Effects of superabsorbent polymers on autogenous shrinkage and microstructure in metakaolin-based cementitious materials by Arthur Aviz Palma e Silva, Valdirene Maria Silva Capuzzo, Eugênia Fonseca da Silva, André Maués Brabo Pereira, Lívia Borba Agostinho

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Predictors of uveitic macular edema and functional prognostic outcomes: real-life data from the international AIDA Network uveitis registry by Jurgen Sota, Germán Mejía-Salgado, Silvana Guerriero, Gaafar Ragab, Gaafar Ragab, Stefania Costi, Maria Pia Paroli, Andrea Hinojosa-Azaola, Giuseppe Lopalco, Luciana Breda, Henrique Ayres Mayrink Giardini, Alex Fonollosa, Maria Sole Chimenti, Antonio Vitale, Carla Gaggiano, Blanca Aguilar-Barrera, Laura Daniela Rodríguez-Camelo, Guillermo Arturo Guaracha-Basañez, Mohamed Tharwat Hegazy, Mohamed Tharwat Hegazy, Rosanna Dammacco, Valeria Albano, Eduardo Martín-Nares, Santiago Espinosa-Lugo, Mahmoud Ghanema, Maria Morrone, Saverio La Bella, Rafael Alves Cordeiro, Francesco Carubbi, Alessandro Conforti, Piero Ruscitti, Ibrahim AlMaglouth, Rosaria Talarico, Stefano Gentileschi, Petros P. Sfikakis, Valeria Caggiano, Matteo Piga, Adele Civino, Francesca Ricci, Maissa Thabet, Marcello Govoni, Abdurrahman Tufan, Francesca Crisafulli, Jessica Sbalchiero, Sulaiman M. Al-Mayouf, Angela Mauro, Angela Mauro, Soad Hashad, Soad Hashad, Francesca Minoia, Alma Nunzia Olivieri, Samar Tharwat, Samar Tharwat, Maria Cristina Maggio, Abdelhfeez Moshrif, Gian Domenico Sebastiani, Daniela Opris-Belinski, Gülen Hatemi, Gülen Hatemi, Haner Direskeneli, Fatma Alibaz-Öner, Lampros Fotis, José Hernández-Rodríguez, Giovanni Conti, Piercarlo Sarzi Puttini, Ombretta Viapiana, Annarita Giardina, Patrizia Barone, Kalpana Babu, Rana Hussein Amin, Perla Ayumi Kawakami-Campos, Vishali Gupta, Annamaria Iagnocco, Ali Şahin, Antonella Insalaco, Andrés González-García, Ezgi Deniz Batu, Ester Carreño, Emanuela Del Giudice, Cecilia Beatrice Chighizola, Cecilia Beatrice Chighizola, Fabrizio Conti, Alberto Balistreri, Bruno Frediani, Luca Cantarini, Alejandra de-la-Torre, Claudia Fabiani

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Creativity in Narrative Writing: Utilizing Mind Mapping with Ethnic Identification Model in Higher Education by Suci Ramadhanti Febriani, Rizka Widayanti, Rahmawati Rahmawati, Dewi Sartika, Indil Setiawan, Refiyana Yolanda, Kddour Bedra Guettaoi

“…A mixed research design was used with a quantitative approach to test the effectiveness of learning writing skills using Mind Mapping and a qualitative approach to identify student creativity in developing narrative paragraphs. 35 students who studied writing skills at UIN Imam Bonjol Padang in the Arabic Language Education study program were involved. The results showed that; 1) The effectiveness of Mind Mapping in narrative writing showed an increase in the average learning outcomes for writing skills to 77.91 which showed positive significance; 2) Creativity in writing narratives about Indonesian ethnic groups was identified including the distribution of the meaning of ethnic groups, characteristics of ethnic groups and examples of traditional culture, characterized by varied writing structures with the choice of various grammatical structures such as the arrangement of verbal phrases, adjectives, prepositions, adverbial attributes and nominal phrases. …”
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Unconventional T cells in anti-cancer immunity by Ariel Laub, Ariel Laub, Nathalia Rodrigues de Almeida, Shouxiong Huang, Shouxiong Huang

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Abdominal, thoracic, and cardiac point-of-care ultrasound skills following an in-person hands-on training course for early-track emergency clinicians by Julien Guillaumin, Amanda Cavanagh, Jaime Rechy, Morgan Callahan, Rita Hanel

“…In-person procedural assessment was performed using an anesthetized dog and consisted of identifying 22 anatomical structures in 6 minutes. The assessment was performed pre-course and repeated three months post-course in an identical environment.ResultsFifty-six veterinarians from the Veterinary Emergency Group New ER Doctor program were enrolled. …”
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MANAGEMENT OF THE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES - THE HARD OR THE SOFT APPROACH? by Cătălina IANĂŞI

