Ensuring irrigation water availability for off-season vegetable production in the face of competition from rural domestic water supplies in the commune of Lalo (Benin) by Djigbo Félicien Badou, Christophe Nouvewa, Christian Allé, Audrey Merveille Adango, Luc Ollivier Sintondji

“…Results show that a borehole operating at 85 % of its flow capacity (21.6 m3/h), effectively meets peak water demand in January, estimated at 5639.2 m3 (181.9 m3/d), with 15 % of the borehole flow allocated to domestic water supply. …”
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Implementing digital respiratory technologies for people with respiratory conditions: A protocol for a scoping review. by Chi Yan Hui, Kathleena Condon, Shailesh Kolekar, Nicola Roberts, Katherina Bernadette Sreter, Sami O Simons, Carlos Figueiredo, Zoe McKeough, Hani Salim, Aleksandra Gawlik-Lipinski, Apolline Gonsard, Ayşe Önal Aral, Anna Vanoverschelde, Matthew Armstrong, Dario Kohlbrenner, Cátia Paixão, Patrick Stafler, Efthymia Papadopoulou, Adrian Paul Rabe, Milan Mohammad, Izolde Bouloukaki, Shirley Quach, Malek Chaabouni, Georgios Kaltsakas, Kate Loveys, Tonje Reier-Nilsen, Anthony Paulo Sunjaya, Paul Robinson, Hilary Pinnock, Amy Hai Yan Chan

“…We will conduct stakeholder meetings throughout to discuss the themes emerging from implementation studies and support interpretation of findings in the light of their experience within their own networks and organisations. …”
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Performance, methane production, and beef lipid profile of young bulls finished in feedlot by Barbara Martins Rodrigues, Ramon Costa Alvarenga, Dante Pazzanese Duarte Lanna, Alexandre Berndt, Fernando Antônio de Souza, Leandro Sâmia Lopes

“…The diet (80% concentrate) was formulated to meet or exceed beef cattle requirements to reach an average daily gain of 1.6 kg per day. …”
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Integrated land use land cover-energy modeling framework for solar energy planning in the future expansion areas; the case of Luxor city Region, Egypt by Mohammed Hussien Yadem Lamien, Hooman Farzaneh

“…Based on the results, five solar sites are determined to fully meet the future energy needs of the residential and agricultural expansion areas.…”
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Interdisciplinarity and intersectoriality in the Family Health Strategy and Nuclei of Support to Family Health: potentialities and challenges by Luís Felipe Ferro, Emelin Cristina da Silva, Ana Beatriz Zimmermann, Regina Célia Titotto Castanharo, Fernanda Rodrigues Leite de Oliveira

“…Thus, we underline the need for new strategies that promote formal meetings among professionals from different social equipments for developing effective actions.…”
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Strength Characteristics and the Reaction Mechanism of Stone Powder Cement Tailings Backfill by Jianhua Hu, Qifan Ren, Quan Jiang, Rugao Gao, Long Zhang, Zhouquan Luo

“…The cement powder mixed appropriately with the stone power could meet the strength requirement and reduce the cost of backfilling materials.…”
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Karandu (Gong): History, Functions, and Symbols in the Life of the Tolaki People in 17th -20th Century Southeast Sulawesi by Akhmad Marhadi, Syahrun Syahrun, Basrin Melamba, Marwati Marwati, Hayari Hayari

“…The gong evolved to communicate in particular situations, such as codes or signs of danger, meetings, grief, etc. The function of adat as a customary object in the moruhu owuku/ mooli anakia custom (buying nobility). …”
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Cointegration analysis of broiler meat and broiler feed prices in turkey by Mehmet Saltuk Arıkan, Mustafa Bahadır Çevrimli, Ahmet Cumhur Akın, Burak Mat, Mustafa Agah Tekindal

“…As the production of raw materials used in the broiler feed industry is not sufficient to meet the demand in the domestic market, the demand is met by importation. …”
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Healthcare Worker Attitudes to Living Donation Prior to Planned Withdrawal of Care by Smruti Rath, MD, Claire Luo, MD, Laura Washburn, MD, Matthew Brent Price, MD, Matthew Goss, MD, Priyanka Moolchandani, MD, Sandra Parsons, PhD, Abbas Rana, MD, FACS, John Goss, MD, FACS, Nhu Thao Nguyen Galván, MD, MPH, FACS

“…This study assesses the attitudes of healthcare practitioners toward Living Donation Prior to Planned Withdrawal of Care (LD-PPW): the recovery of a living donor organ before withdrawal of life-sustaining measures in a patient who does not meet criteria for brain death, but for whom medical care toward meaningful recovery is deemed futile. …”
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Thermal-Aware Multiconstrained Intrabody QoS Routing for Wireless Body Area Networks by Muhammad Mostafa Monowar, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Fuad Bajaber, Md. Abdul Hamid, Atif Alamri

