Systems Thinking Safety Analysis: Nuclear Security Assessment of Physical Protection System in Nuclear Power Plants by Tae Ho Woo

“…The difference is about 2.85 times. The results of the case with time delay have shown that the maximum possibility of terror or sabotage incident happens as 447.42 in the 58th year and the minimum value happens as 89.77 in the 51st year. …”
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Management and Certification Process for Organic Production in Ukraine and Poland by Ruslan Buriak, Victor Artish, Mykola Orlykovskyi

“…A systematic analysis of trends in the development of organic products in Ukraine and Poland was carried out, which showed that the total area of certified ecological lands for the study period from 2006-2016 in Ukraine increased by 1.7 times, and in Poland from 2004-2014 it increased by 12 times. …”
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Current and Emerging Protocols for Carbon Measurement in Agricultural Soils by Suraj Melkani, Noel Manirakiza, Shirley M. Baker, Jehangir H. Bhadha

“…They contain large C pools that can store three times more C than the atmosphere and four times more than plants. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN CURBING RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS AND TERRORISM IN NORTHERN NIGERIA by OLAITAN OYEDELE OLAOBA, DANIEL DAMILARE ADEYINKA

“… The persistent religious conflicts and terrorism in Northern Nigeria have given peculiar Nigerians a cause for deep concern in recent times. The imminent of religious conflict is not really recent; it has been in the society for a long time. …”
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Experimental Study on In-Plane Seismic Performance of Reinforced Brick Walls Bonded with Mud by Hui Wang, Jian-jun Chang, Shi-qin He, Qing-lei Zhang

“…The results showed that the bearing capacity of the brick walls bonded with mud reinforced by the abovementioned three methods had been increased to 1.4, 1.7, and 2.2 times as much as that of the unreinforced brick walls, respectively, and the ductility of the reinforced brick walls had been increased to 4.7, 2.1 and 2.2 times, respectively. …”
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Abdominal Ectopic Pregnancy. A Case Report by Tahiluma Santana Pedraza, Jorge Luis Estepa Pérez, Bárbara Rafael Truy

“…It consists in the implantation of pregnancy in some of the structures in the abdomen by what is considered a rare variety of ectopic pregnancy, and is generally associated with a high rate of maternal and fetal mortality; in these cases maternal mortality is seven times higher than in the tubal pregnancy and up to 90 times higher than in normal pregnancy. …”
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Design and Implementation of Group Animation Based on Multimedia Intelligent Algorithm by Qing Li

“…The experimental results show that after the PSO converges to the global optimal solution, the evolution times of the PSO converge to the global optimal solution again when the surrounding environment changes 10 times. …”
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Deteksi Covid-19 pada Citra Sinar-X Dada Menggunakan Deep Learning yang Efisien by Novanto Yudistira, Agus Wahyu Widodo, Bayu Rahayudi

“…The memory required by each CNN architecture to perform one detection is linearly related to the number of parameters where ShuffleNet only requires GPU memory of 0.646 GB or 0.43 times that of ResNet50, 0.2 times of EfficientNet, and 0.53 times of FullConv. …”
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A prospective cohort study on the impact of healthy lifestyles on all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality among adult residents in Guizhou province by Jie ZHOU, Ling LI, Ji ZHANG, Lisha YU, Yujin REN, Wei JI, Yingjiao MU, Tao LIU

“…After adjusting for confounding factors such as sex, age, ethnicity, education level, marital status, residence, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, fasting blood glucose (FBG), 2-hour postprandial blood glucose (PBG), total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), the multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression analysis showed that the risks of all-cause mortality among adult residents in Guizhou province with 4, 5, 6, and ≥ 7 healthy lifestyle factors were 0.732 times (HR = 0.732, 95%CI: 0.542 – 0.990), 0.667 times (HR = 0.667, 95%CI: 0.499 – 0.893), 0.664 times (HR = 0.664, 95%CI: 0.490 – 0.900), and 0.566 times (HR = 0.566, 95%CI: 0.391 – 0.820) that of those with ≤ 3 healthy lifestyle factors, respectively. …”
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Sociodemographic factors associated with prenatal care utilization in Arkansas, United States by Pearl A. McElfish, Aaron Caldwell, Donya Watson, Jonathan Langner, Jennifer Callaghan-Koru, Austin Porter, Don E. Willis, Jennifer A. Andersen, Nicola L. Hawley, James P. Selig, Amir Forati, Maria R. Alcala, Lanita White, Enrique Gomez-Pomar, Clare C. Brown

“…Results: Mothers with a Medicaid-covered birth had 0.90 times fewer prenatal care visits and were 1.26 times more likely to have fewer than the recommended number of visits, 1.60 times more likely to initiate prenatal care late, and 1.46 times more likely to have reported no prenatal visits at all. …”
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Design of an Ultra Compact 180-Degree Ring Coupler With Harmonic Suppression Using Composite Lines for Modern RF Systems by Saeed Roshani, Farid Zubir, Mohsen Karimi, Muhammad Akmal Chaudhary, Maher Assaad, Fawwaz Hazzazi, Noorlindawaty Md Jizat, Sobhan Roshani

“…Moreover, the conventional 800 MHz HRC occupied <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.5~\lambda \times 0.25~\lambda $ </tex-math></inline-formula> (140.7 mm <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 70.8$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm), while size of the proposed HRC is 10.7 mm <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 6.7$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.038~\lambda \times 0.024~\lambda $ </tex-math></inline-formula>), which provides 99% size reduction.…”
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The Prevalence of Depression Among Parkinson&rsquo;s Disease Patients in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Al-Qahtani Z, Alqahtani ASM, Alzuhairi AMS, Qarah M, Alqarni AA, Alqahtani AOM, AlShehri FAA, Alqathanin MAA, Alshahrani OMO, Alqahtani MAF, Mahmood SE

“…PD patients lacking social support were 8 times more likely to develop major depression [OR = 8.27, 95% CI (1.47– 46.31), p = 0.016] and 5 times more likely to experience anxiety symptoms [OR = 5.36, 95% CI (1.14– 25.26), p = 0.034]. …”
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KATALIKYBĖ IR VISUOMENĖ TARPUKARIO LIETUVOJE by Valdas Pruskus

“…However, the terrestrian garment of it at that times did not cause a sympathy to them. According to them, perhaps, the most disadvantage was a formal character of the activities of Catholicism and the Church in Lithuania during the interwar period. …”
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Bacterial Performance in Crack Healing and its Role in Creating Sustainable Construction by Digafe Alemu, Wubetie Demiss, Gamachis Korsa

“…As compared to conventional concrete, bacterial concrete was greater by 35.15% in compressive strength, 24.32% in average tensile strength, and 17.24% in average flexural strength, and it was 4 times lower in water absorption and 8 times lower in acid resistivity than conventional concrete. …”
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Promoting higher levels of immunity from colostrum among calves on organic dairy farms by Munashe Chigerwe, Hannah M. Laurence, Maire C. Rayburn, Betsy M. Karle

“…Focusing on varied practices in organic dairies, FTPI was 2.9 times more likely in calves fed less than 4 liters of colostrum within the first 24 hours, compared to calves fed more than that amount. …”
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A Stochastic Model of Stress Evolution in a Bolted Structure in the Presence of a Joint Elastic Piece: Modeling and Parameter Inference by Mohammed Haiek, Youness El Ansari, Nabil Ben Said Amrani, Driss Sarsri

“…Thereafter, we use the estimated model to compare the stresses, the peak times, and extinction times for different thicknesses of the elastic piece. …”
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