Germination, Growth and Development of Mangifera indica L. Varieties Used as Rootstocks on Different Substrates by Ousmane NDIAYE, Boubacar CAMARA, Antoine SAMBOU, Saliou NDIAYE

“… Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is a tree of the family Anacardiaceae, native to southern Asia, widely cultivated in tropical countries for its fruit, the mango. …”
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Fine-scale spatial point patterns of Stipa breviflora population at different “Soil Island” habitat sizes in desert steppe by XUE Yi, WANG Xing, SONG Naiping, SUI Jinming, CHEN Juan

“…In order to study the influence of different “Soil Island” habitat areas on the spatial pattern of Stipa breviflora, we chose three large “Soil Island” (200-300 m²), three middle “Soil Island”(about 100 m²) and three small “Soil Island”(about 50 m²) habitats, and set one 2 m×2 m sample plot in each “Soil Island” in September 2016. …”
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Spatial Reconfiguration of Living Stems and Snags Reveals Stand Structural Simplification During Moso Bamboo (<i>Phyllostachys edulis</i> (Carrière) J.Houz.) Invasion into Coniferb... by Xi Chen, Xiumei Zhou, Songheng Jin, Shangbin Bai

“…On the scale of 0–10 m, the spatial pattern of standing stems changed from random and weak aggregation distribution to strong aggregation distribution and then to weak aggregation and random distribution in the three stands, while the overall distribution of snags in the three stands was random. …”
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Exploring the impact of noise, language familiarity, and experimental settings on emotion recognition by Terry Amorese, Marialucia Cuciniello, Anna Alterio, Daniele Pepe, Odette Scharenborg, Gennaro Cordasco, Anna Esposito

“…IntroductionThis work aims to understand the contextual factors affecting speech emotion recognition (SER), more specifically the current research investigates whether the identification of vocal emotional expressions of anger, fear, sadness, joy, and neutrality is affected by three factors: (a) the experimental setting, exploring vocal emotion recognition in both a controlled, soundproof laboratory and a more natural listening environment; (b) the effect of stimuli’s background noise: sentences were presented with three different levels of noise to gradually increase the level of difficulty: one clear (no noise) condition and two noise conditions; (c) language familiarity, since the stimuli comprised Italian sentences, and participants were both native (Italians) and Dutch speakers, who did not know Italian.MethodDutch and Italian participants were involved in a vocal emotion recognition task carried out in two different experimental settings (realistic vs. laboratory). …”
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Clinical analysis of 206 cases of hemorrhage complications after percutaneous renal biopsy by SHI Jie, ZHANG Jing, LIU Wei

“…Objective To investigate whether hemostatic drugs can effectively reduce hemorrhage complications during the time of percutaneous native renal biopsy. Methods 206 cases undergoing percutaneous native renal biopsy in our department were collected in the period of 2010. 1-2017. 8. 101 cases were treated with hemostatic drugs(case group),and 105 cases were not treated with any hemostatic drugs. …”
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Alternatives to Invasive Plants Commonly Found in South Florida Landscapes by Gary W. Knox, Sandra B. Wilson, Zhanao Deng, Rosanna Freyre

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Comprehensibility and Prosody Ratings for Pronunciation Software Development by Paul Warren, Irina Elgort, David Crabbe

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Mycorrhizal fungi affect growth of an endemic bunchgrass in pine savannas by Adele Kimball, Debriana Love, Victoria Lopez‐Scarim, April Zee, Raelene M. Crandall, Elena Karlsen‐Ayala, Carolina Baruzzi, Abid Al‐Agely, Jennifer M. Fill

“…Abstract Planting or sowing native perennial bunchgrasses is a common restoration practice in grasslands disturbed by agricultural or forestry operations. …”
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The effects of dexmedetomidine on thiol/disulphide homeostasis in coronary artery bypass surgery: a randomized controlled trial by Yusuf Ozguner, Savaş Altınsoy, Gökçen Kültüroğlu, Dilek Unal, Julide Ergil, Salim Neşelioğlu, Özcan Erel

“…(p < 0.05) Postoperative native thiol and total thiol levels were similar for both groups. …”
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Wild and trapped: a history of Colombian zoos and its revelations of animal fortunes and State entanglements, 1930s-1990s by Claudia Leal

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La vierge des neiges ou la vierge de Guadaloupe ? by Françoise Lestage

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Alternatives to Invasive Plants Commonly Found in South Florida Landscapes by Gary W. Knox, Sandra B. Wilson, Zhanao Deng, Rosanna Freyre

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Plantas hospedadoras de Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina Host plants of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from Buenos Aires province, Argentina by Osvaldo R. Di Iorio, Juan Farina

“…Con la cantidad de localidades de cada asociación insecto-planta, el número total de asociaciones se incrementa a 501 registros, 199 (39,7%) en plantas nativas y 302 (60,3%) en plantas exóticas.<br>The insect-host plants associations for 48 species of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from Buenos Aires province (Argentina) are summarized, including the previous records given in the literature, 12 associations in native plants (11 species of Cerambycidae in 6 species of plants) and 50 associations in exotic plants (18 Cerambycidae in 16 species of plants). …”
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Trace Elements and Minerals in Fumarolic Sulfur: The Case of Ebeko Volcano, Kuriles by E. P. Shevko, S. B. Bortnikova, N. A. Abrosimova, V. S. Kamenetsky, S. P. Bortnikova, G. L. Panin, M. Zelenski

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Bringing the words out of the Montessori box: Towards a Montessori system for enhancing language development from birth to six years by Helen Prochazka

“… Anecdotal evidence from early years practitioners in the UK reflects a perception of gradual, but per­sistent, decline in the extent of native English-speaking children’s vocabulary and oral communication skills when they start nursery aged 2–3 years. …”
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Influence of invasive hybrid cattails on habitat use by common loons by Spencer L. Wesche, Benjamin J. O'Neal, Steve K. Windels, Bryce T. Olson, Max Larreur, Adam A. Ahlers

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Translation and Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Manchester Orofacial Pain Disability Scale by Monira Samaan Kallás, Edgard Michel Crosato, Maria Gabriela Haye Biazevic, Matsuyoshi Mori, Vishal R. Aggarwal

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Language Experience Influences Sociolinguistic Development: The Role of Speaker Race and Language Attitudes on Bilingual and Monolingual Adults’ Accent Processing by Vanessa Ritsema, Rebeka Workye, Drew Weatherhead

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Investigating Calico Crayfish (Faxonius immunis Hagen, 1870) as a possible “sleeper” invasive species in northern Wisconsin, United States by Elle K. Sawyer, Jordan H. Hartman, Daniel K. Szydlowski, Eric R. Larson

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The Combined Effects of Multiple Invasive Species on Persistence of Imperiled Pahrump Poolfish by Brandon L. Paulson, Kevin D. Guadalupe, Shawn C. Goodchild, Craig A. Stockwell

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