Screening rates for HIV and diabetes in patients with active TB: results of a nationwide survey in Japan by Y. Kimura, Y. Sasabuchi, T. Jo, Y. Hashimoto, R. Kumazawa, M. Ishimaru, H. Matsui, A. Yokoyama, G. Tanaka, H. Yasunaga

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Macular Oedema in Idiopathic Macular Telangiectasia Type 1 Responsive to Aflibercept but Not Bevacizumab by O’Sam Shibeeb, Anagha Vaze, Mark Gillies, Timothy Gray

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Optimization of Accounting information System in Public Sector for Sustainable Risk Management Under Big Data Analytics. Does forensic Accountants’ Skill Generate Differences? by HUY Pham Quang, PHUC Vu Kien

“…This article sets its sight to allot an intelligible picture of how to optimize accounting information system (AIS) in public sector organization (PSO) for sustainable risk management (SRM) under the big data analytics (BDA) and offers in-depth understandings concerning to the role of forensic accountants’ skill (FAS) on these aforementioned interconnections. …”
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The Dialectics of Political Ideology and Power Relations in African Literature: A Reading of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí’s Baṣọ̀run Gáà by Sola Owonibi

“…The paper also argues that the private anxieties of the playwright, as presented in the play, 160 Lere Adeyemi are prophetic in nature and that Baṣọrun Gáà is weakened by the burdens of ̀ his strength, in other words, blinded by sight. …”
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Nondestructive Measurement of Momentum Transfer Collision Frequency for Low Temperature Combustion Plasma by Douglas Letsholathebe, Kgakgamatso M. Mphale, Samuel Chimidza

“…There are anecdotal reports of severe line-of-sight (LOS) radio frequency signal degradation on firegrounds. …”
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An Empirical Path-Loss Model for Wireless Channels in Indoor Short-Range Office Environment by Ye Wang, Wen-jun Lu, Hong-bo Zhu

“…The model is developed based on the experimental datum sampled in 30 office rooms in both line of sight (LOS) and non-LOS (NLOS) scenarios. The model is characterized as the path loss to distance with a Gaussian random variable X due to the shadow fading by using linear regression. …”
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Magnetic Field Strengths in the Vicinity of Sgr A* via 18 cm Zeeman Observations by K. L. Thompson, T. H. Troland, R. L. Plante

“…Very Large Array (VLA) observations of 18 cm OH absorption lines were used to determine the strength of the line-of-sight magnetic field in the Galactic center region. …”
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Weaving Lao Silk Into Indigo Nights by Melody Kemp

“…Miss Phaeng watched, holding her breath as the last sliver of red fell out of sight. Casting a quick mantra to the spirits of nature, she swallowed a glass of lao lao to start the evening.Leaning mindfully over her loom, Miss Phaeng raked her nails across the piano strings of silk warp, plucking each to test its tension. …”
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Modified Least Squares Algorithm for Three-Dimensional Target Location Based on Wireless Communication Base Stations by Zhaohui Zhang, Jing Li, Qian Liu

“…The observed values of time of arrival (TOA) for the radio signals between the target and the wireless communication base stations are mainly affected by signal non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation in target location. TOA with NLOS makes a lot of signal noises and propagation delays, that is, location errors. …”
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Novel Genes Potentially Involved in Fibroblasts of Diabetic Wound by Weirong Zhu, Qin Fang, Zhao Liu, Qiming Chen

“…Our findings may throw novel sight in elucidating the molecular mechanisms of fibroblast pathologies in patients with diabetic wounds and targeting new factors to advance diabetic wound treatment in clinic.…”
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Access to Specialist Gastroenterology Care in Canada: Comparison of Wait Times and Consensus Targets by Desmond Leddin, David Armstrong, Alan NG Barkun, Ying Chen, Sandra Daniels, Roger Hollingworth, Richard H Hunt, William G Paterson

“…BACKGROUND: Monitoring wait times and defining targets for care have been advocated to improve health care delivery related to cancer, heart, diagnostic imaging, joint replacements and sight restoration. There are few data on access to care for digestive diseases, although they pose a greater economic burden than cancer or heart disease in Canada. …”
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Les paysages de Kronsberg à Hanovre : approches sonore et multisensorielle by Élise Geisler, Théa Manola