“…Again, Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning with multiconstraints (delay and reliability) is a striking requirement for diverse application types in WBANs to meet their objectives. This paper proposes TMQoS, a thermal-aware multiconstrained intrabody QoS routing protocol for WBANs, with the aim of ensuring the desired multiconstrained QoS demands of diverse applications along with keeping the temperature of the nodes to an acceptable level preventing thermal damages. …”
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Dual-channel near-field holographic MIMO communications based on programmable digital coding metasurface and electromagnetic theory by Rui Wen Shao, Jun Wei Wu, Jiachen Li, Shengguo Meng, Yifan Xu, Zheng Xing Wang, Wankai Tang, Qiang Cheng, Shi Jin, Tie Jun Cui

“…However, the antenna array commonly used in the traditional massive MIMO cannot meet the requirements of low cost, low complexity and high spatial resolution simultaneously, especially in higher frequency bands. …”
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Transient Neonatal Zinc Deficiency Caused by a Heterozygous G87R Mutation in the Zinc Transporter ZnT-2 (SLC30A2) Gene in the Mother Highlighting the Importance of Zn2+ for Normal... by Maria Consolata Miletta, Andreas Bieri, Kristin Kernland, Martin H. Schöni, Vibor Petkovic, Christa E. Flück, Andrée Eblé, Primus E. Mullis

“…Although term infants are born with an important hepatic Zn2+ storage, adequate Zn2+ nutrition of infants mostly depends on breast milk or formula feeding, which contains an adequate amount of Zn2+ to meet the infants’ requirements. An exclusively breast-fed 6 months old infant suffering from Zn2+ deficiency caused by an autosomal dominant negative G87R mutation in the Slc30a2 gene (encoding for the zinc transporter 2 (ZnT-2)) in the mother is reported. …”
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A High-Precision Dynamic Six Degree-of-Freedom Pose Measurement of the Subreflectors of Large Antennas Based on a Position Sensitive Detector and Laser Array by Shangmin Lin, Wei Wang, Hu Wang, Yang Song, Yue Pan, Jiang Qiao, Yaoke Xue, Qinfang Chen, Meiying Liu, Yang Shen, Jie Liu, Yang Liu, Yongjie Xie, Canglong Zhou

“…Moreover, the error of the translation is within 0.014 mm and the error of the rotation is within 0.37°. This method can meet the pose measurement requirements of the subreflector.…”
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A New Approach for the Utilization of Technical Egg Albumen Based on Acid–Thermal Coagulation by Plamen Saraliev, Desislav Balev, Desislava Vlahova-Vangelova, Nikolay Kolev, Stefan Dragoev

“…Microbiological contamination has decreased due to a decrease in water activity to a level that meets the requirements of European legislation for the processing of animal by-products (ABPs) and uses as feed.…”
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An Experimental Study on the Reinforcement of Silt with Permeable Polyurethane by Penetration Grouting by Chaojie Wang, Qi Liu, Chengchao Guo, Yangyang Xia, Yanjie Hao, Mingsheng Shi, Peng Zhao

“…To meet the demand of antiseepage and reinforcement of soil dams, a kind of permeable polyurethane grouting material was developed. …”
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The Impact of Hyperbolic Discounting on Asset Accumulation for Later Life: A Study of Active Investors Aged 65 Years and over in Japan by Honoka Nabeshima, Sumeet Lal, Haruka Izumi, Yuzuha Himeno, Mostafa Saidur Rahim Khan, Yoshihiko Kadoya

“…This gap heightens financial insecurity, emphasizing the need to meet asset goals by 65. Hyperbolic discounting, driven by present-biased preferences, often hinders this process, but empirical evidence for those aged 65 and older remains limited. …”
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Flexible Bus Route Optimization Scheduling Model by Ji-yang Sun, Yan-yan Chen, Jian-ling Huang, Pan-yi Wei, Cheng-cheng Song

“…Under the premise of real-time adjustment of connection planning time, this optimization model can thus better meet the dynamic demand of passengers compared with the current scenario. …”
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Standardization for Data Generation and Collection in the Dairy Industry: Addressing Challenges and Charting a Path Forward by Michel Baldin, Jeffrey M. Bewley, Victor E. Cabrera, Kevin Jones, Connie Loehr, Gustavo Mazon, Juan D. Perez, Matthew Utt, Jeff Weyers

“…Drawing from a series of meetings of industry experts, academics, and farmers organized under the Dairy Brain Project’s Coordinated Innovation Network (CIN), we explore the benefits of creating uniform data generation and collection protocols to ensure compatibility and reliability across different data sources. …”
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Malignant Course of Anomalous Left Coronary Artery Causing Sudden Cardiac Arrest: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Mahesh Anantha Narayanan, Christopher DeZorzi, Abhilash Akinapelli, Toufik Mahfood Haddad, Aiman Smer, Janani Baskaran, William P. Biddle

“…Sudden cardiac arrest secondary to congenital anomalous coronary artery disease is characterized by insufficient coronary flow by the anomalous left coronary artery to meet elevated left ventricular (LV) myocardial demand. …”
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On-demand prediction of low-frequency average sound absorption coefficient of underwater coating using machine learning by Nansha Gao, Mou Wang, Xiao Liang, Guang Pan

“…The overall loss function is derived by combining the mean square error between the expected average sound absorption coefficient and its predicted value and the network-optimized loss function to ensure that the 20 sensitive parameters that meet the acoustic performance can be predicted. Finally, two randomly selected sound absorption curves are used for prediction tests. …”
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