Prevalence and predictors of overweight and obesity among women of childbearing age in the province of Essaouira, Morocco by Abdelmounaim Manoussi, Nezha Nacer, Imane Kajjoune, Abdellatif Baali, Hakima Amor, Nadia Ouzennou

“…There is a need to strengthen public health policies aimed at reducing overweight and obesity among women of childbearing age in Morocco, with an emphasis on nutrition education and monitoring their weight status throughout their reproductive lives.…”
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Seasonal Patterns and Trends of Air Pollution in the Upper Northern Thailand from 2004 to 2018 by Sarawut Sukkhum, Apiradee Lim, Thammasin Ingviya, Rattikan Saelim

“…The results provide information to the authorities for setting up proper measures and policies to control and mitigate air quality impacts especially in the dry season.…”
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Increased population exposure to extreme droughts in Iberia due to 0.5 °C additional anthropogenic warming by Ana Russo, Virgílio A Bento, Andreia F S Ribeiro, Daniela C A Lima, João A M Careto, Pedro M M Soares, Renata Libonati, Ricardo M Trigo, Célia M Gouveia

“…We highlight the importance of temperature in drought representation and underscore the urgent need to limit global warming below 1.5 °C, in line with international climate policies. The analysis reveals that the exacerbation of drought conditions is more pronounced under higher emission scenarios, particularly RCP8.5, emphasizing the critical role of emission reduction in climate change mitigation. …”
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Association between Consumption of Fluoroquinolones and Carbapenems and Their Resistance Rates in Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Argentina by Silvia Boni, Gustavo H. Marin, Laura Campaña, Lupe Marin, Soledad Risso-Patrón, Gina Marin, Fernanda Gabriel, Alejandra Corso, Valeria Garay, Manuel Limeres

“…Global data at the national level might mask local realities that require specific health policies in order to control the irrational use of ATMs.…”
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The use and operationalization of “structural stigma” in health-related research: A scoping review by Evan L. Eschliman, Edwina P. Kisanga, Long Jie Huang, Ohemaa B. Poku, Becky L. Genberg, Danielle German, Sarah M. Murray, Lawrence H. Yang, Michelle R. Kaufman

“…Quantitative operationalizations (n = 102) engaged most in the conceptual domain of laws and government-level policies, while qualitative operationalizations (n = 68) engaged most with institutional (i.e., non-government-level) policies, practices, and procedures. …”
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Meat is healthy, green and vital to social and economic sustainability: frames used by the red meat industry during development of the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations by Amanda Wood, Janice Swan, Talia Masino, Bjørk Tørnqvist, Elin Röös

“…To reduce environmental impacts from the food system, demand-side changes, especially reductions in the consumption of animal products in high-consuming populations, are needed. This will require policies promoting red meat reductions, since dietary patterns are difficult to change, but such policies will likely meet opposition from certain food industry actors. …”
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A systemic evaluation of COVID-19 vaccination drives in LICs, LMICs, UMICs, and HICs: Preparedness for future pandemics by Pratyush Kumar, Manali Sarkar, Vishnu B. Unnithan, Daniel J. G. Martínez, Maximiliano E. Arlettaz, Ramya Gnanaraj, M Miguel F. Júarez, Suhrud Panchawagh, Kumar Abhishek, Poonam Agrawal, G. P. Kaushal, Mathew Mbwogge, Yurkina F Morales, Muhannad Alnaasan, Reem Kozum, Yhojar Pisfil-Farroñay, Asmitha P. Reddy, Rushikesh Shukla

“…Vaccination is an effective strategy to battle the disease. Policies and distribution frameworks have varied widely across countries. …”
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European green capitals. Best practices for sustainable urban development by Andrea Iacomoni

“…With this work, it was intended to highlight how the European Union, in recent decades, has devoted increasing and considerable efforts in prefiguring sustainability objectives, fundamental to address the urban planning policies of individual cities, increasingly oriented to develop strategic plans that pursue a development intelligent and sustainable urban development.…”
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Laila Porras, L’évolution des inégalités de revenus et de la pauvreté dans la transformation post-socialiste. Une analyse institutionnelle des cas tchèque, hongrois et russe by Laila Porras

“…The study takes into account four factors to explain the different national paths of transformation: historical specificity and socialist heritage, initial conditions and transformation strategy, policies and institutions related to the labor market and, eventually, the role of the State in income redistribution. …”
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Achieving efficient dynamic cryptographic access control in cloud storage by HONG Cheng, ZHANG Min, FENG Deng-guo

