Routes to Improve Arteriovenous Fistula Formation for Haemodialysis by M. V. Timerbulatov, D. R. Ibragimov

“…Mean time-to-relapse was 6.05 ± 1.15 (95 % CI: 3.8–8.3) months.Discussion. The results obtained suggest the accessory hydraulic balloon dilation method useful prior to forming anastomosis to provide for the vein mechanical expansion, outflow capacity assessment and prevent venous torsion at preparation steps. …”
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Guatemalan Spanish in contact: Prosody and intonation by Yolanda Congosto Martín

“…The main objective of this project is to describe and compare the prosody of three geographical areas, Los Angeles, Mexico and Guatemala, that are closely related historically, socially and linguistically due to the contact established over time and the coexistence of people and cultures. …”
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Colorimetric characterization of the Pollen Flora Collected by Apis mellifera L. in the Laguna Oca and Herraduras from the Paraguay River Biosphere Reserve, Formosa (Argentina) by Mirta Cabrera, Víctor Manuel Dávalos, Eber Eduardo Santander

“…Monofloral pollen loads were identified of native tree, shrub, and herb species. The bee foraging behavior was observed in the diversity of the species collected in the monofloral loads during the spring, whereas three bifloral loads and a two multifloral loads were observed in summer and autumn. …”
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Staphylococcus hominis Infective Endocarditis Presenting with Embolic Splenic and Renal Infarcts and Spinal Discitis by David Vasconcellos, Bruce Weng, Patrick Wu, Gary Thompson, Made Sutjita

“…Staphylococcus hominis (S. hominis) is a Gram-positive, coagulase-negative bacteria that occurs as a normal commensal organism on the skin and may rarely cause native valve endocarditis (NVE). We present a 62-year-old male with type 2 diabetes mellitus, coronary artery disease, and hypertension presenting with fever and abdominal pain. …”
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Pomegranate Peel Powder: An Effective and Environmentally Friendly Tool for Developing Latent Fingerprints on Nonporous Surfaces by R. S. Darshan, Vaibhav Sharma, Anuj Sharma, Abhishek R. Rai, Poonam Kumari, Archana Gautam, Anubhav Singh, Vaibhav Mishra, Kumud Kant Awasthi, Mahipal Singh Sankhla

“…Pomegranate peel powder, made from the rind of the fruit that is native to the Middle East and South Asia, offers a natural alternative. …”
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Reminder and Online Booking Features at Android-Based Motorcycle Repair Shop Marketplace by Wayan Dony Mahendra, I Made Sukarsa, AA.Kt. Agung Cahyawan

“…The results of the UAT test (user acceptance testing) from 20 users show 55,8% answered agree to the display, features and flow of the system, 39,5% answered strongly agree to the three question parameters, and 4,7% answered disagree with the flow and display of the system.…”
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Conservation refugees and environmental dispossession in 21st century critical Geography by Scott William Hoefle

“…This kind of nature reserve is steeped in bio-centric environmental ethics which distill nature and dispossess native peoples and poor peasants. The latter are considered to be anthropic agents who are criminalized, removed and turned into conservation refugees in order to cleanse the landscape of (poor rural) human presence. …”
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Una ucronía encarnada: Nación vacuna, de Fernanda García Lao by Meri Torras Francès

“…In turn, the second, more extensive part [sections 2 to 4], focuses on the book and outlines three axes of analysis: first, the way in which it updates the uchronia; secondly, the choice of the narrative voice that imposes a certain perspective on what is narrated, as well as limited access to information; and, thirdly, the centrality of the body that is, also that of the textual corpus and the maxim that moves García Lao's writing: exploration, which gives such genuine vitality to her texts. …”
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Some Chemical Properties of Infrared Dried Neem Fruit in Turkey by Tunahan Erdem

“…In the world, four different species of tree grows native in India, Burma, Pakistan, South Asia, and Australia. …”
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The impact of incidental learning on the acquisition of the sound /p/ by Arabic-speaking EFL learners by Altakhaineh Abdel Rahman Mitib, Alsaraireh Mohammad Yousef, Alhendi Hiba

