Zwischen Traditionalismus und Modernisierung: Musikausbildung in Russland by Irina Susidko, Pavel Lutsker

“…In Russia, in recent years, initiatives in this area have been concentrated mainly in the hands of the state. It is understandable that the leading trend on the part of the state is rather conservative, if not ultra-conservative. …”
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An introduction to MyBFF@school, a school-based childhood obesity intervention program: a cluster randomized controlled trial by Abdul Halim Mokhtar, Zahari Ishak, Fuziah Md. Zain, Rusidah Selamat, Abqariyah Yahya, Muhammad Yazid Jalaludin

“…There were several challenges during the pilot study which included strain in manpower, limited variation of physical activity, nutrition, and psychology modules, time-constraint after school hours, co-curriculum marks, contamination effect, and school selection. The main MyBFF@school in 2016 addressed the challenges and improvised the design which were elaborated in subsequent articles in this supplement. …”
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The European Court of Human Rights as Part of Criminal Procedural Legislation of Ukraine by O. S. Rozumovskyi, O. O. Kochura

“…Since the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms has become part of national legislation after its ratification by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, more detailed study should be conducted regarding the urgent task of fully understanding the content of this international treaty and the main mechanisms for implementing its norms. The author has analyzed the implementation of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights on the example of its specific decisions into criminal procedural legislation of Ukraine by applying the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights by the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court in its activities and problematic aspects of their practical implementation. …”
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Resnet-1DCNN-REA bearing fault diagnosis method based on multi-source and multi-modal information fusion by Xu Chen, Wenbing Chang, Yongxiang Li, Zhao He, Xiang Ma, Shenghan Zhou

“…Existing bearing fault diagnosis methods mainly rely on single sensor information. Nevertheless, mechanical faults in bearings are intricate and subject to countless excitation disturbances, which poses a great challenge for accurate identification if only relying on feature extraction from single sensor input. …”
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General practice database on mortality in adults on methylphenidate: cohort study by Bruno Stricker, Katia Verhamme, Kiki Cheung

“…The total study population consisted of 97 198 participants.Main outcome measures Serious psychiatric events such as depression and suicide attempts, and overall mortality.Analyses Risks of development of each event during the use of methylphenidate were expressed as HR with 95% CI, adjusted for relevant confounders with methylphenidate as a time-dependent determinant. …”
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Acute Stroke Care and Thrombolytic Therapy Use in a Tertiary Care Center in Lebanon by Mazen J. El Sayed, Tharwat El Zahran, Hani Tamim

“…Delayed presentation was the main barrier to rt-PA administration. Public education regarding stroke is needed to decrease time from symptoms onset to ED presentation and potentially improve outcomes further.…”
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The Design and Performance Evaluation of a Wireless Sensor Network Based Irrigation System on Different Soil Types by Buhari Umar, Eustace Manayi Dogo, Bello Kontagora Nuhu, Arifa Khatoon Haq, Paul Tobi Olaleye

“…Agricultural practices in the country are still mainly based on conventional, traditional methods of farming which usually results in wastage of water resources and low production of crops to meet the country's demand. …”
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Complex Alumina-Ferrous Coagulant for Effective Wastewater Purification from Hydrogen Sulfide by Erzhan I. Kuldeyev, Aysha E. Tastanova, Igor V. Bondarenko, Saniya S. Temirova, Ruslan E. Nurlybayev, Bibigul S. Botantayeva, Fardila M. Zaihidee

“…It is noted that the presence of sulfur compounds and organic components in sewage flow leads to the formation and release of hydrogen sulfide into the atmosphere of settlements. Three main categories of methods for purifying sewage wastewater from hydrogen sulfide are presented. …”
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Energy-Efficient Distributed Edge Computing to Assist Dense Internet of Things by Sumaiah Algarni, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie

“…This puts high constraints on the design of IoT, mainly in terms of the required network availability, reliability, flexibility, and scalability. …”
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Tasks of the National Police of Ukraine as a subject of implementation of the preventive function of the state by I. V. Ishchenko

