Contraceptive care post-Dobbs: A qualitative study of clinic staff perspectives by Alicia VandeVusse, Jennifer Mueller, Octavia Mulhern, Sidney Cech

“…Abortion restrictions such as those introduced in some states following the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision have spillover effects on broader sexual and reproductive health service provision, such as contraceptive services. We conducted 36 in-depth interviews with key staff at publicly supported clinics providing contraceptive services in the United States, examining their experiences of changes in the delivery of family planning services in states where abortion policies are severely restrictive and states where they are less restrictive or protective. …”
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Financiarisation et classes sociales : introduction au dossier by Benjamin Lemoine, Quentin Ravelli

“…The purpose of this introduction, relying on empirical and sociological fieldworks, is to suggest a way to conduct researches on the consequences of financialization to class relationships. …”
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Potential and challenges for an integrated management of tuberculosis, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension: A scoping review protocol. by Vitri Widyaningsih, Ratih Puspita Febrinasari, Victoria Sari, Clarissa Augustania, Bintang Verlita, Chatarina Wahyuni, Bachti Alisjahbana, Ailiana Santosa, Nawi Ng, Ari Probandari

“…This scoping review discusses the possibilities and problems of integration in managing TB and NCDs, with a particular emphasis on diabetic mellitus (DM) and hypertension screening and control. We will conduct this review following Arksey and O'Malley's framework for scoping review. …”
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Identifying and Analyzing the Effects of Urban Creep on the Situation Development of Rural Areas around (Case Study: Villages around of Marivan City) by saadi mohammadi, askandar moradi, Sharmin hosaini

“…Data gathering in the theoretical part of the documentary and in the field was conducted by a survey method based on an interview with the local people and the locals to identify the outcomes, and then the classical distribution of the questionnaire among the studied villages and simple random among 203 households supervised by The Cochran formula was determined by volume, 30 from local development experts and observers of the status quo, in order to generalize the findings from the interviews. …”
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Optimal Capacity Allocation of Large-Scale Wind-PV-Battery Units by Kehe Wu, Huan Zhou, Jizhen Liu

“…The optimal capacity ratio among wind generator, PV array, and battery device also was calculated simultaneously. A simulation was conducted based on the wind-PV-battery unit in Zhangbei, China. …”
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Mechanical Properties of Glued-Laminated Timber with Different Assembly Patterns by Shan Gao, Man Xu, Nan Guo, Ying Zhang

“…A 4-point bending test was conducted on a total of 18 specimens to investigate the mechanical properties of glued-laminated timber. …”
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An Innovative Aircraft Skin Damage Assessment Using You Only Look Once-Version9: A Real-Time Material Evaluation System for Remote Inspection by Kuo-Chien Liao, Jirayu Lau, Muhamad Hidayat

“…Inspections must be conducted before each flight to ensure the integrity of the aircraft. …”
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Digital Competences of Teachers in the Higher Education Academic Development System: Experience of the Empirical Research by A. V. Noskova, D. V. Goloukhova, E. I. Kuzmina, D. V. Galitskaya

“…A total of five focus groups of seven teachers in each were conducted.In the context of academic development, digital educational practices were analyzed, and three types of agents were identified – innovators and promoters, who contribute to the academic development of the higher education institutions, and routiners, who slow down the introduction of digital technologies. …”
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An Overview of Gillnet and Trammel Net Size Selectivity in the Turkish Inland Fisheries by Tuncay Ateşşahin, Mehmet Cilbiz

“…The required data for the study were obtained through a literature review. 34 selectivity studies in total were identified, and 26 (76.5%) of them were carried out with gill net while the remaining 8 (23.5%) were conducted with trammel net. 24 of the studies were carried out according to SELECT (Share Each Length-class’s Catch Total) and 10 of them according to Holt (1963). …”
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Optimizing polycrystalline diamond compact bit selection and drilling parameters for deviated wells in the Majnoon Field, Iraq by Ahmed N. Al-Dujaili, Maaly S. Asad, Najah Saeed, Nurbol Tileuberdi

