Overweight and Its Associated Factors among Women of Reproductive Age in Dire Dawa, Eastern Ethiopia, 2021: Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study by Ismael Omer, Tariku Derese, Yitagesu Sintayehu

“…Discretionary calories per week, family monthly income, and contraceptive use were significantly associated with overweight. …”
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Screen time, physical activity and cardiovascular risk factors in adolescents by Gabriel Gustavo Bergmann, Rafael Miranda Tassitano, Mauren Lúcia de Araújo Bergmann, Maria Cecília Marinho Tenório, Jorge Mota

“…Physical activity was estimated by the number of steps per day (steps/ day) measured by pedometers. Cardiovascular risk factors were sum of triceps and subscapular skin- folds (∑SF), total cholesterol (TC) and blood pressure (BP). …”
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Addressing Missing Data in Slope Displacement Monitoring: Comparative Analysis of Advanced Imputation Methods by Seungjoo Lee, Yongjin Kim, Bongjun Ji, Yongseong Kim

“…Sensors installed at two field locations, Yangyang and Omi, provided high-resolution displacement data, with approximately 34,000 data points per sensor. We simulated missing data scenarios at rates of 1%, 3%, 5%, and 10%, reflecting both random and block missing patterns to mimic realistic conditions. …”
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Writing, experience, and literary experience in Montaigne’s Essays and Sartre’s Nausea by Chad Córdova

“…La deconstrucción (Derrida) y la teoría de los medios (McLuhan) nos ofrecen maneras de entender como la emergencia de nuestro concepto de “experiencia” depende, en la medida en que se opone, de los medios escritos, de los libros y de las prácticas y instituciones implicadas (como la lectura y la escuela). “Experiencia” per se es, talvez, impensable sin esos medios y sus prácticas institucionalizadas. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF OPERATION PROCESS MAP AND ANALYSIS OF INVENTORY CONTROL BASED ON MATERIAL REQUIREMENT PLANNING IN ASSEMBLY LINE by Annisa Indah Pratiwi, Afif Hakim, Ragil Yuli Santosa

“…After making a map process operations per each work station, the cycle time for 1800 seconds is obtained. …”
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Socioeconomic status correlates with COVID-19 vaccination coverage among primary and secondary students in the most populated city of Chile by Enzo Guerrero-Araya, Cesar Ravello, Mario Rosemblatt, Tomas Perez-Acle

“…Vaccination data was compiled per school type, either public, state-subsidized, or private, at three different dates during the COVID-19 pandemic to cover the dispersion of Delta, Omicron, and its subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. …”
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Evaluating the Safety and Satisfaction of HYAcorp MLF2 for Noninvasive Buttock Augmentation: A Multicenter Study by Piero Crabai, MD, Luis Campos-Martínez, MD, Francesco Marchetti, MD, Fabio Fantozzi, MD, Ruben Marques, PhD, Silvia Fontenete, PhD

“…Thirty-five subjects received injections, with an average volume of 85.1 ± 42.2 mL per subject injected. Throughout follow-up, 94% of patients and 100% of physicians rated the improvement as “very good” or “good.” …”
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Design Techniques for Single-Ended Wireline Crosstalk Cancellation Receiver Up To 112 Gb/s by Liping Zhong, Quan Pan

“…This article introduces several techniques that enable single-ended crosstalk cancellation receivers to achieve data rates of up to 56 and 112 Gb/s per lane using four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) in 28-nm CMOS technology. …”
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Terroir and farming practices drive arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in French vineyards by Patricia Battie-Laclau, Adrien Taudière, Mathilde Bernard, Lucas Bodénan, Myriam Duchemin, Yvan de Roman, Azimê Yol, Dominique Barry-Etienne

“…Terroirs vary widely in terms of AMF abundance and diversity, with the median of OTUs count per sample ranging from 9 (Côte des Blancs) to 35 (Gigondas). …”
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Bloodstream Infection Etiology among Children and Adults by Svetlana I. Kolesnichenko, Alyona V. Lavrinenko, Lyudmila L. Akhmaltdinova

“…Every year in the world, sepsis occurs in 31.5 million people, and the number of deaths reaches 5.3 million per year. There are not enough studies that describe etiological structure of sepsis pathogens in different groups of population of the Republic of Kazakhstan. …”
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A hyperspectral open-source imager (HOSI) by Jolyon Troscianko