“…However, almost no specific check was made by research works, in spite of the invitations in the fields of the research and the founding works on the mono-sensory landscapes concerning the other senses that the sight. This article presents the first results of a crossed analysis, in terms of methodological contributions, of three research works : a research led within the framework of the Pirve financed by the Puca and CNRS, and phd researches of E. …”
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La figure paysagère du col de montagne au double prisme des pratiques cyclotouristiques et de trekking : expériences, imaginaires et fonctions symboliques by Yannick Hascoët, Louis Violette, Pierre Dérioz, Tania Jiménez, Philippe Bachimon

“…This interdisciplinary and exploratory study indicates that although the mountain pass landscape seems at first sight to be absent from many of the accounts, the testimonies are permeated with a complex presence. …”
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Joint beamforming design for distributed IRS assisted millimeter wave MU-MISO system by Zhongjie LI, Jiyuan XIONG, Wei GAO, Jinying WEI

“…A joint beamforming design scheme for distributed intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-user communication was proposed to solve the reliable communication problem in the downlink of millimeter-wave multi user-multiple input single output (MU-MISO) system in non line of sight scenarios.Considering the power and constant-mode constraints, the active beamforming of the base station and passive beamforming of multiple IRS were modeled as a joint non-convex optimization problem with the objective of user weighting and sum rate maximization.A closed-form fractional programming technique was used to decouple this joint optimization problem into an easily solvable equivalent problem.A non-convex block coordinate descent algorithm was used to alternately optimize the active beamforming and passive beamforming matrices according to the prox-linear rule and the distributed successive convex approximation rule.The convergence proof and complexity analysis of the proposed algorithm were also given.The simulation results demonstrate that the algorithm can converge fast, and can effectively improve the system transmission rate with reduced complexity compared with the two baseline algorithms.…”
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Embodying the Spirit (<i>meyppāṭu</i>): A <i>puttiṇai</i> Perspective by Nirmal Selvamony

“…I explain the early Tamil idea of <i>meyppāṭu</i> as a kind of action, which consists of embodying the spirit, and show how it manifests itself in ordinary emotional experience, in love at first sight, in emoting in theatre, and in spirit possession. …”
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Ekoterroryzm zagrożeniem dla polityki zrównoważonego rozwoju. Aspekt ideologiczny i praktyczny by Mariusz Ciszek

“…The ideology of some ecological radicals’ formations, their methods of working ( the practical aspect) show, however, that in fact such seen the comprehended development of human civilizations is with their point of sight too moderated and not to accept. The author in this article introduced the basic arguments that supported such opinions. …”
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Is a “floater” always a floater? Case report and short review of sphenoid meningiomas’ ocular manifestation by Dominik Sokalski, Jacek P. Szaflik, Joanna Przybek-Skrzypecka

“…Thus, healthcare professionals need to be aware of the symptoms of meningiomas for the proper differential diagnosis of potentially life- and sight-threatening diseases. We present a case report of a patient complaining of a black spot moving in front of her eye for 3 months, which was misdiagnosed as a floater. …”
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Maintaining Wireless Connectivity Constraints for Robot Swarms in the Presence of Obstacles by Joel M. Esposito

“…In all of these cases robust operation is best attained when the transmitter/receiver robot pair is (1) separated by less than some maximum distance (range constraint); and (2) not obstructed by large dense objects (line-of-sight constraint). Therefore to maintain a wireless link between two robots, it is desirable to simultaneously comply with these two spatial constraints. …”
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La Grande Collecte 1914-1918 aux Archives nationales by Isabelle Aristide-Hastir, Elsa Marguin-Hamon

“…The harvest, at first sight, is both diversified and repetitive: letters, post cards, photographic portraits of soldiers, military service record books, private notebooks, drawings and so on. …”
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The Study of Time Metaphor in Tarikh Beyhaghi; Based on Cognitive Linguistics by Ydollah Shokri, Samaneh Shamsizadeh

“…In contemporary theory of metaphor, time is one of the abstract, figurative domains and it is recognized by an objective thing such as place, and it has cognitive sight. In this research firstly, conceptual and time metaphors are explained and then some evidences are mentioned from Tarikh Beyhaghi concluding vocabularies, compounds, new and arbitrary metaphoric sentences. …”
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