PERSonalised Incentives for Supporting Tobacco cessation (PERSIST) among healthcare employees: a randomised controlled trial protocol by Alex Burdorf, Jasper V Been, Frank J Van Lenthe, Nienke W Boderie, Johannes LW van Kippersluis, Diarmaid T Ó Ceallaigh, Márta K Radó

“…Effectiveness will be determined by intention-to-treat analysis.Ethics and dissemination The Erasmus MC Medical Ethics Committee decided that according to the Dutch Human Research Law (WMO), the protocol required no formal ethical approval. …”
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Predicting Damage in Notched Functionally Graded Materials Plates through extended Finite Element Method based on computational simulations by Hakim Siguerdjidjene, Amin Houari, Kouider Madani, Salah Amroune, Mohamed Mokhtari, Barhm Mohamad, Chellil Ahmed, Abdelkrim Merah, Raul Campilho

“…The FGM (Al/SiC) structure is graded based on its thickness using a modified power law. The plastic characteristics of the structure were estimated using the Tamura-Tomota-Ozawa (TTO) model in a user-defined field variables (USDFLD) subroutine. …”
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Estimates of disclosure and victimization rates for fishery observers in the maritime workplace by Lacey Jeroue, Lacey Jeroue, Craig Faunce, Andy Kingham, Jaclyn Smith

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La atención de las necesidades educativas especiales y la labor docente en la escuela primaria / Response to Special Educational Needs and Teaching Efforts in Elementary School by Mayela Dabdub-Moreira, Alejandra Pineda-Cordero

“…Abstract:  According to the Costa Rican Law on Equal Opportunities for Disabled Persons (Igualdad de oportunidades para las personas con discapacidad, Ley N.º 7600), teachers must receive and attend individuals with Special Educational Needs (SEN) inside their regular classrooms applying different curricular modifications. …”
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INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN ASIAN NEWLY INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES: CONTROVERSIES, REVIEW AND LESSONS by Dejana Gajinov

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A green-Ampt model considering unsaturated zone and pore air pressure by Youliang Peng, Liangjun Fei, Fangyuan Shen, Runqiao Zheng, Qian Wang, Qianwen Fan

“…The relationship between infiltration time and the depth of the wetting front can be solved using Darcy’s law. According to this, the infiltration rate is equal to the derivative of the infiltration amount regarding time. …”
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“Knowledge was clearly associated with education.” epistemic positioning in the context of informed choice: a scoping review and secondary qualitative analysis by Niamh Ireland-Blake, Fiona Cram, Kevin Dew, Sondra Bacharach, Jeanne Snelling, Peter Stone, Christina Buchanan, Sara Filoche

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Batterer typologies: substance use, impulsivity and results of an IPVAW offender treatment program in Spain by Pedro V. Mateo-Fernández, Pedro V. Mateo-Fernández, Pedro V. Mateo-Fernández, Iria Osa-Subtil, Iria Osa-Subtil, Iria Osa-Subtil, Román Ronzón-Tirado, María Elena de la Peña Fernández

“…Combined with drunkenness, it can materially increase the likelihood of intimate partner violence.MethodsThe present study examines substance use and impulsivity among a sample of 243 men convicted of IPVAW offences under the Spanish Gender Violence Act (Organic Law 1/2004) in relation to the levels of violence and psychopathologies presented by these perpetrators, in order to understand the results of court-ordered psychological treatments provided under Spain’s Gender Violence Offenders Intervention Program. …”
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Assessment of the sedimentation and trapping efficiency in dam reservoirs by applying the settling basin framework by Bérenger Koffi, Koffi Eugène Kouakou, Alexis Loukou Brou, Martin Sanchez, Ouédé Gla Blaise, Brice Wawogninlin Coulibaly, Franck Hervé Akaffou, Michal Habel, Amani Michel Kouassi, Dibi Brou, Kouakou Lazare Kouassi

“…This study presents a hydrosedimentary mathematical model based on the theory of settling basins and Gamma Law approaches to describe the settling velocity of suspended solids. …”
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Crisis response strategies of universities during the ongoing war: Beyond experience and responsibilities by Oleksandr Spivakovsky, Serhii Omelchuk, Daria Malchykova

