La biodiversidad y los servicios ecosistémicos en sistemas agroecológicos. Una revisión by Wendy Mercedes Ramírez-Suárez, Jorge Carlos López-Chouza, María de los Ángeles Flores-Acosta, Saray Sánchez-Cárdenas, Pedro Lázaro Rodríguez-Morejón

“…There is a strong interrelationship between the functioning of biodiversity and the development of ecosystem processes that will subsequently form the basis of production, based on the richness and spatial and temporal variability of species, their performance in the complexity of ecosystems and the maintenance of ecosystem services at different scales.…”
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A Multi-objective Transmission Expansion Planning Strategy: A Bilevel Programming Method by S. Zolfaghari-Moghaddam, T. Akbari

“…This paper describes a methodology for transmission expansion planning (TEP) within a deregulated electricity market. Two objective functions including investment cost (IC) and congestion cost (CC) are considered. …”
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Exploring individual and organizational contributors to workplace deviant behavior by D. Daryono, R. Gunawan, U. Udin

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Workplace deviant behavior, as a manifestation of employee conduct, can exert adverse effects on an organization, posing challenges to its overall functioning and well-being. Understanding the underlying mechanism is essential in offering insights to enhance risk mitigation and promote a positive organizational culture for sustained success. …”
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A Robust Multi-Objective Evolutionary Framework for Artificial Island Construction Scheduling Under Dynamic Constraints by Tianju Zheng, Liping Sun, Mingwei Li, Guangyao Yuan, Shuqi Li

“…MACEMGA combines cooperative coevolution, adaptive dynamic weighting, dynamic penalty functions, and advanced genetic operators to navigate the solution space efficiently and identify Pareto optimal schedules. …”
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Nitrogen deposition favors later leaf senescence in woody species by Jian Wang, Xiaoyue Wang, Josep Peñuelas, Hao Hua, Chaoyang Wu

“…Changes in climate conditions and nitrogen deposition levels jointly controlled the direction of date of foliar senescence trends (advance or delay). The spatial variability of nitrogen deposition effects can be related to plant traits (e.g., nitrogen resorption and use efficiencies), climatic conditions, and soil properties. …”
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ClimKern v1.2: a new Python package and kernel repository for calculating radiative feedbacks by T. P. Janoski, T. P. Janoski, T. P. Janoski, T. P. Janoski, T. P. Janoski, I. Mitevski, R. J. Kramer, M. Previdi, L. M. Polvani, L. M. Polvani, L. M. Polvani

“…The radiative kernel method is commonly used to efficiently compute individual climate feedbacks from climate model or reanalysis output. …”
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COBRAme: A computational framework for genome-scale models of metabolism and gene expression. by Colton J Lloyd, Ali Ebrahim, Laurence Yang, Zachary A King, Edward Catoiu, Edward J O'Brien, Joanne K Liu, Bernhard O Palsson

“…This reformulated model gives functionally identical solutions to previous E. coli ME-models while using 1/6 the number of free variables and solving in less than 10 minutes, a marked improvement over the 6 hour solve time of previous ME-model formulations. …”
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Ectopic expression of vaccinia virus E3 and K3 cannot rescue ectromelia virus replication in rabbit RK13 cells. by Erin S Hand, Sherry L Haller, Chen Peng, Stefan Rothenburg, Adam R Hersperger

“…However, there is individual variability in the range of species able to be productively infected. …”
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Public Procurement Reforms and Service Delivery in Rubanda District Uganda. by Niwagaba, Ivan

“…This underlay on the following objectives that is to assess the effect of compliance with procurement rules and procedures on service delivery, evaluate the relationship between procurement forms and service delivery and assess the effect of staffing and functionality of procurement committees on service delivery in Rubanda District. …”
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Optimization of Fused Deposition Modeling Parameters for Mechanical Properties of Polylactic Acid Parts Based on Kriging and Cuckoo Search by Yuan Yang, Yiyang Wang, Bowen Xue, Changxu Wang, Bo Yang

“…As an emerging rapid manufacturing technology, 3D printing has been widely applied in numerous fields such as aerospace, shipbuilding, and wind power, by virtue of its advantage in efficiently fabricating components with complex structures and integrated functions. …”
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Diseño, validación y valoración de competencias del gestor de actividades físicas y deportivas (Design, validation and assessment of physical activity and sports manager competenci... by Daniel Carranza-Bautista, Manel Valcarce-Torrente