“…To keep the data in the cloud confidential against unauthorized parties,a cryptographic access control solution called hybrid cloud re-encryption（HCRE） based on attribute-based encryption（ABE） was introduced.HCRE designed a secret sharing scheme to delegate the task of ABE re-encryption to the cloud service provider（CSP）,which alleviates the administering burdens on the data owner.Experiments show that HCRE can handle dynamic access policies in a more ef-ficient way.Additionally,HCRE does not reveal extra information of the plaintext to the CSP,thus it does no harm to the data confidentiality.…”
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Mesures de compensation écologique : risques ou opportunités pour le foncier agricole en France ? by Claire Etrillard, Michel Pech

“…We describe the game rules and procedures for the implementation of ecological compensation, and we emphasize the need for consistency of these measures with land based policies. The property aspects, the concept of expectation and the consultation with the agricultural sector are for us the main determinants of the effectiveness of such measures.…”
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Il monitoraggio ambientale come “dispositivo” politico e “costrutto” socioculturale. Una proposta interpretativa e operativa a partire dalla città di Taranto by Enzo V. Alliegro

“…As a result, it is put forward an interpretative proposal of applied anthropology aimed at overcoming the gap between local risk perception and public control and mitigation policies.…”
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Research on resource monitoring and billing mechanisms of application engine in cloud computing environment by Yi REN, Jing ZHANG, Hong CHEN, Qing-bo WU, Jin-zhu KONG, Hua-dong DAI, Gang GUAN

“…A comprehensive study on the billing methods of existing cloud computing platforms was made.Then,AppScale,an open sourced scalable and typical PaaS software,as the foundation platform of our target resource monitoring and billing mechanisms was chose.Appscale’s structure,its components and how they worked together was analyzed.CloudMB,which enhanced AppScale by supporting process level resource monitoring and multi-user oriented billing function with flexible billing policies was designed and implemented.Finally,experiment verified that CloudMB is effective and its occupation of CPU time is lower than 3%.…”
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Desigualdade socioespacial e pandemia da COVID-19 na conurbação Belém-Ananindeua-Marituba, Pará by Felipe Garcia Passos

“…The analysis shows repeated spatial patterns reflecting the indicators, with an overlap of negative bands in the same parts of the territory and the best indices in complementary areas, revealing the socio-spatial inequality existing in the conurbation, which is neglected by the policies that could make social distancing possible.…”
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Géographie et lieux de chant à Shanghai by Sarah Defoin-Merlin

“…The distribution, geographic location, architecture, temporality and visits of the singing places evidence the urban and cultural policies, and show how the Shanghainese society is structured and operates. …”
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La sous-traitance au Brésil : un phénomène à la fois ancien et nouveau by Graça Druck, Tânia Franco

“…Our study subject « subcontracting as one of the main work management and organization policies in the framework of productive restructurings » used to discuss the work flexilibization and precarization process in Brazil. …”
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The cultural approach in the development discourse by MACIA MARTÍNEZ, Irene, DE ANGELIS, Alessia

“…Focusing the attention on cultural diversity, we want to analyse the presence of this matter in development policies. In the first place, we have carried out researches about the suitability of some universal values and its cross-cultural potential. …”
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Smoking Behavioral Intentions of Nursing Students in Kendari by Deni

“…The need for an interpersonal communication approach is supported by policies to implement strict and sanctioned no-smoking areas, both on campus and in nursing students' workplaces, to minimize their chances of having the intention to smoke.…”
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Public Schools and Ghetto Formation in Interwar New Orleans by Walter C. STERN

“…In doing so, the article addresses a gap in the historiography of American metropolitan change, which generally overlooks the impact of schools and school policies upon urban development and residential settlement patterns.…”
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Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Consensus Guidelines on Safety and Quality Indicators in Endoscopy by David Armstrong, Alan Barkun, Ron Bridges, Rose Carter, Chris de Gara, Catherine Dubé, Robert Enns, Roger Hollingworth, Donald MacIntosh, Mark Borgaonkar, Sylviane Forget, Grigorios Leontiadis, Jonathan Meddings, Peter Cotton, Ernst J Kuipers, Roland Valori, on behalf of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Safety and Quality Indicators in Endoscopy Consensus Group

“…The consensus guidelines reported in this article, however, aimed to identify processes and indicators relevant to the provision of high-quality endoscopy services that will support ongoing quality improvement across many jurisdictions, specifically in the areas of ethics, facility standards and policies, quality assurance, training and education, reporting standards and patient perceptions.…”
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