Preliminary insights on the effect of Islamic work ethic on relationship marketing and customer satisfaction by Shamsudin, Abdul Shukor, Mohd Kassim, Abdul Wahid, Hassan, Mohamad Ghozali, Johari, Nor Azmi

“…This conceptual paper investigates the moderating impacts of the Islamic work ethic on the relationships between relationship marketing and customer satisfaction.The concept of the Islamic work ethic has its origin in the Quran, the sayings of and practice of Prophet Muhammad, who preached that hard work caused sins to be absolved and that "no one eats better than that which he eats out of his work". …”
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Mapping and Analysis of the Connectome of Sympathetic Premotor Neurons in the Rostral Ventrolateral Medulla of the Rat Using a Volumetric Brain Atlas by Dempsey, Bowen, Le, Sheng, Turner, Anita, Bokiniec, Phil, Ramadas, Radhika, Bjaalie, Jan G., Menuet, Clement, Allen, Andrew M., Goodchild, Ann K., McMullan, Simon, Neve, Rachael L.

“…Spinally projecting neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) play a critical role in the generation of vasomotor sympathetic tone and are thought to receive convergent input from neurons at every level of the neuraxis; the factors that determine their ongoing activity remain unresolved. …”
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Book review. Anestesia e analgesia locoregionale del cane e del gatto. Francesco Staffieri by Manuel Graziani

“…Prosegue con i blocchi nervosi centrali (anestesia epidurale e spinale) e si conclude con i blocchi periferici (testa, arto anteriore, torace, arto posteriore). …”
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Stimulatory and Inhibitory Roles of Brain 2-Arachidonoylglycerol in Bombesin-Induced Central Activation of Adrenomedullary Outflow in Rats by Takahiro Shimizu, Kenjiro Tanaka, Kunihiko Yokotani

“…Immunohistochemical studies demonstrated the bombesin-induced activation of diacylglycerol lipase α (2-AG-producing enzyme)-positive spinally projecting neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus, a control center of central adrenomedullary outflow. …”
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Development of a Bispecific Nanobody Targeting CD20 on B-Cell Lymphoma Cells and CD3 on T Cells by Yanlong Liu, Kexin Ao, Fuxiang Bao, Yi Cheng, Yanxia Hao, Huimin Zhang, Shan Fu, Jiaqi Xu, Qiyao Wu

“…Ninety-two individual clones were randomly picked and screened by phage ELISA. Six strains with the high binding ability to human CD20 were named 11, 30, 71, 72, 83, and 92, and induced expression and purification were performed to obtain soluble CD20 single-domain antibodies. …”
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The Minab plain water-related spatial planning; a system dynamics approach by Zeinab Feizolahi, Mohammadreza Shahbazbegian, Seyed Abdolkarim Hashemi, Siavash Shayan

“…In this regard, one of the most important policy option picked up to reduce these problems is the water-related spatial planning. …”
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初榨橄榄油中的微生物群及其对橄榄油品质的影响 by 许佳敏1，佟祎鑫1，曹月琴1，白万明2，白小勇2，孔维宝1 XU Jiamin1, TONG Yixin1, CAO Yueqin1, BAI Wanming2, BAI Xiaoyong2, KONG Weibao1

“…The negative effects of harmful microbiota on the quality of VOO can be prevented and controlled by avoiding the damage of the olive fruit during pickings and storage, by ensuring the clean of the water used to wash the olive fruit and processing equipment, and by controlling external factors such as temperature, light and oxygen content of the storage environment.…”
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A convolutional neural network for spatial downscaling of satellite-based solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIFnet) by J. Gensheimer, J. Gensheimer, A. J. Turner, P. Köhler, C. Frankenberg, J. Chen

“…SIFnet performs systematically better than the downscaling approach (<span class="inline-formula"><i>r</i>=0.78</span> for SIFnet, <span class="inline-formula"><i>r</i>=0.72</span> for downscaling), indicating that it is picking up on key features related to SIF and GPP. …”
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Curcumin-Injected <i>Musca domestica</i> Larval Hemolymph: Cecropin Upregulation and Potential Anticancer Effect by Shaymaa Mahmoud, Sobhy Hassab El-Nabi, Asmaa Hawash, Hesham R. El-Seedi, Shaden A. M. Khalifa, Sami Ullah, Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi, Islam M. El-Garawani

“…Third larval instars of <i>M. domestica</i> were injected with curcumin and the hemolymph was picked at 4, 8, and 24 h post-curcumin injection. …”
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Ortaöğretim T. C. İnkılâp Tarihi ve Atatürkçülük Dersinde “Şiir Kullanımına” İlişkin Öğretmen Görüşleri by Namık Çencen, Neval BERK

“…The data used in the research picked by survey tool developed for researchers. In-coherence factor value used for stability works is seen as α= 0.76. …”
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Prognostic role of body composition parameters in gastric/gastroesophageal junction cancer patients from the EXPAND trial by Ulrich T. Hacker, Dirk Hasenclever, Nicolas Linder, Gertraud Stocker, Hyun‐Cheol Chung, Yoon‐Koo Kang, Markus Moehler, Harald Busse, Florian Lordick