“…Abstract Several mechanisms were postulated to reduce drilling problems, improve hole cleaning characteristics, and keep the bit in good condition for the second usage. This study was conducted on Majnoon Field in southeastern Iraq to optimize the bit and drilling parameters. …”
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Metacognitive Awareness and Self-Efficacy: A Closer Look at the Profiles of Arabic Learners at an Islamic University in Indonesia by Diana Nur Sholihah

“…The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was employed to assess the normality of the data, while the Levene test was used to check for homogeneity. A t-test was conducted to analyze the significance of the differences in metacognitive awareness and self-efficacy between male and female learners. …”
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Investigating the Impact of the Direct Observation of Procedural Skills Assessment on the Learning and Satisfaction of the Operating Room Students of Neyshabur University of Medica... by Hassan Ebrahimpour-Sadagheyani, Seyede M. Saadati, Farin Tatari

“…The learners were satisfied with the way the DOPS exam was conducted, and their satisfaction score of this exam was 90.7 out of 120. …”
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Wood Loss Assessment in Forest of Sal (Shorea robusta) by Heart Rot of Central Terai of Nepal by Shankar Tripathi, Yojana Adhikari

“…This study was focused on quantifying wood loss by heart rot, especially hollowness in Shorea robusta. The study was conducted in Tileswornath community forest of Rautahat district. …”
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Prediction of cold region dew volume based on an ECOA-BiTCN-BiLSTM hybrid model by Yi Zhang, Pengtao Liu, Yingying Xu, Meng Zhang

“…Comparative experiments were conducted against the BiTCN model, the BiLSTM model, the original BiTCN-BiLSTM model, and other models optimized with advanced swarm intelligence algorithms. …”
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Life Cycle Analysis in the Context of Smart Cities by Berville Charles, Croitoru Cristiana, Bode Florin

“…We applied strict inclusion and exclusion criteria to ensure the relevance and quality of the selected studies and conducted a qualitative content analysis to extract and synthesize key findings related to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and sustainability in the context of smart cities. …”
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An Improved EMD-Based Dissimilarity Metric for Unsupervised Linear Subspace Learning by Xiangchun Yu, Zhezhou Yu, Wei Pang, Minghao Li, Lei Wu

“…A series of experiments have been conducted on several well-known face databases to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. …”
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A randomized block policy gradient algorithm with differential privacy in Content Centric Networks by Lin Wang, Xingang Xu, Xuhui Zhao, Baozhu Li, Ruijuan Zheng, Qingtao Wu

“…To solve the privacy protection problem, we add a differential privacy protection mechanism to the algorithm, and we prove that it preserves the ε -privacy level. We conduct extensive simulations in four environments, which are CartPole, Walker, HalfCheetah, and Hopper. …”
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The system of entities providing territorial defence of Ukraine and the role of local self-government bodies within it by I. V. Romanskyi

“…They are responsible for the proper implementation of territorial defence measures, the realisation of its functions, tasks and objectives, as well as the ongoing maintenance of their effectiveness; 5) local self-government bodies. The conducted analysis allows us to say that local self-government bodies have an independent and special place in the system of entities providing territorial defence of Ukraine. …”
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Frequency And Type Of Refractive Errors Among The Teenage Groups Presenting In Eye OPD In Shaikh Zayed Hospital Lahore by Sumaira Rahim, Irum Abbas, Atif Mansoor Ahmed, Zyiemah Arif, Abdul Qudos, Tehmina Imdad

“…Methods: This descriptive study was conducted in the Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan from 14-9-2023 to 14-02-24. …”
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Mobile android application development for anxiety and pain management: Usability and validity testing of audio hypno-spiritual therapy in ICU settings by Purnawan Iwan, Sutrisna Eman, Hidayat Arif Imam, Wirakhmi Ikit Netra

“…The Harmony app demonstrated strong validity with an Aiken’s V value of 0.86. Usability testing, conducted with the USE Questionnaire, produced satisfaction scores ranging from 5.06 to 5.75 out of 7, indicating positive user experience and high satisfaction. …”
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