in the classification of preferred mouth behavior: Exploring eating behavior using causal network analysis by Syahmeer How, Kevin Kantono, Pia I. Hedelund, Nazimah Hamid, Adlin Najihah Azhar, Aishwarya Ventrakamani, Alifdalino Sulaiman

“…Abstract Preferred mouth behavior studies have mostly focused on Western populations using the JBMB tool to determine how food is manipulated in the mouth. …”
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Artificial intelligence for small hydroponics farms employing fuzzy logic systems and economic analysis by Anugerah F. Amalia, Heni S. P. Rahayu, Yogi P. Rahardjo, Lintje Hutahaean, Eni S. Rohaeni, Chandra Indrawanto, Ratna A. Saptati, Viktor Siagian, Abdul Waris

“…There have been some inventions of nutrient mixing machines in commercial-scale agribusiness but not yet at the level of the small and medium farms that are mostly found in developing countries. This study constructed a hydroponics nutrient mixing machine employing a fuzzy logic method, calculated the machine’s efficiency, and evaluated its economic application. …”
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3DZSignDB: 3D avatar SigML data for Algerian sign languageZenodo by Taha Zerrouki, Mohamed Fares Slimani, Amine Mami, Redha Mazari

“…We used the Notation System Method, which is mostly based on the Hamburg Notation System (HamNoSys), to encode 417 ALSL lexical signs. …”
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Effect of Economic, Institutional and Cultural Factors on the Implementation of EU Energy Policies by Vasile Dinu, Leonina Emilia Baciu, Maria Mortan, Vincenţiu Andrei Vereș

“…Data comprise the European Union countries for the 2007-2015 period, the longest time period in which the structure of the Union has remained mostly unchanged. We employ random effects panel data models and hierarchical clustering. …”
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Pott’s Paraplegia in a 2 Years Female: A Rare Presentation at an Early Age by Preeti Basnet, Anish Joshi, Saurab Karki, Anil Jung Thapa, Prayash Poudel, Anugya Sapkota, Manoj Shrestha, Shreebridhi Pande

“…Potts disease is extrapulmonary skeletal tuberculosis mostly affecting the thoracolumbar spine. It destroys the disc space, adjacent vertebral bodies, and spinal elements, leading to cord compression and paraplegia. …”
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Valuable resources recovery from palm oil mill effluent (POME): A short review on sustainable wealth reclamation by Saifullahi Shehu Imam, Sadiq Sani, Muhammad Mujahid, Rohana Adnan

“…This made POME treatment the subject of numerous investigations. Various methods, mostly biological, have evolved over the past few years for the successful valorization of POME to produce useful resources including biofuels (biohydrogen, biogas, bioacetone, biobutanol, bioethanol, biohythane etc.), value-added chemicals (enzymes, volatile fatty acids, citric acid, carotenes, lipids etc.), nutrients (micronutrients, macronutrients), pesticides, solvents, and adsorbents. …”
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Hydrodynamic Calculation and Analysis of a Complex-Shaped ROV Moving near the Wall Based on CFDs by Mengjie Jiang, Chaohe Chen, Zhijia Suo, Yingkai Dong

“…Pressure differential resistance is the dominant factor affecting ROV performance, while viscous resistance remains low and is mostly unaffected by wall proximity. These findings provide valuable insights into calculating hydrodynamic coefficients and modeling the dynamics of ROVs with complex shapes operating near the wall.…”
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Utilization of Educational School Facilities Among Students in a Selected Tertiary Institution in South East Nigeria. by Okoro, Amarachukwu Doris, Okafor, Christiana Nkiru, Menkiti, Ifeoma Oluchukwu, Egbuna, Maryann Chioma, Munezero, Tamu John Bosco, Mandera, Immaculate, Okoro, Chukwuemeka Chukwubuikem

“…There was poor utilization of the computer laboratory for learning mostly due to the non-availability of internet services. …”
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Damping behavior of olive trees under trunk shaking by Mohamed Ghonimy, Abdulaziz Alharbi, Mohamed M. Ibrahim

