The role of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography in choledochal cysts and/or abnormal pancreatobiliary junction in children by Jiri Drabek, Radan Keil, Jan Stovicek, Jindra Lochmannova, Stepan Hlava, Jiri Snajdauf, Michal Rygl, Jiri Nevoral

“…Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography remains a reasonable alternative because MRCP has a limited ability to diagnose the precise anomalies of the pancreatobiliary junction and has no therapeutic capabilities.…”
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Experiment Investigation on Stress Characteristics of Grouting Microsteel Pipe Piles with Cement-Soil Wall by Shujuan Yang, Mingyi Zhang, Xiaoyu Bai, Xueying Liu, Chen Zheng

“…The bending moment was larger at the upper and smaller at the lower part along the depth direction, indicating it is reasonable to design and calculate microsteel pipe piles by the pile-anchor system. …”
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Female genital mutilation among children in Ethiopia: A time-to-event analysis of age at circumcision. by Michael Arthur Ofori, Daniel Biftu Bekalo, David Kwamena Mensah, Niharika Jha

“…It is a deeply entrenched harmful practice involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons. To inform effective policymaking and raise awareness about FGM's health risks, understanding socioeconomic and demographic factors influencing the timing of girls' circumcision is crucial. …”
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Earthquake Disaster Rescue Model Based on Complex Adaptive System Theory by Fujiang Chen, Jingang Liu, Junying Chen

“…On the basis of considering the shortest emergency rescue time goal and the goal of maximizing the deployment utility of rescue team, the reasonable deployment of a rescue team is realized through a complex adaptive system, that is, the deployment utility of the rescue team is maximized. …”
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Trust as a key element in family mediation during divorce: strategies, practices (supervision experience with the use of neural networks) by V. V. Krivopuskov, I. V. Mkrtumova, O. E. Gracheva

“…The first results are presented: 98 % of efficiency, almost all couples gave their consent to mediation, and the first mediations were successfully conducted. Some of the main reasons for low prevalence of pre-trial settlement of family conflicts were revealed: the normative non-mandatory nature of family mediation for couples with minor children when filing for divorce and lack of awareness of couples about advantages and benefits of resorting to family mediation. …”
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The IL-10/STAT3 Axis Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Cancer stem cell and radio resistance by Li-jun Wang, Ying Zhao, Yan-sheng Wang, Lei Xing, Yun-jing Duan, Huan-huan Zang

“…Abstract One of the primary reasons for the failure of therapy in nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) is radio resistance-related localized one, which may lead to tumor residuals or recurrences. …”
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Dream of European Army: Is It a Feasible Objective or Not? by Sevil Şahin, Mustafa Ozan Şahin

“…Because of these kinds of reservations, desires to pursue more advanced capabilities on their own have been raised.There has been a lot of debate and analysis around the reasons for and against the formation of a European army. …”
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A study of the impact of urban business credit environment on environmental pollution. by Jing Wu, Qing Guo

“…To reduce pollution in the region, prefectural-level cities must strengthen the construction of urban business credit systems, strive to create a favorable business credit environment, strengthen the spatial spillover effect, and guide the resource elements of business credit planning to flow into the central and western parts of China reasonably. The study's findings have significant practical implications for modifying the government's development strategy and improving the urban environment.…”
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What Causes Drivers to Involve In a Traffic Altercation? by İsmail Cenk Demirkol

“…It is very likely that drivers may involve in a traffic altercation with other drivers even for meaningless reasons. To date, there has been no study or government report on the frequencies of traffic altercations on the roads and factors related to traffic altercations were reported in Turkey. …”
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Maximum Closeness Centrality k-Clubs: A Study of Dock-Less Bike Sharing by Ali Rahim Taleqani, Chrysafis Vogiatzis, Jill Hough

“…Hence, we provide a greedy heuristic approach that is shown to run in reasonable computational time. We also provide the presentation and analysis of a case study in two cities of the state of North Dakota: Casselton and Fargo. …”
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Synergy and Communication of IoT Industry Development Strategies in the Perspective of Low Carbon Economy by Shaobo Lu

“…The analysis of the model of IoT industry development strategy cooperation and dissemination in low-carbon economy finds that there is industrial variability in the overall trend of continuous increase of IoT industry development strategy cooperation and dissemination in the low-carbon economy, and the reasonable industrial categories and their characteristics are pointed out through cluster analysis. …”
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Why do patients with ‘primary care sensitive’ problems access ambulance services? A systematic mapping review of the literature by Ali R G Shaw, Sarah Purdy, Matthew J Booker

