Determinants of Maternal Death in a Pastoralist Area of Borena Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia: Unmatched Case-Control Study by Jarso Sara, Yusuf Haji, Achamyelesh Gebretsadik

“…Data were collected using a structured questionnaire adapted from Maternal Death Surveillance and Response Technical Guideline, entered into the EpiData, exported into SPSS for analyses. …”
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Secondary metabolites from the resins of Aloe vera and Commiphora mukul mitigate lipid peroxidation by Rehman Najeeb Ur, Al-Riyami Samia Ahmed, Hussain Hidayat, Ali Amjad, Khan Abdul Latif, Al-Harrasi Ahmed

“…Feroxidin (4, from A. vera) showed slightly higher inhibition (IC50 = 201.7 ± 0.9 µmol L−1) than myrrhanone C (18, from C. mukul: IC50 = 210.7 ± 0.0 µmol L−1) and methyl 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl) propionate from A. vera (13, IC50 = 232.9 ± 0.2 µmol L−1) compared to the other compounds. Structure-activity relationship showed that the existence of hydroxyl, methoxy and ether groups might play a major role in countering oxidative stress. …”
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Mitigating Risks in the Disaster Management Cycle by Huay Ling Tay, Ruth Banomyong, Paitoon Varadejsatitwong, Puthipong Julagasigorn

“…The primary data sources include responses from an online questionnaire and transcripts from three semi-structured interviews with stakeholders in the humanitarian supply chain. …”
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SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS OF NATIONAL HISTORY AS AN INSTRUMENT OF THE MEMORY POLICY OF THE SOVIET STATE by Isabella S. Ogonovskaya

“…To achieve the goal, the following were studied: legal acts defining the target guidelines and structure of the education system, including history; the content of school textbooks on Russian history, which underwent numerous changes in connection with instructions received "from above"; controversial issues of Soviet historical science, reflected in the content of textbooks; stages of development of historical education in the country, the features of which were associated with political changes; pages of biographies of textbook authors, allowing us to see their relationships with the authorities, their attitude to the processes taking place in the country. …”
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS A METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN THE TRAINING OF FUTURE DESIGNERS: MIDJOURNEY TOOLS by Ivan M. Tsidylo, Chele Esteve Sendra

“…Midjourney developers recommend structuring the prompt by Subject, Medium, Environment, Lighting, Color, Mood, Composition. …”
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Translation, Adaptation, and Validation in Portuguese of an Acceptance Scale for Human–Robot Interaction in an Industrial Context by Ana Pinto, Leticia Lemos, Carla Carvalho, Joana Santos, Paulo Menezes, Tatsuya Nomura

“…The results revealed a four-factor structure for the Frankenstein Syndrome Questionnaire–Industrial Context (FSQ-IC): “general anxiety towards cobots” (α=0.87), “trustworthiness towards developers of cobots” (α=0.83), “apprehension towards cobots in the industrial context” (α=0.73), and “expectation of cobots in social change” (α=0.69). …”
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Integration of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Into a Medical Student Clinical Reasoning Curriculum by Julia Caton, Elaina Suridis, Gabrielle R. Goldberg

“…Faculty should look for additional opportunities to integrate content into preexisting curricular structures.…”
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Chromosome Numbers and Reproductive Life Cycles in Green Plants: A Phylotranscriptomic Perspective by Rijan R. Dhakal, Alex Harkess, Paul G. Wolf

“…The general importance of chromosome numbers, structure, and sizes in cellular biology notwithstanding, the association between the emergence of heterosporous reproduction and chromosome number reduction/genome downsizing is not fully understood. …”
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MATLAB-SIMULINK BASED INFORMATION SUPPORT FOR DIGITAL OVERCURRENT PROTECTION TEST SETS by I. V. Novash, F. A. Romaniuk, Yu. V. Rumiantsev, V. Yu. Rumiantsev

“…The divergence of simulation results did not exceed 3 %; the latter allows us to recommend the MatLab-Simulink environment for information support creation for hardware-software based sets for digital overcurrent protection devices testing. The structure of the hardware-software based set for digital overcurrent protection device testing using the Omicron CMC 356 has been suggested. …”
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Fermented soy whey induced changes on intestinal microbiota and metabolic influence in mice by Wei Han, Xuhui Zhuang, Qian Liu, Bo Sun, Haijiang Miao, Xiaolin Zhang

