Barriers to Implementing Intermittent Catheterisation in Spinal Cord Injury Patients in Northwest Regional Spinal Injuries Centre, Southport, U.K. by Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Bakul M. Soni, Gurpreet Singh, Tun Oo, Peter L. Hughes

“…We present illustrative cases to describe practical difficulties encountered by patients while trying to adopt an intermittent catheterisation regime. Barriers to intermittent catheterisation are (1) caregivers or nurses are not available to carry out five or six catheterisations a day; (2) lack of time to perform intermittent catheterisations; (3) unavailability of suitable toilet facilities in public places, including restaurants and offices; (4) redundant prepuce in a male patient, which prevents ready access to urethral meatus; (5) urethral false passage; (6) urethral sphincter spasm requiring the use of flexible-tip catheters and α-drenoceptor–blocking drugs; (7) reluctance to perform intermittent catheterisation in patients >60 years by some health professionals; and (8) difficulty in accessing the urethral meatus for catheterisation while the patient is sitting up, especially in female patients. …”
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The influence of pandemics in neighborhoods’ public realms: Experts’ point of view in light of social capital by A. Asadpour, H. Nikounam Nezami

“…Hence, in light of the social capital paradigm may be revitalized the public realms. Adopting the approach of social capital and its components namely: social interaction, social participation, and spatial equity can improve the socio-physical characteristics of public realms during the outbreak of COVID-19. …”
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OmoiwsiV Qew PROBLEMOS RABINISTINIAME IRHELENISTINIAME JUDAIZME by Kristina Gudelytė

“…In spite of Philo's loyalty to his ancestor's religious views and some traces of his influence on Midrash, the greatest influence he made on Church Fathers, who adopted many of his concepts. Keywords: assimilation to God, God, being, theocentrism, transcendence. …”
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Identification of Buffalo Breeds Using Self-Activated-Based Improved Convolutional Neural Networks by Yuanzhi Pan, Hua Jin, Jiechao Gao, Hafiz Tayyab Rauf

“…Different machine learning (Ml) classifiers are adopted to classify the feature vectors. The proposed framework is evaluated on two buffalo breeds, namely, Neli-Ravi and Khundi, and one additional target class contains different buffalo breeds collectively called Mix. …”
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Health effects of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS): A study among federal civil servants in Bayelsa State, Nigeria by Endurance Uzobo, Aboluwaji D Ayinmoro

“…Methods: A cross-sectional survey was adopted using simple random sampling to recruit 337 federal employees living in the state. …”
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Crystal, ferromagnetism, and magnetoresistance with sign reversal in a EuAgP semiconductor by Qian Zhao, Kaitong Sun, Si Wu, Hai-Feng Li

“…Our investigation utilized a combination of X-ray diffraction, optical, and PPMS DynaCool measurements. EuAgP adopts a hexagonal structure with the P63/mmc space group. …”
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Diagnóstico de la gestión de la construcción e implementación de la constructabilidad en empresas de obras civiles Diagnosis of construction management and constructability impleme... by Zulay Giménez Palavicini, Carlos Suárez Isea

“…Studied topics include: constructability application concepts, recognition of constructability barriers, top management recommendations to adopt the methodology, decision making process to lead program consolidation through change management. …”
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Shared decision-making interventions in the choice of antipsychotic prescription in people living with psychosis (SHAPE): Protocol for a realist review. by Ita Fitzgerald, Laura J Sahm, Jo Howe, Ian Maidment, Emma Wallace, Erin K Crowley

“…<h4>Background</h4>Shared decision-making (SDM) has yet to be successfully adopted into routine use in psychiatric settings amongst people living with severe mental illnesses. …”
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Exploring the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Learning Experience, Mental Health, Adaptability, and Resilience Among Health Informatics Master’s Students: Focus Group Study by Nadia Davoody, Natalia Stathakarou, Cara Swain, Stefano Bonacina

“…Institutions play a critical role in ensuring equitable access to technology, guiding and supporting educators in adopting innovative tools and methods, and offering mental health resources to assist students in overcoming the challenges of evolving educational environments. …”
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Sustainable Agricultural Management of Land Using Technology for Soil and Water Conservation within the Central Rift Valley, Central Ethiopia by Tesfaye Birhan, Wondimagegnehu Tekalign

“…A number of factors, including age, family size, education, topography, distance from the homestead, income, and the availability of training, have a big impact on whether or not soil and water conservation methods are adopted. The majority of farmers use mixed farming followed by crop production to meet their livelihood needs. …”
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Adversarial patch defense algorithm based on PatchTracker by Zhenjie XIAO, Shiyu HUANG, Feng YE, Liqing HUANG, Tianqiang HUANG

