The rural risk of digital exclusion: A case study of municipal digital health and social care services in Denmark by Barbara Fersch, Egon Bjørnshave Noe, Annette Aagaard Thuesen, Beate Langer

“…Digital solutions have the potential to contribute to a stronger inclusion of the rural population in health and welfare services in times of a more scattered infrastructure. However, in Denmark where there is a strong push towards a digitalization of these services, the demographic profile of the rural population, being older and with lower levels of education, implies that a large part of the population in digitally vulnerable positions resides here. …”
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Evaluation and Correction of the Ambient Particle Spectral Light Absorption Measured Using a Filter-based Aethalometer by Gang Zhao, Yingli Yu, Ping Tian, Jing Li, Guo Song, Chunsheng Zhao

“…The results indicated that the AE33-measured σabs using either tape exceeded the PASS-3-measured value by approximately three times, mainly owing to the multiple-scattering effect. …”
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Charge carrier distribution in the region of charged domain walls in reduced lithium niobate by Aleksandr M. Kislyuk, Mikhail D. Malinkovich, Tatiana S. Ilina, Ilya V. Kubasov, Dmitry A. Kiselev, Andrei V. Turutin, Vladimir P. Ivanov, Alexander A. Temirov, Viktor V. Kuts, Evelina E. Maksumova

“…The bound polaron concentration in this region is estimated to be approximately 30 times greater than in the monodomain region, reaching ≈3.8·1017 cm-3.…”
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The effect of manufacturing defects and license plate on the energy efficiency of solar vehicles by Burak İpek, Mehmet Yıldız, Tunahan Akış, Aytaç Gören

“… In recent times, research on the energy efficiency of solar vehicles has gained momentum. …”
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Food security and dietary intake of a cohort of South African students during COVID-19 by Juanita Jonker, Corinna Walsh

“…Food security comprises having access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food at all times. The COVID-19 containment measures negatively influenced economies, impacting citizens’ food security. …”
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The evolution of hospitals from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…Specialised institutions like leper houses also originated at this time. During the Golden Age of Islam the Muslim world was clearly more advanced than its Christian counterpart with regard to the magnificent hospitals which were built in various countries, institutions which eventually became the true forerunners of the modern teaching hospital. …”
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Narrowing the gap between machine learning scoring functions and free energy perturbation using augmented data by Ísak Valsson, Matthew T. Warren, Charlotte M. Deane, Aniket Magarkar, Garrett M. Morris, Philip C. Biggin

“…These strategies together are closing the performance gap with FEP calculations (FEP+ achieves weighted mean PCC and Kendall’s τ of 0.68 and 0.49 on the FEP benchmark) while being  ~400,000 times faster.…”
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Regulation of the Employment Status of Seafarers by Boris Jerman

“…The situation began to improve in recent times, when the legislator and international organisations, such as the International Maritime Organization (ILO), began to adopt legislation to regulate their position. …”
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Risk Factors and Prevention of Upper Gastrointestinal Complications Associated with Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs by N. V. Bakulina, S. V. Tikhonov, K. A. Nagornova

“…In the randomized OBERON study the risk of gastric and duodenal ulcers after 3 months of low-dose acetylsalicylic acid treatment in the esomeprazole group was 7 times lower.Conclusion. Assessment of risk factors, correction of modifiable risk factors, selection of safer NSAIDs and simultaneous administration of proton pump inhibitors (including esomeprazole) are effective prevention of NSAID-associated upper gastrointestinal lesions.…”
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Semiotic insights on the socio-cultural influence of the San Sebastian Church architectural facade, Lumban, Laguna, Philippines by Ronald Allan S. delos Reyes, Jomel Paulo G. Ebron, Jhona N. Gamez, Christie C. Amores, Ma Rovilla C. Sudaprasert

“…From documents that are gathered, it has been found that the Philippines has had a very active interchange both economically and culturally dating back to Roman times with the Western Hemisphere. These interactions have paved the way in the expeditious construction of churches and cathedrals once Spanish rule was established in the 16th century. …”
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Citrus Irrigation Management by Davie Mayeso Kadyampakeni, Kelly T. Morgan, Mongi Zekri, Rhuanito Ferrarezi, Arnold Schumann, Thomas A. Obreza

