Tobacco Use, Body Mass Index, Potentially Malignant Disorder and Attitude towards Passive Smoking in a Primary Health Centre – A Cross-Sectional Study by Priyanka Paul Madhu, Zahiruddin Syed Quazi, Anand N Wankhede

“…When the frequency was analyzed, 47% of lesions had consumption between one and five times per day and 71% of robust indications had daily consumption between six and ten times per day. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of lazertinib as first-line treatment in patients with -mutated advanced lung cancer by Li-Jung Elizabeth Ku, Jui-Hung Tsai, Li-Jun Chen, Szu-Chun Yang

“…Results: Applying the same daily price of osimertinib (US$110) to that of lazertinib, the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of lazertinib versus gefitinib was US$93,792 per quality-adjusted life year (QALY). The cost of lazertinib was a major determinant. …”
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Effect of physical feed form, phytase super dosing, and/or citric acid on growth performance, phosphorus digestibility, and intestinal microbial population of broiler chickens by M.M. Reihani, S.N. Mousavi, F. Froudi, K. Karimi

“…For this purpose, 1000 newly hatched, straight-run Cobb 500 broiler chicks were assigned to 8 experimental treatments with five replicate pens each and 25 broiler chickens per replicate in a 2x2x2 factorial arrangement with two forms of feed (pellets or mash), two phytase concentrations (0 or 2000 FTU per kg), and two citric acid levels (0 or 0.4% of diet) for 42 days. …”
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Real-Time Incident-Responsive Signal Control Strategy under Partially Connected Vehicle Environment by Kancharla K. K. Chandan, Álvaro J. M. Seco, Ana M. C. Bastos Silva

“…All the 3 strategies were integrated into one algorithm, which runs as per the real-time traffic conditions, in the presence or absence of incidents. …”
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Towards an Inclusive Creative Economy by Aji Damanuri, Faruq Ahmad Futaqi

“…The findings reveal a significant income gap between performers, who earn a modest income of 50,000–300,000 rupiah per performance, and entrepreneurs dealing with Reog attributes and souvenirs, who can generate a turnover of up to 100 million rupiah per month. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Studies on Vertical Properties of a New Multi-Dimensional Earthquake Isolation and Mitigation Device by Zhaodong Xu, Liheng Lu, Benqiang Shi, Fuhgwo Yuan

“…The characteristics of the vertical properties including the initial stiffness, the energy dissipation stiffness, the energy dissipation per cycle and the vertical damping ratio changing with excitation frequency and amplitude were studied, and the formulas describing the characteristics were proposed. …”
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Pollination Biology of Potentilla recta (Sulfur Cinquefoil) and Its Cooccurring Native Congener Potentilla gracilis in Northeastern Oregon by James McIver, Karen Erickson

“…The invasive produced higher numbers of seeds per plant, having greater mass per unit vegetation. …”
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La formazione pedagogica e didattica dei bibliotecari by Andrea Avellino

“…Il bibliotecario che organizzare momenti formativi non dovrà mettere in atto le stesse strategie di professionista sanitario o di un insegnante. Ma per poterle mettere in atto dovrà conoscerle. Questo presuppone che la sua formazione sia adeguata e che il suo corso di studi abbia previsto la conoscenza delle discipline pedagogico-didattiche. …”
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Stratified mass selection, individual selection between and within, and genetic gains in native maize varieties by Joaes Alves da Silva Pereira, Vanderley Borges dos Santos

“…The experimental design was DBC, with two replications totaling 20 experimental units, evaluating four plants per plot. The spacing used was 0.8 by 0.3 m. The following were evaluated: stalk diameter (SD), ear length (EL), ear diameter (ED), number of rows (NF), number of grains per row (NGR), ear mass (EM), and total grain mass (TGM) were evaluated. …”
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High-Speed Transmission and Mass Data Storage Solutions for Large-Area and Arbitrarily Structured Fabrication through Maskless Lithography by Yu Lu, Wei Wu, Ke-yi Wang

