Taxonomic and Geographic Bias in Conservation Biology Research: A Systematic Review of Wildfowl Demography Studies. by Beth E I Roberts, W Edwin Harris, Geoff M Hilton, Stuart J Marsden

“…As an aid to research prioritisation, a metric was created to reflect demographic knowledge gaps for each species related to research output for the species, its threat status, and availability of potentially useful surrogate data from congeneric species. …”
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Organizational Values: Comparison of Organizational Features Across Different Types of Public Sector Organizations by Rūta Adamonienė, Laima Ruibytė, Evelina Viduolienė

“…The goals of the current paper are: a) to examine which organizational features may be perceived as top values for employees of each organization, b) to examine whether there are some common organizational features that employees distinguish as most essential despite the nature of the organization, and c) to evaluate how different organizational values are rated in each organization. …”
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Variance Resonance in Weakly Coupled Harmonic Oscillators Driven by Thermal Gradients by Tarcisio Boffi, Paolo De Gregorio

“…We deepen the case of a weak coupling between the two oscillators, and show the emergence of a “spike” in the displacement variance of the colder oscillator, when the respective elastic constants approach each other. Away from the peak, the displacement variance of each oscillator only reflects the value of the local temperature. …”
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INFLUENCE OF THE “PUSH & FLICK” METHODOLOGY ON THE ACCURACY OF THE INDOOR HOCKEY PENALTY CORNER SHOOTING by Antonio Antonov, Dafina Zoteva, Olympia Roeva

“…According to the requirements of the quasi-experimental “Push & Flick” methodology, the duration of the specialized training was set to 16 weeks. Each player performed 4,800 shootings, or approximately 300 shootings each week. …”
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Seed size in mountain herbaceous plants changes with elevation in a species-specific manner. by Pawel Olejniczak, Marcin Czarnoleski, Anna Delimat, Bartosz Marek Majcher, Kamil Szczepka

“…For each parameter, residuals from a linear regression against elevation were calculated and the residuals were used in a factor analysis. …”
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From Cost to Opportunity: The Role of ESG In Banking by Dan Costin Nițescu, Radu Ciobanu, Adina Elena Călin, Ana-Gabriela Rusu, Eugen-Marian Vierescu

“…The multifaceted transformations related to ESG have received many labels, and, in this context, each country has chosen words and actions carefully so as to reflect their strategic interests. …”
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CORRELATION OF TERMS "JURIDICAL ACT" AND "LEGAL ACT" IN RUSSIAN JURISPRUDENCE by Ye. V. Ryabov

“…To improve the terminology of the Russian jurisprudence the author proposes to demarcate the terms and use each term to denote the phenomenon which it reflects.…”
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Morbidity profile of admissions to GF Jooste Hospital, Manenberg, Cape Town by Jacek Marszalek, Pierre J.T. de Villiers

“…Background: Secondary hospitals play an important, yet overlooked, role in reflecting public health status, both locally and nationally. …”
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Shifting narrative perspective and construal level shape emotional response and enhance eudaimonic well-being by Xuan Gu, Chi-Shing Tse, Ho-Chung Tsang, Taoran Zeng

“…Participants retrieved negative autobiographical events initially from a 1st-person perspective and subsequently, on a separate day, from a 3rd-person perspective, thereby increasing psychological distance. During each retrieval, participants elaborated either at a high construal level (reflecting on the event’s broader meaning and life implications) or a low construal level (focusing on contextual details, such as location). …”
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No significant relationship found between spontaneous motor tempo, heartbeat, and individual alpha frequency: an analysis of internal tempos by Tamaka Harada, Giovanna Mioni, Nicola Cellini, Yuko Yotsumoto

“…Specifically, Spontaneous Motor Tempo (SMT), the most comfortable and natural tapping tempo for each individual, is thought to reflect this internal pacemaker’s tempo. …”
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Evaluation of the hepatoprotective effect of curcumin alone or in combination with vitamin C in methotrexate-induced hepatotoxicity in mice by Dhekra Hasan Khudair, Ali Ismail. Al-Gareeb

