Skok pokwitaniowy i budowa ciała dziewcząt z Meridy (Jukatan, Meksyk) jako sposób przystosowania do warunków życia by Anna Zielińska

“…Data were collected between 1998-2001 in primary, secondary, and high schools of Merida, Capital City of the Yucatan State, Mexico. The ethnicity of girls was defined using their two surnames (from the father and mother side). …”
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Abdominal fat distribution and its relationship to brain changes: the differential effects of age on cerebellar structure and function: a cross-sectional, exploratory study by Yvonne Böttcher, Michael Stumvoll, Kees Straatman, Matthias Raschpichler, Matthias Leopold Schroeter, Katrin Arelin, Haiko Schlögl, Dominik Fritzsch, Meinhard Mende, André Pampel, Arno Villringer, Karsten Mueller

“…Moreover, we aimed to investigate whether these effects change with age.Design Cross-sectional, exploratory.Setting University Clinic, Integrative Research and Treatment Centre.Participants We included 100 (mean BMI=26.0 kg/m², 42 women) out of 202 volunteers randomly invited by the city's registration office, subdivided into two age groups: young-to-mid-age (n=51, 20–45 years of age, mean BMI=24.9, 24 women) versus old (n=49, 65–70 years of age, mean BMI=27.0, 18 women).Main outcome measures VAT, BMI, subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue, brain structure (grey matter density), functional brain architecture (eigenvector centrality, EC).Results We discovered a loss of cerebellar structure with increasing VAT in the younger participants, most significantly in regions involved in motor processing. …”
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Hierarchical Recognition for Urban Villages Fusing Multiview Feature Information by Zhenkang Wang, Nan Xia, Song Hua, Jiale Liang, Xiankai Ji, Ziyu Wang, Jiechen Wang

“…The results demonstrated an “urban village ring” pattern in the city, with central urban areas showing a “multicenter and multicluster” spatial distribution, while suburban areas exhibited “large and concentrated” characteristics. …”
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Enhancing Maternal Caregiving Capabilities Model to Prevent Childhood Stunting: A UNICEF-Inspired Model by Eka Mishbahatul Marah Has PhD, Ilya Krisnana PhD, Ferry Efendi PhD

“…Six hundred respondents were taken using a cluster sampling technique across seven healthcare centers in Surabaya City, East Java, Indonesia. The independent variables were child, mother, father, and household factors, then maternal caregiving capabilities. …”
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Guarding the Borders of Japan: Occupation, Korean War and Frontier Controls by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

“…In the last months of the Pacific War the center of the nearest big city, Matsuyama, had been reduced to a burnt-out wasteland by allied fire-bombing.2 The villages had been spared the worst of the air-raids, but during the final stages of the war their fishing boats had been requisitioned by the military or lain idle, unable to venture out into the dangerous waters of war. …”
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Can a theory-based intervention lead primiparous women to decide to have a normal vaginal delivery? A randomized controlled trial by Rashin Pourashraf, Masoumeh Abbasi-Shavazi, Mahboubeh Valiani, Sara Jambarsang, Hossein Ali Sadeghian

“…Materials and Methods: This was conducted as a randomized controlled trial in Isfahan city, Iran. In total, 112 primiparous pregnant women participating in childbirth preparation classes were divided into two intervention and control groups by nonrandom sampling method. …”
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EMPIRICAL VERIFICATION OF THE STRUCTURAL MODEL RELATING EQUILIBRIUM VALUES OF COSTS, QUALITY, AND COMFORT OF MEDICAL SERVICES WITH INDIVIDUALIZED ELASTICITIES OF DEMAND by Oleg Klymenyuk, Oleksandr Ocheredko, Volodymyr Klymenyuk, Anastasiia Rudenko

“…We have performed a combined (retrospective + prospective) study of the cases of uterine fibroids and/or ovarian cysts treated surgically in three city gynecological hospitals/centers in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. …”
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Production of organic fertilizer using pleurotus sp. as a process accelerator by A. Medina-Buelvas, A. Garcia-Guan, B. Barraza-Amador, E. Espinosa-Fuente, M. Del Castillo-Cabrales, K. Mendez-Gutiérrez, N. Rosales-Hernández

“…In this sense, the main objective of this study was to take advantage of the vegetal residues from tree pruning obtained from the maintenance of the overhead wiring of the electrical networks in the city of Barranquilla, in Colombia, to produce an organic fertilizer, which are some of the most demanded products in the world. …”
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Antibiotic prophylaxis of acute postoperative endophthalmitis by V.P. Nikolaenko, D.F. Belov

