Early-life famine exposure and subsequent risk of chronic diseases in later adulthood: a population-based retrospective cohort study by Rui Zhao, Qi Zheng, Le-qin Chen

“…BackgroundOver the past few decades, China has experienced significant demographic and epidemiological changes. …”
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On the fence: Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among sexually Minoritized men who use substances in the United States by Renessa S. Williams, Acklynn M. Byamugisha, Leah Davis-Ewart, Omar R. Valentin, Samantha E. Dilworth, Christian Grov, Adam W. Carrico

“…Those who used cocaine in the past 3 months (aOR: 1.44 CI: 1.20–1.73) had significantly greater odds of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine than those who did not. …”
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Management Control System and Financial Performance of Micro Finance Institutions in Central Region Uganda by Arthur, Sunday, Caleb, Tamwesigire, Caroline Masiko, Murezi, George Stanley, Kinyata, Godfrey, Barigye, Keneth, Nuwagira, Moses, Agaba

“…Micro finance in Uganda is a vibrant growing industry and the government of Uganda has over the past decade initiated implemented and or supported various micro credit schemes aimed at fighting poverty in the country. …”
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EDITORIAL EXPLOSION by Gabriela COCA

“…The Professor Ede Terényi, offers the interested specialists the result of his researches of more then twenty-five years in the area of the harmony of the modern music of the first half of the past century. The volume, The Harmony of the Modern Music (1900 – 1950) treats The Gravitational Harmonic System, the Non-Gravitational Harmonic System (The Geometric One), and The Synthesis of the Two Harmonically Systems. …”
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Ayurvedic Management of Vipadika (Palmoplantar Psoriasis) by Dinesh Kumar Kumawat, Anita Sharma

“…Less scaly patches and other skin changes were found over the palms of hands surface and were also associated with intense itching and burning sensation for the past 3 years.Diagnosis:Condition was diagnosed as PPP (Ayurvedic diagnosis – Vata Kapha dominant Tridoshaja Vipadika).Interventions:The patient was treated with Avipattikara + pitantaka + Suddhagandaka yoga, Mahatikta Ghruta, Arogyavardhini vati, Khadiraristha, and local application of Jivantyadi yamaka daily for 42 days.Outcome:The patient had relief in all the symptoms after 15 days of treatment with no new eruptions. …”
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Measuring postal access and direct delivery services among Native American reservations in Montana and South Dakota by Ryan Weichelt

“…Over the past two decades voting by mail has increased. As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the 2020 political season, absentee voting increased to over 43% of all votes cast in the November Presidential Election. …”
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Prediction of Compressive Strength of Stabilized Earth Block Masonry by Kunasegaram Sajanthan, Balasingam Balagasan, Navaratnarajah Sathiparan

“…The predicted compressive strength of masonry prisms using the proposed expression is compared with 14 empirical equations and experimental data of past research available in the published literature. …”
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BRICS in a world at crossroads? by Siphamandla Zondi, Norman Sempijja, Thulisile Mphambukeli

“…The West is united in asserting, sometimes crudely, its geopolitical positions in international affairs. It has over the past decade and a half decided to bring Russia into West’s fold in defence of a US - anchored western international order. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIA by Benedict Azu, Ijieh Sunday Okubor

“…Despite various poverty alleviation programs implemented by various past and present governments in Nigeria, it seems that this menace is still living with us. …”
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The 15th Anniversary of the Seminar on the History of Higher School in St. Petersburg by T. V. Kostina

“…Reports,  presented at the interdisciplinary seminar, deal with the educational policy,  the history of educational institutions, the methodology of studying the  history of higher education, the study of archival collections of educational  institutions, etc. Over the past five year 18 sessions have been held, 4 of  them – in the form of problematic round tables; overall 30 reports were  presented.…”
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To Carlos on his sixtieth birthday: Greetings from your friends in Iowa by Philip C. Kutzko

