Rainfed agriculture in Ethiopia: a systematic review of green water management pathways to improve water and food security by Ermias Teferi, Ermias Teferi, Tibebu Kassawmar, Tibebu Kassawmar, Woldeamlak Bewket, Woldeamlak Bewket, Gete Zeleke, Gebiaw T. Ayele, Greg O’Donnell, Claire Walsh

“…Increasing crop yields through better soil, water, and crop management practices can significantly improve water productivity, offering “windows of opportunity” to enhance food and water security. …”
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Tell me y: anticipation of sex discrepancies in cell-free DNA testing due to maternal genetic abnormalities: a case report by Nuria Balaguer, Emilia Mateu-Brull, Jose Antonio Martínez-Conejero, Ana Cervero, Roser Navarro, Jorge Jiménez-Almazán, Miguel Milán

“…Non-duplicated aligned reads were aggregated into 100-kb bins, adjusted for CG bias, and further aggregated into 5-Mb windows. Z-scores were calculated for autosomes, sex chromosomes, and 5-Mb bins. …”
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Multi-level encoding of reward, effort, and choice across the frontal cortex and basal ganglia during cost-benefit decision-making by Oliver Härmson, Isaac Grennan, Brook Perry, Robert Toth, Colin G. McNamara, Timothy Denison, Hayriye Cagnan, Sanjay G. Manohar, Mark E. Walton, Andrew Sharott

“…Coactive cell assemblies, ensembles of neurons that repeatedly coactivated within short time windows (<25 ms), represented the same decision variables despite the members often having diverse individual coding properties. …”
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Características clínico-epidemiológicas de la enfermedad de Chagas en comunidades del Chapare, Departamento Cochabamba, Bolivia by Orlando Cruz Martínez, Iris González Morales, María Caridad Fragoso Marchante, Dianelys Perla Sierra Martínez, Esteban Jesús Sánchez Martínez

“…Se estudiaron variables como, la edad, sexo, escolaridad, ocupación, síntomas y signos de la enfermedad, entre otras, procesadas con el paquete estadístico SPSS versión 15.0 para Windows.<br /> <strong>Resultados</strong>: El sexo predominante resultó ser el femenino; el grupo etario más frecuente fue el comprendido entre los 46 a 55 años. …”
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Autonomic Nervous System Activity before Atrial Fibrillation Onset as Assessed by Heart Rate Variability by Jean-Marie Grégoire, Cédric Gilon, François Marelli, Pascal Godart, Hugues Bersini, Stéphane Carlier

“…To allow a minute-by-minute assessment of the parameter changes, we computed their values over 5-minute sliding windows, starting at 35 minutes before AF onset. …”
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THE COLLABORATIVE DESIGNING OF A PERSONALIZED HYBRID LMS USING A VIRTUAL MACHINE IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT by Lina Čeponienė, Péter Galambos, Tamás Haidegger, Dariusz Mikulowski, Branislav Mišota, Oliver Moravcik, Enikő Nagy, Mariya P. Shyshkina, Pavel Smolka, Stefan Svetsky

“…As part of collaborative research in the field of technology-enhanced education and e-Learning design, the international team in the V4 EDUPORT project is implementing a personalized hybrid system on the IT infrastructure consisting of a specially designed desktop application WPad or web application (PIKS) and a common shared remote computer (virtual computer on a cloud server with Windows 2022). In this paper, the researchers share their experiences gained with their universities' academic LMSs (Moodle and AIS) and compare their personalization capabilities level to the teacher level and their use in the cloud. …”
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Determination of Palatal Soft Tissue Thickness and Safe Zone for Palatal Soft Tissue Harvest Using CBCT: A Retrospective Study by Hanan Aldhanhani, Bhavna Jha Kukreja, Sesha Reddy, Jovita D’souza, Hossam Abdelmagyd

“…Statistical analysis is performed with R statistical analysis software version 4.1.3 for Windows. Results. For sex and nationality, there was no significant association (p>0.05), while for age, cases 35 years and older had significantly higher mucosal thickness than cases younger than 35 years old (p<0.001). …”
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Effect of endoscopic sinus surgery on eustachian tube function in adult patients with chronic rhinosinusitis by Mahmoud Atef Abdelghaffar Youssef, Nassim Talaat Nassim, MohamedNourEddin Bashir Alkeeb, Tareq Muhammad Algarf

“…Radiological examination included the following: preoperative CT nose and paranasal sinus, axial and coronal soft tissue cuts, and bone windows. Assessment of ET function was done using the ET dysfunction questionnaire (ETDQ-7), Valsalva maneuver, and tympanogram. …”
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Artificial intelligence methods applied to longitudinal data from electronic health records for prediction of cancer: a scoping review by Victoria Moglia, Owen Johnson, Gordon Cook, Marc de Kamps, Lesley Smith

“…The most common cancers predicted in the studies were colorectal (n = 9) and pancreatic cancer (n = 9). 16 studies used feature engineering to represent temporal data, with the most common features representing trends. 18 used deep learning models which take a direct sequential input, most commonly recurrent neural networks, but also including convolutional neural networks and transformers. Prediction windows and lead times varied greatly between studies, even for models predicting the same cancer. …”
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Variations in rumen microbiota and host genome impacted feed efficiency in goat breeds by Alaa Emara Rabee, Ibrahim Abou-souliman, Ahmed I. Yousif, Mebarek Lamara, Mohamed A. El-Sherbieny, Eman Ali Elwakeel, Ahmed M. Sallam

