Digital competencies: perceptions of primary school teachers pursuing master’s degrees from eight African countries by Andresa Sartor Harada, Juliana Azevedo Gomes, Oscar Ulloa Guerra, Roberto Ruiz, Rubén Calderón

“…However, the available resources, which differed in the participants’ work contexts and did not enable the equal use of ICT in all African countries, was an important issue highlighted by the participants. …”
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Application of Covariance Matrix Adaptation-Evolutionary Strategy for Modified Constrained Optimal Power Flow Problem Incorporating Valve Point and Emission Effect by Hari Krishna Achuthan Parthasarathy, Madhusudan Saranathan, Tamilselvi S., Karuppiah N., Praveen Kumar Balachandran, Dhanamjayulu C., Baseem Khan, Thamilmaran A.

“…All various practical complex equality and inequality constraints, namely, bus voltages, real powers of the generator buses, tap settings of the transformers and the reactive power generations, shunt compensation, and emission, are considered for the real-world scenario. …”
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The Efficacy of Functional and Traditional Exercise on the Body Composition and Determinants of Physical Fitness of Older Women: A Randomized Crossover Trial by Antônio Gomes de Resende-Neto, José Carlos Aragão-Santos, Bruna Caroline Oliveira-Andrade, Alan Bruno Silva Vasconcelos, Clodoaldo Antônio De Sá, Felipe José Aidar, Josimari Melo DeSantana, Eduardo Lusa Cadore, Marzo Edir Da Silva-Grigoletto

“…The programs used are equally effective in increasing physical fitness for daily activities in physically active older women, and therefore, they may be complementary to combat some of the deleterious effects of senescence.…”
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A Deep Learning-Based Approach to Enable Action Recognition for Construction Equipment by Jinyue Zhang, Lijun Zi, Yuexian Hou, Mingen Wang, Wenting Jiang, Da Deng

“…In order to support smart construction, digital twin has been a well-recognized concept for virtually representing the physical facility. It is equally important to recognize human actions and the movement of construction equipment in virtual construction scenes. …”
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Comparison of Raw Dairy Manure Slurry and Anaerobically Digested Slurry as N Sources for Grass Forage Production by Olivia E. Saunders, Ann-Marie Fortuna, Joe H. Harrison, Elizabeth Whitefield, Craig G. Cogger, Ann C. Kennedy, Andy I. Bary

“…Anaerobically digested slurry supported equal forage production and similar N use efficiency when compared to raw dairy slurry.…”
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What Are the Precursor and Early Lesions of Peripheral Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma? by Yasuni Nakanuma, Akemi Tsutsui, Xiang Shan Ren, Kenichi Harada, Yasunori Sato, Motoko Sasaki

“…In the background liver of peripheral ICC, BDA and BAF were not found, but there were not infrequently foci of BDA-like lesions and atypical bile duct lesions involving small bile ducts (32.4% and 10.8%, resp.). VMCs were equally found in peripheral CCs and also control CCs. …”
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CO2 Reforming Performance and Visible Light Responsibility of Cr-Doped TiO2 Prepared by Sol-Gel and Dip-Coating Method by Akira Nishimura, Go Mitsui, Masafumi Hirota, Eric Hu

“…The concentration of CO which was a product from CO2 reforming was maximized for 𝑅=70 wt% when N equals to 1. The visible light responsibility was also maximized for 𝑅=70 wt%. …”
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Wound Healing Activity of <i>Arum Maculatum</i> by Ayse ARZU SAKUL, Mehmet Evren OKUR, Sule AYLA, Benay DAYLAN, Ayse Esra KARADAG, Sebnem BATUR, Ekrem Musa OZDEMIR, Ebrar ALTINALAN, Mehmet Yalcin GUNAL

“…A total of 32 Balb-c mice were used, which were equally, divided into four groups: saline control group, control group, A. maculatum group, and Centella asiatica extract group. …”
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Ion-specific effects in polyelectrolyte solutions: chain–chain interactions, chain rigidity and dynamics by Hotton, Claire, Sakhawoth, Yasine, Rollet, Anne-Laure, Sirieix-Plénet, Juliette, Tea, Lingsam, Combet, Sophie, Sharp, Melissa, Hoffmann, Ingo,  Nallet, Frédéric, Malikova, Natalie

“…The origin lies in the closer approach of large, highly polarisable counterions to the chain backbone, leading to more constricted counterion clouds. Equally affected is the local chain rigidity as well as collective and self-diffusion coefficients at larger scales. …”
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Facile heterocyclic synthesis and antimicrobial activity of polysubstituted and condensed pyrazolopyranopyrimidine and pyrazolopyranotriazine derivatives by Hafez Hend N., Alshammari Abdulrahman G., El-Gazzar Abdel-Rhman B. A.

