Contact between the components of a knee prosthesis: numerical and experimental study by D. Cerniglia, T. Ingrassia, L. D’Acquisto, M. Saporito, D. Tumino

“…The interest in studying the contact area is related to the fact that the wear of the polyethylene insert, due to the high contact pressures, represents one of the major causes of failure of the total knee prosthesis. …”
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Impact of Inappropriate Empiric Antimicrobial Therapy on Mortality of Septic Patients with Bacteremia: A Retrospective Study by Saoraya Lueangarun, Amorn Leelarasamee

“…Inappropriate empiric antimicrobials could be a major cause of unfavorable mortality rates in co-morbid patients. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Barriers and Challenges in Adoption of Electronic Health Record System in Government and Private Hospitals of Islamabad by Ghazala Jawwad, Maleha Asim, Amanat Ali, Humaira Fayyaz Khan, Aiman Farogh Anjum, Abdul Qudoos Arain

“…Around 42.5% and 83.75% government and private hospitals have   fully functional EHR system and 72% from government and 90% responses from private reported use of computers as a major mode of patients’ data entry.  Significant difference was found between government and private hospitals regarding social and legal barrier and lack of knowledge of EHR system (p value <0.05). …”
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Investigating Human Influence on Offshore Terrestrial Organic Carbon Trends in a High-Energy Delta: The Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar by Evan R. Flynn, Steven A. Kuehl

“…The continental margin is a major repository for organic carbon; however, anthropogenic alterations to global sediment and particulate terrestrial organic carbon (TerrOC) fluxes have reduced delivery by rivers and offshore burial in recent decades. …”
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Behavioral Analysis in International Business Negotiations Based on the Bargaining Model of Game Theory by Bei Zhang

“…In order to judge the potential partnership of each country, this paper constructs a theoretical model of partner selection for global digital trade rules negotiation from the perspective of political game and uses the data of 62 major digital trade countries for empirical testing. …”
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Implementation of Building Information Modeling (BIM) Using Hybrid Z-DEMATEL-ISM Approach by Ali RezaHoseini, Elmira Ahmadi, Pantea Saremi, Morteza BagherPour

“…On the contrary, there is no integrated database for all construction sectors, and of course the relationship between these sectors is a major problem for any construction project. The technology and tool that overcomes many of these shortcomings is BIM technology. …”
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Developing company competitiveness based on entrepreneurial values, transformational leadership, and service innovation through organizational performance by Solikin Solikin, Muhammad Thamrin, Suharto Abdul Majid, Librita Arifiani

“…The research's findings demonstrate that entrepreneurial values, transformational leadership, service innovation, and organizational performance all significantly impact a company's competitiveness; additionally, entrepreneurial values, transformational leadership, and service innovation have a major impact on organizational performance, which in turn has a significant impact on company competitiveness. …”
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Psycho-sexological impact(s) of syphilis among infected persons by Mylene Bolmont, Penelope Bornhauser, Juliette Cloppet Mouchet, Melanie Michaud, Laurence Toutous Trellu

“…Purpose: Syphilis bears the image of a major sexually transmitted disease. No study has yet explored this psycho-sexological impact. …”
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Features of democratic reforms in Jordan by A. V. Krilov

“…The article presents the analysis of the political, demographic and other aspects of the Palestinian community in Jordan, which has become a major factor in the Jordanian political life since the beginning of Arab-Israeli conflict and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. …”
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Probabilistic Noise Detection and Weighted Non-Negative Matrix Factorization-Based Noise Reduction Methods for Snapping Shrimp Noise by Suhyeon Park, Jongwon Seok, Jungpyo Hong

“…Snapping Shrimps Noise (SSN), loud sounds generated by these underwater creatures, serves as a major source of in performance degradation by decreasing the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) for underwater acoustic communication and target detection. …”
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Determining Critical Soil pH for Sunflower Production by Apurba Sutradhar, Romulo P. Lollato, Katy Butchee, Daryl B. Arnall