“…Conventional organization structures, managerial policies, practices, and programs reflect these assumptions. …”
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A methodology to forecast some attributes of an automatic storyteller’s outputs by Iván Guerrero Román, Rafael Pérez y Pérez

“…This paper reports an extension of the program MEXICA, an automatic plot generator. The purpose of this project is to build a framework that permits studying the relations between MEXICA’s processes, its knowledge structures and the features of the produced narratives. …”
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Topographic-anatomical Relationships of the Arterial and Venous Beds of the Kidneys by Sh. I. Akbaev, Z. U. Lechiev, E. S. Kafarov

“…Disturbances in these anatomical structures can lead to significant clinical consequences.Purpose. …”
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PRINCIPLES OF INTERACTION BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR by F. M. Safin, E. I. Hastieva

“…Offered article is devoted to research of features of interaction of the state structures and small business in agriculture. In article the author offered principles of interaction of the state and small business in the agrarian and industrial complex, allowing to reach target results of implementationof programs of support and priorities in realization of the state interest in agrarian and industrial complex.…”
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Cup and Disc Segmentation in Smartphone Handheld Ophthalmoscope Images with a Composite Backbone and Double Decoder Architecture by Thiago Paiva Freire, Geraldo Braz Júnior, João Dallyson Sousa de Almeida, José Ribamar Durand Rodrigues Junior

“…One way to diagnose the disease is through fundus image examination, which analyzes the optic disc and cup structures. However, screening programs in primary care are costly and unfeasible. …”
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Recursive Class Connectivity Classification (R3C) Applied to Binary Image Segmentation for Improved Infant Fingerprint Enhancement by Joao Leonardo Harres Dall Agnol, Luiz Fernando Puttow Southier, Jefferson Tales Oliva, Marcelo Teixeira, Rodrigo Minetto, Marcelo Filipak, Dalcimar Casanova, Erick Oliveira Rodrigues

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THE SOCIAL ECONOMY IN ROMANIA AND THE IMPACT OF NONREIMBURSABLE EUROPEAN FUNDS OVER THIS SECTOR by Marilena Petronela CRISTEA, Ion DONA

“…For the funding period of 2007 to 2013, the data have been processed into the following indicators: social economy structures created, people qualified or requalified in programs for vulnerable groups and the number of jobs created. …”
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Modeling of Tunnel Concrete Lining under Fire and Explosion Damage by Zhaopeng Yang, Linbing Wang, Zhifei Gao

“…This paper presents studies that focus on fire and explosion-induced damage of tunnel structures by employing the Discrete Element Method (DEM). …”
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The Convergent Behavior for Parametric Generalized Vector Equilibrium Problems by Yen-Cherng Lin, Po-Jen Cheng, Su-Ling Lee

“…Several existence results and the topological structures of the efficient solutions set are established. …”
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Online Job Portals: the Future of Labor Market Regulation in the Republic of Belarus by E. V. Vankevich, O. V. Zaitseva

“…The authors formulated the difficulties of forming a single portal of vacancies for labor market analysts: - different criteria for structuring information in the description of vacancies and resumes, the use of different classifiers; - lack of unification in the use of methodological and methodological approaches (understanding the labor market situation, division into types of economic activities, categories of vacancies and resumes); - weak structuring and arbitrariness in the description of the required skills; - closed information. …”
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Knowledge Diversity at Universities? by Barbara Gross, Theo Hug, Ulrike Stadler-Altmann

“…In this paper we use the historically-shaped university organization structures in three European countries as cases of analysis. …”
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Performance Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Frame under Close-In Blast Loading by Solomon Abebe, Tesfaye Alemu Mohammed

“…The need for assessing and retrofitting structures increased with time as terrorism-induced explosion trends rose with time. …”
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Morphological multiparameter filtration and persistent homology in mitochondrial image analysis. by Yu-Min Chung, Chuan-Shen Hu, Emily Sun, Henry C Tseng

“…We show that such filtrations contain both topological and geometric information about complex cellular organelle structures, which allows a software program to extract meaningful features. …”
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A coumestan and a coumaronochromone from Millettia lasiantha by Buyinza, Daniel, Derese, Solomon, Ndakala , Albert, Heydenreich, Matthias, Yenesew , Abiy, Oriko, Richard

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Augmenting Coral Growth on Breakwaters: A Shelter-Based Approach by Almog Ben Natan, Natalie Chernihovsky, Nadav Shashar

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