New Florida Foliage Plant Cultivar: 'Diamond Bay' Aglaonema by Richard J. Henny, Jianjun Chen, Terri A. Mellich, Mary S. Brennan

“…Brennan, describes this new foliage plant cultivar, its origin, description, performance and availability. …”
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Analysis effectiveness of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic by Yudis Ghifari, Diva Aulia Amanda, Angga Hadiapurwa

“…This article researches the effectiveness of online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on student's ability to participate in learning. …”
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Digital Words of Wisdom? Digital Storytelling with Older People – Ponderings of a (fairly) new PhD Research Candidate and a (growing) older Digital Storytelling practitioner by Jenkins Tricia

“…Digital Storytelling is over 20 years old, its roots in citizen activism, its techniques evolving from radical theatre and media arts and its primary driver an unwavering commitment to enabling people to find and share their stories, as well as to the valuing of each and every one of those stories. …”
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KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TOWARDS OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES by Liezel G. Mohillo, Angie R. Jalandoon, Dave E. Marcial

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Regulation of the Employment Status of Seafarers by Boris Jerman

“…The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) is of key importance in the legislation that has recently been adopted to improve the position of seafarers. Its greatest value is that it introduces port state control, which means that member states carry out inspections on ships arriving at their ports to ensure that they comply with its provisions. …”
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Novel histone deacetylase-5 inhibitor T2943 exerts an anti-depressive effect in mice by enhancing GRID1 expression by Juan Du, Ruyun Liu, Lin Ma, Yue Liu, Wei Wei, Ning Liu, Qiuhua Cao, Jianqiang Yu

“…This modification loosens the chromatin structure, allowing transcription factors to bind to the Grid1 promoter region and enhance its transcription and expression. Upregulated GRID1 mediates signal transmission in neural pathways, restores the regenerative ability of hippocampal nerve cells, promotes nerve growth and synaptic formation, increases synapse numbers, and enhances synaptic function. …”
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Urdu Lip Reading Systems for Digits in Controlled and Uncontrolled Environment by Amanullah Baloch, Mushtaq Ali, Lal Hussain, Touseef Sadiq, Badr S. Alkahtani

“…Results indicate that the LipNet-based 2D CNN-LSTM model achieves overall 92.15 % high accuracy in all conditions, but the Hybrid model demonstrates impressive generalization with an overall 90.00 % accuracy on unseen data due to its enhanced spatiotemporal feature extraction capability. …”
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An analysis of the Policy of Increasing the Salaries of Government Employees Based on the Framework of Kingdon's Multiple Streams (Case Study of Budget Law 1401) by Seyyed Mojtaba Shahraeini, Heidar Najafi, Seyyedamir Abbaszade, Mahdi Khosravi, Iman Akbari

“…Additionally, the findings reveal that although the Majlis Research Center's role as a policy entrepreneur in this area was not successful during the approval phase, its efforts led to the amendment of the policy in the revised 1401 budget law, thereby restoring the rights of national and military employees and retirees. …”
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Insect Pest Management on Turfgrass by Eileen A. Buss, Adam G. Dale

“…The intensity of turfgrass insect management largely depends on the turf species, variety, and its intended use. This revised 20-page fact sheet describes how to manage a variety of insect pests including armyworms, bermudagrass mite, cutworms, fire ants, ground pearls, hunting billbug, mole crickets, scales/mealybugs, southern chinch bug, twolined spittlebugs, tropical sod webworm, and white grubs. …”
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Introducing ‘trident’: a graphical interface for discriminating groups using dental microwear texture analysis by Thiery, Ghislain, Francisco, Arthur, Louail, Margot, Berlioz, Emilie, Blondel, Cécile, Brunetière, Noël, Ramdarshan, Anusha, Walker, Axelle EC, Merceron, Gildas

“…It also ranks any number of variables using five different methods, displays the results in multivariate analyses, and exports the results into R, providing access to its large asset of libraries. We then present these features in three case studies, showing how trident helps answer questions commonly investigated by paleontologists and archaeologists. …”
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Supply chain integration-performance nexus in emerging & developing economies: a systematic review by Goitom Abera Baisa, Dante Benjamin Matellini, Ian D. Jenkinson, Chia-Hsun Chang

