The rise of congenital syphilis in Canada: threats and opportunities by Ashorkor Tetteh, Victoria Moore

“…Key recommendations for maximizing impact in curbing infectious and congenital syphilis rates include the following: planning an integrated strategy for addressing sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections as a whole; adopting a more holistic approach to improving health and wellbeing; developing targeted interventions for addressing structural and social barriers to health equity; and taking a collaborative approach to response by involving multilevel stakeholders, such as key populations, community groups, health care providers, and public health authorities.…”
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The Threat from European Missile Defence System to Russian National Security by A. I. Podberezkin, J. Y. Parshkova

“…In February 2010, the President of the United States B. Obama adopted a project "European Phased Adaptive Approach" (EPAA) as an alternative to G. …”
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Accelerating superconductor discovery through tempered deep learning of the electron-phonon spectral function by Jason B. Gibson, Ajinkya C. Hire, Philip M. Dee, Oscar Barrera, Benjamin Geisler, Peter J. Hirschfeld, Richard G. Hennig

“…To overcome this challenge, we adopt a two-step approach. First, we compute α 2 F(ω) for 818 dynamically stable materials. …”
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Body image in women participants of strength training: association with sociodemographic factors and practice time by Manoela Vieira Sousa, Cilene Rebolho Martins, Morgana Lunardi, Grazieli Maria Biduski, Elisa Pinheiro Ferrari, Cíntia de la Rocha Freitas

“…A descriptive analysis was used, chi-squared test and Fisher’s Exact test were adopted at a significance level of 5%. The results demonstrated that among all participants, 87.0% were satisfaction with BI. …”
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Multi-level lag scheme significantly improves training efficiency in deep learning: a case study in air quality alert service over sub-tropical area by Benedito Chi Man Tam, Su-Kit Tang, Alberto Cardoso

“…This research aims to adopt an adaptive approach to solve it, namely, multi-level lag scheme. …”
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Effects of phonophoresis gel lipolytic assets in abdominal adiposity by Rodrigo Marcel Valentim da Silva, Patricia Froes Meyer, Jaiane Ferreira de Souza, Jamille Lira de Oliveira Félix, Edjane Barbosa Santana Delgado, Luana de Oliveira Queiroz, Melyssa Lima de Medeiros

“…Statistical analysis was performed using Microsoft Excel software using the paired t test, adopting a significance level of 95% (p < 0.05) .The weight of volunteers practically remained the same; in circumference and measures of cutaneous folds decreases were not significant; and there was an in- crease in ultrasound, which was significant. …”
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Pojęcie instrumentu administracyjnoprawnego — zarys tematyki by Krzysztof Horubski

“…However, the title concept is secondary to the adopted criteria for defining administrative law, or its delimitation of the scope of administrative law within sets of norms referred to as “borderline law.” …”
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Monitoring Urban Expansion and Loss of Agriculture on the North Coast of West Java Province, Indonesia, Using Google Earth Engine and Intensity Analysis by Laju Gandharum, Djoko Mulyo Hartono, Asep Karsidi, Mubariq Ahmad

“…As yet, however, no study of land conversion from agriculture to urban areas in Indonesia has adopted GEE and IA approaches simultaneously. Therefore, this study aims to monitor urban penetration to agricultural land in the north coastal region of West Java Province by applying both methods to two time intervals: 2003–2013 and 2013–2020. …”
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Combined Corneal Cross-Linking and Myoring Implantation in Advanced Keratoconus: Femtosecond Laser versus Manual Dissection by Ahmed Ibrahim Basiony, Moataz Fayez ElSawy, Mahmoud Mohamed Ismail, Mohamed Samy Abd ElAziz, Mahmoud Tawfik KhalafAllah, Adel Galal Zaky

“…Intrastromal corneal ring segments are widely adopted for keratoconus management. However, the complete ring (Myoring) was proposed to be superior in advanced cases. …”
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Kaizen Selection for Continuous Improvement through VSM-Fuzzy-TOPSIS in Small-Scale Enterprises: An Indian Case Study by Sunil Kumar, Ashwani Kumar Dhingra, Bhim Singh