“…Compounds 9, 10c, 12a and 15 were found to be the most potent antibacterial agents, with activity equal to that of norfloxacin. On the other hand, compound 5 exhibited higher antifungal activity compared to fluconazole.…”
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Gender Roles in Understanding and Implementing Green Energy Technology in Indonesian Schools: Rasch Analysis by Ismail Ismail, Riandi Riandi, Ida Kaniawati, Wahyu Sopandi, Supriyadi Supriyadi, Suhendar Suhendar, Febrian Andi Hidayat

“…The results of this study can be used as a basis for developing policy recommendations aimed at increasing equal involvement and understanding of green energy technologies among teachers both men and women. …”
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Optimizing Energy Efficiency in UPA-Assisted SWIPT Massive MIMO Systems Over Rician Fading Channels by Mohammad Hassan Adeli, Dariush Abbasi-Moghadam, Hossein Fotouhi, S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

“…Results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed design compared to the conventional scenarios with equal power allocation and fixed PS ratio algorithms with about 2 to 5 times EE improvements. …”
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Mitigating climate change with financial investments: exploring sustainable investment strategies in a novel experimental investment paradigm by Hulda Karlsson-Larsson, Arvid Erlandsson, Joakim Sandberg, Daniel Västfjäll

“…The three strategies were chosen about equally often in the control condition, but we find that this investment pattern could be altered by a default intervention. …”
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Identifying and determining the spatial organization model of CBD\'s (Case Study: Mashhad Metropolis) by mohammadreza mirsaeedi, moslem seyed alhossaini, Fereshteh Ahmadi, Amir Hossain Shabani

“…The adoption of location determination strategies and that of the comunicational centers and the city activities has made the cities continue the developement process while cosidering the fairly service destribution and the spatial equalities.The goal of this research is the recognition and determination of the city spatial organization working centers and activity model and the relation of service functioning with one another so that the mono central and poly central cities can have a important effect on the destribution system and service centers and the vast changes of the citizens .The analysis method is a kind of quantity and quality one. …”
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Preovulatory uterine flushing with saline as a treatment for unexplained infertility: a randomised controlled trial protocol by Lynne Moore, Jessica Lefebvre, Sarah Maheux-Lacroix, Marie-Ève Bergeron, Emmanuel Bujold, Sylvie Dodin

“…On the day of their luteinising hormone surge, 192 participants will be randomised in two equal groups to either receive 20 mL of physiological saline by an intrauterine catheter or 10 mL of saline intravaginally. …”
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Silver Nanoparticles in PEDOT:PSS Layer for Polymer Solar Cell Application by Agnieszka Iwan, Bartosz Boharewicz, Igor Tazbir, Andrzej Sikora, Beata Zboromirska-Wnukiewicz

“…The value of power conversion efficiency (PCE), equal to 2.16% under simulated 100 mW/cm2 AM 1.5G irradiation, was found for device created in air with 60 µL of Ag NPs added to 1 mL of PEDOT:PSS. …”
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Evaluation of Three Satellite Precipitation Products TRMM 3B42, CMORPH, and PERSIANN over a Subtropical Watershed in China by Junzhi Liu, Zheng Duan, Jingchao Jiang, A-Xing Zhu

“…For precipitation intensities larger than or equal to 25 mm, RMSE% of CMORPH and TRMM 3B42 were less than 50%, indicating CMORPH and TRMM 3B42 might be useful for hydrological applications at daily scale. …”
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A Universal Break in Energy Functions of Three Hyperactive Repeating Fast Radio Bursts by Q. Wu, F. Y. Wang, Z. Y. Zhao, P. Wang, H. Xu, Y. K. Zhang, D. J. Zhou, J. R. Niu, W. Y. Wang, S. X. Yi, Z. Q. Hua, S. B. Zhang, J. L. Han, W. W. Zhu, K. J. Lee, D. Li, X. F. Wu, Z. G. Dai, B. Zhang

“…This difference in dimensionality causes a break in the scaling properties from weak to strong FRBs, occurring at a point where the penetration depth of starquakes equals the crustal thickness. Our result, together with the earthquake-like temporal properties of these FRBs, strongly supports the idea that FRBs are triggered by starquakes, providing a new opportunity to study the physical properties of the crust of a neutron star.…”
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The Availability of Advanced Airway Equipment and Experience with Videolaryngoscopy in the UK: Two UK Surveys by Rachel L. Gill, Audrey S. Y. Jeffrey, Alistair F. McNarry, Geoffrey H. C. Liew

“…Members rated fibreoptic intubation and videolaryngoscopy skills equally. Our surveys demonstrate widespread availability of fibreoptic scopes, limited availability of videolaryngoscopes, and limited numbers of experienced videolaryngoscope tutors.…”
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Remodeling the light-adapted electroretinogram using a bayesian statistical approach by Marek Brabec, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Lynne Loh, Irene O. Lee, Mikhail Kulyabin, Aleksei Zhdanov, Hugo Posada-Quintero, Dorothy A. Thompson, Paul A. Constable

“…Averaged waveforms from each eye and flash strength were analyzed with Bayesian regularization of the covariance matrices using 100 equal length time intervals. The eigenvalues of the covariance matrices were ranked for each group to indicate the degree of complexity within the regularized waveforms. …”
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