“…Irrigation is practiced to provide water when rainfall is not sufficient or timely to meet water needs. Proper irrigation scheduling is the application of water to crops only when needed and only in the amounts needed; that is, determining when to irrigate and how much water to apply. …”
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Anti-paste Bag Performance of Water-repellent Filter Media in High-humidity Environments Considering Ultra-low Emissions by Zhongkai Yu, Erbao Guo, Xingcheng Liu, Yuemin Li

“…Five key parameters (C8-1833 concentration, impregnation time, rolling residue rate, baking temperature, and baking time) were selected to investigate their effects on the filter media’s water-repellent grade and air permeability variation rate. …”
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CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP AMONGST CORPORATE LONG-TERM FINANCING DECISIONS: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF LISTED NIGERIAN MANUFACTURING FIRMS by Jeremiah Babajide OPALEKE

“…Following this conclusion, the study recommends to concerned corporate and governmental decision makers that at all times the multiplier implications surrounding any of the three examined long-term financing decisions (i.e. capital investment, finance and dividend payout) on one another, and their joint effects on the firm’s, sectoral and economic stability, especially when seeking competitive edge and growth should be considered …”
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LeaData a novel reference data of leather images for automatic species identification by Anjli Varghese, Malathy Jawahar, A. Amalin Prince

“…The magnifying parameter 47 $$\times$$ captures the species-unique grain patterns distributed over the leather surface. …”
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Fractional hitting sets for efficient multiset sketching by Timothé Rouzé, Igor Martayan, Camille Marchet, Antoine Limasset

“…In comparison to sourmash, supersampler achieves similar outcomes while utilizing an order of magnitude less space and memory and operating several times faster. This highlights the potential of our approach in addressing the challenges presented by the ever-expanding landscape of genomic data. supersampler is an open-source software and can be accessed at https://github.com/TimRouze/supersampler . …”
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Spatiotemporal Variations and Contributing Factors of Air Pollutants in Almaty, Kazakhstan by Aiymgul Kerimray, Eldar Azbanbayev, Bulat Kenessov, Pavel Plotitsyn, Danara Alimbayeva, Ferhat Karaca

“…Annual averages of PM2.5, PM10, and NO2 concentrations exceeded the WHO annual limits by 5.3, 3.9, and 3.2 times, respectively. The maximum levels were observed in the winter, while the minimum levels in the summer. …”
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Seurat function argument values in scRNA-seq data analysis: potential pitfalls and refinements for biological interpretation by Mikhail Arbatsky, Ekaterina Vasilyeva, Veronika Sysoeva, Ekaterina Semina, Ekaterina Semina, Valeri Saveliev, Kseniya Rubina

“…There are no established rules for integration of datasets obtained at different sampling times or conditions. Clustering calls for reconsidering its application specifically for biological data processing. …”
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Citrus Irrigation Management by Davie Mayeso Kadyampakeni, Kelly T. Morgan, Mongi Zekri, Rhuanito Ferrarezi, Arnold Schumann, Thomas A. Obreza

“…Irrigation is practiced to provide water when rainfall is not sufficient or timely to meet water needs. Proper irrigation scheduling is the application of water to crops only when needed and only in the amounts needed; that is, determining when to irrigate and how much water to apply. …”
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Evaluation of Background Black Carbon Concentration in India by Maji Smaran, V. Vinoj

“…Abstract Air pollution levels are rapidly increasing over the Indian region in recent times impacting the health and welfare of the general population of which black carbon (BC) is an important component. …”
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Burden of Comorbidities and Healthcare Resource Utilization Among Medicaid-Enrolled Extremely Premature Infants by Meredith E. Mowitz, Wei Gao, Heather Sipsma, Pete Zuckerman, Hallee Wong, Rajeev Ayyagari, Sujata P. Sarda

“…Total healthcare charges, excluding index hospitalization and all-cause societal costs (US dollars), were 2 to 3 times higher for EP than for M-LP (EP $74 436 vs M-LP $27 541 and EP $28 504 vs M-LP $15 892, respectively). …”
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