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Assessing the Preference and Restorative Potential of Urban Park Blue Space

Land, 2021
Urban parks are essential parts of a city’s natural environment, and blue spaces of urban parks bring aesthetic and health benefits to people. However, the current blue spaces mainly focus on the marine environment or a giant water body scale at the ...
Shixian Luo, Jing Xie, Katsunori Furuya
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Development of Electrophoretic Deposition Prototype for Continuous Production of Carbon Nanotube-Modified Carbon Fiber Fabrics Used in High-Performance Multifunctional Composites

Fibers, 2018
An electrophoretic deposition (EPD) prototype was developed aiming at the continuous production of carbon nanotube (CNT) deposited carbon fiber fabric.
Guan Gong, Birgitha Nyström, Erik Sandlund, Daniel Eklund, Maxime Noël, Robert Westerlund, Sofia Stenberg, Liva Pupure, Andrejs Pupurs, Roberts Joffe   +9 more
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Quantitative Analysis of Seasonality and the Impact of COVID-19 on Tourists’ Use of Urban Green Space in Okinawa: An ARIMA Modeling Approach Using Web Review Data

Land, 2023
We employed publicly available user-generated content (UGC) data from the website Tripadvisor and developed an autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model using the R language to analyze the seasonality of the use of urban green space (UGS) in
Ruochen Yang, Kun Liu, Chang Su, Shiro Takeda, Junhua Zhang, Shuhao Liu   +5 more
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Effects of Concentration and Temperature of Nutrient Solution on Growth and Camptothecin Accumulation of Ophiorrhiza pumila

Plants, 2020
The medicinal plant, Ophiorrhiza pumila, naturally grows on the floors of humid inland forests in subtropical areas. It accumulates camptothecin (CPT), which is used as an anti-tumor agent, in all organs.
Ji-Yoon Lee, Miki Hiyama, Shoko Hikosaka, Eiji Goto   +3 more
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Optimization of Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density and Light Quality for Increasing Radiation-Use Efficiency in Dwarf Tomato under LED Light at the Vegetative Growth Stage

Plants, 2021
Dwarf tomatoes are advantageous when cultivated in a plant factory with artificial light because they can grow well in a small volume. However, few studies have been reported on cultivation in a controlled environment for improving productivity.
Xinglin Ke, Hideo Yoshida, Shoko Hikosaka, Eiji Goto   +3 more
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Light-Intercepting Characteristics and Growth of Tomatoes Cultivated in a Greenhouse Using a Movable Bench System

Horticulturae, 2022
The objective of this study was to investigate the growth and light-intercepting characteristics of tomatoes when movable benches are used in their cultivation. We cultivated tomatoes in a greenhouse (168 m2) during summer (9 July–9 September 2018) under
Yuta Ohashi, Misato Murai, Yasuhiro Ishigami, Eiji Goto   +3 more
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Effect of intake of virgin coconut oil (Cocos nucifera L.) on the spleen and small intestinal immune cells and liver lipid of mice

Ceylon Journal of Science, 2021
Virgin coconut oil (Cocos nucifera L.) (VCO) is consumed worldwide and is rich in medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) and lauric acid (LA). The aim of this study was to examine the immuno-stimulation effect of VCO produced in Sri Lanka. Three groups of mice
N. Komatsuzaki, S. Arai, S. Fujihara, R. G. S. Wijesekara   +3 more
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Reviews [PDF]

, 2001
Danny Saunders and Nina Smalley (eds.), The International Simulation and Gaming Research Yearbook — Volume 8: Simulations and Games for Transition and Change, London: Kogan Page, 2000. ISBN: 0–7494–3397–3.
Barker, Philip, Clark, Linda, Frank, Andrea, Jones, Chris, Jordan, Gillian, Pearson, Elaine, Traxler, John   +6 more
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Teachers' classroom feedback: still trying to get it right [PDF]

, 2012
This article examines feedback traditionally given by teachers in schools. Such feedback tends to focus on children's acquisition and retrieval of externally prescribed knowledge which is then assessed against mandated tests.
Alexander R., Black P., Cobb P., Dann R., Eckert P., Eleanore Hargreaves, Elwood J., Everitt A., Green L., Green L., Hargreaves E., Hattie J., James M., Lin A.M., Newman D., Sinclair J., Stobart G., Torrance H., Williams E.   +18 more
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Fine needle aspiration cytology of hepatic metastases of neuroendocrine tumors: A 20‐year retrospective, single institutional study [PDF]

, 2017
Background Fine needle aspiration (FNA) is considered an excellent technique for documenting metastatic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). This study aims to evaluate the accuracy of FNA in diagnosing metastatic NETs to the liver and determining the grade ...
Cramer, Harvey, Saeed, Omer A., Wang, Xiaoyan, Wu, Howard H.   +3 more
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