A children's champion for Scotland by Susan Elsley

“…The next step will be to introduce a non-executive bill, led by the Education, Culture and Sport Committee into the Scottish Parliament. …”

Mesenchymal Stem Cell Biodistribution, Migration, and Homing In Vivo by Weian Zhao, Donald G. Phinney, Dominique Bonnet, Massimo Dominici, Mauro Krampera

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Sequential double quantum blind signature protocol by Hui WANG, Run-hua SHI, Hong ZHONG, Jie CUI, Shun ZHANG, Kai-ting WANG

“…Considering the fact that both party banks need to sign on the same bill because of the inter-bank E-payment in real life.A sequential double blind signature protocol based on the quantum coherence and quantum entanglement was proposed for the first time.Consumer blinded the message at first and each bank signed the blinded message one by one.The advantage of this protocol is that it only requires particle measurements for the verification without any quantum unitary operation.In addition,the proposed protocol obtains the higher efficiency and accuracy in the phase of signature verification,compared with other single quantum blind signature schemes.…”
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Lung function and onset of cardiometabolic diseases in the longitudinal Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease study by Andre F S Amaral, Andrzej Pająk, Thorarinn Gislason, Syed Masud Ahmed, Rain Jogi, Abdul Rashid, Christine Jenkins, Fiona McLean, James Potts, Tobias Welte, Dali Wang, Eric Bateman, Wen Wang, Zafar Fatmi, Kevin Mortimer, Christer Janson, Nanshan Zhong, João Cardoso, Parvaiz A Koul, Rune Nielsen, Nazrul Islam, Graham Devereux, Andrei Malinovschi, Sanjay Juvekar, Talant Sooronbaev, Berik Emilov, Bertrand Mbatchou, Ayola Akim Adegnika, Padukudru Anand Mahesh, Kate Hardaker, EFM Wouters, Imed Harrabi, Amund Gulsvik, Sundeep Salvi, Muhammad Irfan, Bill Brashier, Inga Sif Ólafsdóttir, Zouhair Tabka, Peter G J Burney, Jaymini Patel, Filip Mejza, David M Mannino, Meriam Denguezli, Michael Studnicka, Althea Aquart-Stewart, Parvaiz Koul, Herve Lawin, Asaad Ahmed Nafees, Olayemi Awopeju, Gregory E Erhabor, Louisa Gnatiuc, Ali Kocabas, Cristina Barbara, Hasan Hafizi, Anila Aliko, Donika Bardhi, Holta Tafa, Natasha Thanasi, Arian Mezini, Alma Teferici, Dafina Todri, Jolanda Nikolla, Rezarta Kazasi, Hamid Hacene Cherkaski, Amira Bengrait, Tabarek Haddad, Ibtissem Zgaoula, Maamar Ghit, Abdelhamid Roubhia, Soumaya Boudra, Feryal Atoui, Randa Yakoubi, Rachid Benali, Abdelghani Bencheikh, Nadia Ait-Khaled, Guy Marks, Tessa Bird, Paola Espinel, Brett Toelle, Torkil Dawes, Bernd Lamprecht, Lea Schirhofer, Akramul Islam, Shayla Islam, Qazi Shafayetul Islam, Mesbah Ul-Haque, Tridib Roy Chowdhury, Sukantha Kumar Chatterjee, Dulal Mia, Shyamal Chandra Das, Mizanur Rahman, Shahaz Uddin, Nurul Islam, Luiza Khatun, Monira Parvin, Abdul Awal Khan, Maidul Islam, Arsene Kpangon, Karl Kpossou, Gildas Agodokpessi, Paul Ayelo, Benjamin Fayomi, Atongno Humphrey Ashu, Wan C Tan, Shengming Liu, Jiachun Lu, Pixin Ran, Yumin Zhou, Hendrik Laja, Katrin Ulst, Vappu Zobel, Toomas-Julius Lill, Isabelle Bodemann, Henning Geldmacher, Bryndis