“…The application of deep neural networks in target detection has been widely adopted in various fields.However, the introduction of adversarial patch attacks, which add local perturbations to images to mislead deep neural networks, poses a significant threat to target detection systems based on vision techniques.To tackle this issue, an adversarial patch defense algorithm based on PatchTracker was proposed, leveraging the semantic differences between adversarial patches and image backgrounds.This algorithm comprised an upstream patch detector and a downstream data enhancement module.The upstream patch detector employed a YOLOV5 (you only look once-v5) model with attention mechanism to determine the locations of adversarial patches, thereby improving the detection accuracy of small-scale adversarial patches.Subsequently, the detected regions were covered with appropriate pixel values to remove the adversarial patches.This module effectively reduced the impact of adversarial examples without relying on extensive training data.The downstream data enhancement module enhanced the robustness of the target detector by modifying the model training paradigm.Finally, the image with removed patches was input into the downstream YOLOV5 target detection model, which had been enhanced through data augmentation.Cross-validation was performed on the public TT100K traffic sign dataset.Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed algorithm effectively defended against various types of generic adversarial patch attacks when compared to situations without defense measures.The algorithm improves the mean average precision (mAP) by approximately 65% when detecting adversarial patch images, effectively reducing the false negative rate of small-scale adversarial patches.Moreover, compared to existing algorithms, this approach significantly enhances the accuracy of neural networks in detecting adversarial samples.Additionally, the method exhibited excellent compatibility as it does not require modification of the downstream model structure.…”
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Barriers and facilitators to engagement with between-session work for low-intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)-based interventions: a qualitative exploration of practition... by Mia Bennion, Amy Blakemore, Karina Lovell, Penny Bee

“…Conclusions Findings underscore the importance of practitioner behaviours in optimising patient engagement between-sessions, offering clear directions to enhance treatment outcomes in globally adopted low-intensity interventions.…”
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Role of oral health literacy in demand for oral healthcare services for missing teeth replacement among dental patients visiting a dental teaching hospital in India by Duggineni Chalapathi Rao, Sudhakar Vundavalli, Meignana Arumugham Indiran, Atluri Kaleswara Rao, Doppalapudi Radhika, Mahmoud Gamal Salloum

“…A prevalidated questionnaire adopted from Oral Health Literacy Adult Questionnaire (OHL-AQ) was used for data collection and american dental association (ADA) type IV clinical examination was used for recording missing teeth. …”
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On the state of nature and social life: thinking about humans and chimpanzees by Eliane Sebeika Rapchan

“…In other words, this text proposes reflecting on the degrees of autonomy of social and cultural phenomena in relation to chimpanzee and human evolutionary predisposition to social life and to symbolic production as well as on the adaptive and non-adaptive aspects of these phenomena. This analysis adopted Rousseau's theory on the “State of Nature” and “State of Society” considering modern primatology from an anthropological point of view resulting in the invention of two concepts: “nature social primate” “primate social nature” and “human cultural nature”.…”
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Comparative analysis of outsourcing and in house warehouse management system to improve productivity and stock accuracy by Untung Alamsah, Anang Muftiadi, ⁠Ria Arifianti

“…These results highlight the strategic advantages of adopting an in-house WMS, underscoring its role in enhancing operational efficiency and maintaining competitiveness in the dynamic FMCG market.…”
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Green supply chain management: An empirical study in enhancing green economic performance by Chriss Narick Mangoukou Ngouapegne, Elizabeth Chinomona, Welby Vandrys Loury Okoumba

“…Contribution: This study is significant for South African manufacturing companies because it offers opportunities for achieving GEP by adopting and comprehending GSCM practices. The findings will aid in the implementation of these practices in Gauteng province’s manufacturing firms.…”
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With Collies Graven on His Heart: The Canine Projections of Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934) by Peter Merchant

“…Soon after adopting ‘F. Anstey’ as his nom de plume, Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934) scored a striking success with his début novel Vice Versâ (1882). …”
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Asymmetric risk contagion effect of the interaction between the real economy and the financial sector—an analysis based on the domestic commodity price index by Quan Yonghui, Miao Wenlong

“…These findings are significant for improving systemic financial risk monitoring indicators and adopting accurate prevention and control measures.…”
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CHILD VISITATIONS WITH FATHERS SERVING A PRISON SENTENCE by Aneta Jarzębińska

“…The highest percentage of fathers visited by their child was recorded among married fathers, those classified in the oldest age group adopted in the study, those with a high school education, those serving a long-term sentence, those serving their current sentence having spent no more than three years in prison, and those in prison isolation for the first time.…”
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Investigation of the application of an automated monitoring system for detecting transmission cable deterioration in Nigeria: A case study of transmission cable lines between Offa... by C.S. Omoniabipi, R. Agbadede, K.C. Emmanuel, O.J. Adewuni, I. Allison

“…Both forward propagation and backpropagation techniques were adopted for training Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), and the gradient descent with momentum algorithm was employed for optimization. …”
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