Task Differences and Prosociality; Investigating Pet Dogs' Prosocial Preferences in a Token Choice Paradigm. by Rachel Dale, Rachel Dale, Mylène Quervel-Chaumette, Ludwig Huber, Friederike Range, Sarah Marshall-Pescini

“…However, in contrast to our previous bar-pulling experiment, we could not exclude social facilitation as an underlying motive in the current task. We propose this difference in results between tasks may be related to increased task complexity in the token choice paradigm, making it harder for dogs to discriminate between the test and social facilitation conditions. …”
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Primary methods of internationalisation of higher legal education by A. I. Gorylev, E. V. Kalinina

“…To date, an understanding has been reached of the need to internationalise higher education in the context of globalization to increase the competitiveness of the Russian higher education system, as evidenced by the Federal project to maximise the competitive position of Russian universities among the world’s leading scientific and educational centres (The Russian Academic Excellence Project 5-100). …”
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Cognitive Rehabilitation: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Relevance of OTPF by Asha Vas, Anna Luedtke, Eryn Ortiz, Natalie Mackie, Samantha Gonzalez

“…There is increased awareness of the long-term cognitive sequelae of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). …”
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Identification of an intrinsic determinant critical for maspin subcellular localization and function. by Sijana H Dzinic, Alexander Kaplun, Xiaohua Li, Margarida Bernardo, Yonghong Meng, Ivory Dean, David Krass, Paul Stemmer, Namhee Shin, Fulvio Lonardo, Shijie Sheng

“…Evidence from cellular fractionation followed by immunological and proteomic protein identification, combined with the evidence from fluorescent imaging of endogenous proteins, fluorescent protein fusion constructs, as well as bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) showed that the increased nuclear enrichment of maspin(D346E) was, at least in part, due to its increased affinity to HDAC1. …”
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Comparative Life Cycle Assessment and Costing of Biogas Direct Methanation and Water Scrubbing Upgrade by Giuseppe Piso, Erasmo Mancusi, Hamad H. Shah, Francesco Pepe, Piero Bareschino

“…By integrating biogas production with a methanation system, a net increase in biomethane yield and productivity can be achieved while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. …”
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“Sounding the Loneliness Alarm”: Loneliness Problematized in a Nordic Welfare State by Elian E. Jentoft, Julia Köhler-Olsen

“…The authors argue a public health approach to loneliness may unintentionally increase othering and create anxiety in those experiencing it.…”
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Metacognitive Online Reading Strategies among Pre-Service EFL Teachers in Indonesia by Heri Mudra

“…The most frequent levels of strategies included guessing the contents, scrolling through the texts, associating schemata and current information, using context clues, using tables or pictures, pausing and thinking about the contents, using printed texts, and translating the contents into Indonesian. …”
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The development of a Polish pre-literacy manual based on action research evidence by Edward Gillian, Bogna Ferensztajn, Bożena Franków-Czerwonko, Urszula Paradowska

“…The aim of the study was also to increase children’s educational chances through an intervention program addressing pre-literacy concept deficit. …”
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CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR OF PRODUCTS OBTAINED FROM MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS: A SEGMENTATION BASED ON FREQUENCY AND PURPOSE OF THEIR USE by Roxana-Larisa CADAR, Antonio AMUZA, Diana Elena DUMITRAȘ, Cristina Bianca POCOL

“…The consumption behaviour for products obtained from medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) has been little studied, until nowadays, in Romania. In the current context, in which there can be noticed an accentuated increase of these products’ supply on the market and the consumers’ concern with a healthy lifestyle, this study has aimed at a segmentation of the consumers of MAPs products, according to their frequency, purpose of use and sociodemographic features. …”
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Determining Impacts on Non-Performing Loan Ratio in Romania by Adriana Daniela CIUREL, Tiberiu STOICA

“…This paper aims to investigate some of the determinants of non-performing loans in the Romanian banking sector by means of Vector Error Correction (VEC). The increase in non-performing loans is the most relevant factor that financial institutions face in order to maintain an adequate level of solvency in the context of current economic decline. …”
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Influence of f-d exchange interaction on the properties of nanoscale structures based on Fe, Co, Ni metals and rem oxides. A review by A. M. Kasumov, A. I. Dmitriev, K. A. Korotko, V. M. Karavaeva, K. O. Vyshnevska, A. I. Ievtushenko

