Investigation of Attitudes Towards Cancer Screening of Patients Applying to Hospital Outpatient Clinics by Şule Can, Şevval İrem Dalcalı, Bilge Macit, Meftun Akgün, Hatice Demirdağ

“…Results: It was determined that 72% of the individuals who participated in our study knew about cancer screening and 43.9% had had it before. The most common reasons for not having cancer screening were thinking that the person was healthy and lack of information. …”
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The Promise and Failure of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process in 1990s: A Literature Review by V. M. Morozov, E. O. Shebalina, S. V. Melnikova

“…This literature review focuses on both empirical and theoretical studies of the Oslo process, with a particular emphasis on research that investigates the reasons behind its failure. Such studies provide valuable insights for developing more effective models of negotiation and conflict resolution. …”
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Using Continuum-Discontinuum Element Method to Model the Foliation-Affected Fracturing in Rock Brazilian Test by Qunlei Zhang, Zihan Zhi, Chun Feng, Ruixia Li, Jinchao Yue, Junyu Cong

“…For vertical foliations’ rock, as the middle foliation thickness is appropriately broadened, the simulation results are reasonable. In general, the tensile strength of anisotropic rock entirely decreases with an increase of foliation angle, and the effect of foliation strength on the tensile strength rock sample is larger than that of the rock matrix.…”
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Beneath The Same Sky, Different Faiths: Why is Interfaith Marriage Prohibited in Islam? by Baidhowi Baidhowi, Dewi Zahra Setyawati, Yustina Dhian Novita, Veyza Olivia, Armanda N Ardiyanto, Qlarissa Melinda, Hisyam Maliki Akbar

“…This study explores the theological, legal, and sociocultural reasons behind the prohibition of interfaith marriage in Islam, with a focus on its implications for Muslim communities. …”
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Risk Assessment of Water and Sand Inrush in Mining under Thick Loose Layer Based on Comprehensive Weight-Cloud Model by Wenquan Zhang, Xintao Wu, Xunan Wu, Yu Lei, Jianli Shao, Zaiyong Wang

“…A comprehensive weighting method, which combines analytic hierarchy process (AHP), entropy weight method (EWM), and minimum entropy principle, is used to reasonably assign the weight of index. Based on the cloud generator equation, the membership function is obtained. …”
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Incidence and long-term patient reported outcome measures of patients with radiological cauda equina compression but without clinical features of cauda equina syndrome by Hamzah Alsheikh Soleiman, Mary Solou, Andreas K. Demetriades

“…Paradoxically, in the British NHS, suspected CES requiring an emergency magnetic resonance imaging constitutes one of the commonest reasons for acute referrals to neurosurgery/spine surgery. …”
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Accounting Method for Carbon Emission Obligation on Load Side of Power System Based on Peak Load Characteristics by HUANG Yanlu, HU Xudong, LIN Zhenfu, MA Xiyuan

“…The application results in the 14-node power system show that compared to the initial accounting results of the node carbon intensity allocation method， the load-side carbon emission obligation accounting results based on the user electricity consumption characteristics of the power system are both reasonable and accurate， providing data support for the clean and low-carbon development of the power industry， and have a certain reference value.…”
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Shear-Dependent Yield Stress of Iron Ore Fine Tailings in Two-Step Flocculation Process by Ying Yang, Hongjiang Wang, Bern Klein, Aixiang Wu

“…The floc strength and fractal dimension also showed the same rule. The internal reasons for the stronger shear resistance of the secondary flocculating slurry were the increase of the number of binding sites, the electric neutralization between the two flocculants, and the steric hindrance effect of the flocculants.…”
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Feature Engineering to Embed Process Knowledge: Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking by Quantum Zhuo, Mansour N. Al-Harbi, Petrus C. Pistorius

“…Further improvement was obtained by applying the engineered features to a non-linear machine-learned model (based on XGBoost), yielding both physically reasonable trends and smaller prediction errors. Trends from Shapley dependence analysis (applied to the XGBoost model) are quantitatively consistent with theoretical trends. …”
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Business Incubators in Russia: 2020 Survey in International Comparative Perspective by M. A. Slesarev

“…At the same time, the total number of business incubators also significantly dropped, which means that all of the above positive changes do not reflect the growth of the business incubation market and the scaling of the most effective structures; on the contrary, it is an optimization.As a result of the study, we formulate several additional questions for future research and study to understand better the challenges business incubators currently face in Russia, the reasons for their recent consolidation, and possible ways out.…”
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Identifying and prioritizing cultural factors affecting the physical structure of the city with emphasis on indigenous architecture (Case study: Sarab city) by Mohammad Golmohammadi, Mohammad Adalatkhah, Akbar Abdollahzadeh Tarf