“…The learning exercises consisted of explaining the stress rules and listening to native speakers uttering the words, followed by the participants’ repetition. …”
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GENDER AND ACCENT IN THE PERCEPTION OF ENGLISH SYLLABIC CONSONANTS VS. SCHWA by Inmaculada de Jesús Arboleda Guirao, Rafael Monroy Casas

“…Our aim is to find out whether gender and accent play a significant role in the perception of potential syllabic consonants, a topic which needs further research (see Takefuta & Black 1966; Bloom, Moore-Schoenmakers & Masataka 1999). Three females indentified a schwa/syllabic consonant in 800 words uttered in specific contextx by 80 non-rhotic native newsreaders (40m/40f) from the BBC Learning English Website. …”
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Current Linguistic Situation in Village of Sebyan-Kyuyol in Kobyai District of Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) by L. O. Zakharova

“…It is shown that the linguistic situation is three-component, with the Even language being dominant but facing some challenges from Russian and Yakut languages in certain spheres, as well as among the younger generation who show less interest in their native language. …”
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Spanish word generation dataset from structured consonant prompts by Jon Andoni Duñabeitia

“…Abstract This dataset captures responses from a lexical generation task designed to examine word production under structural constraints. Native Spanish speakers were presented with three-consonant strings and instructed to generate valid five-to-seven-letter Spanish words by inserting only vowels, maintaining the consonants in their original relative order. …”
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Central Kurdish Operators in Role and Reference Grammar by Farzad Azizi, Payman Rezvani

“…It is worth mentioning here that the researchers are native speakers of CKD, and their intuition plays an important role in describing and explaining the results, pointing the most important ones as: CKD’s operators appear around the syntactic structure of Nucleus in two morphological forms of prefix and suffix, which in turn, are presented in three lexical forms of modal verbs, linking verbs and phonologically null morpheme. …”
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CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOG AS A PEDAGOGICAL INSTRUMENT OF MULTICULTURAL AWARENESS. by L. N. Kozina

“…Consequently, the cross-cultural dialogue and its further reflection hel p to develo p active life attitude and readiness for  professional activity in a situation of multicultural diversity; on the other hand, it develo ps students’ ethnic identity, em pathy, and ability to re present the native culture. The theoretical  part of the research  presents a three-stage formation model of the cross-culture dialog aimed at develo ping a multicultural  personality; the  practical  part describes a seminar on the cross-culture dialog with students s pecializing in the Theory and Methods of English Language Teaching at Tumen State University. …”
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Mother Tongue, Mother's Influence: Exploring Language Choices in Pakistani Famalies in KSA by Hadiqa Malik

“…By employing snowball sampling, the data has been collected from three Pakistani families residing in Saudi Arabia for more than six years. …”
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The ‘Conquering’ Soldier-Merchants of the Balkans: Colonization, State Interventionism and Separatist Claims in the Danubian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia (18th-19th Cen... by Aysel Yıldız

“…It aims at revealing complex relations between agents on three levels: local (voivodes, boyars, commoners), the regional (Janissaries and other soldiery) and the imperial; while also examining the influx of Muslims into the Principalities and its consequences as an interplay between various claims of trading rights, provisionist policies implemented by the imperial centre and the autonomous desires of the native nobility. …”
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Immigrants’ consumption choices: evidence from Korea’s food service industry by Yinhua Quan, Youngjune Kim, Jeongbin Im

“…Abstract This study addresses three key questions: Are immigrants positively associated with the food service industry? …”
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A high-speed interconnection mechanism based on multi-hosts memory mapping by ZHANG Anqi, ZHANG Libin

“…The interconnection mechanism provides three different protocols for transferring data, including inline, short, and long protocols. …”
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The expression of certainty and uncertainty with complex structures based on the Kabardian-Circassian, Russian and English languages by Rita B. Kenetova, Alberd T. Boziev, Zagirat T. Khashozheva

“…The conducted research allows us to conclude that the category of certainty/uncertainty is represented in the three languages studied, however, the ways of expressing this category differ. …”
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