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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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How did Anaximander Become a Material Monist?

Nicola Carraro · 2016 · Rhizomata

Abstract Although the view that Anaximander was a Material Monist is not very popular nowadays, it is still widely held that it was embraced by Aristotle at least on some occasions, then adopted by Theophrastus, and later on inherited by…

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Abstract 080: Challenges Associated with The Embolic Protection Device (epd) And Perioperative Events Between Those Who Did and Did Not Receive Epd During Carotid Artery Stenting

Y. M. Lodi, V. Reddy, T. Wang · 2024 · Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

Background In CREST trial 96.1% of the patient in carotid artery stenting (CAS) group had EPD and with a 4.1± 0.6 incidence of stroke. Despite the use of EPD, CAS has more cerebral ischemic events (CIE) compared to CEA. Additionally, the…

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The Maintain Your Brain online multidomain intervention for dementia risk reduction: end‐user evaluations of what did and did not work and why

Anne‐Nicole S. Casey, Tiffany Chau, Megan Heffernan et al. · 2023 · Alzheimer's & Dementia

Abstract Background Dementia prevalence is increasing, and risk reduction is a priority. Online interventions that are useable and acceptable to people seeking to reduce their dementia risk are needed. We aimed to assess and explore…

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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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GENDER ISSUE IN TOEFL TEST: DOES IT MAKE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE?

Ida Muliawati · 2020 · JETLi: Journal of English Teaching and Linguistics

Gender issue has been noted as a debatable issue over decades in second language learning, including in TOEFL test which is recognized throughout the world as a certified foreign language test. The focus of this paper is to explore and to…

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Is There a Significant Difference in Acute Kidney Injury Incidence Among Patients Treated with Vancomycin Combined with Cefepime or Meropenem?

W Cliff Rutter, David S Burgess · 2017 · Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Abstract Background Acute kidney injuries (AKIs) are common among patients receiving concomitant vancomycin (VAN) and piperacillin-tazobactam, especially compared with cefepime (FEP) with vancomycin. It is unknown if there is a significant…

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Searching for dynamical fermion effects in UKQCD simulations

Chris Allton · 2001 · arXiv

We present recent results from the UKQCD collaboration's dynamical QCD simulations. This data has fixed lattice spacing but varying dynamical quark mass. We concentrate on searching for an unquenching signal in the mesonic mass spectrum where we do not find a significant effect at the quark masses considered.

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Clinical Implications of ChatGPT-assisted Multimodal Pre-operative Assessment in Elderly Pertrochanteric Fracture Patients: An Exploratory Study.

Noda, Takahara, Hayashi et al. · 2026 · Journal of orthopaedic case reports

Given the high mortality associated with femoral trochanteric fractures, reliable pre-operative estimation of post-operative death risk is essential. Commonly used scoring systems demonstrate only moderate predictive ability, largely…

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COVID-19 significant effect on global international economic relations

Tariro Portia Tendengu, Fadzai Mahere · 2021 · International Journal of Health, Medicine and Nursing Practice

The purpose of this paper is to reach the augment of COVID-19 effects on international economic relations. The globe has become a cohesive economic community with interdependence being fuelled by rising economies and the need to exchange…

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