Most newly created online content in the past year remained primarily human-made.
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More than 50% of newly created online content produced in the past 12 months was produced with AI assistance or generated by AI.
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No reliable evidence shows Lima Norte students have higher depression prevalence.
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The prevalence of depression among university students in Lima Norte, Lima, Peru, is higher than the prevalence of depression among university students in other parts of Lima, Peru.
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The CJEU treats “court or tribunal” in Article 267 TFEU as an autonomous EU-law concept.
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The Court of Justice of the European Union interprets the term "court or tribunal" in Article 267 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union as an autonomous EU-law concept rather than relying on national legal definitions.
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Gastrodiscoides hominis diagnosis relies on microscopy, with only conventional PCR reported.
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A quantitative PCR (qPCR) assay has been developed and validated to detect Gastrodiscoides hominis DNA in clinical or environmental samples.
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Flatworms lack a specialized circulatory system, relying on diffusion and a gastrovascular cavity.
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Members of the phylum Platyhelminthes (flatworms) lack a specialized circulatory system.
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U.S. anti-communist efforts sometimes leveraged religious networks in Latin America.
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The United States Central Intelligence Agency supported the expansion of Protestant Christianity in Latin America as a strategy to reduce the influence of liberation theology.
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Muhammad Ali’s gravesite at Cave Hill Cemetery remains intact and open.
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Muhammad Ali's grave was dug up.
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Lemon juice is not a proven treatment for old scars and can worsen discoloration.
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Massaging lemon juice on a scar for about 10 minutes two to three times per week lightens the skin and helps remove old scars.
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Odors of many traditional Chinese medicinal materials mainly arise from volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds.
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The odor of traditional Chinese medicinal materials primarily comes from volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds, including terpenes, alcohols, esters, aldehydes and ketones, aromatic compounds, and small amounts of sulfur-containing…
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District reports flag absent parenting as a key challenge in Chris Hani.
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In the Chris Hani District Municipality in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, low parental involvement is a significant barrier to monitoring Grade 3 learners' academic progress in primary schools.
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In March 2003, the United States led a coalition invasion of Iraq.
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The United States and its coalition partners invaded Iraq in 2003.
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Germany is a key European market for fresh cape gooseberries, including Peruvian supply.
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Germany is a significant import market for fresh cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana), including product sourced from Peru.
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The 1924 Immigration Act set quotas at 2% of each nationality’s foreign-born U.S. population in the 1890 census.
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The Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson–Reed Act) limited annual immigration for each nationality to 2% of the foreign-born population of that nationality living in the United States as recorded in the 1890 census.
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Amazon rainforest fragmentation reduces many forest-interior species and disrupts ecological processes.
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Habitat fragmentation in the Amazon rainforest has caused measurable declines in wildlife and plant biodiversity and has disrupted ecosystems.
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Intensive hunting and forest fragmentation can jointly accelerate wildlife declines in tropical forests.
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In human-dominated landscapes, intensive hunting interacts synergistically with forest fragmentation to further threaten wildlife populations.
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New and improved Amazon highways expand access, driving settlement and logging.
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New highways in the Amazon Basin have enabled settlers and loggers to access the interior of the Amazon Basin.
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Amazon forest fragmentation creates hotter, drier edges, worsening fires and wildlife losses.
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Forest fragmentation in the Amazon rainforest increases the vulnerability of forests to droughts and fires and negatively affects many animal species.
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Amazon deforestation spiked in 2019–2022, then fell sharply in 2023–2025.
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In recent years, deforestation and logging rates in the Amazon rainforest have accelerated, and the spatial patterns of forest loss in the Amazon rainforest have changed.
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Late-1930s and 1940s Japanese officials tied eugenics to national strength.
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During the 1930s and 1940s, the Japanese government linked eugenics to nationalism by arguing that Japan's national strength depended on the biological quality of its citizens.
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Japan’s early eugenics policies drew on U.S. sterilization laws and European models.
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Japan's eugenics policies in the early 20th century were influenced by eugenics policies in Europe and the United States.
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