Survey of Dermatophytes in Stray Cats with and without Skin Lesions in Northern Italy by Daniela Proverbio, Roberta Perego, Eva Spada, Giada Bagnagatti de Giorgi, Alessandra Della Pepa, Elisabetta Ferro

“…Our estimated prevalence of dermatophytes in stray cats was much lower than other Italian studies on the same population.…”
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WorldSkills International and Its Place in Higher Education System by A. V. Kirichenko, M. N. Strikhanov

“…The authors analyze the main stages of its development, the results of the implementation of WorldSkills standards in the Russian higher education system, dwell on the procedure for the formation of the system of competences that increase the competitiveness of modern specialists. …”
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Feature Frequency Extraction Algorithm based on PCA and MK-MOMEDA and Its Application by Jiawei Zheng, Qihong Liu, Weiguang Li, Xuezhi Zhao, Guochen Li

“…The multipoint kurtosis （MKurt） is used to extract the period of the periodic shock signal in the reconstructed signal，and the theoretical period is corrected to obtain an accurate deconvolution period，enhance the reconstructed signal through MOMEDA，highlight its periodic impact，and extract the characteristic frequency more effectively. …”
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Monetary Incentives in Italian Public Administration: A Stimulus for Employees? An Agent-Based Approach by Linda Ponta, Gian Carlo Cainarca, Silvano Cincotti

“…The paper, focusing on the context of Public Administration (PA), addresses the effects of monetary incentives in employees’ performance. In the Italian PA, the monetary incentives are distributed according to the D.L.150/09 (i.e., the monetary incentives are divided among the employees according to the employees’ performance) which is based on the rank order tournament. …”
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Incremental Explosive Analysis and Its Application to Performance-Based Assessment of Stiffened and Unstiffened Cylindrical Shells Subjected to Underwater Explosion by Masoud Biglarkhani, Keyvan Sadeghi

“…The explosive loading intensity is specified and scaled in several levels to force the structure through the entire range of its behavior. The results are plotted in terms of a damage measure (DM) versus selected intensity measure (IM). …”
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Correction: New insights on Celtic migration in Hungary and Italy through the analysis of non-metric dental traits. by Erica Piccirilli, Rita Sorrentino, Federico Lugli, Eugenio Bortolini, Sara Silvestrini, Claudio Cavazzuti, Sara Conti, Szabolcs Czifra, Katalin Gyenesei, Kitti Köhler, Károly Tankó, Antonino Vazzana, Erzsébet Jerem, Anna Cipriani, Antonio Gottarelli, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Tamás Hajdu, Stefano Benazzi

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Iterative rake equalization method for low-complexity OTSM in high-speed mobile environment by Guojun LI, Kun LONG, Changrong YE, Jiawen LIANG

“…Aiming at the problems of poor anti-noise performance and high computational complexity of the existing orthogonal time sequency multiplexing (OTSM) equalization methods, a low-complexity iterative rake equalizer based on maximum ratio combining (MRC) was proposed.The main idea was to use MRC to iteratively extract and coherently combine the received multipath components of the transmitted symbols in the delay-time domain to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the combined signal.In order to speed up the convergence of the MRC iterative algorithm, a single-tap time-frequency equalizer was designed to provide an initial estimate, and then combined with an external error correction code to further improve the bit error performance.The simulation results show that the performance of the iterative rake equalizer based on MRC is significantly better than that of the LMMSE linear equalizer, and the performance and computational complexity are greatly improved compared with the currently widely used Gauss-Seidel (GS) iterative equalizer.…”
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Transcriptomic analysis of Andrias davidianus meat and experimental validation for exploring its bioactive components as functional foods by Changge Guan, Zhenglin Tan, Shucheng Li, Yi Wang, Naoyuki Yamamoto, Chong Zhang, Songjun Wang, Junjie Chen, Xin-Hui Xing

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Effects of Additives and Sintering Time on the Microstructure of Ni-Zn Ferrite and Its Electrical and Magnetic Properties by Abdollah Hajalilou, Mansor Hashim, Halimah Mohamed Kamari