“…Objective Emergency ambulance use for problems that could be managed in primary care continues to rise owing to complex reasons that are poorly understood. The objective of this systematic review is to draw together published evidence across a variety of study methodologies and settings to gain a better understanding of why patients seek help from ambulance services for these problems.Design Systematic searches were undertaken across the MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsychINFO, CINAHL, Health Management Information Consortium and Health Management Information Service publication databases. …”
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Performance and limitations of linkage-disequilibrium-based methods for inferring the genomic landscape of recombination and detecting hotspots: a simulation study by Raynaud, Marie, Gagnaire, Pierre-Alexandre, Galtier, Nicolas

“…Using simulations, we specifically assessed the impact of methodological (sample size, phasing errors, block penalty) and evolutionary parameters (effective population size (Ne),  demographic history, mutation to recombination rate ratio) on inferred map quality. We report reasonably good correlations between simulated and inferred landscapes, but point to limitations when it comes to detecting recombination hotspots. …”
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Synthesis, characterization, and application of novel reusable clay-based magnetic nanocomposite for the removal of organic dyes from water by Abdelfattah Amari, Norah Salem Alsaiari, Naim Ben Ali, Mohamed A Ismail, Mohamed A Tahoon

“…The nanocomposite can be reused for multiple cycles with a little drop in its initial performance, according to reusability research conducted up to six times using ethyl alcohol as the eluent. As a result, this reasonably priced adsorbent might be employed as a beneficial and effective dye adsorbent for the removal of MB from water while maintaining the safety of the water quality.…”
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Gazprom on the European Market: In Search of the Balance between the Principles of Competition and Energy Security by V. I. Salygin, N. Y. Kaveshnikov

“…The implementation of Third package provisions on function unbundling by some EU Member States in the most rigid version may contradict bilateral international agreements of Russia with the EU Member States, primarily agreements on investment protection. Possible reasons underlying the investigation initiated by the European Commission against Gazprom in connection with a possible violation ofEU competition rules are examined. …”
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Fengsel eller frihet: Noe om reaksjonsvalg i norsk strafferett by Morten Holmboe

“…Given the theory of deterrence, it would be reasonable to assume that legislators hoped that longer sentences would lead to less crime. …”
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A Novel Multi-Fidelity Support Vector Classification Method for Boundary Prediction in Engineering Applications by Jinliang Luo, Lingzhi Liu, Youwei He, Kuan Tan

“…The key points of the proposed method include the design of a reasonable kernel function to effectively describe the relationship between the input and output of multiple fidelities, and the determination of the optimal hyperparameters. …”
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Development of New Settlement Areas and Solid Waste Problem in Cities: Case Study on Izmit - Yahyakaptan Neighbourhood by Kazım Onur Demirarslan, Deniz Demirarslan

“…Under the scope of this study, reasons of population increase and formation of new settlement areas in Izmit city, Yahyakaptan neighbourhood will be presented, findings about environmental effect of new settlement area on the neighbourhood will be submitted by comparing resident typologies and resident usage requirement and finally solid waste amount according to increasing settlements and population in the region will be examined from environmental engineering point of view, according to TUIK (Turkish Statistics Institution) annual waste amount calculation methods and solutions will be suggested for domestic waste problem.…”
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Staffing of the Ukrainian SSR militia in 1945 by V. A. Grechenko

“…A significant shortcoming in recruitment was staff turnover. The main reasons for the turnover in the police in 1945 were as follows: a) reduced admission requirements to the militia (recruited people without inspection by the medical commission, sometimes clearly disabled); b) insufficient verification of new recruits; c) weak educational work among the staff. …”
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Understanding North Korea: Rimjin-gang Citizen Journalists Out to Cure the “Sick Man of Asia”? by Suzy Kim

“…The magazine is important to evaluate for several reasons. Not only does it claim to be "the first magazine about North Korea written by North Koreans" (The Nation), but it is also touted as "the first publication to create a channel for two-way communication between the divided Korean people," as exemplified by the title "Rimjin-gang" - the name of the river that flows across the De-Militarized Zone dividing the north and south.This article is an attempt to engage in a critical conversation about how we know what we know about North Korea, reflecting upon the historical and structural conditions that configure the way North Korea is known and understood by those outside North Korea.…”
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