Benedikdtsdottir, Kristin Jörundsdottir, Lovisa Gudmundsdottir, Sigrun Gudmundsdottir, Mahesh Rao, Sajjad Malik, Nissar A Hakim, Umar Hafiz Khan, Rohini Chowgule, Vasant Shetye, Jonelle Raphael, Rosel Almeda, Mahesh Tawde, Rafiq Tadvi, Sunil Katkar, Milind Kadam, Rupesh Dhanawade, Umesh Ghurup, Siddhi Hirve, Somnath Sambhudas, Bharat Chaidhary, Meera Tambe, Savita Pingale, Arati Umap, Archana Umap, Nitin Shelar, Sampada Devchakke, Sharda Chaudhary, Suvarna Bondre, Savita Walke, Ashleshsa Gawhane, Anil Sapkal, Rupali Argade, Vijay Gaikwad, Jyoti Londhe, Sapna Madas, Akosua Francia Aikman, Meerim Akmatalieva, Saadat Usenbaeva, Jypara Kydyrova, Eliza Bostonova, Ulan Sheraliev, Nuridin Marajapov, Nurgul Toktogulova, Toktogul Azilova, Gulnara Beishekeeva, Nasyikat Dononbaeva, Aijamal Tabyshova, Wezzie Nyapigoti, Ernest Mwangoka, Mayamiko Kambwili, Martha Chipeta, Gloria Banda, Suzgo Mkandawire, Justice Banda, Li-Cher Loh, Siti Sholehah, Mohamed C Benjelloun, Chakib Nejjari, Mohamed Elbiaze, Karima El Rhazi, Daniel Obaseki, Gregory Erhabor, Olufemi Adewole, Tina Endresen, Lene Svendsen, Asaad A Nafees, Aysha Zahidie, Natasha Shaukat, Meesha Iqbal, Luisito F Idolor, Norberto A Francisco, Camilo C Roa, Fernando G Ayuyao, Cecil Z Tady, Daniel T Tan, Sylvia Banal-Yang, Vincent M Balanag, Renato B Dantes, Lourdes Amarillo, Lakan U Berratio, Lenora C Fernandez, Gerard S Garcia, Teresita S de Guia, Thessa Reyes, Leander P Simpao, Jakub Frey, Rafal Harat, Pawel Nastalek, Wojciech Skucha, Andrzej Szczeklik, Magda Twardowska, Fátima Rodrigues, Hermínia Dias, João Almeida, Maria João Matos, Paula Simão, Moutinho Santos, Reis Ferreira, H Alorainy, E El-Hamad, A Hashi, R Dela, R Fanuncio, E Doloriel, I Marciano, Anamika Jithoo, Desiree Adams, Edward Barnes, Jasper Freeman, Anton Hayes, Sipho Hlengwa, Christine Johannisen, Mariana Koopman, Innocentia Louw, Ina Ludick, Alta Olckers, Johanna Ryck, Janita Storbeck, Kirthi Gunasekera, Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Asma Elsony, Hana A Elsadig, Nada Bakery Osman, Bandar Salah Noory, Monjda Awad Mohamed, Suhaiba Khalifa, Mahmoud Elhadi, Mohand Hassan, Dalia Abdelmonam, Katarina Nisser, Gunilla Hägg, Terence Seemungal, Fallon Lutchmansingh, Liane Conyette, Myriam Denguezli, Hager Daldoul, Zaki Boukheroufa, Firas Chouikha, Wahbi Belhaj Khalifa, Attila Hancioglu, Ismail Hanta, Sedat Kuleci, Ahmet Sinan Turkyilmaz, Sema Umut, Turgay Unalan, Peter GJ Burney, Hadia Azar, Caron Amor, Michael Tumilty, Risha Dudhaiya, A Sonia Buist, Mary Ann McBurnie, William M Vollmer, Suzanne Gillespie, Sean Sullivan, Todd A Lee, Kevin B Weiss, Robert L Jensen, Robert Crapo, Paul Enright, John Cain, Rebecca Copeland, Dana Hazen, Jennifer Methvin, Rana Ahmed, Ewa Niżankowska-mogilnicka, Sullian S Naval, Jin-Ping Zheng, Gunnar Gudmundsson, Ben Knox-Brown, Dhiraj Agarwal, M Al Hajjaj, L Safia, Namarig Mohamed Elhassan, Marwa Mohamed Mohamaden, Sanjay K Juvekar, Stefanni Nonna M Paraguas, Anders Ørskov Rotevatn, Alexandra SchwedaLinow, Talant M. Sooronbaev, Bermet M. Estebesova, GJ Wesseling, MariaTeresita N Reyes, Flordeliza Sanchez, MAl Ghobain, Hasab Alrasoul Akasha Ahmed Osman, Abdel Mu’is El Zain, Ulrike SpetzNystrom, GunMarie Lund

