Assessing Website quality in context: retrieving information about genetically modified food on the Web by Claire R. McInerney, Nora J. Bird

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<i>The Woman as Wolf</i> (AT 409): Some Interpretations of a Very Estonian Folk Tale by Merili Metsvahi

“…While in almost all the Estonian versions the main protagonist is transformed into a wolf, in most of the versions written down in other areas and ethnic groups, another animal or bird replaces the wolf. The author is of the opinion that the Finnic area is central to the distribution of the folk tale The Woman as Wolf. …”
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Mina Loy’s Surrealist Strategies of Renewal by Diane Drouin

“…Throughout her life, Loy paid tribute to many prominent artists, including Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, the sculptor Brancusi in her poem “Brancusi’s Golden Bird,” the German painter Richard Oelze, or the American Surrealist Joseph Cornell, who both appear in her Surrealist novel Insel. …”
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Antipsychotic-induced hyperprolactinemia: Toxicologic mechanism and the increased breast cancer risk by Steven B. Bird

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Prediction of suitable habitat for tundra swans in the Nanji wetland Nature Reserve of Poyang Lake under different water level conditions by Tianwei Fang, Jin Jin, Chao Chen, Li Zhang, Yankuo Li, Chaoyang Li

“…It is important to predict the habitat of the migratory bird Cygnus columbianus (tundra swan) at different water levels when generating wetland conservation strategies. …”
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A Population Classification Evolution Algorithm for the Parameter Extraction of Solar Cell Models by Yiqun Zhang, Peijie Lin, Zhicong Chen, Shuying Cheng

“…To quickly and precisely extract the parameters for solar cell models, inspired by simplified bird mating optimizer (SBMO), a new optimization technology referred to as population classification evolution (PCE) is proposed. …”
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Gust Mitigation of Micro Air Vehicles Using Passive Articulated Wings by Adetunji Oduyela, Nathan Slegers

“…Birds and insects naturally use passive flexing of their wings to augment their stability in uncertain aerodynamic environments. …”
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Multitemporal High-Resolution Satellite Images for the Study and Monitoring of an Ancient Mesopotamian City and its Surrounding Landscape: The Case of Ur by Giacomo Di Giacomo, Giuseppe Scardozzi

“…The acquired dataset is composed by two Gambit KH-7 (1966) and one Corona KH-4B (1968) declassified spy space photos and by few images taken by the recent satellites for civilian use QuickBird-2 (2002, 2004, 2007), Ikonos-2 (2008), and WorldView-1 (2008). …”
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Pathogenic potential of ornithogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> strains detected in the Earth's polar regions by Batyrbek I. Aslanov, Daniil V. Azarov, Maria A. Makarova, Elizaveta G. Marysheva, Lyudmila A. Kraeva, Aleksey S. Mokhov, Ekaterina A. Lebedeva, Nikita E. Goncharov, Natalya V. Lebedeva, Dmitry A. Starikov, Victoria V. Kolodzhieva, Dmitry E. Polev, Artemy E. Goncharov

“…Pathogenic strains of Escherichia coli are an important object of surveillance within the One Health concept in the wild, agriculture and human society. Migratory bird colonies and high latitude avian colonies may be points of active intraspecies and interspecies contact between different animal species, accompanied by the spread of pathogens. …”
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Past Times and Our Times: Reading Our Mutual Friend by David Paroissien

“…While Wegg might take Gibbon ‘easy,’ Boffin reflects, to an old bird like himself, he suddenly realizes that he had no idea until encountering history aurally that ‘there were half so many Scarers in print.’ …”
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Analysis of Mycoplasma gallisepticum Infection Factors in Commercial Layer Chicken Farm Using Analytical Hierarchy Process by Diyantoro Diyantoro, Eko Sugeng Pribadi

“…The results of AHP analysis to the risk factor variables of MG infection in commercial layer chicken farm showed that the highest risk value of MG infection was the number of bird in house (0.277), followed by antibiotic administration (0.276), while the other variables only have risk value under 0.100. …”
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Enhancing network lifetime in WSNs through coot algorithm-based energy management model by Namita Shinde, Dr. Vinod H․ Patil

