Phases, metrics, and techniques of product discovery by Gonçalo Canhoto, Rafael Almeida, Miguel Mira da Silva

“…Thus, it serves as a unique, timely resource for companies across industries, aiming to understand better and potentially optimize their product management strategies.…”
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Low Dose X-Ray Sources and High Quantum Efficiency Sensors: The Next Challenge in Dental Digital Imaging? by Arnav R. Mistry, Daniel Uzbelger Feldman, Jie Yang, Eric Ryterski

“…The Mann-Whitney test showed no statistical significance (α=0.01) in dose exposure between groups 1 and 3 and 1 and 4 and timing exposure (seconds) between groups 1 and 5 and 2 and 3. …”
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Ecological Movement During Covid-19 Pandemic: Study of Living Quran at the Asy-Syarifiy Islamic Eco-Boarding School Lumajang-East Java-Indonesia by Ma'isyatusy Syarifah, Ahmad Syaifuddin Amin

“…Third, since the pandemic, the chair verse reading activity has also been carried out after every fardhu prayer in the congregation and is read seven times because the chair verse is believed to be a form of rejecting the dangers of Covid-19. …”
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Pattern of Medication Adherence, Spirituality and Viral Load amongst Adult Patients on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy in Rural Southwest Nigeria by Moronkeji Temitope Olanrewaju, Olatutu Ololade Olanrewaju, Azeez Oyemomi Ibrahim, Tope Michael Ipinnimo, Paul Oladapo Ajayi, Oluwafunmilayo Kehinde Sito

“…Furthermore, persons with high spirituality were 2.6 times more likely to be adherent to antiretroviral drugs when compared to persons with low spirituality (P < 0.05). …”
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STURM-Flood: a curated dataset for deep learning-based flood extent mapping leveraging Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery by Nicla Notarangelo, Charlotte Wirion, Frankwin van Winsen

“…Flooding is a major global natural disaster exacerbated by climate change and urbanization. Timely assessment and mapping of inundations are crucial for preventive and emergency measures, driving the demand for curated global geospatial data to implement novel algorithms. …”
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Welfare state, social policy and social sustainability, within the context of the permacrisis by Nikos Papadakis, Stylianos Ioannis Tzagkarakis

“…In Europe as well as globally, addressing these issues is of major importance in order to ensure social sustainability, given that the permacrisis (multiple crises), along with the Mega-Trends have a clear impact on the structure of economy and labor market, industrial relations systems, and business models.MethodsThe present paper analyses the state of play of social sustainability in Europe and aims to identify specific policy responses that could offer viable solutions to old and emerging challenges in terms of social inclusion through the examination of secondary quantitative data.ResultsThe permacrisis era, along with the Mega-Trends that are taking place and seem to gradually have a clear impact on the structure of economy and labor market, substantially affecting every aspect of society, since social inequalities have the tendency to interrelate and getting reproduced.DiscussionThere is a need for knowledge-based and evidence-informed policy making, both in terms of policy design and implementation, for a true and actual sustainable (as well as inclusive) development, within momentous times.…”
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Effect of Use of Educational Appearance Ape (APE) Media Image to Creativity Children Age 4-5 Years in National Country City Mataram , West Nusa Tenggara by I Made Suwasa Astawa, Ni Wayan Purni Astiti

“…To obtain optimal development, the treatment group was given treatments 5 times while the control group did not get treatment. …”

Swarm-Based Trajectory Generation and Optimization for Stress-Aligned 3D Printing by Xavier Guidetti, Efe C. Balta, and John Lygeros

“…Our results demonstrate a remarkable improvement in computational efficiency, achieving a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$115\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> faster computation speed than existing methods. …”
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Improving Super-Resolution in Face Images by Modeling Image Degradation Using Pairs of High-Quality and Low-Quality Images by Ahmad Dolatkhah

“…<p><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 125%; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Improving image quality for identification and authentication in security and surveillance systems is of particular importance, and today, using artificial intelligence, the quality of images can be significantly improved. …”
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Spatial heterogeneity of keyhole imagery coverage in China and imagery dataset cost estimation by Hao Li, Weiqi Yao, Mengru Zhang, Xiaoyue Yang, Qian Wang

“…The average number of coverages were 4.9, 4.5, and 3.6 times, respectively, with variation coefficients of 0.7, 1.3, and 1.3. …”
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Machine learning techniques for independent gait recovery prediction in acute anterior circulation ischemic stroke by Jiangping Ma, Yuanjie Xie