“…Belov¹</b> </p> <p> <b>¹City Multidisciplinary Hospital No. 2, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation</b> </p> <p> <b>²St. …”
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New possibilities of using methylaethylpiridinolum in ophthalmological practice by E.A. Egorov, A.A. Gvetadze

“…Gvetadze^2<br><br> ¹ Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation<br> ² City Clinical Hospital No. 15, Moscow, Russian Federation<br> <br> It is known that oxidative stress (OS) is an integral part of the pathophysiological chain in the development of many eye diseases. …”
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Investigating the influence of urban green spaces on urban heat island mitigation – taking four districts in Shijiazhuang as an example by Nan Zhang, Qiuning Ding, Haitao Wang

“…The data were collected using the equal-scale city blocks performed by the OpenStreetMap urban network and ECOSTRESS remote sensing images at different times (morning, noon and evening). …”
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Behavioral analysis of loan decision-making and influencing factors among food-producing new agricultural operating entities in China by Jingzhou Wei, Taihuang Fang

“…Drawing on survey data from 17,745 new agricultural operating entities engaged in food production in Lu’an City, Anhui Province, and agricultural households documented in the China Household Finance Survey Database, this paper employs the Logit model and the Heckman selection model to empirically analyze the loan decision-making behavior of these entities from two perspectives: loan willingness and credit scale. …”
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Features of the development of coordination abilities in young schoolchildren by Dmytro Morozov, Iryna Kryventsova, Katarzyna Prusik

“…The experiment was conducted in the city of Zmiiev (Kharkiv region, Ukraine), located in a war zone since February 2022. …”
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Enhancement of Health-related Quality of Life among School-going Adolescent Girls with Improvement in Menstrual Hygiene Knowledge and Practices by Akanksha Goyal, Sunita Agarwal

“…The study was conducted among randomly selected five government secondary schools in Ajmer city and was conducted among adolescent girls of 7th–10th Class with the age group of 14–16 years. …”
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Palembang-Malay Women's Resistance against the Domination of Patriarchal Culture in the XX Century by Endang Rochmiatun

“…This research manifests women's struggle for emancipation against patriarchal culture in the public sphere in the city of Palembang. This research uses historical research methods and qualitative research. …”
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ORGANIZATIONAL COMPONENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE IMPROVEMENT by Mykhailo Shkilniak, Yaroslav Zhovnirchik, Nataliya Kryvokulska

“…The author emphasizes the need for professionalization of the public service, in particular, the activities of village, town and city mayors and identification of their training needs under the educational and professional master's program in specialty 281 «Public Administration and Management» of the field of knowledge «Public Administration and Management», which is carried out by the Department of Management, Public Administration and Personnel of the Western Ukrainian National University. …”
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Hierarchical Transfer Learning with Transformers to Improve Semantic Segmentation in Remote Sensing Land Use by Miaomiao Chen, Lianfa Li

“…This study proposes a hierarchical transfer learning framework for fine-category semantic segmentation tasks, leveraging the powerful global relationship modeling capabilities of Transformer models to classify land use in Dongpo District, Meishan City, in mainland China. Our framework represents multilevel transfer learning, progressing from non-remote sensing classification to coarse classification, then to the refined classification of remote sensing. …”
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Identification of Saharan-Dust Intrusions over Sofia, Bulgaria, Using Near-Ground PM10 and PM2.5 Mass Concentration Measurements by Tsvetina Evgenieva, Elena Vakareeva, Ljuan Gurdev, Tanja Dreischuh

“…Abstract Intrusions of Saharan dust (SD) in the atmosphere over Sofia City, Bulgaria, are not a rare phenomenon. Since it can significantly affect the Earth’s radiative balance, various atmospheric processes, the climate and the living conditions on the land and in the ocean, as well as the air quality, it has been the subject of large-scale studies of considerable societal and scientific interest. …”
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The role and contribution of civil society and community actors in COVID-19 prevention and control: the case of the COMVID COVID-19 movement in Burkina Faso by Charlemagne Tapsoba, Joël Arthur Kiendrébéogo, Cheickna Touré, Seyni Mbaye, Orokia Sory, Yamba Kafando, Issa Kaboré, Simon Kaboré

“…In April 2020, this platform launched the movement ‘Communities are committed to Eradicate COVID-19 (COMVID COVID-19)’ which mobilised community-based associations organised into 54 citizen health watch units (CCVS) in Ouagadougou city. These CCVS worked as volunteers, performing door-to-door awareness campaigns. …”
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La tardive floraison des campagnes. L’architecture moderniste des kolkhozes dans l’Estonie soviétique by Mart Kalm

“…The implementation of the idea of eliminating the differences between the country and the city meant that an urban lifestyle would be established in the country. …”
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