“…It is emphasized that the main tasks of the Department of Preventive Activities of the National Police of Ukraine are to organize and ensure within the competence of the National Police of Ukraine the functions of Ukrainian legislation to maintain public safety and order, protect human rights and freedoms, and individual preventive work aimed at preventing the commission of administrative and criminal offenses, preventing and combating domestic violence, escorting persons detained on suspicion of committing a criminal offense, taken into custody, accused, sentenced to arrest or imprisonment, and for a term of imprisonment in the courtroom. …”
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Investigation of the association between circulating inflammatory proteins and encephalitis risk in Europeans by two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis by Yanwei Liu, Xilong Wang, Qiang Zhao, Jun Wei, Shiqiang Yang

“…The study investigated causal effects mainly using Steiger, MR-Egger, weighted median and inverse variance weighting (IVW) methods. …”
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Building resilience through improving groundwater management for sustainable agricultural intensification in African Sahel by L. Ciampi, H. J. Plumpton, H. Osbahr, R. J. Cornforth, Celia Petty

“…It was also shown that there were improvements in the four main themes Identified by the Sustainable Intensification Framework. …”
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Effect of Endophytic Trichoderma sp. Strains on the Agronomic Characteristics of Ecotypes of Theobroma cacao L. under Nursery Conditions in Peru by Antony Chavez-Jalk, Santos Leiva, Leidy G. Bobadilla, Carmen N. Vigo, Marielita Arce, Manuel Oliva-Cruz

“…Peru is one of the main producers of fine aroma native cacao, expanding its areas considerably in recent years, which makes it necessary to seek adequate management alternatives to obtain advantageous yields. …”
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A Single-Layer S/X- Band Shared Aperture Antenna with MIMO Characteristics at X-Band for Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Applications by Raja Babu Bandi, Venkata Kishore Kothapudi, Lakshman Pappula, Rajkumar Kalimuthu, Srinivasa Kiran Gottapu

“…The S-band antenna is mainly used for airborne applications such as air traffic control and surface ship radar. …”
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Assessing the Filariasis Causing Parasites in Adult Mosquitoes and the Vector Mosquito Larval Breeding in Selected Medical Officer of Health Areas in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka by S. A. S. Pilagolla, L. D. Amarasinghe

“…In breeding water, average pH mainly lied in between 6 and 8 and average dissolved oxygen ranged from 3 to 7 mg/L. …”
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Validism in the Elderly. Social Context and Functional Capacity by Mairovy Hernández Romero, Hilda María Delgado Acosta, Lourdes Elena Duany Badell, Belkis González Aguiar, Ismaray Sacerio González, Zenia Tamara Sánchez García

“…Retirees were represented at 38.9 %, the main non-communicable diseases that prevailed were: high blood pressure, ischemic heart disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus, 40.4 % lived alone, 19.8 % had a caregiver, 14.5 % did not receive support and 9.9 % of the elderly who were in a probable state of social need. …”
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Significance of nuclear medicine methods for diagnosis and predicting the course of renal transplantation complications by M.V. Satyr, I.V. Noverko, T.I. Pantus, M.S. Zagriichuk

“…The opportunities of the radiology methods for the differential diagnostics of complications which appear before, during or after the surgery, are shown. We pay the main attention to the nuclear medicine methods, especially the dynamic renal scintigraphy (DRSG) as a method for the evaluation of graft functionality. …”
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Preoperative Intravitreal Conbercept Facilitates Vitrectomy in Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy: Is Attention Required for the Fellow Eye? by Wei Xu, Weijing Cheng, Yao Yao, Jian Guo, Guoxing Xu

“…Preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative data of both eyes were collected. The main outcome measures were best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), intraocular pressure (IOP), central retinal thickness (CRT), and incidence of tractional retinal detachment (TRD). …”
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Optimization of the Influencing Variables on the Corrosion Property of Steel Alloy 4130 in 3.5 wt.% NaCl Solution by A. M. El-Shamy, M. A. El-Hadek, A. E. Nassef, R. A. El-Bindary

“…Additionally, the theoretical aspects illuminated that the main active ingredients of LI have a proclivity to coagulate on the steel substrates allowing these areas to paradigm a protecting layer on the steel surfaces. …”
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An intelligent incentive-based demand response program for exhaustive environment constrained techno-economic analysis of microgrid system by Bishwajit Dey, Gulshan Sharma, Pitshou N. Bokoro, Soham Dutta

“…Abstract The cost-effective scheduling of distributed energy resources through sophisticated optimization algorithms is the main focus of recent work on microgrid energy management. …”
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