“…Moreover, the oxides increase the resistivity of the ferrite and decrease its zinc loss. Magnetic properties such as induction magnetization (BS) and saturation magnetization (MS) decreased in the presence of the additives while its coercivity (HC) increased. …”
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A Time-motion Comparison of Itemized Treatment Costs in First and Second In Vitro Fertilization Attempts: A United Kingdom Fertility Centre Experience by Christopher A. Jones, Olivia J. Carpinello, Dev Kumar, Louis G. Keith, Renju S. Raj, E. Scott Sills

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The online destination image as portrayed by the user-generated content on social media and its impact on tourists' engagement by Manuela Guerreiro, Patrícia Pinto, Célia M.Q. Ramos, Nelson Matos, Homayoun Golestaneh, Bernardete Sequeira, Luís Nobre Pereira, Dora Agapito, Rafaela Martins, Magda Wijkesjö

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Burden of type 2 diabetes and its relationship with human development index in Asian countries: Global Burden of Disease Study in 2019 by Seyed Ahmadreza Alinaghian, Shokoufeh Hamidzadeh, Afsaneh Badrizadeh, Zaher Khazaei, Amirhossein Souri, Victoria Momenabadi, Elham Goodarzi

“…The purpose of this study is to investigate Burden of type 2 diabetes and its relationship with human development index in Asian countries. …”
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First report of the existence of sunn pest EGG Parasitoid , Trissolcus festivae Viktorov (Hym. Scelionidae ) in Iran and some preliminary studies on its Biology by Gh. R. Rajabi

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Global longitudinal strain and its dynamics after replacement of aortal valve in patients with severe aortic stenosis by N.V. Ponych, O.O. Nemchyna, O.J. Zharinov, O.A. Yepanchintseva, B.M. Todurov

“…The aim – to determine factors that may influence the global longitudinal strain (GLS) and its dynamics after replacement aortic valve (RAV) in patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS). …”
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Transcription Factor E2F-1 Is Upregulated in Human Gastric Cancer Tissues and Its Overexpression Suppresses Gastric Tumor Cell Proliferation by Qiang Xiao, Lei Li, Yubo Xie, Ning Tan, Changqing Wang, Junyi Xu, Keyi Xia, Kevin Gardner, Qingdi Q. Li

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Correction: Income inequality and its relationship with loneliness prevalence: A cross-sectional study among older adults in the US and 16 European countries. by Thamara Tapia-Muñoz, Ursula M Staudinger, Kasim Allel, Andrew Steptoe, Claudia Miranda-Castillo, José T Medina, Esteban Calvo

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Habitat suitability modeling for Posidonia oceanica distribution along a Mediterranean region (NW Italy) by Rachele Bordoni, Chiara Paoli, Monica Montefalcone, Alice Oprandi, Ilaria Rigo, Francesca Ruggeri, Paolo Vassallo

“…These findings are essential for the conservation of a vital marine ecosystem and for promoting prudent and effective land management, ultimately securing the legacy of P. oceanica in northwestern Italy.…”
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Synthesis of Activated Carbon Mesoporous from Coffee Waste and Its Application in Adsorption Zinc and Mercury Ions from Aqueous Solution by Liliana Giraldo, Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján

“…We obtain activated carbons with high portion of meso pores using coffee residues as precursor for the application of adsorption of large adsorbates. Because of its natural properties, the coffee residue exhibited a large pore size. …”
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Control of peritectic phase content and its effect on properties of CuSn20P1 alloy by semi-solid rheological forming by Hao Zhang, Yongkun Li, Rongfeng Zhou, Dingdong Huo, Yao Li, Lei Wang

“…CuSn20P1 alloy has a wide range of applications in aerospace, automobile and other fields, but the mismatch between strength and plasticity in conventional casting has greatly limited its application field. In the paper, a melt enclosed cooling slope channel (ECSC) was used to prepare CuSn20P1 alloy semi-solid slurry, and then the casting was prepared by rheo-squeeze casting (RSC) and liquid squeeze casting (LSC). …”
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Estimates of Combining Ability and Heterosis for Yield and Its Related Traits in Pearl Millet Inbred Lines under Downy Mildew Prevalent Areas of Senegal by Ghislain Kanfany, Amadou Fofana, Pangirayi Tongoona, Agyemang Danquah, Samuel Offei, Eric Danquah, Ndiaga Cisse

“…Pearl millet is an important cereal crop for smallholder farmers’ food security in West and Central Africa. However, its production has stagnated due to several factors such as the continuous use of local populations. …”
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