System Dynamics Modeling Can be Leveraged to Predict Critical Care Pathways and Costs for End Stage Renal Disease: US Population to 2020 by Luca Fernandez, Christopher Koliba, Asim Zia, Katharine Cheung, Richard Solomon, Christopher Jones

“…**Background:** End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) accounts for 9% of Medicare spending, with the beneficiaries suffering from ESRD costing 7-9 times more than the average. …”
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Renewable Energy in China by V. I. Salygin, I. A. Guliyev, M. I. Ryabova

“…In 2012 and 2013 economic growth stumbled because of slowdown in manufacturing and exports, taking into account that Chinese government was eager to cut inflation and excessive investments in some segments of the market. …”
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Medicalização do parto: a apropriação dos processos reprodutivos femininos como causa da violência obstétrica by Kenia Martins Pimenta Fernandes, Carlos Mendes Rosa

“…These aspects are among the main obstacles to dealing with obstetric violence, which needs to be looked at in an intersectional manner, with a focus on women’s autonomy regarding their bodies, taking into account the different forms of oppression to which they are subjected.…”
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Ad hoc properties and locations in Maltese by Gréte Dalmi

“…The present proposal combines Maienborn’s (2003, 2005a,b, 2011) discourse-semantic theory of copular sentences with Richardson’s (2001, 2007) analysis of non-verbal adjunct predicates in Russian, based on alternative states. Under this combined account, variation between the ad hoc vs. habitual interpretations of non-verbal predicates is derived from the presence or absence of a modal OPalt operator that can bind the temporal variable of non-verbal predicates in accessible worlds, in the sense of Kratzer (1991). …”
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Legitimate expectation in administrative procedure by Romić Marko Lj

“…In 2016, the new Law on General Administrative Procedure in Serbia introduced the principle of foreseeability, which stipulates that administrative bodies, when resolving a specific administrative matter, are obliged to take into account their earlier decisions made in the same or similar matters. …”
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An analyzing the distribution pattern of land uses in learning cities with spatial justice approach (Case Study: Zanjan City) by mohsen kalantari, hossein tahmasebi moghadam, bahareh Akbari Monfared

“…In addition, in order to analyze the findings, after describing the basic concepts of the learning city and taking into account the principles and indicators governing it, from two indicators of capacity and social justice have been used in the framework of comparing per capita and desirable levels, Nearest Neighborhood (NN) and entropy techniques. …”
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Espaces publics et mixité culturelle, pour un renouvellement du tourisme tunisien by Saloua Toumi, Roland Vidal

“…Yet, one will have to take into account the probable evolution of the tourism demand. …”
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Reshaping the Contours of State Responsibility for Employing Private Military Companies: a Case Study Analysis of Russia’s Role in Wagner’s Activities in Ukraine by Iurie Patricheev

“…This study investigates legal accountability of the Russian Federation for private military company (PMC) Wagner’s actions in Ukraine, highlighting the applicability and limitations of customary international rules on state responsibility. …”
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Positive-Sum Game-Based Capacity Configuration Planning Method of Solar-Wind-Battery System Designed for Black-Start by Hejun Yang, Zhibo Liu, Yinghao Ma

“…Taking the economic benefit of SWBS and the black-start capacity requirement into account, this paper establishes a positive-sum game-based SWBS capacity optimal configuration model, in which maximizing the economic benefits of SWBS as an objective. …”
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Navigating global fashion policy: labor, environment, and future directions for sustainability by Meital Peleg Mizrachi

“…Proposed measures, such as France’s fast-fashion tax and the New York Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act, further highlight the growing recognition of fashion's impacts. …”
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CONSULTANCY SERVICES MARKET FOR MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES IN CROATIA by Anamarija Delić, Mirela Alpeza

“…The results of this study and the recommendations can be used by a wide network of advisory service providers for MSMEs (e.g. accountants, lawyers, IT consultants) for improving the quality of service and identification of market niches. …”
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Are Nuclear Star Clusters the Precursors of Massive Black Holes? by Nadine Neumayer, C. Jakob Walcher

“…We find the following. (1) The MBH-σ relation cannot flatten at low masses, but may steepen. (2) The MBH-Mbulge relation may well flatten in contrast. (3) The MBH-Sersic n relation is able to account for the large scatter in black hole masses in low-mass disk galaxies. …”
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Characterization of Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis by Niovis Sosa Barberena, Roberto Angel Polo Amarante, Sandra Nancy Mendez Rogríguez, Mabel Sosa Barberena

“…<br /> <strong>Results:</strong> the 45 to 54 age group was the most affected by the condition. Males accounted for 63.7%. Cienfuegos municipality showed the highest prevalence with 27.6 per 100 000 inhabitants. …”
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Noninvasive Method for a Statewide Survey of Eastern Hellbenders Cryptobranchus alleganiensis Using Environmental DNA by Amy J. Santas, Tyler Persaud, Barbara A. Wolfe, Jenise M. Bauman

“…Hellbender presence was identified by using hellbender specific primers (cytochrome b gene) to detect eDNA in water samples collected at rivers, streams and creeks in Ohio and Kentucky with historical accounts of the imperiled eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus a. alleganiensis). …”
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A Bayesian Adaptive Design in Cancer Phase I Trials Using Dose Combinations in the Presence of a Baseline Covariate by Márcio Augusto Diniz, Sungjin Kim, Mourad Tighiouart

“…A Bayesian adaptive design for dose finding of a combination of two drugs in cancer phase I clinical trials that takes into account patients heterogeneity thought to be related to treatment susceptibility is described. …”
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Community counseling strategies to improve mental health literacy by Sindi Ayudia Pama, Diana Septi Purnama, Anisa Siti Nurjanah, Naufal Alwan Adilah, Muhammad Fahli Zatrahadi, Ellya Roza

“…Data were collected using a community awareness instrument for mental health services, implemented through an internet-based survey hosted on the Sobat Konseling account. The data analysis was conducted using descriptive statistics. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Approaches to Teaching Students with Hearing Impairments and Students without Disabilities at a Technical University by O. A. Oreshkina, P. V. Slitikov

“…The authors developed and tested a methodological approach to solving the problem of content accessibility of educational resources in chemistry for hearing impaired students at technical university by creating special conditions for their mastering, taking into account their limitations. Particular educational conditions include support of hearing impaired students by additional adaptational course of chemistry with a focus on individualized teaching applying a number of cognitive technologies. …”
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A Clinico-Epidemiological Study of Cutaneous Adverse Drug Reactions in a Tertiary Care Centre of Eastern India by Sujata Sinha, Chinamy Kar, Sudip Das, Arnab Dutta, Abhishek De

“…Severe cutaneous adverse drug reactions (SCARs) such as SJS, TEN, SJS-TEN Overlap, AGEP and DRESS accounted for 18 cases (25%). The most common culprit drugs were antimicrobials (54.16%), followed by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (15.27%) and anticonvulsants (12.5%). …”
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A Foreign Speech Accent in a Case of Conversion Disorder by Jo Verhoeven, Peter Mariën, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Hugo D’Haenen, Peter De Deyn

“…Structural as well as functional neuroimaging did not reveal evidence that could account for the behavioural symptoms. By contrast psychological investigations indicated conversion disorder. …”
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Problematic Issues of Guaranteeing Property and Personal Non-Property Rights of Victims within Criminal Proceedings by O. O. Yukhno

“…A number of inconsistencies, gaps and shortcomings of the current criminal, criminal procedural and civil legislation on the specified issues, in particular taking into account the existing new market legal relations in society, which prevents effective and reliable compensation for damage to both individuals and legal entities. …”
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