“…The opinions expressed herein are the authors’ own and do not necessarily express the views of either the Bridge USA or American Councils.The authors express their gratitude to the vice-presidents, deans of faculties, and academic and non-academic staff of Kherson State University who participated in the development of institutional documents that implement crisis management decisions presented in this paper and form a crisis response strategy for the university during martial law.…”
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Recognition and localization of ratoon rice rolled stubble rows based on monocular vision and model fusion by Yuanrui Li, Yuanrui Li, Liping Xiao, Liping Xiao, Zhaopeng Liu, Zhaopeng Liu, Muhua Liu, Muhua Liu, Peng Fang, Peng Fang, Xiongfei Chen, Xiongfei Chen, Jiajia Yu, Jiajia Yu, Jinlong Lin, Jinlong Lin, Jinping Cai, Jinping Cai

“…To address the problem of degradation of model's performance when migrated to other monocular cameras, based on the law of the input image’s influence on model's output results, two optimization methods of adjusting inputs and outputs were used that decreased the absolute relative error from 91.9% to 8.8%. …”
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Disproportionate, differential and targeted treatment: people who use drugs’ experiences of policing during the COVID-19 pandemic by Shelley Walker, Kasun Rathnayake, Paul Dietze, Peter Higgs, Bernadette Ward, Margaret Hellard, Joseph Doyle, Mark Stoove, Lisa Maher

“…Abstract Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments worldwide introduced law enforcement measures to deter and punish breaches of emergency public health orders. …”
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Screen Guided Training Does Not Capture Goal-Oriented Behaviors: Learning Myoelectric Control Mappings From Scratch Using Context Informed Incremental Learning by Evan Campbell, Ethan Eddy, Xavier Isabel, Scott Bateman, Benoit Gosselin, Ulysse Cote-Allard, Erik Scheme

“…Sixteen participants completed a Fitts’ Law targeting task using these control schemes, with performance measured via online throughput and offline classification accuracy. …”
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ETIKOS PAGRINDIMO PROBLEMA POSTMODERNIOJOJE KULTŪROJE by Jūratė Micevičiūtė

“…After rejecting traditional rationalistic foundations of ethics by legal and natural law, the principle of utility remained. The authors who resumed the discussion on ethics invoked the utilitarian philosophy. …”
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Klasifikasi Teks Hadis Bukhari Terjemahan Indonesia Menggunakan Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network (CRNN) by Muhammad Yuslan Abu Bakar, Adiwijaya Adiwijaya

“…Abstract   Hadith is a source of law and guidance for Muslims after the Qur'an and many hadith have been narrated by hadith experts so far. …”
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Evaluation for an Open Society: Then and Now by Robert Picciotto

“…The dominance of an international order grounded in democracy, human rights, and the rule of law is giving way to a world in which leaders are pursuing narrow nationalist and vested interests. …”
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Analisis Sentimen Wacana Pemindahan Ibu Kota Indonesia Menggunakan Algoritma Support Vector Machine (SVM) by Primandani Arsi, Retno Waluyo

“…Many topics are discussed on Twitter such as economic, politic, social, culture, and law. One of the hot topics discussed on Twitter is the issue of relocating Indonesia's capital city. …”
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Derivation and Verification of the Relationship between Ablation Index and Baseline Impedance by Zheng Cai, Sainan Li, Qi Zhang, Chenyuan Wang, Zhen Jin, Ming Fu, Shuai Zhang, Ming Liang, Zulu Wang, Yaling Han

“…Methods. (1) Keeping the AIs relatively constant, the lesion dimensions in different baseline impedances were studied. (2) According to Joule's law, Q = I2RT, keeping the current (I) unchanged, the powers corresponding to different baseline impedances can be obtained. …”
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Experimental assessment of condition monitoring techniques for an OWC electrical generator operating at overload by Joseba Lopez-Mendia, Iker Erkiaga, Pablo Ruiz-Minguela, Ivan Ruibal, Eider Robles, Salvador Ceballos

“…Through an appropriate condition monitoring technique, a stator winding degradation model will be developed, which could assist in the sizing phase of the generator’s nominal power in future designs, as well as in making decisions to modify the control law based on the degradation of the generator during the operation of the wave energy converter.…”
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Relationship between the ideal and reality in civil service: retrospective approach towards ethical problems in the interwar Lithuanian Republic by Jolanta Palidauskaitė

“…Lithuanian legislator, earlier than scientists, tried to introduce the model for civil servants, emphasizing certain aspects of their activity or indicating some restrictions. The first laws regulating the activity of civil servants were passed as far back as 1919 and 1920. …”
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