Study of Organizational Management through Implicit and Explicit Association Measures in Public and Private Management by Maria da Penha Sanches Martins, Gaianê Sabundjian

“…Although the Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research (IPEN-SP) and the University of Rio Verde (UniRV - GO) were chosen to conduct this research, this study will present the results of the application of a questionnaire (explicit test) only to a group of IPEN employees. The topics addressed in this research were: bureaucracy, organizational participation, and innovation, among others. …”
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Asymmetrical p-stranding by Rodrigo Delgado, Bryan Koronkiewicz

“…Furthermore, it did not explicitly test pied-piping, nor did it include matrix wh-questions, a common context for p-stranding.  …”
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Species richness and intraspecific variation interactively shape marine diatom community functioning by Patrick K. Thomas, Marrit Jacob, Esteban Acevedo‐Trejos, Helmut Hillebrand, Maren Striebel

“…., number of distinct strains) in marine diatom communities to explicitly test the relative importance of species and strain richness for biomass and trait diversity in six distinct temperature/nutrient environments. …”
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Quantifying Advantages of a Moving Mesh in Nuclear Hydrodynamics by Dillon L. Hasenour, Paul C. Duffell

“…We present an application of the moving mesh technique to this field of computation with the aim of explicitly testing the advantages of the method against the fixed mesh case. …”
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Applying interpretable machine learning to assess intraspecific trait divergence under landscape‐scale population differentiation by Sambadi Majumder, Chase M. Mason

“…This type of approach can be used to parse large plant trait datasets in a wide range of contexts, including explicitly testing the applicability of interspecific paradigms at intraspecific scales.…”
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Combining mechanisms of action with behavior change techniques—theory-based development of an app promoting heating energy-saving behaviors by Mara Brandt, Mara Brandt, Sebastian Bamberg

“…The results, however, provide little empirical evidence that this design idea works as theoretically expected.DiscussionThis finding underlines the importance of explicitly testing the ability of conceptual design ideas to activate theoretically proposed MoA-BCT links before the large-scale implementation of that intervention in a costly field study.…”
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A Multistate Toggle Switch Defines Fungal Cell Fates and Is Regulated by Synergistic Genetic Cues. by Matthew Z Anderson, Allison M Porman, Na Wang, Eugenio Mancera, Denis Huang, Christina A Cuomo, Richard J Bennett

“…A model for tristability is proposed in which Wor1 and Efg1 are self-activating but mutually antagonistic transcription factors, thereby forming a symmetrical self-activating toggle switch. We explicitly test this model and show that ectopic expression of WOR1 can induce white-to-hybrid-to-opaque switching, whereas ectopic expression of EFG1 drives switching in the opposite direction, from opaque-to-hybrid-to-white cell states. …”
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Impact of Azithromycin on the Quorum Sensing-Controlled Proteome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. by J E Swatton, P W Davenport, E A Maunders, J L Griffin, K S Lilley, M Welch

“…One possibility that has been raised by earlier studies is that AZM inhibits quorum sensing (QS) by P. aeruginosa. To explicitly test this hypothesis the changes brought about by AZM treatment need to be compared with those associated with specific QS mutants grown alongside in the same growth medium, but this has not been done. …”
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Nonsurgical Rhinoplasty: A Modified Rino-4-Puntos Technique With Hyaluronic Acid Improves the Appearance of Nasal Septal Deviation by Fernando Silikovich, MD, George Kroumpouzos, MD, PhD, FAAD

“…However, no nonsurgical rhinoplasty procedure has been explicitly tested for improving the appearance of nasal septal deviation (NSD). …”
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Consistent patterns of LiDAR-derived measures of savanna vegetation complexity between wet and dry seasons by Zhengyang Wang, Jenia Singh, Andrew B. Davies

“…It is assumed that seasonal variation in vegetation structure is not substantive enough to affect landscape-level correlational analyses, but this assumption has never been explicitly tested in savanna ecosystems. Moreover, phenological differences in vegetation are thought to adversely affect the comparability of LiDAR measurements from different seasons, but these effects have seldom been tested and could depend on data resolution. …”
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Adaptation of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 by Pablo D. Valencia, Anabel de la Rosa-Gómez, Alan Ernesto Barba-Sánchez, Alejandrina Hernández-Posadas, María Jesús Hernandez-Jiménez

“…While shorter versions of the PCL-5 have been suggested, none have explicitly tested their unidimensionality or covered all seven aspects of the hybrid model. …”
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Leveraging how animals learn in conservation science: Behavioral responses of reintroduced bison to management interventions by Tana L. Verzuh, Karsten Heuer, Jerod A. Merkle

“…Although concepts of animal learning have been used to improve reintroduction programs, learning is not often explicitly tested or used as an indicator of program success. …”
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Variation in Lipid Peroxidation in the Ejaculates of Wild Banded Mongooses (<i>Mungos mungo</i>): A Test of the Oxidative Shielding Hypothesis by Graham Birch, Magali Meniri, Chris Mitchell, Francis Mwanguhya, Robert Businge, Solomon Ahabyona, Hazel J. Nichols, Michael A. Cant, Jonathan D. Blount

“…While there is some empirical evidence of oxidative shielding in females, there have been no explicit tests of this hypothesis in males, despite evidence of the oxidative costs to the male reproductive effort and the vulnerability of sperm cells to oxidative damage. …”
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The effects of neighborhood perceptions on response to a technology-assisted parenting intervention for adolescent substance use: protocol of a diversity supplement to parent SMART... by Zabin Patel-Syed, Sarah A. Helseth, Robert Rosales, Tim Janssen, Kelli Scott, Sara J. Becker

“…Discussion To date, few studies have explicitly tested how neighborhood affects response to TAIs for adolescent substance use. …”
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Phylogeographic breaks and how to find them: An empirical attempt at separating vicariance from isolation by distance in a lizard with restricted dispersal by Rancilhac, Loïs, Miralles, Aurélien, Geniez, Philippe, Mendez-Aranda, Daniel, Beddek, Menad, Brito, José Carlos, Leblois, Raphaël, Crochet, Pierre-André

“…These results highlight that phylogeographic breaks inferred from mitochondrial data should be further investigated using multi-locus data and explicit testing to rule out alternative processes generating discontinuities in mitochondrial diversity, including IBD. …”
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Cumulative behavioral and metabolic determinants of health are associated with higher inflammation-related indices: insights from a cross-sectional study (NHANES 2005–2018) by Anzhi Wang, Youping Zeng, Xiaoyan Gao, Xunge Lin, Shenshen Du, Ping Wang, Yun Pan

“…Multivariable-adjusted logistic regression models examined dose–response relationships, with trend analysis explicitly testing cumulative BDoH-MDoH interactions.ResultsThe cohort (mean age 44.3 ± 0.3 years; 52.4% male) demonstrated significant positive associations between adverse health determinants and inflammatory indices. …”
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