“…Compared to two control group, the total yields of the short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) were significantly improved (75%–125% at average), while the SCFAs structure was also significantly changed (especially acetic acid and butyrate) in the faeces of mice fed FSW. …”
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COVID-19 Pandemic as a Factor for the Paradigm Shift in International Communications. Book Review of ‘Pandémie médiatique. Com de crise/crise de com’ by S. Fouks by T. Yu. Lebedeva, L. V. Minaeva, A. D. Krivonosov

“…The reviewers emphasize that the monograph by Stefan Fouks goes beyond the traditional formats of communication studies, which tended to focus either on the various crises, or on the organization of media structures in diff erent states, public-private partnership, and corporate communications, and thus were too narrow in scope. …”
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Investigating Fracture Behavior in Titanium Aluminides: Surface Roughness as an Indicator of Fracture Mechanisms in Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb Alloys by Alessia Serena Perna, Lorenzo Savio, Michele Coppola, Fabio Scherillo

“…These findings contribute to understanding fracture behavior in titanium aluminides and provide a predictive framework for assessing structural integrity based on surface characteristics.…”
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Fish-derived hepcidins in cancer treatment: a scoping review by Wan-Atirah Azemin, Syarifah Ab Rashid, Noraini Philip, Abdul Manaf Ali, Mohd Shahir Shamsir

“…While extensively studied in mammals, fish-derived hepcidins represent an unexplored area in cancer therapeutics, offering unique structural and functional characteristics that may prove valuable in oncological applications. …”
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Cloning, expression analysis, and the photoperiodic response of CHH gene in Panulirus homarus by Zhimin Ju, Jiajun Luo, Charles Brighton Ndandala, Chongqing Wen, Zhao Yanfei, Huafang Liang

“…Both have a “signal peptide, CPRP, and mature peptide” structure. Their mature peptide comprised 74 amino acids and 6 cysteine residues in a conserved position. …”
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Recovery process of patients with iliac vein compression syndrome after stenting: a grounded theory study by Yi-Yun Zeng, Wen-Ling Chen, Jimmy Wei Hwa Tan, Shih-Chun Lin, Kuan-Yi Yen, Fan-Hao Chou, Peta-Anne Zimmerman

“…Methods This qualitative study employed a grounded theory approach, conducting in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 16 patients who had undergone stenting for IVCS. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Compressive Strength Models for SRP and SRG-Confined Concrete Columns by Ehsan Janfada, HamidReza Nasseri, Hashem Jahangir

“…This paper focused on confining effects of externally bonded composites with polymer and grout matrices equipped with steel fibers, respectively named steel reinforced polymer (SRP) and steel reinforced grout (SRG) composites, as novel and effective methods of strengthening structures. To achieve this goal, an experimental database including 13 and 10 concrete columns with square cross-sections respectively confined by SRP and SRG composites was compiled from a recent empirical study. …”
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Investigation of Chitosan-Based Hydrogels and Polycaprolactone-Based Electrospun Fibers as Wound Dressing Materials Based on Mechanical, Physical, and Chemical Characterization by Barkin Aydin, Nihat Arol, Nimet Burak, Aybala Usta, Muhammet Ceylan

“…Increasing the PVA content enhances ductility, while a higher concentration of chitosan results in a denser structure. This outcome is confirmed by FTIR and swelling tests. …”
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Mapping Linkages between Actors in Cattle Marketing Innovation System of Northeastern Nigeria by Altine Madugu

“…Specifically, linkages/interactions between actors and those of the innovation system network were determined. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 48 respondents and a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) session involving sixteen (16) participants each was conducted in three out of the four Adamawa Agricultural Development Project (AADP) zones of Adamawa State. …”
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Organizational and Legal Principles of Soviet Militia Dispatch Center’s Functioning during 1969–1991 by D. V. Halkin, O. M. Halkina

“…Improving the organizational forms of the Soviet militia dispatch centers was carried out in several areas: 1) the creation of regular police units in all militia agencies, the number of which depended on the population, as well as changes in the operative situation; 2) increase in the number of regular shifts; 3) bringing the premises, equipment and logistics of dispatch centers in line with the established requirements; 4) the introduction of additional structures within dispatch centers, caused by an increase in the workload on dispatch centers as a result of the growth in crime rates; 5) increase of requirements to personnel of dispatch centers. …”
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Classification of white blood cells (leucocytes) from blood smear imagery using machine and deep learning models: A global scoping review. by Rabia Asghar, Sanjay Kumar, Arslan Shaukat, Paul Hynds

“…Moreover, medical training of computer science researchers is recommended to improve current understanding of leucocyte structure and subsequent selection of appropriate classification models. …”
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