“…This addresses issues such as high energy consumption, communication delays, and security.To ensure energy savings and network reliability, the fitness function evaluates cluster heads and best routes based on constraints.COOT outperforms other Metaheuristics Algorithms like Butterfly Optimization Algorithm, Genetic Algorithm, Tunicate Swarm Gray Wolf Optimization Algorithm, and Bird Swarm Algorithm in simulation with performance measurements and enhancing network functionality and protection.Key methodology points include: • Proposed a multiple constraints clustering and routing technique using COAto solve the most crucial issues that arise in WSNs. • Integrated an advanced fitness function that determines cluster head selection, and the routing path based on residual energy, delay, security, trust, distance, and link quality so that energy load is evenly distributed and credible data flow is maintained across the network and made Innovative and Effective Solution. • Proven Results Demonstrated superior network performance, achieving the lowest delay, highest network lifetime (3571 rounds) and enhanced security (0.8) and trust (0.6) compared to existing algorithms with less energy consumption, making it the most suitable solution for WSN performance improvement.…”
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Impact of Environmental Thermal Stimulation on Activation of Hypothalamic Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase during the Prenatal Ontogenesis in Muscovy Ducks by Valery Dunai, Barbara Tzschentke

“…It can be concluded that probably in late-term bird embryos NO acts as a mediator of the neuronal cold pathway in the anterior hypothalamus, which might be improved by prenatal cold stimulation.…”
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Alice’s Non-Anthropocentric Ethics: Lewis Carroll as a Defender of Animal Rights by Anna Kérchy

“…The vanishing and reappearing Cheshire Cat represents language that is ideologically manipulative and poetically subversive and distinguishes the speaking human subject from animals (Lecercle 1994); the Caucus Race led by the Dodo Bird is an absurd rehearsal of the Darwinian evolutionary theory’s competitive struggle for survival (Lovell-Smith 2007), while the dormouse in the teapot evokes how the ownership of certain animals could indicate class belonging (Ritvo 1987). …”
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FI-NL2PY2SQL: Financial Industry NL2SQL Innovation Model Based on Python and Large Language Model by Xiaozheng Du, Shijing Hu, Feng Zhou, Cheng Wang, Binh Minh Nguyen

“…At the same time, considering the traceability characteristics of financial industry regulatory requirements, this paper uses the open-source big model DeepSeek. After testing on the BIRD dataset, compared with most NL2SQL models based on large language models, EX is at least 2.73% higher than the original method, F1 is at least 3.72 higher than the original method, and VES is 6.34% higher than the original method. …”
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Advancing Coherent Power Grid Partitioning: A Review Embracing Machine and Deep Learning by Mohamed Massaoudi, Maymouna Ez Eddin, Ali Ghrayeb, Haitham Abu-Rub, Shady S. Refaat

“…This paper provides PS researchers with a bird&#x2019;s eye view of the current state of mainstream PGP implementations. …”
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Prediction of Soil Water Characteristic Curve Based on Soil Water Evaporation by Gaoliang Tao, Da Lei, Lisheng Liu, Yi Li, Xueliang Zhu

“…Further, two prediction methods are developed, which are derived based on the Fredlund–Xing model and based on the Bird model, respectively. The proposed methods were validated using soil water evaporation tests of Hunan sand with six dry densities at three ambient temperatures, and the results showed that good prediction performances were achieved using these two methods.…”
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GNSS spoofing in conflict zones disrupts wildlife tracking and hampers research and conservation efforts by Frédéric Jiguet, Asaf Mayrose, Markus Piha, Ron Efrat, Tuomas Seimola, Nir Sapir, Sami Timonen, Yohay Wasserlauf, Aurélien Besnard, Pierrick Bocher, Andrea Kölzsch, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Anne-Christine Monnet, Petr Procházka, Yoav Perlman

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High-Quality Text-to-Image Generation Using High-Detail Feature-Preserving Network by Wei-Yen Hsu, Jing-Wen Lin

“…Compared with the state of the art, experimental results obtained on the CUB-Bird and MS-COCO datasets demonstrate that the proposed HDFpNet achieves better performance and visual presentation, especially regarding high-detail images and feature preservation.…”
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Pigeon racing in South Africa: Exploring the socio-economic nature and extent of this 'unknown sport' by Cecilia MOSTERT, Ronnie DONALDSON

“…The paper categorizes fanciers into small, medium, and large groups based on bird ownership, presenting insights into their socio-demographic context and motivations. …”
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