“…The association analysis identified 26 genome windows containing several putative candidate genes, such as TMEM241, AP4S1, FTO, HYAL2, BBS2, CD52, CRYBG2, PIGV, WDTC1, EEF1A2, GBA2, FNIP1, ACSL6, STARD10, VPS26B, ACAD8, GLB1L3, NRN1L, LCAT, and SLC7A6. …”
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Risk of aortic aneurysm and dissection following exposure to fluoroquinolones, common antibiotics, and febrile illness using a self-controlled case series study design: Retrospecti... by Ajit A Londhe, Chantal E Holy, James Weaver, Sergio Fonseca, Angelina Villasis, Daniel Fife

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We studied patients with exposures and AAD between 2012 and 2017 in 3 databases. Risk windows were defined as exposure period plus 30 days. …”
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A forestry investigation: Exploring factors behind improved tree species classification using bark images by Gokul Kottilapurath Surendran, Deekshitha, Martin Lukac, Martin Lukac, Jozef Vybostok, Martin Mokros

“…To address this, we developed Windows-based research software, CNN Parameter Tuner 1.0, which allows the import of various data formats (jpg and png) and efficiently conducts parameter tuning by selecting parameters and values from the menu options.…”
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Effect of short inter-pregnancy interval on perinatal and maternal outcomes among pregnant women in SSA 2023: Systematic review and meta-analysis. by Fentahun Yenealem Beyene, Kihinetu Gelaye Wudineh, Simachew Animen Bantie, Azimeraw Arega Tesfu

“…All statistical analyses were done using STATA version17 software for windows, and meta-analysis was used with a random-effects method. …”
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Hubungan Lama Penggunaan Obat Anti Nyamuk Bakar dengan Kadar Kolinesterase Darah pada Masyarakat Kelurahan Jati Rumah Gadang Padang by Amelia ., Yustini Alioes, Sofina Rusdan

“…It was analyzed by chi-square correlation test by tofor Windows. The result showed, there was no significant correlation (p = 0,395) between prolonged use of anti mosquito fuel with decreasing of cholinesterase concentration but it risked to decrease the cholinesterase concentration (OR=4.250) of Kelurahan Jati Rumah Gadang Padang society. …”
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Association between chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy and benzodiazepine prescription in patients with radicular low back pain: a retrospective cohort study using real-world... by Jeffery A Dusek, Robert James Trager, Zachary A Cupler, Kayla J DeLano, Jaime A Perez

“…Odds of receiving a benzodiazepine prescription were significantly lower in the CSMT cohort over all follow-up windows prematching and postmatching (p&lt;0.0001). …”
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Eğitim Çalışanlarının Yansıtıcı Düşünme Becerilerinin Çeşitli Değişkenler Açısından İncelemesi-Examination Of Reflective Thinking Styles Of Education Emloyees In Terms Of Some Vari... by Gizem Saygılı, Songül Tehneldere

“…Elde edilen verilen analizinde SPSS 15.0for Windows paket programı kullanılmıştır. Uygulanan analizlerin sonucunda katılımcıların cinsiyetleri, medeni durumları ve eğitim seviyelerine g&ouml;re yansıtıcı d&uuml;ş&uuml;nme becerilerinde anlamlı farklılık bulunamamıştır (p&gt;0,05). …”
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Microplastics: A threat to Fetoplacental unit and Reproductive systems by Abass Toba Anifowoshe, Md Noor Akhtar, Abisola Majeed, Asem Sanjit Singh, Toyyibah Funmilayo Ismail, Upendra Nongthomba

“…Identifying critical windows of susceptibility during pregnancy is germane, as exposure to plastic particles during these periods could have heightened effects on fetal development. …”
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Impact of Prenatal Stress on Neuroendocrine Programming by Odile Viltart, Christel C. A. Vanbesien-Mailliot

“…In particular, variations in circulating maternal glucocorticoids are known to impact this programming strongly, notably when hormonal surges occur during sensitive periods of development, so-called developmental windows of vulnerability. Stressful events occurring during the perinatal period may impinge on various aspects of the neuroendocrine programming, subsequently amending the offspring's growth, metabolism, sexual maturation, stress responses, and immune system. …”
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Evaluation of 902 Total Abdominal Hysterectomies Performed for Benign Reasons by Fazilet Kübra Boynukalın, Ömer Tolga Güler, Mehmet Coşkun, Özgür Özyüncü, Nasuh Utku Doğan

“…Statistical evaluations were performed using SPSS 10.0 for Windows program and p<0.05 values were considered as statistically significant. …”
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Variation and simulation of tomato transpiration in a greenhouse under different ventilation modes by Jiankun Ge, Sen Wang, Xuewen Gong, Yuhao Zhu, Zihui Yu, Yanbin Li

“…Drip-irrigated tomatoes were grown under natural sunlight with two ventilation treatments: T1 (top window open) and T2 (top and south windows open). …”
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