Ontogenetic eye development and related behavioural changes in larvae and juveniles of barramundi Lates calcarifer (Bloch) by Yahaya, Syahirah, Lim, Leong-Seng, M. Shaleh, Sitti Raehanah, Mukai, Yukinori, Anraku, Kazuhiko, Kawamura, Gunzo

“…At 10 days, rod cells and the retinal tapetum first appeared in the retina and the retinomotor response first occurred; these would allow feeding in dim light. …”
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The Relationship between Capital Structure and Firm Performance: The Moderating Role of Agency Cost by Amanj Mohamed Ahmed, Deni Pandu Nugraha, István Hágen

“…Since it first appeared, agency theory has argued that debt can decrease agency issues between agent and principal and enhance the value of firms. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Swirl Flow Characteristics of CO₂ Hydrate Slurry by Short Twisted Band by Yongchao Rao, Zehui Liu, Shuli Wang, Lijun Li, Qi Sun

“…The velocity distribution has the form of symmetrical double peaks, and the peaks finally merge at the center of the pipeline. Vortexes firstly appear on both sides of the edge of the twisted band, and then move to the middle part of the twisted band. …”
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Rurality of Rural University Students, Using Technology for Teaching and Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Echoes from Kwazulu-Natal Province of South Africa by Toyin Cotties Adetiba*

“…However, the virus that first appeared on a small scale in November 2019 in Wuhan, China soon translates into a global pandemic that resulted in a global loss of life, social disorderliness, disruption of states’ economies, decelerating sustainable development, as well as a threat to diplomatic relations. …”
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Application of sawdust concrete in construction by Oliwia Kropidłowska

“…In bending tests, a simply supported sawdust concrete beam behaves similar to a regular concrete beam, cracks first appear in the tension zone. Tensile strength, compressive strength and Young's modulus of sawdust concrete products depend on the proportion of components and the method of sawdust preparation before applying in the sawdust concrete-mix. …”
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Бокачовски опис избора папе као рефлексија Халкокондиловог става према папству и Флорентинској унији у делу Ἀποδείξεις Ἱστοριῶν... by Darko Krstić

“…Chalkocondyles’ attitude towards the Union may at first appear as impartial. Nevertheless, under the phenomenological unbiased description of the course of the negotiations regarding the Union, he presents two highly erotic-laden episodes that shed Boccaccian light on the institution of Papacy and on the city of Ferrara, where the negotiations commenced. …”
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Canine atopic dermatitis in the Middle East: clinical signs, signalment and common allergens by G. Zur, I. Skorinsky, T. Bdolah-Abram

“…Dogs with ventral lesions were younger when clinical signs first appeared (P < 0.05). Most of the dogs were allergic to dust and/or dust mites (75.6%), with weeds and trees as the next most common allergens. …”
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Personalized, Precision Medicine to Cure Alzheimer’s Dementia: Approach #1 by Jeffrey Fessel

“…In addition, any comorbid risk factors for AD whose first presence or worsening was within ±1 year of when AD first appeared should receive appropriate, standard treatment together with the sequential combinations. …”
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Factors affecting the severity of COVID-19 and the development of complications by Kulova Laura, Bataev Khizir, Avduev Imran

“…Information that COVID-19 does not end with a decrease in temperature and the disappearance of characteristic symptoms first appeared on social networks. And I must say that the medical community did not immediately take seriously the complaints of those who seemed to have recovered, but continued to complain of weakness, shortness of breath, memory impairment, etc. …”
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Analytic and asymptotically flat hairy (ultra-compact) black-hole solutions and their axial perturbations by Athanasios Bakopoulos, Theodoros Nakas

“…At first, we examine the properties of the static and spherically symmetric black-hole solution — firstly appeared in [109] — and we find that in the causal region of the spacetime the stress-energy tensor, needed to support our solution, satisfies the strong energy conditions. …”
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On the Origin of the Russian Surnames Bagryzlov, Badryzlov by Nadezhda V. Kabinina

“…At present, these are mostly spread in the south of the Tyumen region and in adjacent territories which is where the surname Badryzlov first appears in historical documents in the first half of the 18th century. …”
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The Arabidopsis holobiont: a (re)source of insights to understand the amazing world of plant–microbe interactions by M. J. Poupin, T. Ledger, R. Roselló-Móra, B. González

“…Reports on the microbiota of Arabidopsis thaliana first appeared more than ten years ago. However, there is still a lack of a comprehensive understanding of the vast amount of information that has been generated using this holobiont. …”
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An update on COVID-19: SARS-CoV-2 variants, antiviral drugs, and vaccines by Varghese Edwin Hillary, Stanislaus Antony Ceasar

“…Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly contagious and pathogenic virus that first appeared in late December 2019. This SARS-CoV-2 causes an infection of an acute respiratory disease called “coronavirus infectious disease-2019 (COVID-19). …”
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THE PRATI DI STUORES/STUORES WIESEN SECTION (DOLOMITES, ITALY): A CANDIDATE GLOBAL STRATOTYPE SECTION AND POINT FOR THE BASE OF THE CARNIAN STAGE by CARMELA BROGLIO LORIGA, SIMONETTA CIRILLI, VITTORIO DE ZANCHE, DONATO DI BARI, PIERO GIANOLLA, GIAN FRANCO LAGHI, WILLIAM LOWRIE, STEFANO MANFRIN, ADELAIDE MASTANDREA, PAOLO MIETTO, GIOVANNI MUTTONI, CLAUDIO NERI, RENATO POSENATO, MARIACARMELA RECHICHI, ROBERTO RETTORI, GUIDO ROGHI

“…Below the levels with Trachyceras aon, the section contains a rich ammonoid fauna that chacterizes the lower part of the Regoledanus Subzone and subsequently records the first appearances of the mid-high latitude genus Daxatina (Daxatina sp., D. cf. canadensis) and of traditional Trachyceras with species different from T. aon. …”
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Sequential involvements of the perirhinal cortex and hippocampus in the recall of item-location associative memory in macaques. by Cen Yang, Yuji Naya

“…This retrieval signal first appeared in the PRC, followed by the HPC and PHC. …”
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Evolutionary and ecological correlates of thiaminase in fishes by Freya E. Rowland, Catherine A. Richter, Donald E. Tillitt, David M. Walters

“…There was no evolutionary relationship with thiaminase activity. It first appears in Class Actinoptergyii (bony ray-finned fishes) and is present across the entire Actinoptergyii phylogeny in both primitive and derived fish orders. …”
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Effective Altruism: Pro and Contra by Dmitry V. Balashov

“…Its basic ideas firstly appeared in the second half of the XX century in the works of the famous utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer, but the real influence the conception obtained in the second decade of the XXI century. …”
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Investigation of comorbidities of COVID-19 patients with hepatosteatosis using latent class analysis by Ozge Pasin, Sirin Cetin, Ahmet Turan Kaya

“…IntroductionCoronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease first appeared in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Subsequently, the pandemic spread rapidly throughout the entire world. …”
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The development of non-nominal expressions in 12-24-month-old children by Gopnik, A

“…These concepts appear to be developed at around 18 months, that is,at about the same time that the words that encode them first appear. This suggests that early nonnominal expressions encode new, problematic, concepts, rather than well-established concepts. …”

Between expectations of frictionless mobility and complex realities. Decisions and experiences of German professionals living and working in Britain. by Samarsky, E

“…On the other hand, their mobility is more constrained than it first appears and their migratory experiences are not immune to challenges or unanticipated obstacles, such as Brexit. …”