“…And this, in turn, leads to an increase in magnetization-dependent properties, such as galvanomagnetic, magneto-optical, and current-voltage properties. …”
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Requirements elicitation for a health monitoring mobile application: a participatory design approach with clinicians and researchers by Erika Jarva, Tiia Yrttiaho, Minna Isomursu

“… Participatory methods have been introduced in healthcare to increase the adoption and acceptance of digital solutions for disease management and health promotion. …”
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Thermally radiative water-based hybrid nanofluid with nanoparticles and gyrotactic microorganisms past a stretching surface with convective conditions and porous media by Humaira Yasmin, Rawan Bossly, Fuad S. Alduais, Afrah Al-Bossly, Anwar Saeed

“…The greater magnetic, Brownian motion, heat source, thermal radiation factors, and thermophoresis factors have increased the heat transfer rate. The greater Schmidt number and Brownian motion factor have increased the Sherwood number while it has been reduced by the greater thermophoresis factor.…”
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Optimum ludnościowe jako remedium na zagrożenia demograficzne? Konfrontacja perspektywy globalnej i lokalnej by Wojciech JANICKI

“…The third finally focus on the search for an answer about optimal population for the Earth, generally indicating a value much lower than the current population of the planet. This paper juxtaposes the main streams of research on these three issues, in search of an answer to the question of the extent to which the population optimum is capable of ensuring the Earth's long-term stability in the context of the needs of ecological and geopolitical balance. …”
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Geomorfologisch, geoarcheologisch, paleoecologisch en paleobotanisch onderzoek van de havenuitbreidingswerken op de linker Scheldeoever ten noorden van Antwerpen by Lieselotte Meersschaert, Jean-Pierre Van Roeyen, Cyriel Verbruggen

“…Together with these industrial adaptations, scientific insight about the archaeological context and the knowledge about the palaeolandscape increased.The emphasis of the research now lies on the localization and mapping of archaeological sites and the reconstruction of the Quaternary landscape. …”
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Femmes et transformation artisanale des poissons pélagiques au Sénégal : un secteur à bout de souffle by El Hadj Bara Dème, El Hadji Sow, Lovelie Licette, Nogaye Dia, Pierre Failler

“…All these elements seriously compromise the sustainability and the economy of the artisanal processing of pelagic fish. In the current context of promoting women's employment and their economic empowerment, the artisanal processing segment must be supported by strong public policies for the sustainability of the activity.…”
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Investigating How Policies and Other Conditions Contribute to Influencing Agricultural GHG Emissions in the EU by Francesco Galioto, Irene Criscuoli, Andrea Martelli, Maria Valentina Lasorella, Ilaria Falconi, Danilo Marandola, Giovanni Dara Guccione, Francesca Varia

“…Based on these facts, we introduce the context of implementation of the 2014–2022 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), within which many interventions were designed to improve sustainability and increase competitiveness, and we formulate hypotheses on how CAP instruments can contribute differently to influencing GHG emissions from agriculture. …”
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Data-Driven Proactive Early Warning of Grid Congestion Probability Based on Multiple Time Scales by Haobo Fu, Ruizhuo Wang, Bingxu Zhai, Yuanzhuo Li, Pengyuan Li, Rui Zhang, Haoyuan He, Siyang Liao

“…With the development of new power systems, the increased interactive demand on the load side, and the high proportion of renewable energy sources on the power side, grid congestion problems due to increased system uncertainty are becoming more frequent. …”
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The Use of Potato Aerial Parts in the Diet of Fattening Male lambs as a Complete Feed Block by Saleh Salehi, Hamid Reza Bahmani, Shiva Mafakheri, Hassan Fazaeli, Ataollah Rahimi

“…Considering the competition between humans and animals for many food items and the limitation of basic production resources, and on the other hand, the high levels of waste and waste in the agricultural sector, the optimal use of these wastes can play a significant role in the prosperity of animal husbandry and reducing the price of animal feed, and finally Increase livestock production. On the other hand, it is not possible to allocate more land and water for the production of animal feed items than the current level, so the use and exploitation of agricultural by-products is one of the necessities of the animal husbandry industry. …”
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Kyrgyz SSR During the Great Patriotic War: Demographic Processes and Challenges by Shaiyrkul Batyrbaeva, Anara Karyeva

“…By 1943, natural growth became negative, which was accompanied by an increase in migration losses caused by the return of evacuees and a general increase in mortality. …”
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