“…For transferability, the final model included only parameters that were picked by Bayesian information criterion model selection followed by bootstrap analysis to identify the most robust model. …”
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Persistence in a pharmacist-led, same-day PrEP program in Mississippi: a mixed-methods study by Christine M. Khosropour, Taylor Riley, Elise Healy, Kandis V. Backus, Courtney E. Gomillia, Leandro Mena, Khadijra R. Lockwood, Felicia M. Gordon, Arianna R. Means, Lori M. Ward

“…One-quarter (26%) never filled their PrEP prescription, 44% picked up the prescription but never linked into clinical care, 12% linked into care at some point after three months (resulting in a gap in PrEP coverage), and 18% linked into care within 3 months. …”
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Morphology-based noninvasive early prediction of serial-passage potency enhances the selection of clone-derived high-potency cell bank from mesenchymal stem cells by Takashi Suyama, Yuto Takemoto, Hiromi Miyauchi, Yuko Kato, Yumi Matsuzaki, Ryuji Kato

“…Methods LNGFR and Thy-1 co-positive cells from BMMCs were single-cell-sorted into 96-well plates, and only fast-growing clones that reached confluency in 2 weeks were picked up and passaged as RECs. Fifteen RECs were prepared as passage 3 (P3) cryostock as the primary cell bank. …”
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Isolation, purification and PEG-mediated transient expression of mesophyll protoplasts in Camellia oleifera by Sufang Li, Rui Zhao, Tianwen Ye, Rui Guan, Linjie Xu, Xiaoling Ma, Jiaxi Zhang, Shixin Xiao, Deyi Yuan

“…Results The in vitro grown seedlings of C. oleifera ‘Huashuo’ were treated in the dark for 24 h, then the 1st to 2nd true leaves were picked and vacuumed at − 0.07 MPa for 20 min. The maximum yield (3.5 × 107/g·FW) and viability (90.9%) of protoplast were reached when the 1st to 2nd true leaves were digested in the enzymatic solution containing1.5% (w/v) Cellulase R-10, 0.5% (w/v) Macerozyme R-10 and 0.25% (w/v) Snailase and 0.4 M mannitol for 10 h. …”
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Physicochemical and geochemical analysis of groundwater quality in Ilaporu, Ogun State, Nigeria, for domestic and agricultural usage by Fidelis Olatoyosi Ogunsanwo, Jacob Dele Ayanda, Oluwaseun Tolutope Olurin, Olusegun Emmanuel Ogundele, Bolaji Temidayo Ogunsanwo, Kazeem Agboola

“…Hand-dug well waters were picked randomly from thirty (30) major agricultural settlements with the aid of Global Position Satellite (GPS). …”
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Variability in Characterizing Escherichia coli from Cattle Feces: A Cautionary Tale by Kim Stanford, Tim Reuter, Jennyka Hallewell, Renata Tostes, Trevor W. Alexander, Tim A. McAllister

“…In LAB A, colonies of Top 7 were picked after serogroup-specific immunomagnetic separation of feces from western-Canadian slaughter cattle. …”
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Candida auris on Apples: Diversity and Clinical Significance by Anamika Yadav, Kusum Jain, Yue Wang, Kalpana Pawar, Hardeep Kaur, Krishan Kumar Sharma, Vandana Tripathy, Ashutosh Singh, Jianping Xu, Anuradha Chowdhary

“…Interestingly, C. auris was not isolated from freshly picked apples. Together, the results suggest a potentially complex ecology for C. auris with agriculture fungicide application on stored fruits as a significant selective force for drug resistance in clinics. …”
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Tax-Assisted Approaches for Helping Canadians Meet Out-of-Pocket Health-Care Costs by J.C. Herbert Emery

“…Too many Canadians, unfortunately, believe that the federal government picks up the tab for long-term care. In fact, provincial subsidies are provided on a means-testing basis, thus leaving many better-off Canadians in the lurch when they can no longer live alone and must make the transition to long-term care. …”
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Abdominal electromyograms mining: breathing patterns of asleep adults by Gennady Chuiko, Yevhen Darnapuk, Olga Dvornik, Yaroslav Krainyk

“…The object of the study was to obtain a dataset of 40 randomly picked abdominal EMG recordings (sampling rate equal to 200 Hz) borrowed from the complete dataset published by the Computational Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory and the Clinical Data Animation Laboratory of Massachusetts General Hospital. …”
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Descriptive analysis of preschool physical activity and sedentary behaviors – a cross sectional study of 3-year-olds nested in the SKOT cohort by Niels Christian Møller, Line B. Christensen, Christian Mølgaard, Katrine T. Ejlerskov, Karin A. Pfeiffer, Kim F. Michaelsen

“…Methods Valid PA was assessed in 231 children (36.4 ± 1.1 months) with the Actigraph GT3X accelerometer, and information regarding date and time of dropping-off/picking-up children in daycare was provided by parents. …”
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