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Gendered Interest Structures Exist and Persist Throughout Adolescence: A Latent Profile and Transition Analysis of Academic and Vocational Interests in German Students

Welling J, Ehrtmann L, Malapally A et al. · 2026 · Preprint

Gendered interests are an important driver of gendered academic and vocational decisions and thus contribute to sustaining gender inequalities in the European labor market. Therefore, in order to counteract these inequalities, it is…

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Association between global longitudinal strain and coronary artery calcium in the diagnosis of significant coronary artery disease

M Shvydka, M Lutay, I Golikova · 2026 · European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging

Abstract Introduction Non-invasive diagnostic methods for coronary artery disease (CAD) are gaining increasing importance due to their accessibility, diagnostic value, safety, and cost-effectiveness. Both global longitudinal strain (GLS)…

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Higher penalties, broader definitions, and national standards: Did harmonized Australian workplace health and safety laws reduce workers' compensation receipt?

Anam Bilgrami, Henry Cutler, Kompal Sinha · 2024 · Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society

Abstract A quasi‐experiment was created in Australian policy between 2012 and 2013 when workplace health and safety laws were harmonized in all but two jurisdictions. This reform expanded definitions for duty of care, introduced criminal…

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Did the periodic intensification of routine immunisation strategy (Intensified mission Indradhanush) reduce the demand for pediatric antibiotic formulations in India?

Habib Hasan Farooqui, Anup Karan, Aashna Mehta et al. · 2025 · BMC Infectious Diseases

Abstract Background Recent research has indicated an increase in antibiotic utilisation, particularly pediatric formulations. Furthermore, an increasing trend in antimicrobial resistance rates has also been reported. Empirical evidence…

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Administering tolfenamic acid to gilts and sows before artificial insemination did not improve litter size but tended to reduce post-service serum prostaglandin F2α levels

Pachara Pearodwong, Nithitad Jiebna, Padet Tummaruk · 2024 · The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

This study examined the impact of intramuscular administration of tolfenamic acid 10 min before artificial insemination (AI) on serum PGF2α levels and reproductive performance in gilts and sows. In Experiment I, 20 gilts were divided into…

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304 To Raise Awareness About the NHS Cervical Screening Programme and to Reduce the Number of Did-Not-Attend (DNAs) Cervical Screening Appointments Among Women Aged 25–35 Years Through a Collaborative Reward System with Local Businesses

S. Singh · 2022 · British Journal of Surgery

Abstract Introduction Cervical screening is offered free under NHS Cervical Screening Programme since 1988. However, compliance is dwindling in the last decade, especially among women aged 25–35 years who had the least awareness. NHS…

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Did a workplace sugar-sweetened beverage sales ban reduce anxiety-related sugar-sweetened beverage consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Laurie M Jacobs, Laura A Schmidt, Dean Schillinger et al. · 2024 · Public Health Nutrition

Abstract Objective: Workplace sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) sales bans can reduce SSB consumption. Because stress and anxiety can promote sugar consumption, we examined whether anxiety among hospital employees during the COVID-19 pandemic…

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Freeze-dried jaboticaba peel powder rich in anthocyanins did not reduce weight gain and lipid content in mice and rats

Anne Y. Castro Marques, Nathalia Romanelli Dragano, Sabrina Alves Lenquiste et al. · 2026 · Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición

Jaboticaba, a native fruit from Brazilian Atlantic Forest, is an important source of anthocyanins. Anthocyanins have been recently identified as modulators of lipid metabolism and energy expenditure ‘in vivo’. The purpose of this study was…

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Extending the interval from presynch to initiation of ovsynch in a presynch-ovsynch protocol did not reduce fertility of lactating dairy cows not detected in estrus that received timed artificial insemination

M. J. Thomas, J. O. Giordano, M. D. Curler et al. · 2015 · American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings

Remarkably, no large scale field study has been conducted to evaluate the reproductive performance of cows synchronized with Presynch-Ovsynch with a 12 versus a 14 d interval from Presynch to the beginning of Ovsynch when cows are…

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123 Polyclonal antibody preparations from avian origin did not reduce plasmatic haptoglobin concentrations but increased ruminal NH3-N in beef steers during transition from forage to high-grain diets

Gleise Medeiros da Silva, Federico Podversich, Tessa M Schulmeister et al. · 2020 · Journal of Animal Science

Abstract This study investigated the effects of feeding an avian-derived polyclonal antibody preparation (PAP; CAMAS, Inc.) against Streptococcus bovis, Fusobacterium necrophorum, and lipopolysaccharides (40, 35, and 25% of the…

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موقف عمر بن الخطاب من كتب الفرس: أأمر بإتلافها أم استفاد منها؟ تحليل نقدي تاريخي لأخبار تاريخية متعارضة.

عبدالله العبيد · 2024 · المجلة العربية للعلوم الإنسانية

تسعى هذه الدراسة إلى التحقق من ثلاثة أخبار متعارضة وردت في ثلاثة مصادر ويصعب الجمع بينها. أحدها يشير إلى مجالسة عمر بن الخطاب للعجم في المدينة المنورة واستفادته من كتب الفرس، وأول من أورد هذا الخبر المؤرخ والفيلسوف مسكويه (421هـ/ 1030م) في…

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Simulated Annealing with Tsallis Weights - A Numerical Comparison

Ulrich H. E. Hansmann · 1997 · arXiv

We discuss the use of Tsallis generalized mechanics in simulated annealing algorithms. For a small peptide it is shown that older implementations are not more effective than regular simulated annealing in finding ground state configurations. We propose a new implementation which leads to an improvement over regular simulated annealing.

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Did I really agree to that?: making sense of policies you didn’t read with models that actually did

Shikha Soneji, Mitchell Hoesing, Sujay Koujalgi et al. · 2026 · Information Research an international electronic journal

Introduction. While Privacy Policies and Terms of Service (ToS) are intended to inform users; they often overwhelm, mislead, and confuse in practice. This work investigates automated techniques for analyzing such legal documents, with the…

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Retiring North: Comparing Retirement Migration Decisions Among Residents who did and Past Visitors who did not Move to a Tourist Destination

Walter F. Kuentzel, Thomas A. Heberlein · 2010 · Tourism in Marine Environments

Research on retirement migration decisions has found uniformly that natural amenities and recreational opportunities are primary decision-making factors among those who move to high-amenity rural-based tourism destinations. Most of the…

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Did baseball have a Steroid Era?

Aaron Brown · 2024 · Wilmott

A decade ago, statistics from the 1990s and early 2000s appeared to confirm there had been a �Steroid Era� in baseball, but subsequent to that, evidence has mounted significantly in the opposite direction.

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Did he lead monologues or did he talk to himself? How typological distance between source and target language influences the preservation of metaphorical mappings in translation

Wojciech Lewandowski, Mario Bisiada · 2025 · Linguistics Vanguard

Abstract Speakers across the world describe a wide range of target domains (e.g., time, emotions) relying on similar metaphorical mappings that use motion as the source domain ( abstract concept is a moving entity: seven o’clock is…

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A Survey of Social Engineers that did not Collect Enough Data

Adrian Dana Austin · 2022 · Engineering and Technology Journal

In The context of Information technology and Cyber Security a nexus of computers and humans occurs as Social engineering. Defenders would like to know how this group interacts with users to gain access to secure information. The purpose of…

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