Pathways and Environmental Impacts of Methane Migration: Case Studies in the Marcellus Shale, USA by Patrick A. Hammond, Tao Wen, Josh Woda, David Oakley

“…In addition to reviewing previously published work from these three sites, we report and analyze unpublished new data trying to determine if a direct relationship between methane migration, stream contamination, and air emissions exists at those sites. …”
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Association between learning engagement and learning satisfaction among first-year business students in higher education: the moderating effect of gender by Edmond Kwesi Agormedah

“…Using explanatory correlational research design, data was gathered with questionnaire from 165 FYBES from a higher education in Ghana using the census method. …”
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Constructing ancestral recombination graphs through reinforcement learning by Mélanie Raymond, Marie-Hélène Descary, Cédric Beaulac, Fabrice Larribe

“…Among these methods, many rely on the assumption that the most likely graph is among those with the fewest recombination events. …”
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Cloud Computing Services: Benefits, Risks and Intellectual Property Issues by IONELA BĂLŢĂTESCU

“…However, cloud computing services involve also some risks concerning privacy, security of data and lack of interoperability between cloud platforms. …”
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Potential Epigenetic Impacts of Phytochemicals on Ruminant Health and Production: Connecting Lines of Evidence by Sebastian P. Schreiber, Juan Villalba, Mirella L. Meyer-Ficca

“…., anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, and anticarcinogenic effects) are likely related to epigenetic processes. Evidence in humans and rodent models, as well as emerging ruminant data, has shown that phytochemicals can modulate gene expression by inhibiting or enhancing the activity of chromatin modifiers. …”
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‘What do you mean I failed?’ Using in year retrieval as a learning tool by Karen Fitzgibbon

“…Neither does it reflect the likely approach of employers to poor performance where improvement would be expected within a short timeframe. …”
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Copy number variation in salivary amylase: A participant-based study on genetic variation. by Phillips, E.

“…The qPCR was completed two different times in order to ensure correct results when the data was presented. Results indicated that the copy number within the population were similar to each other, and ranged from 1-12. …”
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A Lightweight and Small Sample Bearing Fault Diagnosis Algorithm Based on Probabilistic Decoupling Knowledge Distillation and Meta-Learning by Hao Luo, Tongli Ren, Ying Zhang, Li Zhang

“…Traditional deep learning-based bearing fault diagnosis algorithms rely on large amounts of training data; training and inference processes consume significant computational resources. …”
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Monitoring the Immune System in Critically Ill Patients (Review) by А. V. Stepanov, K. G. Shapovalov

“…In addition, immune monitoring is likely to increase the cost of patient care, necessitating the development of more affordable research methods.Conclusion. …”
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Species Diversity, Host Association, and Evolutionary History of Cronartium: An Important Global Fungal Pathogen to Trees by Jingyu Zhang, Clement K. M. Tsui, Chongjuan You

“…While the phylogenetic relationships of major Cronartium species have been largely elucidated, there is limited understanding of their species diversity and the evolutionary processes shaping their distribution patterns. In this work, we performed broad sampling and sequencing of Cronartium taxa in China together with additional sequence data and other accessions in NCBI to investigate the diversification and to estimate the divergence time of major evolutionary events in this genus. …”
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Early Breast Cancer Evolution by Autosomal Broad Copy Number Alterations by Joseph R. Larsen, Peter Kuhn, James B. Hicks

“…We compared the broad CNAs and somatic mutations of patients with 1 to 10 autosomal broad CNAs against the full set of patients, using data from The Cancer Genome Atlas breast cancer project. …”
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The The Settlement and Economy of the Pyrzyce Lowland in the Pre-Roman and Roman Iron Ages by Marta Chmiel-Chrzanowska, Michał Adamczyk

“…The changes in anthropopression were most likely linked with changes in population size, reflecting 8 distinct phases of settlement in the area. …”
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Mapping the Indian Palaeolithic by Vaneshree Vidyarthi, Parth Chauhan

“…This paper makes use of sampled legacy data on the Indian Lower Palaeolithic obtained by the authors from the Archaeological Survey of India’s annual publication called Indian Archaeology – A Review. …”
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Two Opposite Change Patterns Before Small Earthquakes Based on Consecutive Measurements of Hydrogen and Oxygen Isotopes at Two Seismic Monitoring Sites in Northern Beijing, China by Yuxuan Chen, Fuqiong Huang, Leyin Hu, Zhiguo Wang, Mingbo Yang, Peixue Hua, Xiaoru Sun, Shijun Zhu, Yanan Zhang, Xiaodong Wu, Zhihui Wang, Lvqing Xu, Kongyan Han, Bowen Cui, Hongyan Dong, Boxiu Fei, Yonggang Zhou

“…We found significant four-stage patterns of change processes in δ²H and δ¹⁸O at both sites. …”
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Open Innovation the Impact of Social Capital on Tourism Growth Through the Mediating Role of Open Innovation (Case study: The municipality of Khomam County) by Seyed Hamed Hashemi, Hossein Poorghasem

“…This research is applied in terms of purpose and is survey-based for data collection. Moreover, from a methodological perspective, it employs a correlational design; the data collection tool used in this study was a questionnaire, rated using a Likert scale, and its reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha. …”
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Findings from a cluster randomised feasibility study of a school-based physical activity role model intervention (CHARMING) for 9–10-year-old girls by Kelly Morgan, Jordan Van Godwin, Rebecca Cannings‑John, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Rachel Granger, Britt Hallingberg, Graham Moore, Bethan Pell, Esther van Sluijs, Holly Whiteley, Jemma Hawkins

“…Despite the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, three of the five criteria (implementation, acceptability and completion of primary outcome) for progressing to a full-scale evaluation were met. Process evaluation data provide understandings of why two criteria (attendance and completeness of the primary outcome) were not met. …”
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Effects of Influence of Audit Committee and Senior Managers over the Internal Auditors and Type of Internal Control Deficiency on Internal Auditors by Sajjad Naghdi, Elahe Salmanzadeh Aghdam, Javad Esmaeili, Vahid Ahmadian

“…The results indicate that internal auditors are more likely to classify process-specific control weaknesses as significant compared to pervasive control weaknesses. …”
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Territories -in- between by Alexander Wandl

“…The paper uses data on the location of economic activities and the residential population at a 500 m by 500 m resolution. …”
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The role of Cultural Socialization and Contextual Factors on the Subjective Well-Being of Immigrant Adolescent Girls at the Beginning and End of Adolescence: A life course perspect... by Elaheh Hejazi, Ahmad Baseri, Zahra Naghsh, simin ebrahimi

“…Globalization and shifting lifestyles are likely contributing factors to the observed decline in cultural socialization (Hazeri & Sharifi, 2009). …”
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The use of modern military technologies in the light of the law of weapons and the law of targeting by Behzad Seyfi

“…Although new weapons, like any other emerging phenomenon have created legal challenges for manufacturers and tension between countries, but these tensions can be reduced by setting special regulations. …”
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