Long-term changes in the thermodynamic structure of the lowermost stratosphere inferred from reanalysis data by F. Weyland, P. Hoor, D. Kunkel, T. Birner, T. Birner, F. Plöger, F. Plöger, K. Turhal, K. Turhal

“…<span class="inline-formula">−</span>0.5 <span class="inline-formula">hPa</span> per decade in all reanalyses. The sign of the tropical tropopause potential temperature trends, however, differs across the reanalyses. …”
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The impact of Covid-19 on harm reduction policies in Iran: an interrupted time series analysis by Siavash Beiranvand, Meysam Behzadifar, Aidin Aryankhesal, Seyed Jafar Ehsanzadeh, Masoud Behzadifar

“…Results Following the onset of Covid-19, the level change in condom distribution to high-risk individuals showed a significant decline, decreasing by 2,168.87 units per month (95% CI: -2,405.57 to -1,932.15). Methadone dispensation, crucial for opioid harm reduction, also witnessed a substantial level change, decreasing by 5,007.60 cc per month (95% CI: -6,251.75 to -3,763.45). …”
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PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIODIESEL PRODUCTION IN UKRAINE WITH CONSIDERATION OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY by Ihor Kupchuk, Tatiana Yemchyk, Yaroslav Gontaruk

“…The planned biodiesel production of 450 kg per tonne requires an additional investment of 2,050 UAH. …”
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US State Public Health Agencies' Use of Twitter From 2012 to 2022: Observational Study by Samuel R Mendez, Sebastian Munoz-Najar, Karen M Emmons, Kasisomayajula Viswanath

“…The overall volume of tweets increased suddenly from less than 50,000 tweets in 2019 to over 94,000 in 2020, resulting in an average of 5.3 per day. Though mean tweets per day fell in 2021 and 2022, this COVID-19 pandemic–era low was still higher than the pre–COVID-19 pandemic peak. …”
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Production of Biogas from Bio-Degradable Municipal Solid Waste – A Way of Resource Recovery. by Atatiru, Faiza

“…In 2020, the world was estimated to generate 2.24 billion tonnes of solid wastes, amounting to footprint of 0.79kg per person per day. With rapid population growth and urbanization, annual waste generation is expected to increase by 73% from 2020 levels to 3.88 billion tonnes in 2050. …”
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De la incorporació del llenguatge inclusiu a l’afebliment de la llegítima catalana: els propòsits del Projecte de llei d’actualització del Codi civil de Catalunya by Rosa Barceló Compte, Gemma Rubio Gimeno

“…El Projecte de llei d’actualització, incorporació i modificació de determinats articles del Codi civil de Catalunya, pel qual es modifiquen i s’afegeixen diverses normes al Codi civil de Catalunya, proposa una actualització legislativa amb un vessant doble: un vessant formal, per a l’assoliment progressiu d’un llenguatge amb pretensió inclusiva de gènere, i un vessant material, mitjançant l’adequació de determinades institucions a fi de donar resposta a l’evolució de la societat o per tal de resoldre qüestions que han resultat controvertides en l’aplicació prèvia de la norma. …”
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Safety evaluation of the food enzyme containing endo‐polygalacturonase and β‐glucosidase from the non‐genetically modified Aspergillus tubingensis strain ARO by EFSA Panel on Food Enzymes (FEZ Panel), 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, Valentina Tokić, Ana Criado, Eleonora Marini, Laura Sanmartin Cabo, Yi Liu

“…The Panel identified a no observed adverse effect level of 2217 mg TOS/kg bw per day, the highest dose tested, resulting in a margin of exposure of at least 3640. …”
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LC-Protonets: Multi-Label Few-Shot Learning for World Music Audio Tagging by Charilaos Papaioannou, Emmanouil Benetos, Alexandros Potamianos

“…Extending Prototypical Networks, LC-Protonets generate one prototype per label combination, derived from the power set of labels present in the limited training items, rather than one prototype per label. …”
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Seasonal Abundance and Host-Feeding Patterns of Anopheline Vectors in Malaria Endemic Area of Iran by Hamidreza Basseri, Ahmad Raeisi, Mansoor Ranjbar Khakha, Abaas Pakarai, Hassanzehi Abdolghafar

“…Overall, the abundance of the female mosquito positive to human blood was 4.25% per human shelter versus 17.5% per animal shelter. …”
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Algorithm and Hardware Design of a Fast Intra Frame Mode Decision Module for H.264/AVC Encoders by Daniel Palomino, Guilherme Corrêa, Cláudio Diniz, Sergio Bampi, Luciano Agostini, Altamiro Susin