“…However, in the working world of the sports manager there is a diversification of the functions, responsibilities, roles, objectives, tasks, and activities that are required in the profession, that have not made it very clear which are the main competencies that must be developed to achieve success. …”
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Utilization of Ultrasonic-Assisted Extraction for Bioactive Compounds from Floral Sources by Sepidar Seyyedi-Mansour, Pauline Donn, Maria Carpena, Franklin Chamorro, Paula Barciela, Ana Perez-Vazquez, Ana Olivia S. Jorge, Miguel A. Prieto

“…The increasing use of floral sources in manufacturing dietary supplements and functional foods, coupled with rapid advancements in these sectors, indicates significant potential for the application of UAE. …”
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Examining the Factors Affecting the Use of Crypto Assets as Foreign Payment and Investment Instruments: A Quantitative Study by Güneş Yılmaz, Tayfur Süleyman Koç

“…Along with path coefficients, f² and q² effect sizes were also analyzed to examine the interaction between the variables. …”
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Impact of short-term aircraft noise on cardiovascular disease risk in the area surrounding London Heathrow airport: the RISTANCO epidemiological study by Xiangpu Gong, Nicole Itzkowitz, Calvin Jephcote, Kathryn Adams, Glory O Atilola, John Gulliver, Marta Blangiardo, Anna Hansell

“…To identify areas with high variability in aircraft noise exposure (due to changes in flight paths because of wind direction and airport operations), we used coefficients of variation (CoV). …”
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Reliability of the Cutting Alignment Scoring Tool (CAST) to Assess Trunk and Limb Alignment During a 45-Degree Side-Step Cut by Lauren S Butler, Eryn K Milian, Amie DeVerna, Kevin Latz, Henry B Ellis, Alexa R Martinez, Kristin Hayden, Christian Gerstenkorn, Sara C Carpenito, Charles W Wyatt, Dai Sugimoto

“…Moderate kappa coefficients were found for trunk lean (k= 0.632) and fair kappa coefficients were noted for dynamic and static valgus (k=0.462 and k= 0.533 respectively)…”
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A MODEL OF AGE–STRUCTURED POPULATION UNDER STOCHASTIC PERTURBATION OF DEATH AND BIRTH RATES by Maxim A. Alshanskiy

“…Under consideration is construction of a model of age-structured population reflecting random oscillations of the death and birth rate functions. We arrive at an Itô-type difference equation in a Hilbert space of functions which can not be transformed into a proper Itô equation via passing to the limit procedure due to the properties of the operator coefficients. …”
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A Mixture of Clayton, Gumbel, and Frank Copulas: A Complete Dependence Model by M. A. Boateng, A. Y. Omari-Sasu, R. K. Avuglah, N. K. Frempong

“…The corresponding density and conditional distribution functions of the derived models for two random variables, as well as an estimator for the proportion parameter associated with the proposed model, are also derived. …”
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Spatial Differentiation and Correlation of Ecological Stoichiometric Characteristics of Cynodon dactylon and Soil in the Water-level Fluctuation Zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir... by XU Liwen, ZHANG Yuewei, JIAN Chen, ZHANG Yuanyuan, WANG Xiaofeng

“…However, the variability in C/N and C/P ratios in roots and stems were slightly stronger than that in leaves, suggesting that C. dactylon has evolved a strategy for maintaining stable physiological functions in leaves. 4) There were significant correlations of the nutrient contents between C. dactylon and soil, with the nitrogen supply of soil being the key factor influencing the variation of nutrient contents in C. dactylon. …”
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Social capital as a determinant of quality of life in greek cancer patients: a cross-sectional study by Athanasios Pitis, Maria Diamantopoulou, Aspasia Panagiotou, Dimitrios Papageorgiou, Foteini Tzavella

“…The association between QoL and Social capital scales was checked via Spearman correlation coefficients (rho).ResultsGreater total score in Social capital scale was significantly associated with greater overall QoL (β = 0.005; p < 0.001), better Emotional functioning (β = 0.004; p = 0.004) and better Social functioning (β = 0.009; p = 0.002),with lower Nausea and vomiting (β = −0.017; p = 0.015), Insomnia (β = −0.014; p = 0.002), Appetite loss (β = −0.010; p = 0.018) and Constipation symptoms (β = −0.009; p = 0.047).ConclusionThere was a strong association between a greater social capital score and the quality of life of Greek cancer patients, indicating that higher levels of social capital are associated with improved quality of life.…”
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Application of Polylogarithms to the Approximate Solution of the Inhomogeneous Telegraph Equation for the Distortionless Line by P. G. Lasy, I. N. Meleshko

“…Solutions to both problems can be found by separating the variables in the form of a series of trigonometric functions of the line point with time-dependent coefficients. …”
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