“…Along the x-axis, acceleration progressively increases from the base to the branches, while the y-axis is mostly absorbed by the trunk. Additionally, the logarithmic decrement decreases with distance from the shaker, reflecting greater damping in the trunk compared to the branches. …”
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High-Density Polyethylene and Heat-Treated Bamboo Fiber Composites: Nonisothermal Crystallization Properties by Yanjun Li, Lanxing Du, Zhen Zhang, Qinglin Wu

“…Their crystallization mostly occurred within a temperature range between 379 K and 399 K, where HDPE turned from the liquid phase into the crystalline phase. …”
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Systems‐level transcriptional regulation of Caenorhabditis elegans metabolism by Shivani Nanda, Marc‐Antoine Jacques, Wen Wang, Chad L Myers, L Safak Yilmaz, Albertha JM Walhout

“…So far, metabolism regulation has mostly been described for individual genes and pathways, and the extent of transcriptional regulation of the entire metabolic network remains largely unknown. …”
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How inventory consignment programs can improve supply chain performance: a process oriented perspective by Manoj K. Malhotra, Alan W. Mackelprang, Jayanth Jayaram

“…Through this approach, this study makes a contribution beyond what has been examined in the prior literature which has mostly dealt with IC as an accounting based inventory management issue.…”
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The “Bringing into Cultivation” Phase of the Plant Domestication Process and Its Contributions to In Situ Conservation of Genetic Resources in Benin by R. Vodouhè, A. Dansi

“…People in the humid zones give priority to herbs mainly for their leaves while those in dry area prefer trees mostly for their fruits. Local communities were motivated to undertake plant domestication for foods (80% of respondents), medicinal use (40% of respondents), income generation (20% of respondents) and cultural reasons (5% of respondents). 45% of the species recorded are still at early stage in domestication and only 2% are fully domesticated. …”
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An evaluation of the medical internship programme at King Edward VIII hospital, South Africa in 2016 by Andrew Ross, S. S. Naidoo, Siyabonga Dlamini

“…Discussion and conclusions: The findings of this study were generally positive with regard to teaching, supervision and hours worked, mostly in accordance with the requirements of the HPCSA. …”
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From anxiety to action-Experience of threat, emotional states, reactance, and action preferences in the early days of COVID-19 self-isolation in Germany and Austria. by Stefan Reiss, Vittoria Franchina, Chiara Jutzi, Robin Willardt, Eva Jonas

“…The results suggest that individuals deal with threat in their own ways, mostly depending on affective state and motivational orientation: Anxiety was related to security, approach-state to action (both social and personal), reactance to derogation of the system and disregard for security, while loneliness was associated with inaction.…”
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Coherent Interpretation of Entire Visual Field Test Reports Using a Multimodal Large Language Model (ChatGPT) by Jeremy C. K. Tan

“…The causes of incorrect defect type were mostly attributed to the wrong location, particularly confusing the superior and inferior hemifields. …”
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Humans may not have a uniquely enhanced sequence memory: sequence discrimination is facilitated by causal–logical framing in humans and chimpanzees by Eva Reindl, Amanda M. Seed, Robert A. Barton, Topaz Francis-Costa, Rachel L. Kendal

“…Humans discriminated causal sequences better than arbitrary ones and one chimpanzee succeeded in the causal frame condition after 324 trials, suggesting that performance gaps in previous studies are partly due to the arbitrariness of sequences (monkeys mostly failed the training). Without causal framing, children found the task difficult until 10–11 years of age. …”
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Peculiarities of a riddle genre in Karachay-Balkarian folklore by Zhauhar M. Lokyaeva

“…The addressee of riddles has also changed: if earlier they were mostly used by adults during game competitions, then today riddles are often ranked among children’s genres of folklore, contributing to intergenerational transmission of information. …”
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Partnership for Sustainable Coffee Certification: Linking Up Smallholder Farmers to Global Coffee Market by Bustanul Arifin, Michael Reed, Novi Rosanti, Hanung Ismono, Slamet Budiyuwono

“…After employing the treatment-effect model, we find that the partnership for sustainability certifications raises farm income, mostly due to higher coffee yield and farm-gate prices. …”
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A Critical Review of US GAAP And IFRS: Future Research Directions by Fred Konneh Songa Monson, Mohamed Sao Kawa

“…GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Prior research has mostly concentrated on quantitative approaches, paying little attention to qualitative perspectives and local obstacles to IFRS adoption, especially in light of US GAAP convergence. …”
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