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Literatura testimonial de la otra memoria democrática española : republicana, antifascista e internacionalista by Antonio Prado del Santo

“…The present draft bill issued by the Spanish State on democratic memory has yet to abolish or reinterpret the Amnesty Law of 1977. …”
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Que nous apprennent les « artistes officiels » sur le front de l’intérieur (Home Front) dans la Grande-Bretagne en guerre, 1940-1945 ? by Antoine Capet

“…The article argues that at first glance the work of people like Edward Ardizzone, Bill Brandt and Henry Moore seems to show that they were a poor choice from the point of view of the authorities, since the morale-boosting aspect of their Home Front scenes was far from obvious at first glance. …”
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Children and young people in care until age 26: a must for improved outcomes by Duncan Dunlop

“…The Children and Young People Bill1 is an opportunity that can set the legislative framework to address these disparities in outcomes. …”

Guidelines for Organic Handling Requirements for Citrus Packinghouses and Processors by James J. Ferguson, Mark A. Ritenour

“… In 1990, Congress passed the Organic Foods Production Act, part of the 1990 Farm Bill, requiring the USDA to develop national standards for organically produced agricultural products. …”
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Guidelines for Organic Handling Requirements for Citrus Packinghouses and Processors by James J. Ferguson, Mark A. Ritenour

“… In 1990, Congress passed the Organic Foods Production Act, part of the 1990 Farm Bill, requiring the USDA to develop national standards for organically produced agricultural products. …”
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Implications of the availability and distribution of birth weight on addressing neonatal mortality: population-based assessment from Bihar state of India by Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, G Anil Kumar, Debarshi Bhattacharya, Sibin George, Priya Nanda, Md Akbar

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Factors influencing survival outcomes in patients with stroke at three tertiary hospitals in Zimbabwe: A 12-month longitudinal study. by Farayi Kaseke, Lovemore Gwanzura, Cuthbert Musarurwa, Elizabeth Gori, Tawanda Nyengerai, Timothy Kaseke, Aimee Stewart

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>The study findings demonstrate that hospital bill payment methods, housing status and staying with relatives, educational attainment, functional outcome, and age significantly affect survival outcomes among stroke patients. …”
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QALYs: The Math Doesn’t Work by Tia G. Sawhney, Angela Dobes, Sirimon O'Charoen

“…The assessments are used in the development of recommendations for pricing, formulary placement decisions, and health policy decisions. A new bill, H.R. 485, the Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act of 2023, was approved by the US House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee that will, if passed, end the practice of using QALYs in all federal programs.^1,2^ Proponents of the ban say that QALYs undervalue the positive effects of therapeutics on people with disabilities.^3^ We share their concerns. …”
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Using the Decision-Ade™ Segmentation Strategy to Better Understand Extension Audiences by Randall A. Cantrell, Laura Warner, Joy Rumble, Alexa Lamm

“… Decision-Ade™ is a tool Extension can use to better understand how residents with a range of household budgets feel about their utility bills. Analyzing households in terms of both income and utility bill “botheredness” creates a more comprehensive picture of that household’s utility use and its willingness to modify utility consumption relative to other households. …”
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2024 State Flood Plan: History in the Making by Texas Water Development Board

“…The plan incorporates the findings of 15 watershed-based regional flood plans and includes legislative and floodplain management recommendations to guide state, regional, and local flood control policy to reduce the risk and impact of flooding. Senate Bill 8, 86th Texas Legislature (2019), created the regional and state flood planning process modeled after the bottom-up regional and state water planning process. …”
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Politiques et pratiques de la psychiatrie en prison 1945-1986 by Hélène Bellanger

“…Since the penal code of 1810 (section 64) and the 1838 bill on insane persons, psychiatry and prison followed two parallel historical paths : the psychiatrist, being an expert, came in prison only to identify insane and to take him out of jail. …”
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“Such Common Objects” – The Politics of Everyday Life in G. K. Chesterton’s and Rose Macaulay’s Thing-Essays by Daniel SCHNEIDER

“…Using Martin Heidegger’s and Bill Brown’s object-thing-distinction, I will also argue that these essays point to the relevance of everyday life and to the political issues that are sometimes manifest in everyday items. …”
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Censoring Alternatives by Brendan Prendiville

“…Freedom of expression in Britain can be traced back to the Bill of Rights of 1689, even if the term applied to parliamentarians in that constitutional document. …”
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“A More Permanent Familiarity”: Value and the Paternal Image on United States Currency by Heinz Tschachler

“…When in April 2016, the United States Department of the Treasury officially announced the redesign of the $20 bill, the plan provided that the portrait of an “exemplary American woman” would replace Andrew Jackson’s. …”
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Using the Decision-Ade™ Segmentation Strategy to Better Understand Extension Audiences by Randall A. Cantrell, Laura Warner, Joy Rumble, Alexa Lamm

“… Decision-Ade™ is a tool Extension can use to better understand how residents with a range of household budgets feel about their utility bills. Analyzing households in terms of both income and utility bill “botheredness” creates a more comprehensive picture of that household’s utility use and its willingness to modify utility consumption relative to other households. …”
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The Role of the Risk-Neutral Jump Size Distribution in Single-Factor Interest Rate Models by L. Gómez-Valle, J. Martínez-Rodríguez

“…Finally, an application to US Treasury Bill data is also illustrated.…”
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