“…And it is no exaggeration at all to state that, without the trust and support of Carlos Castillo-Chavez, it is unlikely that the transformation of our graduate program that took place over the past fifteen years would have occurred.For more information please click the “Full Text” above.…”
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L’humanisation des hybrides mi‑hommes, mi‑bêtes en question(s) by Jacqueline Leclercq-Marx

“…Having raised questions about the general concept of humanization with regard to half-human and half-animal creatures, we will examine it in some Western texts written in the historical period roughly between the ninth and fifteenth centuries to see if these hybrids have already benefited from humanization in one form or another in the past. The creatures in question are five different hybrids of mythology and fabulous natural history: sirens (uniquely in their aspect of fish women), centaurs, cynocephali or dog heads, and satyrs or half-man half-goat.Finally, we will ask whether there is a determining cultural factor that has favoured this kind of particularly transgressive slippage between human and animal boundaries, even if it has not always and in case every instance prevailed.…”
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Entrepreneurial Orientation in Mexican Microenterprises by Héctor Montiel Campos, Luis S. Alvarado Acuna, José Pablo Nuno de la Parra, Francisco A. Aguilar Valenzuela

“…Over the past 30 years research on Entrepreneurship Orientation (EO) has provided valuable information regarding strategy, entrepreneurship and aspects of performance at the firm-level. …”
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Effect of Explosive Reactive Armour Cover Plate on Interaction of ERA and Explosively Formed Projectile by Muhammad F. Rasheed, Cheng Wu, Ali Raza

“…Interaction of EFP with the ERA sandwich alone has been studied in the past. This paper studies the effect of the cover plate and its thickness on the interaction of the EFP and the ERA sandwich. …”
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Monocular Depth Estimation: A Review on Hybrid Architectures, Transformers and Addressing Adverse Weather Conditions by Kumara Lakindu, Senanayake Nipuna, Poravi Guhanathan

“…Monocular depth estimation has significantly improved over the past couple of years and deep learning-based methods have surpassed traditional and machine learning-based methods. …”
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Les chanteuses à la barre by Mélanie Traversier

“…The judicial documentation that have been neglected in the past by the historians of opera reveals the internal professional tensions inside the “showbiz society”, involving female and male singers against the theatres directors. …”
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Des SfN avant l’heure : ce que nous en disent les opérations de mitigation urbaine en zone inondable. Le cas des villes ligériennes by Marie Fournier, Mathilde Gralepois

“…The challenge is to understand how the concept of NBS, although not yet widely used by planners, is already partly present in past projects.…”
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Statistical Inferences of Burr XII Lifetime Models under Joint Type-1 Competing Risks Samples by Tahani A. Abushal, A. A. Soliman, G. A. Abd-Elmougod

“…The problem of statistical inference under joint censoring samples has received considerable attention in the past few years. In this paper, we adopted this problem when units under the test fail with different causes of failure which is known by the competing risks model. …”
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Trauma, Romance, and the Diasporic Memory Keepers of the Holodomor in Erin Litteken’s The Memory Keeper of Kyiv by Mateusz Świetlicki

“…This article examines the narrative techniques used in The Memory Keeper of Kyiv and demonstrates that the combination of romance and historical fiction enables Litteken not only to introduce readers possessing little to no knowledge of Ukrainian history to the Holodomor but also show the links between Ukraine and North America and those between the present and past genocides in Ukraine. After a brief introduction to the historical context of the Holodomor, the article shows that by using two timelines—one set in 2004 and the other during the Great Famine—Litteken showcases the intergenerational and transcultural character of individual and collective trauma. …”
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Compressed sensing for electrocardiogram acquisition in wireless body sensor network: A comparative analysis by Junxin Chen, Jiazhu Xing, Leo Yu Zhang, Lin Qi

“…In the past decades, compressed sensing emerges as a promising technique for signal acquisition in low-cost sensor networks. …”
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