“…The throughput has been greatly improved at meters per second or square centimeter per second. And test results showed that data transmission meets the requirement of the experiment.…”
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Cloud-Based Software Development Lifecycle: A Simplified Algorithm for Cloud Service Provider Evaluation with Metric Analysis by Santhosh S, Narayana Swamy Ramaiah

“…Already existing solutions are either based on simulation tools as per the requirements or evaluated concerning the quality of service attributes. …”
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Corn and Soybeans in a Strip Intercropping System: Crop Growth Rates, Radiation Interception, and Grain Yield Components by Diego Verdelli, Horacio A. Acciaresi, Eduardo S. Leguizamón

“…Grain number per unit area was the yield component most closely associated to yield variation in both crops. …”
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A Meta-Analysis of Tea Drinking and Risk of Parkinson's Disease by Feng-Jiao Li, Hong-Fang Ji, Liang Shen

“…Moreover, the summary OR (OR: 0.83, 95% CI = 0.69–0.99) for drinkers of ≤1 cup of tea per day versus nonconsumers and that (OR: 0.96, 95% CI = 0.73–1.27) for drinkers of >1 cups of tea per day versus nonconsumers showed that there was not an apparent dose-response relationship. …”
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The convergence of health system resources and health outcome in Central Europe and the Baltic region by Shailender Singh, Chitra Krishnan, Nishant Kumar, Supriya Lamba Sahdev

“…The panel result favors the existence of convergence in the three variables employed as health system resources – physician density, nurses’ density, and per capita current health expenditure. Similarly, the findings support the presence of convergence in all four variables used as health outcomes – life expectancy at birth (total), crude death per 1000 population, NCDs mortality, and infant mortality. …”
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Income of workers in industrial parks post-COVID-19 pandemic: The raised issues in Vietnam by Thanh Thuy Cu, Tuan Anh Nguyen

“…Additionally, the study reveals that differences in professional qualifications lead to an income disparity of 1.898 million VND per month, while the variations in complementary skills contribute to an income difference of 0.592 million VND per month. …”
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Combining ability for quantitative traits related to productivity in durum wheat by R. G. Dragov

“…For productivity tillering capacity, number of spikelets per spike and kernels weight per spike, specific combining ability has a great impact in inheritance. …”
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Perceived inequality and variability in the expression of parochial altruism by Cody T. Ross, Anne C. Pisor

“…Other research, however, has questioned both the ubiquity of parochial altruism and the role of diversity per se in causing social discord. Here, we use ethnographic, social network and experimental economic game data to explore this topic in two multi-ethnic Colombian communities. …”
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Orbital ameloblastoma: research and challenges of a rare benign tumor by Rui Zhang, Xiaoming Huang, Fengyuan Sun, Tong Wu

“…The global incidence of ameloblastoma is 0.92 cases per million people per year. According to world literature reports, there are 32 cases of maxillary bone metastasis to the orbit and 4 cases of mandibular bone metastasis to the orbit. …”
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Safety evaluation of an extension of use of the food enzyme triacylglycerol lipase from the genetically modified Aspergillus niger strain LFS by EFSA Panel on Food Enzymes (FEZ), Holger Zorn, José Manuel Barat Baviera, Claudia Bolognesi, Francesco Catania, Gabriele Gadermaier, Ralf Greiner, Baltasar Mayo, Alicja Mortensen, Yrjö Henrik Roos, Marize L. M. Solano, Monika Sramkova, Henk Van Loveren, Laurence Vernis, Daniele Cavanna, Yi Liu

“…The dietary exposure was calculated to be up to 0.110 mg total organic solids (TOS)/kg body weight (bw) per day in European populations. When combined with the no observed adverse effect level previously reported (1038 mg TOS/kg bw per day, the highest dose tested), the Panel derived a margin of exposure of at least 9436. …”
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Fuzzy Logic Based Hardware Accelerator with Partially Reconfigurable Defuzzification Stage for Image Edge Detection by Aous H. Kurdi, Janos L. Grantner, Ikhlas M. Abdel-Qader

“…The hardware accelerator consists of seven stages with one clock cycle latency per stage. The defuzzification stage was implemented using three different defuzzification methods. …”
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