EFFECT OF CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE ON WATER CONSUMPTION OF BARLEY AND MUNGBEAN IN GYPSIFEROUS DESERT SOIL by Mohammed A. M. AL-Rawi, Mohammed H. Bahia

“…In the Inti-stage of the summer season, the T and C treatments used significantly less water by 18% and 13% compared to the NT and NC treatments, respectively. …”
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Risk of Damage Inside Wooden Cultural Heritage Sites Based on Temperature, Humidity, and Airborne Fungi in South Korea by Ik-Gyun Im, Gyu-Seong Han

“…Wood decay fungi float only in summer and fall when relative humidity is high. The internal conditions of WCHs, such as an average temperature of 20 °C and a relative humidity of 75% or more, persisted for at least 4 weeks and up to 8 weeks of the year. …”
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Retrospective Analysis of Seasonal Changes in Semen Analysis Parameters by Sinan Ates, Cem Yener, Mehmet Gurkan Arikan, Ersan Arda, Deniz Cokay, Koray Elter

“…RESULTS: Sperm concentration was significantly higher in autumn months compared to spring and summer months (p<0.05). The total motility rate of sperm was significantly lower in winter months compared to other months (p<0.05). …”
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The Portrait of heshuo Guo-qinwang Yunli as the Source for Weapons and Horse Equipment of Oirats and their Neighbors in the first half of the 18th Century by Leonid A. Bobrov

“…It is determined that the portrait of Yunli was painted by the famous European artist and missioner G. Castiglione in the summer of 1735, not long after the return of Yunli from the travel to Dalai Lama which took place in the winter-spring of the same year. …”
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Selecting the Best Music for the Moment in a Music and Imagery Session by Petra Jerling, Carmen Angulo Sánchez-Prieto, Isabel Solana Rubio

“… Music and Imagery (MI) is a receptive music therapy method within the Continuum Model of Guided Imagery and Music developed by Lisa Summer. In receptive music therapy, clients listen to music for therapeutic purposes. …”
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THE EFFECT OF TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP ON EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE – CASE STUDY OF 5 ALGERIAN BANKING INSTITUTIONS by Ali Bousbia Brahim, Ognjen Riđić, Tomislav Jukić

“…As far as the research time frame was concerned, it was performed in a crosssectional manner, in the summer of 2014. Out of 174 sent out surveys, the responses were collected from 132 surveyed individuals. …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Edward Page, Konrad Ott

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Effects of environmental variability on population dynamics of golden carpet shell clam (Polititapes aureus) by José Manuel Parada, José Molares

“…The instantaneous mortality rate for individuals aged 1 and 2 years was 0.94 in spring-summer and 0.14 in autumn-winter. The fishing mortality rate had little effect on the population. …”
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Movement traits important to conservation and fisheries management: an example with red snapper by Susan K. Lowerre-Barbieri, Kara Wall, Claudia Friess, Sean Keenan, Chad Lembke, Joseph Tarnecki, Laura Jay Williams-Grove, William F. Patterson

“…Emigration increased with storms and in early summer. Abundance was greatest at small habitat patches but space use did not scale with patch size. …”
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COMPARISON OF OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE IN MANAGERS AND NON-MANAGERS EMPLOYED AT MEAT INDUSTRY ‘OVAKO’ VISOKO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Goran Riđić, Minela Ahmić, Ognjen Riđić, Senad Bušatlić

“…Quantitative research design was applied with cross-sectional time frame at the end of Summer and beginning of Fall, 2015. The original-primary research has been conducted at the meat industry OVAKO, one part of AKOVA Impex. …”
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Seasonal Variation and Sources of Elements in Urban Submicron and Fine Aerosol in Brno, Czech Republic by Hana Cigánková, Pavel Mikuška, Jitka Hegrová, Petra Pokorná, Jaroslav Schwarz, Jozef Krajčovič

“…Most elements in both aerosol size fractions had a higher concentration in winter or autumn than in summer or spring. Enrichment factor analysis showed extremely highly enriched Cd, Sb and Se in both fractions. …”
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Assessment of the Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Ozone in Fuzhou, China, Using Wavelet Analysis by Guiwen Luo, Lanyi Zhang, Xisheng Hu, Benjie Shi, Rongzu Qiu

“…High concentrations appeared during spring and summer, and notable fluctuations occurred primarily from March till April, from June till July and during September. …”
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Hormonal Contraceptive Use and Affective Disorders: An Updated Review by Mengelkoch S, Afshar K, Slavich GM

“…Summer Mengelkoch, Kimya Afshar, George M Slavich Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USACorrespondence: Summer Mengelkoch, Email smengelkoch@mednet.ucla.eduAbstract: Hormonal contraceptives have given women historic freedoms and control over their fertility. …”
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COMPARISON OF OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE IN MANAGERS AND NON-MANAGERS EMPLOYED AT MEAT INDUSTRY ‘OVAKO’ VISOKO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Goran Riđić, Minela Ahmić, Ognjen Riđić, Senad Bušatlić

“…Quantitative research design was applied with cross-sectional time frame at the end of Summer and beginning of Fall, 2015. The original-primary research has been conducted at the meat industry OVAKO, one part of AKOVA Impex. …”
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Breast cancer survival and season of surgery: an ecological open cohort study by Dorthe Teilum, Karsten D Bjerre, Anne M Tjønneland, Niels Kroman

“…Background Vitamin D has been suggested to influence the incidence and prognosis of breast cancer, and studies have found better overall survival (OS) after diagnosis for breast cancer in summer–autumn, where the vitamin D level are expected to be highest.Objective To compare the prognostic outcome for early breast cancer patients operated at different seasons of the year.Design Open population-based cohort study.Setting Danish women operated 1978–2010.Cases 79 658 adjusted for age at surgery, period of surgery, tumour size, axillary lymph node status and hormone receptor status.Statistical analysis The association between OS and season of surgery was analysed by Cox proportional hazards regression models, at survival periods 0–1, 0–2, 0–5 and 0–10 years after surgery. …”
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Assessment of bias correction methods for high resolution daily precipitation projections with CMIP6 models: A Canadian case study by Xinyi Li, Zhong Li

“…Raw GCMs overestimate middle and high quantiles and show better performance in winter than in summer. QDM and SDM substantially enhance the performance of individual GCMs, which reduces RMSE by 26 % and 21 %, and shows satisfactory skill in capturing seasonal cycle and spatial variability as well as reproducing probability distribution of daily series and extreme events. …”
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The Impact of Care Upon Alzheimer Patient’s Family Caregiver in Sulaimani City by Farida Abdulqadir Tahir

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Evaluation of PM2.5 Surface Concentrations Simulated by NASA’s MERRA Version 2 Aerosol Reanalysis over India and its Relation to the Air Quality Index by Chimurkar D. Navinya, V. Vinoj, Satyendra K. Pandey

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Treatment Patterns of Follicular Lymphoma in the United States: A Claims Analysis by Scott F. Huntington, Sreevalsa Appukkuttan, Wenyi Wang, Yuxian Du, Sari Hopson, Svetlana Babajanyan

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Compliance with face mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic: a community observational study in Singapore by Sean Wei Xiang Ong, Ying Wei Tang, Kyaw Zaw Linn, Xiao Wei Huan, Allie Lim, Chu Ying Poon, Danielle Hui Ru Tan, Nur Hafizah Binte Hamed, Sharifah Farhanah Binte Syed Husen, Clara Chong Hui Ong, Monica Chan, Shawn Vasoo, Yee-Sin Leo, Oon-Tek Ng, Kalisvar Marimuthu

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