Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice toward Youth-Friendly Reproductive Health Services among Mizan-Tepi University Students, South-Western Ethiopia by Samuel Getachew, Lema Abate, Abyot Asres, Abel Mandefro

“…As a result, additional efforts, such as the availability of service providers and the improvement of facilities, as well as education linked to the service for young people and the allocation of appropriate service time, are required.…”
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Genome-Wide Analysis and Expression Profiling of Watermelon <i>VQ</i> Motif-Containing Genes Under Abiotic and Biotic Stresses by Yanjun He, Jia Shen, Xinyang Xu, Weisong Shou

“…Green fluorescent protein fusion proteins for ten selected ClVQs were localized in the nucleus, but three ClVQs also showed signals in cell membranes and the cell wall, thus confirming their predicted divergent functionality. Quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) analysis indicated that the majority of <i>ClVQ</i> genes were specifically or preferentially expressed in certain tissues or organs, especially in the male flower. …”
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What drives farmers’ behavior under climate change? Decoding risk awareness, perceived impacts, and adaptive capacity in northern Italy by Sandra Ricart, Claudio Gandolfi, Andrea Castelletti

“…Understanding climate change in a precise and timely manner may assist in gauging the occurrence and seriousness of its impacts, thereby boosting the adaptive capacity and responsiveness of farmers. …”
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Explaining and Prioritizing Supplier Evaluation Indicators with a Meta-Synthesis Approach by Sayyed Mohammad Reza Davoodi, Mehdi Papahn Shoushtari, Rasoul Bahalou Houreh, Hamid Reza Rezaei

“…By analyzing them, supplier evaluation indicators were classified into 5 dimensions, 19 sub-dimensions, and 112 components, and their effect coefficient was determined using the Shannon entropy method.Findings: The results showed that price, quality, on-time delivery, revenue, organizational structure, human resource management, energy management, environmental management, customer orientation, and green management indices are the most effective indicators in evaluating suppliers.Originality/Value: Supplier selection and evaluation are imperative in creating an effective supply chain. …”
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Adaptive Balancing of Series-Connected SiC MOSFETs Based on Active Clamping and Comparison Circuitry by Shuai Shao, Wentao Cui, Yibo Jiang, Xingyu Pei, Junming Zhang

“…When the ACM capacitor voltage exceeds this threshold, the auxiliary switch is triggered on during the dead time, and the excess energy of this capacitor is recycled back to the DC bus. …”
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Glutaraldehyde-Polymerized Hemoglobin: In Search of Improved Performance as Oxygen Carrier in Hemorrhage Models by Anca D. Farcas, Vlad Al Toma, Ioana Roman, Bogdan Sevastre, Florina Scurtu, Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu

“…Here, such HBOCs are tested in a hemorrhage set-up; ovine hemoglobin is also tested for the first time in such a setting, based on in vitro data showing its improved performance versus bovine Hb against oxidative and nitrosative stress agents. …”
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Nucleotides Regulate Secretion of the Inflammatory Chemokine CCL2 from Human Macrophages and Monocytes by K. R. Higgins, W. Kovacevic, L. Stokes

“…We confirmed this in the human THP-1 monocytic cell line showing that UTP is as efficient as LPS at inducing CCL2 at early time points (2–6 hours). Expression and calcium mobilisation experiments confirmed the presence of functional P2Y2 receptors on THP-1 cells. …”
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Mucormycosis Associated with Global Coronavirus Disease-19 Pandemic: A Study of Fungal Profile from a Tertiary Health-care Center by Snigdha Purohit, Kavita Mourya, Nazneen Pathan, Sunita Agarwal, Vithika Vyas, Aruna Vyas

“…Seventy-four percent of patients presented with a history of diabetes mellitus, 50% had a history of steroids taken in their past, and 48% had a history of oxygen therapy taken at the time of COVID-19 positivity (52%) samples positive for mucormycosis. …”
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Essential characteristics of law as a phenomenon of social reality by Lutskyi R., Coughlan V., Tabachyn V.