“…Results: There were 35 mice; 7(20%) in each of the 5 groups. Hepatoprotection produced by curcumin as reflected by a decrease in lactate dehydrogenase and malondialdehyde levels was significant (p<0.05). …”
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A Multiplatform Approach for Chlorophyll Level Estimation for Irish Lakes by Minyan Zhao, Fiachra O'Loughlin

“…Then, a multiplatform model was built using the best individual model for each satellite combined using individual performance of each model. …”
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Evaluation of potential of targeted sequencing through mutational signature simulation. by Keisuke Kodama, Yiwei Ling, Hiroshi Ichikawa, Toshifumi Wakai, Shujiro Okuda

“…However, the effectiveness of these methods for reflecting whole-exome sequencing (WES)-level mutational signatures remains unclear. …”
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Green Transportation and Environmental Sustainability in Selected Manufacturing Entities in Kampala District, Uganda by Rugasira, Jack, Moses, Agaba, Byarugaba Mbiito, Jotham, Makumbi, Rita, Kyotuheire, Jill, Asiime, Jane

“…Green Transportation reflects a small F-statistic of 17.841 indicating the statistical significance of each of the regression coefficients. …”
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Teaching as Calligraphers by Silvia Tabakman

“…Being in touch with teachers in the context of updating on teaching Social Sciences and the school’s visit to the museum, allows us to reflect on questions that exceed those contents. Bodies at school- both teachers’ and students’- ; the glossaries and their contexts, the decisions about the best contents to teach in each community are put into play in these encounters. …”
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Chromosome painting reveals conserved centromere oligonucleotide sequences and comparable karyotypes across diverse Citrus species by Gong-Ao Xiao, Qiang-Ming Xia, Jia-Qin Ren, Yao-Yuan Duan, Xiao-Meng Wu, Wen-Wu Guo, Kai-Dong Xie

“…In this study, centromere locations on each chromosome were recalibrated using previously published ChIP-seq data of CsCENH3, aligned with the high-quality sweet orange genome (SWO v3). …”
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Neural population dynamics underlying evidence accumulation in multiple rat brain regions by Brian DePasquale, Carlos D Brody, Jonathan W Pillow

“…FOF activity was consistent with an accumulator where early evidence was favored while the ADS reflected near perfect accumulation. Neural responses within an accumulation framework unveiled a distinct association between each brain region and choice. …”
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Theoretical study on the interaction of polychlorotrifluoroethylene fragments with graphene-like planes by Yu. V. Hrebelna, E. M. Demianenko, M. I. Terets, A. G. Grebenyuk, Yu. I. Sementsov, N. V. Sigareva, S. M. Makhno, M. T. Kartel

“…This fact reflects the growth in thermostability of nanocomposites as compared to the polymer itself. …”
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Oxford Vaccine Hesitancy Scale (OVHS): a UK-based and US-based online mixed-methods psychometric development and validation study of an instrument to assess vaccine hesitancy by Samantha Vanderslott, Andrew J Pollard, Michael Morrison, Jonathan Kantor, Robert C Carlisle

“…Predictive validity for COVID-19 vaccination status was excellent, with logistic regression ORs of association (95% CI) of 0.07 (0.04, 0.13), p&lt;0.0001 for the UK sample for each SD increase in OVHS score, suggesting a 93% decrease in the odds of being vaccinated against COVID-19 for each SD increase in OVHS score. …”
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“May we not orchestrate our own misfortune”: a qualitative study on perception about causes and prevention of occupational injuries among bricklayers and carpenters in Osun State,... by Temitope Olumuyiwa Ojo, Temitope Olumuyiwa Ojo, Nisha Naicker, Nisha Naicker, Funmilayo Juliana Afolabi, Adedeji Ayodeji Onayade

“…A semi-structured FGD guide was employed to moderate the discussions. Each session was facilitated by a moderator and a note-taker. …”
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