Neem: A Novel Biocide for Pest and Disease Control of Plants by Stephen Adusei, Samuel Azupio

“…This systematic review intends to gather all the available scientific data regarding the application of neem and its formulations in pest and disease control of plants. …”
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Field study and computer modeling of the Ob River channel morphody na mics to ensure the Barnaul water intake operability in the medium-term future by Aleksandr T. Zinoviev, Aleksandr V. Dyachenko, Andrey A. Kolomeytsev, Konstantin V. Marusin

“…We investigated the meandering section of Ob River at the Barnaul municipal water intake No 2 as the main source of water supply for Barnaul. Current state of the section and governing trends of its morphodynamics are evaluated using fi eld data collected at the site for the past years. …”

Temporal variability of antibiotics fluxes in wastewater and contribution from hospitals. by Sylvain Coutu, Luca Rossi, D A Barry, Serge Rudaz, Nathalie Vernaz

“…This study examined temporal fluctuations (monthly time scale) in antibiotic sources (ambulatory sales and data from a hospital dispensary) for Lausanne, Switzerland. …”
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Inventors Dynamics in Balkanic Area: Evidences by a Network Analysis by T. Ciano, P. Fotia, B. A. Pansera, M. Ferrara

“…Abstract: Patent data is a key source of information for innovation economists. …”
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A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION CONCERNING ONLINE CONSUMER REVIEWS AND THE SALE OF HOME APPLIANCES by Răzvan-Andrei CORBOȘ, Ovidiu-Iulian BUNEA, Andreea BREAZU

“…We used the Scopus database to acquire primary data and the VOSviewer program to analyze the data and perform the bibliometric analysis to achieve the desired objective. …”

The Corpus: A Tool among Others by Tobias Scheer

“…Some even believe that the whole purpose of a research project may be the creation of a corpus, and that the corpus will produce science by itself, i.e. substitute itself to reasoning and the data-expectation dialectic. …”
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A Bayesian Hierarchical Approach to Quasi-Replicate Dataset Modelling by Hassan M. Aljohani, Robert G. Aykroyd

“…For example, there may be some parameters which are expected to be equal, some which can be ordered, and others which follow more complex relationships. …”
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Investigating associations between physical activity and presenteeism: a scoping review protocol by Valérie Hervieux, Caroline Biron, Justine Dima

“…However, studies about the association between physical activity and presenteeism show some discrepancy in the results obtained. Disparity in the way of measuring presenteeism makes it even more challenging to compare results. …”
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DRUGS CONTAINING SNAKE VENOM: HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT, NOMENCLATURE, IDENTIFICATION by V. E Grigorieva, O. V Gunar, N. G Sakhno, G. M Bulgakova, N. V Molchan

“…The article presents general data on the chemical composition and properties of snake venoms, as well as the history of their use in medical practice. …”
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Perspectives of L2 graduate students and their professors about students' academic writing practices: Patchwriting or plagiarism?/ by Naser Rashidi, Mohamad Rahimi, Farzaneh Dehghan

“…Writing academic texts is a challenging endeavour for novice L2 writers, which causes them to rely heavily on the original texts. Some studies have differentiated intentional acts of fraud (like plagiarism) from patchwriting which they claim is unintentional source text reliance. …”
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Environmental Assessment of Dust Pollution in Point-Pattern Housing Development by Svetlana Manzhilevskaya

“…In modern megacities, where development is intensive and, in some places, very dense, there is a key importance of environmental audit of territories intended for construction, for creating effective and safe development projects. …”
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The Metrics for Promising R&D Early Forecast by Sergey Petrovich Kovalev

“…The key questions are described in details for source data formation to calculate more complex functional-based metrics using some lexical-graph R&D text models, to solve decomposition tasks and path search on graphs of terms collocations and co-words with the purpose of terminology evolution investigations, tautological definitions localization, and texts structure quality estimation. …”
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Comparison of three one-dimensional time-domain electromagnetic forward algorithms by Frederik Alexander Falk, Anders Vest Christiansen, Thomas Mejer Hansen

“…Accurate, efficient, and accessible forward modeling of geophysical processes is essential for understanding them and for inversion of geophysical data. Various algorithms are available for predicting data with the time domain electromagnetic method (TDEM). …”
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Interlinear and Marginal Glosses in the Athonite Translation of John Chrysostom’s De Statuis by Aneta Dimitrova

“…Eight of the annotations are discussed in detail in comparison to the Preslav translation and the Greek sources, with additional data from other medieval Slavonic texts. …”
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EXTERNAL THREATS TO THE RUSSIA’S ECONOMY ESTIMATION by SERGEY VLADIMIROVICH Kazantsev

“…The indicators of 2013 -the value of foreign trade turnover of Russia with the countries of far abroad; data on the flow of foreign directinvestment and on the amount of debt on loans, provided by credit institutions to legal entities; the amounts of payments for the import of technologies and services of a technical nature, paid during the year - serve as a source of information for such assessment. …”
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Pendidikan Lingkungan dalam Novel Dari Rahim Ombak Karya Tison Sahabuddin Bungin by Nanda Ananto, Juanda, Suarni Syam Saguni

“…The method used in this study is qualitative with descriptive data description. The data source is the novel Dari Rahim Ombak. …”
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The Space Density of Magnetic and Non-magnetic Cataclysmic Variables, and Implications for CV Evolution by M. L. Pretorius

“…We present constraints on the space densities of non-magnetic and magnetic cataclysmic variables, and discuss some implications for models of the evolution of CVs. …”
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Crime victims in the criminal justice system by Ćopić Sanja M.

“…The aim of the paper is to emphasize the position and the role of the victim support service in the system of the state intervention, based upon the obtained data, as well as to give some basic information on how victims could report the crime, what are their rights and duties, what can they expect from the competent agencies.…”
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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE METHODS FOR WIND TURBINE GEARBOX by FAN ZhiFeng, SU XuJun, ZHANG Rong, LI FangHuan

“…By analyzing the research status of condition monitoring methods and means,fault feature extraction methods and maintenance strategies for wind turbine gearbox,the main problems in the research of inspection and maintenance methods are summarized. Some suggestions are put forward,such as the research of on-line monitoring method and means of wind turbine gearbox based on multi-sensor,the research of intelligent fault diagnosis method of wind turbine gearbox based on multi-source information fusion,the research of preventive maintenance strategy of wind turbine gearbox based on life distribution and real-time monitoring data,etc. …”
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The representation of mature students in governing bodies of a Portuguese university by José Pedro Amorim, Felismina Viterbo

“…With a theoretical framework that values above all the institutional dimension, we carried out thirteen semi-structured interviews with students and faculty members who are part of the various governing bodies with student representation of a Portuguese higher education institution. The data show that (i) the functioning of these bodies tends to be known only by the students who participate in them, (ii) the bodies usually react to, rather than prevent, the problems that arise, (iii) mature students are perceived as a source of ‘difficulties’ and ‘needs’, and (iv) student representation in governing bodies does not seem to fairly and equitably represent all students, and some specificities of mature students (among other underrepresented groups) seem to be made invisible. …”
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