“…Scientific novelty. For the first time, the author systematizes and generalizes the levels of political and legal understanding of the concept of «rights as a phenomenon of social reality» through the prism of a rational correlation between the will of the State and its citizens, taking into account the realities of today. …”
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Purification of arsenic-contaminated drinking water by Fe-Al-CO3 layered double hydroxide derived from secondary aluminum dross: adsorption and stabilization studies by Mohammad Bozorgi, Mostafa Mahinroosta, Ali Allahverdi

“…A suitable crystal structure of the LDH adsorbent was successfully synthesized at a Fe: Al molar ratio of 3, a pH of 7, and an aging time of 12 h. The characterization tests revealed that the synthesized Fe-Al-LDH had an interlayer space of 7.5 Å, a specific surface area of ​​145 m2/g, and a pore volume of 0.57 cm3/g. …”
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Management of epistaxis in patients with ventricular assist device: a retrospective review by Clifford Scott Brown, Ralph Abi-Hachem, David Woojin Jang

“…Endoscopy under general anesthesia was performed for one patient electively. Mean follow up time was 16.6 months (σ = 6.3). At six months, 18 (36.7%) patients were deceased. …”
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Persistence of Olfactory Dysfunction in Post CoVid-19 Patients Using Sniffin Sticks-A Prospective Study by Priyanka Thangaraj, Sowmya Gajapathy, Jayita Das Poduval

“…CONCLUSION Knowledge about time pattern on the recovery of OD in Post CoVid patients will be essential in counselling and treating them. …”
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Evaluating Auroral Forecasts Against Satellite Observations by M. K. Mooney, M. S. Marsh, C. Forsyth, M. Sharpe, T. Hughes, S. Bingham, D. R. Jackson, I. J. Rae, G. Chisham

“…The model performance is reduced in the dayside local time sectors (ROC score = 0.59) and during periods of higher geomagnetic activity (ROC score of 0.55 for Kp = 8). …”
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The Integrated Hydropower Sustainability Assessment in Tajikistan: A Case Study of Rogun Hydropower Plant by Zhao Xu, Yumin Niu, Yangze Liang, Zhigang Li, Atoev Iftikhor

“…The SWOT analysis indicated the external factors, such as the Belt and Road Initiative, improving business environment, and easing geopolitical disputes, can eliminate weaknesses and improve the sustainable performance of Rogun HPP. At the same time, tight fiscal allocations and economic downturns will have negative influences on the sustainable performance. …”
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Evaluating Curative Effects of Different Moxibustion Temperatures on Patients with Spastic Hemiplegia after Stroke by Liu YANG, Haili MA, Li GE, Qiaojing LIAO, Qiong HAN, Ling YE

“…Comparison of two groups showed that the major effects of time were statistically different (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05), but the major effects of intervention with no significant different (<italic>P</italic>&gt;0.05).After four treatments, two groups of motor function, daily life ability were greater than the corresponding minimum clinically important difference, with statistical significance (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05), thermal burning groups was more obvious.Conclusion:Different moxibustion temperature has a certain therapeutic effect on limb paralysis in patients with stroke, which can improve physical paralysis effectively, improve motor function and daily life ability, the thermal burning group is superior to the temperature-sensing group, and with low incidence of adverse events is low.…”
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Serological and Molecular Diagnosis of Human Cytomegalovirus among Hemodialysis Patients in Kirkuk/Iraq by Eman Ammar Ihsan, Lezan Medhat Mohammed, Waleed Mohammed Ali

“…Participants’ sera were examined for the presence of CMV-IgM and CMV-IgG antibodies, as well as DNA by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Results: While CMV-IgM was only discovered in 5.5% of hemodialysis patients, CMV-IgG was found in 50.5% of them. …”
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An Extensible Python Open-Source Simulation Platform for Developing and Benchmarking Bus Holding Strategies by Minyu Shen, Chaojing Li, Yuezhong Wu, Xiaowen Bi, Feng Xiao

“…Experimental results highlight the importance of comprehensive evaluations, as the relative performance of different strategies varies under different holding time budgets. The proposed simulation platform aims to facilitate more robust, comparable, and reproducible research in bus operation control strategies, ultimately leading to improved bus service reliability in real-world implementations.…”
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An improved meta-heuristic algorithm to optimize the fractional-order controller for an industrial manipulator with a parallelogram structure by Nazila Nikdel

“…Criteria such as operation time and response speed, control cost, and system error need to be controlled by providing appropriate methods to ensure the successful performance of industrial operations. …”
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Impacts of data consistency levels in cloud-based NoSQL for data-intensive applications by Saulo Ferreira, Júlio Mendonça, Bruno Nogueira, Willy Tiengo, Ermeson Andrade

“…Based on the results of the experiments, we provide a comprehensive analysis regarding the system throughput and response time when executing reading and writing operations, pointing out scenarios where each DBMS could be better employed. …”
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Community radio and identity construction post-1994 by Tanja Bosch

“…Community radio stations were for the first time, set up to empower communities previously without access to the media. …”
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