The role of the SA Advertising Research Founda- tion in communications research by Casper Venter

“…The SAARF is financed by a levy of 0.5 per cent added by the media to their published advertising rates. …”
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The Surgery of Celsus’ De Medicina by James W. Blatchford, III, MD

“…The possibility (and desirability) of per primam healing, thereby permitting elective surgical procedures, was ignored until rediscovered in the 19th century; its recognition by Celsus prompts a re-evaluation of the excellence of ancient surgery.…”
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Survey of capacity limits and implementation techniques in wireless covert communication by Weiyu CHEN, Junshan LUO, Fanggang WANG, Haiyang DING, Shilian WANG, Guojiang XIA

“…The differences and connections between wireless covert communication (WCC) and related concepts were clarified.The WCC research based on hypothesis testing theory and information theory was focused.The basic research model and the categories of specific models were introduced.The existing works were classified and reviewed in two parts, namely, capacity limits and implementation techniques.The former part reviewed the works that reveal the limit rate, and divided them into two categories as per the order of the limit rate: squared root rate and positive rate.The latter part reviewed the works that analyze the performance of WCC systems and optimize the implementation schemes, and classified them as per their application scenarios.Finally, potential research directions were discussed.…”
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Reference Value Selection in a Perturbation Theory Applied to Nonuniform Beams by Blake Martin, Armaghan Salehian

“…The nonuniformities in the system include spatially varying and piecewise continuous bending stiffness and mass per unit length. The expression for the natural frequencies is obtained up to second-order and the expression for the mode shapes is obtained up to first-order. …”
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The biblical view of humanity and the promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities: the call and mission of the church by P. White

“… It is estimated that 10 per cent of the world’s population, approximately 650 million people live with disability. …”
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A STATISTICAL STUDY ON KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS IN HEALTH SYSTEM by Lucian MIRESCU, Ana-Maria Camelia POPESCU

“…Using linear regression, it was found that a decrease in the average cost per day of hospitalization can be achieved by increasing the bed utilization rate and increasing the number of cases treated in a calendar year. …”

On the Solution of a Class of Nonlinear Systems Governed by an 𝑀-Matrix by Woula Themistoclakis, Antonia Vecchio

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Increased Risk of Bacteremia in Patients Hemodialyzed Through Central Catheters by Geoffrey Taylor, Teresa Kirkland, Peter Hamilton

“…Patients hemodialyzing through central venous catheters had a far higher incidence of bacteremia (0.01 per dialysis run) than patients hemodialyzing through vascular grafts (0.0005 per dialysis run).…”
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Hardware Architecture for Real-Time Computation of Image Component Feature Descriptors on a FPGA by Abdul Waheed Malik, Benny Thörnberg, Muhammad Imran, Najeem Lawal

“…The developed architecture is capable of processing 390 video frames per second of size 640 × 480 pixels. Dynamic power consumption is 13 mW at 86 frames per second.…”
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Lightning Damage to Landscape Palms by Stephen H. Brown, Douglas Caldwell, Ralph Mitchell

“…Florida has on average 3,500 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes per day and 1.2 million strikes per year. Given so many strikes, the probability of damage to certain palms is significant. …”
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Environmental impact assessment of rapeseed production using the LCA method: Part two: Life cycle impact assessment by Kiš Ferenc, Đurišić-Mladenović Nataša, Marjanović-Jeromela Ana

“…The study found that the total damage to human health was estimated at 0.0048 DALY, while damage due to biodiversity loss was calculated as 0.0001 species per year. Additionally, the damage resulting from the exploitation of geological mineral reserves was determined to be 167 USD per FU. …”
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Factors affecting the rural domestic waste generation by A.R. Darban Astane, M. Hajilo

“…The results of this study showed that the average waste generated by each person was 0.588 kilograms per day. with the share of organic waste generated by each person being 0.409 kilograms per day and the share of solid waste generated by each person being 0.179 kilograms per day. …”
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Decrease in (Major) Amputations in Diabetics: A Secondary Data Analysis by AOK Rheinland/Hamburg by Melanie May, Sebastian Hahn, Claudia Tonn, Gerald Engels, Dirk Hochlenert

“…The rate of diabetics needing major amputations fell significantly by 9.5% per year (p<0.0001) from 217 to 126 of 100,000 patients per year. …”
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Micropropagation, Micromorphological Studies, and In Vitro Flowering in Rungia pectinata L. by Mahipal S. Shekhawat, M. Manokari, C. P. Ravindran

“…Maximum 13.2 shoots per explant with 5.2 cm length were observed. All the shoots were rooted (4.9 roots per shoot with 3.5 cm length) on half strength MS medium fortified with 2.0 mg L−1 indole-3 butyric acid (IBA). …”
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Energy Efficiency Analysis of Antenna Selection Techniques in Massive MIMO-OFDM System with Hardware Impairments by Anuj Singal, Deepak Kedia

“…In this paper, we propose an M-MIMO-OFDM model using per-subcarrier antenna selection and bulk antenna selection schemes to mitigate these problems. …”
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Heritability and Genetic Advance among Chili Pepper Genotypes for Heat Tolerance and Morphophysiological Characteristics by Magaji G. Usman, M. Y. Rafii, M. R. Ismail, M. A. Malek, Mohammad Abdul Latif

“…There was a highly significant variation among the genotypes in response to high temperature (CMT), photosynthesis rate, plant height, disease incidence, fruit length, fruit weight, number of fruits, and yield per plant. At 5% selection intensity, high genetic advance as percent of the mean (>20%) was observed for CMT, photosynthesis rate, fruit length, fruit weight, number of fruits, and yield per plant. …”
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of tislelizumab plus chemotherapy as the first-line treatment for advanced or metastatic oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma in China. by Chaoneng He, Xiufang Mi, Gaoqi Xu, Xinglu Xu, Wenxiu Xin, Like Zhong, Junfeng Zhu, Qi Shu, Luo Fang, Haiying Ding

“…<h4>Results</h4>Tislelizumab plus chemotherapy yielded an additional 0.337 QALYs and incremental costs of $7,117.007 compared with placebo plus chemotherapy, generating an ICER of $21,116.75 per QALY, which was between 1 time ($12,674.89/QALY) and 3 times GDP ($38,024.67/QALY) per capita. …”
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Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Women of Childbearing Age at Unaaha Public Health Center, Konawe Regency by Erwin Azizi Jayadipraja, Muh Natsir, Timbul Supodo, Komang Ayi Sukma

“… Introduction: The prevalence of DM at the Unaaha Health Center in 2017 was 1.12 per 1000 population, increased by 2018 to 2.4 per 1000 population and increased in 2019 by 4.6 per 1000 population. …”
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Development and Feasibility of an Adolescent Dancer Screen by Kynaston Schultz, Kathleen Sun Worrall, Zoe Tawa, Joanna Binney, Jessica Boyle, Laurel Daniels Abbruzzese

“… # Results Descriptive data were collected from 32 female dancers aged 11-17 with cohort one averaging 18.57 dance hours per week and cohort two averaging 10.6 dance hours per week. …”
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Quenching dynamics in highly doped erbium fiber core-pumping, amplifier configuration by Pablo G. Rojas Hernandez, Shankar Pidishety, Johan Nilsson

“…The core-pumping configuration demonstrated significantly higher gain per unit length than both low-doping EDFAs and cladding-pumping systems, with effective energy storage achievable through short pump pulses to reduce concentration quenching effects. …”
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