“…Results Ten predictors were identified through LASSO regression, including age, gender, periventricular white matter hyperintensities (PVWMH), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), enlarged perivascular spaces in basal ganglia (BG-EPVS), lacunes, parietal infarction, basal ganglia infarction, and Timed Up & Go (TUG) test score. The C-index values of the COX regression and RSF models were 0.741 and 0.761 in the training set and 0.705 and 0.725 in the validation set, respectively. …”
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Clinical pattern and burden of strabismus in a teaching institute of Northeast India by Tanie Natung, Oinam S. Devi, Lanalyn Thangkhiew, Subhankar Paul

“…They will also help the family medicine and primary care physicians to have an idea about the burden and pattern of strabismus in the community, thus enabling them to create awareness about strabismus, remove the undue apprehensions of patients, and do timely referrals for treatment and prevent irreversible visual loss.…”
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Ecological Protection Technology of Spraying Vegetation Concrete on Carbonaceous Rock Slope Experimental Research and Application by Zhenchao Chang, Junhui Luo, Qiongzhen Tang, Ling Zeng, Hongri Zhang, Youjun Li, Gexiao Yang, Liming Zhang

“…After 60 days of construction, the vegetation coverage rate of the slope can reach more than 95% and there is no obvious soil erosion phenomenon after three times of heavy rainfall.…”
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Bias in mobility datasets drives divergence in modeled outbreak dynamics by Taylor Chin, Michael A. Johansson, Anir Chowdhury, Shayan Chowdhury, Kawsar Hosan, Md Tanvir Quader, Caroline O. Buckee, Ayesha S. Mahmud

“…In some instances, a simple diffusion (gravity) model was better able to capture the timing and spatial spread of the outbreak compared to the sparser mobility sources. …”
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Cyclosporine A and autologous serum efficacy for treatment of vernal keratoconjunctivitis by Ahmed Esmail, Ahmed O. Hashem, Mohammed Elashri, Mohamed Ahmed Hafez Ibrahim

“…Methods A prospective comparative noninterventional case series was carried out at the Ophthalmology Department at Kafrelsheik University, involving 40 individual patients with moderate to severe VKC sorted into two groups; 20 patients using CsA 0.05% eye drops as group A and 20 patients in group B using eye drops of CsA 0.05% combined with AS eye drop of 20% concentration for treating VKC for 12 weeks, 4 times daily. Results According to the scores recorded for symptoms and signs, the difference detected statistically was of no significance among the two involved study groups as regards the baseline score (P=0.783, and 0.137, respectively). …”
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In Vivo Evaluation of 1-O-(4-(2-Fluoroethyl-Carbamoyloxymethyl)-2-Nitrophenyl)-O-β-D-Glucopyronuronate: A Positron Emission Tomographic Tracer for Imaging β-Glucuronidase Activity... by Iněs F. Antunes, Hidde J. Haisma, Philip H. Elsinga, Aren van Waarde, Antoon T.M. Willemsen, Rudi A. Dierckx, Erik F.J. de Vries

“…MicroPET studies revealed three times higher uptake in the viable part of larger C6 gliomas than in smaller C6 gliomas. …”
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Machine learning assisted classification RASAR modeling for the nephrotoxicity potential of a curated set of orally active drugs by Arkaprava Banerjee, Kunal Roy

“…All 36 models were cross-validated 20 times with a fivefold cross-validation strategy, and their predictivity was checked on the test set data. …”
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Rule of law, legal culture, education and academic integrity by Ye. V. Duliba, O. Ye. Avramova, A. M. Kulish, V. V. Myrhorod-Karpova

“…Comparing the 2021 Rule of Law Index, 2021 Legatum Prosperity Index, 2021 Education Rankings by Country, 2021 Times Higher Education, 2021 QS World University Rankings has demonstrated that there is a clear correlation between adherence to the rule of law in the state and the legal culture, education and academic integrity. …”
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Performance Optimization of Cloud Data Centers with a Dynamic Energy-Efficient Resource Management Scheme by Yu Cui, Shunfu Jin, Wuyi Yue, Yutaka Takahashi

“…Surveys show that a remarkable part of the large energy consumed in data center results from over-provisioning of the network resource to meet requests during peak demand times. In this paper, we propose a solution to this problem by constructing a dynamic energy-efficient resource management scheme. …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors of Postpartum Urinary Retention Following Vaginal Delivery by Nadia Al-Dujaili, Mohanad Albayyaa, Mazin Al-Dujaili, Shahla Alaf

“…Implementing routine screening and timely interventions can significantly improve postpartum care and patient outcomes.…”
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