“…Nowadays, knowledge of the physical structure of the city and the reasons that govern its spatial expansion in different periods is necessary to control its expansion and is one of the important factors influencing the success of urban planners and designers. …”
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A Review on Managing Agroecosystems for Improved Water Use Efficiency in the Face of Changing Climate in Tanzania by Jerome Kimaro

“…There is poor adoption of recommended adaptation among smallholder farmers due to several socioeconomic reasons. One of the key objectives of climate smart agriculture is to improve bio-geochemical interactions within landscape and decrease competition of natural resources between humans and other component of agroecosystems. …”
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Prediction of the Sex-Associated Genomic Region in Tunas (Thunnus Fishes) by Yoji Nakamura, Kentaro Higuchi, Kazunori Kumon, Motoshige Yasuike, Toshinori Takashi, Koichiro Gen, Atushi Fujiwara

“…Since estrogen sulfotransferase is responsible for the inactivation of estrogens, it is reasonable to assume that the expression of sult1st6y in gonad cells may inhibit female development, thereby inducing the individuals to become males. …”
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DynamicVLN: Incorporating Dynamics into Vision-and-Language Navigation Scenarios by Yanjun Sun, Yue Qiu, Yoshimitsu Aoki

“…By redefining the VLN task, we emphasize that a robust and generalizable agent should not rely solely on predefined instructions but must also demonstrate reasoning skills and adaptability to unforeseen events. …”
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Low back pain treatment adherence barriers in Eswatini private physiotherapy practices: A pilot study by Tapiwa Chikaka, Monique M. Keller

“…Clinical implications: To overcome the barrier of adherence to keeping appointments, prioritising health education and providing reasons for exercises should be empathised. Exercise programme adherence could be improved by providing reference material, less and more meaningful and/or functional exercises.…”
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Study on the Dynamic Response of Gravel Soil Low Embankment under a Long-Time Dynamic Loading Based on Model Test by Dapeng Liu, Jing Wang, Feng Du

“…The low embankment is an important technique for road development in subgrade engineering due to its small fill height and applicability to the natural landscape in the oasis desert area of Xinjiang, China. A reasonable development of the gravel soil low embankment design requires the study of its dynamic response under a long-time dynamic loading. …”
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Political and Institutional Approaches to Advancing International Religious Freedom in the U.S. Foreign Policy in 1998–2020 by V. A. Shchipkov

“…The concept became popular after the end of the Cold War when the defense of religion against socialistatheist ideas had lost its relevance due to political (the collapse of the Eastern bloc) and cultural (the growing importance of religion in many non-Western countries of the world) reasons. The article starts by reviewing the history of the emergence and development of the institutional infrastructure (legal acts, administrative entities, public and political organizations, think tanks, expert platforms, interdepartmental coordination formats, human rights projects, funding and grant programs, and new international organizations) that supported the US foreign policy advancing international religious freedom. …”
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Internet of things enabled smart agriculture: Current status, latest advancements, challenges and countermeasures by Navod Neranjan Thilakarathne, Muhammad Saifullah Abu Bakar, Pg Emeroylariffion Abas, Hayati Yassin

“…Owing to the ever-increasing world population, estimated at 7.9 billion in 2022, feeding this number of people has become a concern due to the current rate of agricultural food production subjected to various reasons. The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) based technologies in the 21st century has led to the reshaping of every industry, including agriculture, and has paved the way for smart agriculture, with the technology used towards automating and controlling most aspects of traditional agriculture. …”
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CFD Simulation of an Industrial Dust Cyclone Separator: A Comparison with Empirical Models: The Influence of the Inlet Velocity and the Particle Size on Performance Factors in Situ... by Tchinda Vermande Paganel, Epee Fabrice Alban, Mezoue Adiang Cyrille, Claude Valery Ngayihi Abbe

“…An alternative to this model is RNG K-epsilon model, which offers a reasonable calculation time with acceptable results (maximum deviation of 5 %) for speed values below 10 m/s. …”
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Research on spatial carving method of glutenite reservoir based on opacity voxel imaging by Hu Zhao, Zhong-wei Zhang, Hong-wei Yang, Guo-hua Wei

“…However, due to the influence of sedimentary characteristics, the glutenite reservoir exhibits strong lateral heterogeneity, significant vertical thickness variations, and low accuracy in reservoir space characterization, which affects the reasonable and effective deployment of development wells. …”
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