“…The study’s broader applicability may have been constrained by its exclusive focus on studies conducted within the context of EDEs.…”
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A lipidated peptide derived from the C-terminal tail of the vasopressin 2 receptor shows promise as a new β-arrestin inhibitor by Rebecca L. Brouillette, Christine E. Mona, Michael Desgagné, Malihe Hassanzedeh, Émile Breault, Frédérique Lussier, Karine Belleville, Jean-Michel Longpré, Michel Grandbois, Pierre-Luc Boudreault, Élie Besserer-Offroy, Philippe Sarret

“…In addition, we showed that ARIP was unable to recruit β-arrestins to the cell membrane by itself, and that it did not interfere with G protein signalling. …”
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The matricellular protein Fibulin-5 regulates β-cell proliferation in an autocrine/paracrine manner by Tomoko Okuyama, Takahiro Tsuno, Ryota Inoue, Setsuko Fukushima, Mayu Kyohara, Anzu Matsumura, Daisuke Miyashita, Kuniyuki Nishiyama, Yusuke Takano, Yu Togashi, Makiko Meguro-Horike, Shin-ichi Horike, Tatsuya Kin, A.M. James Shapiro, Hiromi Yanagisawa, Yasuo Terauchi, Jun Shirakawa

“…However, much uncertainty remains regarding the function of the ECM and its components in β-cells. Here, we describe the role of Fbln5 in β-cell replication. …”
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The Impact of Business Analytics on Collaborative Advantage: the mediating role of managing transaction costs by Letícia de Sousa Milhomem, Larissa Alves Sincorá, Marcos Paulo Valadares de Oliveira, Marcelo Moll Brandão

“…Furthermore, based on the proposed model, it is possible to revisit the Transaction Costs Theory, discussing its assumptions in the current scenario marked by the high production of data and information in corporations, suggesting that business analytics is a directly influencing element in management of transaction costs.…”
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Federico de Madrazo y los figurines de Giovanna la Pazza para la actriz Adelaide Ristori by Juan Ramón Sánchez del Peral y López

“…Dos cartas sin publicar conservadas en el Fondo Madrazo del Archivo del Museo del Prado documentan la colaboración de Federico de Madrazo con la actriz italiana Adelaide Ristori (1822-1906), La Marquise, para la puesta en escena en España de la obra teatral Giovanna la Pazza (Juana la Loca). …”
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REVIEW OF SOLAR AIR HEATERS EMBEDDED WITH PHASE-CHANGE MATERIALS (PCM) FOR BETTER PERFORMANCES by VISARION-CĂTĂLIN IFRIM, TEODOR POP, CIPRIAN BEJENAR

“…This paper presents a summary of the literature on solar air heating systems embedded with materials that have the ability to retain thermal energy, during periods of maximum intensity of solar radiation and its release, when solar energy is reduced or missing for a period of time. …”
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Indonesia's Land Bank Authority: Aligning with Agrarian Law or Facilitating Land Grabbing? by Nur Hidayani Alimuddin, Dyah Ayu Widowati, Riezka Eka Mayasari, Rizki Febrisari, Jusafri Jusafri

“…The study's novelty lies in its focus on assessing the compatibility of land bank policies with Indonesia's agrarian legal framework through the lens of legal utilitarianism. …”
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Phenolic acids from Anisopus mannii modulates phosphofructokinase 1 to improve glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes: A double-blind, randomized, clinical trial by Peter U. Amadi, Justice O. Osuoha, Chidi N. Ekweogu, Suha J. Jarad, Esienanwan E. Efiong, Prince C. Odika, Chioma Ejiofor, Oluchi Aloy-Amadi, Govind S. Gill, Chiamaka W. Adumekwe, Ailun Gaowa, Dawei Zhang, Barbora de Courten, Emmanuel N. Agomuo

“…Among other glycolytic enzymes, in vitro, PhAM counteracted the binding of sodium orthovanadate to phosphofructokinase 1 (PFK-1), improving its activities. In a rat model of diet-induced diabetes, PhAM monotherapy reduced HbA1c by an average of 0.63 % and fasting plasma glucose by 25 mg/dl. …”
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Effects of the Changes of Load and Flue Gas Temperature on the Emission of Particulate Matter from the Coal-fired Unit by Yujia Wu, Zhenyao Xu, Siqi Liu, Minghui Tang, Shengyong Lu

“…The effect of unit load and flue gas temperature changes on monocomponent C-N and C-P was limited; however, the effect on its total emission concentration was consistent with that on CPM. …”
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Grapeleaf Skeletonizer, Harrisina americana (Guerin-Meneville) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae) by Frank W. Mead, Susan E. Webb

“…It is noticed primarily because of its defoliation of grapevines in home gardens. This document is EENY-191 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular 92), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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