“…Soil acidity has become a major yield-limiting factor in cropping systems of the Southern Great Plains, in which winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is the predominant crop. …”
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Preparation and Properties of Nano-ZnO Combined with Biomass Heavy Oil Composite-Modified Asphalt by He Tao, Hongming Liu, Xiangbing Xie, Tao Sun, Ruipeng Dong, Xiaolu Lu

“…The modification methods of bio-asphalt and composite-modified asphalt were analyzed by Fourier infrared (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) experiments. Three major indexes test, dynamic shear rheological test, Brookfield rotational viscosity test (RV), and thermogravimetric analysis (TG-DSC) are used to analyze the high-temperature performance of bio-asphalt and composite-modified asphalt. …”
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Drinking Water Treatment Residuals to Control Phosphorus in Soils by Jonathan D. Judy, Maria L. Silveira, Sampson Agyin-Birikorang, George O'Connor, Thomas A. Obreza

“…Increased P in water bodies is recognized as one of the major factors responsible for eutrophication-related decrease in water quality.  …”
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Bioconversion of organic solid wastes into biofortified compost using a microbial consortium by Payel Sarkar, Rounak Chourasia

“…Uncontrolled dumping of this waste is a major health concern. Degradation of organic waste by use of a microbial consortium is safe, efficient and economic. …”
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Candida auris screening of high-risk patients: a descriptive comparison of 2 strategies by Laura Pedersen, Aldo Barajas-Ochoa, Kaila Cooper, Jenna Price, Kathryn Hannum, Yvette Major, Patrick R. Ching, Barry Rittmann, Alexandra Bryson, Christoper Doern, Michelle Doll

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Applying Outdoor Environment to Develop Health, Comfort, and Energy Saving in the Office in Hot-Humid Climate by Rong Chen, Wen-Pei Sung, Hung-Chang Chang, Yi-Rou Chi

“…A human life demand set to emerge in the future is the achievement of sustainability by maintaining a comfortable indoor environment without excessive reliance on energy-consuming air conditioners. The major research processes in this study are: (1) measuring indoor air quality and thermal comfort to evaluate the comfort of an indoor environment; (2) implementing questionnaire survey analysis to explore people’s environmental self-perceptions and conducting a meta-analysis of the measurement results for air quality and physical aspects; and (3) constructing an indoor monitoring and management system. …”
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IS WOMEN'S LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION POTENTIALLY ENHANCED BY DIGITAL FINANCIAL INCLUSION? EVIDENCE FROM AFRICA by Benedict Azu, Taiwo Queen Adjeke, Agbobu Shedrack Onyeka

“…It was discovered that formal financial services channels had a major and advantageous effect on women's labour market involvement. …”
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Effects of Nutrient-Fortified Milk-Based Formula on the Nutritional Status and Psychomotor Skills of Preschool Children by Mavil May C. Cervo, Diane S. Mendoza, Erniel B. Barrios, Leonora N. Panlasigui

“…The study participants were divided equally into three major groups, normal, underweight, and severely underweight based on WHO-Child Growth Standards, and were further divided into two groups: fortified milk group who was given two glasses of fortified milk (50 g of powdered milk/serving) a day for twelve weeks in addition to their usual diet and the nonintervention group who was not given fortified milk and thus maintained their usual intake. …”
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A deep learning‐based framework to identify and characterise heterogeneous secure network traffic by Faiz Ul Islam, Guangjie Liu, Weiwei Liu, Qazi Mazhar ul Haq

“…In the next step, the proposed deep learning model characterises the major categories (virtual private network traffic, the onion router network traffic, and plain encrypted network traffic) into several application types. …”
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Social spaces, casual interactions, meaningful exchanges: 'information ground' characteristics based on the college student experience. by K.E. Fisher, C.F. Landry, C. Naumer

“…</b> This study was conducted at a major research university, home to 45,000 students. …”
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