“…The findings can inspire the SSEs to adopt the Lean-Kaizen concept for optimizing continuous improvement opportunities in their production industry. …”
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Exploring the development, evaluation and implementation of complex health interventions to prevent early childhood caries in preschool children: A scoping review protocol. by Peggy C J M van Spreuwel, Milou L C Munk-Overkamp, Linda C Smit, Kirsten A Ziesemer, Cor van Loveren, Geert J M G van der Heijden, Josef J M Bruers, Katarina Jerković-Ćosić

“…<h4>Discussion</h4>The proposed review will generate evidence which may provide a direction for the future design of studies on CHI's to prevent ECC and more complete information for those who want to adopt successful interventions to prevent ECC.…”
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L’École de journalisme d’Alger (1964-1990) : les défis d’une formation professionnelle by Chloé Nejma Rondeleux

“…With the evolution of this university institute, the only place in Algeria for training in the information trades, there emerge different visions of the figure of the journalist and the great transformations of higher education in Algeria, of which the most striking is Arabisation.By considering, on the one hand, ministerial supervision and, on the other, the socialist and Third World positions adopted by Algerian political managers from 1962, this article favours an internal view of the institute. …”
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Optimisation of Longitudinal Seismic Energy Dissipation System for Straddle-type Monorail-Cum-Road Long-Span Cable-Stayed Bridge by Xiong Liang, Baomu Li, Xiaolu Liu, Linong Liang

“…To investigate the optimal longitudinal seismic energy dissipation system of straddle-type monorail-cum-road long-span cable-stayed bridges, the Niutianyang Bridge was selected as the engineering background, and the explicit time-domain dimension-reduced iteration method was adopted to carry out nonlinear time-history analysis. …”
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Growth and survival of giant gourami juvenile immersed in freshwater containing growth hormone by Pustika Ratnawati, . Alimuddin, Harton Arfah, Agus Oman Sudrajat

“…Thus, immersion of giant gourami juvenile in freshwater containing rGH for 0.5 hour allowed highest growth rate, and this method is relatively easy to be adopted by fish hatchery. Keywords: immersion, hormone, growth, freshwater, giant gourami …”
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Characterization of Alpha Mangostin Loaded-Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticle and the Impact on Dissolution and Physical Stability by Aulifa DL, Saepudin AH, Margaretha P, Khairinisa MA, Budiman A

“…Therefore, this study aimed to elucidate the mechanism of poorly water-soluble drugs within MSN, as well as evaluate the impact on the dissolution and physical stability.Methods: Alpha mangostin (AM) was adopted as a model of a poorly water-soluble drug, while MSN with the pore size of 45 Å (MSN45) and 120 Å (MSN120) were used as Mesoporous materials. …”
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FBI-Net: Frequency-Based Image Forgery Localization via Multitask Learning With Self-Attention by A-Rom Gu, Ju-Hyeon Nam, Sang-Chul Lee

“…Our proposed network adopts a fully convolutional encoder-decoder architecture, consisting of three encoders sharing parameters, a bridge attention module, and two output streams in the decoder. …”
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Classification of palm oil fruit ripeness based on AlexNet deep Convolutional Neural Network by Rudi Kurniawan, Samsuryadi Samsuryadi, Fatma Susilawati Mohamad, Harma Oktafia Lingga Wijaya, Budi Santoso

“…These findings suggest that adopting AlexNet can enhance the palm oil industry's operational efficiency and product quality. …”
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Effect of the hour-1 bundle on clinical outcomes in patients with sepsis and septic shock: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis. by Shukun Hong, Hongye Wang, Xiaoguang Fan, Jian Liu, Lujun Qiao

“…<h4>Background</h4>According to the 2018 bundle guidelines of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, many emergency departments and intensive care units currently adopt the hour-1 bundle as a standard practice for sepsis management. …”
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Securitization of China in the NATO discourse in the late 2010s— early 2020s: Towards a global collective identity by Yu. Yu. Melnikova

“…By the early 2020s, the NATO representatives have adopted an increasingly alarmist rhetoric regarding China’s strengthening positions in the international relations. …”
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Network approaches and interventions in healthcare settings: A systematic scoping review. by Ameneh Ghazal Saatchi, Francesca Pallotti, Paul Sullivan

“…The majority of the papers used SNA for descriptive purposes only. Only four studies adopted SNA as an intervention tool, and measured outcome variables.…”
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