Open Access to Books – the Perspective of a Non-profit Infrastructure Provider by Eelco Ferwerda, Niels Stern, Ronald Snijder

“…OA book publishing has been explored in several pilot projects. Its current collection contains over 24,000 documents. …”
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Research on the Challenges and Optimizations in the Development of Carbon Futures Market by Tang Ziyi

“…As global warming increased, countries set carbon neutrality targets, which contributed to the rapid development of financial carbon markets. …”
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Practices, Challenges, and Future of Digital Transformation in Smallholder Agriculture: Insights from a Literature Review by Yuyang Yuan, Yong Sun

“…The digital transformation of smallholder agriculture can enhance productivity, increase farmers’ income, ensure food security, and promote sustainable rural development. …”
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Streptomyces rimosus-rich soil exposure alleviates depression-like behaviors by modulating neuroinflammation and synaptic plasticity in mice with stress by Jin Hee Kim, Jin Se Kim, Hyeyoon Eo, Sowon Yang, Choong Hwan Lee, Sin-Ae Park, Myung Sook Oh

“…Among the soil microbes, Streptomyces rimosus is known to produce geosmin, which have a unique odor and positive effects on mental status. In this context, this study aimed to investigate the effects of direct exposure to soil containing S. rimosus on depression-like behavior and depression-related factors in the mouse. …”
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Hamlet (Un-)Masked: SPAC’s Hamlet under COVID-19 Restrictions by Tomoka Tsukamoto, Ted Motohashi

“…More specifically, in the current context of the declining Western hegemony, symbolized by regional military conflicts and environmental degradation, among other crises, the urgency to freshly produce and interpret this play seems to be increasing. …”
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Constitution of police sciences in the Slovak Republic by M. Lisoň, A. Vaško

“…Therefore, the authors of this paper accept that the theoretical and methodological development of police sciences requires them to be confronted and independently dealt with the current state in the theory and methodology of science in the early 21st century, to be sensitive to the current development of the overall scientific atmosphere and independently and critically. …”
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Cross-country analysis of sustainable innovation and female entrepreneurship and their influence on the presence of women in managerial positions by Inna Alexeeva-Alexeev, Pilar Guaita-Fernandez, Cristina Mazas-Perez-Oleaga

“…Despite the global increase of women in business, there is still a very small proportion of female business leaders, although the distribution varies greatly by region and sector. …”
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Oral history as a citizen science tool to understand biodiversity loss and environmental changes: on firefly extirpation in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico by Danna Betsabe Rivera Ramírez, Cisteil X. Pérez-Hernández, Yaayé Arellanes-Cancino, Luis Mendoza-Cuenca

“…Morelians associated these phenomena with increased anthropogenic activities in the city, such as urban growth and a notable increase in pollution and deforestation. …”
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The Catalog of Aquatic Mollusca (Bivalvia and Gastropoda) in the Limnology Museum of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (COMULM) by Songül Biçer, Deniz Anıl Odabaşı, Buğra Öztürk

“…Objective: Natural History Museums are important organizations that increase the awareness of the public on biodiversity, nature, and its conservation. …”
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Measurement Stand, Method and Results of Composite Electrotechnical Pressboard-Mineral Oil Electrical Measurements by P. Rogalski

“…This allowed to reduce the step of measurement temperature change and thus to increase the accuracy of determining the activation energy of the measured parameters.The article also contains basic information on the analysis of the direct and alternating current electrical parameters of the composite electrotechnical pressboard-mineral oil-water nanoparticles. …”
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Oh, the places you can go … if you ace calculus: helping minoritized students succeed in undergraduate mathematics by Amira F. A. Ibrahim, Sarah E. McKellar, J. Frank Yates, Priti Shah

“…However, most of the literature on minoritized STEM students uses a deficit lens and does not consider the role of historical and systemic contexts on these students’ STEM achievement. As a product, current interventions used to increase academic achievement are limited in scope and do not consider the complex interplay between the numerous factors known to influence academic success. …”
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Précipitations intenses sur le Bassin Méditerranéen : quelles tendances entre 1950 et 2013 ? by Florian Raymond, Albin Ullmann, Pierre Camberlin

“…In the current context of global warming, changes in intense Mediterranean precipitation events remain less obvious, with no significant evolutions in the number and intensities of such events. …”
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ChatGPT's perspectives on real numbers, straight lines, and probability—A quantitative study on the influence of prompting by Frederik Dilling

“…The use of appropriate prompts can significantly increase or decrease the occurrence of perspectives. …”
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Сomposition, structure and functional properties of silver-tungsten composition electrochemistry coatings formed with the help of ultrasound by N. V. Bogush, A. A. Khmyl, L. K. Kushner, N. V. Dezhkunov

“…It is shown that application of ultrasound effect to electrodeposition allows increased level of permissible current density and provides.…”
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How STEM content is presented in mathematics textbooks from the U.S. and China: a comparative study by Shuhui Li, Lianghuo Fan, Jietong Luo

“…The enriched-level STEM content (i.e., full integration of in-depth and a wide range of content knowledge) was very limited. The PEP series contained more from engineering and agriculture, and presented more in the main text; the BIM series presented more in statistics and probability, placed more in chapter previews, had more moderate-level content (i.e., partial integration of content knowledge) and a balanced distribution of authentic and non-authentic contexts in enriched-level content. …”
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Analyzing outcomes for peripheral versus central administration of vasopressors: A narrative review by Jack Dryden, Jose Navas-Blanco

“…There is an emerging body of evidence to suggest that the peripheral administration of vasopressors is safe and effective in many clinical contexts and often superior to central administration. …”
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Factors associated with variation in single-dose albendazole pharmacokinetics: A systematic review and modelling analysis. by Charles Whittaker, Cédric B Chesnais, Sébastien D S Pion, Joseph Kamgno, Martin Walker, Maria-Gloria Basáñez, Michel Boussinesq

“…This variation might have implications for the efficacy of albendazole treatment, but current understanding of the factors associated with this variation remains incomplete.…”
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Campus microenvironmental factors and their effects on people’s outdoor thermal perceptions under different conditions by Yang Zhang, Shuangyan Feng, Jiaying Liu, Quanzhang Mo, Hui Yin, Jian Zhang

“…LAI was usually negatively correlated with TSV. The increase in LAI by 1 point contributed to the decrease of 0.171 in TSV (10:00, R2 = 0.295, p < 0.001, summer) and increasing the distance by 1 caused a rise of 0.076 in TSV (9:00, R2 = 0.367, p < 0.001, summer). …”
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Development of <i>OptiCon</i>: A Mathematical Model with a Graphical User Interface for Designing Sustainable Portland Cement Concrete Mixes with Budget Constraint by Angie Pineda, Rita Peñabaena-Niebles, Gilberto Martínez-Arguelles, Rodrigo Polo-Mendoza

“…The production of Portland Cement Concrete (PCC) generates significant environmental impacts that increase climate change and decrease people’s quality of life. …”
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CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF DRUGINDUCED INTERVALS QT AND QTC PROLONGATION by N. V. Furman, S. S. Shmatova

“…List of drugs that cause QT prolongation is constantly growing and being updated. The review contains current data on the clinical significance of the control of QT interval duration within drug therapy. …”
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