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Open AccessImpact of patrilocality on contrasting patterns of paternal and maternal heritage in Central-West Africa
Despite their ancient past and high diversity, African populations are the least represented in human population genetic studies. In this study, uniparental markers (mtDNA and Y chromosome) were used to invest...
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Open AccessPreclinical dental students self-assessment of an improved operative dentistry virtual reality simulator with haptic feedback
To test and evaluate the second installment of DENTIFY, a virtual reality haptic simulator for Operative Dentistry (OD), on preclinical dental students, by focusing on user performance and self-assessment. Twe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Rethinking Smart Mobility: A Systematic Literature Review of Its Effects on Sustainability
Smart mobility has been a subject of great interest among scholars, governments, and business. Although several studies have analyzed smart mobility strategies to develop sustainable cities, a gap has been ide...
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The Power of a Multisensory Experience—An Outlook on Consumer Satisfaction and Loyalty
The design of a multisensory experience at a point of sale is in current times (and markets) essential for the success of a brand. This article aims to verify the influence of the sensory domain on the visual ...
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Diversity of Bryozoa in Iceland
The establishment of baseline information on biodiversity is important as contemporary biodiversity might act as a bioindicator of environmental change. It is especially important at locations which are expect...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
QuickFaaS: Providing Portability and Interoperability Between FaaS Platforms
Serverless computing hides infrastructure management from developers and runs code on-demand automatically scaled and billed only during code’s execution time. One of the most popular serverless backend servic...
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Dietary tryptophan supplementation does not affect growth but increases brain serotonin level and modulates the expression of some liver genes in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
This study aimed at assessing the effects of the dietary tryptophan (Trp) supplementation on growth and feed utilization, brain serotonin content, and expression of selected liver genes (involved in the liver ...
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A Tool for Collaborative Anatomical Dissection
3D reconstruction from anatomical slices permits anatomists to create three-dimensional depictions of real structures by tracing organs from sequences of cryosections. A wide variety of tools for 3D reconstruc...
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Effect of Biochar on Emission of Greenhouse Gases and Productivity of Cardoon Crop (Cynara cardunculus L.)
Cardoon could be cropped for agro-environmental, industrial, and pharmaceutical purposes. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of biochar on emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and ...
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A potential zoonotic parasite, the digenean Gymnophalloides nacellae, on the Magellanic coast in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean: its life cycle and geographical distribution
This is an integrative study of a potential zoonotic digenean from the Magellanic Southwestern Atlantic coast. The life cycle of the gymnophallid Gymnophalloides nacellae Cremonte, Pina, Gilardoni, Rodrigues, Cha...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Image Recognition to Improve Positioning in Smart Urban Environments
This paper describes a solution and algorithm to enhance positioning in outdoor environments with high buildings to be used in a mobile application to aid visually impaired people for navigation purposes. We ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Influence of Brand Experience in City Marketing
This study aims to understand the extent to which brand experience influences city marketing by investigating its influence on visitor-based brand equity (based on consumer-based brand equity scale), as well a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Role of Digital Influencers on Buying Intention
This paper aims to understand the role of digital influencers in consumer and brand loyalty. In line with this, a study was performed with 261 respondents over 16 years old and users of the social networks eva...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Performance of Electro-Fenton Water Treatment Technology in Decreasing Zebrafish Embryotoxicity Elicited by a Mixture of Organic Contaminants
Electro-Fenton technology was able to decrease zebrafish embryotoxicity of fluoxetine and pirimicarb, when single or in mixture.
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Embryotoxicity and Molecular Alterations of Fluoxetine and Norfluoxetine in Early Zebrafish Larvae
Embryos and larvae exposed to FLX showed higher mortality rates at 32 hpf than those exposed to NFLX. At 80 hpf gross malformations, mainly in pigmentation, were higher in NFLX exposed larvae than in FLX expos...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Human Senses as Consumption and Brand Identity Boosters
Brands increasingly seek to stand out from the competition and reach beyond the minds of consumers. This research has as main objective to understand the importance of the senses and sensorial stimuli in the c...
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Myxozoan biodiversity in mullets (Teleostei, Mugilidae) unravels hyperdiversification of Myxobolus (Cnidaria, Myxosporea)
Mullets are ecologic and commercially important fish species. Their ubiquitous nature allows them to play critical roles in freshwater and marine ecosystems but makes them more vulnerable to diseases and paras...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Approach to Sound and Acoustics in Primary Education Using Arduino
In recent years the rapid pace of digital advances made technological devices more accessible to a wider public and broaden their application scopes. Nowadays, schools have easier access to several technologic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Employer Brand Love: The Key for Attracting and Retaining Talent: An Abstract
Employer brand love originates from two different constructs—employer brand and brand love. When performing a quick search in several databases from mainstream to scientific literature, some attempts to presen...
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Open AccessGlobal Island Monitoring Scheme (GIMS): a proposal for the long-term coordinated survey and monitoring of native island forest biota
Islands harbour evolutionary and ecologically unique biota, which are currently disproportionately threatened by a multitude of anthropogenic factors, including habitat loss, invasive species and climate chang...
