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    Building flux capacity: Citizen scientists increase resolution of soil greenh...

    Though citizen science programs have been broadly successful in diverse scientific fields, their adoption has lagged in some disciplines, including soil science and ecosystem...
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    cgmanalysis: An R package for descriptive analysis of continuous glucose moni...

    Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is an essential part of diabetes care. Real-time CGM data are beneficial to patients for daily glucose management, and aggregate summary...
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    Repeatability of flatfish reflex impairment assessments based on video record...

    : Using measures of reflex impairment and injury to quantify an aquatic organism's vitality have gained popularity as survival predictors of discarded non-target fisheries...
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    The Influence of Mark-Recapture Sampling Effort on Estimates of Rock Lobster ...

    Five annual capture-mark-recapture surveys on Jasus edwardsii were used to evaluate the effect of sample size and fishing effort on the precision of estimated survival...
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    Using the CustusX toolkit to create an image guided bronchoscopy application:...

    Purpose The aim of this paper is to show how a specialized planning and guidance application called Fraxinus, can be built on top of the CustusX platform (www.custusx.org),...
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    How Multidisciplinary Are the Multidisciplinary Journals Science and Nature?

    Interest in cross-disciplinary research knowledge interchange runs high. Review processes at funding agencies, such as the U.S. National Science Foundation, consider plans to...
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    Comparison of the effects of kilohertz- and low-frequency electric stimulatio...

    OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine whether kilohertz-frequency alternating current (KFAC) is superior to low-frequency pulsed current (PC) in increasing muscle-evoked...
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    Cigarette smoking as a risk factor for diabetic nephropathy: A systematic rev...

    BACKGROUND: Observational studies suggested that tobacco smoking was associated with diabetic nephropathy (DN). However, the results were conflicting and inconsistent. In the...
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    Knowledge evolution in physics research: An analysis of bibliographic couplin...

    Even as we advance the frontiers of physics knowledge, our understanding of how this knowledge evolves remains at the descriptive levels of Popper and Kuhn. Using the APS...
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    Factors that predict life sciences student persistence in undergraduate resea...

    Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) have the potential to benefit undergraduates and longer UREs have been shown to lead to greater benefits for students. However, no...
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    The Coral Triangle Atlas: An Integrated Online Spatial Database System for Im...

    In this paper we describe the construction of an online GIS database system, hosted by WorldFish, which stores bio-physical, ecological and socio-economic data for the 'Coral...
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    Privacy Attitudes among Early Adopters of Emerging Health Technologies

    Introduction Advances in health technology such as genome sequencing and wearable sensors now allow for the collection of highly granular personal health data from individuals....
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    Orienteering Problem with Functional Profits for multi-source dynamic path co...

    Orienteering problem (OP) is a routing problem, where the aim is to generate a path through set of nodes, which would maximize total score and would not exceed the budget. In...
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    Independent re-analysis of alleged mind-matter interaction in double-slit exp...

    A two year long experimental dataset in which authors of Radin, et al., 2016 claim to find evidence of mind-matter interaction is independently re-analyzed. In this experiment,...
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    A retrospective study investigating requests for self-citation during open pe...

    Introduction Peer review is a volunteer process for improving the quality of publications by providing objective feedback to authors, but also presents an opportunity for...
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    Preference evaluation of ground beef by untrained subjects with three levels ...

    After receiving bad publicity in 2012 and being removed from many ground beef products, finely textured beef (referred to as 'pink slime' by some) is making a comeback. Some of...
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    Open source software security vulnerability detection based on dynamic behavi...

    Open source software has been widely used in various industries due to its openness and flexibility, but it also brings potential security problems. Therefore, security analysis...
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    Conflicts of interest in GM Bt crop efficacy and durability studies

    Public confidence in genetically modified (GM) crop studies is tenuous at best in many countries, including those of the European Union in particular. A lack of information...
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    Alcohol Misuse among University Staff: A Cross-Sectional Study

    OBJECTIVES: To examine the prevalence of hazardous drinking among staff in a UK university and its association with key socio-demographic features. DESIGN: A cross-sectional...
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    The looks matter; aggression escalation from changes on phenotypic appearance...

    Domestic fowl in small groups are assumed to establish hierarchical systems based on individual recognition. Conversely, interactions in large groups are modulated by badges of...