Human-Caused High Direct Mortality in Birds: Unsustainable Trends and Ameliorative Actions by Gisela Kaplan

“…However, direct mortality of birds from anthropogenic causes has increased and has led to significant annual losses of birds. We know of the crucial impact of habitat loss on the survival of birds and its effects on biodiversity. …”
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The Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation. A Local Attractor Filled with Unstable Periodic Solutions by Anatoli N. Kulikov, Dmitri A. Kulikov

“…It is shown that the loss of stability of homogeneous equilibrium points leads to the appearance of a two-dimensional attractor on which all solutions are periodic functions of time, except one spatially inhomogeneous state. …”
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MILESTONES OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE IN RUSSIA by Y. Proshina

“…Soviet Russia positive HR management sides pointed. In addition, these value losses related with market economy transition. …”
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Quality of life and influencing factors of non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with first-line targeted therapy in Vietnam: A study using the EORTC QLQ-C30 scale by Chinh Van Nguyen, Nhat Huu Nguyen, Linh Dieu Hoang, Huong Thi Thanh Tran, Kiet Tuan Pham Huy

“…Among the functional scales, physical functioning scored the highest at 85.72 points, followed by role functioning (79.57), cognitive functioning (78.66), social functioning (71.72), and emotional functioning, which scored the lowest at 65.83 points. …”
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The Taxation of Agriculture in the European Union Countries by Kinga Gruziel, Małgorzata Raczkowska

“…The theoretical foundations of tax systems in the context of their functions and features specified as desirable in the literature are discussed. …”
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IL-10 regulates viral lung immunopathology during acute respiratory syncytial virus infection in mice. by Jens Loebbermann, Corinna Schnoeller, Hannah Thornton, Lydia Durant, Nathan P Sweeney, Martijn Schuijs, Anne O'Garra, Cecilia Johansson, Peter J Openshaw

“…Interleukin (IL-) 10 is a pleiotropic cytokine with broad immunosuppressive functions, particularly at mucosal sites such as the intestine and lung. …”
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The economics of the performing arts before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 1: cost-output-profit analysis on the example of a performance by D. L. Morozova

“…In this context, economic performance analytics (operational leverage calculation, break-even analysis) is necessary to analyse the performing arts organisations losses in a pandemic. On the example of the “increased demand” performance, the hypothesis on the existence of a break-even point in which incomes and expenses are balanced has been rejected. …”
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Preparation and investigation of structural, optical, and dielectric properties of PVA/PVP blend films boosted by MWCNTs/AuNPs for dielectric capacitor applications by Abdu Saeed, Amal Mohsen Alghamdi, Maha Aiiad Alenizi, Reem Alwafi, G.M. Asnag, Eman Alzahrani, Randa A. Althobiti, Ahmed N. Al-Hakimi, Aeshah Salem, S.A. Al-Ghamdi

“…The capacitors' functionality was assessed through capacitance-frequency and conductance-frequency analyses. …”
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Research on the Emission of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds from Terrestrial Vegetation by Dingyi Pei, Anzhi Wang, Lidu Shen, Jiabing Wu

“…Biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) are low-boiling-point compounds commonly synthesized by secondary metabolic pathways in plants. …”
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Spotlight on the Mechanism of Action of Semaglutide by Ilias Papakonstantinou, Konstantinos Tsioufis, Vasiliki Katsi

“…This article aims to explore potential innovative molecular mechanisms of semaglutide action in restoring the balance of several interlinking aspects of metabolism, pointing to distinct functions in inflammation and oxidative stress in insulin-sensitive musculoskeletal and adipose tissues. …”
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Transposition of Substantive Word Forms into Adverbs of Interval: Stages, Signs, Limit by Victor V. Shigurov

“…The adverbial transposition of the word form under consideration is established to have a functional and semantic character. It is associated with the loss of semantic and grammatical features of a noun and the acquisition of categorical properties of adverbs, as well as with violation of the semantic identity of the original substantive lexeme and the formation of not only a grammatical, but also a lexical homonym, which is included in the subclass of adverbs of an interval exceeding a certain situational norm. …”
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The CLIP - GPT Image Captioning Model Integrated with Global Semantics by TAO Rui, REN Honge, CAO Haiyan

“…In this paper, we introduce a new method that breaks through the limitation of visual feature classification by dividing images into patches as visual semantic units for open-vocabulary cross-modal association with language features. It combines the two loss functions of masked language modeling and image-text matching, selects highly difficult negative samples to train the cross-modal hop network to extract consistent global semantics, improving the accuracy of distinguishing highly similar image and text feature points within the neighborhood of the subspace. …”
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Cross-Modal Hashing Retrieval Based on Density Clustering by Xiaojun Qi, Xianhua Zeng, Hongmei Tang

“…Furthermore, DCCH excludes the adverse effects of noise points and leverages the discrete optimization process to obtain hash functions. …”
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A Rfa1-MN-based system reveals new factors involved in the rescue of broken replication forks. by Ana Amiama-Roig, Marta Barrientos-Moreno, Esther Cruz-Zambrano, Luz M López-Ruiz, Román González-Prieto, Gabriel Ríos-Orelogio, Félix Prado

“…Our study has also revealed a requirement for checkpoint functions, including the synthesis of Dun1-mediated dNTPs. …”
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A methodology for quantitatively managing the bug fixing process using Mahalanobis Taguchi system by Boby John, R. S. Kadadevarmath

“…The presence of open bugs often delays the release of the software or result in releasing the software with compromised functionalities. These can lead to customer dissatisfaction, cost overrun and eventually the loss of market share. …”
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Use of the non-paretic arm reflects a habitual behaviour in chronic stroke by Sebastian Sporn, E. Bonyadi, R. Fathana, L. Tedesco Triccas, M. Coll, S. Bestmann, N. S. Ward

“…Participants were asked to choose which arm to use to maximise points scored during a reaching task. During half of the trials, the presumed habit of using the non-paretic arm yielded more points, whereas in the other half using the non-paretic arm incurred a loss of points. …”
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Concomitant Obstructive Sleep Apnoea in Patients with Meniere’s Disease: A Case Report and Literature Review by Wong Kein Low, Esther Jiayi Lim

“…Meniere’s disease (MD) is a condition characterised by fluctuating and progressive hearing loss, aural fullness, tinnitus, and intermittent attacks of vertigo. …”
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Biodegradability of polyethylene by bacteria and fungi from Dandora dumpsite Nairobi-Kenya. by Christabel Ndahebwa Muhonja, Huxley Makonde, Gabriel Magoma, Mabel Imbuga

“…The level of biodegradation of LDPE sheets with bacterial and fungal inoculums from different sampling points of Dandora dumpsite was evaluated under laboratory conditions. …”
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Parking Space Reservation Behavior of Car Travelers from the Perspective of Bounded Rationality: A Case Study of Nanchang City, China by Yunqiang Xue, Lin Cheng, Ping Lin, Jing An, Hongzhi Guan

“…Travelers show different value perceptions of the reserved price of parking spaces, and this process has been verified to be roughly the same as the prospect theoretical model. As the reference point for highest reservation price becomes larger, travelers tend to choose to pay less than the ideal reservation price and become more sensitive to losses. …”
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Evolution of the activities of states as reflected in legal and political Teachings by A. A. Klishin

“…The article below analyzes different opinions of legal experts in relation to the objective needs of legal regulation of international affairs expressed from the view point of prospects and new forms of such regulation, as well as the legal instruments used by the countries when faced with encroachment on them on the part of other players, i.e. states and their associations. …”
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