“…Compared with the best previous results reported, the implemented architecture achieves a complexity reduction of five times, a processing capability increase of 14 times, and a reduction in the number of clock cycles per MB of 11 times.…”
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Feasibility of a Nurse-Led Weekend Group Exercise Program for People after Stroke by Katharine Scrivener, Raymond Tourany, Mary McNamara-Holmes, Karl Schurr, Simone Dorsch, Catherine Dean

“…The mean number of exercise repetitions completed per participant in each class was 180.7 (SD 205.4). …”
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Epidemiological perspectives of amyloidosis in Argentina: a cohort study analysing incidence and mortality patterns among a population affiliated to a medical care programme by María Lourdes Posadas-Martínez, Delfina Cirelli, Florencia De Florio, María Adela Aguirre, Elsa Mercedes Nucifora, Patricia Beatriz Sorroche, María Soledad Sáez, Valeria Inés Aliperti, Jimena Vicens, Marcelina Carretero

“…Incidence and mortality rates were reported per million person-year with their respective 95% CIs. …”
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Characterization of Potential Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria Isolated from Maize (Zea mays L.) in Central and Northern Benin (West Africa) by Nadège A. Agbodjato, Pacôme A. Noumavo, Farid Baba-Moussa, Hafiz A. Salami, Haziz Sina, Alphonse Sèzan, Honoré Bankolé, Adolphe Adjanohoun, Lamine Baba-Moussa

“…Sixty samples were collected at the rate of four samples per village and three villages per agroecological zone. …”
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Quantum key distribution implemented with d-level time-bin entangled photons by Hao Yu, Stefania Sciara, Mario Chemnitz, Nicola Montaut, Benjamin Crockett, Bennet Fischer, Robin Helsten, Benjamin Wetzel, Thorsten A. Goebel, Ria G. Krämer, Brent E. Little, Sai T. Chu, Stefan Nolte, Zhiming Wang, José Azaña, William J. Munro, David J. Moss, Roberto Morandotti

“…As well, increasing the number of time bins per photon state typically requires decreasing the repetition rate of the system, affecting in turn the effective qudit rates. …”
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Lossless Phonon Transition Through GaN‐Diamond and Si‐Diamond Interfaces by Mohamadali Malakoutian, Kelly Woo, Dennis Rich, Ramandeep Mandia, Xiang Zheng, Anna Kasperovich, Devansh Saraswat, Rohith Soman, Youhwan Jo, Thomas Pfeifer, Taesoon Hwang, Henry Aller, Jeongkyu Kim, Junrui Lyu, Janelle Keionna Mabrey, Thomas Andres Rodriguez, James Pomeroy, Patrick E. Hopkins, Samuel Graham, David J. Smith, Subhasish Mitra, Kyeongjae Cho, Martin Kuball, Srabanti Chowdhury

“…The a‐SiC interlayer reduces diamond/GaN (<5 m2K per GW) and diamond/Si (<2 m2K per GW) thermal boundary resistances by linking low‐ and high‐frequency phonons, boosting phonon transport through the interface. …”
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Regional-Scale Ozone Deposition to North-East Atlantic Waters by L. Coleman, S. Varghese, O. P. Tripathi, S. G. Jennings, C. D. O'Dowd

“…Atlantic of around 4 ppt per day.…”
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Effective Method Using a Stool in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) on Dialysis Chair by Takeshi Ifuku, Takashi Hitosugi, Yoshfumi Kawakubo, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Kazuto Doi, Takeshi Yokoyama

“…MCC was performed in sets of 2 (each set was 100 times per minute) per person, with and without a round chair. …”
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Cost Analysis of Noninvasive Helmet Ventilation Compared with Use of Noninvasive Face Mask in ARDS by Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, Louis-Philippe Gagnon, Raphaëlle Robidoux, Kednapa Thavorn, Dipayan Chaudhuri, Daniel Kobewka, John P. Kress

“…Intensive care unit (ICU) costs have doubled since 2000, totalling 108 billion dollars per year. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has a prevalence of 10.4% and a 28-day mortality of 34.8%. …”
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Comparison of clinico-pathological characteristics and survival of recurrent ovarian cancer patients on seven different chemo-protocols by Sattar Saima, Ahmad Mobasher, Saeed Hamid, Saleem Zikria, Danish Zeeshan, Akhlaq Muhammad

“…Interestingly, the highest and the lowest patient non-compliance were observed in CG (carboplatin + gemcitabine) (81.6 %) and paclitaxel (4.5 %) arms, resp. As per the hazard model for survival, topotecan showed significant association with the therapy related events/deaths compared to other protocols. …”
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Ownership and Utilisation of Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets in Tiko Health District, Southwest Region, Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Study by Paulette Ngum Fru, Frederick Nchang Cho, Andrew N. Tassang, Celestina Neh Fru, Peter Nde Fon, Albert Same Ekobo

“…Factors significantly associated with the ownership of at least one LLIN per household were respondent’s age and gender. …”
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