“…The HOSI system can take panoramic hyperspectral images that meet the difficult requirements of ALAN research, sensitive to low light around 0.001 cd.m−2, across 320–880 nm range with spectral resolution of ~ 9 nm (FWHM) and spatial resolution of ~ 2 cycles per degree. The independent exposure of each pixel also allows for an extremely wide dynamic range that can encompass typical natural and artificially illuminated scenes, with sample night-time scans achieving full-spectrum peak-to-peak dynamic ranges of > 50,000:1. …”
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Natural Disaster Risk Assessments for Pine Honey Apiaries in Muğla, Turkey by Fatih Sarı

“…On the other hand, due to the mountainous topography and high precipitation rate of Muğla, the province has a high rate of flood formation (20 per year), which threatens the hive sites by destroying the entire colony. …”
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A Solar Photovoltaic Performance and Financial Modeling Solution for Grid-Connected Homes in Zambia by Katundu Imasiku

“…A 1 kW solar PV system was modeled at an installation cost of US$1.27 per watt on a short-term basis of 5 years and found that the project is feasible with a 28.52% IRR achieved in 3 years and a 69% performance ratio and a debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) of 5.12 by the end of the project life, thereby indicating capability to turn around Zambia’s energy poverty to meet the UN SDG 7.…”
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Reformas de pensiones y determinantes de la afiliación al seguro social de largo plazo en Bolivia by José Luis Evia Vizcarra, Miguel Fernández Moscoso

“…Se es ti ma una fun ción probit pa raidentificar los determinantes de la probabilidad de estar asegurado antes ydes pués de la re for ma, en la que se en con tró que al gu nas va ria bles co mo lasho ras tra ba ja das por día, la an ti güe dad en el em pleo y el gé ne ro de la per so -na dejan de ser relevantes para determinar la probabilidad de estar asegu -ra do des pués de la in tro duc ción de la re for ma.…”
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A systematic epidemiological trends analysis study in global burden of multiple myeloma and 29 years forecast by Qianru Hou, Xinyang Li, Huanxin Ma, Di Fu, Aijun Liao

“…Worldwide, the number of mortality attributed to multiple myeloma reached 116,359.63, with the confidence interval lying between 103,078.62 and 128,470.57, and an age-standardized mortality rate of 1.37 per 100,000 individuals, the confidence interval for which was 1.22 to 1.52. …”
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Identification of Y-box binding protein 1 as a core regulator of MEK/ERK pathway-dependent gene signatures in colorectal cancer cells. by Karsten Jürchott, Ralf-Jürgen Kuban, Till Krech, Nils Blüthgen, Ulrike Stein, Wolfgang Walther, Christian Friese, Szymon M Kiełbasa, Ute Ungethüm, Per Lund, Thomas Knösel, Wolfgang Kemmner, Markus Morkel, Johannes Fritzmann, Peter M Schlag, Walter Birchmeier, Tammo Krueger, Silke Sperling, Christine Sers, Hans-Dieter Royer, Hanspeter Herzel, Reinhold Schäfer

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Inventory and ecology of avifauna in Universitas Andalas campus complex, Indonesia by Adib S. Dewangga, Muhammad N. Janra

“…The data was then analyzed for its diversity, similarity across sites and typical species per survey site. The study recorded 38 bird species with total 418 individuals; they belong to 20 families and 7 orders. …”
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Effectiveness of Badminton Physical Program on Mental Capacities in Healthy Older Adults by Wael Maktouf, Elmoetez Bellah Magtouf, Henrique P Neiva, Oussama Gaied Chortane

“…The physical activity protocol was performed three times a week, one hour per session, for a total period of two months. The activities proposed were not systematized and were aimed at promoting social interaction among participants. …”
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Generative Image Steganography via Encoding Pose Keypoints by Yi Cao, Wentao Ge, Chengsheng Yuan, Quan Wang

“…It also achieves an average hiding capacity of 178.4 bits per image. This method is robust against common image attacks, such as salt and pepper noise, median filtering, compression, and screenshots, with an average bit error rate of less than 0.87%. …”
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Operation Polypharmacy: a pharmacist-led ambulatory care clinic design and evaluation for older patients by Nicha Tantipinichwong, Michelle S. Keller

“…Patients were on 17.3 (range: 7–33) medications at-visit and 15.9 (range: 4–30) medications post-visit, with an average of 1.4 medications deprescribed per visit. In patients with many medications (range: 17–33 medications) at the polypharmacy consult visit, 2.6 medications were deprescribed post-visit. …”
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